‘What is this?’

The captain of the Ghostslayers instinctively looked up.

An eerie, inexplicable feeling was in the air.

But before he could ponder further—

“Stop right there!”

The captain turned his head toward the voice calling from the opposite side.

Walking toward him with determined strides, dressed in armored artifacts, was Umberto and the Spinoza family entourage.

“Well, look who it is! Isn’t that Lord Umberto? It seems you’ve come running, hearing about the emergency with the statue. Truly the mark of a noble from one of the Three Great Shipping Houses, ever devoted to the Floating Archipelago,” a …