The Deep Sea.
At the deepest point of a trench where daylight never reached.
Countless densely packed erosion marks crawled over the surrounding sea cliffs. Dimly visible, masses of shattered limbs writhed and merged into the remaining marks.
And deep within those encroaching erosion marks, a pale hand slowly emerged from their weave.
A face with tightly closed eyes lay encased within them like crystal.
Her body was regenerating.
Her flesh was knitting together.
This process had been suppressed throughout the Flesh Dominator's possession. Only once that suppression vanished completely did it suddenly accelerate beneath the remaining flesh.
The seabed was utterly still.
The next moment.
Her eyelashes fluttered slightly.
Her eyes suddenly flew open as though she had suffered a nightmare. The gills behind her neck flared, and seawater flooded in. As though life had been breathed into her, her bewildered eyes darted through the pitch-black water.
But she barely had time to breathe.
Masses of Cthulhu's flesh surged irresistibly onto her, covering her face in an instant.
A trace of terror appeared in her eyes.
Tentacles wrapped around her. She kept trying to tear free and struggle out of the flesh enveloping her, but nothing worked.
"Mmph-mmph-"
The densely packed flesh pierced her body.
Struggling against it, she thrust a hand out through the viscous erosion marks and reached upward with all her strength. But in an instant, Cthulhu's flesh climbed over her wrist and fingers, wrapping them up as well.
Gurgle, gurgle-
She felt that flesh relentlessly eroding her will.
Countless memories that were not hers kept surfacing in her mind, as though some mechanism were forcibly transforming her.
She couldn't withstand it!
She couldn't fight back!
No!
No!!
She felt the devouring force grow stronger, filling her heart with despair.
Where was her god?!
*Where was