The Righteous Player(s)

r>They are either sent by my father or my two brothers.
I have no one to trust except you, John.”

“I will protect you.”

Annan heard this and immediately made an emotional expression, saying righteously, “You can trust me completely.”

Although John’s tone felt a bit weird, Dong Juan nodded with confidence, “Then, I will be counting on you.
By the way, John, you continue to stay here and pretend to sleep.
Remember to take care of my package.
Don’t let people come near it.
I’ll come back after dinner.

“I suspect that someone wants to steal it.
If someone wants to approach, chase him away and tell me in private who the person is.”

“Got it.”

Annan had an idea and responded softly.

If anyone wants to get close… Isn’t Klaus one of them?

But Dong Juan hadn’t doubted him yet.
So, Annan was smart and didn’t say much.

He just thought for a moment and said casually, “Yes, young master.
Klaus just asked me where the other black-haired and blue-eyed child on this ship is.
How should I answer?”

“…Black hair and blue eyes?”

Dong Juan was stunned upon hearing those words, “Impossible.
This is the characteristic of the people from the North.
Only the Chilly Austere Dukedom’s civilians will have black hair and blue eyes.
If it weren’t for my mother… In short, there is no such person on this ship.”

Having said this, he frowned slightly and confirmed, “Are you sure that Klaus asked that?”

“Yes.”

Annan replied solemnly, “Should I reply to him like this?”

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“No, don’t worry.
If he mentions it again, you will say that there is no such person at all, although there is indeed no one.”

The black-haired boy was a little uneasy and asked again, “Don’t tell him what I just told you.”

“Yes.”

After Annan got the information he wanted, he kept silent to avoid speaking out the wrong words.

Is there no such person on this ship?

In other words, “I” was not killed on this ship.
En, that’s right, this ship did not go through a shipwreck at all but was looted and killed by traitors.

In this case…

Annan glanced at Dong Juan with an idea in his heart.

Maybe I can replace his existence.

Now, I need to get more information about this world, especially Dong Juan’s secret…

Watching Dong Juan go to the door and left, Annan felt the faint feeling of being hit by a brick again.
But, this time, Annan was getting used to it.

He shook his head.
A large stream of data emerged before his eyes.

[Even Count Geraint can’t protect his youngest son – Don Juan·Geraint.
Perhaps, he send Dong Juan to the most remote North Sea Territory, which is the last escape route he laid for his son.]

[The most important city in the Northern Sea Territory is the Chilly Austere Dukedom’s Freezing Water Port.
If the Geraint family can survive the next catastrophe, then the youngest son can naturally return to the capital; if the Geraint family suffers a catastrophe, he can at least escape to the neighboring country’s sphere of influence and seek asylum.]

[But obviously, poor Dong Juan Gerainte failed to reach the Freezing Water Port alive]

[His most loyal guard, John, suffers the same fate—]

After these lines faded away, new words appeared before Annan again:

[Main mission: Complete John’s unattained last wish]

Immediately, a large piece of smaller words appeared below this line:

[Find out the true identity of the betrayer]

[Live until dinner starts]

[Stop Dong Juan Geraint from drinking the poisonous wine]

“…Betrayer.”

Annan went into deep thoughts.

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He suddenly remembered the resentful whisper that sounded underwater when he first entered the dungeon instance.

“Betrayers must die…”

For now, Annan believed that the most suspicious one seemed to be the guard captain, Klaus.

John was instructed to pretend to sleep in the room for the very reason to stay near the room naturally.
In this way, if he were bumped into by someone, he wouldn’t alert the person.
From this point of view, Young Master Dong Juan was still somewhat witty.

However, he didn’t seem to believe that the guard captain hired by his father was the one who planned to steal his treasure.
On the contrary, the chatter just now raised the young master suspicious of Klaus.

At least in Dong Juan’s view, Klaus had no motive to take his treasures.
Klaus might have bad intentions about his origin.

“…The difficulty of decryption is indeed only at a simple level.”

Taking a look at the three mission details derived from the main mission, Annan sighed.

Forget it.
After all, this game involves my safety.
I need to be a little serious.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and started planning, “If I were John, what would I do?

“John is a loyal guard.
He may be the only person who is loyal to Dong Juan.
Taking this into consideration, he may have never left this place.”

“So, he probably didn’t know who betrayed Dong Juan until he died.
He was killed before dinner started.
But, he knew that Dong Juan would be poisoned.”

Annan didn’t miss the details.

John was the only one who died on the deck.
There was only one spot stained with blood on the deck – the location under John.

Therefore, John left the room in the end.
The moment John left the room was the timeline when he was betrayed and died.

On the other hand, if I want to fulfill John’s last wish, I shall not stay still at this place.
Otherwise, the story that happened to John will be repeated.

I have three chances at most, so I have to get some useful and beneficial information.

If I can obtain information about who on the ship are traitors, when and where they plan to do it… This information will be useful for the next life.

Squatting here would not help me learn anything.

I need to leave this place.

——But, Dong Juan shouldn’t find out about it.

Annan was more firm with his plan.