I Was Confessed to by the Golden Sun

60 – When Your Husband Is the Villain

I plan to leave this island with Dylan and Lucia.

How can we leave an island in the middle of the sea?

“We’ll use the boat we came in. After all, the situation coNT*Rol room is on the ship, so we have to go there anyway.”

It’s simple, just leave the island the same way we arrived.

Lucia looked at me like that, then waved her hand around, asking, “What about the people left on the island?”

“We can send them back after we arrive.”

Naturally, I don’t have the skills to operate a boat, so we’ll need at least one helmsman.

Yes, it was definitely necessary.

“What’s this?”

“I don’t know either.”

I’m not sure if there’s anyone left to serve as a helmsman.

By now, we had arrived near the ship, and the surrounding situation was nothing short of a disaster.

There were lifeless bodies, and the stench of blood permeated the area.

“I bet the students who discovered this were quite surprised.”

Someone had certainly passed through here in a big way.

The protagonist was probably Dylan, who, unlike me and Lucia, had rushed here in the middle of the night to engage in a battle.

Of course, Noah must be here, unable to sleep comfortably.

“If I do this, I’ll end up skipping the entire sixth episode…”

Now, all that’s left is to be cautious of the only variable, Nihil, and carefully leave this place.

Come to think of it, if I had thoroughly searched the ship and killed Noah, I might have found something.

It’s practically an important clue to head towards the seventh episode, so Dylan probably won’t miss it…

“Hm… It’s a bit spooky…”

As I pondered diligently, Lucia stuck closely by my side and rested her head on my shoulder.

The person who laughed at the arena when we went to see Grayson, what’s so scary about them?

I knew it was an act, but since it was cute, I decided to overlook it and gently brushed her head before moving in the direction of the ship.

“Eek!”

Anyone could tell it was acting from the exaggerated tone. She fixed her gaze on me, her head almost completely enveloping my body as we moved.

“You’re not nervous? Just look around, bodies everywhere…”

“And you’re scared right now?”

“…”

Although I cautiously spoke, not seeming to have a sense of how serious the situation was, I fell silent at Lucia’s subsequent words.

Of course, on the surface, it was still scary and I was clinging tightly due to tension.

Actually, the real problem was that she was trying to stick to me while pretending to be scared when there were corpses scattered all around.

“It’s dangerous here, so we need to be careful.”

“hehehe, are you worrying about me?”

“Of course, what if you get hurt?”

“..Ahem!”

After a brief exchange like that, I emerged as the victor.

Since I started admitting my feelings and expressing affection for Lucia recently, I had gained the ability to fight back.

“You… You don’t want me to get hurt either? Judging by how you’re talking?”

“Of course, I naturally don’t want someone I like to get hurt.”

“…”

For example, like this.

Up until now, Lucia had playfully teased me, throwing questions that were difficult for me to answer.

But when I actively spoke like this, she would lower her tail first and become bashful.

“Ahem! Well, then let’s go inside quickly!”

Lucia said, her tone seemingly cheerful as she fiddled with her clothes.

I wondered how she would react if I hugged her from behind, her cheeks flushed red. But given the situation, I quickly followed behind her.

“The door is open? This is really scary..”

A red carpet made of tiredness that seemed quite familiar since Silvesta.

Just like before, the path was there without fail, and it was connected to the ship.

I had a strong feeling that something would happen once we entered, but…

“We can’t come this far and not go in, right?”

I pushed that feeling aside as much as possible and held Lucia’s hand as we entered the ship.

“..It’s even worse in here.”

Certainly, until we reached the island, the ship was clean and comfortable. But now it was filled with blood stains and fallen people.

The dead were all thrown into the sea, with shattered windows of the ship and broken walls.

“Let’s go to the coNT*Rol room first to assess the situation.”

It was almost a fact that Dylan had wrecked this place.

Just by looking at the damaged bodies and water filling the hull, it was evident that these were the tentacles Dylan extracted from the Pearl.

“The ability to extract tentacles from anywhere without conditions..”

One of the five wonders, a symbol of power and the throne that descended through generations to the pirates.

“This is no joke..”

I don’t know how I even thought of fighting with this guy.

I remember the fight I had with the intention of protecting Lucia who was next to me.

“Still, it’s good that there are no corpses!”

Lucia said cheerfully and walked forward energetically.

She walked with such confidence that I wondered if she had a steel heart, so I hurriedly followed. I noticed Lucia’s eyelids trembling.

Not only that, she positioned me quietly behind her as if to protect me with her arms.

“What’s the matter? Are you trying to protect me?”

“..Even though I’m physically weak, why would I let you be at the forefront? Just stick close to me.”

Scared yet embarrassed to have me behind her, she spoke.

It was so adorable, but not a situation where I can stroke her head, so I sadly followed behind her.

“..Stem error.”

In the distance, the sound of voices in a cabin at the end of the ship’s corridor…

No, it wasn’t the sound of human voices. It was something alien, with a steady tone.

“Now, be really careful, Lucia.”

The voice we were supposed to meet at the end of the sixth episode was now reaching our ears.

Dylan might be nearby, but given his personality, he wouldn’t have left the ship.

“Whatever it is, he’ll finish it neatly.”

That’s his style, to end things cleanly without needing to worry.

He’s probably waiting for me to arrive, knowing vaguely that Noah is here.

“Maybe I won’t attack without reason, since I found the person he was looking for first, but…”

You never know, he might suddenly try to attack me like Nikhil did.

“System error.”

Pausing for a moment with Lucia, we heard the same sharp sound from inside the cabin, pushing us on.

“…Oh, what is this, it’s so scary.”

“It’ll probably keep coming until we break the source of the sound.”

“Then let’s go quickly; it’s too scary to keep listening to this.”

Dylan is probably with the source of that sound.

It’s quite chilling to think that we’ve been next to this machine that periodically shouts ‘system error’ for hours.

You need that kind of courage to take the role of a romance fantasy protagonist.

“Phew…”

As we walked further inside, the bloodstains scattered around the ship didn’t seem to disappear at all.

It might be a sign of the presence of an important figure, and the feeling only grew stronger as we went inside.

“System error.”

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“If we go inside, whatever they’re saying in there will shatter your head.”

After looking at Lucia, who was making a firm resolution, perhaps to hide her fear, I grabbed the doorknob of the closed cabin.

“Kuuh…”

Inside, there was Dylan, sitting in a chair, momentarily closing his eyes.

And there was a man whose limbs were missing, and half of his face and body had been torn apart, although he appeared human on the outside, but inside, he was a machine.

“…Can you even fall asleep in a situation like this?”

“I don’t know.”

It feels strange to sleep in a place that was a battleground just a few hours ago.

Even though he seems to be sleeping comfortably, if he feels any movement indicating an intent to harm himself, he’ll probably wake up quickly to defend himself.

Perhaps because there’s no reason for us to fear death, he was sleeping soundly as if he didn’t care at all.

Lucia, showing interest in the half-robotic guy, ignoring the one who seemed like that.

“Is he a machine? He looks like a human on the outside, but it feels like there’s a machine inside.”

Naturally, in this world, the technology to create robots doesn’t exist yet.

Therefore, this guy with the appearance of a human but the inner workings of a machine is the result of some intentional implementation of over-technology.

“That’s Noah.”

The guy who went by the name Noah, one of the pirates and the reason Dylan came to the academy.

The mechanical being in front of me, now miserably repeating the same words, is the key to the sixth episode and the seventh episode.

“System error.”

“…Really annoying. I want to give it a punch.”

In summary, the Noah in front of me was created by someone, an embodiment of high technology. The mastermind behind this is the same person as the villain in the seventh episode, the one we will have to confront in the future.

Originally, to confront this mastermind, we would have to go through various political struggles and obstacles, but…

“We’ll wake up Dylan in a bit and leave this island.”

The sixth episode, and even the objective with the answers in plain sight, there’s no need to describe the process in detail, is there?

I smiled as I made a plan to finish up to the seventh episode in one go.

Seeing that, Lucia shivered and held her arms, muttering seriously.

“If my husband is the villain, should I become one too…?”

…Does my laughter really seem that sinister?