When A Ke appeared, the Seven-Colored Whale overreacted, turning to flee at once.
But after Liszt calmed it down and half an hour of fussing about, it finally accepted A Ke's presence and no longer feared the sea demon that had once captured it.
This was thanks to Liszt having A Ke catch some small fish and toss them to the Seven-Colored Whale, successfully dispelling its hostility toward A Ke.
Food was always the best tool for communicating with animals.
What moved Liszt most, however, was that while the Seven-Colored Whale was avoiding A Ke, it never threw Liszt off its back, nor did it cancel the protective magic covering him. Carrying Liszt along as it fled A Ke greatly slowed it down; otherwise, with its speed, it could easily have shaken her off.
A Ke was an elf of the sea, far faster than ordinary fish, yet she was still nowhere near as fast as the Seven-Colored Whale.
Liszt suspected the Seven-Colored Whale could reach a hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. Even while carrying a rider, it could probably reach eighty kilometers per hour.
Because A Ke's top swimming speed was eighty kilometers per hour.
"Since you're a female Seven-Colored Whale, I'll call you Rose." As for why he had thought of the name Rose, it was simply because, while riding her, an image floated through Liszt's mind—Jack embracing Rose in Titanic, equally dashing.
Liszt called Rose's protective magic the Seven-Colored Breathing Membrane.
Its primary function was underwater breathing. It seemed to use magic to gather oxygen from seawater and supply it close to the body for the nose to breathe.
It was a very peculiar kind of magic.
Liszt had never seen it in any magic book. It seemed to be a magic unique to Seven-Colored Whales.