Chapter 357: Urashima and the Turtle
A near three-hundred-fifty foot turtle loomed over him. A behemoth of a creature standing on all fours that saw him as an ant. Even the players on the other side of the island, army versus army, noted the sudden presence. They could not believe what they were seeing.
Neither could Kazi, the closest to Urashima’s famed turtle.
’This is her real form. The legends say she could transform into a turtle but this...’
The story of a man that saved an innocent turtle from torment and was invited to an island of turtles ended in tragedy, but it was a kind of tragedy that was innocent in nature. Did Urashima know that the princess he loved harboured such a form? Did he realize that his love and betrayal of their promise had led to all this?
Smash!
One second Kazi was staring up at the enormous head and the next the turtle’s giant flappy leg crashed down on him. If it wasn’t for his adrenaline-fueled panic reflexes, his death would have been certain. Sand erupted and flew over him like a tsunami. He slashed it apart with the makeshift blade.
The second step descended upon him. When Kazi’s feet touched the sand, bam! He kicked up and ran along the leg. The blade in his hand was rough and nearly unrecognizable as an actual blade. Something was better than nothing, especially against a freak of nature like this. He ran and ran, blade grazing along the hard turtle skin. No damage was done. No blood spewed out.
Instead, water did. Kazi jumped, his left eye having pulsed and blessed him with the future. More and more bursts of water erupted from the patterns on its skin. He kept running, trying to escape it.
’It might not do damage but the momentum will blast me off. I can’t afford that.’
His left eye pulsed. The vision of the erupting waters ahead was blurry.
From the turtle’s knee, he jumped and faced the princess and her determination head-on. Two sets of divine eyes, crossing and meeting.