The Admiral pinched the blade in his hand, a carefully carved dagger with a pattern that reflected a somewhat demonic light.

The dagger was found by the Admiral from the treasure of the Empty Mother Water Ghost, and according to the Water Ghost himself, it was added to her collection not long ago.

There are a large number of sunken ship wreckage around this area, both during World War II and after the end of World War II, which sank to the bottom of the sea due to the ravages of the deep sea.

Like a cemetery, a ship that sinks to the bottom of the sea and becomes a wreck is a natural tombstone, only to be obscured by the various algae and shellfish entrenched on it.

And this shipwreck graveyard can be regarded as a snack production place for the empty mother water ghosts, even now she occasionally wanders around, hoping to find some golden snacks in the ruins of the shipwreck.

Therefore, for the empty water ghosts who regard gold coins and diamonds as food, this dagger is undoubtedly included in the scope of inedible.

The inedible meant that it had no use for the Empty Mother Water Ghost, so at the Admiral's request, she generously gave it to the Admiral.

This dagger is not a cultural relic, nor is it an unusual thing, among the large treasures that can be called cultural relics in the collection of the empty mother water ghost, this dagger can be said to be the least valuable existence.

Because its history is not very long, it should have been created more than ten years after the end of World War II, when the deep sea did not exist.

But in the pile of treasures piled up with gold coins and diamonds by the Empty Mother Water Ghost, the Admiral immediately sensed its presence.

As for the reason......

The aura of death transmitted from the blade, the coldness that flashed on the Admiral's fingertips when he touched the dagger, was not an illusion.

The reason for all this is the raw material for forging this dagger itself.

It is supposed to have been forged from the remains of battleships, steel battleships that sank to the bottom of the sea during World War II, even if they have lost any use, and are in ruins at the bottom of the sea. But some of the steel that had been used to forge them had not decayed, and the blade in the Admiral's hand had been forged from the armor of a warship that had sunk under the sea.

That's why the Admiral could feel the breath of death on this dagger.

As for the battleship. None of these admirals knew which country it came from or what type of ship it was, and although the dagger was exquisitely made, there was no inscription on the dagger. to explain that it inherited the body of a steel battleship.

Although the breath of death sounds strange, in fact, in addition to being a little cold to the touch, this dagger probably only has a commemorative value, and its real effect on the Admiral is very small.

Weapons like daggers may have been very useful to Admirals more than a decade ago, but now... In the face of the ship's mother and the armor of the deep sea, whether this dagger can break through the defense is still a very practical question.

But although this thing seems to be useless in front of the ship's mother and the armor of the deep sea, it is still easy to hurt the fragile humans.

The Admiral gripped the blade of the dagger with his hand, and a tingling sensation overflowed in the Admiral's palm.

Blood slid down the Admiral's fingertips and fell onto the table.

There are too many mysteries about the appearance of those giant deep seas. The current Admiral doesn't know anything about the other world, so he can only ask about his own blood.

But to the Admiral's surprise, the blood stained with the blade of the dagger vanished in an instant, as if it had been swallowed by something.

“……”

Before the Admiral could confirm what had happened, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open in a very rough manner, and Bismarck walked in quickly, grabbed the Admiral's wrist, and with a slight force, forced the dagger he was holding to fall to the ground.

At the same time, with a posture that is absolutely unresistible. Forced the Admiral directly into a corner.

"Bismarck?"

The Admiral, who was suddenly given a wall by Bismarck, was a little overwhelmed, and under Bismarck's oppressive momentum, the Admiral could only raise his hands to indicate that he had done nothing.

"Admiral... You... What are you doing? ”

Bismarck stared into the Admiral's eyes, and could see the luster of the first color in them. As well as the tone of the Admiral's speech, it can be judged that the Admiral is not controlled by anything.

That is, the fact that the Admiral just cut his wrists with a knife was completely according to his own ideas?

It doesn't seem to be any different from suicide, right?

In other words, if Bismarck hadn't come sooner, he might have died a cold corpse when he saw the Admiral again?

Thinking of this, Bismarck could not continue to remain calm.

What is the Admiral doing such a thing? Big build? Did the big build fail!

The reasons that make most admirals choose to commit suicide in various ways, except for the big building. Bismarck didn't need to hear of any other reason.

But my own admiral has not even touched the construction machine recently, not to mention the big construction! So definitely not because of that.

"Do you really still mind this identity as a deep sea? Or are you missing Sashi's ship girls? ”

The Admiral would do such a thing to hurt himself, and in Bismarck's opinion, it was definitely because of excessive psychological pressure or despair about the world.

Bismarck thought left and right, as if there were only two possibilities.

The Admiral, who has always been in the human camp, suddenly turned into the deep sea that should be the enemy, which is simply impossible to accept for a while, and has to be the enemy of the ship's mother who has been getting along with him all the time, this kind of thing, Bismarck's empathy, is also unacceptable.

This has caused the psychological pressure that has been too great, and can only choose this method of self-harm to vent? As the ship's wife who has been with the Admiral for the longest time, she didn't even notice the pressure the Admiral was under... What an incompetent ship girl.

"It's not for these reasons, anyway, Bismarck, you calm down first."

Bismarck's flustered appearance was rarely seen even by the Admiral, and the German shipwreck used to arm herself with a calm and serious appearance, never allowing anyone to see through her thoughts.

Probably only when I get along with the Admiral alone, I occasionally show the appearance of an ordinary girl, but this is limited to the shy appearance after getting my own praise, Bismarck's flustered appearance, to be honest, really not much in the Admiral's memory.

Calm down... Bismarck was shocked when she saw a slightly pained look on the Admiral's face. The force that held the Admiral's wrist just now seemed to be a little too great.

But this is also something that can't be helped, the admiral who was forced into a corner by himself just now, if he wants Bismarck to describe it, it seems that it can be described as pitiful?

Even if Bismarck's Chinese is not very good. But she also knew that the word was used for girls, but the appearance of the Admiral just now was really appropriate to use this word, plus some tears from the corners of her eyes.

If Bismarck hadn't been seriously asking the Admiral why he had hurt himself, perhaps Bismarck would have made a request to pinch the Admiral's face. Because there's still no way to resist.

"I'm sorry... It's me who is too impulsive. Bismarck let go of the hand that was clenching the Admiral, and took a few steps back, keeping his eyes fixed on the wound in the Admiral's palm.

The Admiral shook the hand that had been cut by the blade, the wound was not very painful, but Bismarck had just exerted too much force, which made the Admiral feel like he was about to break a bone.

But after being with the ship girl for so long, the admiral has become accustomed to the fact that the ship girl is not a force that humans can withstand......

"Well, I just wanted to test the sharpness of that dagger."

Before Bismarck's misunderstanding deepened, the Admiral pointed to the dagger that had fallen to the ground and explained to Bismarck.

"Hurt yourself just for that reason. It seems that Miss Mercy was right. Bismarck vaguely remembered that the Mercy had diagnosed the Admiral with 'fear of loss syndrome,' which simply means that 'a day without dying will make you feel sick'.

If you think about it carefully, today is almost over, and the Admiral hasn't done anything to die, so in order to make up for this regret, he decisively slashed himself in the hand?

It's a neurotic act!

However, Bismarck, who understood his own admiral, actually accepted the admiral's abnormal behavior, which should be said to be accustomed to it.

At first, Bismarck and the Admiral wanted to learn 'how to build a destroyer'. And when he went to Africa to visit the cannibal tribe, what the Admiral did was a hundred times more dangerous than what he is doing now!

"It's not a big deal." The Admiral showed Bismarck his palm, the wound was almost beginning to heal, and there could be no scar without blood clotting. But the severed muscles and skin began to heal as if they were being pulled by something.

"But the wound still needs to be treated." Bismarck took out the medical kit from his perch, which was specially prepared for the Admiral, so Bismarck also learned how to treat wounds.

After Bismarck had tended to the wound on the Admiral's hand, she watched as the Admiral picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground.

"Admiral, where did this thing come from?" Bismarck asked.

"The Empty Mold Hydro recently searched for the raw materials in a nearby shipwreck, if you guessed correctly. It should be the armor of a warship that sank to the bottom of the sea during World War II. The Admiral handed Bismarck the dagger in his hand and said, "The remains of those warships." ”

“……”

The pattern engraved on the blade seemed to have a slight scarlet color, so subtle that it was difficult to notice, and Bismarck, like the Admiral, slashed the blade with his fingertips, carefully touching the pattern on it.

"The people who made this thing are not humans, but the deep sea."

Bismarck, who had excellent reasoning skills, was also very good at identifying this matter, and she could see at a glance that it did not seem to be something made by humans.

"Deep... Sea? ”

What is it that deep sea that makes these things, and if they usually catch steel, don't they eat it as food?

"The pattern engraved on the knife body, I am on the outlying island... 'Radish', no, it should be said that it was seen by the giant deep-sea body tamed by the outlying islands. ”

When the island brought home the giant deep-sea, Bismarck had studied it carefully.

On the giant deep-sea body called the radish, Bismarck found a very similar imprint.

After Bismarck's reminder, the Admiral suddenly remembered... When he communicates with his own blood, it seems to be this kind of text.

Is it really something that doesn't belong to this world? (To be continued.) )