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"I know you have a lot of questions to ask, and I have a few too, so the best thing we can both do is sit back and talk a little about life, right, Lucas?" Ron said as he handed the boy a drink.

Lucas tried to accept the drink, but he stretched out his right hand to take it and only a stump bandaged with some kind of seaweed received the glass, Lucas noticing the problem started to cry, as if he could finally remember that somehow he had lost the hand.

Ron looked with some pity at the cabin boy after that scene, putting the glass on the cabin table for him to drink himself.

"What happened last night?" Asked the cabin boy with a voice broken by tears.

"Unfortunately we were attacked, everything indicates that it really was sirens, we really went too far off course this time, unfortunately" The first officer replied as he sat down.

"Although I think you already had some idea that he was attacking us, I doubt that another sailor on this ship cut Ricardo's cheek during the night and then tried to hide the details about the incident"

"We don't blame you for that, in short, you're a castaway on our ship, it's normal that you don't fully trust some sailors you just met and try not to get involved in the incident so as not to get caught in the middle, the strange thing is that you kept quiet and put your life at risk for doing that…"

"It's a shame…, many died, unfortunately we are so tiny in these waters, now we can't do anything but try to get to the port alive, only the captain and I know that you hid clues, causing more deaths"

Lucas had stopped crying a long time ago, listening to Ron speak, these two old men knew everything and that began to cause the tears of sorrow to turn into sweat of fear, he was completely scared of what decision these two guys would make.

"Well, it seems that the bar has already begun to take effect, if you feel depressed you can ask for another one, to cheer you up a little I could give you a preview of your immediate future"

"We have no intention of blaming you, I just ask you to keep your mouth shut until we reach port, unless you want to wake up with a dagger slashing your throat in the cabins, by some revenge-hungry sailor."

"But in exchange for this silence I want you to answer me with the truth, what happened in the shipwreck and why the changes in attitude are trying to protect you" Ron said passing a notebook to Lucas.

Lucas tried to take the notebook again with his right hand, but then he took it with his left, luckily the bar had an effect and oddly enough, the boy didn't feel that it was so bad to have lost a hand.

The notebook had two black covers and an inscription with the motto 'captain's log' on its cover, luckily for Lucas, it was marked with a rope which was the last entry in the diary, when opening it Lucas was shocked by what he found.

With two totally different ways of writing for each letter, the Sentence "If a sailor disappears, kill the castaway" was irregularly written. Each letter was quite large, managing to occupy the two pages of the notebook.

It was written as if the hand that wrote it was struggling with itself to achieve it, and it seems that one of the writers did not use ink but blood to form the sentence.

Seeing the sentence, Lucas understood where the lack of memories of him last night came from.

If these two sailors somehow managed to remain unaffected by the mermaid's hypnotism and survived, Lucas would be the only living sailor on the ship besides these two old men, therefore per the notebook's instructions he would be killed.

To prevent him from dying, the relic he was carrying produced a change in his attitude and forced him to save all the sailors, in the fight he probably had to sacrifice his arm to get out alive, but he does not remember anything that happened in reality.

Lucas looked at Ron warily, obviously he wouldn't tell him the truth, or he would be asking for his own death, he knew he was a miserable messenger and what counted was the message he carried.

The relic did not give a damn if he died or not, what the relic was looking for was that the message would reach the hands of the church, and for that Lucas had to arrive alive at the port.