The Villainess’ Beloved Plan: The Struggles to Avoid a Doomed End - Chapter 51

The sea, dark as a drop of ink, was so still that it was hard to believe that it had just swallowed anyone.

Randall stared out at the surface of the water as he leaned his upper body over the railing, but there was no apparent figure anywhere.

Behind him, Kyle held Cedric down and shouted to Randall.

“Don’t jump in even if you made a mistake! Go report to the captain as fast as you can! Best to ask a man that’s very familiar with the sea about the sea! I’ll join you after I hand this guy over!”

Kyle’s voice, which should have been yelling loudly, sounded terribly distant.

The sound of the ocean, the sound of the wind, everything is distant.

Randall clawed at his heart, which was beating so loudly it felt like it was going to break, and strained his eyes to see if he could see his wife in the dark water.

“Sophia—!”

Randall exclaimed at the top of his voice.

“A little further and you’ll find the town of Rivadel. I know it’s hard, but just hang in there.”

A man with orange-colored hair – the pirate D’Artagno Feldrad McKeel, one of the targets of “Glastona’s Snow,” a girls’ game she had played in her previous life, looked back at Sophia with these words.

His beautiful eyes, the same marine blue color as the ocean that was making the sound of waves right beside him, were indeed a tired color.

No wonder. No matter how much he knew the ocean, he had saved Sophia from drowning the sea at night and kept swimming with her in his arms. Sophia was so unsteady that it was hard for her to even stand up, but he was the one who had saved her, and there was no way she was going to make a complaint.

Sophia used a piece of driftwood that had fallen nearby as a walking stick and struggled to her feet, almost screaming under the weight of her half-dried dress.

The sun was shining down on her, making her sizzle and ache.

But the thought that she would have sunk to the bottom of the sea without D’Artagno was more than enough to make the pain worthwhile.

“But ……, where do you think you’re going?”

Sophia is grateful to be alive, but it is hard for her to thank D’Artano because he asked her to repay him this “debt.

After saving Sofia’s life, he smiled nihilistically and said, “Pay back the debt three times over.”

She didn’t know what he was trying to make her do, but he is a pirate. It’s better to be on her guard. However, Sophia was penniless and very tired, she was running low on energy, and dealing with a pirate. She owed him a debt of gratitude for saving her life, and even if she had a bad feeling about this, it was unlikely that she would be able to escape.

But perhaps this was not entering the d’Artagno route.

To begin with, the game began in the fall when Sophia turned 18. This is less than two years in the future. More to the point, Sophia is a villainess, so she would not have entered the love route of the attacker.

D’Artagno’s route of attack starts when the heroine discovers his true identity and is forced onto a pirate ship. Two years later, at the start of the game, he is a pirate but a righteous pirate who has been issued a permit by the Verhund State.

However, he appears as a mysterious pirate who does not reveal his face to anyone but his friends. The heroine is kidnapped because she discovered his true identity, but on the way he discovers that the heroine is Keira, the first princess of Glastona, and he is forced to leave his position as a righteous pirate because he kidnapped the princess. After that, he has to deal with the enemies of Verhund, and finally he and the heroine are united.

“Just to be on the safe side, he can’t know that I know his true identity as D’Artano’s.”

Sophia is the villainess, not the heroine, but given the game’s storyline, it would be a bad idea if he found out that I knew his true identity.

This is where we would need to promptly return the “debt,” as he calls it, and somehow get in touch with Randall and his friends.

Fortunately, D’Artagno must believe that Sophia still believes him to be the opera actor McKeel.

As long as she did not mess up, she would not be taken away by a pirate ship.

‘Still, I was thirsty. I must have drunk a lot of seawater when I fell into the sea.’

“Hey, are you all right?”

D’Artagno stopped and looked back at her, but Sophia had no energy to look up as she rested her weight on the driftwood.

D’Artagno clicked his tongue and walked over to Sofia.

“We’re almost there, damn it,” D’Artagno said.

D’Artagno crouched down with his back to Sophia and said bluntly, “Get on”

Sophia looked at him with a puzzled look on her face, and he stood up, forcing her to get on his back. Sophia panicked when she realized that she was being carried on his back, but he quickly and easily walked her down the beach.

“If you want to sleep, go ahead and sleep. It is hard for a woman to walk after falling into the sea. I’m sorry.”

D’Artagno did nothing wrong. He only saved Sophia from falling into the sea.

‘I wanted to tell him that I couldn’t cause him any more trouble and that I would walk on my own two feet, but she was much more worn out than she thought. Swaying on D’Artagno’s back, Sophia fell asleep as if half passed out.”