Captain – Chapter 412 – The Girl’s Answer

“I want to continue, Lady.”

After an unknown length of time, the girl’s firm answer finally resonated in the room.

Hearing this, the Lady didn’t turn to look at her expression, but instead finished pouring the wine and gently swirled her glass, as if she had anticipated this all along.

“Why?”

The deity’s question was calm and emotionless.

But the captain could sense that she was simply asking, wanting to know why she wasn’t willing to return to peace and instead chose to take a dangerous path.

A path that might lead to certain death.

“Perhaps it’s because… I don’t want to be manipulated by that devil anymore?”

There were actually many reasons.

Such as the hatred she couldn’t let go of, or her unwillingness to believe or accept the devil’s reconciliation, or not wanting her father to endure further suffering, even if it might only be for a few years, and many more…

But what truly convinced Roy herself was only this one.

From her birth until she unlocked the magical box’s seal, freeing Edward, all the events she encountered and countless people she met were orchestrated by him.

And until the end, after she had completed everything, he still wouldn’t let go. If not for the First Mate’s intervention, she might never have awakened.

Now he was using the deity’s mouth to place that promise before her once again.

And presumed to control her fate through it.

How could she possibly accept?

Wasn’t it… ridiculous?

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Thinking silently, the stubbornness on Roy’s face faded, and there was no trace of weakness; there was only the brilliance of a flower in the wind.

That flickering fire, which could be extinguished at any moment, was about to burn away all the devil’s schemes and designs, right down to his very being.

It’s really quite similar.

Hearing these words, the Lady finally turned her face to look at the girl, at the determination and brilliance on her face, and couldn’t help but think to herself.

A similar persuasion had occurred hundreds of years ago.

At that time, she had urged her despondent beloved to let go, to let these matters go with the gentle wind and return to peace, to live out the rest of his life in tranquility.

But he had refused her, even knowing it would displease her. And the reason he used to convince her and himself was very similar to the girl’s.

“Annisdora, I’ve just realized that in my past life, every path I’ve walked, every person I’ve met, all have had his shadow. Those ties are like countless threads…”

“Manipulating me like a puppet.”

The man wasn’t standing at the table but at the door of the wooden cabin, with his back turned, not looking at her.

“Even now, your persuasion, that peaceful life after letting everything go, is also a very false illusion he has painted.”

“How could I be willing to accept that?”

“Forgive me, my love.”

This was the man’s final whisper, his plea. Even at the moment of departure, he still didn’t turn around, only slightly turning his face.

He didn’t see her expression, and she couldn’t clearly see his face.

After that came a thousand years of separation, eternal parting in life and death.

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And now, his obsession had finally reached its end, and after that, he had sent this girl before her, very much like a desperate gamble.

But the Lady knew that this was not a gamble with fate, but a chess move.

As the person who understood Edward best, he had guessed the other’s arrangement and had waited patiently for hundreds of years on the cursed ghost ship.

Then, he met the destined girl who would bring a variable.

He accompanied Roy aboard, guided her direction, and finally entered the far northern waters with her. After a thousand years, he returned to the stage of the grand play.

Finally meeting an almost inevitable defeat.

Isaac’s plan was very simple. In terms of scheming, even though he towered above the world, he was still far inferior to the former captain, far inferior to that devil.

So he didn’t calculate.

He only followed Captain Edward’s moves, step by step, hoping that at that endpoint, he could meet him once more.

After that, to change something.

Of course, the final outcome had already shown that he had failed completely.

He hadn’t waited for his old friend at the endpoint, couldn’t have another sleepless night of conversation with him, and was even manipulated by him in the end.

But… he had changed everything.

At the final moment, the Hero’s Song that resounded, the starlight fire that ignited, tore a crack in the devil’s perfect, flawless plan…

Leading to Elizabeth Roy, the most perfect descendant of the devil, surviving and completely breaking with Edward, thereby creating new variables.

Every subsequent step became clear.

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Whether because of his words or the devil’s design, this little captain would embark on a journey to seek the deity and be persuaded by her.

Then refuse, just like he had.

This chess move was actually full of flaws. If the devil had the slightest thought, if Roy had fallen into hesitation, it could all have ended in complete defeat.

But the “old pirate” had been certain that the devil wouldn’t, and neither would Roy.

So it approached perfection and finally successfully calculated Edward’s moves. It was precisely because of this that the Lady’s mood had some fluctuations.

“Then so be it.”

Since her beloved had laid out this step, and this little captain had no intention of turning back, the Lady didn’t persuade her further and spoke softly.

“Then Lady, what exactly should I do?”

At the deity’s gesture, Roy refilled her fruit wine, and after the two drank quietly together for a while, she couldn’t help but ask.

“As for what to do, I think you already have an answer.”

Hearing the Lady lightly unveil her thoughts, the captain pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly and said solemnly: “You’re right. In my view, if I want to break the curse, I should go straight to the source.”

As for how to go straight to it, being able to completely eliminate its existence would be best.

“Although I don’t know what methods that guy used on my father, I can guess without asking that it’s definitely not something I can remove.”

“So, from this perspective, as well as from a safety standpoint, after entering the Cursed Sea, I should try to avoid that ghost ship as much as possible.”

Roy rested her chin on her knuckle, analyzing for a while, then looked up at the Lady and asked softly: “Am I right, Lady?”

“There’s some reason to that.”

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Given a somewhat ambiguous answer, seeing the girl’s face show disappointment, the Lady gently explained: “But you should understand, little captain, some things, some entities, cannot be avoided merely by trying to hide.”

If that devil was determined to place that ghost ship in the girl’s path forward, how could she avoid it or escape?

This wasn’t scaremongering but a question that had to be considered. If she couldn’t even circumvent that ghost ship, then she couldn’t deal with anything else either.

“Yes, Lady.”

Having this matter pointed out by the Lady, Roy was silent for a moment, then obediently responded.

She knew that as Captain Edward’s most bizarre and terrifying method, the Drowned Captain would certainly be the biggest threat on this journey.

Perhaps… should add “one of”?

This icy sea journey had made Roy realize that although the Mermaid was also a ghost ship, it was powerless against such a powerful, curse-born immortal entity. Even the Death Silence had struggled to deal with it.

Let alone that ghost ship.

Roy had once told Isaac that she had witnessed that ghost ship leaving the Cursed Sea for unknown reasons, and it wasn’t a lie.

Because of this, she clearly understood the terror of that skeletal warship.

Terrifying to the point of being nearly impossible to solve.

But despite this…

Roy widened her eyes slightly, looking expectantly into the Lady’s eyes.

But I still have you, don’t I?