What should the future of the USS White Oak be?

Chapter 465, Passage Permits?

This issue, which had always been neglected, was now brought to the forefront.

There are no walls without cracks in this world, and Frost was certainly not a city-state that sealed itself off from the outside. The peculiar changes of the Homeloss—their reflections upon the sea, in particular—couldn't possibly have escaped the notice of the other captains and the harbors.

Even without the most special identity of "member of the Exiled Fleet," the Homeloss had become a "Ghost Ship" tangled with transcendental forces and in a bizarre state.

City-states have always treated ships and personnel entering the Endless Sea with the strictest security standards. A ship that had briefly lost contact at sea had to go through an extremely rigorous quarantine and inspection upon returning to port. It would be denied entry even with the slightest abnormality, not to mention a vessel that had transformed into a "transcendent item."