Interest (First Subscription Bonus Chapter)

"Now, you can go back to your rooms, get a good night's sleep, and completely relax. Because tomorrow, another, even more important test awaits you."

With that, the captain turned to leave.

Sifa pressed on, "Captain, what will tomorrow's test involve?"

Ken turned back and gave him a meaningful smile. "You'll find out tomorrow. You're definitely going to like it."

After the captain left with the first mate and sailors, Sifa and the others returned to the makeshift shelter and lay back down on their "beds."

The captain really knows how to keep people in suspense.

He won't even tell us what tomorrow's test is about. How are we supposed to sleep?

Though he said that, as Sifa stared at the dim ceiling, his eyelids gradually grew heavy, and he slowly drifted into a sweet dream.

The next day, after packing their luggage, Sifa and the others returned to the Wavebreaker and assembled on deck.

Ken Angus had changed into a long white coat today. Grinning, he looked at Sifa and the others and said, "Look at yourselves. Now you finally look like people who live at sea. Once you change clothes, even if I threw you in with pirates, no one would suspect a thing."

Only then did Sifa notice that their week of living on the deserted island had indeed changed them considerably.

After being exposed to the sun so often, both Sifa and Edward had gotten tanned. Even Natalie, who often hid indoors, had become a shade darker. And because their food had been monotonous, with no fruit or other nutritional supplements, all their skin had become much rougher.

However.

Quincy did not seem to have changed much.

He had always been tall and thin, with bronze skin. A week on the deserted island had not changed