So during breakfast, Ye calmly finished his buns and drank his share of soy milk. After everyone had put down their chopsticks, he casually mentioned the upcoming separation.
"In five or six days, Sister Helena, Sister Shoukaku, and I may have to leave."
"Eh?" Xiao paused in her motion of getting up, and looked at Ye with Spey, "Are you leaving?"
"Well, I've almost collected enough cubes. I might have to start my research somewhere else."
"Is that so..." Xiao nodded in support, "That's great, I wish you all the best in your research, when exactly will it be done?"
Ye was a little surprised. She thought Xiao would be more reluctant, but she didn't expect that the other party's attitude was more straightforward than hers.
Xiao also saw Quan Ye's confusion, "It's actually quite normal, wandering ship girls are like this, very casual, if they have a common goal, they will stay together, if they have their own things to do, they will simply leave."
"I am actually prepared to leave. After all, over the past month or so, I have obtained sufficient resources with your help."
"It's time for me to go out and look for my sisters."
"For a wandering ship girl... for me, parting is just the beginning of our next meeting, so don't be too surprised."
"But..." Xiao came closer seriously, "Don't cut off contact with me, okay? We are good friends."
Ye and his group were relieved to see Xiao being so open-minded. Although they had only met by chance at first, they still felt guilty for rashly proposing to leave.
"I understand." Ye nodded, "Remember to contact me for help if you get lost."
"I...I won't get lost. I have a map! Don't underestimate me!"
There was nothing wrong with Xiao, but Spee seemed a little depressed.
She finally managed to break free from her lonely life and met her current four friends, but they all left one after another after not being together for long. How could this be possible?
But she couldn't say anything. After all, it was a matter of personal freedom, and she couldn't force anyone to stay. Since Ye said that the three of them were going to leave, it meant that they didn't intend to take her with them, so Si Pei didn't plan to go either.
More entanglement.
Regardless of how they felt, the separation was finalized. However, in these last few days, no one planned to go out and continue to kill monsters. They all tacitly wanted to stay together for a while longer.
Helena followed York's instructions and the group went to the cafe in broad daylight as guests. Harman was not very happy at first.
"Why...why are you here?"
"We are guests, right? Is this how Harman treats guests?" Shokaku teased with a smile, making Harman blush.
"Hello, guests. What would you like to order?"
"One cup of milk and one small cake per person is enough. Thank you, Harman~"
"..hum~"
Under the watchful eyes of her former colleagues, Harman's work attitude this morning was very positive, without any mistakes. Even the innocent Bush was put to good use, which made her very proud.
"How is it~" Harman took advantage of the lunch break to run in front of a group of people to show off, "Without you, Harman can still do well~"
Everyone complimented him, which made Harman blush: "I... I didn't do so well just to hear your praise..."
"So... So what are you doing here today?"
"We'll be leaving in a few days." Ye said calmly, and Harman was stunned for a long moment.
"That's it."
Harman pursed his lips, ran to the counter, whispered to Boss Cheng for a while, and began to operate clumsily under the other's loving eyes. After a while, he brought out five cups of coffee with uneven colors.
"This... this is what Haman made, he made it himself! You won't be able to drink it in the future, so drink it all this time! Don't leave any!"
Everyone looked at each other, took the cup and took a sip. Although the taste was bitter and greasy, everyone felt the other person's intentions and drank it out of courtesy.
"Remember...remember to talk to me more. No...it's not that Haman misses you! I'm...I'm worried that you'll be too bored..."
The atmosphere between the two groups was warm and touching, but when the scene changed, the atmosphere between Amagi and Lafite who were setting off here was not so harmonious.
On the train, Rafi and Amagi's beds were in the same compartment, both lower berths. There was no one else in the compartment and the train was relatively empty. Apart from the sound of the train running, nothing else could be heard.
Tiancheng looked at the tiny Lafite, thought for a moment, and then asked her.
"Little Rafi, why did you suddenly change your mind at that time?"
"...because Rafi wanted to go."
"Really..." Tiancheng sat upright even on the constantly moving train, "Yixian said something to you, right?"
“…”
"It's okay." Tiancheng smiled softly, "But I'll have to trouble little Lafite to take care of me along the way.
"...Rafi wanted to see the commander, so he
"I see... Didn't Changdao suggest that you distance yourself from him before? Did Yixian change your mind?"
Rafi didn't bother to find out why Tiancheng knew about this. He just pursed his lips and said, "...We can't just sit back and wait."
"Yeah... When dealing with someone like the commander, it's really useless to just sit back and wait." Tiancheng was like a gentle and caring sister, "But Lafei is different from me. Doesn't Lafei already have the commander's favor?"
"..."
"Why... do you want to compete with me for something you already have?"
"........."
"...No." Rafi was silent for a while, then his expression became firm, "Rafi is the same as you. Rafi... wants more."
"More? What do you mean? Closer? Make her care about you more?"
Tiancheng looked in the direction of Lafite and reached out to the table, but didn't touch the cup. Seeing this, Lafite obediently handed the cup to her. Tiancheng smiled and thanked her, then drank some warm water, making her cherry lips even redder.
"Rafi is still small, she's a destroyer, isn't she?"
Rafi refused to give in: "...The commander is still young, not yet an adult."
"Lafite should know that if the commander really has feelings for you, he will be arrested by the military police, right? Even so, do you still insist on your feelings?"
"...Rafi will go to the Military Police every day to see the Commandant."
The white-haired rabbit had obviously made up her mind, "Sister Tiancheng, aren't you afraid of being caught by the military police? Then Rafi won't let the commander come to see you."
Tiancheng stopped smiling when he heard that, and opened his unfocused but oppressive purple eyes, staring at Laffi. Laffi was not to be outdone and looked at Tiancheng intently.
As they watched, Tiancheng's expression suddenly softened, and he smiled and touched Lafei's little head.
"In fact, we don't need to be so confrontational. We are sisters in the same harbor, aren't we?"
"It's just that we have the same thought..."
"The commander's birthday... is on May 22nd. I only have a little over a year left, so I don't have to worry about that anymore."
“Little Rafi…” Tiancheng came closer and touched his forehead to Rafi’s affectionately, “You only have a little over a year… You must work hard and grow up well, okay?”
"Since we all want to come out on top, let's compete fairly, right?
"No matter what the outcome is, we will always be good sisters, right?"
Rafi rubbed back obediently, and the tit-for-tat atmosphere between the two disappeared in an instant.
"Well..." Rafi said, "Rafi will do his best...sister will do her best too..."
ps: chapters cannot be modified, scheduled releases cannot be made, no inter-posts, I'm cracked QA Q... The relationship in Hong Kong is very harmonious, well, before Akagi came, there was still a long period of peace (laughs
Chapter 180 Confession
Whenever you take a train, which is not a very fast means of transportation, the time you spend in the carriage is always infinitely extended.
Lafei and Tiancheng sat on the edge of the bed on either side, in a daze.
It was too quiet. Apart from the hypnotic sound of the train running, there was no other sound. I was lost in the repetitive "clang" sound. My mind was blank. When I came to my senses, I found that
Only five minutes had passed.
Normally, Lafei could have fallen asleep, but she was the only person Tiancheng could rely on along the way due to her poor eyesight, so she just forced herself to stay awake, taking a sip of drink from time to time.
Tiancheng was afraid that she would be bored, so he would occasionally talk to her.
"Little Lafite? What are you drinking?"
"...Cola."
"Huh?" Tiancheng was a little confused, "Why doesn't Lafite drink red wine, but carbonated drinks instead?"
"...easy to fall asleep."
Tiancheng was a thoughtful person and understood why this happened in an instant. Feeling relieved, he leaned over and pulled the slightly confused Lafite to his side.
"Can I have a drink?"
"Well..." Rafi hesitated, "...if Sister Tiancheng doesn't mind."
Tiancheng touched Lafite's head, took the dark brown liquid from her hand, tilted his head back and took a sip from the bottle. The sweetness on the tip of his tongue and the strange feeling of bursting bubbles made Tiancheng a little uncomfortable, so he returned the drink.
go with.
Rafi was very surprised. She was not particular about anything, but Tiancheng. She thought that someone as dignified and well-behaved as Tiancheng would not do such intimate things with others.
Tiancheng seemed to have guessed what Lafite was thinking and smiled, "Are you surprised?"
"Actually, I'm not as disciplined as you think. I just haven't tried these things."
"I don't allow Kisaragi to eat snacks because she doesn't know how to control herself. Even though she's a ship girl, if she keeps eating like this, even if I don't say anything, Susu, that old-fashioned woman, will always say something."
Tiancheng seemed to have thought of something and even made a joke, "There is a difference between me and your sister Hood. I am much more friendly than her."
Lafite agreed with this. At least Sister Tiancheng did not intend to confiscate her red wine and replace it all with tea leaves and lemons.
"You're so bored... why don't we chat?"
Tiancheng changed her usual dignified demeanor, took off her shoes and moved to the inside of the bed, crossed her legs and let her hair down, just smiling at Lafei on the edge of the bed, like a gentle sister next door.
Rafi thought about it, took off his shoes, followed Tiancheng's hand and crawled to her side. The two of them leaned against the wall of the compartment and were silent for a while.
"…What was Rafi doing before?"
"...Um?"
"Before I met Susu."
After hearing this, Lafei thought about it and found that he could not remember much about what happened before he met Su Xin. It was vaguely boring. Was it because there was nothing good to remember that it was so vague?
"Rafi...I don't remember clearly...I think he was sleeping the whole time?"
"I see..." Tian Cheng chuckled, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "When did you realize that you had a crush on her?"
Rafi paused, trying to recall.
"Was it when she first arrived?"
"Or when I pulled my own hand and ran out of the dormitory with a corner collapsed?"
"Or maybe you know that she once ran to the beach to deliver equipment under fire?"
As Rafi thought about it, she realized that she and the commander had unknowingly had so many memories worth remembering.
"As for me..." Tiancheng closed his eyes, his tone lighter than ever before, "I don't know where it started, but when I noticed it... it should be the phone call in 'Calling the Tide', right?"
"It made me understand what was really going on in my heart and what I longed for."
"I originally just wanted to get closer to her, and closer. As long as she had me in her heart, I would be satisfied. But I was spoiled, and I wanted more and more..."
Rafi listened and moved closer, looking like he wanted to hear the story: "So...what did Sister Tiancheng do before?"
“Before…” Tiancheng opened his eyes and looked at the opposite bed in a daze, “Training… fighting… training… fighting…”
"I'm not in good health, so I'm not particularly strong. Most of the time, I play a commanding role on the battlefield."
"If I must say... he should be considered the temporary commander, right?"
Rafi nodded, indicating that he understood it well.
"At that time, I just wanted to be more useful. During my rest time every day, I read books and studied artillery theory... avoidance angle theory and so on. There were many, many books."
"The commander in the port at that time was a very serious man, fierce and decisive. I felt that this was necessary, so when I saw him retire the injured shipgirl, I felt it was very reasonable, because war
That's it. "
"It was only when it was my turn that I realized that I was holding back countless grievances and complaints in my heart."
"It was then that I realized that after retiring, I was actually nothing, I had nothing."
"I think this is also the reason why wandering ship girls exist. No one wants to be used as a tool. They would rather work hard to make a living than have expectations for an unknown destination.
