I Slept When My Sister Was Lost At Sea のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

When the rescue team captain, Mara Hill, finally found me, I was fast asleep. I was jostled awake by her frantic hand on my shoulder.“Victoria, there’s been an incident! Your sister’s submarine, the Deep Dweller, has gone missing at 10,900 meters in the Marisiana Trench! They hit some kind of unidentified seismic event. All comms are down. Chances of survival are slim!”I groggily opened my eyes and looked at her.“So?” I asked flatly.Mara was stunned for a second, as if she had not expected that reaction. Then, she anxiously said, “We need you! You’re the only person in the world with successful deep-sea rescue experience at that depth. You are their only hope.”I calmly lay back down and turned over to go back to sleep. “Sorry. Can’t help.”“What?”“I said I can’t help you,” I repeated. My voice was calm and cold. It was as if those trapped on the ocean floor were my sworn enemies.“Victoria Archer, what’s wrong with you? Your sister, Cindy, is down there! Along with twenty

With the call on speaker, every word came through loud and clear.When my father hung up, his eyes were bloodshot as he stared at me. His voice was hoarse. “Victoria, you heard that, didn’t you? This isn’t just about saving your sister anymore. It’s also about executing Noah’s rescue plan. This is an order!”I responded with a deliberate yawn and ignored him.Just then, a commotion rose from outside the detention center.Somehow, several parents of the missing students had gotten word of where I was being held and found their way here. The moment they saw me, they all dropped to their knees with heavy thuds.“Ms. Victoria, please! Please save our kids!”“Please, Ms. Victoria, she’s our only daughter. She can’t die down there!”Their sobbing and pleading blended into one overwhelming chorus.I looked down at them from behind the bars. My expression was detached and unmoved.“Whether they live or die, what does that have to do with me?”As soon as I said that, the crying stop

A stunned silence fell over the detention center.Linda was the first to move. She lunged like a feral animal and snatched the contract from my hands. Then she tore it to shreds.She jabbed a finger at my face. Her expression was twisted with unconcealed hatred.“Victoria, don’t even think about it! My daughter is safe now! You won’t get a single cent! Rot in prison for all I care! You monster!”As I watched the scraps of paper flutter to the floor, my smile only widened.No one knew that I had come back through time.In my first life, I piloted the rescue pod into the frigid, lightless abyss. It was there that Cindy and Noah, who had been working together, breached the hull and sealed me inside the cockpit. I watched the oxygen gauge fall to zero.After I died, they pinned everything on me. They claimed I had sabotaged the mission just to set up my sister because I wanted to seize the chief designer position, only to perish in the accident I created.More than twenty of my stu

Every live camera in the room, like sharks scenting blood, swiveled to focus on Noah. His face had gone white as a sheet.Beside him, the smug and triumphant expressions on Cindy’s and my father’s faces froze. Clearly, none of them had expected me to strike at the very height of their glory.After a brief flicker of panic, Noah, who was a seasoned, media-trained scientist, regained his composure.He smoothed out his expression, forced a calm smile, and addressed the cameras in a confident, professional tone.“Victoria, I know you’re mad about what happened before, but you shouldn’t just deny everyone’s hard work and the scientific miracle we achieved just because you’re bitter. I’ll admit this: the standard remote-control interface you designed was indeed locked.”“But…” he said, pivoting smoothly with a glint of intellectual triumph in his eyes, “I utilized the sub’s auxiliary quantum-entanglement communication module, bypassed your physical lockout, and wrote an emergency cont

Cindy suddenly started screeching at me like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.“Vic, how could you fabricate a video like that to slander Noah? He saved all of us! How can you do this to him?”Her voice was trembling with grief. Her eyes were brimming with the agony of being betrayed by her sister. That was her final attempt to salvage the situation.As I watched her terrible acting, I could not even be bothered to respond.I pulled a USB drive from my pocket and tossed it onto the stage.“Slander him? Inside that drive is the result of a three-month investigation I commissioned from a private detective. Noah, Cindy, you two have been secretly transferring the ownership of 17 deep-sea technology patents from under my name for over a year, using a shell corporation registered in the Kayman Islands. “You planned the whole thing. If I died in this ‘rescue mission,’ you would inherit all my intellectual property without a hitch. My life’s work would become your greatest triumph.