They had set sail fairly quickly afterwards. Larry and Lemmy quickly got up to their shenanigans as Mario started to argue with Donkey Kong. Luigi, however, was looking only for Daisy. "Why do they all say I tried to kill my own brother?" Luigi asked her. They had not been talking ever since the Puftoss took Mario and the Starshroom Enterprise to the Ghost Island. Luigi did not know why, it was almost as if something, a wedge, had come in between them. When she did not respond, he put his hand on her's and she turned to him.
She had been crying, but was now relieved. "He's back now, forget about it." He did not dispute that point and Daisy realized that he was well aware that he knew she was the one who executed Mario. "Luigi, I had no choice!"
"I love you, and that's why they say I killed him," Luigi sighed, the blunt understanding was hard on him. Yet his brother had still forgiven him when he had just come to a random conclusion that Mario had simply never opted to continue the search for Rosalina and Bullet Bill.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Luigi asked.
"I couldn't let you bear the burden," Daisy reasoned.
"But I bore - I'm wearing the damn shawl now!" Luigi exclaimed. "You make your choices alone, how can I trust you?" The words stung Daisy, because she knew that he could not. He looked away from her and new she had left is periphery.
Mario and Donkey Kong had split the ship between themselves, the gorilla got the starboard side and Mario got the port side. Lemmy on the other hand was readying a fishing pole, seeing if the waters contained anything. Casting it down, he shrieked when he saw a pale ghost. He had heard of them in stories, Boos. The more close to death they got, the smaller and more rotund they also became. He let out a cry as more and more Boos began to go, the entire crew was looking down the sides by this time. The more they advanced, the more humanoid the Boos became. "They should be in the care of King K. Rool," Candy informed the crew. "He was charged that by the goddess Kalypso, to ferry those who died at sea to the afterlife and then come ashore every ten years. He was to be a great captain, but he is now a monster."
"So he wasn't all crocodilian?" Mario asked her.
"No," she confirmed. "Once he was like all Kremlings, looked like you and I, human."
"They won't hurt us," Mario asked. "Right?"
"Not these Boos," Candy confirmed.
"Look!" shouted. "My father! We must be back!" Mario looked over the railing and saw it, her father was sailing on a longboat with the more humanoid Boos. He seemed a bit pale, but overall had not changed enough yet. He had not been dead long enough.
"Daisy, we aren't back," Mario told her.
In the boat, Murphy looked up at the Starshroom Enterprise and noticed Daisy. "Are you dead?" he asked. "It's all right, my girl. I didn't understand at first, but it's all right." He looked back down. "There was an important chest, an angry monster and a heart. Stab the heart, sail under the mast forever." He looked away again as both Mario and Luigi made note of the dead king's words. "I hope your end was more peaceful than mine, my dear girl." With that, he began to transform, into the typical Boo and fly away.
"We must escape tonight or risk damning waters!" Candy suddenly decreed. Luigi recited the poem, trying to figure it all out.
"The Green Mushroom!" he shouted to himself. "A green flash will occur in the Green Mushroom constellation at sunset but since sunsets don't rise we must use our shared momentum to tilt the ship upside down!" He began running from starboard to port and the crew joined in. Sure enough, the ship was rocking in the face of the constellation. The ship began to swell with water, and then completely rocked over. Waves filled the sails and the ship continued, just as a flash of green on the horizon brought them back to friendly seas. They all observed the situation and in a belated cheer, happily came to the conclusion that they were back.
Then, as the sun rose, everybody cheered and pulled their pistols out, pointing them at each other. It was a Mexican standoff. Luigi pointed it at Donkey Kong, Kong at Mario, Daisy at Mario and Toad at Kong. Then they all pulled out second pistols to point at somebody else. The absurdity of the whole situation, they could not help but grin. They all laughed for a second, lowed their pistols and then, just as abruptly as the moment stopped, they once again raised their pistols. "The Lockjaw Court is convening, Mario, you and I are going," Kong ordered.
"If I remember, I'm your master," Mario retorted.
"Mario, they're gathering to fight Crump!" Daisy protested.
"You're not running brother!" Luigi threatened.
"Time passed by differently there, Luigi!" Mario informed him. "It felt like I was on that island for months upon months! I think I deserve to finally go home to Pauline!"
"If we don't stand together," Kong informed his former master. "Crump will use his shine sprites to hunt us all down."
"I'm not going back to that island!" Mario growled as they once again lowered their pistols.