Maguma No Gotoku • Complete & Original

Maguma no gotoku.

Kaito’s hands shook on the wheel. His boat, the Yukikaze , was a small trawler. Against that thing, he was a mayfly challenging a volcano. But his daughter worked on the Empress . His only child. His heart. Maguma no gotoku

The beast rose fully: a hundred meters of jagged, asymmetrical terror. Its “skin” cracked and resealed constantly, weeping slag into the water, which hissed and threw up clouds of vapor. Where its limbs should have been, there were only lava-tubes that vented superheated gas, propelling it forward with a slow, inexorable purpose. weeping slag into the water