Nemo suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.
At this moment, he felt as if the fearsome "Ghost Captain" was not merely making a simple promise, but was declaring something... a "foregone conclusion" that had already taken shape on some future day.
He didn't know where this feeling came from, he only knew that at this moment he involuntarily lowered his head and began to speak with a reverence he couldn't quite describe to himself, "As you say."
Duncan nodded, then seemed to casually shift his gaze to the old ghost standing not far away, leaning against the wall as if lost in thought.
At this moment, the old man was not muttering about the Frost Queen or anything about the second canal or rebels; he was simply there, staring off into space, as if his mind was wandering in a time and space that had been nearly forgotten.
In the old man's muddled memory... did the Frost Queen still rule this place?