The Disqualified Commander of the Abandoned Shipgirl

It's a world that is quite different from the one in my original memory.

This is also Lin Shen’s purpose.

Life is not just about fighting and killing.

There is also milk tea and cakes.

Snacks from a roadside stall.

After just a simple stroll, Glasgow and Cupid both had an extra crepe in their hands.

The stomachs of ship girls are bottomless pits. They can go without eating as long as they want.

After all, any movement requires a lot of physical energy.

Even if you don't fight, it's still difficult to survive on a daily basis by consuming ordinary food.

Lin Shen also wanted to eat and drink along the way, but unfortunately he didn't have a second stomach.

Therefore, you can only be responsible for paying the bill.

It was not until noon that he was able to have some dessert to fill his stomach.

When turning around, Lin Shen saw Dajing Liming with a resentful look on his face behind him.

Then he seemed to remember something and spoke.

"Commander Ooi, you don't need me to pay for it, right?"

"……Need not!"

Ooi Ryuna replied with a depressed look on his face.

It feels a bit like gnashing of teeth.

Although I followed behind all the way, it was nothing.

But Lin Shen was always "talking to himself", as if he was really on a date.

This allowed her to fully experience what a human-shaped camera is.

After coming out of the store, Ooki Liming suddenly poured a bucket of cold water on Lin Shen.

"You seem to like your ship girl very much?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?"

"I've seen some people who really treat shipgirls as their partners before."

"and then?"

Lin Shen glanced at her.

"Then all the shipgirls he regarded as his partners were blown to pieces on the battlefield under his command."

"It's just that the ship girls under his command are too weak."

"You are quite confident."

"I can't help it. My strength doesn't allow me to be low-key."

"Here's another example."

Ooi Ryuma seemed to have anticipated Lin Shen's reaction and spoke again.

"what?"

"There is a B-rank commander who also treats his ship girl as a partner. His command ability is very strong, and in all the battles, his ship girl came back alive."

"and then?"

Lin Shen frowned slightly.

Suddenly I had a bad feeling.

"Then he died."

Ooi Ryuna said coldly.

"…Death is just part of human nature."

“Only 26 years old.”

"..."

Ooki Ryuma's additional words made Lin Shen silent for a moment.

"So what? It's just an isolated case."

“This is not an isolated case.”

Ooki Ryuma glanced at Lin Shen and tore off Lin Shen's fig leaf with a cold tone.

"It is a conclusion that has been repeatedly verified and studied. The life span of all soul power developers is lower than that of ordinary people. The stronger the soul power, the more serious the reduction in life span. It is also because there are too many examples that people later refined the classification of soul power and added three levels of upper, middle and lower to the ordinary level. The commander in the example just now has a soul power strength of upper level B."

"So what? A-rank marshals are already several dozen years old now, so there's nothing wrong with them."

Lin Shen replied in a calm tone.

"After the Dingguo War, have you ever seen the Marshal attack again?"

"..."

"No. Whether it's the Sakura Empire, the Eastern Empire, or the White Eagles, after the fiercest battle of Dingguo, there was almost no combat operation. At least, there was no direct command using soul power anymore."

Ooki Ryuma glanced at the two ship girls beside Lin Shen, suddenly laughed and said.

"Everything you gain, you must give up. This is an iron rule, and it is also written in textbooks. It is normal for you, a mercenary, not to know this. Let me kindly remind you not to have too many fantasies about cold things. The commander who died young in the example just now was sent away by his own ship girl because he overdrew his abilities. After his death, his ship girl continued to serve, and was finally blown to pieces on the battlefield."

"..."

"Unrequited love almost never ends well. I'm not a stay-at-home guy from the old peacetime era anymore. I'd better live in reality."

Seeing that Lin Shen remained silent, Ooi Ryuma thought that he was completely convinced by his words, and suddenly a feeling of joy surged in his heart.

The depression of the past few days also dissipated a lot.

However, what she didn't expect was that Lin Shen sighed after a brief silence and asked back.

"You also said, 'the old peaceful era'. It's not the fantasy that's wrong, it's the war itself, isn't it? The example you just cited is indeed a 'boring' tragedy, but isn't it the war that deserves death? As a commander, isn't it the war that you should be satirizing? You didn't, you actually used the tragedy of a young commander who fought for peace and died young as a negative example. In my opinion, your behavior itself is so bad that it can't be made any worse."

"..."

This time it was Ooi Ryuna who remained silent.

Lin Shen's question was like a knife piercing her heart.

It destroyed something she had always relied on.

This made Oi Ryuma involuntarily speak again eagerly.

"These are two completely different things. That kind of indifferent fantasy has nothing to do with war!"

"Imagined feelings are also feelings, or rather, feelings themselves may just be a wishful illusion. As for the relationship with war, of course there is. Have you investigated why the person you just used as an example went to the battlefield? Have you ever cared about why he chose a ship girl as his partner? Have you learned about his background? Have you learned about his ideals? Are you just jumping to conclusions like this?"

"I--"

"No one goes to the battlefield for the so-called world peace."

Lin Shen raised his hand and involuntarily said something outrageous.

But he subconsciously felt that such words seemed to have been verified by facts somewhere.

"No one would really choose to fight for the sake of such a lofty ideal as the continuation of mankind. Before opposing me, why don't you ask?"

"..."

"Those who truly fight for such lofty ideals are heroes, but many of us are just bears who follow the rules. I have met commanders who are about to graduate. When they were in actual combat before graduation, the most common complaint they made was 'the damn sirens', the most common question they asked was 'when will it end', and the most distant imagination of the future was 'after graduation, let's have a celebration party together'. Poetry and distant places will never be as good as the French fries on the dock, Commander Dajing, just like fighting for world peace and the stability of the motherland will never be more resolute than fighting for the one you love."

When he said the last sentence, Lin Shen couldn't help laughing out loud.

The solemn atmosphere suddenly collapsed.

"Pfft, I'm not sure either. Maybe everyone has their own aspirations, right? Without investigation, you have no right to speak. Maybe there is a fool who is willing to make repeated military exploits for the sake of an illusory one-sided relationship? These are things that are hard to say."

After he finished speaking, Lin Shen continued shopping with the two ship girls beside him.

However, this time the direction of advance is the outer area of ​​the safe zone.

37. Come to my room at night

Ooki Ryuma, who was still immersed in Lin Shen's words, reminded him after realizing the direction Lin Shen was heading.

"The border area is not very safe recently, so it's better not to get close to it casually."

"is it?"

Lin Shen did not comment.

"It's best not to leave the Central Weaving District."

What Oi Erming said was not so direct.

But she knew Lin Shen understood.

Since you've already come in.

Then don't think you can get out easily.

Impossible.

Unless you want to fall out now.

In that case, the Dog Flame Guards would no longer need to consider whether it was illegal or whether there were any legitimate reasons.

Maybe you can get the order to take action directly.

"Of course, I won't leave the Central Weaving District."

Lin Shen nodded.

"There are so many people here, they speak nicely and are very polite. I like it here very much."

"..."

I always feel like this guy is being sarcastic about something.

Ooi Ryuma took a deep breath and suppressed the depression in his heart.

Although I was just scolded.

But it is undeniable that...

What Lin Shen said does make sense.

No investigation, no right to speak.

Although fighting with lofty ideals is very dazzling, like a hero.

However, so-called heroes have been very rare from ancient times to the present.

It's impossible for everyone to be so noble.

So idealistic.

It really comes to every ordinary soldier.

What they want may just be something more realistic.

That's why they went to the battlefield.

There is even some element of compulsion involved.

After all, if you don’t become a commander after graduating from the Commander Academy.

Will be despised.

It is common to be called a coward.

Lin Shen did not get completely close to the border area.

Instead, he stood at the last place where the barrier existed.

In the distance, there was the faint sound of artillery fire.

“It does seem that things are not very peaceful.”