Shut up! I'm not a destroyer!

But the contrast now is too great.

She had to believe what Deep Sea Yamato said, that she was already in the same camp as these deep sea creatures.

Well, at this time, she couldn't look at the deep sea from the perspective of a ship girl.

This is too difficult.

"Yes, because of me, I added these to you that can increase your strength. You can give it any name you want, but for the sake of easy memorization, we usually call it the power rune."

Minato Sugihime put her index finger on her lips and spoke as she recalled.

"Correspondingly, there are speed runes for deep-sea destroyers and stealth runes for deep-sea submarines... well, that's about it."

Clapping her hands, Harbor Princess gave up listing.

Anyway, that is of no use to Veneto, and the white-haired ship girl will naturally understand it in the future.

"Rune?"

Veneto was stunned for a moment.

She often saw this word when she played games in her previous life.

Some game companies use it to balance the combat power between PVP game players. It is a combat power balancing mechanism. (Please click)

Unscrupulous game developers use runes to cheat people out of their money.

Want to become stronger? Buy runes!

However, it is an unchangeable fact that runes are a means to enhance combat effectiveness.

It is equivalent to an official plug-in that can increase the player's attributes.

Veneto looked down at her hands. No wonder she used her ship suit to produce an explosive effect.

This deep-sea black technology is really terrifying.

In other words... this deep sea with runes is the real core high-level of the deep sea?

But...if this was a long time ago, then the time when she became a ship girl and before she came here was only when the front-line base was attacked, and the OVO her ship girl met seemed to have runes on his body.

She had never seen such a thing in history textbooks or deep-sea manuals.

Could it be that the real deep-sea core layer has not truly appeared in front of humans and ship girls for so many years?

It only appeared in the battle before she came to this era?

So, where were they during that time?

This doesn't look like it. If it really didn't appear, then how did Veneto meet Deep Sea Yamato some time ago?

NO.331 Truth, Lies

PS: Sorry, Jinx left a much deeper impression on me than Shanks.

"Is this the secret of the deep sea's power? Are there any weaknesses or disadvantages?"

Veneto tried to act as natural as possible.

She didn't believe that there was anything perfect in this world, not even an amplifying rune.

Maybe there is some weakness that can make this rune ineffective at a critical moment.

Or maybe there is some shortcoming that makes this rune an obstacle.

If it happens in battle, it will be troublesome.

"Well, I don't know."

Princess Minato shook her head, but seemed to see the disbelief in Veneto's eyes, so she took a sip of tea, raised her eyebrows and explained.

"You need to explore the details yourself. Each rune has its own unique weakness."

The little girl still doesn't believe her.

She didn't even think about who had put the rune on her.

After hearing the explanation from Harbor Princess, Veneto remembered something from the martial arts novels he had read before.

It is said that there is a place where the martial art called 'Golden Bell Cover' cannot be practiced, and this place is called 'weak spot'.

A weak point is a weakness, which is determined by the person who practices martial arts.

There are soles of feet, leather swallows, and that kind of work.

According to Harbor Princess's meaning, this rune also means this.

But what is more troublesome than the "weak point" is that even the user does not know where the weakness is?

Although... in a sense, it seems that this is also a form of defense.

If you don’t know it yourself, the enemy certainly doesn’t know it either.

But in this way, I can't defend my weaknesses.

It really fits the characteristics of the deep sea: contradiction and extremism.

Veneto finally realized that the people in the deep sea were all extremists, either on one side or the other, there was no middle ground.

In fact, this is normal. If Shenhai knew how to smooth things over, Shenhai and Kancolle would have stopped fighting long ago.

But... now a bunch of more radical ones have popped up...

The future looks worrying, but Veneto doesn't have time to pay attention to those big things now.

She felt that she still had to find the so-called weakness of her own rune, at least she would feel more at ease knowing it.

What if it's the bow of a ship or something? Once a war breaks out, a stray bullet could easily break her defense.

Once the runes on her body become ineffective, she will be back to the time before liberation.

I'm afraid that by then not only will I be unable to play any role, I may even become a drag due to my lack of adaptability.

"By the way, I didn't force you to draw this. It actually came from you."

Princess Harbor thought about the satisfying fish meal she had just had and decided to tell Veneto some more information.

However, the best lie is one that is seven parts true and three parts false.

"Myself? You mean Kanmusu can do it."

Veneto's eyes widened.

Doesn't this mean that she can still integrate back into the ship girls...as long as she can successfully make a ship girl like her?

Moreover, the powerful combat power brought by this rune will also be a great help to the ship girls.

"If you want all the ship girls to become deep sea, of course you can bring them all here."

Princess Harbor put down her teacup and moved her face closer to Veneto with an evil smile on her lips.

After telling the truth, you should follow it up with a lie so that the other person will subconsciously repeat the process of believing it.

"Thank you for your popular science. I understand."

Veneto moved his butt back. The aura of this harbor dwelling princess was quite powerful.

She felt a little overwhelmed.

"That power comes from you."

Harbor Princess sat up straight again and pointed her finger at Veneto's chest.

This is of course the truth. We can't tell every word false, otherwise it would be too easy to be exposed.

"Mind core, what a magical thing. Of course there are also some in the deep sea. Otherwise, where did you, the ship girl, get the mind core after defeating us?"

Gangwan Qiji touched her chest, feeling a little melancholy.

The Deep Sea and KanColle have similar structures, but they attack each other.

Gangwan Qiji couldn't figure out which side was at fault, she was just a pawn.

"You should know about the ecological system of nature."

Princess Harbor Qi stretched out her hand and drew a circle in the air, with a strange look in her eyes.

"It's just that the circle of the bond between the ship girl and the deep sea is relatively small. The ship girl fights the deep sea to obtain the mind core and resources, and the deep sea fights the ship girl to obtain the mind core and resources."

"Wait! Wait a minute..."

Veneto seemed to be able to vaguely guess what Minato Susuke was going to say that she couldn't stand, and she instinctively wanted to end the topic: "Well, how about Yamato and I go prepare some things first..."

"What are you trying to avoid? Why are you afraid of what I'm going to say next?"

Princess Harbor's blood-red eyes were fixed on Veneto.

She found it very interesting.

This ship girl's expression was a little bit fearful and mixed with curiosity.

She had never seen such an expression before... Perhaps it was because the deep sea she saw on a daily basis only showed fear and awe to her?

Now it has a different expression, but it is inexplicably interesting.

"I, I didn't."

Veneto tried to respond stubbornly, but she didn't dare to look into Harbor Princess' eyes.

She was indeed afraid, afraid that the news she heard would once again shatter her worldview, and it was the one she least wanted to shatter.

Compared to the news that "the deep sea has wisdom", it is even more overwhelming and even devastating for her.

"Kanmusume? Fukukai? Don't you think they look alike? Look at yourself, your hair color, your eye color, and then look at me."

Harbor Princess felt that this was all she could do to help Deep Sea Yamato.

How the two guys get along from now on is not something she can help with.

Veneto's case is both an individual case and a precedent, and she doesn't know what she can do.

"Stop talking."

Veneto stood up, trying to add weight to his words through his height.

Unfortunately, when she stood up, she could only look at Minatogiji at eye level.

"Don't say anything? Don't you want to know the truth? Shipgirl and the deep sea..."

Gangwan Qiji stared at the little girl in front of her, who had the same hair and eye color as her.

"No, I don't want to understand. I just want to know what's happening in my little world..."

"They are one family, just like humans and gorillas."

Harbor Princess calmly but firmly interrupted Veneto's words.

This statement is certainly not true, because she is also based entirely on speculation.

Just like she said herself, Deep Sea and KanColle are too similar.

But it doesn’t matter. All the truths that came before were just the prelude to this sentence. Even if it is the biggest lie in the entire conversation, it’s no problem.

Besides, it may not be a lie, it may be true.

But if this statement is true, then the impact on the deep sea is much smaller than the impact on the ship girls.

"boom!"

Veneto punched the table, and the square dining table broke into pieces on the spot.

Fortunately, Gangwan Qiji reacted quickly and waved her hand to put her tea set back into the ship's space.

"That's enough! That's enough..."

Veneto gasped and hung his head.

She felt as if Minatogiki's words had sucked something out of her body, making her extremely irritable.

Because her brain was still shutting down involuntarily, she could only feel the heat in her body.

"This is real?"

Deep Sea Yamato showed a surprised expression of a husky, his eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open, as if his three views were shattered.

"…That has nothing to do with our deep sea."