After a short while, within the pitch-black fog, the eyes of the enormous Flesh Aberration began flashing toward the lighthouse at a specific frequency.
Beep-beep beep-beep-
The flashes were accompanied by peculiar sound effects, mimicking intense shifts in tone and certain strange, indescribable words.
In the clearing below the lighthouse, the Flesh Humanoids all stared in that direction, watching the red glow in the black mist blink at a steady pace, their faces blank with confusion. Although they could not decipher it, the coded message coming through this time was clearly a little on the long side.
The Flesh Humanoid in charge swiveled his eye toward the subordinate handling the signals and said:
"Well? Have you confirmed their identity?"
The wriggling Eyeball Monster carefully wiped his eye, seemingly trying hard to watch the flashing signal one more time. Then he widened his eye, hurriedly pulled a notebook of codes from inside his clothes, and scrutinized it word by word through a magnifying glass.
He silently raised his head and said, "Um... I'm not sure whether I should say this..."
"What is it?"
"They said... they want us to come welcome them..."
"They beeped that whole long message just to tell us to welcome them??"
"No... I left some of it out... I didn't think the remaining ninety percent was particularly meaningful... because it included a lot about our parents..."
Bam-
A fist slammed into his head.
"I told you to translate, so translate! What the hell are you dithering for?! Do you want that birdman up there to drag us back and squeeze us into juice?! Translate every single word! Or I'll smash your damn head in! (Angry)!"
"Th-then I really will translate it..."
"Translate!!!"
The Eyeball Monster took a deep breath, holding the little notebook in trembling hands. Then