They—
"Eh? Why are there two Isabellas?"
They had finally noticed something was wrong.
Before them stood a larger Isabella. Then they turned to look in the direction of Skadi from this Worldline...
"Why is there another Isabella over there?"
The Sea Creatures' Great Swarm crashed for a moment. They... well, Sea Creatures had no brains.
So the Sea Creatures all flooded into the Hive Cluster Mind's group chat, wanting to ask about it.
Only to discover that there were two chat groups.
The Sea Creatures became even more confused.
Which one was real? Which one was fake?
One Sea Creature took the initiative to run over to Skadi of this Worldline and ask, "Isabella, Isabella, which one of you is real?"
Then Skadi of this Worldline swung the greatsword in her hand like a golf club and sent the Sea Creature flying.
But the Sea Creature was persistent. After being knocked who knew how far away, it ran back and asked again, "Isabella, Isabella, why are there two of you?"
As a result, that Sea Creature was sent flying by Skadi of this Worldline again.
And when the Sea Creature came running over for the third time—
"I'm not Isabella!" Skadi of this Worldline clutched her head, looking somewhat pained. "Go away!"
After witnessing the shocking sight of tens of thousands of Sea Creatures appearing across the skies,
Skadi of this Worldline had reacted exactly like Ulpian and Gor_etia. She had treated it as a deadly threat and was practically prepared to fight to the death.
But as Heart of the Corrupted Skadi sang, Skadi of this Worldline felt as if another consciousness in her mind was constantly urging her to go to Heart of the Corrupted Skadi as well.
And that other consciousness in Skadi's mind was Isabella from this Worldline.
If Skadi's consciousness lost to Isabella and Isabella gained control of her body, then the Heart of the Corrupted Skadi of this Worldline would be born.
Fortunately, after being sent flying three times and receiving the answer, "I'm not Isabella!" from Skadi of this Worldline, that Sea Creature immediately shared it through the Great Swarm's mind.
And so all the Sea Creatures turned to look at Heart of the Corrupted Skadi.
Since Skadi of this Worldline said she was not Isabella, what about Heart of the Corrupted Skadi? Was she real?
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi gently opened her eyes and looked at the Great Swarm of Sea Creatures surrounding her. Her lips parted slightly. "Come on. I'll take you to eat."
"Yay!"
"This one's real! This one's real!"
"Food! Food!"
The entire Great Swarm of Sea Creatures erupted in jubilation.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi: Why Won't Lord God Let Me Wear a Skirt?
The ones cheering were not only the Sea Creatures who had received meal cards—
The Abyssal Church was cheering too.
The Abyssal Church, well...
In a nutshell, they were the culprits—one of them, anyway—who had betrayed humanity, defected to the Sea Creatures' side, brought about Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's birth, and triggered the Sea Creatures' apocalypse.
Oh, and by the way, the Abyssal Church's founders were Sargol, and most of its members were Sargol too.
So the Abyssal Church was cheering as well. Isabella had returned, the Great Swarm had been summoned, and their long-cherished wish had come true!
Take me with you! Take me with you too!
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's opinion on this was:
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi: "Who are you?"
What? You wanted to come eat too?
It was not as though she could not give you meal cards, but were you Sea Creatures? Come on, show her your student ID.
What? You did not have one?
Then go play somewhere else by yourselves.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi @'d everyone, then sent an infinitely usable meal card to everyone who replied with a 1.
Then Heart of the Corrupted Skadi turned to look around, checking whether all the Sea Creatures had arrived. If they had, she was ready to lead them straight to the cafeteria to eat.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi first turned to look into the depths of the ocean behind her.
Because that was where the only undersea nation on this planet lay—Sargol.
But Sargol was playing dead right now.
There was no helping it. Sargol had once mobilized its entire nation to frantically hunt Sea Creatures, cut them open, and conduct a series of operations brutal enough to qualify as human experimentation.
Then, using the results of those human experiments, Sargol had created Abyssal Hunters—beings with Sea Creature genes implanted into their bodies, making friend and foe alike come from the same source.
In the Sargol's eyes, they had developed super soldiers!
Mass-produce them! They had to mass-produce them!
But in the Sea Creatures' eyes, the Sea Creature genes implanted within the Abyssal Hunters were constantly wailing, screaming, suffering, and begging for help.
So the Sea Creatures mistakenly believed their kin had been trapped inside those human skins.
Thus, the Sea Creatures tore open the Abyssal Hunters' flesh, wanting to rescue their brethren.
But when Sargol saw how brutal the Sea Creatures' methods were, they thought, These Sea Creatures not only killed people, they even skinned them and ripped out their tendons!
They had to strike back hard!
And so Sargol and the Sea Creatures went to war completely.
In the end, the Sargol mobilized their entire nation and, at the cost of nearly wiping out all the Abyssal Hunters, charged straight into the Sea Creatures' headquarters and successfully brought boss Isabella down to critical health.
Then the Sargol discovered that there were four bosses like Isabella in total.
And after Isabella had been reduced to critical health, she did not die. She entered her second phase!
So now, as the Sargol looked at the enormous Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, towering like a majestic mountain range, at her new identity as a Divine Messenger backed by a god, and at how she had opened by summoning the Great Swarm—
Wait a second?
They were supposed to fight Divine Messenger Heart of the Corrupted Skadi? Seriously?
Could they win?
They were definitely dead.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi tilted her little head left, then right.
Seeing that Sargol had made no move for so long, she seemed to lose interest. She raised her head again and looked toward the land.
Ulpian, Gor_etia, Laurentina, Angela...
Hm? Why were there several more people on that ship?
Oh right, there was another her too.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi bore no ill will. She simply wanted to find those people and ask whether they wanted to go eat at the cafeteria with her.
But Heart of the Corrupted Skadi seemed to have forgotten her current size.
Simply moving was enough for Heart of the Corrupted Skadi to resemble a giant green octopus coming ashore. Just passing through was enough to flatten vast stretches of cities into ruins, as though the Sea Creatures' apocalypse were being reenacted.
Oh, no. There was also the Great Swarm of tens of thousands of Sea Creatures following behind Heart of the Corrupted Skadi. It did not merely resemble a reenactment—it was one.
Fortunately, when Iberia, the coastal city, cried out, "Don't come over here!!!"
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi seemed to realize something.
She blinked her big innocent eyes, then, as though trying to avoid accidentally stepping on little flowers, grass, or ants, deliberately skirted the urban areas and began heading ashore through the wilderness.
Yet hundred-meter waves surged along with Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's movements.
As Heart of the Corrupted Skadi drew near, vast tracts of land began to split apart, while birds and beasts fled for their lives.
Amid this scene that resembled the approach of the apocalypse, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had just drifted from the sea to the shore and was about to come ashore when—
With a swish.
The sky was torn apart by a gigantic palm, and Lord God appeared before the world.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi seemed to notice too. She stopped and turned around. "Lord God?"
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had barely voiced her puzzled question when Lord God's hand stretched down and grabbed the back of her collar.
"Ah—"
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's cry of surprise stretched into a long note.
Because after grabbing the back of her collar, her Lord God directly dragged her back into the starry sky.
One could even vaguely hear Lord God's rather helpless scolding:
"Red T, do you remember that you're wearing a skirt?"
"It was one thing for you to float around on the sea, but what were you planning to do by coming ashore?"
"Come here. I'll change your clothes."
"Hey, Red T. Did you hear what I said?"
Chen Ran poked Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's little head again and again with his fingertip.
But Heart of the Corrupted Skadi, sitting duck-legged atop the desk, merely blinked her innocent, guileless eyes.
It was obvious that Heart of the Corrupted Skadi completely did not understand why wearing a skirt meant she could not go ashore.
But since Lord God said so, there had to be a reason, right?
So Heart of the Corrupted Skadi let Chen Ran poke her little head. Being poked until she swayed from side to side like she was riding one of those coin-operated rocking rides was actually pretty fun.
"Forget it. Why am I even explaining this to you?"
Chen Ran seemed to realize that he was playing music to a cow... no, to an orca.
With a soft sigh, Chen Ran withdrew his fingertip and turned to the side.
From the little treasure chest Heart of the Corrupted Skadi had cherished, he found hot pants, black stockings, and other clothes that could prevent accidental exposure while still looking good.
Heart of the Corrupted Skadi truly did not understand the difference between skirts and hot pants, but she was incredibly good with phones.
So Heart of the Corrupted Skadi secretly pulled out her phone and opened the search bar:
"Why won't Lord God let me wear skirts?"
"What is feudal superstition?"
"Another name for a god"
"Why won't Master let me wear skirts and makes me wear hot pants instead?"
"What does thigh chafing mean?"
"What does upper thigh mean?"
"Would a skirt that only covers the butt make Master happy?"
"Oh..."
Looking at the search results, Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's little eyes took on an enlightened look.
"What are you acting enlightened about?"
Chen Ran had somehow already returned. He snatched the phone from Heart of the Corrupted Skadi's hand. "Confiscated."
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