Now that they had found the scheduled airship Lind, they naturally went inside to search it thoroughly. Yet to their surprise, they searched it several times without finding a single person!
Not only were there no people, but there was not even a single valuable clue—no notebooks, messages, or anything of the sort.
"What the heck! It's just an empty ship! Then where did they hide everyone?"
Estelle frantically clawed at her hair, leaving several strands of her bright ponytail sticking out wildly. Seeing how anxious she was, Uchiha Madara smiled. "Don't worry. They're most likely safe."
"Safe?" Estelle asked in surprise. "Why would you think that?"
Uchiha Madara analyzed the situation calmly. "Estelle, think about it. If the people aboard this scheduled airship had been in danger—say, if it had crashed here—then the ship should have been full of corpses, and we should have seen a great deal of blood. But this place is spotless. There's nothing here. That means the airship landed here. At the very least, we can be sure that the people here were not subjected to any immediate mortal danger."
Estelle stared at Uchiha Madara in astonishment. His composure and intelligence made her once again realize her own shortcomings. "You're amazing, Joshua. Then do you know where they went?"
Uchiha Madara shook his head. "I don't know where they went, but I can roughly guess what happened aboard this scheduled airship."
"A hijacking, right? Didn't Grandpa Lugran say so?" Estelle smiled. "Don't tell me you forgot, Joshua?"
"I mean the details. Grandpa Lugran only said it had been hijacked, but he didn't say who the culprit was. Since the Bracer Guild received definite information using the word 'hijacking,' it means the people aboard the scheduled airship were transferred somewhere else, and a hijacking warning was