At this moment, with the whole world watching.
Kronos Kingdom made its move.
Though calling it a move was generous. Only a handful of people were involved.
"Shyarly, how far is that thing from Esdeath?"
In the Royal Palace, Hades held Mermaid Shyarly, who had grown a little. Calling herself the Court Fortune Teller, she had changed into a gorgeous, faintly mysterious cloak.
Cradling the Fortune-Telling Ball, she watched a mysterious glint flash through its depths.
An image had already appeared in her mind: waters thousands of kilometers away.
An ice-blue divine bird flew across the sky.
Then an image of the deep sea appeared.
In the abyssal depths, a massive bulb lit up.
Countless marine creatures, even Sea Kings, sensed a terrifying presence and fled toward distant waters.
The gigantic Lanternfish was an undisputed ruler of the deep. Its immense size let it roam without fear, and inside its body lay three islands it had swallowed.
Shyarly compared the distance between the two.
"Lord Hades, the Lanternfish is swimming northwest at high speed. But in three days, it will stop to rest in a Trench eight thousand meters deep."
Shyarly had seen the present—and the future they needed to see.
"You heard her, Esdeath. Sorry for the trouble. Keep tracking it."
Hades patted Shyarly on the head and spoke into the Den Den Mushi.
"Leave it to me, Father. It's only three days."
Elsewhere, the ice-blue phoenix soaring through the sky answered calmly. She beat her wings rapidly, and the air along her path grew cold and crystallized into frost.
Hades had entrusted the task of tracking the gigantic Lanternfish to his daughter Esdeath.
As the wielder of the Ice Phoenix Fruit, she was well suited to the job.
Of course, Ignis would have been the best choice. His