The team couldn’t help but be shocked. Not only had they just spotted a phantom ship, something that only appeared every one hundred years or so at most, and managed to outpace it, but the phantom ship was also a specter of their old comrades?0

Ninian and Vivian, who had no particular history with the Aquamarine Expedition Team, and Leonard, even though he was the first to realize what was happening, calmly turned to Frances.0

The other three members weren’t so composed. Marianne and Esther still remembered that day from eight years ago. Lorelei, though she wasn’t at the site of the incident, had lost her master, her family. And Gallano had lost his last remaining relative, his older brother Dentuso.0

“So it was the Pequod. I thought it looked familiar,” Marianne said, looking relatively calm. While the incident was like an old scar for the other members, she had witnessed it herself and spent the last eight years persevering through countless struggles. Her situation was different from Esther, who had grown stagnant in her progress due to the trauma, and from Lorelei and Gallano, who were only ever informed of their relatives’ deaths and nothing more.0

“Captain Ahab…” Esther recalled the old gentleman’s face, which was growing dimmer and dimmer in her memory. She rubbed...0