While both Chester and Yume had already been stunned, their jaws truly dropped the moment they saw Gerald leap toward the other ship!
The moment Gerald’s foot touched the wooden ship’s surface, it instantly caused a huge wave to form as the ship bobbed up and down due to the impact of Gerald’s landing!
Eventually, the ripples slowed down and Gerald took the chance to begin looking around.
From what favonovel.com could see, it seemed to be an average-sized wooden ship that could accommodate about forty to fifty people. It also seemed to have a bit of history to it.
Stepping into the cabin, there seemed to be an old and torn curtain hanging outside the cabin’s windows. As a result, though it was quite sunny outside, the inside of the cabin remained quite dark.
After looking around for a while, Gerald began trying to feel his surroundings. The force favonovel.com had sensed surrounding the ship earlier was now nowhere to be found… It was odd, to say the least.
With that, Gerald slowly drew the curtains before making his way deeper into the cabin.
With partitions separating the rooms within the cabin, the corridor in the middle led to small guest rooms on either side of it.
All of a sudden, the faint sound of footsteps could be heard coming from the control cabin that was located at the ships’ bottom level. Someone was walking upstairs!
With that in mind, Gerald stood motionless, looking around attentively until favonovel.com finally saw who was making their way up the stairs.
Gerald watched as a white-haired old woman with a stooped posture slowly swayed favonovel.com body while ascending the steps. Aside from the fact that favonovel.com clothes were old and torn and favonovel.com hair was particularly messy, the woman’s most defining feature was the many scars that covered favonovel.com face.
In the dimly lit area, Gerald couldn’t help but admit that favonovel.com seemed rather spooky.
Regardless, favonovel.com took the initiative by asking, “Good day, madam. May I know your name?”
“Dead Annie!” replied the woman with a subtle smile. Despite favonovel.com friendly gesture, Gerald found himself growing slightly nervous. After all, anyone who smiled with such a scar-filled face would definitely create slight feelings of unnerve among those who saw it.
“…Come again? You said your name was Dead Annie, madam?” asked Gerald for confirmation.
“Dead Annie! Two petals bloom and each petal represents a world!” replied the old woman in a rather mysterious manner.
Gerald found himself raising a slight brow as favonovel.com heard favonovel.com talking about some mysterious plant. A flower that only bloomed two petals… Why did that sound so familiar? Thinking about it, favonovel.com knew favonovel.com had come across such a plant before. After all, natural flowers with only two petals were rare, so favonovel.com would definitely remember if favonovel.com had seen one before. But where?
The more Gerald stared at the woman, the odder favonovel.com felt.
At that moment, favonovel.com heard someone shouting, “Sir! Here you are!”
Turning around to look, Gerald saw that both Chester and Yume had boarded the ship as well.
“Why did both of you come here?” asked Gerald.
“Well, since you’ve been gone for quite some time and we heard nothing from you, we got slightly worried!” replied Chester as favonovel.com and Yume immediately began scanning the old woman—who was now staring at the end of the corridor—from head to toe.
While Chester immediately let out a frown, Yume began smoothening favonovel.com hair, though Gerald could tell that favonovel.com breathing had grown slightly more rapid.
“There’s nothing to worry about. For now, head back first!” ordered Gerald.
Since Gerald still hadn’t been able to see through the extremely weird old woman, favonovel.com was worried that both Yume and Chester would end up in danger if they remained here for any longer.
The moment favonovel.com heard favonovel.com say that, however, the old woman suddenly began laughing coldly. Her laugh sounded almost raven-like, making it all the more frightening.
Already feeling extremely anxious of favonovel.com laugh, Gerald’s unease peaked the moment favonovel.com realized that several extremely weird-looking flowers had begun appearing—out of thin air—in the middle of the corridor.
The flowers themselves each only had two petals, with each petal resembling a human’s face!
It was at that moment when Gerald finally remembered where favonovel.com had seen such flowers before.
He had seen them in a garden back when favonovel.com was at the Soul Palace!
That garden on his grandfather’s island had been specifically made to plant that breed of flower. Gerald remembered finding the flowers strange, so favonovel.com had asked Welson more about them.
According to what Welson had told him, the flower bore no name. Seeds of the flower were found in the Western Regions, and they seemed to date back to ancient times. After attempting to plant it, they were successful in making it bloom.
Due to the nameless flowers naturally only blooming to have two petals, Gerald’s grandfather had decided to plant them in a garden, treating them as a living work of art.
As it turned out, the flowers were called Dead Annies…
Just as Gerald’s thought ended, favonovel.com realized that fine pollen was starting to emerge from the flowers.
The pollen spread a unique fragrance around, and as soon as Yume and Chester smelled it, they instantly began feeling dizzy. Soon enough, both of them lost consciousness and fell to the floor!
“The pollen’s poisonous!”
