"White Whale had a simple structure from the start."

At Rupert's words, Ismael nodded.

Originally, Ismael’s White Whale was an adventure about a boy searching for his father, and the story was supposed to end with the boy defeating the great whale, a sea beast named White Whale, and rescuing his father.

"But… if I progress the story the way I first imagined, it might end too quickly."

Ismael was worried about exactly that. Rupert’s Van Helsing and other works had just moved past the opening stages of their stories, while White Whale had already reached the final battle with …