Chapter 371: Unpredictable
Since it takes a long time to take a yacht to the KanColle Headquarters, when everyone arrived at the KanColle Headquarters, they went to the hotel to put down their luggage and took a simple rest, just sitting down and drinking a glass of water, and then rushed to the KanColle Headquarters cafeteria. However, since they arrived quite late, there were not many people there.
After lunch, Su Xia returned to the resting place. It was still lunch break time, and she wanted to take a nap. It was not because she did not sleep well last night, but because she needed to take a nap to prepare for the afternoon work. She just went to bed and planned to play with her phone before going to sleep. She just checked the large group of the garrison, and saw that the screen of her phone changed. It was a call from Shang Chu.
Su Xia answered the phone.
"Hey, Admiral Su... Admiral Su..."
"Um."
"Are you asleep?"
"He's asleep. He's sleeping soundly. He's even snoring."
"Hahaha. I woke you up from your nap. Or you haven't taken a nap yet. Get ready for your nap."
"I haven't taken a nap yet, I'm going to take a nap." Su Xia asked, "What's the matter?"
"Would you like to come out and sit down?" Shang Chu said, "I'd like to introduce two friends to you."
Su Xia thought about it. Shang Chu had called her specially, so she had to give him some face. She said, "Okay... where are you?"
"It was the cafe where we first met."
"Wait me a moment."
Because Shang Chu only invited him, Su Xia went to the cafe alone. And this is inside the KanColle headquarters, there is no need to worry about safety issues. Otherwise, no matter where the admiral wants to go, the KanColle will definitely not trust him to go alone.
Arriving at the coffee shop, Su Xia found that this coffee shop was usually deserted, but today it became particularly lively. He saw Mu Yi, with whom he had talked a few days ago. He was sure that the other party had noticed him, but he pretended not to notice him and looked out the window with his coffee. He did not say hello either.
Su Xia ignored Mu Yi and found Shang Chu at a table near the window in the cafe. There were two people sitting with her, one with waist-length blonde hair and the other with short black hair, looking quite handsome.
Su Xia hesitated about how to greet him. She thought that calling him Admiral Shang was a bit strange. It would be better to call him as she did on the phone before, omitting one word, which would make him seem closer but not too intimate. She said, "Admiral Shang... When did you come?"
Shang Chu saw Su Xia and said, "You're here... I've been here a long time ago."
"Chu Chu." The blonde woman held her chin in her hand, "Is this the admiral you want to introduce to us?"
Su Xia greeted: "Hello."
"Hello." The blonde raised her other hand.
Shang Chu stood up and said, "Let me introduce it to you..."
Following Shang Chu's introduction, two other people briefly introduced themselves and talked about their previous relationships with Shang Chu.
Su Xia now knew that the blonde girl's name was Nana. The handsome short-haired girl's name was Qu Qi, nicknamed Cookie. Shang Chu was her senior, and Nana and Cookie were both her juniors.
Su Xia found a bench and sat down, and said in surprise: "Shangti, you have been the admiral for so long."
Shang Chu was drinking coffee. She had been to someone's garrison before. She said, "I'm so sorry. I've been an admiral for so many years, but I only have this big garrison."
Su Xia looked at the menu and explained, "I mean, I'm surprised that you look so young, Shangti... maybe twenty years old, you don't look like you've graduated for so many years."
Shang Chu glanced at Su Xia. This was a man with countless marriages. It was conceivable that he must be very good at pleasing girls. He said, "As expected of you, you are so good at talking."
"But the Admiral School is different from ordinary schools. As long as you are qualified, you can enroll at any age. As long as you accumulate enough points, you can graduate at any time." Shang Chu said, "Do you think I must be very old after being an admiral for so many years? Let me tell you, I am only eighteen years old this year."
Su Xia was very surprised. Shang Chu was absolutely beautiful, a black-haired beauty, but she looked to be at least in her twenties. It was not until he heard Nanna burst out laughing that he realized that it was the eighteen-year-old.
"Nanna, what are you laughing at?" Shang Chu said, "Did I say anything wrong?"
"No, no." Nana waved her hands.
"Okay." Shang Chu said, "I admit that I am twenty-two years old."
Nana still smiled.
Shang Chu slammed the table and stood up, saying, "Try to smile again."
"Don't laugh. I won't laugh anymore." Nana tried to keep a straight face.
Shang Chu said: "I became an admiral at the age of twenty-two. The moment I became an admiral, I began to receive the blessing of the sea. At that time, I was like a ship girl and would not age... So, isn't this twenty-two years old?"
That was something he hadn't read about online. Su Xia asked, "Is there such a saying that a person won't age after becoming an admiral?"
"No one knows." The one who spoke was the handsome short-haired girl Qu Qi, "But it is true that he has been an admiral for decades. Apart from his more mature temperament, he still looks like a young admiral. There is a saying now that a person who becomes an admiral will become a life like a ship girl."
"There are many examples of little girl admirals who never grow up." Shang Chu added, nodding and crossing his arms, "So I think it's okay for me to be twenty-two."
Nana said, "Anyway, once a person becomes an admiral, he is no longer a normal person. Some people also say that once a person becomes an admiral, he becomes a monster."
Shang Chu was afraid that everyone would bring up his age again, so he interrupted, "Let's not talk about that. As an admiral, I must defend the garrison. Now the deep-sea shipgirls are getting stronger and stronger, and there are more and more deep-sea flagships. Seven ships sailed down Tianshan before, but how many are there now in just a few years? We don't even know when they will be sacrificed. Worrying about that... seems a bit like a pessimism."
"Anyway," Shang Chu patted Su Xia on the shoulder, "you guys can just show off your boats... I'm introducing Su Ti to you. He's my friend. Please give me some face. No matter who else you show off, you can't show off him."
Qu Qi held up his chin and said, "With your personality, Shang Chu, there are only two possibilities for introducing Admiral Su to us. One is to let us show him off. Of course, showing off a boat is showing off a boat, and introducing is also introducing. The other is to borrow him to show off us."
Qu Qi narrowed her eyes and said, "After thinking about it, the second possibility is more likely."
Nana asked, "Chuchu, is Cookie right?"
"Of course not." Shang Chu replied.
Nana said, "Then let's make a deal. This time we can talk about hobbies, work, anything, but we can't talk about our own ship girls, okay?"
Shang Chu had an unpleasant expression.
Nana said, "It's fine if you bully Ashi and the others. Are we so easy to bully?"
Shang Chu said, "I contacted Ah Shi and Xiao Fu, but they may not be here until the afternoon. And those two kids, one is natural and the other is silly, it's easy... but also difficult to expose them."
"So you came to us?" Qu Qi asked.
" hey-hey."
Nana looked at Su Xia and said, "Is Admiral Su's garrison really that strong that Chu Chu could pull it over to show us off? A dozen or twenty ship girls, several capital ships?"
Su Xia was about to speak, but Nana said, "Admiral Su, don't say anything. We said that we won't talk about our ship girls this time."
"My tutelary fort is actually like that," Su Xia said. Now that she knew what this world was really like, "I'm not being Versailles, but my tutelary fort is definitely a bit..."
Nana interrupted him and said, "Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say a word about your own garrison, or I will think you are showing off your boat. You are here to show off ours on purpose."
Su Xia smiled helplessly: "Okay."
Shang Chu said, "Admiral, what should we talk about if not our tutelary forts?"
"What are you talking about?" Nana said, "I watched a movie yesterday, it was pretty good, let me recommend it to you."
"No thanks." Shang Chu said, "I don't like watching horror movies."
“It’s not scary at all.”
Shang Chu covered his ears and said, "You are a horror and ghost lover. Your ship girl must have been harmed by you a lot."
Nana asked, "Admiral Su, do you like horror movies?"
Su Xia raised her hands, meaning no thanks. I watched a few ghost movies when I was a child, and I still feel scared.
Shang Chu interrupted, “He likes succubi.”
Su Xia nodded: "I admit this."
"There is no man who doesn't like succubus." Nanna said, "Little wings, little tail, little hooves, it's just great."
Shang Chu said: "Nanna, I think you have cosplayed as a succubus before."
"You mean last Halloween?" Nanna said. "That wasn't a succubus."
"What is that?"
"Witch," Nanna said, "Can't you see I'm wearing a pointy witch hat?"
"It's not like the witches and sorcerers you see on TV."
Nana said, "She must be transformed. Make her cuter. She's a witch anyway."
"Okay." Shang Chu said, "How about cosplaying as a succubus today?"
Nana said, "You can't see it if I cosplay." She stared at the coffee cup, "Succubus is not scary. I plan to cosplay a mummy, or a zombie, it's scary..."
"You are not allowed to mention your own garrison. Nana, you said so. Are you going to keep quiet and show off your wealth?" Shang Chu said that it was a shameful revenge.
Nanna said, "I don't plan to dry the boat."
"Anyway, you are not allowed to tell."
Nana curled her lips and said, "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me."
Shang Chu hummed complacently.
Nana rolled her eyes and said, "Since Chuchu doesn't allow you to say it, you say it."
"I'll tell you what I say." Shang Chu said unconvinced, then looked around and suddenly lowered his voice, "You know there's a new conqueror at the KanColle headquarters... That Mu Yi came to salvage the ship, but failed miserably."
"Everyone already knows. Chuchu is really out of touch with the news," said Nana.
Shang Chu slowly leaned back in his chair.
Lengthened the sound.
" oh."
