Lawrence's Collapse

Oceannus turned to glance at the brothers aboard the Elma and Jason.

"Hey, Jason, do you know who that sword at your waist belongs to?" Oceannus asked.

"Huh? Zinivosh? Hasn't this sword always been your weapon, Senior Oceannus?" Jason replied blankly.

Oceannus's brow furrowed.

"What do you mean? Isn't Zinivosh Ruslan's weapon?" Jemia said with a strange look on his face.

"Senior Jemia, what did you say?" Jason had not heard clearly.

"Enough. We can't make sense of this either. I'll explain it to you later," Oceannus cut Jemia off, then leaped back onto the Golden Hind and said to Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Little miss, I'm borrowing your Lawrence for a moment."

Without waiting for Fujimaru Ritsuka to agree, he grabbed Lawrence and jumped into the sea.

"What is it? Something we need to discuss alone?" Lawrence looked at Oceannus curiously.

"I wanted to ask you for a favor, Lawrence." Oceannus sighed. "Something strange has happened to me."

"Go ahead. I'll help if I can," Lawrence said with a nod.

"The voyage of the five of us has been altered," Oceannus said gravely.

".Five people? Wasn't it the Elma Four Heroes?" Lawrence was stunned as well.

".Just as I thought. Ruslan doesn't exist in your memories either," Oceannus sighed.

"Wait, who did you say?" Lawrence interrupted Oceannus.

"Ruslan. You can hear it?" Oceannus was confused too. "When Jemia said it just now, Jason couldn't even hear that name?"

".Because there's a Ruslan by my side as well," Lawrence said solemnly.

"This..." The two looked at each other and both realized that something was wrong.

".You go first."

"Alright." Oceannus nodded. "Ruslan is my good brother. He was with me from the very beginning of my journey. We overcame countless hardships together. There's no way he could have gone unrecorded."

"The same