The Villains Need to Save the World?

think those boxes contain…”

“Yes, Mistress Bella.
There should be various cursed corpses moved out from the Cursed Land inside.
I just don’t know what the Oceanic Race was getting these things for.”

“Can you deal with them? I don’t want to just toss them into the ocean.”

“Yes, I can.
I can just disintegrate all of them.”

After leaving things here to Lolita, Bella continued to explore the ship.
She went straight to Ocean General Sinir’s captain cabin this time.
In the crude cabin, Bella found the logbook left behind by Ocean General Sinir.
Since Bella had captured one of the Oceanic Race’s princesses before, she could read their writing.
Through this logbook, Bella finally figured out the Ocean Race’s goals and origins of those boxes.

It turned out that another gate that connected this world to the Cursed Land had opened a thousand years ago, and it was located on a certain island at sea.
More than a thousand years ago, on the oceans, a certain distance from the Aldridge Empire’s eastern coastline, there existed a civilization at sea called the Bridges Kingdom.
At its peak, the Bridges Kingdom could defend itself from the full force of the Aldridge Empire and almost became a second Nation of Arcana.

To prevent the emergence of a magic nation at sea that would threaten their status as the only magic nation on the human continent, the Aldridge Empire’s emperor thought of a vicious trick.
He had slipped the book of forbidden spells sealed in the deepest part of the imperial capital’s underground library to the Bridges Kingdom under the guise of pirates.

The Bridges Kingdom’s monarch, King Bridges XV, who had no idea and thought he had picked up a treasure, ordered his men to study the forbidden spells in the book that night itself.
Nobody knew how it happened, but they ended up opening the channel connecting the world to the Cursed Land.
What happened after was not recorded by the Oceanic Race; they only wrote down that the result of the entire affair was that the Bridges Kingdom had faded like dust in history overnight, no longer to be remembered by anyone.

Traces of the formerly prosperous ocean civilization were nowhere to be found.
The pirates of the Bridges Empire had been twisted and shattered by the curse’s power, forming the eastern coastal islands of the current Aldridge Empire.
For example, Alan Island, where the twelve academy exchange tournament was to take place, used to be a part of the Bridges Kingdom before being converted to what it was now.
The only place of the Bridges Kingdom completely under the control of the curse now was the capital, so the other areas could be reused.

The Cursed Land corpses the Oceanic Race brought with them were the ones that they brought out from the Cursed Land’s gate.
The gate’s location was located in a place jokingly called “Phantom Island” by the Oceanic Race.
This “Phantom Island” was the Bridges Kingdom’s capital.
Due to the influences of the great number of curses inflicted on it, the location became unclear over time.

The ones secretly supporting the troublemaking of the Oceanic Race were those of the Dark Human Continent.
During Bella’s last crusade at the Beastman Continent, she found traces of the Dark Humans there.
Even though their plan failed during the last war at the Beastman Continent, they did not give up.
When they saw that the Beastmen Race no longer had any value to them, they now turned around to support the Oceanic Race, which was butting heads against the humans.

With the Oceanic Race’s financial power, even if they didn’t have to worry about the capital, they couldn’t equip each warship with such precious magic-guided cannons without the relevant technical support.
It seemed that these magic-guided cannons were sponsored by the Dark Humans so that they could stir trouble, as the Cursed Land’s corpses were what the Dark Humans needed.

“It seems the princesses of those Dark Humans need some good education again.
I won’t be letting them go so simply this time.”

News of the battle that happened at Robin Village had been suppressed.
By the time Bella and the girls returned with sixteen luxury commercial ships, the entire Oldrango City was abuzz.
The humans had not seen such humongous commercial warships in years.
These warships were the same size as the luxury cruises on Earth, as they were all brought forth by the Rose Society.

According to Bella’s instructions, the Rose Society’s Chairman Nina announced that these sixteen luxury commercial ships would be provided free of charge to the students of the Twelve Academies.
As for the remaining four, one would be provided for the Antoinette Academy of the Arts for the students coming to spectate.
The last three would be left for the other academies of other races not belonging to the Twelve Academies but came to spectate as well.

As for the free rental provided by the Rose Society, the students from the other academies did not question it and easily agreed.
When the “cruise ship” arrived, many of the academies discovered a slightly awkward problem.
When Bella reconstructed the “cruise ships,” she had deliberately designed the ships for ladies’ use only.
The restrooms were all exclusively for girls.
There wasn’t even a single male restroom.

This was like an invisible isolation towards the boys, and the ones who did know of Bella’s sinister intentions had already been pushed down by her, while the rest did not put it to heart.
Hidden magical teleportation arrays had been set up in each presidential warship suite.
If she wanted to, none of the beautiful student union presidents of the other academies could escape Bella’s “nightly attacks,” except for the presidents of the Alessandra Academy for the Foreign Races.

The boys of each academy took the merchant ships temporarily allocated by the Aldridge Empire.
Many of the boys weren’t too happy with this arrangement.
The large merchant ships allocated by the Aldridge Empire were simply too different when compared to the “cruise ships” rented by the Rose Society.
It was simply a whole different class altogether.

The Aldridge Empire’s official in charge of the reception was a slick man who knew that neither side could be offended.
Bella was a Grand Duchess of the Empire, so they could not point fingers at her.
After promising that no boarding restrictions would be set on the boys’ merchant ships, the boys’ anger finally subsided, and they now even had inexplicable looks of anticipation.
If there were no boarding restrictions, then even if there were no girls around, the boys could still privately bring their own female companions.
Without any girls watching, many of the boys could finally expose their true natures.

In the early next morning, a dozen merchant ships bathed in the early morning sunlight and began to raise their anchors to head towards Alan Island.
The tournament held by the human continent’s Twelve Academies would be held in Alan Island, as each ship was directly named for each academy.
The one that served as the flagship of the fleet was the sponsor, the Olsylvia Academy’s “Olsylvia”.
The honorary captain of the fleet was the Rose Society’s vice-chairman, Dragon Mage Grand Duke Baize, also known as Bella.

Bella lightly caressed the side of the ship as she stood on the observatory position in the front of the warship, accompanied by Princess Kriss by her side.
The oncoming sea breeze caused their hair to flutter.
One gold and one silver, their hair fluttered in the sea breeze, intertwining occasionally.
It looked just like a beautiful painting.
Right in front of Olsylvia was the human continent’s first resort island, Alan Island.

Bella wore a snow-white captain’s outfit and was daydreaming as she looked out towards the vast blue sky.
It looked pretty normal, but Bella still had some concerns.
This was all too normal.
There was no need to mention anyone else, but she was sure the Oceanic Race and the Dark Humans would not give up on stirring trouble so easily.
They weren’t doing anything now, but they might just be brewing up something even bigger.

Bella looked at the distant Alan Island.
Since she had never been there before, she couldn’t see any huge issues with Alan Island.
She could only vaguely feel under the sunlight that some places around Alan Island seemed to appear a little hazy and almost unrealistic.
Moreover, for safety reasons, no demonic beasts existed on Alan Island.
Bella could quite clearly sense the auras of many demonic beasts hidden there.

“Bella, there are beaches there.
It’s a pity that we won’t be able to use the swimsuits you designed.
The beach is nice, but the girls from the other academies may not necessarily be able to accept this form of new entertainment!”

“Kriss, you underestimate my abilities to push down a girl… No, I mean, my abilities to increase the sales.
When I want to sell the swimsuits, not even God can stop me.”

“Uh, Bella.
You… You didn’t do anything funny on the ships, did you? I was just wondering, why are all the equipment on the ships for ladies?”

“Well… We can talk about that next time.
Leave a sense of mystery, you know?”