The island that isn't on any map.
The legend really is true.
We now warily move in for our expedition!
Good, let's get on shore!
Show that, Francesca.
Sign: We're taking on the mystery of Birdcage Island!!
Fuga.
There's no sign of people here.
Does this mean this once populated place is now uninhabited?
A-Anyway, we've just landed on this island for our expedition.
Fuga.
What is it, Francesca-san?
Fuga.
Huh? Foundation?
According to the document I'm holding, no one has ever returned from Birdcage Island alive.
Legends say that people who enter the island become mentally unstable after a few days.
Things that shouldn't exist appear before them,
and they eventually get run down by these imaginary things.
They are then trapped on the island forever.
What the hell is this?!
Did you see that just now?
What should we have seen?
This is...
I don't know what this is,
but it reeks of a disaster waiting to happen.
No! It's over there!
What are you doing, Buchi?!
Get them both on tape!
But...
It's not worth it!
We really shouldn't have come here!
Hey, I can see an island.
I see.
Oh, an island.
That's the island Princess Sherwood was looking for.
It's so like her to leave a sea chart for us to come here.
I hope Princess Sherwood and the others are safe.
An island that isn't on any map?
That island looks really nice, doesn't it, Princess?
We didn't come here to play, Nee-san.
That's...
Yes. It's the Sherwood yacht.
Others have stopped here as well.
I guess this island isn't really uninhabited after all.
Fuga.
Welcome!
Welcome to Birdcage Island,
Princess.
Have we met somewhere before?
No!
You're probably just imagining things.
I'm the hotel manager here.
I'm responsible for guiding you around here.
Yes, that's it.
Well then, please come this way.
What's the meaning of this?
You were invited by Princess Sherwood here, right?
I think everyone knows this already,
but it's said that Birdcage Island doesn't appear on maps and has been called a "phantom island,"
and no one knows where it'll show up next once it disappears.
Princess Sherwood used various human historical records
and mathematically verified the dates of this island's appearances to find it.
That's the reason you guys can actually see a phantom island right now.
Hey now.
How much further do we have to go?
I'm sorry. We'll arrive there shortly.
I can see it now, Princess.
This is the place where you'll be staying.
It's called the Birdcage Hotel.
Oh my, it's really beautiful inside.
I'll be leading you to your rooms now, then.
Wait.
Yes?
Where is Sherwood?
Who knows?
I don't know either.
So, this is how a royal family does their traditional fieldwork?
You're...
Prince Gilliam!
Can you please stop this?
I was invited here by Sherwood as well,
and I don't want to start a fight merely because this fieldwork is unauthorized.
Invited?
What?
Don't you know anything, Lillian?
Don't call me that.
I know.
My apologies, little sister.
The rest of our siblings are here.
That's not our problem this time, though.
Let's just chalk that up to this island's unforgiving nature.
Is he the Princess's brother, Furan-chan?
Please, this way.
Fuga.
He's pretty interesting, isn't he?
Fuga.
So you came, Hime-chan.
No...
You've finally been dragged in.
Chirei.
Taroumaru.
Jiroumaru.
So, this is the island that doesn't appear on any map.
I slept really well.
I felt it shake really hard on the way here, though.
Should I ask Sawawa-san to prepare me some tomato juice?
And also...
Hey, Cloud woman.
You woke up pretty late.
Vampires are supposed to be nocturnal.
That aside, what island is this?
Geez, I keep telling the Princess not to drag me along to some island.
It's impossible for vampires to cross an ocean on their own.
Are the Princess and the others on the island as well?
Yeah.
Where?
In the bath.
You know, it was really classy of them to put a Japanese-style hot spring here.
Are you fine with sharing a bath with commoners like us, Princess?
I don't mind.
How's the water?
Reiri.
Geez, you're so cruel, Princess.
You actually brought me out to an island like this.
You're getting into an open air bath?
You're weak against ponds, lakes, swamps and the like, right?
I'm fine with bath water.
What about totally natural open air baths, then?
You get more annoying every time I see you.
It looks like it's full.
Fuga.
Sylvia Nee-san.
Oh, Hime-chan.
Something like this is really good every now and then.
Which one?
What?
No, it's nothing.
Fuga?
By the way, have you meet with Sherwood?
No.
Not even once since I came here.
I see.
So, no one here has seen Sherwood yet.
This feels awkward.
What's wrong, Blood Warrior?
You can relax in the presence of your naked companions.
We're all men here.
This pathetic human is a Blood Warrior?
How laughable.
In any case, I'm pretty certain that the worst Blood Warrior isn't a merman.
Impossible!
You're...
How did it go?
We couldn't find her anywhere.
In fact, I can't detect any trace of Sherwood's scent in this hotel at all.
I got nothing out of the bats on this island as well.
She probably hasn't even arrived here yet.
No.
That's not true.
Nakua.
You're here too?
Is it fine for you to leave the Sasanaki Temple?
If I remember right, you were in the middle of—
Two or three days shouldn't be a problem.
Anyway, take a look at this.
That's Buchi's camera.
What should we have seen?
This is...
I don't know what this is,
but it reeks of a disaster waiting to happen.
No! It's over there!
What are you doing, Buchi?!
Get both of them on tape!
But...
It's not worth it!
We really shouldn't have come here!
Taroumaru found this camera deep in the jungle.
Tarou?
Were you referring to your spider?
Will we find Princess Sherwood if we search the jungle, then?
I wonder about that.
You don't know this, but this island—
There's trouble afoot, dear customers!
Gilliam-sama is... is...
He's dead.
What?
Prince Gilliam.
He was already dead when I found him as I was passing by earlier.
He really is dead.
Then again, you don't find too many people faking their own deaths in a getup like this anyway.
Did something happen?
Emil Nii-sama.
Gilliam-sama.
Is he still alive?
No.
He's dead.
Did someone take this opportunity to kill him?
That's a very likely scenario.
What about his robot?
Oh yeah.
That robot should self-destruct once his master dies.
Seriously?
He really did it.
Oh my.
Well then, I wish you luck, Hime-chan.
Onee-sama.
It looks dangerous here, so I'm going home.
Wait a minute.
Aren't you the one behind all this?
Oh dear, no.
That's why I'm going home already.
Emil and Hime-chan don't have it in them to do something like this.
If the culprit behind this is after the throne,
then Sherwood would be the most likely suspect.
She was the one who invited us all here, right?
That means we're in the middle of enemy territory right now,
and I'm probably her next target.
That's reason enough for me to return home.
How idiotic.
There's no way Sherwood would do this.
Emil-sama.
I haven't seen Sledge for a while now.
How about doing a roll call first?
Huh?
What about my sister?
She's in her room, right?
It's still warm.
She should have been here a while ago.
Oh no.
My sister was...
Damn it!
I have a bad feeling about this.
Anyway, let's go search for Sawawa, Hiro.
Yeah.
Stop right there.
Get out of the way, Nakua.
Oh, I will, but who are you looking for anyway?
Who?!
We're looking for Sawawa, obviously.
She's over there.
What?
Listen, that maid is over there.
What the hell are you talking about?
An explosion?
And it's on the ocean, too.
Is it a ship?
Oh yeah, Sylvia-san said was she going home already.
Then that was...
So, does that mean the robot that exploded just now was Francette?
In other words, Princess Sylvia was done in by an unknown assailant.
So Sylvia really was the next target after Gilliam.
Wait a minute.
Something doesn't make sense here.
We should prepare ourselves.
I'm going to serach for Sawawa together with Hiro.
I'll do some scouting from the sky.
Our ships are burning.
Don't tell me you were the one behind all this, Emil Nii-sama.
If you want to think that, then be my guest.
Nii-sama.
Fuga.
She's dead.
It's just as Reiri said.
Fuga.
P-Princess.
Riza...
Riza was killed.
Hiro.
Who killed you?
Prince Gilliam did.
Did I say something just now?
You did.
You just said that Giliiam Nii-sama killed you earlier.
That's impossible.
I lost consciousness all of a sudden earlier actually.
Anyway, it couldn't have been Prince Gilliam since he's already dead.
I see.
Let's go, Hiro.
We're going to find Sawawa.
This is her room.
Is she back already?
No.
She never left here from the start.
Isn't that right, Flandre?
Fuga.
Just as I thought.
Well then, let's go in.
Nee-san!
You were right.
But why wasn't she here earlier?
We were deceived.
Or perhaps you could say we made false assumptions.
All the assumptions we made in our heads became reality.
When we were told that Sherwood disappeared, she really did disappear.
When we were told that Gilliam Nii-sama was killed, he was already dead when we got to him.
Fratelus blew himself up as soon as we brought him up earlier as well.
That happened with Sawawa, too.
We were too preoccupied with our own assumptions
that we ended up making a completely different story in our heads.
The missing Sawawa shouldn't have been missing at all.
Gilliam Nii-sama, who we thought was dead, was actually alive.
Once we try to challenge a defined thought that we ourselves form in our heads,
we end up not seeing or hearing anything related to it.
If a person is continually provided with false information,
and other persons perceive that same information differently, then such a situation will arise.
The assumptions we made severely restricted our capacity to reason.
At that time, those imaginary things were close to us,
and yet we couldn't perceive them.
We then became completely isolated, one by one.
We ended up becoming the prisoners of this island.
An island that eats people.
So, Princess... Does that mean all those "dead" people are...
Yeah.
They should all still be alive.
However, we may not be able to get close to them anymore,
since we're all still on this island.
We can't just rewrite our memories according to the situation, after all.
You can actually recognize me now, Hime-chan?
You were the one forcing different assumptions on my mind,
Sylvia Nee-sama.
And I definitely believed that you were still alive, and that you'd show yourself to me.
What an honor.
Let's settle this before Emil destroys the island.
Nee-sama.
Fuga.
Don't get distracted, Hime-chan.
By the way, if I were just one of your delusions,
and you ended up having to fight and get killed by imaginary things,
what would you do about it?
I wouldn't mind even a bit of it.
Because you're the real thing,
Sylvia Nee-sama.
Fuga.
I guess settling this will have to wait, Hime-chan.
Fuga.
Riza.
You were supposed to be dead.
This is...
W-What's that?
The problem's been taken care of, so go home already.
Emil Nii-sama.
Onee-sama!
My ship's really tough!
Speed it up, Fratelus.
Fuga.
So, what was with that island anyway?
I had a lot of fun on it, Riza-chan.
I envy you, Sawawa.
Look carefully.
The island disappeared after all that.
It's true!
It's completely gone now.
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