The Man Who Laughed

The central figure in the second set of murals was that woman wearing an armband and feathers. She stood before a window, beyond which lay the sea, with several sailing ships upon it.

Though none of the figures were shown from the front, one could still sense that the woman seemed to be longing for someone. Especially as she faced the sea, it was easy to associate her longing with the man in the first mural, the one pointing at a sailing ship as though preparing to set sail.

In the third set of murals, the woman was already standing aboard a sailing ship. The scene depicted a dock, where people continuously carried cattle, sheep, crates, bottles, and other goods onto the vessel. It appeared that the woman intended to go to sea in search of the person she missed.

After examining the murals one by one, Sifa roughly understood the story.

The story began with a man setting out to sea. The woman wearing the armband missed him, so she gathered people and set sail after him. She encountered sea monsters on the ocean and fought pirates as well.

In the end, her ship ran aground near an island. She and the people aboard came ashore, received a warm welcome from the island's natives, and became the rulers of the place.

Not long afterward, someone sought to seize her treasures, and a battle broke out. In the mural depicting the woman fighting her enemies, she had two opponents.

One of them crawled out from another person's stomach and attempted to assassinate the woman. It was exceedingly bizarre.

The second seemed able to enter the woman's dreams and attempted to alter something within them.

But in the end, both were killed by the woman. She was severely wounded by them