I Became the Master of the Villain

Kian woke up on a hardwood floor.

My vision was blurry, and my head pounded.

The whole body was as heavy like soaked cotton.

Where am I?

I remember going into the alley to pick up the cuff button, and then someone hit me from behind…….

Kian slowly blinked.

The blurred vision gradually became clear. He looked up and invested his surroundings.

A skull flag with a red hood hung on the wall.

A rope, as wide as a forearm, was sprawled out on the floor, and wooden boxes were stacked in the corner.

Kian slowly registered that the floor his cheek was laid down against was moving and that it wasn’t his imagination that this room ceaselessly swayed up and down.

He listened for sounds outside and could hear the rattling of waves.

It seemed like he was inside a boat.

It was like a pirate ship, not an ordinary merchant ship.

Kian tried to move his body but his hands and feet were tightly bound with ropes.

As he wriggled his wrists and struggled to untangle the rope, he heard a loud noise outside.

A moment later, the door opened, and men wearing red hoods walked in.

“It’s finally up?”

They came up, snickering with a staggering gait.

Rough and vulgar men surrounded Kian.

One of them squatted down, grabbing and turning Kian’s face by the jaw.

“Captain, how much do you reckon’ this guy will sell for?”

A sharp-eyed man in a large triangle pirate hat replied,

“With it’s rare silver hair, and those looks ····· this is a top-tier product. At least 100 million gallons.”

“Waa one fine slave is much better than ten ordinary ones!”

After listening to the pirates boasting about earnings, Kian realized why he was kidnapped.

“Haha, look at this. It must have been scared enough to cry,”

Mocked the pirate captain, who saw Kian’s slightly wet eyes.

The pirates laughed— hahaha.

Being sold into slavery was the worst thing that could happen in one’s life, but it wasn’t anything new to Kian.

However, when I realized I would never see my kind master again, my heart throbbed.

I wanted to stay by her side; she who was sweet and friendly.

I never wanted to part ways this way.

My eyes flushed naturally at the thought of never seeing her again.

The pirates, unaware of the cause, were busy cackling and laughing.

Because of the gag, Kian had to endure their ridicule silently.

What’s going to happen to me?

How worried is the master now?

If I knew this would happen, I wouldn’t have left my master’s side.

I am such a fool…. depressing and erratic thoughts ensued.

Meanwhile, Kian saw a sparkling blue jewel on the pirate captain’s finger.

“……..!”

The ring Olivia had given me was stolen away and stuck on the Captain’s finger.

“What, do you want this back?”

Laughed the pirate captain meanly as Kian made a desperate gesture as if asking for the ring back.

When he gave a glance, his men rushed at Kian, kicked him, and held him roughly.

The Captain gave Kian a harsh slap on the cheek with his uneven hands and warned him.

“Don’t waste your energy and be quiet. Otherwise, you’ll regret it.”

He said, nodding at the muscular pirate standing beside Kian.

“That guy, he doesn’t care about girls or boys.”

The muscular pirate grinned, revealing his yellow teeth.

He ogled Kian, glistening eyes full of desire and snorted.

“Captain! I don’t need my share of gold, so let me do it with him!”

At that declaration, the other pirates whistled in unison.

The Captain raised his eyebrows.

“Are you serious?”

“Of course!”

“I’ll cut you into pieces and make you into shark food if you say something different later.”

The muscular pirate flinched at the Captain’s harsh warning. But he nodded his head as hard as he could, as if he was promising he would keep it in mind.

Then the Captain grinned and said,

“Don’t injure the goods too much, so do it in moderation.”

“Yes.”

As the pirates chuckled and snuck away, wishing him to ‘do well,’ Kian was left alone in the cabin with the muscular pirate.

Only the sound of the iron curls and the door locking was clear in the midst of silence.

The pirate swallowed his saliva as if there were a feast in front of him.

“Really pretty…. there would be no price I wouldn’t pay to be with a beautiful woman like you.”

Kian attempted to scoot back and instead stumbled and fell face-first on the floor.

Without a care, the pirate pressed Kian’s shoulder down.

My body trembled as if I had been thrown out naked in a blizzard.

The pirate’s clunky hand gropped somewhere. It was frighteningly creepy. (NOooooo kiannnnnn)

“……!”

Kian struggled with all his might. But the muscular pirate easily overpowered the rebellious Kian.

I wanted to scream, but I only groaned because of my gag.

A dreadful numbing fear ran through my cold body as a terrifying realization hit me.

I felt dizzy vertigo as if I were standing on a remote dark cliff.

Kian shut his eyes in despair.

It was when the choppy, big hand ripped open the front of Kian’s shirt that the hull of the ship rocked like it had hit something.

The pirate lost his center and rolled. The wind was knocked out of them; sounds of many tumbling, exclaiming, and losing their balance rang above my head.

Then the disorderly noise of the blades clashing and screams mixed into a cacophony.

The pirate got up unevenly. He mumbled, taking a sword out of his waist. “Who dares disturb me…..?”

He rushed to the door shouting that he would kill and chop up the intruder no matter who it was when—

“…..!”

The door broke with an explosion.

Kian’s eyes opened wide with shock when he saw who had entered the room.

***

The ducal warship had quickly cleaved the current with the wind on it’s side.

“My lady, the night breeze is cold. Please go inside,”

the Captain said to me as I glared at the dark sea.

I shook my head and tightened the collar of my coat.

I couldn’t sit still and passively wait at a time like this, for I didn’t know what kind of nasty things Kian was going through.

According to the Captain, it was highly likely that the pirates were heading to their terrority, an island in the northeast.

So we also took the course northeast and pushed the ship forward without rest.

It was during the voyage when I was clenching my heart that was about to burst from the anxiety that a sailor on the watchtower shouted:

“Ship ahoy!”

Indeed there was a ship floating in the direction the sailor had announced.

The ship was hoisting the flag of an Imperial Trade Ship. But when the Duke’s warship approached, the boat suddenly changed course and tried to escape.

Thankfully, it was not easy to escape because the wind was blowing in the opposite direction.

After, when they failed to shake off our warship, they showed their true colors.

The flag was lowered, a pirate flag was raised, and they fired a cannon.

We didn’t know if Kian was on that ship, so we couldn’t fire cannons back haphazardly.

The Captain shouted while evading the shelling.

“Fire! Aim at the enemy’s artillery!”

Bullets bounced like crazy from a machine gun.

Every time a fire erupted from the muzzle, the pirates on the deck screamed and fell. While there was a lull during the bombardment, the Captain shouted:

“Prepare to overtake them!”

The sailors moved industriously.

Hooking on the pirate ship and anchoring so it would be unable to escape.

The pirate ship, whose body was smaller than that of the warship, was pulled in helplessly. The navy troops quickly crossed over to the pirate ship with overwhelming momentum.

I followed them with escorts.

On the deck there was a messy battle. It was chaos.

The smell of blood was vibrated in the air as blows and bodies fell.

I entered the deck under cover of guards.

They knocked down bandits and checked the cabin rapidly.

Perhaps because of my exceeding perturbation, horrible scenarios plagued my mind.

What if Kian’s already been sold somewhere? If this ship doesn’t have him······.

I prayed that he would be safe, shaking off my sinister thoughts.

“Please step back!” was when Lord Hans, my guard, blew up the door of the locked cabin with a shout and an incredible energy.

An athletic pirate rushed out with a blade.

I looked inside when the knights met him with their swords.

There was a silver-haired man with his hands and feet tied, bound and gagged.

Needless to say, it was the man I was looking for.

“Kian!”

Kian’s eyes grew with surprise when our eyes met.

I sat down by Kian’s side in a hurry.

As soon as his gag was released, Kian said in a deeply hoarse voice:

“Master, how did you get here……?”

He said he himself had no idea where he was or how he came to be here. I couldn’t explain the story briefly, so I summarized:

“I’ve been chasing pirates.”

I took the dagger out of my waist and carefully cut off the rope that had restrained him up.

His wrists were stripped and swollen by a rope.

When I saw the sight, reminded of his suffering, my eyes naturally heated up.

“I’m sorry I’m late.”

Kian shook his head with a face that looked like he was about to cry at any moment.

He buried his face in my arms as if words were too overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time.

After a long moment, he finally spoke:

“I thought I’d never see you again.”

He cried.

I gently stroked his trembling back.

I asked, looking closely to see if there were any injuries:

“Can you stand?”

“Yes.”

He answered confidently, but his knees bent and staggered.

It seemed like his limbs had fallen asleep due to the rope restraints.

I called a guard to support him and I promptly climbed the stairs leading to the deck.

As I climbed up to the deck, the smell of fishy blood got stronger.

Bandits screamed and fell. I saw a plank bridge connecting our ship to the enemy ship.

I was about to cross through there, but Kian suddenly stopped.

His gaze was fixed on a pirate wearing a large hat.

I inquired of Kian:

“What’s going on?”

“it’s nothing.”

He seemed to be hiding something—his eyes avoided me and his answer came too rapidly.

“Nothing? Tell me.”

At my urging, Kian revealed his thoughts. The point was simple. That pirate took away the ring I had gifted Kian. I ordered my escorts guarding me and appointed Lord Hans as the leader.

“Go and get him.”

“Yes?”

He asked back with a look of surprise.

I said, staring at him fiercely.

“Why do you look so apprehensive? If you had done your job properly the first time, this wouldn’t have happened.”

Sir Hans shut his mouth.

Because he was excited about the festive atmosphere, he had gotten distracted and lost Kian after a brief glance.

“Honestly, you should choose one: salary reduction or dismissal? What would be better? Why don’t you pick one?”

As I fiercely asked, his face turned pale.

Fortunately, he wasn’t slow.

He popped out like a bullet saying he would come right away.

Not long after returning to the Duke’s ship, Sir Hans returned.

He was breathing hard and pulled something out of the pocket of his coat.

“Haa haa [panting]….. Lady, here you are.”

I frowned at what he had put out.

Are you out of your mind to show such a hideous thing?

Sir Hans, who belatedly realized what he was handing over and turned pale.

He said in a sweat.

“Sorry! Sorry! I was in a hurry, so I brought the whole thing.”

It was the pirate’s severed wrist.

I pulled off the blue diamond ring that was stuck in the pirate’s index finger, (OMG LOL) and threw the hideous thing into the sea and said,

“I know your heart well, so go away.”

After dismissing Sir Hans who was whining for forgiveness, I called the Captain. And gave instructions.

Now the time has come to wrap this up.

It’s time to take revenge on the pirates who kidnapped Kian without fear.

The Captain yelled the loudest he could and gave an order to fire.

“Fire!”

When the signal went up, the other ships began firing in unison.

With the pirate ship in the middle, shells were fired relentlessly from both sides. The pirate ship’s mast snapped with a loud groan, and the railing was ripped away.

A roaring rumbling sound hit my ears repeatedly, and a thick smoke arose.

The pirate ship, unable to withstand the heavy bombardment, soon became tattered and sank to the bottom of the sea.

It was a perfect end for those who touched our protagonist.