The sun had begun to sink, and the distant sky gradually turned red. Only the sea of clouds... calmly watched the clouds roll and unfurl across the world.
Dusk was especially brief... With the last sliver of light, the sky sank into darkness.
Yet the next moment, countless household lights flared to life... As though by prior arrangement, the lights rising across more than half of the massive island before them dispelled the heavy darkness.
After hiding the basket and skateboard, Reg, carrying only the necessities, narrowed his eyes. "You two hide first. I'll go take a look."
Faced with Reg's silencing gesture, the two birds obediently nodded without making a sound.
"Lamp Dial light... no."
After several hours of travel, Reg's heart finally calmed down.
Only in this state of mind could he reduce his "presence" to the absolute minimum... The infiltration had already begun.
"It's like someone flipped a master switch."
Reg disappeared into the night and advanced without a sound... On the enormous illuminated island in the distance, palaces and towers stood in scattered rows, while wisps of smoke began to rise here and there.
"Roman architecture... Gothic... Byzantine... They all have traces of them."
The buildings beneath the orange lights in the distance had simple, lively lines and heavy, solid forms... They were extremely similar to the Western architecture in his memories.
The most conspicuous of them all was... the vast, resplendent building standing at the island's highest point. Perhaps that was the residence of Tobashi, the one others praised as a "god."
Through the countless rows of windows, silhouettes could occasionally be seen passing by... They had wings growing from their backs, pointing downward.
With Observation Haki spread out, Reg moved nimbly... On this large Sky Island surrounded by a sea of clouds, there was