King glanced up from peeling the tentacle off her leg at Roy, then nodded and whipped out a pistol. She fired three shots at the tentacles in question.

The knife was really no more than a nuisance to a creature as large as the kraken. The small caliber bullets weren't much more, but they did annoy it enough that the tentacle started groping towards her again in hopes of squeezing her in half. Now's your chance, Roy.