About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"Kelsey... I'm fine. Compared to that, Miss Ghost Shark—"

Orson shook his head and looked at the 'Sleeping Beauty' Ghost Shark lying on the hospital bed beside him.

"Woo..."

In a trance, the ghost shark, which had kept its eyes closed, slowly opened its eyes and slowly got up from the bed.

"Laurentina—Shark, you're awake!"

Seeing the ghost shark waking up, Skadi instantly rushed over excitedly.

"..."

The ghost shark opened its eyes and blinked at Skadi first, then turned its head to look at the boy beside it.

"Ms. Ghost Shark, how do you feel now—Woooa!?"

thump!

"Ahh... My love, I've finally found you - this time, we will never be separated - never...!"

The ghost shark that had just awakened threw Orson to the ground without saying a word after seeing him, and spoke fanatically with pink hearts in his eyes.

"Hey!?"

“——!?!?”

The killer whale and old lynx next to them were both furious.

7. Deep Sea Lovers Are Connected by Blood

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Two dull sounds came from both sides of Orson, one on the left and one on the right.

The little killer whale Skadi and the old lynx Kal'tsit, at this moment, presented two pieces of bread and cheese and pushed Orson against the wall.

"Tell me what's going on, Orson?"

"How did it come to this, Orson?"

Kal'tsit's face seemed to have entered Shura mode. The last time Orson saw this expression on her face, it seemed that she was accompanying Hei to open a temporary shop in the restaurant.

As for Skadi, her expression was a little confused and unhappy. Although Didi looked a little better than Kal'tsit, her wall-bang almost knocked half of Rhodes Island crooked. In a sense, she was also a terrifying existence that should not be underestimated.

"That... I... can explain..."

Orson, who was caught in the middle, stuttered as he tried to calm the two of them down, while trying to find a reason to survive.

"Haha, that's so cute..."

However, things went against his will. Before Orson could come up with a convincing excuse, the ghost shark, who had just woken up from her coma, once again approached him. She clung to him, her fair cheeks tinged with a blush as she rubbed against him, her entire body visibly covered in pink hearts.

"This...this doesn't mean his mental state hasn't improved at all...!"

Seeing the look of Shark in front of him, Didi got angry again.

"Shark—wake up! You wouldn't do these things in your right mind!"

Skadi tried to stop the ghost shark. At least in Didi's impression, the "shark" of the second team was a decisive, capable and ruthless qualified deep-sea hunter, not the strange guy in front of him who seemed to have entered the developmental stage and only knew how to seek sexual pleasure.

"You need to rest now, Ms. Ghost Shark. Your various body function indicators are still below the standard."

Although Kal'tsit's face was bruised with fear at the sight, the old woman still managed to maintain a balance between public and private matters. Orson's matter could wait until later, behind closed doors, to be settled. The most urgent task was to ensure Ghost Shark's health. At least Kal'tsit didn't think Ghost Shark's current condition was "normal."

The two of them tried to pull the ghost shark off Orson, but the ghost shark suddenly showed a manic expression.

"No—no—! Don't take my sister away from me...! She belongs to me, just my music sheet...!"

Ghost Shark bared its jagged teeth at Skadi and Kel'tsit, seemingly as a form of protest. However, what puzzled everyone the most was the words she had just spoken.

[Miss Sister]...Who is it?

Kal'tsit blinked and looked at Orson, and Skadi tilted her head to show her curiosity.

As for the person involved, Orson, who was a nun, her face turned red instantly.

Why do I remember it being the nun version?! So, I was dressed like that simply because my mindset was forcibly assimilated...

"Anyway, calm down for a moment, Ms. Ghost Shark...!"

Orson held the ghost shark's shoulders with both hands and finally calmed her down a little.

"Listen to me, Ms. Ghost Shark, you need to calm down first, okay? This is not the dream you had before. You are safe - yes, you are safe."

Orson gently held Ghost Shark's hands, and at the same time looked into her scarlet eyes with pink hearts in them.

"Safety...dreams...?"

Hearing these words and feeling the warmth of Orson coming from his palm, the ghost shark, which had been extremely fanatical just now, gradually calmed down.

"That's right, no one here will hurt you."

Orson gently put the two seals of Ghost Shark together, and his tone also turned low.

After seeing that the ghost shark had calmed down temporarily, Orson began to organize and analyze the current situation.

It was obvious that both himself and the ghost shark had their consciousness and memories from the deep souls brought out. And unlike lucid dreams, both the doctor's words and the temperature of the stove in the virtual northern cabin were clearly imprinted in their minds.

——Come to think of it, the doctor seemed to have mentioned before that even consuming 'Chimaera Blood' in a dream would have severe side effects. Could it be that he was referring to... this matter?

Orson swallowed. It was obvious that the Ghost Shark's behavior towards him after waking up couldn't be explained as "lonely and looking for someone to cheer him up." Instead, it was more like the Ghost Shark was looking for him to cheer him up after being in love, just like the time he had with Lappland before...

It seems that even virtual blood in the spiritual realm will still actually affect the other person's memory and emotions.

Having said that, if there is no physical "blood addiction", then how can we prevent the withdrawal reaction?

Orson realized the seriousness of the matter, but at this time he was not so pessimistic. He was more inclined to believe that Ghost Shark was just a little confused.

No matter what, for the Ghost Shark, and even more for his own life...he must control the situation at this time.

Orson analyzed the current situation for a moment, then took a deep breath and smiled at the ghost shark.

"Anyway...listen to me, Ms. Ghost Shark."

"Ok?"

Ghost Shark was more cooperative than expected. She crossed her fingers with Orson, tilted her head slightly, and stared at Orson with her eyes, but she didn't continue to send Os.

"You've been trapped in a virtual consciousness for a long time. During that time, you were constantly hurt by various indescribable nightmares. But now it's different—this is reality, not your suffocating subconscious. You and I are not familiar with each other. Miss Orca, Skadi, over there is your friend, and she cares most about your existence."

Orson pointed to Skadi next to him and whispered to Ghost Shark.

"Skadi...Killer Whale—but, but, we're not familiar with it?"

Ghost Shark first glanced at Skadi, and she found that she did have memories related to the deep-sea hunter, so she relaxed a little. But then Ghost Shark looked at Orson again and asked in an uncertain voice.

"But, you're Sister... You were so brave, you saved... protected me—Ah, I'm so happy. That throbbing feeling isn't fake, it's not a trick of the false god I serve... Yes, I'm happy. I want to sing loudly and dance with you, Sister...!"

It’s over, he’s sick again, and this one is even more serious.

In order to prevent the script from returning to the beginning of "Shark Shark preying on Chimera, Lynx Killer Whale getting furious", Orson quickly interrupted Ghost Shark.

"So, I'm not a nun, I'm actually a man...!"

Explaining his gender seriously to a cute girl caused Orson far more shame and shyness than he had originally prepared for.

"You-you're not Sister 'Miss'?"

Fortunately, after hearing Orson's words, Ghost Shark froze in place, looking shocked.

"Yeah, that's right."

"Why……"

After hearing that Orson was not the 'Miss Nun' he was pursuing, Ghost Shark showed a lonely expression.

Seeing this scene, Skadi and Kal'tsit sighed. Although Orson's crisis was temporarily resolved, Ghost Shark's expression made them feel a subtle sense of emptiness.

However, what no one expected was that the next second——

"Then this must be the spring song sung by fate!!"

“Wow!? You-Miss Ghost Shark…?”

The ghost shark, which had been looking down with a somewhat dejected look the moment before, suddenly showed a more fanatical expression the next moment. At the same time, it tightly grasped Orson's hands and threw him to the ground again without saying a word.

"That's right, it must be so... Hehe, hehe! Not a nun, but a young man of the opposite sex—I will carry on your family line, my Lord Guardian Knight...! We must give birth to many, many, many offspring...! Because, you know, my lord, Shark... possesses two oos, right? Right! Please satisfy me well and continue our race!"

"Wow wow Laurentina!?!"

“That’s about enough!!”

Faced with the Ghost Shark, whose hunter instincts had been fully activated and whose temperament had been maxed out, Skadi and Kal'tsit were furious again.

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"My lover~~"

"Uh-huh..."

In the lower accommodation area of the medical department, in a currently vacant four-person dormitory, Orson and Ghost Shark sat on the lower bunk of a double bed.

The ghost shark was still the same as always. She looked more like a jellyfish than a shark. She whispered creepy passionate words and smiled chillingly as she tightly wrapped around Orson, rubbing his skin constantly.

Orson himself is not a pervert. Although as a "Chimera (human)" he likes protracted battles, Orson is not an addict like Snow Rabbit.

Because of this, facing the Ghost Shark's overly active and even panic-inducing fanatical pursuit, Orson not only did not feel happy, but instead had a melancholy expression on his face, as if saying "I don't know if I can handle it."

Sitting on the bed opposite Orson Ghost Shark were Skadi, the last deep-sea hunter, and Kal'tsit, the head of Rhodes Island's medical department.

The two of them were silent at this moment. Kal'tsit just put up her right foot and crossed her arms over her chest, staring at Orson and the ghost shark beside him with hearts in its eyes, rubbing against him constantly, as if she was looking at a mouse waiting to be dissected.

Skadi on the side had a distressed and worried expression. She had a lot of things she wanted to say to Ghost Shark, but she didn't know how to start. She could only speak in a low voice as if talking to herself, heartbroken.

"You weren't like this before, Shark... You would never show such an expression or act so fanatical. And the place where you can freely rub against Orson was originally mine..."

"?"

Skadi's words made Kal'tsit question herself. This was because a slight split had already occurred before the Victims' Families Alliance (?) was officially established.

"Ahem... Um, may I ask what happened to Laurenti—the ghost shark? Although she has awakened from an endless dream, she... gives people a different feeling."

Didi coughed to calm himself down, then asked the question that concerned him most.

"Can you sense the ghost shark's condition?"

Kal'tsit asked Skadi, who nodded.

"Deep-sea hunters share a similar connection, like... they can hear each other's songs. Previously, the ghost shark's song had been completely silent, just like the hunters who died and were swallowed by the deep sea... But now I can hear the ghost shark's 'song' again, but... it's still incomplete."

At this point, Didi no longer needed to hide anything, so she told Kal'tsit and Orson about the connection between the deep-sea hunter bloodlines.

"Do you remember me, Shark?"

Skadi asked Ghost Shark softly, and fortunately the latter responded this time.

"You, you're from Team Four, Orca."

"—You still remember, shark!"

Hearing that he still retained his memories in the ghost shark's mouth and had always been extremely lonely, the last 'hunter' showed a happy and somewhat relieved smile.

But then—

"Will you bear witness to our union, orca? Will you sing a hymn for the birth of our new life, orca?"

"..."

Skadi's happy expression returned to normal within a few seconds, and she stared at Orson with her red eyes.

“I’m a victim too, stop staring at me…!”

Orson grumbled quietly.

"You—what on earth did you do when you tuned the piano!"

Kal'tsit's patience had reached its limit. In the past, no matter what Orson had said, getting a new girl would at least require some preparation (though that preparation time had gone from "years" at the beginning, to "weeks" in black). But this time, what was that? A mentally damaged girl lying unconscious in a hospital bed, and after a few touches, you picked up a chainsaw nun who was determined to give birth to your little shark? What the hell is this river?

"I didn't do anything—wait, uh…"

Orson hurriedly claimed his innocence, but he paused halfway through his speech.

Previously, in the dream, because they were surrounded by monsters, they had to quell the attacks of the monsters in order to survive. So who was the guy who fed the "Chimera Blood" to the Ghost Shark in his consciousness?