Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

"I would choose to go with four people directly."

"You are worthy of being my master."

It is admirable that he could easily speak of an unimagined path.

In short, no matter how Angelica argued for her manuscript, the goblin editor stubbornly insisted that it could not be published.

The quarrel between the two attracted another visitor to the Fenian newspaper office.

"Oh? You are... Oh, it's a small world."

Hearing the familiar voice, Angelica turned around subconsciously and saw a familiar face.

Captain of the Black Rose.

The goblin editor seemed to have seen a savior.

"Have you come to contribute, Captain Flint?"

“This voyage has a story worth writing about.”

The captain of the Black Rose handed the log to the goblin editor. Angelica was not sure whether Flint was the real name of the captain of the Black Rose. His signature was Flint, but it could also be his pen name.

The goblin editor was flipping through the logbook, while the captain turned his attention to Angelica.

"So you are also a contributor to the Fenian newspaper?"

“My manuscript was rejected…”

Angelica was unhappy.

"I am the one who is surprised. It is rare to find a captain who has the ability to write."

Due to the factors of the times, the popularity of culture in some places is even less than that of magic, and many people can only write their own names at most in their lives. Those who can become captains of merchant ships are naturally people who have received a certain degree of cultural education, but generally not to the level of being able to write and publish novels.

The captain scratched his nose and took the initiative to talk about his past.

It was obvious that even the crew of the Black Rose didn't know about the past, but the captain took the initiative to bring it up.

"I used to be a minor noble, so I received a little education. Later, my family fell into poverty and I wandered on the sea, and then became a pirate. Now I have retired from the pirate business, and the knowledge I learned before has played a role, and I have found a side job. Many people have a strong yearning for the sea, so I adapted my experiences at sea into novels to satisfy their deep fantasies."

The captain's logbook is also his draft of the novel. When he has nothing to do, he will polish and fill it in. In fact, it is very efficient to finish the draft on the ship this time. In the past, he would slowly and leisurely revise the draft after arriving at the port of Tralee. But in fact, the captain often rushes to finish the manuscript in the last few days before returning home. He basically can't get motivated if he doesn't delay until the deadline.

"How about letting me see your story? Maybe I can offer some suggestions."

"Okay, I must get my novel published successfully."

Angelica doesn't think that the novel she wrote is a dark history at all, and Anna has already prepared herself mentally to destroy her master's dark history records all over the world one day in the future.

The goblin editor and the captain basically finished reading the manuscripts on hand at the same time.

"Very exciting content! Captain Flint, you actually encountered the King of the Wild Hunt on this voyage?"

"If it weren't for the VIP on our ship who helped me, I would have probably become fish food on the seabed by now."

The goblin editor was surprised that the witch would choose to board the ship obediently, and happened to board the ship of Captain Flint, a well-known contributor to the Fenian newspaper.

"I read the script that the editor-in-chief had been rejecting. I think... the plot is absurd, but it makes sense."

"Captain Flint, you seem to have a relationship with Miss Witch, but you can't convince me based on your relationship, right?"

The fairy editor knew that humans seemed to attach great importance to favors. She thought that Angelica had helped the Black Rose repel the King of the Wild Hunt, causing the captain to owe the witch a favor, and thus was willing to act as a nonsense lobbyist.

The captain's attitude was extremely serious.

"It has nothing to do with friendship. I am familiar with the sea, and I know that anything that happens on the sea is not unusual. The plot of this novel may seem unreasonable, but it is entirely possible in the context of a deserted island. Let me put it this way, do you still remember the content of the first novel I submitted?"

"what……"

The goblin editor, who was originally stubborn, actually showed a wavering look when he heard the captain mention his first novel.

Angelica was also intrigued.

"Can I see that novel?"

This is the captain's first novel submitted to the Fenian newspaper and also the best-selling novel under his pen name "Captain Flint". The goblin editor brought Captain Flint's work, and Angelica and Anna flipped through it.

The story tells about a young pirate who became a captain at sea. He and his pirate group are known as fierce bandits on the sea, keen on looting merchant ships. It is normal for pirates to rob, but they are notorious for their inability to rob just for fun when their supplies are sufficient.

Because of his unrestrained plundering, the pirate captain often managed to snatch some novelties, for example, one time, the pirate captain snatched an Automaton. The Automaton maintained the appearance of a human female, and the design was not very brilliant, but the pirate captain thought it was interesting and kept it. Because the pirate captain provided magic power, the Automaton also recognized the pirate captain as her master.

180 Humans and Dolls

But the evil pirate captain had already become the target of public criticism. In a siege against the pirate group he led, the entire pirate group was wiped out.

The pirate captain himself miraculously survived, he was seriously injured and had a broken finger. He was rescued by an Automata doll and taken to a deserted island.

The Automata tried their best to save the pirate captain's life. The pirate captain couldn't move at first. He watched the Automata busy, building a wooden house, picking berries, fighting beasts. Gradually, the pirate captain no longer regarded the Automata as a servant, and tried to communicate with the Automata on an equal footing.

No matter what he said, the Automata were willing to listen, and no matter what requests he made, the Automata would try their best to meet them.

However, it seems impossible to leave the deserted island. There are ferocious sea beasts in the waters around the deserted island. Magic can allow magicians to breathe and swim freely underwater, but they are still at a disadvantage when facing natural marine creatures.

Despite this, the pirate captain did not feel lonely.

He even felt that this was the most fulfilling time in his life. Even though he and the Automata were the only ones on the deserted island, he felt more comfortable than ever before.

With the careful care of the Automata, the pirate captain recovered, leaving a scar on his arm and his lost little finger could not be returned, but fortunately, other parts of his body were fine.

However, the plot of the novel takes a sharp turn from here. After the pirate captain recovers, he notices that the Automata's functions are becoming increasingly sluggish, and then he is shocked to find that the Automata is basically in a state of necrosis. When the pirate captain captured the Automata, she was already a defective product. After that, the pirate captain always treated her as an object and never tried to repair her.

The attacks of the pirate group and the battle with wild beasts to protect him on the deserted island had already stretched the wear and tear of the automatic humanoid to the limit.

Because she is not human, she is a puppet.

When humans are injured and cared for, their body cells will repair themselves, but puppets will not. Every time they are injured, their durability is depleted, and they have no means of self-healing.

The pirate captain frantically looked for a way to save the Automaton, but the deserted island brought him nothing but despair, and he could only watch the Automaton's standby time getting longer and longer. The two's situation was completely reversed. When they first landed on the island, the pirate captain was seriously injured and unable to move, and it was the Automaton who took good care of him. Now it was the Automaton's turn to become sluggish, and the pirate captain tried his best to save it.

The only difference is that the Automata can heal the Pirate Captain by taking care of him, but the Pirate Captain can only accompany the Automata to destruction.

It was not until the pirate captain burst into tears beside the bed and the Automata wiped away his tears with its clumsy and uncontrollable fingers that the pirate captain finally realized that he had fallen in love with the Automata.

This was a fantasy that anyone who heard it would think was mentally ill. The pirate captain was a human being, and the Automata were puppets, which were not even considered a species bred by nature. At this moment, the pirate captain was sure that his feelings for the Automata were not anything other than love.

This clear feeling became the endless motivation for the pirate captain to save his lover. He was sure that there was nothing on the deserted island that could help the Automata, and leaving the deserted island was the only option. The pirate captain challenged the sea beast again and again like a moth to a flame, but he could never break through.

No matter how passionate and sincere his feelings were, no miracle happened. The pirate captain could not defeat the sea monster. This deserted island might be destined to be his grave. He bitterly told the Automata about his failure. The Automata hoped that he could continue to live after she completely stopped functioning. However, if he was left alone, the pirate captain did not think he had any reason to live.

He tried his best to embellish the last remaining light of the automatic humanoid, took her to watch the sunrise and sunset, and decorated her face with a crown of flowers.

The time the Automata wakes up is getting shorter and shorter every day, and the pirate captain plans to commit suicide with her.

Fate played a joke on the pirate captain, as if the lack of a miracle before was due to negligence.

Finally, a ship appeared on the sea of ​​the deserted island. He recognized the flag on the ship as belonging to a powerful country in the human world. He had plundered merchant ships of that country, and his head was worth a lot of money. In order to save the chance of the Automata, the pirate captain did not care that he would be hanged if he was recognized, and rushed to the sea to seek rescue with all his strength.

The ship carried the chief magician of that country's court. He was loyal to their country's young emperor and came to this dangerous sea in search of potion ingredients that could help the emperor get promoted.

The magician hunted down the sea beast easily. When he was about to return, he was accidentally informed by his men that there was someone on the sea.

By chance, the magician saved the pirate captain. The pirate captain was not happy about being rescued, so he begged the magician to save the automatic humanoid.

The magician was confused by the pirate captain's incoherent narration, but to be on the safe side, he agreed to the pirate captain's request and went to the deserted island to find the automatic humanoid.

Then... the Automata boarded the ship and fell into complete necrosis.

She died at the moment she confirmed the pirate captain was rescued.

The magician who learned the whole story said that he witnessed a miracle.

After the magician's inspection, he calculated that the damage level of the Automata reached 106%, exceeding the overload limit that it was designed to achieve. Humans might be able to hold on by force through obsession, but puppets cannot do that. When their functions reach their limits, they will become paralyzed and necrotic, and it is absolutely impossible to exceed the performance limit that can be carried.

However, the Automata accompanying the Pirate Captain surpassed her performance, and when she should have been scrapped, she was delayed for several weeks until she recorded the rescue of the Pirate Captain.

Naturally, she was damaged beyond repair, and the magician was powerless.

At the end of the novel, the magician takes the pirate captain back to his country, apparently to judge the pirate captain for his previous robbery crimes. This absurd story of a human falling in love with a puppet leaves an incomplete ending.

"It's a tragic story..."

Angelica sighed after reading it.

Anna seemed to feel it even more deeply than Angelica.

"She is an admirable Automata."

Anna is also a puppet, and she knows how rare and miraculous it is for a puppet to surpass its own performance.

"With being stranded on a deserted island as the premise, it's not surprising that any unconventional story could happen. If I had said from the beginning that I wanted to write a novel about a human and a doll falling in love, I might have been rejected, but in a given context, the story makes sense, doesn't it?"

The Fairy Editor, who had originally had a firm attitude, suddenly became hesitant after the captain brought up his debut as an example.

181 The Witch Novelist Makes Her Debut

The captain's debut work is a perennial bestseller at Fenia Newspapers. Its sales have consistently ranked among the top ten every year since its publication, and it has also brought unexpected extra income to Fenia Newspapers.

The novel starts with the relatively dull life at sea in the early stage, then goes to the fighting that leads to the demise of a pirate group and the warm daily life on a deserted island. When readers think there will be a happy ending, it takes a sharp turn for the worse and ends in tragedy. The ending gives a glimmer of hope, but it is ruthlessly extinguished in the end.

Readers who could not accept this ending intended to express their displeasure to the author. However, the Fenian newspaper had the responsibility to protect the author's information, so countless readers sent razor blades to the Fenian newspaper, which symbolized a threat. As a result, the Fenian newspaper made a lot of money every year just by selling razor blades.

Later, Captain Flint stopped writing tragic stories and changed his style to write novels about sea travels. Readers thought that their act of sending razor blades had worked. In addition, there is still a lot of debate about the ending of the pirate captain. Some readers believe that the pirate captain died in the end, while others firmly believe that the pirate captain is still alive. However, as the author, Captain Flint did not intend to write a sequel to complete the story. This matter is left to the readers to imagine.

"Okay. Maybe I can try something."

The Fairy Editor thought about it again and again, and finally decided to give in.

"Since the publication of Orc Slaves and Elf Queen, we have discovered that this kind of... well, novel without a core also has a market. We should not rest on our laurels."

"What do you mean by 'no core'? It's clearly a story about breaking through the constraints of common sense and courageously pursuing love."

Angelica was very dissatisfied. The Fairy Editor seemed to have classified her work as an immoral novel. Although Angelica was willing to admit that there were indeed contents in her novel that required age restrictions, apart from that 90% of content, wasn't there still 10% of serious plots?

Before crossing over, Angelica's novels would often fail to pass the review on that chapter, but now that she has come to the other world, she is still faced with obstacles.

"And why can "Orc Slaves and Elf Queen" be published smoothly? Mine can't be published?"

"It seems that we didn't expect it to be so popular at the beginning."

The current editor-in-chief of Fairy is not the one who published "Orc Slaves and Elf Queen" decades ago, but rumors about how this novel, which ranked No. 1 on the annual bestseller list, was published have been circulating within the company.

"At that time, our editor-in-chief was friends with the author of Orc Slaves and the Elf Queen, so we tried to publish it on a small scale. Unexpectedly, it became popular among the elves in Albion. I heard that the elves would buy three copies, one for themselves, one for collection, and one for preaching. Most of the sales of Orc Slaves and the Elf Queen were contributed by the elves, but we also received a lot of complaints from the orcs, who believed that we were defaming the image of the orcs."

"The orcs really can't accept it."

Angelica had an orc friend who was angered to death, even though he was almost at the age of death.

"So we have decided to be cautious about whether to publish similar novels in the future to avoid receiving a large number of complaints again. If the creative concept of your work is similar to Captain Flint's debut work, we are certainly willing to publish it."

In terms of the time of creation, Angelica's novel was written before Captain Flint. In order to ensure the smooth publication of her novel, Angelica reluctantly acknowledged the goblin editor's misunderstanding, saying that her creation was based on a story that explored the changes in emotions in a deserted island environment.

"But pen names that have a tendency to harass readers must be changed."

"That's so troublesome... By the way, what is the author of "Orc Slaves and Elf Queen" like? I want to refer to her."

Even out of mourning for her deceased orc friend, Angelica decided to visit the author of this masterpiece that influenced the relationship between the elves and orcs when she had time.

"I'm sorry, but we don't have the right to disclose information about Mr. Qing to you."

"Oh, thank you."

"...?"

The fairy editor thought that Angelica was the type who liked to be aggressive, but she didn't expect that she would choose to back down this time. The fairy editor, who had no idea that she had revealed important information, even began to reflect on herself, thinking that she had worn tinted glasses towards Angelica before, and her attitude became a little softer.

"Then I'll change my pen name to Black."

"no problem."

In this way, the publication of Angelica's novel, which she had been worrying about, finally got a perfect ending. Angelica believed that she would definitely be the next supernova popular novelist of the Fenian newspaper.

The witch left the newspaper office with a satisfied smile, and her maid also gave her blessings at the right time.

"Congratulations, Master. Your Gospel is shared with the whole world."

At the same time, Anna did not forget to express her gratitude to the captain who helped a lot.

"Thank you, Mr. Captain, for your assistance to our master."

"It's not really about aid. I just... have a little say in being stranded on a deserted island."