Outlander, you had returned to the present time.
"Oh, what was that just now?"
When Shade, soaked from head to toe, stumbled out of the Side Bedroom, his face still bore an astonished expression.
Though the final scene just now—so many corpses floating and reaching out together on the seabed—had been shocking, it still could not compare to the impact of seeing the First Drowned One after falling into the water on the Night of the Moon Eclipse.
He simply could not understand what sort of place that Sea of No Light had been. Though the Radiance Messenger had many passengers and sailors aboard, the number of corpses he had just seen had far exceeded several thousand.
"There are two things to do next. First, find a way to fulfill their wishes. Second, investigate the Radiance Messenger cruise ship."
That had happened in the late Fifth Epoch, and stories passed down from that period were still relatively easy to investigate in the present Sixth Epoch. If the Radiance Messenger had truly been so famous back then, records surviving to this day would certainly contain at least some mention of it.
After all, thousands of people dying in the same accident was no trivial matter in any era.
Though Little Mia liked Shade, she did not particularly like Shade when he was soaked through, so she had not come to greet him the first time after his return. However, when Shade later went to the flower shop run by Angelina's maids on Silver Cross Avenue to send Miss Galina a letter inviting her to meet that evening, the cat unusually went out with him after he had bathed.
But when Shade prepared to set out once more to explore the Moon Bay Area, the cat lost interest in going outside again,