Vander Decken was dead-the turned-to-dust kind of dead.
Wadatsumi had taken a beating too. The eighty-meter-tall undersea giant cried like a little brat who had smashed his toe.
He was clearly an adult-twenty-one this year-but his mental state was closer to a child's.
Sephiroth remembered that this big fellow was innocent and easily fooled. Whether he was kind was debatable, but his innocence was undeniable.
So he used Telepathy to tell Wadatsumi that he would stop beating him if he took him to the nearby underwater ruins. He would even pay him with food from the surface.
[If you behave, you can become my "employee," not just for this one job. Your pay will be food from the surface.]
Even though Sephiroth could move underwater, the combat power he could actually bring to bear in an underwater fight was greatly reduced.
Leaving Wadatsumi to roam around Fish-Man Island in the future would not be a problem.
"I... understand..."
...Wadatsumi accepted his fate.
His old boss was dead. Since his new boss would feed him, he supposed this would do...
He felt frightened and wronged by this strange "human," Sephiroth.
He had been beaten up just for wandering around the seabed.
That white light had really hurt.
...After all, it was the result of gaining a deeper mastery of his abilities following his Devil Fruit Awakening.
-An Ultraviolet Excimer Laser with femtosecond ultrashort pulses.
It was one of the ultimate forms of electron transition that technology on Blue Star in his previous life could achieve.
In a conventional physical universe, the only "rays" more effective than this were gamma rays produced by energy-level transitions within atomic nuclei.
A laser's power depended on its output, wavelength, and pulse duration.
Visible light ranged from 400 to 700 nm. Below 400 nm was ultraviolet;