At sea, an ultra-luxurious cruise ship was slowly sailing across the Pacific.
It was a cruise ship that would soon reach the Island Nation known as Neon.
At the open-air tea house on the top deck, melodious piano music drifted along with the sea breeze. Seagulls occasionally flew past in flocks. Young girls and beautiful married women were all captivated by the charming middle-aged man playing the piano, their hearts carried away.
The piano music was so beautiful that it seemed capable of touching the most delicate places in everyone's heart, gently teasing at them.
Only one woman in a black dress seemed particularly strange. Even beneath the tea house's parasols, she stubbornly held up a black umbrella. Despite that, the tables around her were packed with people, and almost all of them were men.
She and the middle-aged gentleman playing the piano had caused this strange phenomenon from opposite sides. It was rather interesting.
At some point, the piano music stopped. The young girls and beautiful married women came to their senses, but the charming middle-aged gentleman had already vanished... They could not help showing disappointed expressions.
As for the beautiful woman holding the black umbrella, she seemed to have disappeared at some point as well.
"Ah, the sea is so beautiful, and so many beautiful ladies are suffering in silence over me. I truly am a sinner."
On the deck below, at the stern of the ship, the middle-aged gentleman gazed at the boundless sea and sighed.
"Oh! I think those women gathered around you purely because you're wearing ten gemstone rings capable of killing someone, dear Wolfgang."
"Miss Charlotte, you're always so humorous." The middle-aged gentleman... Wolfgang, who was practically dripping with wealth, smiled slightly, revealing his neat, snow-white teeth.
Charlotte frowned. "You don't seem worried at