Henry's Diary (Part Two)

This situation was terrible. Since the day I was born, I had never encountered anything so bizarre, but I had to calm down.

There were two possibilities facing me. The first was that the sailors were lying. They had anticipated that I would overhear them and fabricated this lie to make me doubt Henry, my greatest source of military strength.

The second possibility was that the sailors were telling the truth. If so, then everything I had seen over the past few days might have been wrong, including the sailors' terrifying appearances...

To be honest, the second possibility was very likely. Normally, eating spoiled food for several days shouldn't turn people into such horrifying creatures, right? If everything was a hallucination, then it all seemed to make sense!

But this... didn't really seem like a hallucination...

Henry glanced at the wood shavings trembling on the wooden door and listened to the faint knocking outside...

"Come in!" Henry chose to face the next wave head-on. He had to take the risk and figure out what was going on.

"Captain!" Sean entered, closed the door with a grave expression, and strode over to Henry's desk.

Henry glanced at the tightly shut door. His heart tightened slightly, but he did his best to keep his expression calm.

"What's the matter? Why are you in such a panic?"

As he spoke, Henry carefully observed Sean's appearance...

He was tall and sunny, with a resolute, stern face, a broad frame, a sturdy **, and a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle's. He perfectly fit the image of a hardened soldier!

Henry could even clearly see the hairs on Sean's body and catch his faint body odor. All of it constantly reminded him that the man before him was a living, breathing person, not