Little Mia, held in Tifa's arms, watched it wobble through the black sky where rain and snow fell, flying toward the front of the Radiance Messenger. Then, enduring the soul-deep pain caused by the depletion of its spirit, the owl unleashed its finest Thaumaturgy:
"Wall of Sighs!"
A colossal wall a hundred meters high rose from the waves, but its thunderous rumble was completely drowned out by the raging sea, the dragon beast's struggles, and the sounds of everyone casting spells.
The little owl spun as it fell from the sky. Miss Bell wanted to catch her teacher, but a yellow streak of light suddenly leaped up. Like a cat hunting a bird, the small feline caught the owl and fell back into Tifa's arms with it.
No one knew how a cat much smaller than the owl had managed to catch it, but in any case, the cat had successfully brought back its "friend."
The owl weakly said to Shade and Illustrious Miss, who were gritting their teeth as they cast spells:
"The Wall of Sighs is the gate to the World of the Dead. I still can't summon the true Wall of Sighs, but it still carries symbolic meaning. With the abilities of Shade's peculiar Small Wooden Boat, as long as we can pass through it, we'll definitely find the correct route."
Countless terrifying undead shrieked from the enormous gray wall a hundred meters high, lending even the howling gale a color of death.
They stretched out their paws and poked out skeletal heads toward the enormous ship approaching them, but with a boom, the bow first fired a blast into the wall. Then the whole vessel, as though bent on self-destruction, rammed the wall with its prow.
Everyone aboard felt as though the jolt had sent them