I, Azure Commander!

It is eight o'clock in the morning now. Although it is a first time experience, due to Brother Hao's unexpected enthusiasm, Lin Xiao worked until very late yesterday, so he basically did not get any rest. Naturally, his current condition is very bad.

In this situation, you can't hide it even if you want to, right?

Although at this point, there is no need to hide it deliberately. It's done, it's done, after all, it's a wedding ship, and everything is legitimate, there is no problem.

The little cookie in his arms was still sleeping soundly, lying on his chest, with her bright golden hair draped over Lin Xiao's body and her long eyelashes trembling slightly, making her look particularly attractive.

——I take back what I said before. She seems to have woken up.

However, the usually innocent and reserved Little Biscuit obviously found it difficult to accept what she had done on impulse last night. She didn't know how to face the commander. She felt so embarrassed that she just continued to pretend to sleep.

However, there is always a limit to pretending to be asleep, and now it is almost time to get up and eat.

Lin Xiao rubbed the girl's messy blonde hair and slightly lifted a corner of the quilt.

Because his pajamas were wet last night, Hao was naked at this moment. His snow-white skin trembled involuntarily when it touched the cold air, and Lin Xiao's laughter came into his ears.

"Is it about time to get up?"

Hao knew he couldn't pretend any longer, so he could only open his eyes with a red face and slowly sit up.

"Commander, I..."

She was now in a state of great conflict, even a little guilty. Although she was a wedding ship, she still had to respect the commander's wishes in some matters. As a result, she had done such a thing to the commander last night almost unilaterally...

As a royal lady, this is obviously a disqualification and a disrespect to the commander, so...

"I'm so sorry, Commander!"

Although she was a royal ship girl, she did the sitting posture very standardly, which scared Lin Xiao.

"What? Why are you apologizing?"

"Because, last night..."

Hao sat up, maintaining the duck sitting posture, with his body slightly leaning back, resulting in his head being held high and his chest being puffed out, his chest surging.

Lin Xiao was silent for a moment, stroking his chin with one hand. Last night? Didn't he eat the cute little cookie last night?

Hmm...well, thinking back on the process, it does seem more appropriate to say that the biscuit ate him into its stomach.

But this is not the point of the problem. The point now is...

"Hao, anyway, shouldn't you put on your clothes first? It's morning now..."

The corners of Lin Xiao's mouth twitched. He clearly felt exhausted both physically and mentally, but there are always times when people cannot perfectly control their limbs. Sometimes there are some things that cannot be controlled just because you want to.

"S-Sorry, Commander."

Hao said in a low voice, somewhat shyly, and seemed to have noticed the slightly bulging quilt, but he did not put on his clothes immediately. Instead, he said with an innocent look, as if he was thinking seriously, "Um... do you need my help to solve this?"

"?"

To be honest, after the doubts and shock, I seem to be really moved...

Looking at the tempting red lips of the little cookie in front of him, Lin Xiao couldn't help but recall what happened in the bathroom last night. That kind of bone-melting ecstasy was really irresistible.

"It seems... possible?"

Anyway, it's only eight o'clock now. Although it is almost time for dinner from a common rational point of view, if you think about it carefully, it is very normal for them in the port area to have breakfast at nine o'clock, so when it comes to time, they can still squeeze it out.

Hao narrowed his eyes slightly, a shy smile appeared on his face, and then he slowly came over and lifted the quilt...

The maids didn't know if they realized something, or they knew with their imagination that even if it was Hao, he would never let the commander go so easily last night. So even though Lin Xiao said to have a good rest and get up early tomorrow, no maid came to disturb their tenderness at an inopportune time in the morning.

However, when Lin Xiao stretched his waist and walked out of the room refreshed, he unexpectedly discovered that a certain cat had panda eyes at this time, and unlike its usual vitality and spirit, it seemed a little listless.

"..."

So you were the one leaning against the wall in your room, listening attentively?

Lin Xiao looked at Cheshire, who looked a little pitiful, and didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

When Biscuit walked out of the room, almost all the ship girls were staring at her.

Everyone understood that from today on, this girl, who was already a wedding ship, had another most enviable identity in the port area.

Of course, as a little child, the dragoon didn't know all this. She just envied the other party for being able to sleep with the commander, and she extremely regretted why she didn't volunteer yesterday.

He walked up to Cheshire and patted her shoulder, put his hand on the top of her head and stroked it gently. Slowly, the light came back into Maomao's eyes, and the smiling look returned to her face. She held Lin Xiao's arm and smiled foolishly.

That's the good thing about cats, they're easy to coax...

Chapter 14 Arrival at Area E

Because there were not so many children, the warm breakfast was not as noisy as in the port area. After quickly calming down the cat who was a little depressed, Lin Xiao finished his breakfast quickly, got up and stretched his muscles, and then sat on the sofa. Naturally, Sirius would soon come over to help him massage his shoulders and back out of habit.

After the maid's massage service, the stiffness in my body was greatly improved.

Looking at the time again, it was almost half past nine. If I didn't go out, it would be a little late.

Two or three days is not a long time, and the places that can be visited are relatively limited, so there is no need to waste any more time. Lin Xiao quickly set off with the ship girls.

Visiting scenic spots is certainly a good experience, and maybe because of some things he had experienced, Hao had obviously become much more enthusiastic than before. The look in his eyes when he looked at Lin Xiao was full of unconcealed love. He always stuck to him, and would "sneak attack" him from time to time, poking his waist, or hugging his arm and rubbing his face, and then stealing a kiss, and then hiding aside with a happy face. Her cute appearance made it difficult for Lin Xiao to associate her with the elegant royal lady before.

Well, that's normal... If they are in a romantic relationship, then this moment is almost the time when they are in passionate love. Girls at this time tend to be like this, like to cling, like to act coquettishly, and like to stay together all the time.

There was nothing wrong with this. Lin Xiao would occasionally feel secretly happy and chuckle. He would grab the little cookie who came to attack him, feel the curvy body wrapped in the uniform, and secretly kiss the girl's soft and smooth face, watching her unexpectedly shy reaction, and ignoring the envious or contemptuous looks of the surrounding ship girls.

There's no way, this little biscuit who likes to act coquettishly is so cute. Anyone would be like this if they had a wife as cute as her. The sense of happiness would overflow, and they would naturally become able to ignore the eyes of outsiders.

Of course, he is still a commander after all. Although his relationship with Cookie is rapidly heating up, he still has to pay attention to the other ship girls, otherwise Maomao will definitely be jealous again. Moreover, many of the other girls have just reunited, so he has to take better care of them.

In other words, the ship girls are used to this. They all know that the commander's energy is limited. They will be very happy when they are noticed. If they are not paid attention to for the time being, although they will feel disappointed and look at others with some envy, they can always understand.

In this way, Lin Xiao took the girls to play in Area I for two whole days. They went to many interesting places, saw many magnificent buildings in exotic styles, and ate many local specialties.

Naturally, the commander's room was "occupied" by the newly promoted Hao during these two nights. After all, he was a newcomer, so it was normal. Tianying naturally expressed his understanding, not to mention Sirius. She has always been very respectful to all the wedding ships. After all, strictly speaking, they are all the mistresses of this family.

However, happy times are always short, and it is impossible to continue playing like this in Area I, so on the second night, Lin Xiao took the girls back to the cruise ship. Early in the morning of the third day, he drove the cruise ship out of the port and continued to move towards Area E.

After leaving Sakuya Port, there is basically not much distance left to Area E. According to Sheffield and the others, it will only take a few days of sailing.

However, as the saying goes, a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. Especially after having fun in Area I for a few days, the boredom of sailing on the sea was even more prominent. So these few days were particularly difficult, so that the most common thing everyone did every day was to go to the deck together to bask in the sun. If the weather was bad, it would be even worse. We didn't want to go out of the cabin, so we stayed in the room, lying on the bed doing nothing all day, always thinking about doing something. But when the sun went down, we had done nothing. We just read novels and comics to kill time.

The excessive boredom even made Lin, who had vowed to stop writing for two or three months, start to work seriously on the second volume of the novel. In just a few days, he had basically drawn up the outline of the second volume. The richer his life with the ship girls, the longer he spent with them, the more things that happened, and naturally the more things he would have to write about.

How should I put it? I feel like I'm getting better and better, and the more I write, the more excited I feel.

It’s a pity that this state is very precious and short-lived. As time goes by, the enthusiasm will eventually fade away. Although the world in the book is beautiful, if it stays in the mind for too long, it will become boring.

Perhaps by the time he writes the third or fourth volume, or even later, if the publicity effect of the novel is not as good as expected, Lin Xiao may lose motivation and want to give up.

Of course, that day hasn’t come yet, at least not yet, so it never hurts to write more while the passion is still there and inspiration is bursting... Although the premise of everything is mainly because it’s too boring to stay on the sea.

Those Sardinian girls who were so reserved and elegant when they first met have started to play cards or mahjong every day in the past few days.

Some of them would be bored enough to tease the commander, but of course it would be difficult to succeed in most cases. After all, there are four marriage ships on the ship, three of whom are in high positions, and the commander will always have someone around him in most cases.

Time passed little by little, and the difficult days would eventually come to an end. Finally, one morning, when the sun had just risen... and when the sun had already begun to shine on people's buttocks, Commander Lin Xiao, who had finished his breakfast and habitually came to lie on the deck, was suddenly surprised to find that the shadow of the port seemed to appear in his field of vision.

I quickly ran excitedly to the observation deck, picked up the telescope and looked into the distance. Sure enough, I saw the outline of the port, which seemed to be only an hour or two away.

"That's Area E, right?"

Lin Xiao looked at Sheffield, who had followed him because he was worried that he had come to a high place alone, and asked excitedly.

"If it goes as expected, that should be the case."

The maid still had that expressionless look on her face, but she still answered her master's questions very seriously. Her cute doll-like face and the same doll-like expression made her look so cute. If she was familiar enough with the girl, she would not feel alienated, but would think she was particularly cute...

“Finally…!”

The excited Commander Lin Xiao took a deep breath, and suddenly picked up Sheffield like a child, and turned around...

Chapter 15: The Forgotten(?) Promise

Looking back, the news that Zone E had its own ship girl was already known when Sheffield was found.

That was when Lin Xiao had just traveled through time. Besides Xiaotiancheng, there was only Sheffield around him. At that time, he was thinking that one day he would come to District E in person and bring all the girls from his port area back.

It was just because of various practical reasons that it was unrealistic to find someone in Area E at that time. There were many difficult problems to solve, so I chose to enroll in the Naval Academy. I got a formal commander's certificate in one year, and at the same time I also had my own new port area.

With the return of Aunt Saint, the problem of transportation was solved, which made this trip possible.

Now that I have finally arrived at Area E and seen the port of Area E, the girl standing next to me happens to be Sheffield, and I naturally feel a little emotional.

Not to mention that I have been sailing on the sea for such a long time that I was almost bored and almost went crazy. Now that I have finally arrived at my destination, I can't help but feel excited and happy. So many emotions mixed together naturally become an impulse.

So, picking up Sheffield and spinning him around is reasonable...right?

Lin Xiao, who had calmed down a little, looked at the maid who was still looking at him expressionlessly. He was obviously holding her like a child, but he always felt that he was controlling her.

"Cough cough..."

With an awkward cough and putting the girl down in his arms, Lin Xiao pretended nothing had happened and took a deep breath.

However, Lin Xiao, who wanted to jump into the sea and take a cold shower to relieve the embarrassment, obviously did not notice the shyness and hesitation in Sheffield's eyes after he looked away.

Some words that perhaps should have been forgotten long ago came to his mind again. A blush that was difficult to conceal appeared on Sheffield's face. He looked at the back of his master, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

...but she said nothing in the end.

In fact, she didn't care about whether there was a promise or not from the very beginning. As a maid, serving her master was her job and the most important part of her life. Naturally, her master was also the most important person in her life.

But the relationship between master and servant is inherently unfair. As a maid, she can have expectations and can boldly express her feelings, but she should not make things difficult for her master.

Yes, at least that's what Sheffield himself thought - if he brought up that matter now, it would definitely embarrass his master.

The mean maid wasn't really mean after all. She was just a weird little girl who said a few harsh words to avoid defeat. After all, her heart was 100% thinking about her master. The little maid would eventually choose to put herself in a difficult position... even though she knew very well that the other party might have simply forgotten about the incident.

What you should have will always be there, and what you shouldn't have doesn't need to be forced. Anyway, there is still a lot of time, and the peaceful days may continue like this...

The embarrassment will always be short-lived, just like the impulsive love that will always disappear quietly in a short time. Lin Xiao quickly went down the lookout and told the girls who were still in the cabin the news of the imminent arrival.

The Cheshire Cat was the first to rush out, ran to the side of the boat and looked forward, then showed a surprised expression, turned around and hugged Lin Xiao, rubbing his chest hard.

Cats always seem to express their joy in this way. The first thing they do is to find the commander and convey their joy with intimate gestures. Of course, there are also cute cheers and expressions that make people smile.

However, compared to the cute big cats in the game, the real touch in reality often brings more surprises, but it will also inevitably breed some small troubles.

For example... that breathtakingly soft touch.

Mao Mao is a heavy cruiser. Although it is a heavy cruiser, its size is actually no less than that of a battleship. The white silk cat-ear maid outfit with suspenders is really very attractive.

Such an extremely cute and almost flawless beautiful girl, who loves you so much, if she had appeared in front of Lin Xiao before he traveled through time, he would have even thought of a name for the child within a few days.

But the situation is different now. He is the commander after all. It's not that this is a reason for him not to indulge himself and have fun with the cat. It's just that in the environment where almost most of the ship girls like him, want to get the ring and even push him, Lin Xiao feels that he should at least stick to his original intention.

It’s okay to have many wives, because he is a commander, and it’s normal. Commanders all over the world... well, all European commanders are like this. But one can’t become more and more inflated and arrogant because of this, liking every ship girl he meets, expressing his love to her passionately today, and having dinner, date, and sex tomorrow.

Then at least... there has to be a process, right?

Take Hao for example, although it was still a little hasty, after all, they have been together for such a long time and they know each other well enough. As for the problem with Maomao...should we say that this girl is too simple and easy to understand, or too proactive and pure?

Although the time of knowing each other should be the same as that of Little Cookie, Lin Xiao just feels as if there is no "sense of process".

To put it simply, when facing the cat, he seemed to lack a reason to convince himself to get on board...

Lin Xiao knew that this might not be fair to Cheshire, but it was just his unilateral idea. He also knew that to put it bluntly, this was just his hypocrisy. However, there were so many wedding ships in the port area, and there had to be a sequence for boarding, and there had to be some intervals for buffering.

Otherwise, if there is one today and another tomorrow, it would really be like a pile driver, and even an iron body would not be able to bear it...

And once they are on the ship, we have to take better care of them. We can't just leave them alone, taking care of one today and one tomorrow. If there are too many, we really have to make a schedule, and it may take even a month to schedule them all.

So... although this kind of thing is possible, there's no need to be so anxious. I just ate the cookies in the past two days, and as for the cat... I have to wait for a while, right?

"Commander, it's windy outside. Strong sea breeze is not good for the skin. Although we are almost at our destination, we still need some time. Why don't we go into the cabin and rest for a while? Although we just had breakfast...but lunch will probably be late today, so I made some snacks for everyone. Of course, I also baked the commander's favorite cookies~"

Speak of the devil, and he will appear. Little Biscuit soon came out of the cabin and said with full of girlfriend strength.

"Well, let Sheffield make a pot of tea, and we'll go in and play some cards. Cheshire can come too..."

Chapter 16 Fish and Chips

Although they arrived at Area E, they did not immediately target Remi Port when they came here. So when the cruise ship actually arrived at the port that Lin Xiao saw from afar, he found that the port was not actually that big, at most it was a medium-sized port.

That didn't matter. Although their target was Remi Port, it was only because of the rumor that a large number of Royal Navy Ship Girls lived and gathered there. In fact, no one could tell whether the rumor was accurate or not, whether it was true or just a false rumor.

Besides, even if the news is true, although it is very likely that it is one of their own ship girls, it is not necessarily certain that this is the case. Moreover, judging from the fact that ship girls such as Sheffield left the team in the middle of the journey, those royal ship girls may not all be with Queen Elizabeth. There may also be ship girls from the port area living and working in other cities or ports in Zone E.

So after a brief thought and discussion with the ship girls, Lin Xiao decided not to go directly to Remi Port, but to choose to land at a random port, and then travel all the way in the direction of Remi Port to find the way. If he really met the ship girls from home on the way, he would talk to them about the situation in Area E. If he could get more information, that would be great, and then he could change the planned itinerary based on the new information.

Since he had come all the way here, Lin Xiao certainly wanted to bring all the ship girls in Zone E back home. Although this might take some time, it was still much better than coming here again later.

Moreover, if there were really a few ship girls missing here, there were still many ship girls from the port area here before, and everyone could meet and talk occasionally. But he took everyone away when he came this time, and later found that they could not find their original port area partners in the entire E area. Those ship girls were too pitiful.

"Commander, are we going to have lunch nearby? Or should we go downstairs to buy some ingredients and cook it ourselves?"