"Ha ha ha—don't say that! Maybe by tomorrow night, that ship will burst out of the sea all by itself?"
"Or maybe it'll fall from the sky!"
"Ha ha ha ha—"
Forget this era—even in the twenty-first century, there were plenty of procedures to go through before a ship could set sail.
There was no way a ship could still be absent from the dock today when it was due to formally depart on a long voyage tomorrow.
In this era, ships required even more preparations. Arriving a week early was not too late, and arriving a month early was not too soon.
As for having the ship finish its preparations elsewhere, sail over on the day of departure, pick everyone up, and leave...
Even a ship coming from the nearest port would need to undergo a lengthy inspection after arriving, to check whether anything had gone wrong during the voyage. Not to mention that Noah and Hikari had always said they would depart at sunrise that day.
Therefore, with only two days left until departure and the ship still nowhere to be seen, the people in the tavern had effectively begun treating it as something that did not exist.
Another reason so many people bore them ill will was the helmswoman they had recruited a few days ago—a beautiful lady with gorgeous long red hair who had no business appearing in a place like this.
Well, even if she had already been chosen, they still had to go through the process.
The lecherous bastards who had witnessed the entire thing could no longer stay calm. They lived around the port all year round, and this was not even an important port. When had they ever seen anything like that?
"Does this count as... another kind of Extraordinary Characteristics convergence