The boy is trying to do things to get the girl to notice him, and as he tries to get all the objects, you slowly see him fade away, putting all his work and effort into it. At the end, the girl finally notices him, but he's overworked himself and died, getting the girl everything she wanted without her doing any work. Basically this is the every relationship ever.
This game is almost amazing, but it's really buggy. For example, everything gets really lag if you attack a lot of people or buccaneers during one trip. And when the GUI is transitioning from move to attack mode or vice versa sometimes you get stuck on boxes and have to restart the entire game and lose your progress. Also, what's up with the no regen? I got a quest to besiege a city but my health is staying below 40... I have to die and press continue for my health to ever go up.
What completely baffles me is the fact that this game's average rating is (currently) 3.98, but I'm sure it will drop very, very quickly & very, very soon.