Shizu and Riku board a giant ship headed to the Western continent, though Shizu refuses comfortable accommodation in exchange for overseeing the inhabitants offered by the ship's cloaked rulers, the Tower Clan. Shizu and Riku explore the ship while being guided by a quiet girl named Ti, who becomes Shizu's companion. The ship starts to shake violently, and Shizu discovers that 143 sections of the ship are in disrepair. Shizu later faces Kino who took an overseeing position, but Kino joins Shizu to confront the Tower Clan who makes Shizu the leader before vanishing. After the ship is run ashore, Kino, Hermes, Shizu, Riku and Ti are left behind on the beach while the protesting inhabitants prepare to depart instead...