If this continued, his emotions would likely take over again. Nis quickly interrupted Reynaud’s reverie: "Alright, stop daydreaming. Don’t you want to find someone? If you don’t share your clues, how can we search."
As he finished speaking, Nis gave Reynaud a sudden pat on the head.
Reynaud just felt a dizzy spell, but soon his thoughts regained dominance.
"Find someone... Yes, I need to find her!"
As Reynaud was muttering to himself, a clear and bright voice sounded from behind him, "Reynaud, do you remember me?"
Reynaud was taken aback.
The voice was so familiar.
He couldn’t help but turn his head to look back.
A man with red hair and golden eyes stood not far away. While Reynaud was guessing the identity of this person, he saw the red hair and golden eyes slowly change.
The red hair turned to blonde, and the golden eyes became emerald. The slightly flat features also became deeper.
The appearance changed, the height changed, and the demeanor went from lazy to meticulous. The only thing that remained unchanged was that aristocratic elegance deeply ingrained in the bones.
"It’s Pat... Lord Pat!" Reynaud exclaimed the name of the newcomer. His expression was somewhat excited, as if he had thought of something, and he rushed to kneel halfway before Angel: "My lord, please save Nausicaa!"
Reynaud did not ask why Angel was here; at this moment, his sole focus was on rescuing Nausicaa. And Angel and Nausicaa are dear friends; he knew this better than anyone.
"Stand up first. I came here this time to find Nausicaa too," Angel summoned a Hand of Magic to help Reynaud up.
He then snapped his fingers, and the realistic Nightmare Illusion created a few tables and chairs around them.
"Let’s sit and talk."
The apprentices sat at the back, while Angel and Nis faced Reynaud up close.
"This is Wizard Nis, you should have met him before." Angel pointed at Nis.
Reynaud nodded, "Lord Nis, I have heard of your name. Earlier, I was somewhat confused, and I hope you pardon me."
Nis waved his hand nonchalantly, "You just had a little issue with your soul. But remember, control your emotions from now on. Even if you desperately want to save Nausicaa, you must remain calm. Reality is not a novel; relying on sheer bravery alone, even the protagonist cannot save the beauty."
Reynaud nodded; although Nis did not spell it out, he had already guessed a few things. His overly agitated emotions before had only resulted in nothing being accomplished.
"Tell us, what exactly happened? Where is Nausicaa now?" Angel asked.
"I don’t know where Nausicaa is... We were hunted by the larva of that magical creature, and later, I seemed to have used a weapon... Then I passed out. When I woke up, I had become a soul, wandering above the ocean, until I met them."
Reynaud slowly began, recounting everything he could remember.
About half an hour later, the conversation temporarily ended.
Angel sorted through the situation himself; his guess was indeed correct. Nausicaa had indeed come here with Reynaud to transplant her right arm.
Moreover, the arm Nausicaa intended to transplant was indeed the hand of the Night Butterfly Witch.
The slight difference, however, was that Nausicaa chose the Night Butterfly Witch’s hand not just because it was a transcendent organ, but because it contained some special things.
These special things were prayed for from a certain power in the Quest World through a large sacrificial ceremony conducted by the laboratory.
Because it was written in the language of the Quest World, possessing a "non-memorable" nature, Reynaud couldn’t remember the exact name of these things. But this "special thing" could play different roles in various transcendent organs. Reynaud himself once had one and treated it as a weapon.
Since he couldn’t remember the name, he temporarily referred to it as "peculiar item."
Due to the successful infusion of this peculiar item into the Night Butterfly Witch’s right hand, making it stronger and irreplaceable, Nausicaa decided to take the gamble.
Otherwise, just the prosthetics made by Angel or replacing it with other magical creatures’ right hand in the future would have sufficed for Nausicaa, with no need to take such risks.
Of course, Reynaud did not take Nausicaa to the secret laboratory without compensation; he had his own agenda. He was seeking a certain piece of information and needed someone to help him once he retrieved it, and he ultimately chose Nausicaa, who was eager to have a right hand.
As for what this piece of information was, Reynaud concealed it.
Having once hailed from that secret laboratory, under Reynaud’s guidance, they seized an opportunity to infiltrate the lab with Nausicaa.
After causing several rounds of chaos, Reynaud successfully lured the researchers from the laboratory interior away.
However, just as they thought they had it in the bag, an unexpected event occurred.
In the chamber where the organ was presented, Number 17 installed a mechanism. This mechanism was linked with the larva of a terrifying magical creature which pursued them; though they barely escaped the lab, the creature had already caught up.
At the last moment, Reynaud used that weapon.
What happened afterward, he could not recall.
However, he did recall some memory fragments; in these disconnected memory fragments, he saw Nausicaa being swept away by an ocean current.
What happened after using the weapon? Where did the current take Nausicaa? Why did he become a soul, where was his physical body?... Reynaud remembered none of these.
That was all Reynaud narrated.
Angel could tell that Reynaud was hiding something, like the information he was seeking and the detailed information about the "peculiar item," but regarding Nausicaa’s matter, Reynaud elaborated truthfully.
Reynaud’s desire to find Nausicaa was no less than Angel’s.
Because for Reynaud, treated as an experimental subject since childhood, Nausicaa provided him with rare and precious friendship.
"From the situation described by Reynaud, Nausicaa was washed away by an ocean current. But whether this current was natural or artificially created remains unknown," Angel contemplated, "However, in either case, there is still a significant chance that Nausicaa survived."
If it was an artificially created current, whether with malice or benevolence, it at least indicated that the creator did not want to see Nausicaa dead.
Conversely, a natural current might pose more harm to Nausicaa. Given this forbidden zone of the Devil’s Sea, natural disasters tend to be interconnected. If multiple natural disasters linked up, Nausicaa might not withstand it and could indeed face significant trouble.
However, Nausicaa, being a bloodline-side wizard apprentice and once a conqueror of the seas, should have enough experience to handle natural currents.
Therefore, Angel believed that Nausicaa’s chances of survival were quite high.
The problem now was: where was Nausicaa?
The laboratory’s location was deep in the sea, and Nausicaa was swept away by a current there, making it not easy to find a missing person in the vast ocean.
Even using the True Sight might not help. After all, using the True Sight to trace the truth requires traces, and under the sea, the traces have long been washed away.
Searching without clues was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.