Ichida Keizai was filled with a boundless yearning, longing to see what this city of Gold looked like with his own eyes.
As his imagination ran wild while gazing at the distant lights, a faint, unusual sound from afar suddenly caught his attention.
Despite the biting sea wind and the splashing waves, he could still clearly distinguish a sound that didn't belong.
This unique talent was the very reason his family had spared no expense to train him. It was also how he had successfully joined the navy, which was said to be the apple of the Monarch's eye.
From a young age, his senses had been sharp. Both his sight and hearing far surpassed those of an ordinary person.
That was why he could pick out the anomaly in such a chaotic environment.
He immediately pinpointed the sound's origin, raising the lamp high and turning its handle to cast a beam of light across the distant sea.
But on the pitch-black surface of the sea, there was nothing unusual—only the churning waves.
