"Who said we didn't have a goal?!"
Titch puffed out his massive skeletal frame, his voice booming. "Lucas was nothing! We're going to keep following the Captain and conquer the seas! Grab more treasure and fight tougher enemies!"
The surrounding skeletons perked up at once.
"Exactly! We're going to follow the Captain and plunder every sea!"
"I haven't become First Mate yet!"
"In your dreams! First Mate is mine!"
The deck grew lively again, the brief gloom swept away in an instant.
Emily stood at the edge of the crowd with a cup in her hands, quietly watching.
She had originally followed Ling Chu aboard because Ling Chu had promised to help them get revenge.
But over the past few months, she had encountered magic she had never known in life and experienced the wonders of ice magic. Her days had become far more exciting than they had been on Undead Island.
To many people, being a skeleton that neither died nor slept was a curse.
But now she had not only avenged herself and her parents, she had also experienced things she never had while alive. No matter how she looked at it, this was far better than being trapped on Undead Island as a wandering soul.
Emily looked up at the figure in the middle of the long table, her finger bones tightening gently around her cup. She was grateful to Ling Chu from the bottom of her heart.
Squid Ball had barely spent any time at the feast before she started squirming as though she were sitting on nails. At last, unable to hold back any longer, she grabbed a large plate and began piling food onto it.
"Two pieces of this beef, and two bowls of this soup..."
Huang Xiaowen looked puzzled. "What are you