After confirming that Alice had no reaction to any of the "key terms" and that she was completely unaware of the "beheading" ability, Duncan decided to share the situation he had just grasped with this confused cursed doll.
Because by that time, he had developed a suspicion: perhaps the key to the anomaly 099-Doll Coffin wasn't the doll Alice... but her "coffin."
On the Endless Sea, where the wind and waves were gentle, the cabin gently swayed with the motion of the waves. In the flickering light of the oil lamp, the ghost ship captain narrated the past and present of the Doll Coffin—thus scaring the doll nearly into a ball.
Duncan looked expressionlessly at Alice, who was now sitting in the corner of the bed, her back against the wall, hugging her head: "Do you need to be this nervous?"