The Disqualified Commander of the Abandoned Shipgirl

"Alas--!"

Hinata sighed and pulled Hobi behind him.

"Royal Ark, please restrain yourself."

She silently took out her naginata.

"Uh, sorry, I really don't mean any harm, I just naturally like cute things--"

Ark Royal explained loudly.

As if he was defending his innocence.

Although her innocence had long been shattered.

"Do you believe what you said?"

"I believe it myself!"

"roll!"

Feeling like there was nothing to say to her, Hinata simply swung her knife.

"You really swing the knife!"

The Royal Ark quickly dodged to the side, splashing water.

"Alas, Xiao and Jiang Feng are still easy to talk to."

Ark Royal glanced to the side.

These two people were completely indifferent to her and did not blush.

I feel like the cuteness has dropped a lot.

"Xiao, do you need me to rub your back?" Royal Ark asked tentatively.

"No need. I'm not used to being touched. I'm a ninja. If you don't want your hands to be separated from your body, don't do anything dangerous." Xiao said indifferently. She had no intention of being polite to the Royal Ark.

"Oh, so cold. Jiang Feng is still the best, but I always feel that Jiang Feng doesn't look like a cute expelling sister..." Royal Ark looked at Jiang Feng, who was silent alone beside him, emitting a cold and negative aura all over his body, and sighed helplessly.

"I'm telling you, Commander Lin," she said, raising her voice slightly.

"...I have something to say." Lin Shen, who was not far away, was leaning against a metal chair and browsing the terminal.

"Sister Jiang Feng is almost turning into a gloomy fox now. Don't you plan to say something?" Royal Ark asked with one hand on the edge of the repair pool.

"That's good too." Lin Shen replied indifferently.

"You are too cruel. She is your guard now, and we will have to spend a long time together. Why don't we build a good relationship with her?" Royal Ark took out the treasured wine from the ship's space, pried open the bottle and drank it.

"Ah~ Repairing the pool and adding wine, how could I have such a beautiful dream."

It really feels like a dream.

She now wished she could lie down in front of Lin Shen and shout loudly, "I have been wandering for half my life, and I only regret that I have never met a wise master."

"If this mission is completed successfully, I think we will have many opportunities to cooperate in the future." Lin Shen said.

"Maybe, but by then many things will be hard to say, right?" Royal Ark replied.

"It's just a matter of leaving Sakura Empire anyway. Sakura Empire isn't the only country on this continent."

"Attacking the safe zone for a mutant is a crime that will be labeled as 'anti-humanity'." Royal Ark was not joking at all.

"If it wasn't for 'anti-humanity', do you think I would say that Nagato must be saved?"

"Oh my, you said something quite outrageous in an instant." Royal Ark took a big sip, with a complicated expression on his face. "Saying and doing are always two different things. Having this intention and actually doing it are two completely different things, and the impact and results are completely different."

Look at the person’s actions, not his heart.

Although Lin Shen used a rather despicable method to put a layer of shackles on Jiang Feng, and by the way, played the card of the soul contract without any constraints, Jiang Feng felt like she was being manipulated like an idiot. She had no idea what the meaning was, she only knew that she had made a seemingly stupid and helpless decision.

Second.

According to Lin Shen's statement and plan, he wanted to keep Nagato.

Although he was indeed rescued - let's just assume it was a success for now - even if this extremely unlikely event really ended successfully, Nagato was just moved from one cage to another.

Two bad options that were originally slightly different have become equally bad options.

Her struggles didn't seem to change anything.

Instead, he ended up losing himself.

This is why Jiang Feng’s face is so gloomy at the moment.

It was completely held in the palm of my hand and played with.

However, Royal Ark's vision is obviously not that narrow. After all, she is a bystander, and it is not a big deal for her to speak from a distance.

It would definitely be better for him to fall into Lin Shen's hands than into those guys' hands.

Ten thousand times better.

"If you regret it, you can quit now." Lin Shen ignored Royal Ark's sigh and threw a cold remark at him.

"That's not the case. Don't look at me like this. Since I have agreed to something and received the remuneration in advance, I will definitely do my best to complete it." Royal Ark said. She never thought that there was any advantage to be gained. Sometimes, it seemed that she had taken advantage, but in fact, she might have lost more.

She had some feelings about this, so what Lin Shen had said to Jiang Feng before, that she could go back on her word at any time and fail to fulfill her promise, also had another meaning to Royal Ark.

Free things are the most expensive.

For them - for mutants - it's best to remember this.

After the conversation ended, the repair room was quiet for a while, with only the occasional clicking sound from Lin Shen's terminal.

"When do we start the action?" Royal Ark asked as he put the empty wine bottles into the ship's space.

"tonight."

"So soon? No need to prepare?"

"While you are preparing, the enemy is also preparing."

“They probably don’t know what we’re going to do.”

"But their enemies may act ahead of time."

"enemy……"

"The best time is only before then. If we miss it, the price we need to pay will be much higher."

"How confident are you, Commander Lin?"

"Ten percent."

"..."

When Lin Shen said those two words, he did not hesitate at all.

Too confident.

"Why are you so sure?" Jiang Feng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked.

This was something she had been wondering about since before.

"Because since ancient times, evil has never prevailed over good, and justice will always win." Lin Shen replied.

"..." Jiang Feng was silent for a moment, "Are you serious?"

"of course."

"...Ha." Jiang Feng sighed, and suddenly felt a little tired. Perhaps, he shouldn't have even the slightest expectation. Justice? Does that thing really exist? Besides, "Doesn't justice always come late?"

"Yeah, aren't you already late?"

"...?"

"If you were born a few days later, or a few days earlier, Nagato would not have been taken away. But unfortunately, I was not here when you were born, so justice was late, wasn't it? It was not until today that this matter began to be resolved."

"You mean, you are righteous?"

"Why, am I not to you?"

"you……"

Jiang Feng was suddenly speechless again.

Because after she raised her head from her gloomy mood, she found that Lin Shen was still "just" to her.

If not, she would be the only one here tonight.

Rather than... an entire fleet.

She received very effective support.

"..."

There was another long silence.

"No battle plan?"

The Royal Ark broke the silence again.

"I'll send it to you via the soul network later."

"Don't you need to know in advance and then get familiar with it?"

"No, your mission is simple, there is no need to be familiar with it."

"In fact, we can also perform slightly less simple tasks."

"Then the key operations in the safe zone will be handed over to you."

"Uh...please allow me to take back what I just said."

If possible, Ark Royal is reluctant to take this risk.

The few people left in the dark night really can't stand it anymore.

After staying in the restoration room for three hours, Lin Shen sent Royal Ark and others away.

Then let Glasgow and the others come in and do the repairs.

The atmosphere instantly became much calmer.

Several ship girls were lying in the repair pool in a mess, relieving the fatigue accumulated over the past few days.

There will be a tough battle to fight later.

Now I have to try my best to maintain my condition.

Lin Shen was still sitting in his old place.

like a statue.

It won't be a big problem to use a surprise attack to rescue Nagato.

The only defense force against the enemies they need to face is the Dog Flame Guard.

However, it is impossible to predict whether other forces will take direct action.

At this time, Lin Shen believed no one.

Even Golden Holy Wings didn't know what he was going to do.

Unless the other families already knew what the Oi family had in their hands.

otherwise……

This worst-case scenario still needs to be taken into account.

How many enemies will we face by then?

If all the replica garrisons within the detection range of the soul network are counted.

That would be a pretty scary number.

But numbers come second.

The main thing is the siege on Nagato's side.

Lin Shen still hasn't found Nagato's location.

There is more than one place where the soul network cannot penetrate.

He needed to determine Nagato's exact location in advance.