It's time to give out the rings, Admiral!

"Admiral? You're back?" The still beautiful Radiant Glow slowly walked out of the bedroom. The boy's gaze instinctively fell on her. Before he could say anything, seeing Radiant Glow's cheeks flushed like a sunset, his brain seemed to freeze and stop working. Because Radiant Glow in front of him was only wearing a revealing maid outfit!

The short skirt and the top that barely covered her chest hugged Guanghui's voluptuous figure, her ample breasts bulging as if they might jump out at any moment.

Looking at the pale thighs, white arms, and flat, smooth abdomen in front of him, the boy, who had never seen such a blood-pumping sight, suddenly went blank. Apart from feeling his pants getting a little tight, he swallowed hard and the only thing he could remember was touching his slightly itchy nose.

Perhaps it was because someone's dazed gaze was too aggressive, but after being stared at by the boy for so long, Glorious finally couldn't stand it anymore. She shyly raised her arms to protect her chest, lowered her head in embarrassment and delight, quickly glanced at her admiral's seemingly bewitched expression, and then said to him with a hint of reproach, "Admiral, why are you staring at me like that? Am I that good-looking?"

That soft, shy yet joyful voice reached the boy's ears, finally causing a change in his previously dazed expression. His face quickly flushed red, as if he had snapped out of his daze, and he immediately turned his face away. "Radiance?? Why are you dressed like that?!"

Hearing her admiral's surprised question, the mature wife and flight attendant, who was used to the boy's gaze and was no longer so reserved, gently took the bag full of food from the boy's hand. Looking at the admiral who was like a child, occasionally sneaking glances at her body, the admiral smiled affectionately and explained to the boy why she was dressed like that.

The reason was not complicated. It was just that Guanghui had searched the entire room but could not find a bathrobe or other clothes to wear. In desperation, he had no choice but to use the clothes in the closet as a temporary substitute.

Among the many cosplay outfits, she chose this sexy maid outfit that even a man would find irresistible. The main reason is that among all the outfits, only this one can bear her extraordinary bust. Of course, as for whether there are any other unknown reasons, only Radiant knows.

Having understood the reason, Su Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little disappointed. She tried hard to keep her gaze from Radiant's chest. The boy then led Radiant and the unicorn to eat a rather meager and slightly cold dinner. After taking a shower and enjoying a fragrant massage from Radiant, it was time for his usual rest.

He let the yawning unicorn sleep in the middle of the soft bed, while watching the radiance on the other side carefully take off the bracelet he had given her that afternoon and place it on the bedside table. The boy then turned on the lamp switch and gently lay down on the pillow behind him.

Silence returned to the room. Gazing into the darkness, I lay there silently.

The boy tossed and turned in bed for half the day, unable to calm himself down. Perhaps he had seen too many stimulating images today, whether it was the peaceful breathing of the unicorn and the radiance in the darkness, or the hazy yet shapely body not far from him, all of which made the already sleepless boy even more awake.

Although he was surrounded by two beautiful women, one older and one younger, who trusted him implicitly, this situation, which would make countless men envious, was undoubtedly a form of mental torture for the young man. Suddenly realizing that this was perhaps the first time he had shared a bed with women other than his family, Su Yuchen, becoming even more nervous in the silence, painfully rubbed his hair.

He quietly sat up, as if trying to break the silence that had kept him on edge, afraid that his voice would wake the sleeping unicorn. In the dim moonlight, the boy spoke to Radiance in a high-pitched voice, "Radiance? Are you asleep?"

"No, Admiral. What's wrong?" Illustrious's gentle voice quickly came from the darkness. However, upon receiving a response from his ship girl, the boy was momentarily at a loss for words. He had only wanted to check if Illustrious was asleep, and also to ease his own tension.

"N-nothing... I have to get up early to go back to the academy tomorrow morning, so go to sleep." The somewhat embarrassed boy scratched his head awkwardly and went back to the pillow that he wasn't used to. But thanks to this, his discomfort and tension were relieved quite a bit.

"Goodnight, Admiral." Radiant said goodnight obediently beside her, and Su Yuchen felt a deep weariness gradually welling up from the back of her head. It seemed that after the excitement, the fatigue that had accumulated throughout the day had finally erupted.

Just before he could barely open his eyes, looking at Glorious's face, which resembled a goddess in the dim light, the boy suddenly realized a fact that surprised him greatly. Glorious was a ship girl, after all. If she couldn't find clothes, couldn't she just change into the clothes that came with her ship equipment? So why was she wearing that erotic maid outfit?

However, the deep drowsiness didn't intend to give the boy any more time to think. Before he could figure out why, his eyes were as if they had been glued shut and he could no longer open them.

His consciousness had become blurred, and in his daze, the boy seemed to hear Guanghui saying something in his ear. Then, as something soft brushed against his cheek, he knew nothing more.

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Volume 1, Chapter 67: Rainy Night

“...Admiral...Admiral!!!” In a pure white space, Lexington suddenly saw the unforgettable figure walking further and further away. He wanted to chase after it desperately but could not move his body even half a step. Covered in cold sweat and with a face full of terror, Lexington struggled to sit up from the bed.

Her flaxen hair, damp with sweat, draped over her stunning face. Seeing the familiar furnishings and ceiling before her, she panicked and realized she had only been having a nightmare.

"Ha...ha...so it was just a dream..." Sitting on the blanket that was already soaked with her own sweat, her azure pupils still showed a hint of panic as she gently stroked her heaving, high chest.

The dim light from the streetlamp spilled into the room through the gap in the curtains. Lexington glanced at the clock on the wall, which had just pointed to two o'clock, and forced herself to calm down, afraid that her voice would wake her sister. She turned to look at Saratoga, who was lying next to her, occasionally uttering the vague word "brother-in-law" in her sleep.

Perhaps it was because she had met her beloved brother-in-law in her dream, looking at her sweet smiling face, Lexington couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke Saratoga's long golden hair.

Although everything that just happened was just a dream, upon careful reflection, everything in the dream felt so real, as if the admiral was really about to be taken away, making one feel a slight unease whenever the thought came to mind.

Not understanding why she suddenly had such a strange feeling, Lexington sighed softly. Unable to fall asleep because of the nightmare, she lifted the covers and sat on the edge of the bed. Her white silk nightgown clung to her shapely body, making her, who was already very wifely, look even more gentle and charming.

Just as he put on his slippers and was about to get up, a series of smacking, dreamy sounds came from behind him: "...Sister...Brother-in-law...Hehe...Jiajia loves you..." Looking at the girl in the blanket, who was drooling without a care for her image, Lexington shook his head slowly, feeling both pity and helplessness.

She stood up, pushed open the bedroom door, and tiptoed out. She saw Missouri and Wisconsin lying exhausted on the sofa in the living room, fast asleep. She then remembered that they had been sailing day and night for several days to come and meet her.

Lexington had intended to tidy up the empty drink bottles lying on the coffee table while she wasn't feeling sleepy, but a long, narrow shadow cast from the balcony caught her attention. She looked curiously at the balcony and saw Washington leaning on the railing, gazing at the sea alone in the rain.

Washington?

"Huh? Is that Lexington? You're not asleep either." Hearing Lexington's questioning voice from behind, Washington, wearing only his usual naval uniform over his pajamas, turned around slightly.

"What are you doing here so late?" Lexington put the beverage bottle in her hand into the trash bag and slowly walked to the balcony. She walked to Washington's side, looked at the sea in the distance that looked very calm in the night, and asked Washington with some confusion.

"Nothing, just thinking about some things." After listening to Lexington's words, Washington turned around and leaned lazily against the balcony railing. "By the way, Lexington, what do you think... what are the chances that the Admiral is at the Naval Academy?"

"The Admiral?... I don't know, but there's a good chance the Admiral is in the academy. What Yi Xian said can't be false, and that photo..." After thinking for a moment, Lexington quickly answered Washington. However, she was puzzled as to why Washington would suddenly ask her such a question.

However, Lexington wasn't bothered for long. Soon, Washington began explaining why he had asked the question: "Saratoga saw the Admiral at the academy, Yatsen saw a naval academy student who looked a lot like the Admiral in her restaurant, and even in the evening, Wisconsin brought that photograph..."

"Because so many sisters said they saw the Admiral, I've been thinking since last night whether Junquan is hiding something from me. Because when I went to see her, her attitude and tone were very strange..."

Washington's words immediately made Lexington frown. If it was truly because the monarch had concealed the truth from them, then it would explain why her sisters were frequently discovering clues about the admiral...

But why did she hide it from Washington? Was there a reason? Or...? As if she had suddenly thought of something and seemed to understand something, a helpless, bitter smile appeared on Lexington's beautiful face.

"Washington, you didn't go to the academy with an axe again, did you? Although you rarely take out an axe after your transformation, you still subconsciously grab it when you're impulsive."

Perhaps it was just as Lexington had predicted. Washington scratched his long silver hair, which was tied up with a blue ribbon, and then awkwardly looked away. "I was a little anxious at the time, so I just went in like that. But I only said that I would teach that heartless man a lesson when I found him. I definitely didn't do anything outrageous."

Okay... no wonder. Any responsible instructor wouldn't send a woman with an axe who looks impulsive to find their student. So, the admiral is really in the academy? But... why isn't he coming to find us?

"Could something have happened to the Admiral... like amnesia? Otherwise, there's no way he wouldn't come looking for us..." Before he could even think it through, Washington, who was gripping the railing beside him, had already come up with the only explanation: amnesia was the only possibility that could explain why the Admiral wouldn't come looking for them.

At this point, Lexington was suddenly overwhelmed with a mix of anxiety and guilt. If it weren't for their momentary lapse in attention during the defensive battle, allowing a stray Abyssal destroyer to bombard the Admiral's residence and cause his disappearance, perhaps their child would already be born by now...

“This is the only explanation… We can only blame ourselves for being too careless back then…” After saying this, Lexington and Washington fell silent, leaning against the railing and gazing silently at the endless sea in the distance.

The silence lasted for an unknown amount of time, until Washington, who had been leaning against the wall in deep thought, straightened up and sighed. The dim light illuminated her beautiful face, which was expressionless yet appeared very lonely.

"...We ship girls are truly the kind of creatures who can't live without our admiral... Although I've always heard you say that before, I didn't feel anything back then. I even thought that even without our admiral, I could still complete the mission against the Abyss... However, since our admiral disappeared... I don't even have much courage left to set foot on the sea surface... Hah... Thinking back to myself a year ago, I'm really quite ridiculous."

“Washington…” Hearing Washington’s somewhat dejected self-deprecating tone, Lexington turned around and looked at her with great concern.

"Don't worry about me, Lexington. I've just figured something out." Compared to Lexington's worries, Washington seemed somewhat relieved as she looked up at the dark sky in the distance. She closed her eyes, clenched her palms, and then looked firmly into Lexington's unfathomable eyes.

"Over a year has made me realize just how arrogant and foolish I was before. But I also want to thank this year because it has allowed me to successfully understand my own heart... I missed out before, but I don't plan to let go again. Lexington, you don't mind having another rival in love, do you?"

Still reeling from Washington's declaration of war, Lexington's eyes widened in surprise. A gentle breeze ruffled her long, flaxen hair, and with a beautiful smile, she reached out to brush away the wind-blown strands that were obscuring her vision. "Of course I don't mind. Anyway, I'm not the only one the Admiral is marrying..."

Volume 1, Chapter 68: Fingerpoint Universe

Although it was a bit of a pity that the hard-won holiday ended so easily, Su Yuchen was woken up early in the morning by Guanghui, who was dressed in a dress. After quickly eating breakfast at the breakfast shop downstairs from the hotel, Su Yuchen took the tram back to the college and rushed to the teaching building she visited every day.

However, as the boy dragged his still exhausted body through the academy, Su Yuchen, who was followed by two ship girl ladies, keenly sensed that she seemed to be attracting more attention than before.

The reason for this is obvious. After all, compared to before, besides the still amazing brilliance, the boy now has a petite and adorable unicorn by his side. If his nerves hadn't been toughened up, he probably would have fled long ago in the face of countless envious and jealous gazes and pointing fingers from all around.

The sky remained overcast, a light drizzle still falling since the heavy rain that began yesterday afternoon. The damp and muggy weather made the early-rising boy frown. He'd heard on the radio last night that it would clear up today; why was it different from what they'd promised?

Sighing that the weather made him want to go back to his dorm and catch up on his sleep, Su Yuchen, following the vast army of students rushing to class, finally arrived at the main entrance of the teaching building. However, before he could even go in, the boy was blocked by a large group of trainee admirals and ship girls who had swarmed around him. After looking around curiously, he noticed that a large notice board had been erected on the side of the road leading to the teaching building.

"Admiral, what happened?" Hearing the slightly puzzled voice from behind, Su Yuchen, who was completely unaware of the situation, shook his head helplessly. Just as he was about to stop a classmate to ask what was written on the notice board, someone suddenly patted his shoulder. Turning around, he saw Dewey standing behind him, whom he hadn't seen since the start of the semester.

"Good morning, Su Yuchen." Seeing Du Wei, who looked rather comical with huge dark circles under his eyes, greet him "spiritedly," the boy was quite surprised by his appearance and almost thought he had mistaken him for someone else. He replied with astonishment, "Good morning, Du Wei. Uh... what happened to your dark circles? Did you get into a fight?"

"Huh? You mean this?" To everyone's surprise, upon hearing the boy's words, the listless Dewey pointed dejectedly to his purplish-blue eye sockets. Recalling why he had become so pitiful, Dewey, almost bursting into tears while clinging to Su Yuchen's leg, tearfully explained the reason to the boy.

"You don't know, Brother Yuchen, Beishang is actually a lesbian! Just because I lost a game of mahjong to her yesterday, I promised her I could grant her any request, and then she nagged me all night to build her sister's Great Well... Let's not even talk about whether I can build it, where am I going to get enough resources for a big build!"

Is this... really like this? Looking at Dewey's tearful face, Su Yuchen, whose face was covered in cold sweat, chuckled dryly and looked away. She remembered that the relationship between Kitakami and Oi in the game was indeed very close, but it couldn't be this close, could it?

And what's this? You actually dared to go and play mahjong with the so-called genius mahjong girl, Kitakami the Great Demon King? Aren't you asking for a beating, little bro?! "Well... well, you really have had a tough time... So, where has Kitakami gone now?" After offering a half-hearted sympathy for his unscrupulous friend's plight, the boy quickly changed the subject.

"She's gone back to the dorm to catch up on sleep. She heard that all the instructors had to go out today, so the academy decided to suspend classes temporarily. That's what the notice board over there says."

"The instructors all went out? Did something happen?" Before Dewey could finish speaking, Su Yuchen frowned in confusion. Instructors usually wouldn't leave the academy so easily, let alone as a group…

"Who knows? But I heard that someone saw the instructors go out to sea early this morning. Maybe they discovered the deep sea in the nearby waters..." Facing the boy's thoughtful expression, Dewey shrugged nonchalantly. In any case, the seniors of the nearby naval base and the instructors of the academy would handle the deep sea attack. He didn't need to worry too much.

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed that behind the boy, besides the radiance he had already met, there was a small, incredibly endearing girl with light purple hair shyly clutching his clothes. His lips twitched uncontrollably. He interrupted the boy's thoughts, pointing to the unicorn behind him, "Brother Yu Chen, this is…"

"Hmm?" Following Dewey's finger, Su Yuchen turned around and saw the unicorn clutching her shirt, still holding Yu-chan in her arms. She affectionately stroked Yu-chan's silky, light purple hair, which made Yu-chan blush and smile at her. Su Yuchen, who was wondering why the instructors had gone out to sea so early in the morning without realizing what she had done, casually explained to Dewey what had happened.

"Her name is Unicorn. She's a new ship girl I just got a few days ago, a four-star support-type light carrier."

However, the boy had been speaking for a long time without receiving a response from Dewey. This made the boy look up in confusion, but when he saw Dewey's tearful face as he clenched his hands, the slow-witted boy realized how inappropriate his behavior had been.

"Why are you so good at sunbathing people?! Are you a human or a seal?!" Dewey, who had been holding back his resentment since the beginning of the semester, finally yelled at the seal after being sunburned all over.

Kuso, an aircraft carrier plus a light carrier, this kind of configuration is almost enough to crush the entire naval base in Tsugawa City, okay? Letting such a Martian live in the world, how are we little guys supposed to live?!

"Calm down, Dewey. I was just a little bit luckier than you, and there are actually a lot of people who are even luckier than me!" Looking at Dewey's pitying expression, Su Yuchen, who didn't know what to do to comfort him, raised her hand and made a little gesture with her thumb and forefinger.

"Look, one day you'll get your own second ship girl!"

"A legendary, standard aircraft carrier plus a four-star light aircraft carrier... the distance between your fingers is probably the entire universe, isn't it?" Dewey thought to himself, staring intently at the boy's fingers.

Volume 1, Chapter 69: Leisure

After finally getting rid of Dewey, who was crying from the sun, and leaving behind a rumor in the academy that "there's another European dog with two ship girls in the academy," Su Yuchen had no choice but to take the Unicorn and Illustrious back to her school building, since the instructors had already gone to sea and she couldn't attend theoretical classes.

Lazily lying on the soft sofa in the living room, enjoying the gentle and beautiful glow around her, Su Yuchen peeled an apple and occasionally fed it to her mouth with a toothpick. Completely unaware that her behavior would cause tons of pain to countless single people, Su Yuchen, who was enjoying her good fortune without realizing it, chewed on the sweet apple while reading a theoretical book on fleet formation.

On his other side, the unicorn was quietly reading the storybook he had bought for her yesterday. As for the photos taken yesterday that pleased both Radiance and the unicorn, they had already been framed and hung on the wall.

"Come on, Admiral, ah~" Once again, Su Yuchen held the peeled apple slices to her lips. Listening to the gentle and doting voice of Glorious in her ear, Su Yuchen, feeling a little embarrassed, slowly opened her mouth. Although she had just stopped Glorious and said that she could do it herself, it was clear that Glorious, as a wife-level regular aircraft carrier who doted on the Admiral, had not listened to her at all.

Feeling the gentle glow of the light after being fed, the boy softly wiped the apple juice from his lips with a handkerchief. He almost felt like a useless admiral, and sighed softly. "Sigh... at this rate, when will I ever become the excellent admiral I aspire to be?"

Watching Su Yuchen sigh inwardly at the long road ahead, a contented Guanghui gently stood up and walked to the cabinet. "Admiral, would you like a cup of coffee?" Hearing Guanghui's cheerful inquiry, the boy put down his book and looked at Guanghui, who was taking out the coffee he had bought earlier from the cabinet.

Gazing at her graceful figure, the image of Glorious in her maid outfit involuntarily surfaced in his mind. The boy, now somewhat parched, nodded to Glorious. "Well then, I'll leave it to you, Glorious." With that, he turned away guiltily, pretending to still be reading the book in his hands.

The virtuous and radiant woman responded with a smile and went into the kitchen. Before the man could even breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the unicorn's seemingly weak yet devilish voice again: "Brother...brother, your book...you're holding it upside down..."

My dear unicorn sister, you should keep this sad thing to yourself. Why do you have to say it out loud?

The embarrassed boy, having his foolish act pointed out by the little girl, quickly turned the book back in his hands. He awkwardly looked up at the unicorn, who was covering its cute chin with its storybook in embarrassment.

Perhaps realizing that her actions would put her older brother in a difficult position, as if she had done something wrong, her eyes looked somewhat timid.

Of course, the boy, who has recently been showing signs of becoming a lolicon, would not make things difficult for his cute and capable "adopted sister." He habitually reached out and patted her head, and then asked the petite girl in an extremely affectionate voice, "Unicorn, is this storybook good?"

The girl's slight unease quickly dissipated at her brother's gentle voice, which was as gentle as ever. She smiled shyly at the boy and hugged the big book into her small arms. "Hmm, brother... the stories inside are very good. Everyone in the book is very kind."

"I see..." Su Yuchen nodded with satisfaction at the girl's words, but before he could finish what he hadn't finished saying, a very muffled loud noise came from outside the window.

He turned to look outside. The sky, which had been showing signs of clearing up, had once again become overcast. With such bad weather, it wouldn't be surprising if anyone said that it would start pouring rain like yesterday again at any moment.

Gazing at the flashes of lightning that occasionally streaked through the thick, dark clouds, the ominous premonition that had gripped the boy since morning grew even stronger. "If it really is a deep-sea attack, fighting under these conditions must be incredibly dangerous... I hope the instructors are all safe and sound..."

The worried boy managed to squeeze out a tiny sound, but perhaps because his voice was so soft, the unicorn sitting next to him misunderstood him. "Danger?... Sailing in this weather would indeed be very dangerous... Brother, but if we encounter any danger, Yu-chan will protect me..."

The girl's innocent and lovely words reached Su Yuchen's ears, which eased his unease a little. He withdrew his gaze from the window, clenched his fist, and said to the unicorn with a confident expression, "This weather is indeed terrible, but with me here, you won't be in any danger."

"...Won't we be safe with you here, brother?" Looking at the boy's unwavering face, the girl, inexplicably feeling a sweet warmth in her heart upon hearing his words, shyly picked up her book to cover her flushed face again. Stealing a peek at the boy behind the pages, she said to him with a blushing smile, "Hehe...brother looks like a unicorn knight..."

A knight? A knight is nice too… The smiling boy nodded gently. Meanwhile, after busying himself in the kitchen on the other side for a while, Radiant emerged carrying a tray laden with teacups.

Volume 1, Chapter 70: The Bombing

Thick, dark clouds churned and leaped in the air under the sweeping wind, accompanied by muffled thunder and occasional flashes of lightning, making the pitch-black sky look like a gaping maw of blood, sending chills down one's spine just by looking at it from afar.

The once calm and vast sea had become turbulent. In this place filled with danger and panic, Junquan and his entourage, who had been ordered to intercept a large deep-sea fleet that had suddenly appeared, were still using their few anti-aircraft weapons to disperse the swarms of deep-sea carrier-based aircraft that were approaching from not far away, like locusts.

Several F2A Buffalo carrier-based fighters that had taken off from Langley continued to circle in mid-air, protecting the airspace above the ship girl instructors. However, facing a Deepsea bomber that outnumbered their own forces several times over, the massive swooping down of the bomber easily tore through the instructors' defenses, dropping dozens of deadly bombs over their heads before leisurely flying away.

Perhaps because fate did not want this destined fierce battle to end so quickly, most of the bombs dropped by the returning deep-sea bombers deviated from their intended routes in the howling winds over the sea.

Having lost their aim, they wobbled and fell into the sea not far from the instructors, with only a few causing limited near misses within their formation.

However, as instructors with some combat experience, they also knew that even if they were lucky enough to escape this attack, what awaited them next was still the increasingly frenzied bombardment from the deep-sea aircraft carriers.

"The situation leaves us no time to think. The forces that the Deep Sea has deployed this time have exceeded our expectations. If this continues, we will both be sunk here!" Standing on the turbulent sea, Jun Quan, the flagship of this fleet composed of ship girl instructors from the academy, turned around and roared loudly at her colleagues behind her. The fierce wind blew her originally neat hair into disarray, and a trace of blood extending from her forehead made her look quite disheveled.

"Langley, according to the plan, you and Leipzig who need supplies should return to the academy immediately and request support from the academy head!" Due to the previous bombing, her massive ship equipment was damaged to a near-dangerous degree, but even so, she remained calm and composed as she gave them orders, having shielded her comrades from considerable harm.

Her attitude successfully inspired her fellow ship girls, allowing them to regroup into a formation suitable for air defense after being bombed and continue their retreating towards the distance from land.

However, faced with the unquestionable order from the monarch, Langley, positioned in the center of the wheel formation and receiving the command, showed a very reluctant expression. "But... if I leave, you will lose the cover of your carrier-based aircraft, Monarch! In that case, can you hold out until reinforcements arrive?!"

Her questioning words made several ship girl instructors waver for a moment, but the answer she received remained firm: "I know! But the outcome of continuing like this is equally obvious! There is a sandbar to the southeast of the academy. When you go to request support, we will go there. With the geographical environment there, we should be able to hold out a little longer, so don't waste any more time! Hurry up! Langley! Glory, how far are we from the sandbar?"