[Diluc shakes his head. The ice melts away and fades to nothing as he says,] The ships that came to the shore were different. They lacked an armory and the holding rooms that the pirates had. Everything was stored carefully.

No. I think those ships were merchant ships. I couldn't find any manifests but the layout of the cargo was like any I'd personally overseen. Whatever attacked them left barely any traces of itself. I'll look into local reports because I know the hunters said something about it at the time.

I don't recall if that's one of the months things were...complicated for us Coldbloods.