Fed up with academia, Doctor Ernst Graustier has decided that remaining part of the struggle to be a professor of archaeology in a university is not the life for him.  Instead, he and a friend are offered an opportunity to get into the treasure hunting business by none other than Doctor Caballeron, who has an interesting prospect for the young former students; a minotaur ship, lost in a storm years ago, has suddenly been rediscovered.  Its cargo includes a kirin relic, sure to make them a fortune.  The race is on as Graustier and Caballeron have to beat other groups to the shipwreck, retrieve the relic and escape before the sea swallows it up once more.  But they are not the only party interested in this treasure…and some of their competitors are not so mundane in their nature.