Ugh. Lu, while glancing at the threatening eyes of a fearsome being, looked at the surging waves that reached out like a convulsion.

“Twelve o’clock direction, the enemy is attacking! Be careful!”

Just then, an Imperialle knight shouted. She reached out her right hand that still had not shed off the curse. Hayden looked at her hand with a worried expression. It wasn’t an intentional glance; his gaze went there involuntarily.

“If I was uncomfortable, you would have stopped right away. What are you talking about?”
With a crack, something invisible collided with the approaching waves, and seawater was scattered all over the air, accompanied by the sound of the air tearing apart.

Imperialle members unconsciously looked at Lu’s outstretched fingertips. From the fingertips that repelled the waves with magic, fragments of a high-level magician’s emerald-colored curse, visible only to the naked eye, were falling with a thud. Lu, on the other hand, looked at Hayden.

“After the battle, when the curse is all tattered, please ask again. Anyway, I’m already missing parts that have already been done with the power of the Southern Sage.”

“By the way, I’m okay with anything Your Majesty does for me. Your face and body are just my type.”

Hayden, momentarily lost for words, looked at Lu in response to the whispering words to stop hearing such things.

“Port! Port!”

The energetic Emperor walked forward, waving his left arm, following Lu.

Boom!

With a loud noise, the monster horde that had been rushing to the port was pushed back, flying far away, covering the sea and the sky with darkness.

“Are you serious?”

“When we first met at Momentum, I was the one who flirted with you first. I mean it. Besides, you already knew, didn’t you?”

The man who looked exactly like the preferences of Countess Flaiche, as Young Ae’s preferences, chuckled.

“I knew. But saying such things now and here is not appropriate, right? Do we have to say it here and now?”

“You asked, and I answered. Should I not answer, then?”

The monsters came back closer to the ship, as if being pushed. The ship was surrounded, and it swirled. A monster, with sharp teeth, jumped up to bite the ship. However, it couldn’t properly bite through the monster’s attachment, and it fell back down without tearing the railing, finished with monster parts.

“You’re shaking me very much.”

Hayden laughed happily. They had already reached the stern unnoticed. The wave that was as high as a house tried to pour down on the deck, but even that was blocked. The flow of water changed, and the attacks of monsters reaching out from the waves were not working properly.

“Now, let’s finish the story later and retreat, Your Majesty.”

From Lu’s calm words, the shattered curse fell incessantly. At first, it fell from the fingertips, then passed through the palm and fell from the wrist.

“Oh, is Young Ae trying to protect me?”

Lu turned to look at him. Behind her, tentacle-like legs with paddle-shaped fins were spreading through the seawater to the air.

“Yes, just like before.”

The light that the boy had seen, which became evidence of what fear, hunger, and violence could make people do, unfolded before him again.

The light that shone only for him, allowing him to proudly claim and shout that it was his, was warm, peaceful, and beautiful. The light smiled gently and turned away from him.

Boom!
With a tumultuous noise that shook the ship, Delgaw, revealing itself by stretching its legs onto the deck, was pushed backward. The king of sea monsters, the ruler of marine monsters, roared, shaking its legs wildly and extending them again. Lu cleared away the curse hanging on her wrist and shouted.

“I need a sword! Is there any spare sword around?”

Although it was undoubtedly addressed to another Imperialle, not Hayden, he responded.

“I will be your sword.”

Although he had clearly told her to step back, his expression, pulling out the pre-sword he was carrying, looked like a delighted puppy in the rain.

“You don’t need to see what nonsense that is.”

“What kind of nonsense is that, Your Majesty?”

Anita Tevid, inside the cabin, was looking for something to cut off the giant tentacles of the marine creature that were wrapping around the ship. The helmsman was yelling at the navigator, and the Imperialle found a harpoon and stabbed the monsters jumping out.

“Well, depending on the situation, you can be my sword.”

Hayden handed the overly hefty sword to Lu, who raised it with him.

“Whenever someone flexible has it for a while.”

So, what kind of nonsense is that? Lu didn’t have time to say anything to Hayden, who completely enveloped her back, so she just lifted the sword. It was so heavy that her pride was hurt, or the curse tied to her shoulders and arms was strenuous.

“Let’s start by cutting off the legs.”

After being heavily moistened and flying again, if the giant legs that flew toward Lu hit the target, the ship would be swamped, and the whole body would be shattered.