"Give it back to you."

At the dinner table, the belated girl blushed and threw a black glove back to Arthur.

Arthur was slightly stunned, he was thinking about the road problem, he ignored the problem on the bird's side for a while, and it was not until he saw the resource collector again that he suddenly remembered it.

Should...... Didn't see it, did you?

looked cautiously at the eldest lady over there.

Unnatural eyes, reddish cheeks...... Where is this unseen performance!

"Ahem, eat, eat."

Quickly retracting his gaze, Arthur coughed, pretended that nothing had happened, picked up a mouthful of food with chopsticks, and ate it violently.

He still had some things to discuss with Asuka, but now he dared to talk about this embarrassing scene.

It's a blessing not to be kicked out by an angry girl.

So, there was silence at the table.

The elementary school student looked at Asuka and then at Arthur, sensitively aware that there was something wrong between them.

In the weird atmosphere, as a competent ship girl, Z16 decided not to say anything.

"Ahem, Z16."

Arthur saw the cute elementary school students over there, and sorted out his words, ready to say something to lighten the mood.

"How much fuel is left?"

"It's already filled, Admiral~!"

"Oh, already...... Alas? ”

Suddenly looking up at the elementary school students, Arthur was just speechless and wanted to ease the atmosphere, but he didn't expect to hear such good news.

"Because of the sun, Admiral~, the sun has been very good for the past two days~"

The elementary school student excitedly pointed to the big sun outside, with a happy look on his face.

It took Arthur three seconds to react that Z16 was supposed to be solar.

That's right, the original fuel consumption is not very much, and with the technology of this era, the speed of absorbing solar energy to supplement it should also be possible.

"That's good news."

It seems that if it were not too much of a move, elementary school students would be able to barely achieve self-sufficiency in terms of energy problems.

Of course, this is also because there are only three people on the destroyer, and if you change to the kind of destroyer with a full capacity of thousands of people, the energy consumed alone will not be enough to make ends meet in a day, let alone feed back fuel.

Thinking about it this way, compared to the space warships of human civilization, the ship girl does have huge advantages in all aspects.

Isn't it impossible to build an invincible armada?

"Are you going to leave?"

Asuka on the side put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth elegantly, and then turned his head to ask.

Arthur secretly glanced at the girl's face, feeling that the other party should have calmed down, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"Well, the preparations are complete, with you, the mineral resources in the warehouse have also reached a saturated state."

"Hmm......"

Asuka's face turned slightly red.

Arthur suddenly stopped.

Isn't this a pot that you don't open and mention? How stupid!

"Anyway, we'll fly away from this planet and head to human civilization in a moment...... Well. ”

Speaking of this, Arthur turned on his mobile phone and checked the star map: "Let's go to the nearby planet of life first." ”

Arthur pointed to the star map and showed the picture to Asuka and Z16.

The planet named 'Reut' is the lord of the realm of Lord Royt Evan of the Empire.

"Although the level of development is only moderate, it is already a very rich planet in the nearby area, and I believe that we should be able to find what we need."

"Oh......"

The eldest lady looked at the mobile phone in Arthur's hand with interest, this high-tech product that she had never seen before made her very concerned.

Of course, the girl is more interested in the civilized planet.

"Will you finally be able to see the gathering place of civilization in this world?"

"yes, I'm looking forward to it."

“…… Well? ”

"Ahem, it's nothing, I haven't seen human civilization for a long time."

Almost exposed, Arthur coughed and quickly made an excuse.

Asuka nodded, not wondering anything, and turned his head to continue fiddling with Arthur's phone with interest.

The eldest lady who lived in the forties, let alone this kind of high-tech and civilized mobile phone, even the most ordinary mobile phone has never been seen.

Arthur's not much high-end thing in this era is estimated to allow a girl to play all day...... Maybe it's more than that.

After all, there are still a few games on the phone, and any one of those things is enough to keep people entertained for countless hours.

"If you like it, I'll buy you one when the time comes."

"Well, then I'll reluctantly accept your kindness."

“……”

Who is the king in this dialogue?

……………………

……………………

After eating and resting for a while, the three of them entered the cab.

After a few moments, the preparation is complete.

The Z16 launched the main body, and the destroyer rose smoothly into the air, the speed went from slow to fast, and after a while, it had broken through the atmosphere and came into the universe.

Once again, the galaxy circled around the ship.

The consumption of fuel became extremely slow for a moment, and it still maintained its original speed, but the rate of fuel reduction that was originally visible to the naked eye was almost imperceptible at the moment.

That's the huge role of the galaxy in making astronautics easy.

"No need to accelerate for the time being, Z16, get through the asteroid belt first."

Although he has confidence in the flexibility of elementary school students, Arthur is not careless.

The word cemetery is not called in vain, that is, there are elementary school students, otherwise Arthur's first reaction when he sees that dense asteroid belt is to turn around and leave.

"Yes, Admiral~!"

The dedicated schoolchildren did not hesitate to carry out Arthur's orders.

The next moment, the destroyer entered the asteroid belt.

Outside the window, it was suddenly covered by countless broken planets, densely packed, and it was terrifying.

Arthur looked at it for a moment, then retreated after a moment.

It's so thrilling, the asteroid that is moving irregularly seems to hit the destroyer at any moment.

On two occasions, the stones even flew past the destroyer, causing Arthur to break out in a cold sweat by the window.

“z16…… You'd better be casual. ”

Arthur felt that he had better not command blindly, lest he control the speed of the schoolboys, and instead let them be hit by the broken planet.

Then it's really a cry without tears.

"Understood, Admiral~"

The voices of the schoolchildren rang out again.

Arthur felt a little wrong, though...... Why do you think that the other party's tone is so cheerful?

Swish~!

Just thinking like this, the speed of the destroyer increased instantly.

The asteroid, which could still be seen clearly, suddenly became a 'meteor'.

Looking out the window, all the asteroids that flew by turned into light and shadow effects, flashing away, not giving you a chance to react at all.

"It's so beautiful~!"

The sound of the bird ringing in his ears made Arthur tangled for a while.

He's almost worried about whether he's dead!

Sure enough, men and women think in completely different ways...... Or is it that problem children think completely differently from normal people?

"There's no use worrying, right?" As if seeing through Arthur's thoughts, Asuka smiled: "Trust your ship, don't you, Admiral~"

"......" She said so well that I was speechless.

"Yes, trust them."

After a moment of silence, Arthur smiled softly, sat down across from Miss Asuka, and took out coffee from the collector to make it for himself.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Asuka shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the scenery outside the window.

“…… Well. ”

If you relax and look at it, it is indeed a rare view.

"No matter what the predicament is, you must face it calmly with a smile."

Asuka took a sip of tea, looked at Arthur and said, "That's what that female violent maniac taught me. ”

“…… Sixteen Nights in Reverse? ”

"Hmm."

“……”

If it's that guy, it's really possible, after all, the other party is a rare existence of force and IQ among the Japanese comic heroes who are now rampant with waste wood.

But...... Sure enough, I still care about the word 'female'!

"Do you smile and face it calmly? I understand. ”

With a light sigh, Arthur suddenly wanted to summon the Sixteenth Night.

If there is that guy with explosive force and IQ by his side, these problems facing him now should not be a problem, right?

That's impossible, though, right?

After all, the other party is an original canon, and he has the power to shatter the stars with one punch, how can he be summoned so easily.

"Anyway, thank her for me, I accepted this sentence."

Raising his glass and gesturing to the birds, Arthur laughed lightly.

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Sword of the Royal Road - 50% completion.