Acht could feel the sadness and guilt in Lein's tone. He didn't know why she had these kinds of feelings at the moment but he didn't ask her either since it was none of his business.
So, he waited silently for her to continue.
"I…want you to ask Lenny to use that flower. He will get what I mean…"
Her words were very sad yet also somehow happy at the same time. He didn't know why she was glad about her own death. Did she really want to end her life that much?
So, with a complicated tone, he asked.
"Why didn't you ask me to save you?"
His words made her chuckle again albeit with even more difficulty. He could feel that she wasn't that far from death at this point.
"Why would I? You think that I will ask someone who hates me for a favor? I have a fucking pride for god's sake." She responded.
Then, as he was about to accept her last wish. He heard the last few words she said quietly and his body immediately stopped moving.
"I can finally go back to my own world…It's been a very long time…" She muttered to herself.
These words were clear enough for Acht to understand them and to also understand another thing.
Many would think that she was hallucinating or something along those lines. But, Acht could feel that she was still fully conscious and her words came from a total understanding of her own fate.
"What did you just say?" He asked agitatedly.
'Her own world? What does that mean? Is she a reincarnated being like me? Is she from earth? What's going on?'
Thousands of questions popped up in his head instantly and he felt himself lose his composure for a split second. He had no idea what to do at this point. On one hand, he had his own life to preserve and not risk himself getting killed by the sea king fish. But, on the other hand, he is potentially missing an opportunity to collect some information about how to go back to another world.
But, even after waiting for a good 10 seconds, she didn't answer.
"Hey! Can you hear me?" He spoke again with a louder voice but he still didn't get any answer.
So, with a hesitant look, he turned around and looked at the dark abyss behind him. He really wasn't intending to go back there and save her.
'She might have an idea about how to go back to earth. Ugh, fuck! I don't know what to do?' Acht shook his head and tried to calm down before taking a few deep breaths.
Then, like a bolt, he swam back to the other side. He had already made his choice.
'The link between us was solid and the signal was strong. She isn't that far away.
The sea was vast and almost endless but he was sure he could find her. However, the question is, could he find her before she dies?
As he swam back, he expanded his soul sense to as big of an area as he could. He tried to sense even the smallest disturbance in this field.
But, no matter how much he tried to sense her presence, it seemed to be not in the area he covered.
So, he tried another idea. Instead of moving in one single direction, he will just swim in circles while enlarging the circle each time to cover every possible direction.
It was his only possible solution to find Lein.
'Come on.' He urged himself as he went back and forth, enlarging the scale of his search at a rapid pace.
Luckily, after 29 seconds of constant searching, he felt a small, feeble presence a couple of hundred meters away from him.
So, like a shark, he swam there as fast as he could. Soon, he saw the body of a human, floating in the middle of the ocean with its back arched and its eyes closed.
It was obviously Lein who seemed to have already lost consciousness.
He approached her and grabbed her from the waist before swimming up to the surface. He didn't have time to get her back to the chores. She needed oxygen immediately.
Luckily, the surface wasn't that far away from them so he was able to reach it almost in less than 5 seconds.
'It doesn't seem that the sea king fish is close by. Luck is on my side this time.'
When he reached the top, he immediately opened Lein's mask and put his hand on her neck to check her pulse.
Although very weak, her heart was still beating which was a really good sign.
He could also see her take a small breath the moment she was presented with oxygen.
However, it seemed that her lungs were still filled with water from before and needed to be emptied for her to breathe properly.
Acht already knew what to do, he immediately put his hand on her chest and pushed it slightly. He could feel the softness of her breasts as they got squished by his hand but that was the last of his concerns.
"You better be grateful that I saved you, bitch." He said as he used his gravity manipulation and started pushing the water up and out of her mouth.
After a few gulps of water got out, she immediately started coughing violently and heaving up and down rapidly. Her eyes opened widely and looked at her surroundings.
She couldn't comprehend what happened but she soon understood everything.
"Cough!! Cough!! Why did you save me?!!" She said between her coughs.
"Calm the fuck down and then we will talk. Now, we need to get out of her first." He responded coldly as he left her to float alone.
"We hav-"
*Swish*
Before Acht could even talk, his senses went on full alert mode and his instincts took control of his body. Then, he activated gravity manipulation and used it to push himself and Lein in different directions to avoid what was coming from beneath.
The next moment, a huge black body appeared underneath them and penetrated the water surface before rising 200 meters into the air.
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