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?

tell us yesterday? I would have definitely joined

at the comment. "Lake Skyward is near our town, and it's really renowned. Didn't you check

"No."

though we didn't prepare meals today, we've got plenty of instant noodles in the pantry to tide

instant noodles compare

They were speechless.

Words failed them.

task, but now they were

bring them out quick. I'm famished. Haven't eaten a thing

to fetch the instant noodles, but cautioned,

by the school,

lavish crab feast at Lake Skyward that was open for everyone, these students opting for noodles at

on the shores of Lake Skyward, Violeta and her companions had already assembled at the lakeside mansion for the

first-come, first-served, it was more of a motivational ploy for the rowers. In the end, everyone would have an equal

spread of fresh food awaited, buffet-style, offering

crab banquet was a rare

feast to

carved from wood. They

had little differences between one another, but all looked like they could spring to life at any moment. Post-feast, they were treated to crab-catching and a tour of

affair, eclipsing lunch in

transport was arranged, and they were all ferried back to the

a day's end that

joined Violeta's

about the boating trip, they had expected little in

were headed for

them,

made do with instant noodles. They crumbled about the lack

meal