The ship girl admiral is twelve years old!

"Woooooooo..."

Yi Bei fanned the flames: "You were so enthusiastic when you first met the admiral, but now you are so cold to him. I guess he has already labeled you a weirdo in his mind."

"Yada yo! Yada yo (no)!!"

Prince Heinrich's eyes were filled with tears and he shook his head vigorously - you are an Iron-Blooded ship girl, not from the Sakura Empire, can you shout something that the Iron-Blooded people can understand?

Compared to the madness of the Iron Blood, the Northern Alliance was not so bad. The two mature ship girls were giving instructions on the environment of the port area, which was quite pleasant.

"It's worthy of being the powerful port of Donghuang." Kirov nodded continuously, "Not only is it all operated by the ship girls, but even the scenery here is so beautiful."

Finally, she said to Chkalov jokingly, "Plus my favorite little admiral. Oh! Chekaya, seriously, why don't you become the commander of the Northern Alliance, and I will bring the children of the Dark Sea Fleet here for you."

"Don't be ridiculous..." Chkalov said, using other excuses to stop her. "Soviet Comrade Belarus cannot do without your operation."

"Haha, that's true." Kirov laughed dryly and replied with a bit of disappointment. It seemed that what she said was more than just a polite remark.

At this time, the three little Lafite Ayanami javelins created by Lele, along with Z23, came to greet Lele.

"Admiral Lele~!"

First, Javelin gave Lele a big hug, and then the two of them slightly separated their arms, with their cheeks flushed in sync.

Javelin acted coquettishly towards Lele, "Admiral, you are finally back. Are you going to blame Javelin for not coming to greet you earlier?"

"Of course not." Lele shook his head.

"Great!" Javelin laughed happily, while the serious Z23 pushed his glasses and glared at the three little ones who were smiling foolishly except for the dazed Lafite:

"That's great. Otherwise, you'd be skipping classes and getting blamed by the admiral, and you'd be stuck on both ends."

"Ah? Skipping class? You guys..."

Seeing Javelin's slowly frozen smile, and Ayanami and Lafei looking up at the sky, Lele felt helpless. It turned out that these little guys were still attending classes at the university hall... Hearing the news that Lele was returning to Hong Kong, they even skipped classes to see him.

"It's all...it's all Z23's fault." Javelin stammered.

"Oh?" Z23 raised her eyebrows. It was fine to joke with her and say bad things about her in front of other ship girls, but in front of the admiral, she would swear to protect her image.

"Blame...blame it on Z23. She said she wanted to see the admiral. So we had to follow her." Lafite finally came to his senses, and his words were impeccable as soon as he opened them.

Z23's face flushed immediately. "But...but I'm a teacher! I let you study on your own, and I went to greet the admiral. What's wrong with that? But you can't!"

In Li Dujin's time, Z23 was a model student in the destroyer world. Decades later, this excellent student has become a teacher in the destroyer class, teaching the new and succeeding junior sisters.

"Nimi's words...are so cunning." Ayanami pouted slightly.

The three little ones played around with Z23 for a while, and soon the latter noticed Lele smiling dotingly, followed by a group of strange ship girls who looked like they were watching the fun. She immediately said ashamedly, "Oh no! We made a fool of ourselves in front of the admiral's friends! Stop it, the admiral has guests to entertain!"

Enterprise also patted Javelin and Ayanami on the shoulders at this time: "Okay, I've seen you, Admiral. Next, we'll go back and study hard. Follow me."

Listening to the Enterprise's calm but unquestionable words, the three children showed their timidity, bowed to Lele reluctantly, and were taken away by the Enterprise. Before leaving, Enterprise cast a look at North Carolina: "Everything is up to you." North Carolina nodded in understanding.

"I'm telling you a joke."

Lele turned around and looked at Egil, Kirov and the others.

"No. But I did see that you guys get along harmoniously with each other." Egil smiled and waved his hand.

Before they had taken two steps, another girl came from the direction of the office building, who was just looking at the ground and carefully groping for something, Blücher. As Hipper's stupid sister, and the first ship girl with a heavy cruiser sister's appearance that Lele had built, this big golden-haired girl had always been unreliable.

I thought she would be as mature as other heavy cruiser sisters, but I didn't expect that she sometimes even needed Lele's care to survive. As a result, Lele treated her like a loli like Javelin. But I never thought that Lele's doting attitude towards her made Blücher even more childish.

“Ah…Ah! Admiral!!”

Blucher's sensitive nose smelled a familiar scent, and he immediately raised his head. He saw Lele, whom he hadn't seen for a long time (although it was only two or three days), grinning happily and running towards him.

"Is this child also a ship girl from Iron Blood?"

Looking at Blücher's outfit, Egil let out a sigh. But... why does he look a little unreliable?

Blücher ran happily to Lele, but instead of hugging him, he put his hands on his chest and squatted down.

"Blücher finally waited for his master~!"

Yi Bei chuckled, "Ah! So Admiral Huanwan has such an amazing hobby? He likes to let the older shipgirls call him 'Master'?"

"No, that's not it." Lele held Blücher's arm and tried to help her get up, while explaining: "She did it because she liked to call me like that, not me..."

Looking at Lele who seemed a little vulnerable, Yi Bei gradually regained the feeling of a little female ghost, and felt that the distance between him and him had shortened a lot: "Hey? Don't you have this habit too, so you went in both directions with this blond iron-blooded ship girl?"

"..."

Prince Heinrich felt a little jealous when he saw Blücher squatting down and putting his head in Lele's arms like a crazy person.

As a heavy cruiser who even has a personality similar to Blücher, Heinrich also hopes to have someone who can tolerate his crazy behavior towards her.

Unfortunately, she was born as an ownerless ship girl on the sea... If she wasn't so lonely, she wouldn't have separated her personality and given a small part of her consciousness to her ship equipment "Xiao Tie", making Xiao Tie a pet to keep her company.

"Well……?"

Blücher also keenly caught the envious gaze that seemed to be looking at him from the audience. His eyes rolled around and finally stopped on Prince Henry.

The animal instinct told Blücher that the silent white-haired iron-blooded ship girl should have a personality similar to hers, as if she also wanted to be some kind of pet of Lele to release her own crazy temper... But how could she, Blücher, admit it!

Only I, Blücher, can be the admiral's dog!

370 The Second Lady Boss

In order to demonstrate his ownership of Lele, Blücher continued to squat on the ground and look up at Lele:

"Let's go play, let's go play, Master!"

"I have something important to do now. I need to serve some customers... You go find your sister first, and I'll play with you later, okay?"

Blücher glanced at Prince Heinrich, raised her chin provocatively, and then continued to act coquettishly in Lele's arms, wishing she could become a ship girl of the Sakura Empire, with a dog's tail growing behind her little buttocks, and then shaking it to Lele to show her happiness.

Although he didn't know why Blücher glanced at her with an attitude of rivalry, Prince Heinrich was even more envious when he saw Blücher interacting unscrupulously in Lele's arms.

And I made up my mind that in the days to come, I would rack my brains to raise Lele's favorability to the level of Blücher... Then...

Prince Heinrich's heart was moved when he thought about being able to nestle at Lele's feet and beg for love like Xiaotie did to him.

Then again, how could this white-haired heavy cruiser only pursue this little bit… Is lying at Lele’s feet and pretending to be a puppy and turning over her belly the ultimate happiness for her? The ownerless ship girl is really in dire straits.

Beika also stopped Blücher from acting like a spoiled child: "Okay, Blücher, you are already interfering with the young admiral's work, right? If you keep on making trouble like this, the young admiral might even hate you."

"would not!"

Blücher snorted, then continued to put his head in Lele's arms and looked at Beika provocatively:

"Because I am the ship girl built by Master Lele himself! How could he possibly hate Blücher!"

"you……"

Shit! To the previous generation of the warship girls circling the bay, what Blücher said was really hurtful and a critical blow. North Carolina secretly resented Blücher's recklessness, and lamented: If I were also built by the young admiral... Alas!

"Well, don't get too carried away, Blücher. How can you talk like that? You are all equally important to me. If you talk to an elder like that again next time, I won't abandon you, but I will definitely hate you, okay?"

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Lele's preference for the ship girls he built was indeed deeper in his subconscious. But as an admiral, he naturally knew that he had to treat everyone equally.

He just pretended to be slightly displeased and said to Blücher that he apologized to North Carolina. The originally smug Blücher puppy instantly wilted and honestly apologized to North Carolina.

"It's okay." North Carolina, who was mentally devastated by the little secretary ship, waved his hands weakly, that was it.

However, she recovered quickly.

There was also a lot of leniency in his eyes when he looked at Blücher.

If nothing else... the "master" you mentioned has already ridden me, and you who call yourself a pet... what is your status? Humph.

After having such a shameful mental victory in his mind, Beika felt much better and just laughed off Lele's subsequent apology on behalf of Blücher.

"Now, let's go find Hipper, okay?" Lele said again.

Blucher rolled his eyes and said, "Master, do you want to go to the Iron Blood Dormitory?"

"No, I will take them to Sister Ming Miao's shop first, and then take them to the foreign guesthouse."

The guesthouse is a long way from the dormitory area of ​​the ship girls, almost equivalent to the outermost part of the port area near the gate. On weekdays, the guests are also some headquarters ship girls who come to work, but if they stay in the port area until night, they can stay here for a night before leaving.

"All right……"

Hearing Lele say that they were not going to the dormitory, she responded disappointedly and went to find Eugen dejectedly.

After walking a little further, they met some shipgirls driving a scooter. They refused their kind invitation to take them to the Akashi store in the car - because they wanted to take Egil and the others to get a closer look at the port area - and then they finally arrived at Akashi's territory.

The port area is quite large. Lele doesn't have the physique of a ship girl, and she doesn't have a car to get around. After walking from the gate all the way to Akashi, which is close to the core area, Lele's forehead was slightly sweaty.

"I told you that you should have agreed to take the mobility scooter with the other ship girls."

Beika noticed Lele's sweat and took out her handkerchief to wipe it for Lele, muttering in a low voice, "The road is so long, forget about the ship girl, but human children like you should take the car."

"We don't exercise much normally, so it's good to exercise now." Lele took her handkerchief with a smile and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

Beika also patiently waited for Lele to finish wiping, and then naturally took her handkerchief back. Lele thought the handkerchief handed by Beika was a disposable item, so she didn't offer to help her wash it.

Bei Carolina put the handkerchief back into the inner pocket of his coat without saying a word, and said to himself: From now on, I will not wash my handkerchief.

Not only did she not wash it, but she would probably have to pretend to show off to her sister in Washington when she got home.

Taking Egil and the others, they walked into Akashi's shop, which had a gorgeously decorated shop in the front and a workshop with various machines and tools piled up in the back. However, the person sitting at the front desk was not Akashi.

"Welcome...ah,"

The petite ship girl, who was sitting on a raised armless chair like an exquisite Japanese doll, paused when she saw that it was Lele who came in, and then spoke in a low voice to welcome the ship girl from Huanwan to the store:

"Welcome to the furniture, daily necessities and clothing three-in-one trade. In the past two days, many seductive clothing has been newly purchased. It would be best if you could buy some to seduce the admiral. It is better to act than to think."

"Stop joking, Sister Shiranui."

Lele was not frightened by the petite ship girl's words, but was amused instead, because he felt that the petite ship girl's words were meant to amuse Lele, and were not her usual welcome words: "Are you on duty today? Where is Sister Mingmiao?"

"In the workshop at the back. But it's best not to disturb her. She seems to be working on something right now."

Shiranui, the second ship of the Kagero-class destroyer of the Sakura Empire, is dressed in black and has a cold expression. She is probably the most mature ship girl in the entire Sakura Empire destroyer kindergarten. Her personality and performance are very different from the mentality of ordinary destroyers. She is cold and steady.

Although Lele hasn't had much contact with Shiranui since he returned to Huanwan, he still has many memories of Shiranui when he was a child in Huanwan, and they are hard to forget.

"Really... Well, sister, have you eaten yet?"

"have eaten."

In response to Lele's casual talk, Shiranui simply interrupted him calmly, with no intention of continuing the topic.

At this time, Egil said in surprise: "Are you the legendary Shiranui?"

Shiranui adjusted her bangs that were covering her eyes and did not answer.

Egil saw it and thought that Shiranui was so cold to Lele because she didn't have deep feelings for her. But when he talked to her, she just kept silent.

Lele explained on behalf of her own shipgirl awkwardly: "I'm sorry, Sister Shiranui... is like this to all shipgirls who aren't asking about products... She doesn't like small talk... By the way, do you know Sister Shiranui?"

Egil looked at Shiranui deeply. "Who doesn't know the arms queen who once dominated the world? I didn't expect that the rumors about her living in seclusion in Huanwan are actually true."

"Ah?" Lele was shocked.

It turns out that her elder sister Shiranui, who had always been pestering her because she was too naughty when she was young... was actually a big shot in the past?

371 It's not impossible...

It turns out that Shiranui was not a ship girl built by Li Dujin. She was also a ship girl born from the sea before.

But Shiranui didn't want to talk about her own turbulent past.

"The past is the past,"

Shiranui was finally willing to speak, "Now I am just a boss lady serving the stupid admiral and his ship girls."

Being called a fool by Shiranui, Lele just laughed and was not angry. He had offended Sister Shiranui many times before, and now it was time to pay back the debt.

Egil nodded, and tactfully did not talk to her about her past.

But Lele was very tempted to do so. The once powerful arms tycoon now lived in seclusion in Huanwan and became a boss lady who sold daily necessities. Lele had only seen this kind of theme in novels.

He made a note of this matter and planned to ask Shiranui or other related ship girls about her past. Lele smiled and said to Shiranui, "Sister Shiranui! I'm here to buy daily necessities for these new ship girls!"

Shiranui let out a long breath and slowly climbed down from the raised chair.

Really...Faced with Lele's enthusiastic smile, even if Shiranui was as cold as she was, she couldn't continue to sit there with a sullen face.

So she took the initiative to walk out slowly from behind the counter, which was very rare. Her appropriate black kimono and leisurely pace made her look like the eldest daughter of the Sakura noble family.

"understood."