Sea God (3)

The tentacles and slugs press against the Seahorse but cannot pierce Farnese's bulwark, so Roderick has every cannon fired point-blank. The shots tear through the slugs, yet the creatures still fail to advance. Furious, Bonebeard attacks the ship himself, and because his vessel originated in the physical world, it passes through the ward and rams the Seahorse. His crew, though slightly sapped by the barrier, board and grapple with Roderick's men. Isidro and Bonebeard single each other out and are the first to trade blows.

Within the Sea God, Guts still battles the isopod parasites, the fight carrying them onto a ship's mast. Their combined weight threatens to topple it, so Guts makes a final leap for the ceiling to escape the stomach. He cuts into the tissue overhead, and the Dragon Slayer briefly lodges there, leaving him dangling above the acid. When the blade pulls free he starts to drop, but escaping stomach gas rushes through the hole he opened and drags him up with it. The chamber he and Schierke land in teems with more parasites, these shaped like large, long-legged black spiders.

Aboard the Seahorse, the crew fights on. Serpico carves the boarders apart with his sylph sword, and Azan holds his own against them. Farnese hands Schierke's body to Casca and the black-haired boy, then binds several of Bonebeard's crew with her thorn snakes while Bonebeard remains locked in combat with Isidro.

Bonebeard's physical-world ship penetrates Farnese's ward and rams the Seahorse, and his crew board to fight Roderick's men, with Isidro squaring off against the pirate. Guts slices through the Sea God's stomach ceiling and is carried up by escaping gas into a chamber of spider-like parasites. Serpico, Azan, and Farnese defend the Seahorse against the boarders.

This third Sea God chapter of the Fantasia Arc runs twenty-two pages and appeared in Young Animal issue 10 on May 13, 2011. It escalates the boarding battle aboard the Seahorse alongside Guts' progress through the deity's interior.