What Hit Me and Sent Me Flying, Evil Orca King?

Doro patted her round belly, her large purple eyes still filled with lingering fear. "It's all because you ate so many oranges!"

"You were the one stuffing them into my mouth!"

"Then you could've refused to eat them!"

"You stuffed them in so fast, I didn't even have time to spit them out!"

One boy and one little blob stared at each other for three seconds, then snorted at the same time and turned their heads away.

But their cold war only lasted five seconds.

Because Jiang Lan noticed that his skin had finally returned to its normal color, while Doro discovered that Bo Saixi had scared her tail so badly earlier that its fur had puffed up, making it look like a fluffy ball.

"Doro, your tail's puffed up."

"Your hair is still rainbow-colored!"

"..."

Jiang Lan looked at his head of multicolored hair, tugged out a strand, and examined it. Fortunately, the color was slowly fading. It would probably return to normal after a while.

"Let's fill the holes first." Jiang Lan stood up and dusted the sand off his penguin suit. "If we don't, there'll be one less dish tonight. Mama Bo Saixi always keeps her word."

The moment Doro heard the words "one less dish," she sprang up from the ground. Her four tiny legs scrambled across the beach as she dashed to the nearest hole, then turned to look at Jiang Lan.

"How do we fill them?"

Jiang Lan looked around. There were seven holes in total on the beach.

"You fill the holes you dug. I'll fill the ones I made." Jiang Lan began assigning tasks.

"I didn't make any holes!" Doro protested righteously.

"Your oranges caused the holes I made, so they count as yours." Jiang Lan replied with equal righteousness.

Doro opened her mouth, only to realize that she had no way to refute him.

So the boy and the little blob began filling the holes.

Jiang Lan used his trident to shovel sand, while Doro used her four tiny legs to scrape sand around. For a while, the scene was extremely busy.

After about fifteen minutes, all seven holes had been filled.

Jiang Lan leaned on his miniature trident beside the holes, panting heavily.

The hood of his penguin onesie was covered in sand, and several sandy streaks smeared his face. He looked like a glutinous rice ball that had rolled through the sand.

Doro did not look much better. Her originally pure white, soft body had turned grayish-white, and her cherry-blossom-pink bun hairstyle was covered in grains of sand. Sand kept falling off her whenever she walked.

"I can't do this anymore, quack." Jiang Lan planted his trident in the ground and flopped onto the beach with his limbs spread wide.

Doro collapsed beside Jiang Lan, lying on her back with her round belly exposed. Her tiny legs kicked twice unconsciously. "Doro doesn't want to move anymore..."

The boy and the soul rested for an hour before they recovered their strength.

Doro suggested to Jiang Lan, "Jiang Lan, let's go swim in the sea for a while. It's too hot."

Jiang Lan thought it sounded like a good idea. "Sure. How about we race and see who can swim farther?"

"Bring it on!" The moment Doro heard the word "race," her large purple eyes lit up. She had just been sprawled on the ground like a puddle of melted rice cake, but now she attempted a kip-up... and failed. Her round body rolled halfway across the sand before she managed to stand steadily. "Whoever loses gets one less fish tonight!"

"Deal!" Jiang Lan planted his miniature trident in the sand, pulled the hood of his penguin onesie over his head, and stepped into the seawater with his two little legs.

The boy and the soul stood in the shallows, taking up sprinting positions.

Jiang Lan bent forward, the orange little flippers of his penguin suit splashing against the water. His expression was as serious as if he were about to compete in the All-Continent Soul Master Elite Tournament.

Doro planted her four tiny legs in the sand, her rear raised high, while the ribbon on her bun hairstyle fluttered in the sea breeze.

"Ready—" Jiang Lan took a deep breath. "Quack!"

With that cry, the two figures plunged into the sea at the same time.

The moment Jiang Lan entered the water, the advantages of the penguin suit became apparent.

The suit itself had a streamlined design, and he had grown up on Sea God Island. His swimming skills were so good that he hardly seemed human.

His two little legs pressed together and swayed like a fish tail, sending him gliding underwater in a white trail of foam at an astonishing speed.

Doro was even more outrageous.

After the little white blob entered the water, her body actually changed shape. Her originally round body seemed to swell after soaking in the seawater, making her look like a white jellyfish.

Her four tiny legs paddled lazily through the water, yet she was no slower than Jiang Lan. In fact, she even seemed to be catching up.

Jiang Lan glanced back and saw Doro chasing after him in an incredibly bizarre posture. Her purple bead-like eyes glowed faintly underwater, and she had a blue Orange in her mouth that she had somehow summoned at some point, as if she were replenishing her energy.

Quack! This little thing was cheating!

Jiang Lan hurriedly sped up. The sleeves of his penguin suit were pressed tightly against his body by the water pressure, making him look like a launched torpedo.

The boy and the soul began an intense underwater chase, startling countless innocent marine creatures along the way.

The sea, somewhere within the territory of the Evil Spirit Orca Tribe.

"Tribesmen, today we'll teach those Sea God lackeys a lesson!" the Evil Orca King said to his tribesmen.

He loathed the Sea God and hated the Sea God's followers just as much.

Today, he would lead his tribesmen in a surprise attack on the Demon Soul Great White Shark Tribe.

"Tribesmen, today we'll teach those Sea God lackeys a lesson! Let them know who truly rules this sea—"

The Evil Orca King's impassioned pre-battle speech had only reached its midpoint when he suddenly felt an irresistible, immense force slam upward from beneath his rear.

The force came without warning, from a tricky angle, with savage strength, and struck precisely at the softest part of his abdomen.

The Evil Orca King did not even have time to react before his massive body shot through the surface like a launched depth charge, tracing a gleaming dark arc through the sunlight.

"Who—ambushed—this king—?!"

The Evil Orca King's voice rang out above the sea, carrying seventy percent fury, twenty percent bewilderment, and ten percent existential doubt as it stretched into a long trailing cry.

He flew so high that he was level with the seagulls.

A passing seagull tilted its head and glanced at him, its eyes clearly asking what species that ugly thing belonged to, before flapping away.

The Evil Orca King looked down and saw his tribesmen, who had been preparing to launch their surprise attack on the Demon Soul Great White Shark Tribe, gathered on the sea surface. Every one of them had their heads tilted back and mouths hanging open as they watched their great king flying through the sky.

Then, with a splash, he fell back into the sea, sending a burst of water over the faces of the surrounding tribesmen.

Under the surface, Jiang Lan abruptly braked to a stop and scratched his head. The hood of his penguin onesie floated up in the water and settled over the back of his head.

"Doro, I think I hit something just now, quack?" Jiang Lan blew out a string of bubbles and looked back in confusion.

Doro stopped as well, still holding the blue Orange in her mouth. Her cheeks puffed out as she made a muffled sound. "Doro?"