The first thing that came was a violent tremor, as if the entire starry sky was shaking.
Right after that, the stretch of starry sky before Nero churned like boiling seawater. But the seawater did not evaporate. Instead, it gradually shrank and wrinkled within the waves before slowly fading away.
As the starry sky receded like a sheet being slowly pulled back, the true appearance of the giant beast finally appeared before Nero.
A black dragon head emerged. Its fangs and golden eyes made it look extremely fierce, nothing like the voice he had heard through their mental connection.
Of course, the reason Nero could clearly see its full appearance now was because he had not disconnected the mental link.
Otherwise, the kid would probably only be able to see the inside of one groove on the dragon head's surface, with layers of flesh arranged like mountains.
Thinking about it carefully, that was actually pretty disgusting.
After the dragon head appeared, the giant beast's enormous body followed.
Its fish-like body was not round. Compared to that, it was quite slender.
And after the disguise faded, its scales reflected colorful lights, like another, even more dazzling starry sky.
The last thing to appear was the beast's three tails.
These tails gave off a gentle glow. Their colorful radiance almost instantly swept across this part of space, like a flowing river of stars, or a magnificent aurora covering the starry sky.
Even Nero had to admit that the tails were extremely beautiful.
They practically doubled this creature's looks.
What an amazing creature.
Still, this was the universe. There were all kinds of strange creatures everywhere, so Nero remained quite calm about it.
He just treated it as discovering an unknown species of star beast.
At the same time, the Astral Express, which had successfully escaped from the giant beast's stomach, was also covered by the brilliant colors released by the fish tails.
Standing in the observation car, March looked at the gorgeous curtain of light outside the window and was stunned.
"W-What is this? Did the train cause... a cosmic explosion?"
Yang frowned.
"This may be an illusion created by the giant True Sting Bug. With such a huge disturbance, we've definitely all inhaled its wing powder."
"T-That bug is really that big? Or is that part an illusion too?"
"Unfortunately, that's probably real," Yang said.
"Then what about Nero and Argenti?" March asked worriedly.
"They should be fine."
As he spoke, scenes flashed through Yang's mind, Nero swallowing a neutron star explosion, and the sky over Belobog being split apart.
At this moment, the gorgeous aurora outside the window began to fade.
The area covered by the light was enormous. At the train's speed, it would take a very long time to leave it. It was impossible for it to create the visual effect of visibly retreating and disappearing.
It was as if something had quickly withdrawn the tentacles it had extended through deep space.
And the reason for this was naturally because the giant beast had shrunk.
Very soon, the giant creature shrank to about the size of an ordinary starskiff in front of Nero.
Even after shrinking, it remained dazzlingly beautiful.
"Can you get even smaller?" Nero asked.
The cosmic goldfish made a string of vague sounds. Through their mental connection, Nero easily understood what it meant.
"Yes."
"With an ability like this, you're really convenient..."
Standing on Black Cut, Nero flew around the cosmic goldfish once, then patted its head.
"What about other things? Like fighting, or carrying stuff around?"
"Easy."
"What do you usually eat?"
"Anything."
The cosmic goldfish said this, then patted its belly with a claw.
"But when I'm big, I eat a lot. When I'm small, I eat less. At my current size, I just need to eat more often."
As he talked with the cosmic goldfish, Nero liked it more and more.
Overall, it was a very beautiful creature. It was easy to keep, could do all kinds of things, and was practically the perfect pet.
Not to mention that it looked like a rare species.
"I've decided. From now on, your name is Draco."
"Why Draco?"
"Hmm... I hope you can safely pass through the Dragon Gate."
"What's the Dragon Gate?"
"You don't need to worry about that. Just remember it's your name."
Nero argued with Draco for a while before finally settling on the name.
Then the human, the beast, and Fuyan the heliobus all turned their eyes toward Argenti, who was still fighting the giant True Sting Bug.
Nero immediately said to Draco, "Go help Argenti kill that big bug. You're not allowed to eat it. After we take everything useful, the rest can be your food."
When Draco heard this, his eyes immediately lit up.
Now that he was this size, the giant True Sting Bug looked incredibly huge to him.
Whether it tasted good or not was another matter, but it certainly looked like a lot of meat.
Draco suddenly felt that being smaller had quite a few advantages.
Things that originally weren't even enough to get stuck between his teeth had now become enormous mountains of meat.
After receiving permission from this dangerous human kid who gave off a threatening aura from head to toe, Draco instantly shot forward.
His colorful fish tail left a dreamlike trail across the starry sky.
At this moment, Argenti had just knocked the giant True Sting Bug back with a spear thrust.
Even he had to admit that this was a fairly good opponent.
Feeling the faint numbness in his shoulder, so slight it was almost negligible, Argenti looked brightly at the giant True Sting Bug before him.
Its body was covered in countless holes and still bleeding.
How long had it been?
This feeling of clearly sensing his body growing stronger again.
He hadn't felt it since his first meeting with Nero in Belobog.
Although keeping an opponent alive for training, stabbing it into a sieve over the course of a long battle, and not allowing it to escape didn't seem particularly beautiful.
But that was fine.
After all, this ugly insect had attacked Nero.
In that case, there was no need to show it any consideration.
Besides, Nero hadn't criticized him for doing this.
That clearly meant it was allowed.
Giant True Sting Bug, "?"
'Wait a second, when did I attack anyone? The one that swallowed the train was that even bigger creature! I only crawled out of its stomach because I wanted to leave this place!'
The giant True Sting Bug seemed to read something from Argenti's eyes.
Its already confused heart became even more miserable.
And right then, Draco flew over from afar without any warning and slammed his head straight into the giant True Sting Bug's waist... well, body.
Even though he was only starskiff-sized now, Draco's strength did not seem to weaken with his size.
In fact, because of Nero's instructions, that headbutt was already restrained.
Otherwise, the giant True Sting Bug would have exploded like a balloon on the spot, scattering its organs and bug blood across the starry sky.
Even so, the giant True Sting Bug still died from the sudden headbutt.
After all, Argenti had tormented it for far too long.
So long that it had already suffered a complete mental breakdown and wanted to kill itself on the spot.
Unfortunately, before it could even start self-destructing, a random flying head came from nowhere and sent it straight to the afterlife.
Its body then fell with Draco onto the nearest uninhabited planet.
The impact instantly shattered the planet.
Argenti blinked and stared blankly at the scene.
He actually hadn't planned on finishing off the giant True Sting Bug yet.
However...
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