That night, Charles had a rare good sleep. It was the first time in the past three months that he slept so soundly.
"Bang~!" Charles was suddenly awakened from his sleep by the sudden pressure on his chest.
"Mr. Charles, get up! Don't sleep in!" Lily, in a beige dress, straddled his chest with her slender white legs spread out. Her fluttering eyelashes and the curve of her mouth clearly exuded happiness and joy.
Seeing the girl jumping in front of him, Charles, with hazy eyes, pulled her off the bed with his tentacles and put her aside. "Watch your behavior, you are not a rat now."
"I know!" Lily pulled back Charles' quilt and jumped up to pounce on him. Her posture was exactly the same as when she was a mouse.
Being disturbed by this, Charles' sleepiness suddenly disappeared. He sat up from the bed helplessly, touched Lily's head with his hand, got out of bed and walked towards the bathroom.
"Mr. Charles, it seems like today is a day off. It's very lively outside. Shall we go out and play?" Lily followed Charles into the bathroom.
"I'm busy, you go find someone else." Charles squeezed toothpaste onto the toothbrush, put it in his mouth and started brushing quickly.
"No, I want to play with you. How could you do this? Yesterday, you obeyed me and said whatever I said." Lily pressed her smooth cheek against Charles' back and acted coquettishly towards him.
Following Lily's constant pestering, Charles had no choice but to agree to spend three hours with her this afternoon.
Having received a satisfactory answer, Lily walked out of Charles' bedroom with a smile on her face. If she still had a tail, she would have wagged it uncontrollably.
As she walked, she planned her afternoon itinerary. "I'm going to ask Mr. Charles to take me to the flea market on East Island. I heard that the market is very interesting and there are many fun things there. I'm also going to ask Mr. Charles to take me there... Eh? Sister Linda, Mr. First Mate, what are you doing standing at the door? Are you here to see Mr. Charles too? He's in the bathroom right now and it's not convenient."
Lily looked at the two people in front of her with a look of surprise.
Linda, with a bald head and a white robe, suddenly stretched out her right hand, grabbed Lily and walked towards the medical room that had been renovated earlier.
"Sister Linda, what's wrong? Where are you taking me?"
"Body checkup."
The silent Bandage said nothing and followed the two silently.
The three of them walked into the medical room and stayed there for a long time.
An hour later, the door opened, and Lily, with red eyes and biting her lips, ran away quickly in her high heels like a frightened deer.
In the all-white medical room, Bandage and Linda were standing and sitting, respectively, neither of them speaking a word to each other.
After a long while, Linda touched the white triangle on her forehead with her finger and asked the bandage, "I'm just a ship's doctor. You are the first mate and you make the decision."
"Ahem...", the first mate of the Narwhal uttered an unintelligible syllable in his bandages.
At two o'clock that afternoon, Lily, who looked very excited, half-dragged and half-pulled Charles to a crowded alley on the east side of the island.
The street, which was not wide to begin with, was occupied by stalls on both sides, leaving only a one-meter-wide path. There were already quite a few people crowded in the middle of the road, so the two of them squeezed in like other islanders.
The so-called flea market is certainly not very formal. There are all kinds of things displayed on the newspapers, too many to count. There is everything, good and bad. Whether you get a bargain or not depends on the buyer's eyesight.
"Mr. Charles, what do you think of this?" Lily bent down and picked up a pink and purple crystal ball.
"What do you want this for? Learn divination?"
"No, I just think this thing is so beautiful, and I want to put it in my house for Heihei to play with. Ah, Heihei is the cat with black hair."
Charles was speechless. "This place is just a market selling second-hand goods. What's there to see?"
"Is it really a good thing to find a relic that has not been identified? We don't even know the side effects, and I'm afraid we don't even know how the person died?" Charles' words left the stall owner speechless for a moment.
Lily was angry and held Charles' arm and continued to walk forward, "Mr. Charles, you really spoil my fun. Didn't you say you came here to go shopping with me?"
"Yes, I am accompanying you."
Watching the tall and short couple continue to walk forward, the stall owner bent down to put the crystal ball back in place. "If you can't afford it, then don't afford it. Why pretend to be rich?"
At this moment, a thin stall owner nearby came over and said, "Hey, did that guy just now look like the Governor?"
"Impossible! I'm well-informed. The governor of Hope Island is a blind man!"
Charles and Lily continued to stroll around. The various strange goods around them made Lily feel very interesting.
Looking at Lily's little head in front of him, Charles suddenly asked, "Lily, how tall are you?"
"1.5 meters, I just measured myself. I'm only 15 years old, I can still grow taller."
"Why do I feel like you're only 1.4 meters tall? You're still a child after all."
"I'm not young anymore. Some girls my age are already mothers."
Just as she said this, a wall appeared in front of her and the flea market ended.
"Is it so short? I haven't had enough fun yet." Lily's childish face showed an expression of wanting more.
She turned around and looked at Charles. "Mr. Charles, shall we go back and walk around?"
Charles turned around and looked at the endless stalls behind him. "Actually, I have a better idea."
While Lily was surprised, Charles picked her up with one hand, then raised his prosthetic leg to the left, and the anchor hook shot directly onto a chimney of the house next door.
Amid Lily's exclamation, the two flew to the roof, and Charles hugged Lily and jumped quickly on the roof.
In mid-air, Lily stared at Charles' profile in a daze for a moment, and she didn't react until Charles put her down.
"Where are we going next?" Charles' words woke Lily up.
She suddenly opened her arms and took Charles' right hand, "Mr. Charles, let's go to the dock area to have some fun. There are a lot of delicious barbecues there."
"Okay, let's go." Charles took Lily towards the dock area.
That day, Charles and Lily visited many places and almost toured the entire Hope Island.
The circus, the theater, the library, as he visited them one by one, all the details of Hope Island that he had not noticed before were presented to Charles.
Just as Lily was about to walk towards a busy photo studio nearby, Charles stopped her and said, "It's too late. We should go back."
Lily seemed a little reluctant, "Mr. Charles, let's take a picture."
(End of this chapter)