On the other side.
Hela casually found a rock to sit on, clutching her chest, trying to suppress the strange excitement within her.
Because of her childhood albino disease, Hela never dared to have any strong emotions, so her first thought was to suppress them.
But instead of subsiding, this feeling intensified over time.
This inevitably made Hela uneasy.
In the very next moment.
Hela's body suddenly trembled, and she instinctively leaped forward.
Bang--!
The instant she leaped away, a gaping black maw swallowed the spot where Hela had just been.
It stirred up ripples in the sea.
Hela turned around in fright at the noise and saw a large-mouthed catfish, about five meters long with strong limbs, lying there.
The sound of rocks shattering came from its mouth, and fragments of rock were spat out.
Hela felt a wave of fear wash over her. If she hadn't dodged by some uncanny impulse, the giant catfish wouldn't have been chewing on a stone, but on herself!
The large catfish looked at Hela, its round eyes revealing a hint of confusion.
He seemed confused as to why Hela was able to react to his sneak attack.
Seeing that the other party was in a daze, Hela quickly swam frantically in the direction the Spirit Shark had gone.
Seeing Hela's retreating figure, the giant catfish shook its head and then suddenly pushed itself against the ground.
The entire fish leaped off the seabed, waving its tail as it chased after Hela.
The catfish swims in a strange, even comical, manner, with its limbs swaying back and forth as its tail moves.
But he was not slow at all; he closed the distance between himself and Hela in just two breaths.
Hela turned around in horror, staring at the gaping maw of the abyss that seemed to want to swallow her whole.
His speed suddenly increased.
They suddenly managed to create some distance between themselves and the catfish.
The catfish was startled again, and desperately thrashed its short limbs, trying to catch up.
However, the distance between the two is constantly widening.
Seeing that it had no chance of catching up, the catfish simply stopped chasing.
Then, as if it had seen something, it turned and swam in another direction.
"Come on, baby! I believe you can swim here."
Inside a house.
A chubby little fish-man who looked only five or six years old was struggling to swim towards his parents, like a toddler learning to walk.
"Hey, almost there, son, keep it up!"
His parents stood in front of him, encouraging him. The little mermaid, with his two tiny waving hands, finally swam in front of them.
"Baby is so great!"
The two happily hugged the little mermaid and each kissed him on the cheek.
"You can swim right after learning to transform into human form, that's amazing!"
"Hehe, I have hands now, I can go catch crabs!"
After saying that, the little guy started to wriggle his rather uncoordinated limbs, preparing to swim out.
But just then, a huge, dark face suddenly shoved in from outside and blocked the doorway.
The powerful surge of water propelled the fish away, sending it crashing into its parents' arms.
" Yuyu!"
The fish-man's parents quickly hugged him, and after seeing that he was unharmed, they hurriedly looked towards the door.
The little fishman opened his eyes, but his pupils contracted immediately upon seeing the other person's face.
" Heidai?!"
The fish-man's parents also recognized the giant catfish as the Heidai that often played with their children in the neighborhood.
The fish-man father, seeing that something was clearly wrong with Heidai, whose eyes were filled with ferocity, warily shielded his wife and children behind him.
"What happened to you? How did you get like this, and you're covered in injuries!"
The Heidai creature kept trying to squeeze into the room, and cracks began to appear on the door frame.
"Hungry... so hungry..."
A deep voice came from his mouth, like a final groan before death, sending chills down the spines of those who heard it.
"Mom, Heidai so strange..."
The little fish-man clung to his mother's leg in terror, tears welling in his eyes and scattering into the sea.
"Roar--!!"
Heidai roared and kept trying to squeeze inside, causing the cracks in the door frame to widen.
The rough rocks tore at Heidai's body, leaving shocking wounds that grew larger and larger.
But it seemed to have lost the ability to feel pain and kept burrowing inside.
Soon, half of his body was inside.
Its black hole-like mouth opened and closed, trying to bite the three of them, but it always missed by just a little bit.
However, this was enough to terrify the three people inside the house.
"Ah!!! Guardians! Come save us!"
Boom!!!
Finally, the ring of stones that had been restraining the Heidai shattered, and its massive body plunged into it.
"Ah--!"
Bang!!
Just as the three screamed in agony, a rapidly approaching rock struck Heidai's head like a missile.
The immense force deformed its head, causing it to slam heavily onto the floor.
A few meters behind her, Hela stared blankly at the Heidai that had been hit by the stone she had thrown, somewhat at a loss.
At first, out of fear, Hela was torn between whether or not to run away.
But seeing the other person go straight into the house, he didn't think much of it and took out a stone and threw it at them.
Who would have thought that this stone would have such great force when thrown?!
That's powerful enough to kill even a brown bear in one hit!
Heidai was also stunned by this powerful force, standing there dumbfounded and at a loss.
Upon realizing this, the three fish-men simultaneously transformed into three small fish and ran out of the room.
By the time Heidai came to his senses, San Yu had already vanished without a trace.
Enraged, it began to roll around on the spot, its furious gaze fixed on Hela. With a powerful push of its limbs, it charged forward.
Hela looked terrified; her enormous, black mouth seemed capable of swallowing him whole.
Just as Hela was about to turn and run away, she suddenly lost consciousness.
At the same time, those slightly trembling eyes suddenly lost their luster.
boom!!!
The enormous, dark figure crashed down, its exaggerated weight causing the entire seabed to tremble slightly and stirring up a large amount of sand.
Seawater and fine sand are exhaled from its enormous mouth.
"It's not that great."
A voice, devoid of any emotion and as ethereal as heavenly music, drifted down from above.
In an instant, fear spread from above, enveloping the entire body.
Hela sat calmly on the head of the Heidai, her legs crossed. A necklace and a bracelet emerged from her fair skin and were worn around Hela neck and wrist.
Heidai forcefully overcame his fear of death and suddenly rolled over.
Large amounts of sand and dust were kicked up, enveloping the surroundings like smog.
Its body thrashed and rolled around on the pests as if in a death throes.
Suddenly, a small, pale, and slender hand grabbed the huge head of the Heidai.
The body that was struggling was suddenly frozen in place, and no matter how the other person resisted, it was to no avail.
With a sudden burst of force, the small hand sank into the seabed with a thud.