Convoy

The East's greatest military asset. One of the five giant abyssal monsters was found horribly mutilated.

It was first discovered by Eastbourne, the East's third-rate battleship.

"We heard successive explosions in this sector!"

When the Eastbourne crew entered the waters where the hunt had taken place, they grimaced at the overpowering fishy stench.

The source of the stench that even sailors long used to the sea couldn't stand was the corpse of the giant monster Tusoteuthis.

"This is..."

Giant monsters rarely surface.

There's no food on the surface.

So... that could only mean it was an abyssal monster with a master, and there was only one place in these waters that could operate large abyssal monsters.

The Eastern Royal Navy...