The Waves 2 (after battle)

… Screech!

Huff... Huff...

How... many... left...?

None.

Then this is the last one.

…….

There was something off about those... 'Mermaids' that crawled out of that Whale.

A feeling not so different from looking at an Abnormality or a Distortion.

<Mermaids... were they human, once?>

I guess I should've explained better...

Not every creature that lives in the depths of the Great Lake are called 'Whales'. Whales specifically refer to...

... everything in the Great Lake that can parasitize humans.

And Whales give birth to 'Mermaids'.

<… And where do the Mermaids come from?>

They're people devoured by Whales that came with the Waves. There's no guarantee that we won't meet the same fate.

See? Now you know why you could turn the clock all day and fail to bring us back.

I see now.

The Waves will be unrelenting, unabating...

And Ishmael, who'd already weathered and braved these endless, crashing Waves…

... Was starting to snap, strand by strand.

I have... a mission that I can't fail...

And I'll kill everything that stands in my way...

Even if I were to stumble, even if every part of me were to fall apart... I'll see it through to the end.

Determined and ferocious. Both good attitudes to have when setting sail on an adventure.

Because our voyage is just getting started.