Wangchuan floated in the seawater, watching the blue figure emerge from his chest.
His pupils contracted slightly.
"Basha?!"
Basha's projection hovered before him, her fish tail swaying gently, her purple eyes fixed on him.
"Tso Lan."
Her voice was soft, but there was something she could not suppress in her tone.
"It really is you."
"How did you...?"
She wanted to ask how Tso Lan had come to look so much like him.
Before Wangchuan could finish speaking, Basha had already looked around, her gaze piercing the seawater to see farther away.
She saw schools of fish and coral reefs.
She saw Sea Kings cruising beneath the ocean.
She saw endless, deep-blue seawater teeming with life.
Her eyes slowly widened.
"This is..."
"What is this place?"
She whipped her head around and stared at Wangchuan.
"Where are we?"
"Why is there so much water? And why is the ocean's power so strong?"
"Why..."
She took a deep breath, as though trying to draw the entire ocean into her lungs.
"Why do I feel like the whole sea is responding to me?"
Wangchuan watched her and fell silent for a moment.
Then he spoke.
"This is another world."
"A place completely different from our world."
Basha froze.
"Another world?"
"Yes."
"How... how did you get to another world?"
"It's a long story."
Wangchuan said.
"But since you're here, I'll tell you."
He floated in the seawater, his fish tail swaying gently, his long blue hair spreading through the water.
"When you sent me out of Hell, something unexpected happened."
"Unexpected?"
"Yes."
Wangchuan nodded, concealing most of what had happened, including the system, then made up some lies.
"..."
"And then I came here."
He looked around at the warm, deep-blue ocean.
"This world is called Pirate King."
"Pirate King?"
Basha repeated