The colossal Sea King wasn't about to let Werther attack it without a fight.
It had a triangular head, two enormous pale-yellow eyes with slit pupils, and a long, thick body like a titan python.
It was a serpentine Sea King, but its mouth was packed with fangs that looked capable of crushing anything.
It had swallowed not only a chunk of Wano Country's island, but Momonosuke and Foxfire Kin'emon along with it.
Through Thunder Seal: Pain, Werther could sense that Momonosuke was still alive.
That made the Sea King's purpose clear: it had come to rescue the two of them.
Werther immediately wondered whether Poseidon had ordered it here.
But when he thought of that coward on Fish-Man Island, he dismissed the idea. At this point, that coward probably didn't even know she could summon Sea Kings.
"Spit those two out, or you won't get away so easily."
Werther stared coldly at the Sea King. He knew it could understand him.
The colossal Sea King turned and raised its head high, lifting its upper body upright like a cobra.
Its slit-pupiled eyes held a trace of disdain.
"Roar!" The serpentine Sea King let out a deafening, dragonlike bellow.
The blast of air whipped Werther's coat and sent fine sand flying all around him.
Werther raised a hand to shield his eyes from the sand.
"So you've decided to make an enemy of me. Others might fear huge creatures like you, but to me, you're just a great store of life force."
Werther kicked off hard, scattering sand beneath his feet.
He sprinted up to the Sea King, sprang into the air, and slashed fiercely at its head.
The Sea King opened its cavernous jaws and lunged to bite him.
Only then did Werther see that its upper and lower