Hearing the inquiry from his first mate, Charles rarely burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, about not living past 40, that old ship doctor was just deceiving me. If I really wasn't going to make it, with his fiery temper, he would have been urgently nagging me long ago."
"Is...that so?" Bandage seemed a bit skeptical.
Charles seemed to remember something, and his smile gradually faded as he said with a touch of sentiment, "Yes, do you remember the unfinished secret the old ship doctor mentioned before he died?"
"It wasn't until I asked Linda to check my health some days ago that I realized the secret he mentioned, the one that I'd blame him for knowing, was probably that the so-called curse of dying at forty didn't exist at all, and he was just scaring me."
"If he were alive now, he'd be a hundred years old, and even left such a secret to be a joke at the end. As people get older, they become more childish indeed."