Captain – Chapter 335 – No More Devils and Gods

Tolerance had certainly been shown; otherwise, Roy wouldn’t have secretly instructed her first mate not to eliminate him when the lighthouse lit up, but to wait for her return to make the decision.

But there comes a time when patience runs out.

No matter how patient the girl was, the scholar’s repeated evasions and unyielding attitude had worn it away. Now she no longer had the desire to play his guessing game of probing. If tonight’s negotiation couldn’t perfectly achieve her internal objective, she would truly lose her temper.

When the Golden-Eyed Devil became angry, who could protect him?

The deity far away in the heavens? The Death Silence at some unknown distance? Or the immortality curse he carried, which he seemed to deeply abhor?

None of them.

The scholar understood this. He had once stood at the pinnacle of piracy and knew how ruthless he and those great figures could be.

At the same time, he had to admit that the girl before him was truly the most difficult and dangerous person he had faced, aside from Edward. Even in that glorious era of the past, she would likely have shone with the most brilliant light.

Therefore, his expression grew increasingly serious, gradually adopting the attitude he once had when facing the devil.

The person before him was indeed the devil’s descendant, the greatest threat to the Lady in the current world, and even the best candidate to contact and possibly kill that devil. Facing such an excellent existence who could potentially become a partner, one couldn’t be too solemn.

“I am not a so-called natural scholar, but like you, Captain, I was once a pirate.”

This was Bivis’s opening statement. Although he still didn’t reveal his true name or background, it was already like a knife piercing the veil, illuminating the girl’s heart with clarity.

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Seeing Roy’s expression of understanding, the scholar smiled slightly and said gently: “I imagine you’ve had suspicions about my identity for some time. It’s certainly late to explain now, but I hope you can believe that I’ve never harbored ill intentions toward you.”

She didn’t sneer at these words, because the captain could sense that the other party had no falsity in his emotions. Of course, this was also because today’s conversation might be their final exchange between life and death, so there was no need to conceal anything anymore.

Just like how the scholar calmly revealed his identity.

“Why is that? By all logic, you… you should despise me, should wish me dead even in your dreams.”

Though Roy didn’t sneer, she wasn’t moved either, only asking calmly.

First Mate Isaac Hedler was the devil’s most capable confidant in the past, the most despicable traitor in the mouths of pirates, yet also…

A hero in the eyes of the world.

Unlike other pirates’ fragmentary knowledge, her understanding of this scholar—no, pirate—was extremely profound, not because of the already incomplete records in pirate history books, nor because of the Empire’s lavish praise in its old histories.

But because of the Great Captain.

From that lazy man’s mouth, she had heard many stories, including the legendary life of First Mate Isaac. His appearance, character, and many, many details all pointed to a rarely known truth.

He had once been Edward the Captain’s supporter, the most steadfast one.

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Because the Pirate King had given him new life, and he had repaid with decades of following. In those stories, he didn’t seem like a pirate; hidden in those killings and bloodshed was undeniable loyalty and the radiance of humanity.

“But he betrayed him, why was that?”

The Great Captain’s rich voice seemed to still be in her ears. With one hand holding a half-empty bottle and the other gently stroking the soft golden hair of the boy beside him, he lazily asked a question, as if asking the child, or perhaps himself.

“Why was it?”

Roy remembered asking this.

“Because… he was a, uh, good person?”

That was how the Great Captain had answered, speaking drunkenly, not knowing whether he was talking nonsense or truly believed it.

A good person.

In the eyes of pirates, it was a somewhat contemptuous, even laughable term, but Roy had never thought so. In her view, a good person was naturally good.

The kind of goodness that outweighed flaws.

The Great Captain was a good person, Red Beard was a good person, Enzo was a good person, and herself… perhaps in the eyes of the people of Yadris, she could also be considered a good person?

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The Great Captain said First Mate Isaac was a good person, so she believed it. She had even brought him all the way here without eliminating him despite suspicion and vigilance. This was already the greatest respect she could give, just like her earlier use of the respectful form of address.

You are a good person, and once an ally of my ancestor. Though I don’t know why you betrayed him, you’re still like an elder to me, so I hope…

You can stand with me.

Not with the devil or the Lady, but just with me, Elizabeth Roy.

“I don’t hate you, so why would I want you dead? And to be honest, even now, I don’t know if I truly despise Captain Edward. Perhaps it’s only because… we chose different paths, so we became estranged.”

Bivis—no, Isaac—shook his head, his tone full of emotion. Since raising his eyes, his gaze had never left the girl’s pupils, as if trying to see through that familiar eye color to once again see the man who had extended his hand to him.

“I know your concerns and what you were trying to express just now. And coincidentally, or perhaps naturally, this is also my thinking.”

As he finished speaking, without waiting for the girl to say anything, Isaac seriously added: “But I also know that the foundation of cooperation is aligned interests, or at least non-conflicting ones. More fundamentally, it’s trust, sharing true feelings, being honest with each other, so…”

“Today I will clarify everything, and then, you can decide whether to cooperate, decide my life or death.”

This historically recorded pirate was extraordinarily calm at this moment, completely abandoning his previous scholarly pretense of fearing death, and his form of address to Roy had changed to the informal “you.”

Even Roy was silent for a good while at this transformation before adapting, then nodded slightly, gesturing for him to continue.

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“First, you need to know that I am not the Lady’s subordinate, or any kind of supporter. She is not my faith, but a treasure I cannot bear to abandon, a star I cannot bear to look away from. She is…”

“My love.”

Isaac’s voice was faint, his emotions ordinary, but his words fell like thunder from the sky, shocking the two listeners who instinctively looked at each other, their eyes filled with amazement.

His love?

Meaning, the Lady was his… lover?

How could this be possible? A deity could love humanity, love all things, love the boundless world, but how could she exclusively love one person?

This was an incredibly inconceivable thing, more shocking than the existence of the Death Silence, more shocking than the “scholar’s” true identity, more shocking than anything.

Not minding their reactions, Isaac suddenly sighed lightly, took out that lifelike goddess statue from his bosom, gently caressing its otherworldly face, and spoke another thunderous set of words.

“Secondly, my true purpose on this journey is to completely seal, no, destroy Annisdora’s Box, to let the great power contained within return to where it belongs, to the far shore more distant than the starry sky above our heads.”

“At that time, there will be no more devils and gods.”