Captain – Chapter 653 – Too Lonely

Entering the dream again felt completely different.

Roy not only didn’t experience the process of losing consciousness and awareness, wandering in darkness, even her memories and emotions didn’t fade or diminish.

She walked on the heavenly ice stairs, the path ahead unknown, yet no matter how she looked at it, it seemed like a journey home.

This was naturally because she had awakened.

Being regarded as a child, a kindred spirit by this world, or rather by the countless rules that composed it. But even so, some things still exceeded the girl’s expectations.

Such as these ice stairs also having an end.

And at the terminus was not a door, not a shore, but a world entirely white and vast.

Snow fell from the pale sky, with no visible edges. The ground shrouded in cold mist was also covered with a thick layer of snow that would reach past one’s ankles when stepped on.

But just like before, there were no extraneous sounds.

Even the crisp sound of breaking snow was gone.

Such scenery was actually quite beautiful, but too pure. And because of its tangible nature, the desolate loneliness it brought even exceeded that of pitch-black darkness.

The captain didn’t linger long at the end of the ice stairs. After a simple observation, she randomly chose a direction and stepped forward, quickly being swallowed by the boundless ice mist.

But strangely, after walking only a few steps, she turned around and returned the way she came.

But what was shocking was… the ice stairs had disappeared.

Along with that equally boundless, mirror-smooth slanted mountain face – all gone, leaving only the endlessly falling snow and the equally monotonous, dreary snowfield.

Indeed, this was a path with no return.

Roy smiled with complex emotions. After reaching this conclusion, she made no further attempts, no longer caring about direction or the path ahead, simply burying her head and walking.

The footprints she left were also wiped clean by the falling snow and cold wind moments later.

Reαⅾ оո KаtReαԁіոɡСаfe

No way back, unable to leave traces of existence, direction, space, and even time all lost their meaning. She could only walk, walk forever without stopping.

This was what was deeply carved into soul and bloodline…

The divine path.

Aside from the feedback of stepping in accumulated snow and the imperceptible yet sensory “cold,” it seemed all other things had lost their concepts.

Bloodline and origin, past and present, and the envisioned future being pursued.

Everything had lost its meaning.

This was why Captain Edward would say that everything in the world appeared no different from dust in his eyes, because those emotions, desires, love, and hate…

Were all just the snow before one’s eyes, continuously falling, and would eventually melt into water.

This feeling was terrifying.

Especially when extending the timespan to infinity – even if one’s will was strong enough not to be driven mad, their way of viewing the world would be different.

And this was also why the devil was determined to send the girl into this place.

When you grew tired of the snow of the present world and old era, when you walked to the door at the end and raised your head to see that magnificent and vast other shore, how could you still be willing to turn back?

To care again about the turmoil of the mortal world, the life and death of all spirits.

But as the cat had said, Roy was always different, at least she wouldn’t be like him.

Moreover, counting the journey to the far north and that dream before entering the Death Silence Triangle, this was already her third time setting foot here. Her feelings were different but her resolve unchanged.

She didn’t even need to use memories to strengthen her determination.

She simply kept her head down and walked. No matter how fierce the wind or urgent the snow, she neither raised her head nor overthought.

Rеαd οո KatReαⅾіոgCafе

She was no longer that child who feared darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, the girl seemed to sense something and looked up, seeing that ray of light.

It penetrated through the vast ice mist, cast down from a distant place of indeterminate distance, landing directly on her body, bringing tangible warmth and an inseparable bond.

That came from her “anchor point.” As long as she followed the light, she wouldn’t become lost.

Squinting as she gazed into the distance, after feeling the familiar intimacy that arrived with the light for a while, Roy turned her eyes to look in the completely opposite direction.

There the wind was more urgent and the snow more sudden. Even the world’s guidance to her fell steadily on that side. Without doubt, that was the path the devil had walked.

It represented the strength of looking down on all life from on high.

The kind of strength belonging to the gods, but unfortunately…

Not the kind she wanted.

With this thought, Roy smiled, then turned and walked forward, never looking back again.

As if knowing the girl’s decision, the faint guidance from the distant sky behind her gradually dimmed, finally disappearing completely, leaving only a few wisps of clear wind.

Swirling around her, as if wanting to make her steps lighter.

This time, there was no more temptation eroding her heart, nor long and tedious ascetic practice.

From the moment Roy made her decision, the world flew past beneath her feet. The swirling heavy snow grew smaller, and the blinding ice mist thinned at a visible speed.

Only that warm light grew ever stronger, until finally it completely enveloped her.

So before her eyes remained only light, pure light.

Like an alternative kind of night.

Rеαⅾ oո ΚаtRеαdiոɡCafe

If Caine could see this scene, he might be startled to realize this was exactly the same as when that “captain” symbolizing the devil’s lineage had awakened him in his unconsciousness.

The only difference was that then they were god and believer, while now she…

Was the deity herself.

Roy only felt herself falling, no, she should say she had drifted in this sea of light for a long time before the light and warmth left her, even with some reluctance.

The blinding light curtain faded completely, and the world’s true form… finally appeared before her eyes.

It was an incomparably massive, spherical chaotic gaseous body. Brilliant light streams symbolizing various laws – like land, sea, or wind, rain, ice, and snow – constantly shuttled through the gas. Even more eye-catching were…

Those countless points of light.

Some resided on land, some dove deep into the sea, and others soared freely in the sky. On them or around them existed countless threads.

Those threads were also composed of light, flickering bright and dim, constantly changing.

Roy had felt those kinds of threads before and knew those were what was called fate. As for the countless light points, they were naturally the various living beings existing in the world.

After watching those threads that sometimes vanished, sometimes reappeared, or never appeared again for a long time, the girl finally confirmed that fate truly originated from choices.

Even an existence crowned with the name “Goddess of Fate” and the cat that acted on her will couldn’t have the mental capacity or means to influence those threads.

This wasn’t speculation, but came from feeling.

If this was so, then neither the devil nor that old man in the islands would be any different.

Thinking this, Roy’s gaze shifted slightly. She quickly found several incomparably bright light points in that gaseous body, comparable to blazing suns among all living beings.

The one still strong but gradually surrounded by twilight was naturally the one sitting in Providence. The slightly dimmer, serene one spreading faint blue-green light was the wounded specter “Hydra.” As for the most dazzling one…

The one nearly transcending all laws was presumably the devil Edward.

Rеаԁ οn ΚαtRеαdіոgСаfe

In this moment, Roy finally understood why Mango, though not mentioning it directly, hoped through all its expressions and intentions that she could enter the dream again and transform completely.

Because her cheap ancestor was truly terrifyingly strong – without doing this, there was absolutely no chance of victory.

Seeing this heavy truth, Roy couldn’t help but press her lips together, then turned to look at two other “blazing suns” besides these three, falling into momentary bewilderment.

Because one of them was as she thought – her father whose situation was unknown.

But the other was surprisingly not the Lady, and wasn’t located in the present world or old era, but was far away in… the east, that sea region existing only in legend.

Could it be… the master of that brilliant civilization?

After brief confusion, the captain collected herself, knowing that regardless of who that person was, they had nothing to do with herself or the present world. As for the Lady, there might be some hidden reason.

But that had no impact on current events.

Now, she had already followed the cat’s advice and naturally completed that transformation, arriving at the great door leading to the other shore with no further path to walk.

Then it was time to return, return to the world she came from, to end all old matters.

Without any movement, as natural as eating when hungry or sleeping when tired, Roy sank downward, her figure gradually shrinking as she flew toward that chaotic sphere.

During this, countless threads related to her either gently embraced her or followed alongside.

And just as her eyelids grew heavy, drowsiness rising, knowing she would return to the present world, the girl still couldn’t resist curiosity and turned around to glance toward the other shore.

There, the sun and stars had never been so close, as if they could be touched by reaching out.

The starlight was brilliant, breathtakingly beautiful.

But… too lonely.