The kitchen had everything: there were salted dried fish, and fresh fish scooped up from the sea and kept alive in wooden barrels.
Chef William was a portly fellow with a big belly; he was already aware of the captain's amnesia.
At the moment, he was busily rubbing salt on a sea fish that had just been gutted. Seeing Duge enter, he subconsciously grabbed the meat cleaver next to him and asked, "Paul, have you regained your memory yet?"
"Not yet, William." Duge glanced at the hand reaching for the cleaver and shook his head with a smile. The chef's acting skills were clearly not as good as those of the first and second officers outside; he could distinctly sense the other's nervousness.
He had awoken the skill "Don't hit a smiling person," so he smiled instinctively to alleviate the other's tension.
In the last simulation, the straightforward pricing of trade awakenings directly led to the simulation's collapse.
