“….”
“….”
The voice of the god they were hearing for the first time was deep and majestic.
Its solemnity reverberated all the way into the depths of their souls, making it impossible to immediately comprehend what had been said.
Everyone thought the same thing at once.
‘I must have misheard.’
‘What overwhelming stature…! It’s so tremendous I can’t even think properly enough to understand!’
But as if rebuking those believers, the first fish of the Black Layered Sea… Bahamut Akya Devayuta shouted again, this time even louder.
【I suuuurreeeender!】
【I said I surrender! I’m surrendering! Surrender! I suuuurreeeender!】
“….”
“….”
Now it was bouncing up and down.
As the enormous fish thrashed around, shouting in every direction as if asking whether they hadn’t heard it, the sea and the layered land heaved along with its movements.
One of the cardinals lying flat on the ground whispered to the chief cardinal.
“Um… unless I am mistaken, Father somehow appears to be frightened—”
“What! What sort of insolent nonsense is that!”
There was no way their Father could possibly be afraid!
The chief cardinal shot to his feet and looked around at the cardinals and soldiers murmuring in confusion.
“O-our opponents are nothing but pirates! Mere human pirate scum! How could our god possibly surrender to a single human?! Such a thing is absurd!”
“B-but… he is crying it out like that…!”
“Something is wrong. This isn’t right—y-yes!”
The chief cardinal thrust out a finger, bloodshot eyes…