"How long do you have to wash, Duke of York?" Changing the alcohol-stained admiral suit, Jiqi raised his eyebrows and asked the girl who had been standing in front of the washstand and looking at him like a fool.

From the time she just changed her clothes here, the other party stared stupidly, but now that the clothes have been changed, those light blue eyes still haven't moved, like water flowing down, constantly rippling in her eyes.

"Eh——?" The Duke of York scrambled to turn off the water as if awakened suddenly, and the splash soaked her white sleeves and stuck to her wrists. "Sorry...... I just got distracted. She moved slowly, and walked timidly out with two wet hands.

"Stand still." Jiqi looked at the other party's soaked sleeves and sighed slightly, picked up the clean towel on the table and pinched it in the palm of his hand. "It's better to dry it, although the weather is gradually warming up now, but it's still easy to catch a cold." He took the girl's hand and wiped it gently, the water stains began to soak the towel slightly.

"Yes...... But the ship's mother usually doesn't get sick, let alone catch a cold. The Duke of York hesitated for a moment, but still expressed the doubts in his heart. So, Admiral, you don't have to worry so much, it's just that your sleeves are soaked. And even if I'm soaking wet, it's nothing to me. Although he said this, the hand held by Jiqi was still lying obediently in the palm of his hand, without any resistance.

The Duke of York regretted it slightly after saying such a thing, obviously his true thoughts in his heart did not want the gentle Admiral in front of him to let go, but once he said it, he seemed to be politely rejecting the other party's kindness. She opened her mouth slightly, trying to say something to redeem it.

"Even if you are a ship girl, you still have the same feelings as people, and you can't be treated differently simply because you are a ship girl." Jiqi didn't stop what he was doing, and he didn't care about it like a fool. "Although I am not your ship's wife, this is my town guard mansion, and as the commander of the town guard mansion, I also have the responsibility to be responsible for you."

Although due to avant-garde reasons, Jiqi did not have so much affection for the arrival of the lion, but was full of vigilance. A being who wants to contact the ship mother himself, whether she is a ship mother or a commander, is enough to make Jiqi feel threatened. That's why Yamato and Lexington blocked each other at the gate of the town guard.

However, after meeting with this shipwreck named Ou Huang, he learned that this Ou Huang was also the same as him, a commander who was called a fool by his own ship mother. In order to protect his ship, he paid a huge price to let Mercarron contact the contract. At that time, he knew that everything was just a misunderstanding caused by rumors, which made him make a wrong judgment from the beginning.

I don't know if it's because of the compensation for my own mistakes or other strange feelings, Jiqi has the same feelings for the Duke of York and the Lion as Lexington, as if they are their own ship mothers, and there is no so-called European Emperor, only the greasy battleship Lion and the Duke of York, who likes to drink.

And the two of them didn't regard this place as someone else's town guard at all, so they should still be the same, otherwise they wouldn't be so embarrassed in front of themselves.

"It's no wonder that your shipwives say hello, I thought they were pretending to defend you, but now I know that this is not the case at all." The Duke of York looked at Jiqi's side face and muttered to himself, full of curiosity about this young man who was too gentle to look like a ruler. Because such a gentle disposition is not suitable for such a high position as the governor of the governor's palace, because soft-heartedness in the struggle for power will put him at a disadvantage, and even be easily defeated by his opponents.

But then I looked at his ship's personality and understood everything, just like Lexington said at the beginning, if a person who guards the town is so gentle, wouldn't he be bullied to death by others. Therefore, their admirals are responsible for gentleness, and they are responsible for toughness, and only in this way can a town guard survive well in the deep sea and the cracks of mankind.

"If a commander needs his ship's wife to maintain his image in front of others, then he really doesn't deserve the trust of his ship's girls." Although the other party's voice was not loud, Jiqi still heard it clearly.

When he was in the academy before, he had seen many rich and powerful admirals go to build district gambling boats when they were studying at the academy, although the odds of gambling are very small, but they can't stand them throwing countless resources into the machine. Therefore, there are still many students who have got their own ship girls during the study period.

According to the order of the ship's mother's illustrated book, the ship's mother is strong and weak, and some are so bad that they only exist in the illustrated book. If you bet on the ship and bet on the ship with a very high rarity, she will naturally be full of joy, but if you bet on the ship with a very low rarity and low combat ability and no combat ability, those rich nobles will not hesitate to abandon it.

So in the backstreets of the Enterprise Academy, a street that is almost synonymous with slums, there are many abandoned shipwives, most of them poor evictions and light patrols. Every time Jiqi came home from there, he would always see a hungry figure crouching on the street corner.

At that time, Jiqi was just a student who received a modest allowance from the academy every month, and every time he passed there, he would always find a few pieces of aluminum or steel from his bag to fill the stomachs of the poor girls.

Every time I think of those poor expelled girls in the past, Jiqi says to himself more than once, what are you becoming a admiral for? And what can you do to protect the shipwives who have entrusted their lives to you? At that time, he felt extremely confused about these two questions, but later he slowly understood that only strong strength can make a resounding answer, just like the power is always in the hands of a few people with power, and the safety of the ship mother is always in the hands of the admiral with strong strength.

"Although I know that there are many admirals who only evaluate the ship girl as a war weapon and the strength of the strong and weak, but in my opinion, the best admiral does not necessarily have the strongest ship girl and has the best town guard." He slowly lowered the wrist in his palm, squeezed the wet towel and continued. "It's about having a ship girl who suits you.,Use the knowledge and power you have learned to defeat the powerful deep sea.,Maybe in the eyes of others, this is a false proposition.,The powerful ship girl can naturally easily defeat the deep sea.,But this doesn't mean that the weak ship girl can't do the same purpose.。

In the first military theory class, the old tutor said a theory that made the children of the nobility scoff, and everyone thought that the old man was a complete madman, and that he would defeat the mighty deep sea with a weak shipwive, which is something that only a fool would do.

Just like human beings have never stopped their pursuit of power, they always hope that the power in their hands is as strong as possible, even if it is enough to destroy the whole world.

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