Inomata Naoki felt as if he had just woken from a very long dream, but this time he clearly remembered everything that had happened.
After finishing his date with Minami, he was taking a boat back to Star Sea Island, only to be attacked by a sea monster while passing by Salvic waters.
Naoki distinctly recalled the moment when a massive, suction-cup-covered tentacle emerged from the depths, wrapping around the small boat he was on. For a moment, he thought it was just a dream.
This was simply absurd. How could there be a tentacle as tall as a skyscraper in the waters of the Maldives? Aren't sea monsters just the stuff of legends?
What was even more absurd was that the gigantic tentacle, despite swallowing him, the captain, and the entire boat into a maw full of jagged teeth, did not chew them to pieces. Instead, Naoki was swallowed whole and survived inside the beast.
Not only that, but the monster's stomach was, strangely enough, filled with air, making it possible to breathe.
