"Huh...maybe it's a vileblood thing this month? Like how there was a month where we could only eat poison?"

Was Zib there for that? It doesn't matter.

"Because I kept wanting to sneak around and avoid asking people to make me food, so I ended up just eating random ingredients. Several people saw me doing that and made me food anyway, but...I still was nervous about interacting with people."

Luca can feed himself just fine when he's in the sea, but on land...he really doesn't know how to prepare surface foods.