I write obituaries for the gods

But the gale dissipated!

Xileina's power vanished, and she could only watch helplessly as her mother drew closer, her body seemingly frozen in place.

"Don't...run away..." Grandma murmured softly, "It has found...you..."

"It was...a great hurricane..."

"It's...Katrina..."

"You are...Katrina..."

The mother slowly reached out her hand to Xileina, and Xileina felt her heart suddenly stop.

"what...!"

Her eyes shone with a deep blue light, and those illusions flickered before her eyes once more.

She saw the gods rise into the sky with the waves, only to be shattered by a thunderbolt.

She saw the Dragon King crashing on the shore, and the Godslayer approaching it...

Time and again, those gods fell, their remains transforming into wind and waves, dissipating into the ripples of time.

Xilena suddenly understood why Katrina had so many incarnations throughout history.

They are all its spokespeople, its chosen holy children, and its agents!

They are all dead: humans have killed gods time and time again, and gods have vanished into history time and time again.

But Katrina is immortal.

It returns time and time again, searching for its holy son, searching for yet another body to walk among men.

And tide Leina is the next one.

“You are the source of all calamities,” Grandma cupped Xileina’s face, “and also the end…”

The source of calamity.

Hurricane Katrina will sweep through New Orleans... is it because Shireina is there?

It followed Xileina through the years, lying dormant in the shadows of history, searching.

And as Xileina settled in the Liberty district...

It also arrived in the Liberty district.

It was Xileina who caused all of this.

And now...

tide Lena walked up to it...

"Squeaky..."

Tentacles gradually approached Xileina, intending to drag her into the deep well and offer her to their god...

Just then, a furious roar rang out:

Stay away from her!

"Pfft!"

Blood splattered on Xileina's face. She looked up and saw a silver spear piercing through her mother's body, with a ghostly blue light emanating from her chest.

Mother's face is crumbling, turning into countless disintegrating tentacles—that's not Mother!

"tide Lena, hide behind me!"

A large hand pulled Xileina back to shield her. She looked up and saw her brother standing in front of her.

brother.

He has many scars on his back, some old and some new.

tide Lena used to love counting the scars on her brother's back. She vowed that one day she would make sure her brother never had to get hurt again, and that she would shoulder the responsibility, just like a real Rombaro.

She did it. Since settling in the Liberty district, Xilena has become the main person going out, while her brother has inherited their mother's craft and spends most of his time making crystal balls.

But when faced with Katrina, the powerless Xilena once again reverted to that helpless little girl.

This time, it was her brother who was protecting her.

Just like the day the hurricane came.

"Run back, I'll block it."

He cupped tide Lena's face in his hands, and when she came to her senses, her brother's smile was already imprinted in her deep blue eyes.

"Take care of yourself, Xileina."

After saying that, the brother suddenly pushed tide Leina away.

Almost the next second, countless tentacles pierced through the brother—

"No!"

Xilena screamed and reached out her hand, trying to use her strength, but no matter what she did, she couldn't.

She could only watch helplessly as her brother was pierced through by countless tentacles and lifted into the air.

"Katrina!!!"

The brother let out a roar that Xilena had never heard before. At this moment, the taciturn Rom man released the pure wildness that he had restrained all his life, which turned into the dark blue of his eyes!

He held up the crystal ball—the one he had personally repaired, the one that had once belonged to his mother!

Then crush it—

"boom!!!"

A brilliant blue light cascaded down from the vaulted ceiling, like glue flowing through space, slowing everything in its path.

Katrina's tentacles eventually pierced through her brother's body, killing him.

But before he died, the brother transformed himself into a cage, sealing off those tentacles!

The tentacles struggled to reach out towards Xileina, but they moved very slowly. As long as Xileina turned and ran away, they would not be able to catch up.

Should we run away?

tide Lena stared blankly at the dim light in her brother's eyes, her legs going limp.

Escape...where can I run to?

Katrina will keep chasing her, all the way to the ends of the earth.

Wherever she goes, the hurricane follows her like a shadow, destroying everything around her.

Last time, her mother protected her.

This time, her brother protected her.

What about next time?

Who will sacrifice for her next time?

"..."

tide Lena grabbed the silver dagger and pointed it at her heart.

She understood that only by killing herself could she stop it all.

No...can all of this really be stopped?

tide Lena's hands trembled.

After she dies, Katrina will find someone else.

Hurricanes will sweep through again and again, and the Holy Son will emerge from the storm again and again.

Ke Xileina no longer wanted to run away.

Facing the slowly approaching swarm of tentacles, the girl revealed a cruel smile.

“You’ll never get your way…” she growled.

Just as she was about to plunge the dagger into her heart and end it all...

Gunshots rang out from all directions—

"Da da da da da da!!!"

Xilena suddenly looked up and saw agents from the Investigation Bureau rushing out of different drains, firing at the huge anomalous entity almost simultaneously.

Dozens of dimensional stabilizing anchors were inserted into the ground almost simultaneously, and as the dimensional stabilization occurred, ripples appeared on the surface of the anomalous entity.

Xileina felt her power slowly returning.

"tide Lena! From now on!"

A large hand shielded Xileina behind her, and the girl's first thought was that her brother had come back to life.

No...not my brother...

It is Jiang Zhengge.

Jiang Zhengge spotted tide Leina's brother's remains at a glance. His face darkened with anger, and he raised his submachine gun to begin firing.

"Da da da da da da!!!"

Under the onslaught of thermal firepower, the physical structure of the entity was destroyed, and the suppression of it by the dimensional stability anchor began to take effect.

"The multi-eyed siren's activity is decreasing!" Xiao Fang's voice came through the headset. "The core is about to be exposed, prepare!"

"receive."

Jiang Zhengge drew a pistol, opened the barrel, and inserted a whale-sound bullet.

Almost simultaneously, the central structure of the entity codenamed "Multi-Eyed Sirens" cracked open, and a gray eye floated in the air.

Jiang Zhengge didn't recognize that eye, but tide Leina did.

Those are my mother's eyes.

"..."

Jiang Zhengge aimed at that eye, his eyes flashing with raging fire.

On his way here, he had already found his parents' remains.

The two elderly people remained seated in the room, seemingly discussing something. Jiang Zhengge saw a tenderness he had never seen before on his father's violent face, while his mother chuckled softly.

Were they reminiscing about some wonderful experiences? Or were they talking about their anniversary in three days?

Or perhaps they were talking about Jiang Zhengge?

Jiang Zhengge will never know—

"Oh!"

As the sound of a whale's roar rang out, the bullet struck the multi-eyed siren's core with pinpoint accuracy, and one of its eyes exploded—

"Pfft!"

With a deafening roar, its body gradually disintegrated and fell into the pitch-black well, from which crystalline blue crystals seeped out.

It died, or rather, part of it died.

......

Interlude: Past Events, Continuous Rain (Part 2) (First Update)

"No, I'm not hurt, thank you."

Inside the tent, Xileina sat blankly, motionless.

Jiang Zhengge sat next to her, and both of them refused the doctor's help.

At this moment, one victim's body after another was lifted out of the sewer, photographed, stuffed into body bags, and then placed in the tent next door.

The corpses of the Rom hunters were also included.

Through the flickering shadows on the tent, Xileina could see the whole process.

She longed to go out and collect the bodies of her companions, but her legs wouldn't obey her commands.

"..."