Chapter 174

After Chika Fujiwara was ready, Ren Amamiya led the way to the deck outside the cruise ship.

Some time had passed, and it was no longer the appearance of the entire sky filled with thick fog just now.

With the rising of the sun, the thick fog had long been dispersed.

Standing on the deck of the cruise ship, one could see the island right in front of them.

Surrounded by the blue-black deep sea, an island of considerable scale was presented before their eyes.

Looking from a distance, one could determine that there were no signs of life on the island, and there wasn't even a relatively modern building.

This is a very pure island.

It’s just that the surrounding islands are all surrounded by bottomless trenches, which makes one feel a bit creepy looking at it.

This circle of trenches is about seven or eight hundred meters wide.

This distance is still quite far.

Looking down into the sea, one truly cannot see the bottom; the scene is just like looking into an abyss.

"This place... there’s a trench around the island?"

Chika Fujiwara’s eyes went straight.

She held the video camera and zoomed in a lot, confirming that the trench was quite long and wide; she felt a bit uncomfortable looking at it.

Coming to the railing, she filmed down toward the bottom of the seawater.

Seeing that scene, Chika Fujiwara only felt her breathing begin to quicken.

"Is it thalassophobia?"

Suddenly, Amamiya’s voice came from behind, making Chika Fujiwara feel her quickened breathing begin to become regular again.

"Hmm... produced some reaction."

Chika Fujiwara looked distressingly at the trench under the sea surface in front.

"I really don't have a very strong resistance to pitch-black places."

"Below the trench is pitch black; that is a place that light cannot reach. Looking at that deep black place, I always feel that many bizarre things can run out from below."

Standard thalassophobia.

However, human fear of darkness stems from instinct.

It’s not just the fear of darkness, but also the fear of nature.

For this world, everyone is too small.

Once the world’s environment begins to change, it means that a large number of people who cannot adapt to the changes will die.

The best way to face this situation is to face it directly.

Or use greater stimulation to trigger another emotion of fear: excitement.

Ren Amamiya didn't go up himself, but looked at Kaguya Shinomiya.

"Shinomiya-san, go."

Kaguya Shinomiya looked at the shrinking Chika Fujiwara and sighed helplessly; she just nodded slightly to indicate agreement.

She walked slowly to the side of the railing, supported herself with her hands, and easily crossed the railing.

Kaguya Shinomiya gathered strength under her feet and leaped toward the sea.

"!?"

This scene made Chika Fujiwara’s scalp tingle.

"Bang!"

Like the sound of a body colliding with the ground.

Chika Fujiwara trembled all over and immediately lay on the railing to look down.

The scene below made her slowly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Phew..."

She saw Kaguya Shinomiya land on a piece of ice floe on the boundless ocean.

"She has already become completely different from the past."

Chika Fujiwara finally began to realize that Kaguya was completely different from ordinary people.

"Having obtained the Ice-Ice Fruit, she has already embarked on a completely different path from the original."

"The deep sea you fear is already something she can conquer."

Kaguya Shinomiya on the sea surface had adjusted her state and had already begun to walk slowly on the sea surface. However, every time she took a step, an ice floe the size of her foot would appear on the sea surface.

This is the reason why Kaguya Shinomiya can stand on the ocean.

"Then, Fujiwara-san, what about you?"

"I..."

Chika Fujiwara bit her lip, looking at Kaguya on the sea, and a feeling called envy couldn't help but arise in her heart.

"I, I don't have that kind of power."

Right, this sentence is what Ren Amamiya wanted to hear.

Only with desire can one have the qualification to obtain.

Ren Amamiya silently came behind Chika Fujiwara.

"Excuse me, Fujiwara-san."

Using invisible fog to lift Chika Fujiwara up.

"Eh?"

Chika Fujiwara, who was lifted up, didn't react immediately, until after a burst of fire, she suddenly felt something strange.

The hand holding her was gone, and she seemed to have appeared in an incredible place.

Looking down, the abyss of fear immediately came into view.

Chika Fujiwara immediately realized that she was standing on the sea surface.

"!?"

Her body suddenly shivered, and soon that shivering was accompanied by the trembling of her body, as well as that inexplicable warmth and dampness.

Chika Fujiwara’s body was stiff the whole time.

Especially when she didn't clench, and released it, her body was even stiffer.

Compared to fear, the huge sense of shame almost made her scream uncontrollably.

Now she felt it.

If Ren Amamiya and Kaguya knew that she had wet herself, she would truly lose the courage to live.

Regardless, the matter of wetting herself absolutely cannot be known by anyone!

But fortunately, she was wearing a skirt today and didn't wear warm pantyhose, so it shouldn't be easy to see.

"Fujiwara-san, now, do you have the courage to move forward?"

Just a hundred meters away from Chika Fujiwara, Ren Amamiya was standing on the sea waiting.

"I..."

Fear surged into her heart again, and Chika Fujiwara’s body couldn't stop trembling.

But this time Ren Amamiya didn't give her any fear like the abyssal trench, but sent her even greater terror.

"You, you wet yourself, didn't you."

"!?"

In an instant, all fear was covered by shame.

Chika Fujiwara immediately raised her head to look at Ren Amamiya a hundred meters away.

At this moment, she was no longer haunted by space, but the exposed privacy made her feel that her sense of shame was about to explode.

"Step"

The first step was taken.

The second step followed.

Her body quickly swayed with the running.

At this moment, Chika Fujiwara could no longer care about the dark abyssal trench under her feet; if she didn't run, perhaps her secret would be exposed!

The distance of over a hundred meters was crossed by Chika Fujiwara in just ten seconds.

And that was while she was wearing a skirt and small leather shoes.

— Author's Notes —

PS: New book is out, asking for data.