HMS Queen Victoria.

After a half-day crusade, most of the ship's mothers were injured to varying degrees, even if they were not injured, because they were active on the battlefield and sweated, they ran to the canal room to enjoy the unique peace after the war.

The high-speed repair material reserve on the Queen Victoria is enough for all the injured shipwives in this raid to heal instantly.

Therefore, most of the ship girls who are soaking in the canal room at this time are just the comfort of bathing.

In addition to the entrance rooms for the wives of the ship, there are also private rooms on board the Queen Victoria for ordinary humans to wash.

Compared to the lavish large communal baths, this place is much more shabby, so not many ship girls give up the comfortable time to soak in the warm spring water with their companions and come here alone to wash their bodies.

Apart from... The owner of the Queen Victoria, outside of the Lion.

The lion, standing in the single room, looked through the mirror at the outfit on his body......

It's really... Filthy.

Whether it's on the hands, on the face... On the skirt, even the lion's dazzling long golden hair was stained with the blue blood peculiar to the deep-sea perch, which had dried up on the lion's body, and the deep sea had long since decayed, and their blood also had a rancid smell...

The lion can smell this unbearable rancid stench......

She immediately lifted her ship's suit, the clothes she was wearing... Almost all the beautiful bodies of women in the world are exposed to the air.

The lion's skin was like a work of art, and there was no blemish at all, but the filthy blood stained on the lion's cheeks and neck destroyed this suffocating beauty.

I guess no one can forgive the person who tarnished this perfection...

Rodney... is one of them.

"I'm really sorry... Lion! If it weren't for the fact that I hadn't noticed your mood change and warned you in advance......"

Rodney stood outside the bathroom door. In the past, when the lion returned from the battlefield, the first thing he did when he woke up was to listen to Rodney's preaching.

This ship, which is equivalent to the lion's guardian, will carefully tell the lion about the shortcomings in this battle at the end of each lion's expedition, but this time Rodney did not, but kept apologizing to the lion.

"It's none of your business. Being surrounded by deep-sea perched ships is the fault of the concubine ... The concubine is too arrogant. ”

The lion glanced down at her arm, and it was clear that her body was covered with the filth that she hated, but there was no disgust in the lion's heart...... It's not for nothing, the lion's heart is completely occupied by another emotion.

That's melancholy...

The power he gave is gone.

Obviously, the soul network has not changed as before, but the lion has a very lost feeling.

Probably because after experiencing a stronger soul network, I can't accept my weak soul network even more, right?

"Lion, Admiral Luze... Didn't I really say anything to you? ”

Rodney sensed that the lion was a little absent-minded at this point...... Ever since returning from the battlefield, the lion has been like this.

You must know that lions usually have a slight cleanliness habit. No... Most women will have a little cleanliness habit, in exchange for Rodney's body is contaminated by those filthy blood, Rodney will definitely not say a word, go directly to the drainage room to take a bath for more than an hour, and wash off the rancid smell on his body!

"Say what? The concubine has only met him a few times, what can he say to the concubine? ”

Right... What can be said? His relationship with him was nothing more than an acquaintance who had met a few times, if it weren't for Rodney receiving that invitation. I don't think it has anything to do with that guy from now on.

Rodney was much more familiar with him, after all, Rodney could say his name without any pressure.

“……”

Since it doesn't matter. At the very least, it sounds like your tone doesn't matter, what's going on with this feeling of loss?

Rodney remembered that the Admiral and the Lion should not know each other, and in any case, Rodney could not let the Lion go astray again.

"Lion! Listen up... Don't be fooled by Luze's appearance, he looks cowardly, and he's shameless. But inside he is actually a very cold guy! It's the kind of bastard who can abandon anyone without mercy, plus his identity as a deep sea... Lion you ......"

"Rodney... You seem to know him well. ”

Rodney seemed to remember something, and the more he spoke, the more angry he became, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a whisper from the lion.

Speaking of which. The admiral of the town guard in the USA said the same thing to the concubine, and the admiral knew him well... Richelieu too, right? And Tirpitz, who came out of his way after being invited by the bastard you were talking about. ”

It was two years ago that the lion officially participated in the battle as a ship girl.,It wasn't until the day she became an adult that she was allowed to enter the battlefield.,Before that, she was always treated like an ordinary girl.,Learning various courses.。

Therefore, the lion has no real sense of the history of human resistance to deep-sea invasion in the past.

But whether it was Rodney or Richelieu or Tirpitz, they had all experienced it firsthand, and they had also experienced the era when they lived in the shadow of deep-sea habitat ships......

"Can you tell the reason for the concubine? Why is this happening. ”

Listening to the lion's question, Rodney bit his lip, and finally chose to say what he really thought in his heart.

"Because he's a hero."

The "......" lion did not speak, and in this way let Rodney continue.

At that time, he and his shipwreck were active in every corner of the world, whether it was Europe or the Americas, and they had received his support...... Help the local fleet resist the invasion of the deep-sea habitat ship, counterattack the city occupied by the deep-sea habitat ship, and carry out various rescue missions, at that time he and his ship girls were really too strong to speak, but unfortunately, now there is no admiral in the world who will be grateful to that guy, instead... Probably like me, disgusted enough to strangle him. ”

Rodney said this, but his tone was calm.

"Why?"

"Blackmail, and probably the so-called drying boat."

It was obviously a very aggrieved memory, but Rodney still said that he couldn't help laughing.

"Before every mission starts, that guy will offer a sky-high reward for resources, and that's it, do you know what he said to my admiral in the first place?"

Even if Rodney is now a ship directly under the lion and does not belong to the admiral, but Rodney also signed a contract with a certain admiral before, but the lion remembers which of Rodney's admirals had died in battle more than ten years ago.

This should be an extremely sad memory for Rodney, and it was the lion's fault for Rodney to forcibly recall this memory, but the atmosphere at this time did not seem to need the lion's apology, and there was no sadness in Rodney's tone.

"Is it excessive?" The lion asked softly.

"Of course, super excessive! I remember what it seems to be: 'You see that my family not only has Yamato Musashi to raise, but also an extra Bismarck, and Dafeng's child usually consumes a lot of aluminum, not to mention the other five regular aircraft carriers in our family, you don't even have a full voyage, only a battleship Cricket, it doesn't matter if you share my resources a little, right?' 'Something like that......"

Rodney said to the lion, mimicking the Admiral's tone of being at the limit of the draw.

Even though the lion usually didn't know much about the kind of construction of sun-drying boats between human admirals, just listening to what Rodney said, the lion still felt very excessive.

"You know what? Lion, if I hadn't grabbed my Admiral's hand, he would have pulled out his gun and jumped that guy, so that guy's shameless and arrogant character is really excessive...... But why did my Admiral make the decision to let me join that guy before he died? ”

“…… Rodney is enough. ”

Sure enough, Rodney's inner thoughts were not as calm as the lion sounded, and now Rodney's words had a crying tone.

"I'm sorry, lion, I lost my temper... How can we help? ”

Speaking of which, Rodney felt that he would not be able to convince the lion to stop thinking about the Admiral.

"Go back to your room and get some sleep, Rodney, and ......"

“？”

"Rodney, do you know any places to learn swordsmanship?"

The lion shook his hands, and the feeling of splitting the enemy in two with his cane on the battlefield just now still remains in the lion's memory.

"Swordsmanship? Fencing? Lion, if you're interested in this, I do know a fencing teacher......"

If it's a lion, it's normal to want to learn fencing, an aristocratic sport.

“…… Concubinage is not for pleasure. ”

For Rodney, who misunderstood his meaning, the lion immediately explained.

"That is, it can be applied to actual combat... That kind of hand-to-hand combat, Rodney, do you know who will? ”

“……”

How the fuck do I know! Isn't it okay for the ship's mother to bombard with artillery? What a fuss about suddenly opening a melee talent?

But when the lion made this request, Rodney instantly realized that perhaps letting the lion contact with the admiral was definitely the most wrong decision he had made!

"Will Richelieu?" The lion remembered that Richelieu's armor contained a command knife.

This is a far more formal hand-to-hand combat weapon than a lion's cane, so Richelieu himself must know how to use it, right?

"Hmm... Richelieu said that the knife was just pretty, but in fact Richelieu usually didn't even dare to kill chickens. ”

As Richelieu's best friend, Rodney mercilessly exposed one of Richelieu's fatal weaknesses to the lion.

"What about the other shipwives? There are also concubines who remember that Japanese swordsmanship seems to be very famous......"

What the lion wants to learn is not a showmanship, but the real art of killing with a sword...

But now it's the twenty-second century, everything can be solved with one shot against naval guns, if not, then send a nuclear bomb, who will really learn this thing.

"Lion, I really can't help you."

Rodney once again realized the danger of the Admiral, and now the lion has been completely taken by the Admiral, okay? It became the same as those ship girls of Sashi! (To be continued.) )