Episode 19

Floating in the open hatch, Pezci, Scypho, and Shin are watching the giant barracuda when Shin decides to go after it, but when Scypho tries to follow him, he gets shocked and stunned courtesy of his cuffs. Alone out on the deck, Shin challenges the monster. It turns to attack, only to end up hacking up the Mirror like a cat with a hairball. The Mirror's trajectory takes it directly towards Shin, where it to attaches itself to his jacket, then drags him along, embedding itself in the open hatch cover. To Shin's dismay, the monster gives up and swims away.
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== Cast of Characters ==
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== Synopsis ==
With his golden speargun in hand, Shin moves to go after the giant barracuda. When Scypho moves to follow, Shin looks back and tells him he wouldn't do tha— Intense voltage hits Scypho with green sparks and making a loud buzzing noise. Scypho throws back his head and screams, then with a light sizzling, he falls back into the hatch. Without a trace of remorse, Shin simply says he can't let his prisoners escape, y'know. Pezci peeks over the edge of the hole looking sad, and looking a little scorched Scypho rests his arms on the edge, wondering how Shin expects to fight a giant monster fish all by himself, griping that the thing is half the size of the submarine.
Out on the deck, Shin calls out to the monster, telling it to come back and fight him like a real predator. The creature, no longer accompanied by the smaller barracuda, understands the tone if not the words of the challenge, and it accepts, turning to face him with a roar. Pezci and Scypho watch from the open hatch with big eyes as Shin yells "Yeah!" when he sees the monster coming back. He exclaims that's more like it, and proudly announces he only has one shot left — but that's all he needs. He stands four-square to the creature's attack, yelling bring it on in answer to its roar. The beast starts to roar again, then stops, looking worried as a gurgle is heard from its gut. It suddenly whips its head around, gagging and hurling, trying to dislodge something from its throat. Frustrated and annoyed, Shin demands to know what's with the sudden stop.
With a final heave and a glut of fluids, the giant fish regurgitates the Mirror from its gullet. The surface of the Mirror looks like half a giant cocklebur, with spiky prickles sticking out all over. As if the monster had aimed with purpose, the Mirror is traveling through the water like a spear, aimed right for Shin. He sees this and dodges out of its path, but the Mirror makes a dog-leg turn and attaches itself by the cocklebur to the front of Shin's jacket. The Mirror's momentum carries them both back along the deck until the Mirror's shaft is buried in the hatch, holding Shin suspended above the deck. Shin struggles to free himself from the Mirror's grip, shouting that his chance is swimming away. He tries pleading with the creature, calling to the freaky demon fish to come back, but it just hisses at him, and then it turns tail and swims away.
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