Ship Country —On the Beach ･ a—

Characters

 * Shizu
 * Riku
 * Ti (First Appearance)

Synopsis
Shizu and Riku board a giant ship headed to the Western continent. The ship's masked rulers, the Tower Clan, offers Shizu comfortable accommodation in exchange for becoming their enforcer to deal with their troublesome people but Shizu refuses and chooses to live with the people. Guided by a seemingly mute girl sent by the Tower Clan named Tifana or "Ti", Shizu and Riku explore the ship and know the locals. When the ship starts to shake violently, Shizu discovers many parts of the ship have been in disrepair for years and will soon sinks. In order to save the people, Shizu non-violently battles the Tower Clan and is later helped by Kino, who was working as the clan's enforcer before the clan betray her upon learning her relationship with Shizu. Shizu confronts the Tower Clan leaders and orders them to land their ship to nearby land which they agreed before mysteriously vanishing. The ship lands ashore but the people refuses to leave and don't believe the ship will sink, leaving Shizu, Riku, Ti, Kino and Hermes behind. Ti suddenly stabs Shizu and Hermes reveals the Tower Clan were in fact the artificial intelligence of the ship Tifana and it's people were descendants of the children of the crew who controlled the ship before dying from plague. The Tower Clan for years tried to land ashore so the people could live on land but the people wouldn't leave as they were so used to living at sea and Ti was abandoned her traveller parents and was hated by the locals. Realizing Ti stabbed her for trying to abandon her, Shizu forgives her and allows her follow him. After helping fix his wounds, Kino and Shizu part ways.

(Source: Wikipedia)