Chapter 531 Kent is not a white elephant
Obviously, the shy and weak girl Kent didn't have the courage to sit on Su Xia's lap. It was very brave for her to sit next to him. Su Xia only dared to say that to her. If it was Wichita, Indiana, and King Kong, they would definitely not dare to say a word, because they would really do that.
The performance was just that, asking Kent to sit on his lap was mainly to change the subject. Even if Kent sat next to him, Su Xia did not make any excessive movements, as if he was touching her or something. After all, a gentleman should not be tempted by a woman's beauty.
The admiral is a gentleman.
Kent, who was sitting cautiously on the booth, breathed a sigh of relief, feeling somewhat concerned at the same time.
Compared to everyone who had already eaten a lot of barbecue, Kent had just arrived, so Su Xia naturally took care of her first. No matter who the barbecue on the barbecue plate was originally prepared for, all of it was put into Kent's bowl.
"Try my roast, Kent."
Su Xia found that with the appearance of Kent, the ferocious tiger became obviously more active.
Su Xia picked up the chopsticks and added meat to the barbecue plate. The entire barbecue plate was filled with meat. She put down the chopsticks and watched Kent eat the barbecue. When she found that he was staring at her, her movements became much more restrained. She really couldn't bear to bully this weak girl. She retracted her gaze and picked up the brush to brush oil on the meat on the barbecue plate, while asking: "How does it taste?"
"Mm," said Kent, " much better than my roast."
Su Xia smiled and thought, isn't that an obvious thing? Don't you see where I am from? If I can't even reach the level of your British department, then I must commit suicide by disembowelment.
"Kent is definitely no worse than me." Su Xia said, purely speaking in a nice way.
"No, I can't," Kent said. "Teacher London said I have no talent for cooking."
He spoke up bravely and said, "Kent, be more confident. Your cooking talent is definitely better than London's."
He bravely took a photo, ready to post it online to show off, thinking that there was probably no one in the entire garrison with a worse cooking talent than London. However, from a certain perspective, London's cooking talent was definitely superb, even Yixian couldn't compare, he just went in the wrong direction.
It is said that London should not stay in the kitchen, but should go to the awesome alchemy workshop, where he will definitely achieve great things.
"No need to comfort me." Kent said. The girl lowered her head, her bangs covering her eyes, and she looked a little inferior.
"It's really not a comfort." Bravely raised his hands, "I can swear on it."
"I'm for bravery," Norfolk interjected.
"I agree too." Su Xia joined everyone and supported Kent.
Kent looked at everyone's faces and saw that everyone nodded affirmatively at her. She began to believe it a little.
"But why can't I cook well?" Kent thought for a moment, "Is it because I don't work hard enough?"
"Genius is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Kent nodded. "Is it because I don't work hard enough that I am not as good as Teacher London?"
“Forget it.” Norfolk waved her hand. She was a fan of rotten chicken soup. “Genius is one percent talent and ninety-nine percent perspiration. But that one percent talent is often more important than the ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
"Besides," Norfolk paused. Even though the British are more resistant to dark cuisine, London is beyond standard. "The direction is wrong. The harder we work, the further we are from our goal."
"Hmm..." Kent felt a little confused. What everyone was saying seemed to indicate that Teacher London's cooking skills were very poor. However, the dishes she made used a lot of ingredients, not just ingredients and seasonings. Each dish also had a lot of steps, especially the names sounded amazing.
Shropshire always thought her sister London was an excellent cook.
London insists that the lack of recognition of her is simply a matter of taste, or pride and prejudice.
The truth lies in the hands of a few.
"I said you're not good at studying cooking, even if you're from the French school..." Norfolk complained. As a British school, being able to support the French school can prove how unpopular London is. "Isn't Yixian good? Look at Chongqing. How good was her cooking when she was the Goddess of Dawn? How good is she now? She can work in the cafeteria."
"Compared to London, every time we go to the canteen kitchen..." Norfolk picked up the ferocious tiger from under the table and rubbed its head angrily, "You haven't seen that scene... I don't know if you've seen Spirited Away. It feels like some monster came to the bathhouse and everyone worked together to stop it."
Su Xia has seen "Spirited Away", that super classic animation. She can imagine the scene and can't help laughing.
"If Kent wants to learn cooking." Su Xia interrupted, "I can teach Kent. My cooking skills are really good."
Kent was moved.
"I want to learn cooking." Guangrong interrupted.
"You only know how to eat." Su Xia said, "I refuse."
"The meat is ready again." The Saint Seiya would not make the same mistake. This time, Su Xia remembered that he was grilling meat and did not forget to turn the meat over from time to time, thus avoiding it from getting burnt again. However, the ferocious tiger could not eat it and could only "woooo" under the table.
Guangrong saw Su Xia constantly helping Kent pick up meat, and couldn't help but complain: "The admiral is so partial."
"You've already eaten enough." Su Xia said, "Kent just came over and ate more. What's wrong with that?"
"Glorious, you know that the admiral is easily bored with the old and loves new things." Norfolk said, complaining that Su Xia used to fall in love with every girl she met, and that new clothes and new people were always worse than new. When a new ship joined the garrison, he would give it everything it wanted until newer ships joined the garrison.
Su Xia just glanced at Norfolk. He was too lazy to explain. He would always like Xiao Zhai, he would always like Lexington, he would always like... He knew that arguing with them was like struggling in a swamp or quicksand. The more he struggled, the deeper he would sink. So he simply said nothing. Naturally, they would stop talking because they felt bored.
At the same time, fat beef, bullfrog, squid legs, chicken wings... Kent looked at her bowl piled up under Su Xia's chopsticks, almost causing a landslide, and said, "Admiral, don't help me pick up food anymore. It's enough. I can't eat any more."
Su Xia realized that the girl was Kent, not Akagi, nor Taiho or Quincy. He put down his chopsticks and said, "That's it, then."
As expected, he couldn't help bullying the ship girl. Su Xia smiled and said, "The admiral helped Kent to pick it up. Eat it all."
Kent looked at her bowl, she had just had lunch before coming to find the ferocious tiger and now she was a little annoyed.
Su Xia put all the meat he had taken from the food pick-up area onto the barbecue plate. The barbecue plate was not full. He looked at the time and then looked around. There were not many people in the cafeteria hall. Thinking about how he had grilled a lot of meat for everyone before, he was too lazy to run again and said, "It's almost time to finish these. I'm going to take a nap."
"Is Tianlong so cruel?" Norfolk said.
Su Xia knew what Norfolk meant, so he chose not to respond.
Norfolk felt a little bored.
Su Xia was busy brushing seasoning on the newly grilled meat when she suddenly remembered something and said, "Kent, your training level is not full."
The question was just that, it's not like Su Xia didn't even know Kent's level of training.
In the entire game, only the American heavy cruisers are strong and organized. Apart from that, the Japanese can barely have such a system, but it is still not very good. The German Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper are used in special circumstances. The British do not have a single heavy cruiser that can be used.
All the heavy cruisers that can be used by the US are at the maximum level. Most of the Japanese ships have never been trained after the transformation. The heavy cruisers of the British are completely left to chance. Because the illustrations are quite cute, I trained them for a while as a justice party, but in the end, it was nothing. The training level is definitely not full.
"Yeah." Kent ate the beef, and a mustache appeared at the corner of his mouth because of the seasoning.
"Do you want to participate in the exercise?" Su Xia asked. Some shipgirls don't care about the training level. Some even say that the garrison is in a state of panic and that even the full-level battleships can hardly attack. If that's the case, they might as well just lie down. Bumblebee and L20 are believers. Some shipgirls are extremely eager to be powerful, such as the conqueror who is eager to conquer and doesn't mind being conquered.
"Why participate in the exercise... Even if you train to the maximum level... Kent is so weak."
Kent said, putting down his chopsticks and suddenly losing his mood.
"Kent, don't underestimate yourself and don't belittle yourself," said Su Xia.
Kent shook his head. It was true.
"Don't always think about the bad side." Su Xia said. He remembered the picture he had seen before. It was also about half a glass of water. In the eyes of an optimist, there was still half a glass of water. In the eyes of a pessimist, there was only half a glass of water. In the eyes of a female boxer, this glass of water was about to be unfavorable to her.
"Think about it on the bright side. Although your attributes are not top-notch, they still surpass many people." Su Xia said. He is getting better and better at speaking, almost to the point of not being top-notch.
"No one has worse attributes than me." Kent said that the ferocious tiger seemed to be able to sense its owner's low mood and kept rubbing her feet, hoping that she could cheer up.
"Yes." Su Xia looked straight ahead.
"Admiral, stop pretending and just say my name," said Norfolk.
"Norfolk just hasn't been transformed yet." Kent said. The two were evenly matched opponents, but Norfolk was still the better one. In the same untransformed state, her attributes were slightly higher than Kent's. "After she transforms, she will definitely be stronger than me."
Su Xia didn't know what to say. Kent's attributes were a problem, and her skills were also a big problem. They couldn't be any worse. Once Norfolk was transformed, it would be difficult for his skills to be worse than hers.
"Who can guarantee that Norfolk can be renovated in the future? What if it can't be renovated in a lifetime?" Su Xia said.
"I know you want to comfort Kent, but please don't use me to comfort her. Even if we can't transform it now, we can definitely do it in the future." Norfolk said, "Kent is your ship girl, and I am also your ship girl. Her mood is important, but my mood is not important."
Su Xia squinted at Norfolk, who was casual in character and said, "You are indeed both my ship girls, but Kent is my wedding ship, and you are not, so I must help her first."
"Well, you win, I have nothing to say." Norfolk shrugged his shoulders to show that he had nothing to say.
"I am also the admiral's wedding ship." Guangrong raised his hand and said.
"Yes, yes, yes." Su Xia said perfunctorily.
"In short, Kent, don't underestimate yourself." Su Xia is now more concerned about Kent's mental state.
In order to fill the port area with everyone's laughter, we must help everyone resolve their worries. The time is now.
"Admiral, stop comforting me." Kent had completely lost his appetite. "I'm just a white elephant."
The biggest black spot of the heavy cruiser Kent is her armor. As a heavy cruiser, her armor is completely at the level of a light cruiser. It is precisely because of this weak armor that she has been given the title of "White Elephant" in history, which means "something that is disproportionately large in cost compared to its value or utility."
This is the fact. Su Xia has no idea how to comfort her. Should she comfort her in a stiff way?
Kent bit her lip gently. Even if everyone was polite and didn't call her a white elephant, didn't she know whether she was a white elephant or not? Tears began to well up in her big eyes again.
Su Xia stared at Kent and thought of a way to comfort Kent, but he couldn't guarantee the effect, and it would definitely damage his glorious and upright image.
"As a battleship, the Kent's armor is weak. This is a fact. It is obviously similar to a heavy cruiser and a light cruiser. None of us can deny it." Su Xia said, "However, as a ship girl, Kent's armor cannot be said to be weak."
Kent was puzzled and said, "Why can't I say the armor is weak... It has been modified and its strength has been enhanced, but isn't the armor weak enough with only 45 points?"
Su Xia stared at Kent's chest. The buttons were almost unable to hold together, and the gap in the clothes caused by his chest was too big.
Su Xia smiled, just smiled.
Kent lowered his head following Su Xia's gaze and finally reacted. He immediately reached out and grabbed his clothes, with a blush on his cute face.
"So," Su Xia said, "who dares to say Kent White Elephant, isn't this super heavyweight."
"Admiral, stop talking." Kent whispered, her voice as thin as a mosquito.
"Whoever dares to call Kent a white elephant, Kent just needs to hold his head high and stand tall in front of her." Of course, Su Xia would not let it go that way.
Kent was at a loss.
"Only battleships need armor, and shipgirls don't need that kind of thing." Su Xia said, "Look at Des Moines, it's just a heavy cruiser, but that battleship rushed in front of her and acted arrogantly."
Su Xia talked incessantly.
Kent looked at Norfolk. Norfolk was fine. The armor of Brave and Glorious seemed a little weak. When he noticed that she was looking at them, he immediately crossed his arms. It must be admitted that what the admiral said was true. The armor of the battleship was useful, but the armor of the ship girl was not very useful.
She has always been concerned about the weakness of her armor, but now it seems that she has no way to care because she has super thick armor that no one else has.
Kent is feeling a bit complicated right now.
