The boiler, now completely transformed into a heart, pulsed slowly, pumping something that was either steam or blood through metal pipes to every part of the ship.
Red and white threads wove themselves into a net, appearing and disappearing amid the slick gray moss.
The sight, enough to make an ordinary person's sanity plummet at a glance, struck Sno's soul fragment within the substitute hard.
But then, he noticed something interesting.
"Interesting."
In the first-class cabin, Sno's lips curled slightly, revealing a smile that made Light feel faintly horrified. Sera, however, had no such awareness. Seeing Sno suddenly react, she immediately asked:
"Did you find something?"
"This ship is coming alive," Sno answered succinctly.
Sera truly deserved to be called a "Reader candidate" capable of becoming a Knowledge Keeper at such a young age. While Light was still pondering the difference between coming alive and possessing the trait of being alive, she had already realized the severity of the problem. At the same time, her eyes shone brightly. She widened them and declared with absolute certainty:
"As expected, I knew it! Granting life isn't something a mere Scarlet Scholar's abilities could accomplish. It must be that! That's right, this ship's destination must be there!"
"Which 'that' are you talking about?" Light was getting dizzy from Sera's string of "that" and "there," but she immediately puffed out her chest and said in the tone of a teacher lecturing a poor student:
"It's already this obvious, and you still don't understand? Obtaining complete life isn't as simple as having the trait of being alive. A living being possesses an entire internal operating logic! Think again about how those Sailors died. Do you still not get it?"
"..." Light felt that his intelligence had been insulted, but not understanding was not understanding. Sera