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It's alarming because for all your strength even as you actively are crushing him to death, you cannot use your body to counteract his motion in the water. What more, you can't even untangle yourself from him if you wanted to, not on such short notice with your kraken's tentacle firmly wrapped around him... what had been an effort to grab and control the king, ended up being turned into a leash for you. In the end this deadly stalemate is broken, when the king is able to maneuver the both of you through the water with such strength that he sends you plummeting back down to the ruins together.
Orienting you beneath him then, the fateful grapple is decided when you come surging down to crash into the sea floor with such force that your body shatters the amphitheater's stone floor. The resulting shockwave through the water utterly sweeps away most sea folk who didn't have the sense to flee by now, and the quake in the ground should surely be felt throughout the high city. By the time the water, murky with debris and dirt and blood, comes to clear from the crater in the amphitheater... the king finally frees himself from your grip after immense struggle. Your strength fading with your consciousness, you cannot maintain your attempt to crush him to death forever.
And though the old merman is in a terrible condition after the fight, you both are of course, he is the one who emerges as the unsteady and uneasy victor. Not that there are many around to witness it, anyone with good sense fleeing from the scene of the fight once it started becoming too dangerous to remain near.
<span class="mu-r">"...reclaimer... TANALOAAA!"</span>
Breathing heavily and struggling to even remain upright himself, King Idaios weakly raises his bent trident with broken hands. Yet once he can hold it aloft, he musters all the strength he needs, to bloodily scream your name to all the ocean and anyone who will hear... his proclamation of victory, before driving his trident down to finish his worthy defeated rival.
As darkness settles in and the world fades from your mind, what comes to occupy its place?
>Memories of this place... Atlantis
>Memories of your mother... Kili
>Memories of your life... Tanaloa
>A dream of... Faysal? What does he do in this situation?
>[Write-in.]
