Lu Ban looked at the food on the plate.
There was a roast chicken with several drumsticks.
That was not all.
The roast suckling pigs also had several eyes.
Numerous tentacles had grown from the fish fins. If they had not already been frozen, they probably would have been writhing constantly by now, trying to grab hold of something else.
The vegetables were also an eerie color, as if they had grown out of an animal's internal organs.
"Ugh—"
Nagamasu immediately vomited up what he had just eaten. The vomit on the deck was a deep purple and seemed to be trembling faintly.
"Are you all right?"
Nagamasu looked at the three of them and asked in surprise.
"It's not a big deal."
Lu Ban felt something rubbing against his teeth inside his mouth. Thinking it was a scrap of meat, he reached in to touch it, only to pull out a slick, pitch-black tentacle. It kept twisting and writhing. When it touched Lu Ban's skin, its smooth surface suddenly turned rough, becoming sharp teeth that bit into his skin and sucked at the flesh underneath.
He was startled, then bit through the tentacle in one bite. He chewed it many times before swallowing it.
"Are you really all right?"
Nagamasu looked at Xiya again.
Xiya patted her stomach. No tentacles emerged from her mouth, and there were no strange movements in her abdomen either.
He finally looked at Bao Bao.
"Bao Bao is about to die! You have to save Bao Bao!"
The girl in a white robe and crimson hakama clutched her throat and foamed at the mouth, looking as though she were about to die.
With a thud, the petite girl fell to the ground and twitched once before going still.
"What happened to you?"
Nagamasu hurried