"Yes," Leder says in answer to Enzo. "In short, everyone would play out the ideal 'story' that they had come up with. That is what happened. The people would restart their lives in a simple, peaceful village, in the kind of place they wished they had grown up in. They would erase their memory of everything: the world, their belongings, their rules...and then they would begin their new lives. Everyone's old memories would be reset and replaced with their newly-created 'story'. And thus the village of Tazmily came to be.

"However, it was necessary to record the fact that the memory replacement had taken place. The Hummingbird Egg was the device used to store the memories of the White Ship people. Wess and his son Duster, both playing the roles of thieves-"

Duster puts a hand on his face.

"-were set to take action should a dangerous situation occur. Remember when they went to Osohe Castle? They went there to retrieve the secret of the People of the White Ship."