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Liu Cheng explained: "I trust Tirpitz, and Tirpitz also trusts me, so I know that if she really endured something for me, she would definitely tell me. If she doesn't say it, then she has her reasons. Tirpitz is not a hypocritical little girl, so I certainly don't need to worry about her for this kind of thing."

[You're kidding. Do you understand the value of the half-year gaming experience that Tirpitz and I have been playing together? As soon as Tirpitz moved and didn't even raise her hand to use her skills, I knew she was going to attack the other party. What is tacit understanding? This is tacit understanding. She's trying to trick me with this kind of cleverness. Humph, you're just being clever.]

Prince Eugen was silent for a moment. She suddenly understood why Tirpitz trusted the human man in front of him so much. Trust is mutual. She envied him for having such trust...

"So you were playing a double act just now?"

In front of Prince Eugen, Zara and Liu Cheng did not answer. They smiled at each other, and tacitly stretched out their hands and clapped each other.

“Hehehehe…you guys are great…”

Prince Eugen touched her lower lip with her index finger. She did not feel much resentment, but from this moment on she truly put Liu Cheng on an equal footing, and she felt that she would not lose again.

Chapter 27: The prologue to the banquet is about to begin

Zara looked at Prince Eugen's leaving back and said to Liu Cheng, "That's good. Now you have completely offended her."

Liu Cheng said noncommittally, "She was the one who came here first to use Tirpitz to deceive me. Besides, it's impossible for anyone to make everyone like him or her. If she's offended, then she's offended. Respect is mutual."

"Prince Eugen, the flower of Iron Blood, is also a real high-ranking figure in Iron Blood. If you go to Iron Blood in half a year, you might be in trouble with her."

Zara smiled, playing with a red wine cork with her slender hands. They were united in facing the outside world just now, but now it’s time to settle the internal affairs.

Liu Cheng's breathing stagnated. Zara's beautiful smile and eyes filled with laughter seemed to be warmer than the Mediterranean sunshine at that moment, making his thick skin numb. Even though Liu Cheng had already realized something, he still decided not to respond to the conversation for the time being.

"Half a year is still a long way off...Speaking of the tacit understanding we had just now, tsk, you understood it with just one look from me, your acting was simply flawless, worthy of being Zara, so smart."

Zara frowned and said with some self-pity, "That's not as good as Tirpitz. What a mutual trust, what a good impression beyond friendship."

"Who said that? My sister Zara is invincible."

"What if it compares to Tirpitz?"

"Ahem, everyone is a unique firework. It's irresponsible to compare. I think Dostoyevsky said it well. A person..."

"puff--"

Seeing Liu Cheng's cute expression when he explained, Zara couldn't help but smile and stretched out her slender finger to poke his cheek lightly, interrupting him, "Okay, asking this kind of question is really not suitable for my personality. I said I will interrogate you in the evening, so you should save the explanation until then."

"Okay." Zara's gentleness and charm were so intoxicating that Liu Cheng couldn't help but hold her outstretched right hand and said, "I will be lenient if I confess. I definitely don't need you to punish me severely."

Zara blinked and said, "Oh, evening is evening. How are you going to thank me for what happened just now?"

"You command, I will send you wherever you want."

"Well... then help me massage my legs."

As Zara spoke, she brought her slender legs wrapped in smooth black stockings together, and the soft white flesh under the green skirt, which was slightly dented, reflected a dazzling white light.

"it is good."

Ryu Seung-shin

The hand gently touches the smooth black silk legs, and the touch is soft and delicate. It is hard not to have dirty thoughts when hammering.

"Oh~"

Zara's beautiful cherry lips gently uttered a series of ascending notes. The charming and lazy tone made Liu Cheng inexplicably excited. He secretly took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to attack. Facts have proved that for a virgin, no matter how fully prepared he is mentally, he cannot resist this extraordinary female charm.

"Too much force?"

"No, just like that...Give me a shoulder massage after the hammering."

"it is good."

The place where Zara and Liu Cheng were was just an inconspicuous corner on the deck, partially obscured by the large dining table and the destroyer's 100mm gun base. However, this did not prevent many people from occasionally looking there. After all, it was the first time for most of the ship girls to see a human who could communicate normally with them. Before they set off, they had more or less heard something about Tirpitz, so they were naturally curious about Liu Cheng. After seeing the intimate behavior between him and Zara, most of the ship girls became more curious, no matter what they thought.

Hu Teng leaned against the railing of the destroyer and drank the remaining beer in the beer glass in one gulp. Her slender index finger easily rotated the beer glass around the handle. After throwing it in a clever arc, the beer glass landed steadily on the dining table not far away. Hu Teng didn't even look over there, as if she was just doing a trivial little action.

"Handsome."

Prince Eugen praised his colleague, who had just filled a glass of beer. She naturally stood next to Hutten, raised it up and took a big sip.

"What? Did you come back empty-handed?" Hu Teng's flat tone didn't sound like a question, but rather like stating a fact.

"Well, I underestimated the enemy. I've seen many stupid humans. It was my arrogance that I didn't treat him as an equal." Prince Eugen pushed his silver hair that was messed up by the sea breeze behind his ears and asked, "Why, did I show it too obviously?"

"You didn't show it obviously, but they showed it obviously."

Prince Eugen followed Hutten's gaze and saw Liu Cheng who was massaging Zara's back. The two ship girls' eyes met inadvertently, and then they deliberately looked away.

"They..." Prince Eugen smiled, supporting himself with one hand on the railing behind him, "She is demonstrating to us, or rather, she is declaring her sovereignty over that human to everyone. It is such a girly yet childish move."

Hutten said: "It is indeed naive, but so was Tirpitz."

Prince Eugen was silent for a moment, biting the wall of his beer glass with his lips, and admitted, "That's right. If it was just one person, it could be considered a coincidence. But if it was two or more people, it can't be explained by coincidence. That human does have some characteristics that deserve our attention."

Hutten glanced at Prince Eugen and said, "Are you going to make another move?"

"Of course, I won't underestimate the enemy again... and to be honest, it feels good to communicate with him."

"Then we need to stagger a little." Hutten crossed his arms, looked at the clouds in the sky, and said coldly, "Trust is a deadly poison. Once you indulge in it, the end result is bleeding from all seven orifices. As someone who is not poisoned, it is my responsibility to pull Tirpitz out."

"Then you have to pay attention..."

Prince Eugen originally wanted to use her own experience to remind Hu Teng, but then she thought it was unnecessary. Hu Teng knew his own limits, and his iron-blooded pride would sometimes lead to him hitting a wall. Others could not intervene, so she simply stopped talking and changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about this. How was your conversation with Littorio just now?"

"It's nothing." Hutten said, "Litorio, like her sister Veneto, sometimes seems a little out of tune, but she is not so easy to compromise on this matter. She avoids the truth, deliberately delays, and talks about other things. Anyway, she will not easily express her position."

"Well, we didn't expect that negotiation alone could solve the problem. Anyway, the food is ready, the band will be in place soon, and we're just waiting for customers to patronize us."

"Yes, it was quite a big party."

The two people's gazes seemed to be able to penetrate the endless ocean and see other existences hidden beneath the waves.

This exercise led by Iron Blood is certainly not as simple as it seems. The band is about to play the first note and the grand banquet will slowly begin.

However, before the symphony began, Prince Eugen and Hutten, asked by their good friends, did not mind playing some small interludes first.

Chapter 28 Dance

To be honest, Liu Cheng felt that this exchange party held on the deck of the destroyer was a bit awkward.

Apart from the fact that the ship girls from Iron Blood and Sardinia would occasionally greet and chat with each other, the two groups were basically quite distinct. They were all ship girls from Azur Lane, but they were not very familiar with each other.

Moreover, Liu Cheng found it hard to imagine what topics the ship girls would talk about.

If it was an ordinary banquet among noble ladies, they would probably talk about fashion, beauty, gossip and the like. If it was an ordinary military social gathering, the deck would be full of beer foam by now, and a bunch of muscular men who took off their coats would be wrestling, playing tug-of-war, and arm-wrestling in the barbecue smoke, and maybe even doing some tap dancing.

So what about the ship girls?

In addition to being beautiful women, they are also powerful warriors and guardians of civilization. They should also have hobbies and topics that are different from ordinary women.

"I tell you, the mk6 is awesome, it's a one-shot success."

"Not as powerful as sb2c."

"Battleships will always be the king of naval warfare

Wang, I was the main fighter in several fierce battles in the northern Atlantic back then."

"Oh, the glory of the future will definitely belong to aircraft carriers. With carrier-based aircraft in hand, we can win a battle thousands of miles away."

"Aircraft carrier mistress!"

"Battleship bitch!"

Well, this is just Liu Cheng’s imagination. A ship girl shouldn’t be so childish.

Of course, among these ship girls, Littorio is definitely an outlier. She moves among the people at the banquet with ease. She is drinking and chatting with Hutten the last moment, and starts to read Lutzow's palm the next moment. Of course, she must drink a glass with such a dreamy ship girl like August, and then the green-haired little girl who pinches her face is the destroyer Z20... You, Littorio, don't even let go of the little loli, awesome!

After walking around the field, Littorio walked over to Liu Cheng and Zara with a proud look on her face, sat on the canvas sofa and stretched her body, which immediately outlined the slender curves of her perfect body.

"Why don't you go and talk to your friends in Tiexue?" Littorio looked at Liu Cheng who stopped hammering Zara's shoulders and said lazily, "I'm the only one who got everyone's attention at the banquet, but I don't even have a competitor. It's really boring."

"I don't want to join in the fun too deliberately, so just watch your performance, the shining Littorio." Liu Cheng asked, "How is it, what did you gain?"

"It's nothing more than clichés like command authority... But I can be sure that everyone in Iron Blood knows that you will appear in the exercise. As for your intentions, some people don't know, and some people don't want to say it. You can't find out with a few words." Littorio saw Zara's smile and felt something in his heart. "Just now I saw Prince Eugen coming over. Did you gain something?"

Liu Cheng and Zara smiled at each other and told Littorio what had just happened.

"Trust... it's indeed a somewhat abstract concept. What does it mean to let the Iron-Blooded Shipgirl trust you?"

Liu Cheng shook his head and said, "It's not clear yet. Maybe we need to inquire more or ask Tirpitz directly to find out."

Littorio stroked her smooth chin, but she didn't dwell on it too much. She was more concerned about another thing: "So, I chatted with those lovely girls of Tiexue for so long, but the gains I made by sitting here are not as good as what you have gained?"

Liu Cheng cleared his throat: "Ahem, in fact, high-end hunters often appear as prey."

"That makes sense... Although I prefer to take the initiative, a brilliant existence like us will naturally attract some moths to the flame." Littorio happily hugged Liu Cheng's shoulders, and the fullness under the green coat squeezed his arm. "It turns out that we still need people to learn from each other and make progress together. You are really an inexhaustible treasure."

"Each each other."

Liu Cheng responded perfunctorily. He really couldn't put his arm around a beautiful woman like Littorio as if she were a same-sex person. He subconsciously glanced at Zara beside him. The latter just smiled faintly and didn't seem to take such a scene to heart.

At this time, a sunshade canopy slowly rose on the deck of the destroyer. The warm sunlight shone on the deck like starlight through the thin films on the canopy. At the same time, a waltz began to sound, which meant that the banquet had entered the next stage.

“Is there still dancing?”

Liu Cheng was surprised to see that there were actually ship girls walking to the middle of the deck in groups of three or four and starting to dance. After all, in his stereotype, this kind of dance at a banquet was performed by one man and one woman.

"Of course, what's a party without wonderful dancing?"

Littorio stood up from the sofa. She was full of energy now. But before inviting others to dance, she said meaningfully: "Waiting for someone to come to you is certainly your charm, but sometimes you have to take the initiative, otherwise the person waiting for you will be lonely...Haha, that's all I have to say. See you on the dance floor."

Zara's heart skipped a beat, and she looked at Liu Cheng, who seemed to be just looking at Littorio's back indifferently.

"Littorio is really amazing." Liu Cheng retracted his gaze and said with emotion, "He has obviously never experienced anything, but he talks and acts like a set. Is this what it means to be invincible?"

Zara said somewhat disappointedly: "Of course Littorio is amazing. We are shipgirls. We can know some things without experiencing them."

"So the Ship Girl is born knowing it?"

"That's it."

"Since you are born knowing it, I guess Zara, you should also be able to dance, right?"

"Of course..."

Zara paused, her beautiful chrysanthemum yellow eyes stared blankly at the black eyes in front of her. That hateful man had a mischievous smile on his face. "Stupid little brother, you clearly understood but you pretended not to understand~!"

"In that case." Liu Cheng stood in front of Zara, bowed slightly and held out his hand to her, saying, "I wonder if I have the honor to invite the beautiful Miss Zara to dance with me?"

Zara pursed her lips slightly, smiling like a flower. She paused for a moment before placing her right hand on Liu Cheng's hand. She said with flowing eyes, "Don't step on my feet."

"Don't worry, even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to step on it."

Zara glanced at Liu Cheng charmingly and said, "I find that your mouth is becoming more and more flowery."

Liu Cheng was silent for a moment. It seemed that this was the case. Although he used to like to joke in front of acquaintances, he had done so more frequently recently.

[A red flower becomes a red flower, a black flower becomes a black flower. I must have been influenced by Littorio. Yes, that must be the case.]

Chapter 29: All the excitement is theirs

Wonderful music, beautiful women dancing gracefully, the Mediterranean breeze blowing the skirts and sleeves of the beauties on the dance floor. You don't even need to know how to dance, as long as the beautiful women stretch their graceful curves to the music, they will naturally be the most moving scenery. However, there are also a pair of outliers among them.

"Don't be nervous, come close to me, don't be shy."

"Not shy."

"You stepped on my foot."

"Feel sorry……"

"Follow my steps...Didn't you say you learned dancing at the military fraternity?"

"Yes, I have learned it, but not this kind of dance."

"What kind of dance is that?"

"Folk dance, tap dance, and... Cossack dance?"

There are often military social gatherings in the Sardinian army, which are mainly for the army to socialize with groups such as hospitals and theaters, or they can be called blind date and dating gatherings. Most of Liu Cheng's dance knowledge was learned at the social gatherings.

In fact, Liu Cheng is quite popular in this kind of social gatherings. As an exotic oriental man, an outstanding soldier with many honors, and a face that looks cute due to some baby fat, Liu Cheng is quite popular with some older women. People give him the nickname "Friend of Women". Liu Cheng is actually a little resistant to this, so he almost never lingers on the dance floor with those women. Instead, he entertains himself more with his male friends, so he is a little unfamiliar with the most basic ballroom dance.

At first, when their fingers were intertwined, Zara couldn't help but tremble.

Holding Zara's slender waist, Liu Cheng was a little distracted. Being so close to her, in front of him was Zara's flawless face, and a little lower he could see her swan-like neck, delicate collarbone and faintly visible snowy ravines. So he just kept looking at her, and naturally he couldn't pay attention to his footsteps.

"Sorry, I stepped on it again... You should move your feet back, right?"

"No, we should move forward."

Then, Zara asked with a smile, "What are you looking at?"