Rebirth vs. Rebirth: Tragedy to Triumph

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!

hadn’t they mentioned this

up, “Why didn’t you tell us yesterday? I would have definitely

Skyward is near our town, and it’s really

“No.”

prepare meals today, we’ve got plenty of instant noodles in the pantry to tide you over.” Instant

instant noodles compare to a crab

They were speechless.

Words failed them.

be a fruitless task,

quick. I’m famished. Haven’t eaten a thing since morning, and

but cautioned, “Mind

covered by the school,

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

and her companions had already assembled at the lakeside mansion for the

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

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

crab banquet was a rare

could feast to

even acquire keepsakes carved from wood. They were made in the

like they could spring to life at any moment. Post-feast, they were treated to crab-catching

eclipsing lunch in

was arranged, and they were all ferried back

end that couldn’t

couple who had joined Violeta’s group couldn’t hide their

about the boating trip, they had expected

were headed for

and shared them, quickly

with instant noodles. They

their meal with