And behind him...
Countless shrieking tentacles came chasing after them.
It was as though Azephala's appearance had stirred all the flesh across the entire sea. As they hovered thousands of meters in the air and looked down, her face turned deathly pale.
"This is..."
It was boiling.
The entire sea churned with a thunderous roar as though it had been brought to a boil. Countless slimy tentacles grew out of it, shrieking, like ingredients in some monstrous stew.
Lynn ground his teeth as he hovered with her in his arms. He spat out a mouthful of seawater and said:
"If you'd died, things probably would've been a lot better. But who could've guessed you'd actually wake up? Now they've found their target."
Azephala gazed at this man with mixed feelings and asked:
"Where is my god?"
Lynn stared with dead-fish eyes. "Gone to Hell."
"Then why are you still here? Didn't you go down with them? Honestly, you're not who I wanted to see when I opened my eyes."
Smack-
Lynn slapped her bottom.
Azephala's body jolted.
Humiliation immediately turned to fury.
"You..."
But Lynn cut her off, his voice serious:
"Cut the crap. If it weren't for me, you'd already have been devoured. Is that how you treat the man who saved your life? Who else in this world do you think would remember you besides me?"
Azephala fought down her anger.
Yet as she looked at his stern profile and his badly injured body, she somehow couldn't bring herself to let that anger out.
With mixed feelings, she asked:
"So you stayed behind... specifically to save me?"
Lynn froze for a moment, then curled his lips into a smile and adjusted the Monocle.
"Of course. You may not be my woman, but I promised I would bring your