Sperm Whale
The man looked up and saw Erina Nakiri, then exclaimed, "You're the girl we mistook for someone else!?"
"Thinking back, it seems we just met." Nakiri smiled. "They tried to ambush a defenseless girl like me but failed and instead fled in disarray. To be honest, I'd like to chat with you a little longer."
The man's face turned pale for a moment, as if recalling some unpleasant memory. He quickly looked around, "Where's that female demon in the exoskeleton? Aren't you all in cahoots? Where is she?!"
"Hey, you're looking for me?" Ueno's head popped out curiously from around the corner, angrily shouting at Nakiri, "Hey, you bitch, there's absolutely no trace here! How am I supposed to track you down?"
"Can't you determine the other person's location by their scent?"
"I'm not a dog, how could I possibly do this! Besides, there wasn't a single scent for me to track. Even a police dog couldn't do this!" Ueno said angrily.
"I'm so sorry," Nakiri and clasping his hands together in a tone that conveyed absolutely no apology. "Thank you for your help. We probably don't need you to look for clues anymore; we have them right in front of us."
"A clue?" Ueno, maneuvering his exoskeleton, ran towards Nakiri. "You're not talking about this guy who looks like he's trembling, are you? I feel like I've seen him before, is it déjà vu?"
While Ueno was pondering, Nakiri noticed that the man was sweating profusely. She smiled, feigning sudden realization, and clenched her fist. "Oh, so you didn't even consider the consequences of doing something like this? You didn't even realize how many of us there are, did you?"
"Stop arguing!"
The man pulled a sharp knife from his pocket and held it in front of Minoru Mineta's face, causing him to scream loudly, "Kaminari, save me! I don't want to die!"
Hearing Minoru Mineta's scream, the man gained a little confidence and grinned, "So what if you outnumber me? I have a hostage. Now, you'd better behave and do as I say!"
Nakiri sighed, covering his face in exasperation. "Looks like you still haven't figured out the situation, Ueno."
"I know!" Ueno didn't seem to like being Nakiri, but she still obediently replied and extended her arm towards the man.
Suddenly, a huge tube emerged from above Ueno's arm. After a "crackling" sound, the tube was extended in front of the man, its tip pressed firmly against his forehead.
"What do you want to do?" The man's voice trembled as he recalled the fear of being dominated by the flames.
"You should understand, right?" Nakiri a smile.
The man fell silent.
"Snap!" "Ding!"
As Minoru Mineta and the knife hit the ground, the man slowly raised his hands above his head in a gesture of surrender.
"They surrendered so easily, how lame!" Ueno retorted.
Nakiri asked, "Excuse my intrusion, but may I ask what your nationality is?"
France.
Nakiri nodded as if he hadn't expected it, and smiled, saying, "It seems you've made a wise decision. So, can you tell us some information, some information that we couldn't possibly know?"
A few minutes ago.
"Even the captain can't control the sperm whale that Isana has transformed into? It seems we can only wait for rescue." Jilan Jiyu looked at the dragon-like creature wrestling with the sperm whale, and his eyes couldn't help but show amazement.
"It seems the rumors weren't unfounded after all; the captain certainly has a strong Quirk."
A few minutes earlier, just as the sperm whale was sniffing the lingering scent of Jilan in the damp air, swaying its tail and twisting its body to approach Jilan Jiyu clinging to the ship's side, the captain arrived.
He didn't see Jilan hiding. When he saw the whale, which was like a diligent cleaner, about to destroy all the debris on the deck, he dropped the wolf in his hand, which was like a dead dog, without saying a word and charged towards the sperm whale.
The captain ran across the tilting, swaying deck as if it were flat ground, and with a few large strides, he leaped onto the sperm whale's head. Sensing the foreign object on its head, the sperm whale began frantically shaking its head, trying to shake the captain off.
The force exerted by sperm whales is even more thrilling than the craziest pirate ship in an amusement park. Not only are there no seat belts, but there's also nowhere to hold you up. If you're not careful, you can be thrown more than ten meters away and fall directly into the sea.
The captain lay on the sperm whale, pressed tightly against its skin, and uttered slow but rhythmic, peculiar syllables.
The captain often dealt with aquatic animals at sea. In order to be able to communicate with them in a simple way, he consulted a United States hero who could communicate with marine life and learned a few simple "fish languages," including a language for communicating with whales.
Whales live in the Deep, and their ears are not on the surface; instead, they analyze sound through bone conduction.
"Quiet," "Stop," "Don't move"
The captain kept uttering words that implied this meaning, but to Jilan, it was just an ambiguous cry.
Perhaps the captain's reassurances worked, because the sperm whale's struggles weakened, and it emitted low, guttural calls, the "woo-woo" sounds seeming to be telling a story.
Noticing that the swaying of the ship had weakened, Jilan cautiously peeked out and what she saw was—a gaping maw of abyss filled with sharp fangs!
Just like being terrified by a horror movie, cold sweat instantly spread all over Jilan's body. He subconsciously pulled his head back and pushed hard against the side of the ship, trying to use the reaction force to jump into the sea!
However, a game scene suddenly flashed through Jilan's mind, which made him stop his thought of jumping into the sea.
Jilan stuck her head out again, and what she saw before her was still a gaping maw. This time, Jilan was mentally prepared and resisted the urge to get away from the mouth. She flipped over and jumped onto the deck, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the scene in front of her.
Before him stood a sperm whale with its mouth wide open and its eyes fixed on him, but it was asleep.
Fish do not have eyelids, so they sleep with their eyes open, just like Zhang Fei (a famous Chinese general). Sperm whales are the same; they often take short naps, each lasting about 624 minutes.
Because whales use only half of their brain to sleep, while using the other half for swimming and breathing, it is common to see them stop swimming in the deep ocean. Sometimes they even sleep upright. In this case, it must have fallen asleep with its mouth wide open, which explains the scene.
"But Jalter was right. Whether it's dolphins or sperm whales, they are indeed terrifying when they open their mouths at people," Jilan muttered to herself.