"The building—!" Lexie's voice came, but before he could finish, another violent tremor rocked the entire structure.
The floor tilted, and in the distance, a massive dark shape loomed.
"It's bigger than before!" Etienne shouted, gaping at the thick, writhing tentacles that emerged from the flooded streets below, wrapping around the crumbling building.
"We killed the babies, so the mother came," Terrius said.
Noir gawked at him. "You're telling me those are just babies?!"
"Newly hatched ones. The mother should be dead, so why is she here? Is it her ghost?"
I didn't know Terrius could joke.
"It's dying. But since we killed her children, maybe she wants to take revenge until she wastes away," Allen remarked.
"That's a bit sad," I replied.
Claude gave me a weird look. "Let's get out of here first. It's trying to collapse the building."
