Somewhere in the eastern United States, about 20 kilometers above ground in the stratosphere, a massive airship over 200 meters long cruised slowly. This airship housed Francesca Prelati's magical workshop. Inside a dimly lit space within the airship, the workshop owner stood excitedly in front of a crystal ball showing live images.
The girl who had lived for countless centuries had long silver hair that reached the floor and a cute face. She wore Gothic Lolita clothes on her upper body, but only stockings on her lower half, without any skirt. Despite being indoors, she held a Gothic lace parasol, constantly spinning it above her head.
Looking at the images in the crystal ball, Francesca's eyes lit up like a child's, her cheeks turning pink as she burst out laughing.
"Hahahahahahaha! Amazing, just amazing! That guy actually managed to summon the sea demon? It took me decades to finally pull that off."
The girl was laughing so hard she couldn't stay standing. She just lay down on the floor, holding her stomach as she kept laughing, kicking her legs up and down.
"And he didn't even follow what I wrote in the book—instead of sacrificing himself to the sea demon, he... he ate the sea demon instead! Who would ever think of something like that? Rather than becoming the sea demon's spiritual core, he turned the sea demon into his outer shell! Hahahaha! This person must be absolutely crazy! Typical Ryuuto☆~"
After laughing herself out, the girl rolled over on the floor and looked at the crystal ball in the middle of the room with an excited but dazed expression.
"Ah... Going straight to the naval base to cause trouble right after becoming a sea demon, that's so like him! A giant monster appearing in foggy Tokyo Bay, hahaha, this is just too perfect."
In the crystal ball's image, the great sea demon was swinging two massive tentacles and countless smaller ones, attacking the fighter jets swarming around it. The sea demon's attacks were incredibly effective; with each sweep of its tentacle, like a giant earthly python, several fighter jets would drop from the sky.
It shouldn't be possible to hit fighter jets so easily with tentacles—how was he managing to knock down such fast-moving aircraft? The confused Prelati leaned closer to the crystal ball, puffing out her cheeks.
"That's weird... the sea demon shouldn't have EMP abilities, right?" After watching for a while, she finally figured out the secret. "Oh, so that's what he's doing? Haha! What a cheater."
A cold glint flashed in her eyes. "But to not just feed and heal, but also multiply... this could be a problem. Ryuuto, how much longer can you stay human?"
The excitement vanished from her cute face, and as if she had become someone else entirely, the girl revealed terrifyingly sharp teeth in the darkness. "Hehehe... then fall. Fall! Fall! Fall! Fall! Fall! Fall! Ryuuto! Go ahead and kill everyone in Tokyo! Show me what you really are... ah, I'm getting all tingly inside."
Her demonic expression suddenly disappeared, and Prelati's face turned bright red. Then, she parted her crimson lips and ran her tongue across them. "Not good, even though I just... hmm."
Slowly approaching the crystal ball, her gleaming eyes remained fixed on the violent form of the sea demon as it crushed everything in its path.
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The situation in Tokyo Bay could only be described as desperate. The fighter squadrons and three Aegis destroyers weren't being completely overwhelmed; they were firing everything they had at the sea demon. But this didn't change the one-sided nature of the battle.
Despite the constant attacks from warships and aircraft on the sea demon's massive body, it showed no real damage. This wasn't because modern weapons were ineffective. At first, test shots from ship cannons, Apaches, and tank artillery instantly blew apart huge chunks of the sea demon's body under the barrage. Flying flesh and slime immediately turned the entire area of water red.
"Those monster movies are complete lies. Simple flesh and blood creatures can't possibly withstand these kinds of attacks!"
Following their advantage, the Pentagon eagerly approved the use of missiles. Missiles fired from warships and fighter jets screamed through the air as they hit the grotesque mountain of flesh, vaporizing parts of the monster's body with intense light and heat. However, just as the Pentagon was about to proudly grab champagne from the refrigerator, they were shocked to discover the monster wasn't dead. The remaining mass of flesh began to bubble and churn.
The monster, which had just lost three-quarters of its body, grew back to its original size in mere seconds. The monster's ability to heal, like its hunger, seemed limitless. No matter how intense the US-Japan joint forces' attacks were, their firepower simply couldn't keep up with how quickly it recovered. Even when they finally brought out bunker-buster bombs, creating a tunnel straight through the sea demon's body from above, it made no difference.
"Stop scratching, stop scratching," Ryuuto said with a slight smile as he extended his main tentacle below the water. As the world watched, the tentacle lifted a 10,000-ton destroyer out of the sea along with a wall of water.
Not wanting to go too far by directly killing people for fun, he decided to just throw the destroyer away from the water, leaving the crew to whatever fate awaited them. At the same time, the sea demon continued moving its other tentacles, constantly releasing sea anemone-like offspring into the sky.
The pre-dawn sky filled with disgusting baby sea demons - a sight that would drive video game enthusiasts absolutely crazy.
These baby creatures instinctively sought out fighter jets in the air, attaching to them and immediately disabling them, forcing pilots to eject.
Finally, after losing half their air force and two destroyers, the joint command ordered the operation to enter its second phase. The surviving fighter jets began trying to lure the sea demon toward open water. But Ryuuto wasn't falling for such an obvious trick.
"You want me to move away from the port so you can drop a nuclear bomb on me? I've seen that movie before."
Ignoring their attempts to trick him, he kept moving toward the aircraft carrier. At the same time, he suddenly had a thought he had never dared consider before. After taking down the US aircraft carrier, why not rampage through Tokyo itself? After all, at the end of this new millennium, the Golden Cup would, as promised, grant the world a single salvation.