Alice left in high spirits, seeming as if she could be merry for many more days to come, while Duncan stayed alone on deck, looking at the wooden box that contained "Niru."
He had controlled his "divided" self located in the Plunder City-State to leave the Upper City District, and was now cycling back to the antique shop. Before leaving that doll shop, he had exchanged quite a few words with the elderly shop owner about Lucresia and Tirian, but gained nothing further.
Just as the shop owner herself said, she was, after all, just an ordinary citizen, who just happened to live longer than humans and personally experienced some matters from years past. But apart from an initial encounter and some hearsay, her understanding of the two "Duncan descendants" was actually very limited.
Meanwhile, aboard the Homeloss, Duncan was lost in thought.
