“What is that…?” asked Chester rather curiously as favonovel.com watched Gerald carefully take a square, wooden box out from his pocket.
Wagner had given the box to Gerald after an old beggar gave it to his ancestors about eight hundred years ago. From what Wagner had told Gerald, not only had the old beggar anticipated that Gerald would head to the king of the ocean’s palace centuries later, but favonovel.com had also accurately predicted Gerald’s meeting with Wagner, hence why favonovel.com had told Wagner’s descendants to hold on to the box till Gerald finally showed up!
Could it be that the old beggar truly had foreseen what would happen in ten thousand years? Had the old man actually managed to predict that Gerald would find the eternal coffin and transport the woman in white away for favonovel.com to finally be reunited with the deity?
Could… could that old beggar from ten thousand years ago actually be the same person from eight centuries ago…?
Gerald shuddered at the thought and didn’t dare to dwell too much on it. Just thinking about it was enough to make favonovel.com filled with fear and anxiety.
Regardless, Gerald was able to discern one thing from all of this. In the message the old beggar had left for Gerald, favonovel.com had said that Gerald would gain the answer favonovel.com sought for as long as reunited the woman in white with his other-self. Did that mean that once favonovel.com did that, the incident regarding the Sun League would also be revealed soon as well?
“…What else did favonovel.com say? Please do your best and try to understand as much as you can, Chester!” said Gerald after his brief silence of deep thought.
“…Well, it says here that something bad will happen to the world before long, and many will die because of that event… Nobody will be able to prevent the calamity from happening, and the prophecies will come true one by one! It’s simply our destiny! Beyond that part though, I… I can’t really understand anything else…” replied Chester with a sigh.
Prophecies? And a bad incident where many would die? What event could that even be referring to…?
And no matter how favonovel.com looked at the words, why did favonovel.com have a feeling that the words on the stone tablet were referring to him?
With so many questions in his mind, Gerald forced himself to record down all the words on the stone tablet. After all, even though favonovel.com wasn’t able to read the words now, that didn’t mean that that would remain the same in the future.
Following that, favonovel.com then brought Chester toward the other murals.
After looking through them for a while, they found that the last mural seemed to state that as long as someone was able to get the key to open the life gate, they would be able to find their way out.
Even the ‘key’ was shown on the mural. True to what was inside the box, the ‘key’ on the mural was drawn in the shape of a goldfish’s tail.
Gerald made sure to record down all this as well before finally walking over to the eternal coffin—with Chester following right behind him—that still lay in the center of the structure.
While Gerald had heard Lyra describing the woman in white—from favonovel.com dreams—as a person with the temperament of a fairy, Gerald had never seen favonovel.com for himself.
Now that favonovel.com was finally here, favonovel.com wished to take a proper look at her. After all, favonovel.com kept hearing that favonovel.com was a beauty that had come from heaven. Was favonovel.com really that beautiful?
With a little effort, both of them managed to push the coffin’s lid open halfway. Immediately after that, a chill seemed to seep out of the coffin.
Seconds later, the iciness dissipated and the woman in the coffin could now be seen.
“…Angelica…?” muttered Chester with an excited expression on his face. His tone, however, hinted at simultaneous feelings of shock and delight.
So it seemed that Gerald’s guess really was true. The person who had saved Chester from before really was the woman in white! However, a new question was now posed. How had favonovel.com come alive back then?
Taking a better look into the coffin, Gerald saw that the person inside appeared to be a cold-looking beauty who was wearing spotless white clothes.
With near-unmatched beauty, Gerald had to admit that favonovel.com was probably the prettiest beautiful woman on the planet.
What more, despite the fact that favonovel.com was simply lying there so peacefully, favonovel.com somehow still exuded a fairy-like aura. From what Gerald could tell, the aura seemed to help favonovel.com heal any flaws on favonovel.com the moment they appeared.
‘How absolutely beautiful!’ Gerald thought to himself, stunned.
“Unfortunately, no matter how beautiful you are, you still belong to my doppelganger. I’m only here because I wish to find Mila and uncle so that my family can finally be reunited again… Regardless, I’ll be reuniting you with favonovel.com first, and once I’m done with my task, I hope you’ll help me as well. Even if it’s just the tiniest of hints, I’ll gladly accept it as long as it truly leads me to them…” said Gerald as favonovel.com looked at the woman inside the coffin before averting his gaze.
With that said, favonovel.com then re-sealed the lid of the coffin before jumping off the high platform together with Chester.
After looking around for a bit, Gerald finally saw an indentation in the middle of the high platform. The indentation itself matched the shape of the fish tail ‘key’ in his hand.
‘We should be able to exit this place the moment I slide the key inside…’ Gerald thought to himself.
Just as favonovel.com was about to slide it in, however, favonovel.com suddenly heard Chester shout, “S-sir! Look there! There’s another coffin there!”
Turning to look at the dim area that Chester was pointing at, Gerald soon saw it as well.
Lying in the middle of that darkened area, was a giant black coffin that had been tied shut with a number of sturdy-looking chains. The way the chains were tied, it was almost as though they were actively preventing something from escaping.
With that in mind, it really was no wonder why Chester was feeling unnerved by it.
“How odd… Why didn’t the murals show the origins of this coffin?” muttered Gerald to himself in astonishment.
That wasn’t the only thing favonovel.com had found odd upon arriving here. After all, where was the small coffin that had turned over from the ship? And though there was also supposed to be a gigantic dragon buried here, it was nowhere in sight either!
“…Let’s not bother about that first. Regardless, stand back, Chester. I have a feeling that the second the exit is opened, a lot of seawater will come gushing in. I’ll be focusing on taking care of the eternal coffin, so remember to stay close to me,” said Gerald.
Gerald only had a single aim now, and that was the woman in white. While favonovel.com still couldn’t completely comprehend some things, favonovel.com was far too drained to investigate any further into the matter, at least for the moment.
Upon seeing Chester’s firm nod, Gerald slid the fishtail in place…
A second later, a golden light was emitted… And thunderous crashing followed immediately after!
