"Governor, Mr. Feuerbach has left. He entered the sea alone and followed the school of red sharks," the silver-haired butler relayed what he saw at the docks.0

"Alone? What about his wife and child?" Charles asked.0

"His wife and child are still on the island," the butler continued. "After leaving the Governor's Mansion, Mr. Feuerbach didn't even drop by his home and headed straight to the docks instead."1

A soft chuckle escaped Charles' lips. For Feuerbach to abandon his family just like that, it seemed like everything about him was just a facade. He had no lingering attachments to anything on the island—not his wife, not his child, not even the land and house given to him.2

"Who could have sent him here and what did they promise him that he'd forsake wealth,...1