"Shocking! The lord did something like this right before everyone's eyes!"
"Reported by our correspondent, Nini."
"On the twenty-ninth of this month, the ignition ceremony was officially held. Yet at the start of the ceremony, Lord Theus, who was meant to deliver a speech, raised his arms level before everyone and made an embracing gesture."
"Theus himself explained that the gesture meant 'embracing Castel,' but according to this reporter's exclusive information, there was more to the matter."
"This can be traced back to the Deep Sea War."
"During the war, the Banshee Monica returned to Castel carrying a fragment of the Sea God and took part in the subsequent bombing operation against the Pirate King's Court."
"Under the fragment's influence, she changed into someone else."
"And it was at that time that Lord Theus fell in love with Monica—the Sea God fragment within her."
"What a forbidden romance! They had once sworn to love each other until the seas turned to mulberry fields."
"Unfortunately, the sea really did have a day when it ran dry."
"On the day the furnace was completed, Monica (Sea God version) resolved to use her own soul to seal the monster of the Pirate King's Court. Theus tried desperately to stop her, but he was still one step too late. He could only watch as the furnace ignited before his eyes, the Sea God's soul and the monster's flesh burning together within it."
"No—"
"He cried out, but no matter what he did, he could not call his beloved back."
"The war ended, and peace arrived. Everyone was celebrating, but no one knew the sorrow in Lord Theus's heart."
"When Monica woke from her coma, he brought a carefully designed cake and gazed romantically at the starry sky, only to find a tiny, short-tempered banshee