How to fall in love with a ship girl?

"...Can the repair be completed in such a short time? It's a pity that the strength is too low, otherwise it can even be comparable to our shield." Shaking his head with some regret, Xu Huan, who achieved his goal, kicked his feet again, returned to the deck, and walked towards the cabin.

There was nothing special about the interior of the cabin either. Compared to the magnificent light curtain outside, the repetitive rooms and furnishings inside the cabin seemed a bit monotonous and boring.

I walked around the corner and found a room that looked clean and had complete facilities. When I was about to lie down, the door was suddenly pushed open.

"There may be some situation. Remember not to walk around for a while." Unlike his confident look just now, Royal Fortune now frowned, and there was a hint of worry on his delicate face.

"Hmm? Do you need my help?" Xu Huan, who was about to draw the other party's attention to knocking on the door, no longer wanted to argue after hearing this and asked.

"As a human being, what can you do to help? It's good enough that you don't hold us back..." The ship girl curled her lips, but after looking into the young man's eyes and hesitating for a while, she still whispered:

"I don't know why, but we seem to be targeted by the Sirens, and there are quite a few of them."

"Hmm? Siren?"

"Yes, they are the guys who are hostile to both humans and shipgirls. Although the mass-produced ones are not strong individually, I am not a surface ship in the strict sense, and my firepower and armor are not as good as the opponent's. A few of them are okay, but if there are a large number of them, it will be very difficult for me to deal with them..."

Royal Fortune sighed and continued, "I'll try to see if I can dodge it... If not, I might have to borrow your reward in advance."

Are there a lot of enemies? And our firepower and armor are not as good as the enemy's...

To be honest, before knowing the Siren's specific strength, Xu Huan felt that this matter was still a bit tricky.

Thinking back to what KanColle said just now, try to avoid it...

"Can the other party monitor our location in real time?"

"This is also what puzzles me. Normally, if there are bubbles and the person is diving, it should not be so easy to be discovered."

"....What happens if the blister bursts?"

"We'll be discovered... huh?"

Chapter 5: Legends of the Sea

"Based on my understanding of bubbles, the creatures in the ocean basically cannot cause any destruction to them... But how did you think of this?" Royal Wealth looked at Xu Huan with some confusion.

In her experience, blisters bursting is basically the most unlikely thing to happen.

"...a reasonable guess."

When Xu Huan heard that he was the culprit, he fell into a brief silence and had to make up a random excuse to get away with it.

But can such a thin layer of bubbles actually have such a big effect?

Fortunately, if it had anything to do with the blisters, it should have only been exposed for a moment.

But from another perspective, if the other party could catch it and gather immediately in just a split second -

“It might be a little tricky.”

Xu Huanchang exhaled, took out the pendant he had prepared as a reward from his pocket, and threw it directly into the girl's hand.

"Although I don't know what effect this thing will have on you, but since you said so, I'll give it to you in advance as payment. If you feel it's not enough afterwards, I can still make up for it."

"....Why are you so generous all of a sudden?"

Royal Fortune was not polite and took it directly, looking at Xu Huan with some surprise.

"I'm afraid of death. If you are sure you can take me away, of course you won't be stingy with this little thing."

"..."

The girl remained silent upon hearing this, the young man's face reflected directly in her ruby ​​eyes, motionless.

The air is a bit solid.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing... I just suddenly felt that you looked a lot more normal. It turns out you are not afraid of nothing..." Royal Fortune curled the corners of his mouth slightly, finally revealing the first smile since the two met.

Ever since she met Xu Huan on the island, and then the tentacles brought him on board, the young man in front of her had never shown any emotion other than confusion and silence.

Like a piece of wood, dull.

And now the other side has finally been revealed.

This feeling is hard to describe in words, and Royal Fortune himself isn't quite sure, but it's somewhat similar to the satisfaction that comes from adventure - both are discovering new things.

Retracting his thoughts, Royal Wealth looked at Xu Huan again: "Human, starting from my departure, do not leave the cabin during this period of time. I cannot guarantee your safety. If you do not obey the instructions and die... it will be very troublesome to clean up the bloodstains."

Seeing that Xu Huan nodded obediently, the girl said nothing more and turned away holding the crystal pendant.

He waited until the girl's hurried footsteps faded away before opening the door and walking in the direction of the cabin door he remembered.

I have to clean up the mess I made, and by the way, contact the Siren and get some intelligence.

With every step he took, the young man's body began to be gradually covered by a layer of faint white light. The sound of footsteps and his personal breath gradually faded away, and his worn combat uniform was replaced with a layer of thin, close-fitting black armor.

"Record the transmission beacon."

"The beacon has been set successfully." As the command was given, a stiff AI prompt began to sound from his ears, and Xu Huan's entire figure gradually began to disappear, blending into the environment.

Finally, there was only silence in the cabin.

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"Searching for signals, searching for signals—" The red light representing danger is constantly flashing, and a small fleet consisting of more than a dozen black ships is patrolling in the sea.

Off to the side, a barren island that had never appeared on the map was watching everything silently.

On the sea in the distance, a tentacle slightly emerged from the sea, pointing in the direction of the fleet.

"Thirteen ships... they are not that big in terms of specifications, but the fleet seems to be very well equipped..."

Deep in the sea, the Royal Fortune was standing on the mast of its own warship, constantly receiving intelligence from the detection tentacles: "It seems that there are mass-produced aircraft carriers... and also special anti-submarine ships."

Everything else is easy to deal with, but the existence of this anti-submarine ship means that if you get a little closer, you will most likely be detected.

However, if he could not close the distance and attack directly with his tentacles, he would be no match for the surface firepower.

If you run away...

It's okay if you're alone, as it's not easy to be discovered, but due to the large size of underwater ships, it's difficult to escape the opponent's sonar even with the protection of bubbles.

In other words, there is a high probability that he will have to "use up" the crystal pendant.

Unless I don't care about that human's life or death, but——

Royal Fortune looked at the crystal pendant in his hand.

"...Is this okay?"

She is a pirate, but more of a ship girl.

The crystal in my hand is indeed very precious, but compared with the human life at hand...

Not worth mentioning.

What about half of my crew?

"Tsk....why would I have such an idea?" Royal Fortune patted his cheek and laughed self-deprecatingly: "At this time, I should have just used it to rob Siren as well."

"It's a rare opportunity to shine...it's no use shrinking back."

The girl left the ship submerged in the water and slowly emerged to the surface by stepping on the tentacles.

She held the pendant high in her hand, placed it under the sun, and quietly felt the brilliant colors of the light passing through the crystal.

Very beautiful, very dazzling, very precious.

Royal Fortune closed his eyes and was about to crush the pendant in his hand to release all the mental energy contained in it.

"boom---"

In the distance came the deafening roar of artillery fire.

"?!!"

The girl was startled by the sudden sound of the cannon. She quickly stopped what she was doing and looked towards the source of the sound.

"Is that... the Siren fleet? What happened? Did other shipgirls run into them? The closest shipgirl camp to this sea area is——"

Royal Fortune's mind was racing, quickly eliminating one wrong option after another.

But then she immediately stopped thinking.

The battle seemed to be over.

"Um......?"

The roar from the distant sea was no longer heard. The small fleet of more than a dozen mass-produced ships declared their own destruction in less than half a minute.

There were only a dozen or so plumes of smoke of varying degrees of thickness floating above the sea, heralding the tragedy that had just occurred not long ago.

"This speed and efficiency...is this...collision with a sea legend?"

Chapter 6 Hutten

The term "Sea Legend" has a long history, and there are many superficial meanings derived from it, but in general, it mainly refers to those powerful ship girls.

In every major camp, there are many ship girls who can instantly change the battle situation like this. It is no exaggeration to say that they are the core and cutting-edge combat force of each camp.

"The port area closest to the sea area... seems to be on the Iron Blood side?"

Royal Fortune was a little hesitant about whether he should go up and say hello to the other party. After all, the other party had helped him solve a big problem.

But the Iron Blood shipgirls....to be honest, they are not very easy to get along with, and their reputation is only slightly better than those heavyweights of Sakura Empire...

And the girl herself didn't even know a single Iron-Blooded Ship Girl.

"If it's Iron Blood, forget it.....huh?!"

Royal Wealth had just made up his mind to sneak back to the ship when a piercing and crisp sound was heard again in the sea ahead. The energy fluctuations that followed even paralyzed his detection tentacles for a moment.

The sound of breaking continued to be heard, and the black smoke when the Siren ship was destroyed was instantly blown away by the shock wave that burst out from it.

"Are there any masters?"

Holding the crystal pendant tightly in her hand, the girl hesitated for a long time and decided to speed up the sailboat on the seabed and leave the sea area. After confirming that it was in a safer position, she returned along the same route and prepared to join the battlefield.

No matter which camp the ship girls are in, or what the relationship between the camps is, as long as they encounter danger from the Sirens, they will change their attitude and unite against the outside world.

This is the most basic principle agreed upon among ship girls.

And to be able to fight with such a legendary ship girl, the other party must be no simple person...

However, she also had a trump card that she had not used just now - a crystal pendant.

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a minute ago.

Xu Huan, wearing combat uniform and stepping directly on the sea water, appeared abruptly in the center of the sea area, which was also the center of an entire small Siren fleet.

The radar scanning system in the tactical watch has been activated, and the small 3D map and various data projected from it show the environment around Xu Huan in a very detailed way.

"Thirteen surface ships, the exact number of weapons and equipment is unknown, but the preliminary estimate is that the technological level is around the 20th century level in the history of the Human Alliance..."

"Threat level - low."

The projected data information was collected by Xu Huan in just a few seconds and a systematic analysis was completed.

"Well... considering that it is the mass-produced model mentioned by the KanColle, this level is quite normal."

His vigilance eased slightly, and when he was about to verify the accuracy of the data, he suddenly felt a slight chill on his back.

Xu Huan turned around and raised his head.

All I saw was a sky full of gray-white raindrops rapidly falling towards where I was.

".....Um?"

Looking closely, they were not raindrops.

Instead, it was the shells that fell, carrying flames with them.

"boom----!"

There were continuous roars, and the fire curtain caused by the explosion directly covered the place where Xu Huan was standing.

In just a moment, black smoke and red flames completely engulfed the entire sea area, and the originally blue ocean turned into a scene like hell on earth.

It was not until more than ten seconds later that the continuous explosions gradually stopped.