Ron went down the stairs of the ship, to look for the fish to have dinner with Tusha, that is, the farewell ritual of the ship, as was logical the captain was going to use the best fish they had and in case it was the part that was left over from the Flup .

Before opening the kitchen door, Ron noticed an unusual noise inside the kitchen and paused for a while in the doorway, wondering what to do next.

*Puff*... *Puff,* The noises just kept growing.

Ron thought about it for a few more minutes, he knew who the ones inside were, but deep in his heart he didn't want to find them. He put his hand on the door handle and then pulled it out.

*Boom,* A box crashed down.

Ron put his hand back on the handle, but he didn't feel like opening it either, he just waited.

*Coff* ... *Footsteps* he Coughed at Ron, so he would hear him, and mimicked footsteps in the hallway.

*...* The noises stopped suddenly and Ron managed to hear a murmur that seemed to be Esteban.

"Dog, is there someone, quick, plan B!!!" Esteban said in a hurry and muttered.

Ron stood waiting for a while, the noises of hiding could be heard inside.

"..." Finally, the noises stopped.

Ron, already decided, entered the kitchen, indeed it was a mess inside it, boxes were scattered everywhere, but Ron did not care, he went to one of the large boxes in the room, in that box was kept the flup.

Ron opened the box and patted his head with his hand, while he thought: 'How can he be such an idiot…'.

Inside the box was Lucas, but his teeth had grown back and he was pretty skinny again, like when he got to the ship.

"Hey Ron, it's you, I thought he was the captain," Lucas said with a rather confident voice and a friendly smile on his face.

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"Boy, you're supposed to have robbed the captain and discovered the secret of the ship's soul, that's punishable by death on any ship" Ron said with a serious face and some pity.

"But…" Lucas added, noticing Ron's silence.

"I didn't say 'but'... you committed a crime, boy!" Ron yelled somewhat annoyed, it wasn't the first time he had come across Lucas, but if he believed that he had died during the riot like the others, the boy had opted for a quite sensible strategy during the massacre... Pretending doesn't exist, and it worked for him.

Several times Ron brought him food from the pity that the cabin boy gave him and that was what gave him the most anger, he did not want to kill the boy who with a lot of effort and dying of hunger in a box managed to survive so long and more being near the port .

Ron was also not a person who liked to use the death penalty with fellow travelers, he remembered the day he had deserted from the army, the situation back then was not very different from now, absolute chaos and dead everywhere. If Ron had followed the rules, he would have died, and if his superiors had followed the rules they would have died too.

"But, Ron, you owe me your life!" Lucas shouted, shaking his stump.

"Er... yes... yes, I forgot, that's like a free captain's pardon..." Ron said, that was an excellent excuse, as sailors they couldn't kill the man who saved his life and more being a castaway and not a crew member...

'Lucas wasn't asked, so Wiliam couldn't just kill him,' Ron thought, seeming to know more about the ritual than the captain supposed.

"Well boy, how about you come with us to participate in the ritual, after all, no one on the ship believes that you are an initiate of Tusha. Dima told me that your ritual was to bless us to reach port, so I do not care much about those, I just want to get this shitty trip over with," said Ron, who luckily for Lucas hadn't come to the same conclusions as the captain.

"Sure, I can help you!" Lucas said happily, with Ron on his side, he was guaranteed his ticket to land.

"But can't the Seal come with us?" Lucas asked, because he didn't know the name of the Seal, he had exiled him from his brain, to make the ritual he did for him work better.

"No…" Ron said, but then he watched Lucas's malnourished body settle back into the box, he remembered Ricardo's betrayal and something inside his heart moved.

'Bitch, ... Is she really going to play it to continue hiding from Wiliam for a week and that I don't change my attitude? Just because of a sailor he met a few months ago? No wonder none survive in the seas! ... Idiots, huh? ... I would rather say trusting, too trusting 'Ron thought he was a bit upset, Ricardo's betrayal of the entire ship had bothered him a lot and now he saw the opposite gesture.

"Well, we also forgive Esteban for your help to the ship, Lucas" Ron finished saying, he didn't know how he was going to justify it, but his heart had made the decision to help the sailor who didn't betray his friend .