How do I start a romantic relationship with a ship girl?

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Royal Wealth didn't stand on ceremony and directly took it, glancing at Xu Huan with a slightly surprised look.

"I'm afraid of dying. If you're confident you can take me with you, you certainly won't be stingy with these things."

"..."

The girl remained silent upon hearing this, her ruby ​​eyes reflecting the young man's face without moving.

The air is a bit solid.

"what happened?"

"Nothing... I just suddenly feel like you've become much more normal. So you're not fearless after all..." Royal Fortune's lips curled slightly, finally revealing the first smile they'd shown since they met.

From the moment she met Xu Huan on the island until she brought him onto the ship with her tentacles, the young man in front of her never showed any emotion other than doubt and silence.

Like a block of wood, dull and lifeless.

And now, another side of it has finally been revealed.

This feeling is hard to describe in words, and even the Royal Fortune itself isn't quite sure. In short, it's somewhat similar to the satisfaction of exploration—both involve discovering something new.

Bringing his thoughts back, Royal Wealth glanced at Xu Huan again: "Human, from the time I leave, do not leave the cabin. I cannot guarantee your safety. If you disobey and die... cleaning up the bloodstains will be quite troublesome."

Seeing that Xu Huan nodded obediently, the girl said nothing more, and turned to leave with the crystal pendant in her hand.

Only after the girl's hurried footsteps faded into the distance did he open the door and walk in the direction of the cabin door he remembered.

I need to clean up the mess I made, and while I'm at it, I should make contact with the Sirens and gather some intelligence.

With each step he took, the young man's body was gradually covered by a faint white light. The sound of his footsteps and his personal aura gradually faded into nothingness, and his tattered combat uniform was replaced with a thin, close-fitting black armor.

"Record transmission beacon."

'Beacon setup successful.' As the command was given, a stiff AI notification sounded, and Xu Huan's figure gradually disappeared, blending into the environment.

Finally, only silence remained in the cabin.

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"Signal search in progress, signal search in progress—" A red light, signifying danger, flashed continuously as a small fleet of a dozen or so black ships patrolled the sea.

Nearby, a barren island, never before seen on a map, silently observes everything.

On the distant sea, a tentacle peeked out from the surface, pointing in the direction of the fleet.

"Thirteen ships... not particularly large in terms of size, but the fleet configuration seems exceptionally complete..."

Deep in the ocean, the Royal Fortune stood atop the mast of its own warship, constantly receiving intelligence from the probe tentacles: "It seems there are mass-produced aircraft carriers... and also dedicated anti-submarine ships."

Everything else is fine, but the existence of this anti-submarine ship means that if I get even a little closer, I am very likely to be detected.

However, if they cannot close the distance and attack directly with their tentacles, they are no match for each other in a battle of firepower on the water.

If we run away...

It's okay to be alone and not easily detected, but underwater ships are too big to escape enemy sonar even with the protection of bubbles.

In other words, there is a high probability that you will 'use' the crystal pendant.

Unless you decide to ignore that human's life or death, but—

Royal Wealth looked at the crystal pendant he was holding in his hand.

"...Is this the right thing to do?"

She is a pirate, but more importantly, she is a ship girl.

The crystal in my hand is certainly very precious, but compared to the lives at stake...

Not worth mentioning.

He was practically a crew member himself...

"Tsk... How could I have such a thought?" Royal Wealth patted his cheeks and laughed self-deprecatingly. "At a time like this, we should have just used it to rob the Sirens as well."

"It's a rare opportunity to shine... what kind of person would be to cower and shrink back?"

The girl left the ship that was submerged underwater and slowly rose to the surface of the water, stepping on its tentacles.

She held the pendant high in her hand, placing it in the sunlight, quietly feeling the light passing through the brilliant colors within the crystal.

It's beautiful, dazzling, and precious.

Royal Wealth closed his eyes, preparing to crush the pendant in his hand and release all the mental energy it contained—

"boom---"

The deafening roar of artillery fire could be heard in the distance.

"?!!"

The girl was startled by the sudden sound of cannon fire and immediately stopped what she was doing, looking towards the source of the sound.

"That's... the Sirens' fleet? What happened? Did other ship girls encounter them? The closest ship girl faction to this area is—"

Royal Wealth's mind raced, rapidly eliminating one wrong option after another.

But then she immediately stopped thinking.

The battle seems to be over.

"Um......?"

The roaring sounds from the distant seas had ceased, and the small fleet of more than a dozen mass-produced ships had all perished in less than half a minute.

Only a dozen or so plumes of smoke of varying thickness floated in the sky above the sea, a testament to the tragedy that had just occurred.

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

Chapter Six Hu Teng

The term "legendary ship girls" has a long history and has many derived meanings, but in general, it mainly refers to those powerful ship girls.

Within each major faction, there are many ship girls capable of instantly changing the course of battle, just like now. It is no exaggeration to say that they are the core and cutting-edge combat power of each faction.

"The port area closest to this sea area... seems to be the one on the Ironblood side?"

Royal Wealth hesitated whether to go up and greet the other party, after all, the other party had helped them resolve a considerable problem.

But the Ironblood ship girls... to be honest, aren't easy to get along with, and their reputation is only slightly better than the heavyweights of the Sakura Empire...

The girl herself didn't recognize a single Ironblood ship girl.

"If it's Ironblood, then forget it... uh?!"

Royal Fortune had just made up its mind to sneak back to the ship when a piercing, sharp sound came from the sea ahead again. The energy fluctuations that followed even paralyzed its sensing tentacles for a moment.

The sound of shattering continued, and the black smoke from the destruction of the Sirens was instantly dispersed by the shockwaves that erupted from it.

"Is there another expert?"

Clutching the crystal pendant in her hand, the girl hesitated for a long time before deciding to first speed up the underwater sailboat and leave the area. Only after confirming that it was in a relatively safe position did she return the way she came, ready to rejoin the battle.

Regardless of which faction the ship girls belong to or what the relationship is between the factions, they will change their attitude and unite against the Sirens whenever they encounter danger.

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

To be able to generate such a loud noise when fighting a legendary ship girl, the opponent must be no ordinary person...

However, she also had a trump card she hadn't used earlier—a crystal pendant.

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a minute ago.

Xu Huan, dressed in combat gear, stepped directly onto the seawater and appeared abruptly in the center of this sea area, which was also the center of a small Siren fleet.

The radar scanning system in the tactical watch was already in use, and the 3D mini-map and various data projected from it displayed Xu Huan's surroundings in a very detailed way.

"Thirteen surface ships, with unknown weaponry and other specific numbers, are preliminarily judged to have a technological level roughly equivalent to that of the 20th century in the history of the People's Federation..."

"Threat level - low".

The projected data was collected by Xu Huan and analyzed by the system in just a few seconds.

"Hmm... Considering that this is the mass-produced model mentioned by the ship girls, this level is not too bad."

His vigilance eased slightly, and just as he was about to verify the accuracy of the data, a subtle chill suddenly ran down his spine.

Xu Huan turned around and raised his head.

All I could see were countless gray-white raindrops falling rapidly towards where I was.

".....Um?"

Upon closer inspection, however, those were not raindrops.

Instead, they were shells falling one after another, each carrying flames.

"boom----!"

A series of booming sounds rang out, and the fire curtain from the explosions completely covered the spot where Xu Huan was standing.

In an instant, black smoke and red flames engulfed the entire sea area, turning the once azure ocean into a scene resembling a living hell.

The continuous explosions only gradually stopped after about ten seconds.