"Why is it that despite the theory of the enormous golden fish, mages can't find even the slightest trace of it?"
"Why does the Void Realm say the golden fish is right above the sea and can be seen without any ritual?"
"There's only one answer."
Ash murmured, "We are inside the golden fish, and the Time Continent is just above the White Mist."
Sonia instinctively wanted to argue, but when she matched the information she had with this conclusion, she found that it fit perfectly, offering a flawless explanation of the golden fish's true nature!
"Right," she suddenly remembered, "didn't the only Mage's Handbook I've ever read mention that after explorers found the golden fish, they climbed more than eight hundred floors and still couldn't reach the top of the golden fish?"
