The moment the anchor hit the sea, the Cat's Ideal mounted on the ship lit up with a warm glow.
Rita activated her disguise skill, taking on the form of an owlet, then teleported to the helm and gave the wheel a light turn. In an instant, the ship vanished from BlueStar. A surge of force slammed into her as the vessel tore through what felt like a roaring underwater tunnel, speeding forward until it burst from the waves into a different ocean altogether.
As she steered, she also triggered Hide-and-Seek—a skill she had learned on her own, just like Lightchaser's technique. Since returning from the Card Swap game, she'd reactivated it by training during frozen-time intervals.
Her plan was meticulous: slip in quietly, find her cat, scoop it up under one arm, and slip out again—no alarms, no witnesses.
But what she didn't expect was that the instant her ship appeared in this new sea, the sky of the world itself began to shout.
