Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

"Yes, I didn't expect that your dancing steps are also very good. I am a little surprised."

She stroked her left pupil and spoke softly.

"But it's not over yet."

"If nothing unexpected happens, there should be two more guys."

"It's really sad. He was the one who shouted the loudest at the beginning, but he left without noticing when the scene was in chaos, Bishop Quintus."

Laurentina called out the man's name, releasing her murderous intent without reservation.

Zuo Jian hesitated for a moment, wanting to ask something.

"I know what you want to ask, Zuojian. Don't worry, I'm fine. It's just... I witnessed something unpleasant along the way."

After Laurentina finished speaking, she walked directly towards another passage.

Her steps were slow, without much change.

[Laurentina, yes

person...one...］

[No, five, ten, hell, more.]

[Do they have any more reinforcements?]

Zuo Jian was stunned, and suddenly there were several breaths of life around him.

What happened? Why didn't I notice it before?

Laurentina's left hand was instantly covered with a layer of sharp claws, but the next moment.

She stretched out her hand, placed it on her left hand, and pressed the left room in preparation for fighting.

[Laurentina?]

"They are not enemies."

The girl lowered her eyes, sighed, and replied.

"There are lights around, left room, light them up and see."

The latter seemed to realize that something was wrong, but did not hesitate. The hem of her skirt turned into nimble tentacles, while the tips of her tentacles turned into hard finger structures, and she snapped her fingers at the extinguished oil lamp beside her.

A few sparks from the friction and collision lit the oil lamp.

The next moment, the eyeball disguised as a jewel brooch on Laurentina's chest widened.

Surrounding it are rows of iron railings.

And inside, the enemies he had sensed before were dying children.

What shocked him even more was that these children had surgical wounds all over their bodies, and at the same time—

Some of the children seemed to have been forcibly sewn with extra limbs that did not originally belong to them, like those of marine creatures.

The other part began to experience serious changes in the body.

However, in addition to this, these children were also covered with a large amount of pitch-black Originium crystals.

"They are trying to find the path of evolution from the sea urchins, and this is just part of the experiment."

"As far as I know, there are other methods such as living sacrifice."

"In order to control these test subjects, they would inject Originium fluid into their bodies to make them fight against the Haisi part, so as to keep the host in a weak state at all times."

"...a bunch of lunatics."

Laurentina finished speaking and looked down at the silent Sapphire.

"Do you understand, Zuo Jian, the deep-sea hunter has always danced to hunt monsters."

"Close your eyes. That bastard Quintus won't get far. Before that—"

She stepped forward, placed her left hand, which had turned into a sharp claw, on the iron railing, and then tore a hole in it.

Laurentina came through the gap to the nearest child.

She squatted down gently and looked at the child in front of her whose half body was covered with Originium crystals and whose skin had turned into light blue with short and dense tentacles.

[.....They are not saved.]

The latter shook his head and looked at the lifeless child in front of him with great regret.

"I'm not sure about the medical level of the people on the mainland for mineral sickness, but for a case this serious, there is basically no possibility of any treatment."

"What's more, his body is still constantly transforming into a sea."

"The current situation is that two lunatics are madly repelling each other in this weak body, while constantly trying to erode the remaining flesh."

"The only thing we can do is to help him get rid of it."

"Close your eyes, Zuojian, I know you don't want to see this."

Now it was Laurentina who came to comfort Zuo Jian. Then, she placed her left hand, which had turned into a sharp claw, on the neck of the dying child in front of her.

"I've dealt with mutated hunters too, Zuojian, close your eyes, I'll take care of these."

Realizing that Zuo Jian still hadn't closed his pupils, Laurentina's words became a little tougher.

....He looks a bit like a captain, she thought self-deprecatingly.

[Judging from the level of physical development I felt after contact...his age is less than twelve years old.]

Zuo Jian spoke in her ear for no reason.

[He is just a child...]

"I know, so I have to understand his pain."

[Your hands are shaking... Would you feel good if you strangled a child or a group of children to death?]

"So what? Do you think leaving them here to suffer is a good ending?!"

"They are beyond help, Zuojian. Someone has to end their suffering!"

Laurentina rarely loses her composure, but this time, for everything the Deep Sea Church has done, both to herself and to these children...

Whether it was anger or hatred, the mixed emotions hit me again and again.

She was just a simple girl, not very old, and the thing she was best at on the battlefield was to devote herself wholeheartedly to hunting Hai Si.

Only now did she finally understand the emotional turmoil the captain faced every time he personally dealt with his comrades who had fought side by side with him.

If she were the captain...she would definitely make the most correct move decisively, right?

But she is not here now...

"So...someone has to be."

[But that person shouldn’t be you.]

Laurentina was startled and found that her left hand was suddenly stopped.

[You said that deep-sea hunters always hunt monsters.]

“That’s it…”

[They are children, not monsters.]

The voice from the left fell, and then the skirts were lifted and extended, and their ends

All of them turned into sharp sickle blades.

[Someone has to do this, and it shouldn't be you, Laurentina.]

"Wait, Zuo Jian, what are you trying to do?!"

The sickle blade split, and like a swift water snake, it swept through the cells in the entire corridor with its sharp blade!

Whether it was flesh and blood, Originium crystals, or sea parts, they were all easily cut like tofu in front of it.

In just a few seconds, those children lying on the ground, those tortured children, those children who had been tortured so long that they could not make a sound...

They realized something.

With grateful eyes, he looked at the figure squatting not far away.

[This time the blade is the sharpest and most accurate.]

Zuo Jian's voice was steady and cold, a sign of his extreme anger.

[Laurentina, didn’t you say you were a deep-sea hunter?]

[Well, get up, we still have some escaped "monsters" to deal with.]

A tentacle stretched out in front of Laurentina and turned into the shape of a palm.

At the same time, a deep blue pupil opened in the middle of the palm and was looking straight at him.

The latter was slightly stunned. She had seen that look in her captain's eyes before.

Suddenly, I seemed to be back in the days when I was a hunter.

'Get up, Laurentina.'

'Don't forget what those hunters died for.'

She reached out and held the hand in front of her.

Let the other person pull you up.

Bang!

Then, Laurentina's clenched palm deformed again.

An exaggerated meat saw appeared in her hand.

At the same time, the hem of Laurentina's skirt gradually gathered, changed position, and hung vertically.

It's like...a hunter's cape.

A hunter hat with shark-tooth-like patterns slowly formed on her head, covering her flying silver hair and highlighting her equally furious red eyes.

"As you said, as a hunter, this hunt is not over yet."

"let us."

[Go Hunting]

"Those who have abandoned their humanity."

[monster]

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Chapter 9, Ending

"Huh...Huh...Damn...that damn hunter..."

Quintus' figure appeared on the beach at the bottom of the cliff.

He turned back with horror and looked at the old church on the cliff behind him.

There was not much time to confirm whether the hunter was chasing him. At this moment, he was only concerned about why his legs were exhausted after running only a few steps.

My lungs felt like they were about to explode.

It's all this body's fault. If he had God's favor, none of this would have happened at all!

Yes, that must be the case!

Thinking of this, he did not hesitate and continued to run forward with his sore limbs.

Yes, as long as he gets there, reaches that place, he can turn the situation around.

He was gasping for air, with red eyes, leaning against the edge of a cave he had run to.

Tick-tick.....Tick-tick.....

The sound of dripping water filled the cave, as terrifying as the sound of a poisonous snake's tongue.

Quintus felt that his heart slowed down at this moment, as if something was approaching him.

But then, as if realizing something, he quickly took out a bottle of dark blue liquid and drank it in one gulp.