"To give everyone safer land to live on, Mikhail had to keep sailing out and exploring until he found the source of the seawater."
Misha recalled:
"That day, he called me into his study and said he was going to sea, just like always."
"But I could tell Grandpa was serious. I'd seen that same look on Dad's face before his last voyage."
"What?" Yan Huan was taken aback. "Forget your grandpa—you have a dad too?"
March 7th looked at Yan Huan and asked:
"Isn't that normal?"
Yan Huan pursed his lips.
"Not according to what I expected."
"Misha should be like Clock Kid and the others. How does he have a dad...?"
Misha looked at them and picked up where he'd left off.
"I begged Grandpa to take me with him, but he said my adventure wasn't here. He told me to stay home and wait patiently for the sound outside the door."
March 7th looked baffled.
"What sound?"
Misha raised his head.
"Mikhail said there was a far vaster ocean in the sky—an ocean of stars."
"A train carried children who wanted to travel far away, crossing the sea of stars without ever stopping."
"He knew the people on that train. He would ask them to take me along, and the journey I'd always dreamed of... would begin here."
At the mention of a train, March 7th perked up.
"A train? You don't mean..."
Misha looked dazed.
"That's right. It was the [Star Rail Express]."
"I... I remember everything now."
"Mikhail's friends were a group of Nameless."
"They came to our world to resolve a disaster caused by a star."
"And then..." Misha looked at Clock Kid.
"Mikhail gave me his pocket watch."
"It was his treasure. It appeared in every story of setting sail."
"He said the