This pair of crystal glasses was given to Nausicaa by Angel when she left the Sky Mechanical City.
At that time, Nausicaa thought it was some secret weapon specially made by Angel to ensure her safety.
However, Angel denied it.
Nausicaa still remembers what Angel said at the time—
"This is not a weapon, and it’s not very useful when you’re in danger. However, if you need to inform me of anything, you can use this."
"So, it’s a communication device?"
"You could say that, but it can only be used once, so use it wisely."
After getting this "communication device," Nausicaa kept it in her pocket, never having used it or even thought of using it. More often, this single-lens glass served as a token of her friendship.
Because the reality was much like what Angel said, it wouldn’t help in the face of danger, and if there was no danger, there was no reason to contact anyone.
Even if her adventure failed, leaving her crippled or nearly dead, she never considered using the single lens to ask Angel for help.
Because she would be responsible for any choice she made, life or death.
But, at this moment, she felt like she wanted to use it.
...
On Reef Island.
"What are your plans now?" Nis looked at the pensive Angel.
Angel: "First, find Nausicaa."
"Do you have any way to do that?" Nis asked.
Angel fell silent. Nausicaa was swept away by currents, and no one knew where she ended up. The only way he could think of was to wait for Dororo in the Wilderness of Dreams.
But prophecies often come with risk, and Angel didn’t want to rely on Dororo for everything.
Nis: "I knew you wouldn’t have a way."
Angel turned to Nis: "Sounds like you have a way to find Nausicaa?"
Nis nodded proudly: "Of course, I do."
In Angel’s puzzled gaze, Nis took a long, thin black skull short stick from his large sleeve. He waved the stick in the air, and invisible magic and soul forces surged out, forming a complex spirit pattern in the air.
The spirit pattern glowed, and after a few seconds, a humanoid soul with a conical head emerged from it.
Angel noticed that this humanoid soul appeared extremely old, with a hunchbacked head nearly at knee level, supported by a cane. It resembled humans, except the skull shape was different, like it wore a pointed hat.
"Who is he?"
Nis, proudly: "The Sharp People Prophet!"
Sharp People? Angel had never heard of this race. With Nis’s explanation, he gradually gained some understanding of the Sharp People.
They are a rare kind of humanoid found in the Druna Plane, living mostly like barbarians with a primitive tribal civilization.
In the Sharp People tribes, the most exalted position is the prophet. Because prophets are versed in astrology and meteorology, they can tell the tribe when to hunt, when to sow, and when to sacrifice to the heavens...
In terms of status and function, they are somewhat akin to the witch sacrifices of the barbarians. However, while barbarian sacrifices wield some Extraordinary Power, the Sharp People’s prophets are essentially ordinary people.
Nis: "But Diya and other Sharp People prophets are different. He has abilities similar to a Prophet Wizard!"
Diya is the name of this Sharp People prophet.
Angel, skeptical: "If he can use Divination, why did you need Dororo for the stone slab issue earlier?"
Nis showed a somewhat bashful expression: "It’s not the same. I only said he has abilities similar to a Prophet Wizard, not that he really is one."
"Diya’s ability, more accurately, is a kind of divination ability."
It can divine a vague result, like getting an answer such as "there might be rain in the short term" from divining weather.
So, it’s much weaker than a Prophet Wizard’s abilities. Still, it touches slightly on the edges of fate.
Angel: "Then how do you use Diya to find Nausicaa?"
"Seeking people divination. It’s Diya’s specialty type of divination. As long as you give him something the person being sought has used, he can use the stick to divine the person’s direction through the direction the stick falls." Nis: "How about that? It’s at least more useful than your aimless searching, right?"
"It sounds very similar to the Prophecy Apprentice’s short wand method." Angel remembered that White Bear was skilled in the short wand method.
"It looks similar on the surface, but the core is different. They interpret fate in fundamentally different ways."
Angel also understood, after all, the Sharp People’s prophets’ worldview and insight are vastly different from that of humans.
"It seems promising, but unfortunately, I can’t use it." Angel: "Because I don’t have anything Nausicaa used."
"No way, didn’t you and Nausicaa exchange tokens of love?"
Angel gave Nis a cold glance without saying anything, though Nis understood what Angel meant to say.
"You’re becoming more and more like Sanders..." Nis muttered: "Even if you’re not lovers, exchanging something isn’t unusual?"
Angel: "Anyway, I don’t have it. If I don’t have it, can he divine?"
Nis shook his head.
"Then what’s the point." After finishing his words, Angel didn’t want to say anything more and moved on past Nis, intending to talk with Reynaud again to see if he had any knowledge of the nearby islands.