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Chapter 12: The Second Clue
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The next morning, Ishida adjusted the ship’s course to the northeast.
Breakfast that day was brief and silent. No one said a single word; each of them seemed to be thinking.
The rest of the morning was rather uneventful. The afternoon, however, was quite the opposite.
At half-past two, Ishida spotted a plane— a seaplane, actually— in the sky. It appeared to be flying around in circles.
Looking through a telescope, Ishida discovered that it was a Piletan aircraft.
“How unusual!” he remarked. “The Piletans nev
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