"How do you feel?"
"The Life Source Material is starting to recover. I definitely won't die now."
"Then why are you still holding on to me?"
"Wala Wala, did you really come back?"
"What you're holding isn't a painting!"
"I missed you."
"..."
On a battered wooden plank, Linsey and the girl he had been separated from for so long held each other tightly.
When Linsey had left his homeland, someone had replenished his source material and life force once.
This was the second time he had encountered such a situation.
But compared to back then.
As he felt the tenderness of the person beside him and the power reviving within his body, Linsey's feelings were utterly different.
A few minutes later, he and Wala Wala silently released each other.
Only then were his eyes willing to leave the girl before him and turn toward the world around them.
"The sea."
Linsey softly voiced what he saw.
Beneath him and Wala Wala was a section of shipboard that had appeared from nowhere, its broken edge looking as though someone had violently torn it apart.
As for their surroundings.
Beneath a clear sky stretched a vast, azure sea rolling with waves.
Linsey's gaze rose and fell with the waves in the distance. But no matter how hard he looked, he could see neither islands nor anything else within his field of view.
Linsey withdrew his gaze.
When he turned to look beside him, he found that the girl he had been apart from for so long was still watching him with a radiant smile.
In that instant.
Every subtle emotion in Linsey's heart transformed into joy.
"Well, this is just great. There isn't even a seabird nearby!"
"We can't possibly be in the Seven Seas Alliance's world, can we?"
"Definitely not."