The Cloud Whale understood, and after recovering, it dove under the Black Ship, lifting the vessel with its body.
Clouds gathered, and the Cloud Whale flicked its fins, rising from the sea surface, carrying the Black Ship, soaring into the sky.
At the moment of leaving the sea's surface, the High Priest realized they were seemingly safe.
The one pursuing them seemed unable to leave the deep sea.
...
In the deep sea, beneath the darkness, black smoke rolled and continuously converged.
A giant squid, reaching the end of its life, was engulfed by the pervasive black smoke at the seabed.
After a frenzied struggle, the gigantic squid, spanning thousands of feet, utterly vanished within the black smoke.
The black smoke began to coalesce, forming black tendrils and black eyes abruptly opened.
Those eyes looked westward, filled with greed, emerging from the sea floor.
At the moment of emerging, it sensed the echoing call at the seabed.
