Dedicated to the Book of Cabot

: A Heart Darker Than the Seabed

Going to Dongyuan Island for training during the day, and coming back to fight with the company and others at night, this kind of days has lasted for more than 20 days.

In the beginning, she couldn’t cope with this kind of high-intensity combat at all, but after five days, the number of damage controls she needed to use decreased day by day.

But the amount of damage control that Missouri requires her to consume every day is also increasing.

Even though Lexington had gone back a long time ago, Chi Yuan still didn’t dare to disobey Missouri’s order. She was afraid that Lexington would kill her again if the other party called.

In order to fulfill Missouri’s request, Chiyuan is heading deeper into the ocean every day.

Until today, she has used nearly 20,000 damage tubes.

It’s not that big families can’t afford such an aircraft carrier. Chi Yuan can go back with her chest up high and show off that she’s a soldier who returned from hell.

And these days, Missouri has not set up a cannon to deal with the high-level deep seas for her. All the high-level deep seas that appeared were solved by Chi Yuan herself.

It was already eleven o’clock in the evening when all the damage controls prescribed today were used up. Although the company has said in advance that there are other things to cancel the evening training, but this time point is indeed a bit too much.

Just sleep here.

Thinking like this, Chi Yuan turned around and stretched out her hand to apply to Missouri and Veneto to live here tonight, but Veneto waved her hand in disgust.

“Go, go, go back, there are other things here tonight.”

There was no other way, they were all ordered to evict guests, and Chi Yuan was really embarrassed to stay, so she could only walk back dejectedly with her coat in her arms.

It took about forty minutes for Chi Yuan to see the building of the training school.

While yawning, she stepped onto the land of the pier, but saw Hokkaido sitting on a bench under the street lamp.

In the dead of night, she was sitting here alone holding a video camera, as if she was waiting for something to arrive.

Because the aura exuding from Hokkaido was too depressed, Chi Yuan couldn’t stand it anymore, so she put on her clothes and came in front of the other party.

Hokkaido didn’t notice Chi Yuan. She lowered her head and fiddled with the camera on her lap, but saw a pair of legs in her field of vision, and then Chi Yuan’s questioning voice sounded.

“Why are you alone at the pier so late? Don’t you feel very cold?”

Chi Yuan’s voice could not hide the tiredness, but for Hokkaido who had been sitting here for two hours, this question was quite unexpected.

She raised her head slightly, and saw Chi Yuan’s slightly messy long hair.

I haven’t seen Chi Yuan in Hokkaido for more than 20 days. In my impression, this girl with shoulder-length hair is about to turn completely red now, and the originally pure black eyes are also suffused with a blue gleam.

“…Calm down here.” Hokkaido tried hard to suppress a smile, “Recently…some troubles.”

“That’s it.” Chi Yuan nodded.

But she didn’t mean to leave, instead she took a step to the side: “Can I sit by your side?”

“Eh? Ah…no problem.” Hearing Chi Yuan’s request, Hokkaido hurriedly moved out of his seat, allowing Chi Yuan, who was quite exhausted, to sit down.

With a thankful smile, Chi Yuan sat on the bench.

She is also constantly moving around every day, and she doesn’t even have time to sit on this bench and look at the sea surface at night.

“Ah, I can finally rest for a while.” She smiled and turned her head, “Hokkaido can also complain with me while I’m complaining.”

“…I don’t have anything to complain about.”

Hokkaido shook her head. She lowered her head and looked at the camera on her lap, showing a bitter smile: “No matter what I do, I have no right to complain.”

That’s it. Chi Yuan narrowed her eyes slightly.

The two fell into silence.

Hokkaido didn’t know how to bring up the topic. Seeing the dark ripples on the sea surface, she became nervous for a while.

“Hokkaido, are you human?” Chi Yuan’s question was so sudden that Hokkaido was at a loss.

But she still answered Chi Yuan: “Before… yes.”

“Then do you consider people changing ships?” Chi Yuan asked.

This question made Hokkaido think for a while, and then she nodded: “…it will be calculated in writing.”

“If it is, then you are absolutely qualified to complain about this world.” Chi Yuan suddenly became serious, “If you think there is something in this world that you cannot complain about, then you are wrong.”

Saying so, Chi Yuan stretched out her hand and patted Hokkaido’s shoulder: “Although this sounds like a false theory, you must know that we live for ourselves first, and then for others.”

“Struggling to live in such a world is very tiring. If you don’t even allow complaints, you might as well die happily.”

“Hokkaido, keeping silent will make you more painful than death. Speak up. At least now I can comfort you.”

Chi Yuan’s words made Hokkaido’s eye sockets gradually turn red, the moisture in her eyes made her unable to open her eyes, and her nose was also sour.

she saysThe first person who allows himself to complain is also the first person who allows himself to scold fate.

Looking back on his family, the deceit and orders from his superiors, Hokkaido really couldn’t bear it alone.

She is not a soldier, at least not yet.

Hokkaido, which dared not resist, had finally come to this point after being given the task in the name of national security, and being lied about that the ship’s outfit and body had been fully adjusted.

“I… wait here for someone to pick me up and take me back to dismantle.” Finally, she uttered her pain.

“I came here because it was arranged by the coalition government to use a video camera to film all the activities here, and then take them back to edit them, and use them to anger ordinary people who hate ship girls.”

“Originally, they said that if I finished this, my ship’s equipment and adjustments could be completed, and I could become a real human-reformed ship. But after I completed the task, they said they couldn’t do it, and they wanted to dismantle me.”

Speaking of this, Hokkaido took a deep breath, she laughed through tears, and shook her head like self-deprecating: “I don’t want to give this to them, I think ship girls are better than humans.”

Chi Yuan, who was stunned by the sudden heavy news, watched Hokkaido stand up from the bench. Under the dim light, she raised the camera high and smashed it to the ground.

As if to relieve her anger, she raised her foot and stomped it hard a few times. In the end, Hokkaido finally cried out.

Seeing the child kneeling on the ground curled up into a ball, crying loudly on the pier at night with the cold wind blowing, Chi Yuan felt her heart tremble again.

She was silent for a minute, then took off her coat and put it on Hokkaido.

Then he squatted down and gently hugged the child.

“Chiyuan…I…I don’t want to be dismantled…I want to train with you, I want to graduate with you…”

Hokkaido, curled up in Chi Yuan’s arms, was already sobbing.