Chapter 8: Night

"Good night, Admiral. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

The white-haired and red-eyed girl yawned, walked past the boy in her white pajamas, and lay quietly on her bed after saying goodnight to him.

"Good night, Veneto", noticing that it was the young man who was greeted by a girl, he glanced at her in pure white pajamas and responded with a smile. Perhaps due to the habit he had developed in the deep sea fence, Veneto seemed to fall asleep more easily at this moment.

This was not the case with Arrites himself, who was resting early and working night shifts to take care of Veneto's sleep. But when he returned to the human world, he realized that his sleeping habits had been changed by some external force.

For some reason, after escaping from the deep sea tiger's mouth, his spiritual power seemed to have undergone some kind of abnormality.

Not only has the quality and control ability of mental power been greatly improved, but also an extremely tough support force. Arites tried not sleeping for several days, but it didn't seem to affect his mental state too much, but he was a little tired.

He was also puzzled by this, and this strange phenomenon made him think of the broken green fragment. The previously discovered use of spiritual power to manipulate the water mist to isolate the mental power response is also inspired by the mutated spiritual power.

This made him more and more curious about the origin of the mysterious fragment, and he could not make valid speculations because he could not find valid information.

Aritaus, whose rest time was greatly shortened, would open the notepad of his personal ID card at nights when he could not sleep, and record the events of the day. Since the image is directly visible in the brain, there is no need to turn on the lights to affect the rest of the other two.

September 25th

After opening the notepad and writing down today's date, Alitus suddenly didn't know what to write.

From waiting for Anne in the morning, to eating in the ship's restaurant at noon, to being bored enough to kill time in blackjack at night (no one is allowed to open their mental powers), it seems that there is not much to remember about this day.

The young man's mind suddenly flashed to the young admiral he saw when he was about to leave, could it be that he was also going to Cristobal? He just speculated, but he couldn't make up his mind. After all, there are several other naval academies in the ports where this route arrives.

Looking back for a long time, I couldn't find anything to write down, and I couldn't help but feel a little empty. Perhaps the most impressive thing about this day was the amazing scene of Veneto who had just seen the costume change.

Out of boredom, Alitus could only look at what he had written down in his previous notepad. For him, the world that was recorded in the notebook was like yesterday, and it was because of this that he never forgot and remembered that the world was an unstable time.

After a long time, Alitus finally turned off his notepad. Occasionally looking at those memories can indeed refresh your sense of vigilance, but it can also bring a burden to your own mind.

The young man who breathed a sigh of relief no longer remembered what had just happened. The night was getting deeper, and even he had time to rest.

In the dim cabin, only the sound of the waves could be faintly heard, but this did not affect everyone's sleep.

Half-asleep, the boy was suddenly awakened by a faint sound change, and opened his eyes slightly to look around, only to find a blonde girl standing in front of the hatch looking into the distance.

With a squeak, the girl suddenly pushed the door open and walked out.

Perhaps it was too loud, and even Veneto, who had fallen asleep early, asked softly

"Admiral?"

The two of them still slept many times in the wild nights, and they always had to be wary of the existence of the deep sea, so they would wake up quickly even if they felt something strange in their sleep.

"It shouldn't be anything, I'll go out and have a look first." The boy got up slightly and walked towards the hatch.

Veneto nodded, trusting her Admiral's judgment. Just now, it seemed that Anne was a little unaccustomed to this kind of life, and wanted to go out for a walk after insomnia, but she didn't expect this action to wake up the two.

"If anything, the Admiral can contact me at any time, and I can't sleep now." Veneto looked at the somewhat dim starry sky outside the window, and seemed to say helplessly.

The boy nodded, and walked quietly on the deck, his pace not slow, but he didn't make any movement from the wooden deck.

After the awakening of his ability, Aritus has been able to manipulate the force in a subtle way and make it silent. The boy who floated leisurely on the deck soon saw the girl standing on the side of the ship, looking down at the dark ocean.

The boy walked over gently, and of course woke up the girl who was in the midst of a memory. After she awakened the ability of the ship, she naturally received the five senses and spiritual strengthening, and of course she also knew that it was her new admiral who came.

"Ah, it's the Admiral. Sorry to bother you. ", the girl lowered her head and said apologetically.

"It's fine, I didn't really fall asleep anyway." The young man looked into the distance, and the faint starlight shone on his face, giving those dark blue eyes a mysterious light.

Anne looked at the face of the somewhat strange teenager, but did not know what to say. She couldn't sleep because she couldn't sleep, so she got out of bed and went outside to get some air. But he didn't expect that the admiral in his name would also appear here.

The boy may not have noticed the confusion and confusion on the face of the girl next to him, and turned his gaze to the ocean under his feet.

The faint light of the stars could only dispel the darkness on the surface, and in the far distance, as far as the eye could see, was the darkness that seemed to freeze. The crisis of eternal existence has always hovered over the sky and never left.

This can't help but make him feel a little more disgusted, the darkness contains danger and the unknown, and this is the instinctive sense of rejection engraved in the depths of life. Perhaps it was this indissolvable darkness that reminded him of the deep sea people in black armor, and he felt a little disgusted.

Anne, who had a keen sense, seemed to notice the change in the micro-expression on Arietes's face, but she was a little unfamiliar with the young man and did not dare to speak directly.

Arietes, who withdrew his gaze, may have noticed the expression of Anne beside him, raised his eyebrows slightly and asked:

"What's the matter?"

"No, it's just ...... I wondered why the Admiral hadn't fallen asleep yet. The girl was stunned, but she didn't know what to say. After all, it seems that she has only been in contact with this teenager for about three or four days.

"It's because I'm used to it, and I don't feel much sleepy after a while." , the boy standing in front of the railing, explained softly.

"Anne, isn't she a little unaccustomed?" , the teenager can probably guess the reason for the girl's insomnia. Finally got out of the pain, but had to be separated from her mother, maybe this girl who has not fully grown up is a little difficult to adapt.

The girl looked at this teenager who was not much older than herself, but in a trance she felt that he had a temperament that did not fit this age, and she was born with a more acute sense, and she seemed to have noticed something.

"Perhaps...... It's a little ......", the girl lowered her head, hesitated for a moment and admitted. She wasn't a clumsy child, and knowing that she had become a member of the young Admiral's command, it was essential to communicate with him in some way. And at this time, it is not too bad to be honest and express what you think in your heart.

"I can understand you, after all, leaving your hometown and embarking on an unknown journey always makes you feel like you've lost something." After a moment of silence, the young man gently expressed his feelings.

Leave home, say goodbye to loved ones, and leave that familiar place. He endured much more than Anne endured all this, and he could understand the depression and pain involved. But at least, Anne still has her relatives, and Arites is already alone. All he could rely on was himself and Veneto beside him.

"Perhaps, our destiny is determined the moment we inherit a certain lineage. Behind this power, there may also be a responsibility that cannot be escaped. There seemed to be some kind of light flashing in the young man's blue eyes. There was something in his words, but Anne, who did not know his exact origins, could not hear the meaning.

But she could tell that he was genuinely expressing his feelings, and he was a little distracted. She knew that it wasn't ordinary people who could say that. And where did this mysterious looking admiral come from? What have you been like in the past?

"But I still want to thank the Admiral, for saving me from my illness." The girl Anne stared at Aritus with her blue eyes and thanked her. After she woke up, her mother officially informed her of the contents of the contract and the experience of the incident, and she did not disagree with her mother's opinion. Because she knew how much trouble she had caused to her mother, who was single to support her, over the years, because of her health problems.

"You should be thankful for yourself and your mother, I just happened to do a small favor." , the young man said softly. His contract with the Independence was only for Anne to sign a temporary contract with him for one year after her awakening, and if the two parties who graduated from the academy after one year were not satisfied with each other, they would not have to renew it.

"The Admiral is indeed a very interesting man......," Anne looked at the young man's face, but did not see any superfluous expression on his face, as calm as he had just been, and there was no smug look.

"Ah~ha~", the girl yawned, and unconsciously the two had been chatting for quite a long time, so that the girl at this time was already a little sleepy.

"If you want to sleep, you can go back first to ensure that your energy and normal work and rest are better." , The boy seemed to see that the girl was so tired because of the ease after removing part of the heart, and couldn't help whispering.

"En......", with a tired girl, gently returned to the cabin, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

She had not yet developed a meticulous and high level of vigilance, so she naturally did not realize that Veneto, who had been asleep, was no longer in the cabin.

On the railing, the young man looked at the gradually changing sky from afar, and couldn't help but sigh:

"It looks like it's going to rain."

"The Admiral's rest hasn't been good lately?" , a light female voice not far away, even if he didn't look back, he knew who it was.

"It's true, it's been like this since that time, and I don't know why." , The young man gently stretched out his mental power, and said after feeling the change in the water vapor in the sea breeze.

"Anne is actually a very unassertive child, Admiral, don't lie to her?" , The white-haired and red-eyed girl seemed to want to say something, but in the end she only prompted in this way.

"I'm not going to do anything like that. Moreover, after awakening the ability of the ship, she is a ship girl, and her previous identity is no longer counted. If you want to return to a normal and peaceful life, you have to give up your abilities. The boy shook his head and explained softly.

Veneto was silent for a moment, she naturally knew that Anne, a girl who was suffering from illness, would never give up her identity as a ship's maid. Thinking of this, she couldn't say anything else for a while.

The gray drizzle fell from the sky, and the young man who had already noticed the rain had already opened his mental power to cover himself and Veneto, who had come to his side at some point.

"There is still some time left in the rainy season, and the weather forecast was correct." , the two of them in the drizzle, spent this sleepless night like this.