Phoenix Rising: From Heartache to Heroism

Chapter 256 Good Cop, Bad Cop

"What are we going to do for lunch, then?"

"Why have so many of the town's restaurants closed up?"

"Are they no longer open for business? It's all rather peculiar!"

The inn staff were taken aback to find them all still in town.

"Didn't you lot go out rowing together?"

"No."

"Well, that's a shame!"

The inn staff looked genuinely sorry. "Your school had organised the rowing activity to finish up at Lake Skyward, famous for its crabs. Many of the town's restaurant owners were called in to help cook there, but you missed out."

Half of the restaurant owners were busy preparing meals, while the rest didn't want to miss the crab feast and set off early in the morning.

That was why the town was now so quiet.

On hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded.

Silence grasped them.

Then, shock grabbed their hearts.

What? Today's rowing is meant to end with a crab feast at Lake Skyward!?

Good Lord, we've missed out, big time!

Why hadn't they mentioned this earlier?

piped up, "Why didn't you tell us yesterday? I would

is near our town, and it's

"No."

don't fret. Even though we didn't prepare meals today, we've got plenty of instant noodles in the pantry

instant noodles compare to a crab

They were speechless.

Words failed them.

be a fruitless task, but now they were

I'm famished. Haven't eaten a thing since morning,

for a staff member to fetch the instant noodles, but

the school,

Lake Skyward that was open for everyone, these students opting for noodles at the inn meant the

Skyward, Violeta and her companions had

a motivational ploy for the rowers. In the end, everyone would have an

fresh food awaited, buffet-style, offering everyone the freedom to savour as they

youngsters, a crab banquet

feast to their

from wood. They were made

of work into these souvenirs. Every crab had little differences between one another, but all looked like they could spring to life at any moment.

a hearty affair, eclipsing lunch in both warmth

and they were all ferried back to

end that couldn't have been more

joined Violeta's

the boating trip,

they know they were headed for such a

and shared them,

with instant noodles. They crumbled about

meal with a