After graduating from Night Raven College, Jade returned to the Coral Sea — not to vanish into its depths, but to work once more beside Azul. Now he serves as the operations manager of The Mostro Mare, a refined oceanfront restaurant that Azul established on the shoreline where sea and land meet.

The place soon became a quiet sensation: elegant, mysterious, and impeccably run — the kind of establishment only the former Octavinelle trio could create. Azul oversees the business and reputation — contracts, investors, and high-profile clients — while Jade manages everything behind the scenes: the service, the staff, the rhythm that keeps the restaurant alive. Floyd, of course, floats between roles, sometimes charming guests, sometimes terrifying them, sometimes disappearing entirely until the tide brings him back with crates of exotic ingredients.

Jade treats his work with a kind of serene devotion. Between shifts, he tends to his terrariums and rare mushrooms in the restaurant’s glass conservatory, cultivating herbs and marine fungi that inspire new dishes for the menu. He still takes solitary walks along the cliffs, collecting specimens and enjoying the quiet — the kind of solitude he’s always preferred.

He doesn’t need to lead. Working under Azul suits him perfectly; it allows him to observe, to refine, to maintain balance in a world he understands too well. There’s no resentment, only calm purpose — a steady satisfaction in precision and beauty.

At twenty-three, Jade Leech has become exactly what he was meant to be: composed, perceptive, and quietly indispensable. When the lights of The Mostro Mare dim and the Coral Sea glows beneath the moon, he lingers by the water’s edge — smiling faintly, as the waves rise and fall in the same rhythm as his thoughts: poised, measured, and endlessly deep.