Lucresia recognized it, that was her Brilliant Starship—yet from another timeline.
It was decades ago when she, during a reckless border journey, accidentally crossed the Six Nautical Miles boundary and became "lost" on the Brilliant Starship—At this very moment, her younger self stood on that ship decades ago, fruitlessly searching for a route back to the Endless Sea.
The sailor gripped the steering wheel, breaking into a cold sweat (if his sweat glands still worked) as he realized what the silhouette of the distant ship meant, instinctively exclaiming: "Lady! That is an entity from another timeline—Do not make contact with it! It must be its interference that caused us to exit the 'channel' prematurely; rash contact might trap us!"
Upon these shouts from the sailor, the people on the deck also realized that this situation was completely different from when Homeloss encountered Sea Song in the "channel"—
