stand-in creed

Normally this is the case.

However, when Nero passed by the ship, a fish slowly swam towards him in the sea below the Ripple Warrior.

This fish is huge and weird.

The dark blue body has human-like limbs covered with fish scales, thick and powerful.The four bright yellow eyes on the fish-like head blinked and blinked, staring straight at Nero sitting above the cabin door.

And on the deck, a blond foreign man in a captain's costume is wearing a strange instrument on his head——

Infrared night vision.

As early as in the Malvinas Islands War in 1982, infrared night vision devices were officially put into use by the British army.But now it is 1988, and with Dior's influence, it is extremely easy for his subordinates to acquire such equipment.

"found it."

The captain with the red kerchief around his neck smiled cruelly.

Slowly pushing the night vision device to the forehead, the whole person jumped lightly like a diver standing on the edge of the springboard, standing firmly on the narrow splint railing, overlooking the bottom.

"As expected of Mr. Dio.

"If it weren't for the ability of Lord Dior's stand-in like a "thorn", who would have thought that this kid would have survived an air crash at an altitude of 8000 meters, and even sat leisurely on the cabin door like a "floating bamboo raft" Like drifting past the coastline?

"Although I said that, the Mediterranean Sea is so big, even if I knew that this guy survived, I never felt that I could find him in the vast sea from the beginning.

"Sure enough, I still complied with Granny Enya's words: substitute messengers and substitute messengers will attract each other——

"—Do it, my substitute."

Whoa!

With a shout from the boat, under the cover of the night and the sound of the waves, the murloc substitute "Dark Moon Blue" jumped out of the sea and blasted towards the face of Nero's body.

boom!

The moment the blue fist was about to hit Nero's face, the golden figure instantly appeared in front of Nero, and a precise and powerful punch hit the murloc's jaw, sending it back into the sea.

At the same time, the bright searchlights all shone on Nero on the sea.

Nero looked up.

"It's really haunting, Dio's minions."

"Don't speak so harshly, Mr. Qibelin! I gave up the time of going to the nightclub to have fun with beautiful girls at night, and I came here to find you at sea. How about acting a little happier?"

Whoa!

The voice fell.

The blue murloc jumped up, jumped onto the railing of the deck, and made a rather fit posture together with the captain, overlooking Nero condescendingly.

Nero tilted his head.

"So, who are you?"

"I am a stand-in messenger who holds the "Moon" Tarot card, implying troubles in the water, lies, betrayal, and fear of the unknown world, and its name is——

"—Dark Blue Moon."

Chapter 10 The Dark Blue Moon Part [-]

The captain stood on the fence, overlooking Nero from high above.

However, in the next moment, under the curious eyes of the captain, Nero flew higher and higher together with the cabin door under his feet.The up-down relationship between the two changed instantly, and it became Nero looking down on the captain and his murloc stand-in.

"Hey, flew up?

"Is this your substitute ability?"

The captain blinked curiously.

And the next moment, the captain suddenly thought of something.

"Hey, hey, aren't you planning to 'run away', Kippelin kid! "

Hearing this, Nero spread his hands.

"Escape? Please call my actions a strategic retreat.

"Your stand-in, which is more unappetizing than looking up at the starry sky, looks like a fish, right? In addition, in this geographical environment, the first stand-in envoy sent by Dior is you, which means "water field" Good for you.

"If I know that you occupy a favorable location and still fight with you here, there will be something wrong with my head.

"If the word "escape" can satisfy your self-esteem smaller than a fish's head, you can just say that I escaped, then——

"——Ciao."

After finishing speaking, Nero who left behind these words was ready to fly higher and higher.

However, at the next moment, Nero suddenly saw a smile on the captain's face.

"Strategic retreat? If you really think you have the ability to leave, it's okay to retreat?"

"Um?!"

Nero suddenly felt that something was wrong.

And the next moment, a strange feeling came along his right hand.

Nero suddenly looked at the stand-in's right hand, but what caught his eyes was the biome that was spreading and growing from the fist, covered with a lime shell.

"Barnacles...?"

Nero was taken aback for a moment.

There is no doubt that this is a substitute attack from the enemy in front of him.But when exactly was this attack launched?

Nero subconsciously recalled the brief contact with the enemy in front of him just now, and instantly understood - when the dark blue moon jumped out of the sea, his heavenly ladder punched the opponent.

"At that time!"

Nero has fully understood.

The murloc stand-in below stood beside the captain leisurely, as if he didn't care about his escaped murloc substitute at all. Just a momentary skin contact can cause the target to be parasitized by barnacles.

"No, it's not just as simple as letting barnacles parasitize.

"These barnacles are proliferating! And they are proliferating at a frequency far exceeding the normal reproduction rate in nature! Barnacles are living things. Biological proliferation naturally requires energy.

"The energy source of these barnacles right now, if it's not the opponent's substitute, then it can only be - myself parasitized by the barnacles!"

It seems to be in line with Nero's idea.

puff!

When Nero's thoughts arose, one wound after another was torn open on his arm, and blood splashed out one after another.

At the same time, a faint sense of weakness enveloped Nero's whole body.

"I see. These barnacles are absorbing my energy."

Nero fully understood.

Seeing such a scene, the captain laughed loudly: "Hahahaha! That's the thing, if you want to run, just run! It won't be long before you will completely become food for these barnacles!"

"Hey? So how do we get rid of it? Beat you?"

"That's right! Come if you have the guts!"

Bang bang bang!

The second round of punching begins.

The Stairway to Heaven, which was advancing at high speed, quickly punched Dark Blue Moon several times in a row.

Seemingly being absorbed by the barnacle parasitism, Stairway to Heaven seems to have no choice but to watch the captain and his beloved murloc jump into the sea together.

puff.

Fell into the water perfectly.

The vast sea is the true home of Dark Blue Moon.There he awaits the arrival of Nero and the Stairway to Heaven.

"idiot."

However, Nero did not have the slightest idea of ​​falling asleep.

With a light swipe of the finger, the cabin door used for surfing was directly slashed across the slender flagpole, and cut off in the middle.

Stairway to Heaven held the broken flagpole in his hand, posed as a javelin thrower, aimed at the water and waited quietly.

At the same time, Nero's right hand brushed lightly over the barnacle-covered right hand of the Stairway to Heaven.

"You must think I can't deal with these barnacles, Dark Blue Moon?

"Now you, convinced that the barnacles 'weakened' my strength.You firmly believe that the more time is delayed, the weaker my strength will be.Because of this, you are sure that I will jump into the sea after you and fight you in the water. "

With the rhythm of breathing, the rippled brilliance enveloped the barnacles.

There were strange twists and small noises on the bodies of these barnacles.

next moment.

puff puff!

These fresh and tender barnacles were torn apart from the inside to the outside in pieces, falling off the arms of the Stairway to Heaven and falling on the deck of the cruise ship.And Nero himself,

——Corrugated cutter·small.

Using the power of ripples to use the water in the barnacle body, create a "small" ripple cutter in its body, killing it directly from the inside.

Immediately, Nero picked up the infrared night vision device that Dark Blue Moon had left on the deck and put it on his head.

"It's night now.

"Even if it's only about two or three meters deep in the dive area, it's just a dream to see what's happening above the sea in such a sea! As for the sound of barnacles falling on the deck? Compared with the sound of waves one after another There is no comparison at all.

"Now you must be wondering, why haven't I jumped into the water yet?

"Obviously, if I procrastinate, I will be completely swallowed by the barnacles. Why don't I come to you? After waiting for a while, you will definitely poke your head out of the water to observe the situation."

At this moment, Nero is extremely calm.

Not only did he not tense his nerves, but he tried to relax his body and his substitute as much as possible.

When the muscles are tense, it is impossible to shoot the javelin accurately.

And the time is passing by every minute and every second.

……

In the water.

Dark Blue Moon's stand-in messenger blinked.

Why don't you come down?

'It's been almost 2 minutes, why hasn't he come down yet?It can't be that you can't swim!

'Although my lung capacity is three times that of a normal person, I can even hold my breath in water for 6 minutes and 12 seconds!But it's better to wait until he enters the water to expose this matter. For now, let's pretend to be floating up to take a breath, and let's see the situation by the way. '

The captain thought so.

However, the moment he and his substitute floated up from the dark sea, the sharp break of the flagpole pierced through his chest in an instant.

A spring of fresh blood splashed on the sea in all directions.

"Why, why..."

The stand-in has dissipated.

The captain's consciousness also became more and more cloudy.

And vaguely, he saw Nero gradually falling beside him, pointing his toes on the water.

"Are you curious, why do I know where you floated up? Touch your right pocket of your trousers."

"..."

Relying on his last dying consciousness, the captain, whose chest was pierced by the flagpole, tremblingly touched something in his trousers pocket.

Air tickets.

Cheap flights from Rome, Italy to Cairo, Egypt.

"What, when..."