“Master, what should Gascogne do? Please give instructions.” Wang Yu turned his head and saw that Gascogne looked a bit lost and didn't know what to do standing beside him.
He always felt that Gascogne was efficient when doing serious work, but became flustered in normal life, needing more care than York in that regard.
Glorious leisurely set up a table and chairs nearby, spreading a tablecloth, seemingly intending to have a beach afternoon tea party right there, with no intention of coming over to look after the child.
He had to do it himself!
“Gascogne, preparation complete. Confirming order: accompany Master to play on the beach — Master, to play on the beach, what should I do…?”
“Don’t be so nervous, Gascogne, you can act freely, just like usual.”
“Order confirmed, Gascogne is attempting to perform ‘free action’…”
Wang Yu couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile. Gascogne was good in every way, but she seemed a bit dazed in daily life.
Although such a Gascogne was very cute, he still hoped Gascogne could have more “self.”
After thinking for a moment, he said, “If Da Jia Jia really doesn't have anything she wants to play with, then build a sandcastle. I remember Gascogne builds sandcastles very well; she's a very impressive architect.”
“Order confirmed, building a sandcastle for Commander.” After speaking, she stood up, prepared her tools, and walked to an empty spot nearby, ready to begin.
Glorious watched Wang Yu and Gascogne's conversation with a smile. Wang Yu shrugged helplessly; “Is Da Jia Jia usually like this in the port? Or is it just when she’s with me?”
“More or less. If she doesn't receive any new orders, Da Jia Jia can even quietly stay for an entire day doing nothing.”
“However, after the personnel in the port increased, especially after the members of the Vichy Church gradually grew, they would also take Gascogne to participate in various activities. But it seemed Da Jia Jia would be very conflicted then, the kind who wants to play with everyone but doesn't know what to do, and even if she's happy inside, she doesn't know how to express it.”
“Only when Commander you give clear instructions does Gascogne become capable, and when she sorties, she becomes especially calm and majestic. As a flagship, she is very reliable; everyone calls her the Glory of Vichya Dominion!”
“Speaking of which, when Commander wasn't around, Gascogne was quite lonely, so lonely it was heartbreaking.”
“By the way, Akagi and Roon don't get along with many people in the port, but Commander likes Gascogne so much, and they've never bullied Gascogne!”
“Commander, don't you think it's strange?”
Wang Yu looked with complex eyes at Gascogne in front, who had cleared a large area, prepared her sand shovel, and wore a serious expression. She looked as if she wasn't going to build a sandcastle, but to participate in a war of no return.
She wasn't playing by herself, but completing the task he had given her.
Perhaps she felt no joy in this process, or perhaps this was her joy?
The sand was quickly piled up, forming walls. Was her heart also enclosed within such walls?
She truly was a little girl who couldn't be left alone!
Glorious evidently thought the same thing as Wang Yu, winking mischievously at Wang Yu and pouting towards Gascogne.
Go for it, Commander, it's time for you, the tool, to be useful!
Raise a Commander for a thousand days, use a Commander for a moment!
Talking was clearly not going to work now, so Wang Yu directly grabbed a set of sand shovels, walked barefoot to Gascogne's side, and sat down on the beach.
“Come on, Da Jia Jia, let me show you Commander’s sandcastle skills. Commander, I once dreamed of becoming an architect, and I’ve never told anyone this before!”
Gascogne tilted her head and looked at Commander suspiciously. There was no record of Master building sandcastles in her database. Could Master be very good at building sandcastles?
After thinking for a moment, Gascogne expanded the foundation of the sandcastle further outwards, preparing to try her best to build an even bigger one, so as not to be laughed at by Master.
Thinking this, she only felt the inexplicably surging emotions grow stronger. The emotion suppression module began to operate, suppressing these chaotic emotions, and her system operation returned to its usual precision and efficiency.
Such emotions seemed to be defined as joy, impulse? But they were not entirely similar; this was a mixture of multiple emotions, and the weak emotional component was completely unable to parse them.
However, that no longer mattered.
Looking at Master, who was sitting beside her and busy working, she only felt a strange sense of peace.
The emotion suppression module showed no feedback? So, this feeling couldn't be called an emotion?
Wang Yu couldn't build any sandcastles; he could only pile sand.
Anyway, now he was playing with Gascogne, so he just had to learn from her.
Since Gascogne looked so pleasing to the eye, he wouldn't lose anything by looking a few more times.
Learning skills and admiring someone, how normal!
Much later.
“Commander, what is that thing you built? It’s so ugly, it can’t compare to Sister Gascogne’s.”
Wang Yu looked at the crooked pile of sand in front of him, then at the magnificent European classical castle next to Gascogne’s.
After a long silence, he quietly shoveled a few times, leveling the sand pile in front of him.
Forget it, forget it, he wouldn't make a fool of himself!
He stood up as if nothing had happened, and turning around, he saw York, who had returned from who knows where, pointing at his and Gascogne’s masterpiece. In her hand, she held a monstrous creature with bared claws and fangs, looking very fierce.
Damn, where did you catch such a big crab? Wang Yu was startled by the crab in York’s hand, which looked like a king crab almost half his size.
“There are many down there in the sea. I specifically picked a really big one to bring back. They look quite fun.”
No, not fun at all, and quite scary.
But it should be quite tasty. He wondered if Little Yellow Chicken would know how to prepare this kind of ingredient…
The terrifyingly ferocious crab looked remarkably docile in York’s hand, seemingly having been played with quite a bit and having given up resistance. To grow so large only to be targeted by Wave Bringer, you were truly unlucky.
The sea was, after all, Siren territory. Even Azure Lane only occupied a very small portion of the sea, not to mention the vast and boundless great world sea region composed entirely of Mirror Sea in the deep ocean.
The ocean had become a forbidden zone for humans.
Perhaps it was due to the low level of marine resource development in this world, but even not far from the coast, crabs could grow so large.
“Alright, alright, take it back for Manjuu to prepare. It’ll be a good extra dish tonight.”
“Can this thing be eaten? Can Little Yellow Chicken cook this?”
“I don’t know. If it’s not tasty, we’ll just use Little Yellow Chicken as a side dish…”
