A brilliant, dreamlike light slowly bloomed from the dim and lightless underworld of the Duchy of Mourning.

A new glow flew straight through the rock formation, and slowly floated in. It's as if there are no obstacles.

The silver-gray bubbles were like a dream from a match...... Even the treasure ship "Silver" with the bubble in the middle seems so illusory and powerless.

After it gradually came to a standstill.

The bubble burst suddenly.

The huge ship wrapped inside was immediately revealed.

And the voice that was previously isolated and completely blocked immediately emerged:

“…… That's it, here we are. ”

Selicia's cold voice sounded from the bow of the ship: "According to the rules, should you invite us in and sit?" ”

“…… Do you want to sit here? Captain, are you sure? ”

The one-eyed Elle just chuckled, "If you want to...... It's not impossible. ”

A stream of light flashed.

Pure, illusory staircases of rainbow light emerge from the bow of the ship where it connects to the earth. Standing at the front, apart from Captain Celicia, was the traveler Elle.

The rest of the crew disembarked with them.

The treasure ship "Silver" is no ordinary ship - it is a living, ship-shaped monster. Therefore, "Silver" does not need a sailor, a first mate, a carpenter or a navigator...... It is self-guided, self-navigating, self-healing, and has no other enemies at all.

Therefore, all the crews were combatants. Because they can only be used as combatants...... The only job is to carry food and water boats.

and entertaining the captain.

But compared with the combat effectiveness of the "Captain in the Stone" itself, they actually don't play much of the necessary role of "protecting the captain's safety" - a more accurate positioning should be regarded as "friends" or "family members".

In Elle's opinion, of course.

I'm afraid a more accurate word would be "pet".

The one who had been seen by Elle a few hours earlier was already dressed.

Elle learns that he is the sixth prince of Denisoa, the true heir to the royal family, who, after a trip, has fallen in love with the petite and somewhat magical Celicia, and is willing to sacrifice his loyalty.

Such a move will devalue his status as the heir to the royal family...... Just like the situation faced by Kaphne.

It's one thing to be loyal to the monarch.

But no one wants to serve a puppet who is suspected of being controlled by someone else.

But for Offie, it didn't make him feel that anything was wrong. When he served Celicia, he had effectively given up and withdrawn from the king's election.

Because he believes—and wants to be sure—that Celicia didn't fall in love with him because of who he is.

In order to consolidate the foundation of this love, he gave up everything he had given for the first half of his life. Parents, friends, career, fate...... When he left Denisoa, he took nothing with him, only a golden harp.

It was a lyre made of gold and sandalwood, and it radiated a warm light.

And the poet, with his amber pupils, seems to have forgotten all the embarrassment before.

He just smiled at Elle, and he played the piano and sang in a low voice.

It's not a frivolous, exciting, joyful love ballad.

Rather, it was a low, somewhat hoarse, somewhat sad-sounding old piece.

Elle was in a trance for a moment.

She heard it...... It is a piece of music commonly used in Denisoan opera, and it is called "The Leaf". The original prototype was written down by Yaon himself, and it was usually sung solo on the shamisen when the plot progressed to express "fate", expressing a sense of vicissitudes.

And Orpheus reinterpreted it as a version of the lyre. This gives the piece another sense of epicness......

This is certainly not an adaptation of Orphee's poem.

- When Elle was very young, she wanted to go to a concert by Maestro Harold at Frozen Waterport.

Naturally, because of the fame of the ghost genius Amos, these artists from Denisoa crossed the entire Noah's kingdom and ran all the way to the northernmost port of Frozen Water.

The three-stringed song "Leaves" was adapted into a lyre song, and the desolate yellow leaves that fell to the ground miraculously became leaves that burned on fire and fluttered in the wind...... It's Master Harold's show at Frozen Waterport.

It's what Elle originally wanted to hear, but in the end she never had the opportunity to hear...... The year she died.

"This song is for you...... Little Elle. ”

As soon as the song was played, Orpheus chuckled and put away the golden lyre.

"Don't give people such an impassioned song, Ofe."

A sneer rang out from behind him: "It's like someone is going to die." ”

The one who was talking was an aristocratic young man with brilliant golden curly hair.

His skin was unusually white, even pale. His pupils were like flowing lava, so bright that the light of looking at him would make him feel blind, and he had to look away.

It was a brilliant gaze that could not be looked at directly.

He wears a red and white stand-up collared cloak, and the pattern on the cloak looks like a flowing fire and a burning cloud, which looks very conspicuous.

It was clear that Orphes himself was a royal family of Denisoa, one of the noblest bloodlines in the world—but this young man looked as if his own blood was more noble than Orpheus.

"Lord Arthur."

Elle nodded politely at the blonde youth.

Arthur Seared Tooth smiled at her, put his right hand on his chest, bowed to Elle with some exaggeration, and said very politely, "Miss Elle, I won't go." If you encounter any grave robbers, just rush back to the boat......

"No enemy can defeat us. Anything that can be our enemy is not our enemy - the 'Silver Brigade' is invincible in this world. ”

Arthur smiled, with a charming smile like a merchant introducing a product.

Elle keenly captures ...... It was a similar, but completely different sense of arrogance from Celisia.

If Celicia is completely self-centered, almost fanatical narcissism...... Then Arthur Burning Tooth is completely relieved.

- Yes, gentlely.

To the grumpy, power-hungry wizard of destruction, Arthur is a complete freak.

But it's not because he's good-tempered.

Opposite...... It's because he has a bad temper. So much so that he didn't have any enemies in mind at all, so he didn't feel nervous at all and wasn't angry at all.

He sees himself like a saint – tolerant of other people's mistakes, failures, offenses, and attacks. This may be because from the very beginning, he did not treat others as people on the same level as himself.

These men don't matter, though......

What really matters is –

Elle looked at the ladies cabin.

Two women came out from there.

One is a ...... with a delicate figure and long black hair Centaurs.

Her breasts were high and her exposed thighs were round. It doesn't seem to be any different from a beautiful girl - except that she has an extra pair of legs. It looks like a bouncing fawn.

The other is an adult woman wearing a mask and having strange hair.

Her hair was lifeless, heavy as mercury, silver-gray, and near the end it was the same pinkish-purple as the ship's. And she always wore a mask on her face, and she couldn't see her true face.

Perhaps the only one who had seen her face was Captain Celicia.

"Let's go...... Lily, Lucia. ”

Celicia beckoned, "Let Arthur take care of the house, and let's go down and have a look." ”

Elle's gaze looked at the masked woman.

She had known the man's name for a long time. But she smelled a lie in it.

It's instinct for Ellay.

She perceived......

- The woman with the mask was not Lily Rasputin at all.