Captain – Chapter 267 – Speak

Following the young woman’s words, a long silence fell over the round table, with only the sound of the pouring rain becoming increasingly clear.

After some time, the Governor finally withdrew his attention from that farewell speech.

He continued to gaze at her indifferently and silently, as if he hadn’t heard those parting words.

After waiting patiently for a moment more, seeing that the Governor still had no intention of speaking, Roy sighed lightly, lowered her head slightly in a farewell gesture, then walked around the chair toward the mansion’s entrance without another word.

The hall was spacious, and naturally the path to the door was long.

In reality, even though the young woman’s pace wasn’t quick, reaching the door and leaving the hall would take less than a minute.

But these short dozens of seconds felt particularly long for the two people with their complex, difficult relationship, because the increasing distance, the clock pendulum that seemed deliberately slowed, represented the changing, complicated scenery of these ten years.

Watching the young woman’s retreating figure, Robert seemed to see again that child’s frail silhouette, to hear his familiar calls, and those calls, disturbed by the urgent sound of rain in his ears, became increasingly blurred, increasingly distant.

It was as if he had returned to that rainy day ten years ago.

Except at that time, he thought they might still have a chance to meet again, and if they truly could reunite, those misunderstandings would naturally disappear with his explanation and the revelation of the truth, and this once extremely obedient child…

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Would naturally become his more powerful assistant.

For this, he had made nearly perfect arrangements in the domains he could control, and the principles the young woman understood, the growth she achieved, and her journey over these ten years were the most indisputable evidence of this.

With fate’s favor, that child had survived and, as he had hoped, become a pirate legend who roamed the Eastern Seas, striking fear into countless hearts, just like her remarkable father.

Afterward, everything seemed to progress according to his will. After a long period of wandering, that child finally returned to her birthplace, even providing indispensable help for the grand plan he had been plotting for a long time.

And as he had thought before, after making arrangements to force Naren to step down, he also simultaneously arranged their meeting, which might have been a “chance encounter” after the young woman escaped midway, or perhaps another helping hand in dire straits after she experienced the calamity before Morton Prison.

But while ideas can be beautiful, reality is always full of unexpected events, and in the end, none of these plans were put to use.

Fortunately, despite many changes in between, the young woman finally came before him. From his perspective, what happened next should naturally proceed according to his expectations.

But now, it all seemed to be his wishful thinking, a most ridiculous fantasy.

He thought he had arranged everything, but uniquely failed to anticipate the changes in the human heart. He hadn’t realized that the young woman before him was already drastically different from the child of the past, and even after hearing his explanation, she had no intention of forgiving him.

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Thinking of this, the Governor slowly clenched his fist, his gaze becoming deep and terrifying, like a bottomless vortex. As he watched the young woman approach the door, he finally couldn’t help but speak in a deep voice.

“Stop.”

Hearing this, Roy’s eyes showed no surprise, and her steps didn’t pause at all. She continued walking straight toward the door, but her entire body gradually tensed, as if guarding against something, or perhaps…

Just waiting for it to happen.

When the captain was only a few meters from the door, still showing no sign of stopping, a gunshot broke the hall’s silence, sounding without warning from the platform above the floor-to-ceiling window!

The bullet hit the ground, scraping up a small spark, and the shooting position was less than three inches from Roy’s boot.

Being able to fire such a warning shot from such a distance was not something an ordinary person could achieve. In the captain’s memory, perhaps only that marksman who left the ship months ago could accomplish this with 100% certainty.

What a skilled hand indeed.

As Roy was thinking this silently, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded behind the door in front of her, which then burst open. The frost-faced lieutenant colonel strode in, followed by more than a dozen soldiers holding firearms.

Leaving four men to block the doorway, the remaining soldiers quickly spread to both sides, and after taking positions, uniformly aimed their firearms at the young woman.

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“It seems you’ve forgotten what I told you, miss.”

Standing before Roy, the lieutenant colonel dangerously narrowed his eyes, his tone mixing undisguised killing intent.

“Perhaps.”

The captain whispered, her elbow slightly bent forward, her slender fingers trembling continuously, containing unimaginable power. It seemed that if the person before her showed the slightest threat, she would draw her curved dagger in an instant and sever his throat.

Sensing her intention, the officer’s eyes narrowed even more, apparently not expecting that with so many firearms aimed at her, she would still dare to adopt such a threatening posture.

The atmosphere in the hall instantly froze, yet could be broken at any moment by blade light and gunfire. Just as conflict was about to erupt, a cold command came from far away, directly extinguishing this dangerous possibility.

“Lieutenant Colonel Tate, step back.”

As the man’s voice reached his ears, the lieutenant colonel’s gaze flickered rapidly, then quickly returned to calmness, even the killing intent within subsiding somewhat.

After giving the young woman a warning look, the officer respectfully responded “Yes, Governor” and moved to the side, though still watching her every move.

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“So, I told you to stop, child.”

Turning around, Roy followed that emotionless voice and looked at the Governor slowly standing up, supporting himself on the round table, and softly asked: “Uncle Robert, have you finally decided to remove that hypocritical mask?”

“You misunderstand. I didn’t want the situation to develop like this either.”

The Governor methodically wiped his hands with a napkin, then casually tossed it on the table, raising his eyes to look at the expressionless young woman: “But isn’t this what you wanted to see? Child, I don’t sense any surprise in you at all.”

Walking around the round table, Robert stepped forward and said slowly: “Using words and actions to force me to say that phrase, then using steps that didn’t stop at all to gradually shape the situation into what you wanted—isn’t this your purpose?”

“As for the reason…”

The man narrowed his eyes slightly and asked flatly: “I think there must be more words you want to say to me? Those words hidden in your heart, suppressed for an entire night.”

“So child, now the time has come…”

“Speak.”