Captain – Chapter 536 – The Moment When Illusions Shatter

The silence continued.

Even though the hot coffee had cooled, the girl sitting across from the devil remained silent.

She only paled, pursing her lips.

Thinking of that young man walking toward an unsolvable fate, whom she might never see again in this lifetime, her fists clenched under the table grew ever tighter.

After an unknown time, Roy seemed to let go of something. She looked up at the man who waited patiently, lost in thought, and spoke softly with earnestness, even with a hint of pleading.

“Ancestor, even now, is there still room for redemption?”

Whether it was the path of revenge or the journey to hell, if she could stop the wheel of fate, perhaps she truly could let go of everything, could truly be as she said…

Give up hope.

Even if the captain hadn’t said these words, the devil had already confirmed that his earlier speculation was the truth. The reason he had waited until now was merely to wait for her to reveal her hand.

Thus certain conjectures settled and became fact.

After a moment of contemplation, the man seemed to have determined the situation. He leaned back again and said quietly: “You would beg me, plead with me, precisely because… I am not him?”

“Because I don’t know the details, don’t understand the inside story, so you hope to utilize me as much as possible? Even to use this to fight against the me in the present world, who has become nearly divine?”

Hearing the devil’s questioning, the captain instinctively wanted to refute.

But after brief consideration, she discovered that what he said was fact. From the moment she entered heaven until now, hadn’t she been doing exactly this?

Whether deception or gambling, it was all to utilize him.

There was no other purpose.

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Therefore, even knowing that not refuting might cause her to lose this last straw, Roy still couldn’t bring herself to speak words against her heart. She didn’t know if she had no words left to argue, or if she knew…

This was the correct answer.

“I don’t like dishonest children.”

Looking at the girl who kept her head slightly lowered in silence, the man’s tone remained indifferent, but it was faintly mixed with some helplessness. He then added: “Of course, the word ‘dishonest’ in that statement applies only to me.”

This meant: you can deceive everyone in the world, but you alone should not deceive me.

Because you are my descendant.

Hearing these lecturing words, Roy was stunned, and her previously dim eyes brightened slightly.

You should be honest with me because you are my child. If you think carefully, the meaning the devil expressed didn’t stop there—there was another layer.

Precisely because of the bloodline between them, so…

“Well, I suppose I’m not so heartless as to watch you die with cold eyes.”

The man said softly, and just as his words fell, a mysterious tremor began to spread without reason, not knowing whether it came from the sea of clouds beneath their feet.

Or from the hell that was heading toward destruction.

“Ding ding ding…”

That sudden tremor was becoming violent at a terrifying speed. At first it only made the cups, plates, knives and forks on the table tremble lightly, but in an instant, it had developed to the point of strong tremors, and crystal lamps began falling one by one.

The next moment, even the walls and floor gradually cracked, gradually blooming with radiance.

That was starlight, the raging fire that had swallowed hell.

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The sound of high walls collapsing, the crisp sounds of glass and porcelain shattering, and the terrified, mournful cries of those “angels” shattered the dream-like facade of heaven.

As if a devil was whispering, telling the world that heaven and hell were actually no different.

Both were destined for destruction.

“Bang!”

Pushing open—no, it should be said pushing down the already disconnected wooden door—the man led Roy back to the street, together gazing at, “appreciating” this purgatory-like scene.

“This is the ending he prepared for this so-called heaven.”

Seeing this situation, the devil smiled and sighed.

The captain stood beside him, watching those artistic buildings topple and collapse, countless heavenly residents fleeing but not knowing where the way out was, suddenly feeling enlightened.

So there had never been any deceptive path. The stairs above and below both led to death, only for that person’s original target, this trap meant nothing.

Even if the sky city collapsed, it couldn’t harm a deity in the slightest.

“You’re very clever.”

As if he could hear her thoughts, the devil smiled gently: “On the way here, you should have guessed that all these arrangements were not prepared for you.”

“You’re merely an intruder.”

Tapping the ground with his walking stick, the man sighed lightly and said emotionlessly: “Actually, when I saw you, I was also somewhat surprised. I thought she would come, no, I should say no one would come at all.”

If that person’s thousand-year scheme failed, that deity would personally descend upon the great triangle to try to obtain Aegis, to break through… the high wall he personally built.

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But with her wise eyes, she would never glance at heaven.

Therefore, if nothing unexpected happened, he, this information carrier, actually had no meaning to exist. The final outcome would be nothing more than accompanying heaven in destruction.

Accompanying this world he had watched for hundreds of years.

“So I thought something must have gone wrong somewhere, causing the situation not to develop entirely as he intended. Since you came, I might as well ask you directly.”

“Who would have thought you would speak so eagerly, though it was all lies.”

Feeling the man’s half-smiling gaze, Roy only felt her cheeks growing hot, extremely uncomfortable, like a lie told for many years being exposed to her face.

“Though I’m still somewhat curious, it seems too late to ask now.”

Not gazing at the girl for too long, the devil turned his head again, looking toward that disintegrating world, smiling and saying: “But that you could come, could accompany me in conversation, I’m already sufficiently satisfied, even though you might be his enemy.”

“But what of it? Who told me I’m only a piece of information?”

Shrugging, the man said rather flippantly: “My existence is merely to greet that deity, or to see if I can deceive her once more.”

“Everything else has nothing to do with me, including his life and death and his grudge with you.”

“So you will live.”

Walking forward a few steps, the devil turned around, tipped his top hat to the girl, and smiled warmly, just like when they first met. But he quickly added: “But unfortunately, this is all I can do.”

Only then did Roy discover that starlight was also reflecting from within that “gentleman’s” body. That judgment-like radiance had climbed onto his face.

The “gentleman” was a devil, but not him—only a medium that couldn’t leave heaven.

Nothing more.

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The white clouds beneath her were dissipating. Roy could clearly feel herself falling downward, only supported by some invisible force, very slowly.

She was not a deity, only a devil in swaddling clothes. Falling from heaven would surely mean death, but the man’s words seemed to contain magic—saying she would live…

Then she would definitely be fine, almost like a divine oracle.

Though her heart still worried for the first mate, worried for the people at sea, looking at the man’s smile, watching his gradually dispersing figure, Roy couldn’t say anything.

This was already his limit. She couldn’t ask for more.

“Ancestor…”

The girl murmured softly, reaching toward the man who was not far away but would soon be parted forever, feeling her nose growing sour, and her surroundings seemed wrapped in warm water.

Everything was so peaceful.

Only this warmth didn’t last very long.

Like a sudden, absurd turn in a stage play, a pitch-black crow feather drifted down from the higher distant sky, flying past clouds, sweeping past the dying heaven, finally landing on the man’s shoulder.

Gently and softly, yet it seemed even hurricanes couldn’t blow it away.

Then the devil smiled even more brilliantly, but there was no longer any smile in his dark gold pupils.

Cold as the merciless sea.

“So soon we meet again, child. Tell me, does this count as…”

“An arrangement of fate?”