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‘The farther down….’

Nereia could sense through her tail that something about the currents was strange.

At regular intervals, the surrounding currents kept rising and then falling.

Nereia thought these currents seemed to be affected by the breathing of some enormous living creature.

Perhaps Nereia wouldn’t have thought so in the past, but she had already encountered a colossal deep-sea creature whose size was impossible to gauge.

In other words, it wouldn’t be strange at all if a creature existed whose breathing alone affected the currents of the deep sea.

But….

‘Something about this… feels wrong.’

The farther down Nereia went, the more clearly she sensed the currents.

Nereia couldn’t shake the feeling that something about their flow was bizarre...