As the old man said "Good luck", Ryoichi was sent to the zone where there were only him and the megalodon. As soon as the megalodon sensed him, it immediately opened its bloody mouth and rushed at him. He could nearly get the thought and signal of the monster, sniffing at him and questioning how dare he could challenge to tame it. After the second reborn, Ryoichi felt his physical agility had been greatly improved, so he turned a simple somersault and dodged the first round of attack. The Megalodon passed by him with a strong wave, which almost bounced him off.
The situation reminded Ryoichi of the time when Katharina trained her shark. He actually recalled the scene of how to train the shark before saying yes to this challenge. Integrated with the old man's words that the key is the speed, Ryoichi believed that he could finally succeed it if he could imitate Katharina.
The megalodon was very huge, so Ryoichi supposed it was not that agile. However, when it passed by, Ryoichi didn't expect it could turn around that fast. Besides, so giant was it that a simple shake of its tail might break his bones. This beast was apparently tougher to deal with. It quickly turned around and used its tail to slap hardly on Ryoichi's body, which made him spit out some blood. He felt that all his organs were dislocated because of that. Lucky that his body was enhanced by the second reborn, or normal human body must be slapped into powder by such simple slap.
The sweet smell of blood aroused more of the beast's hunting instinct and excitement. It attacked him in a more violent way. Ryoichi endured the pain and tried to circle round, trying to chain it.
First time, his half body was torn off, lost consciousness and died.
Second time, he was pressed into minced flesh.
Third time, he was slapped away and bumped into a rock.
Then, he saw the beast approaching him and biting his head off after he lost the legs and was able to move.
…
Didn't how many times, Ryoichi was suffering from dying over and over. However, the time that he could stay alive got longer and longer! He also felt that he could gradually obtain the skill of chaining it! At first, he could not get near to the target. Then, he could chain it half circle, one circle, one and half… He felt that he was seeing the hope, believing that he could finally chain the Megalodon like Katharina chained the shark!
Another time for challenging, Ryoichi confronted the Megalodon with no fear. First of all, he dodged it and its attack by some terrain, like rocks or caves where it could not get in but only knock them into pieces. After using such technique to stall the time, Ryoichi found an appropriate time to yoke the chain to its mouth.
Yes! First step completed! Then, with the cross swords of such many times, Ryoichi had got a glimpse of how the megalodon might move. So he predicted its move and started to chain it.
One circle, done!
Two circles, done!
Third circle, Ryoichi accidentally scraped his right hand on the beast's teeth, but luckily done!
A few more circles, Ryoichi thought, he could be successful!
Finally, the final circle he thought it should be! Difficultly did he chain the megalodon with his one hand and he stood on the back of it besides the top fin. What was needed right now was only a hard pull!
He used all his strength and took a pull!
"Crack!" A sound of something broken.
Shit! The chain! It was the chain that was broken!
"How could that be possible?!" Ryoichi swore, and he wouldn't believe the chain given by the old man just broke.
With only one second of hesitation, the megalodon swallowed him as a whole into its mouth.
As soon as he entered its mouth, the strong power of suction took him and water into the beast's stomach. The succus gastricus corroded his whole body right after he entered.
Now the acid liquor, a new way of dying, Ryoichi thought.
When he was lying, ready to let go and prepared for another new life by the old man, he seemed to touch something sharp in the stomach.
What would it be? His eyelid was already corroded off. He struggled to see what it was but failed, so he used his final tactile sensation. It was a long rod with a sharp head. No, wait. No one, but three sharp heads.
The shape, Ryoichi thought, was it the second vessel, Poseidon's trident?
No time to think about what it was, Ryoichi took it and tried to stab!
"AHHHHH!" The megalodon made a bellow and painfully distorted its body.
The ability of Ryoichi could feel the anger and pain in the megalodon's minds. He could also sense where its heart was.
'What should I do?' Ryoichi thought, 'would it also count if I stab its heart?'
When he was about to stab, he had a second thought: the old man said with the chain. Right now, he still had one section of chain. Therefore, he also stabbed it but missed the heart position on purpose. By the power of the trident, both the trident and part of Ryoichi were breaking through the top of the megalodon and rushing to the outside.
The megalodon got hurt so had and could not swagger. Ryoichi was melted by the acid liquid and only half of his body left. He only had one last breath, but his hand was still holding tight to the trident. He could barely see, but he could feel the coming of that old man with warm light.
"You did it, kid."
Ryoichi wanted to say something but his mouth and tongue lost control, and he could only mumble some words.
"…third…what…"
"Oops, sorry, I'll do the cure right now."
With one blink, Ryoichi opened his eyes and his body got restored as it was.