At a private harbor near Kuwaq City on the Southern Continent.
Several sailing ships lay moored in the harbor, their lights still burning. The crew members left aboard had already fallen asleep.
It was midnight when a sailor yawned, pushed open his cabin door, and stepped onto the deck to piss straight into the sea.
Just as he was about to return to his cabin, he noticed fog rising. It quickly enveloped the deck and the sea. The sailor shook his head, thinking little of it, but then a strange sound came from the water.
Creak, creak.
It sounded like a ship's hull creaking as it rocked on the waves. The sailor found it odd. What ship would still be sailing this late, especially now that fog had rolled in?
He casually glanced out at the sea.
An eerie green glow appeared faintly over the water. Like ghost fire, it grew larger and larger. Through the sea fog, the light vaguely outlined a sailing ship several stories tall, instantly driving all sleepiness from the sailor on deck.
Goosebumps rose all over him, and his calves began to tremble. Moments later, he saw the bow-and a figurehead fashioned from the skull of an unknown sea beast.
Then green flames suddenly flared inside the sea beast skull's eye sockets.
A piercing scream soon rang out across the deck.
The next morning, while eating breakfast, Sifa heard people in the restaurant discussing "ghost ship sightings." He smiled, quickly finished his breakfast, and had his adjutant, O'Neill, deliver a letter to the Black Sails branch in Cookawa City.
In the letter, he mentioned that through a transaction with the Ghost Ship Celeste, he had obtained a Sequence 4 potion and successfully advanced to Iron-blooded Knight.
Sifa believed Black Sails wouldn't investigate the details of