Chapter 256: Questioning

Qin Ge's identity issue has always been a matter that many ship girls consider taboo.

The more people who know about this, the easier it is to slip up. Whether humans or ship girls know, it doesn't matter, because now is not the time to study this issue.

But once Qin Ge's identity becomes known to everyone, it's very likely to spread to their enemies, the Sirens.

If the Sirens want to do something to Qin Ge, what should we do then?

The Sirens' cruelty is known to them. If Qin Ge falls into their hands, she will definitely undergo various experiments, and at that point most would be unable to live or die.

This outcome is something they don't want to see, so Qin Ge's current identity is known only to his own ship girls, Yixian, and the Prince of Wales.

"But for now it's just speculation; maybe Zhang Men can't tell either." Qin Ge comforted the ship girls.

"But what if she does figure it out? Have you thought about that, commander?" Ou Gen Qin Wang said.

Qin Ge sighed, "You can hide it for a while but not forever; eventually we have to face this, whether it's discovered early or late makes no difference."

However, if she finds out now, all we can hope is that they keep it secret; if we refuse to go, it would only make us look more suspicious.

Moreover, this time we're going with Sanli Xianbei accompanying me; I believe that with him there, even if it's discovered, we can persuade Zhang Men to keep this secret.

Although our factions differ, the goal of Azure Lane is the same; I believe Zhang Men can also understand what this ultimately represents, and what it would be if the Sirens found out.

"However, based on what I currently know, this Sakura Empire commander-in-chief Zhang Men basically only fulfills a priestess's duty in Sakura Empire; one could say that although he is the Sakura Empire commander-in-chief, he rarely manages fleet affairs,

"Now the ones truly managing fleet affairs are Chi Cheng and Kaga; so even if it's discovered, perhaps as the commander said, we could suppress her." Ou Gen Qin Wang said, biting his finger.

Everyone nodded, and Guanghui began to smile, saying, "Well, that settles this matter; let's now talk about the commander's previous affairs."

"What do you want to talk about? I'll just say you all suddenly came to my room tonight—what do you want? Originally you came to talk to me about something; if you have anything, just say it." Qin Ge asked the ship girls in front of him.

"Um..." Banrenma hesitated, then glanced at Guanghui and Ou Gen Qin Wang beside her, and said to Qin Ge, "Commander, do you not like us?"

"Huh?" Qin Ge was stunned.

"Let me say it." Guanghui said, "This morning when I woke up, I saw a few destroyers and a unicorn with disheveled clothes hugging a blanket as they came out of your room, so I wanted to ask if you don't like us this way, but instead like those little girls who haven't grown up yet."

"Huh?" Qin Ge was even more bewildered, "What are you all talking about?"

"Commander, are you a lolicon?" Ou Gen Qin Wang added.

"Huh?" Qin Ge slapped his forehead, gave a wry smile at the three women sitting before him, and said, "So you came to my room tonight just for this?"

"Isn't the seriousness of this enough for the three of us to come together?" Guanghui retorted, "Ordinary commanders playing with those destroyers is fine by us, after all we need to increase camaraderie among companions. Valley"

But if we sleep together at night, that would be hard to accept, after all they're young and don't know certain things; if the commander were to do something bad, they'd likely not resist, and we couldn't just watch you make mistakes.

"This..." Qin Ge was speechless, "So in your eyes, I've already become this kind of situation?"

"Isn't that the case?" Ou Gen Qin Wang laughed.

"Well, absolutely not." Qin Ge quickly shook his head, "Last night was because after I finished talking with you and went back, I saw a few people in my room asking something, then they said they'd changed to a new environment, so they couldn't sleep well, and asked me to tell them a story."

So I did tell them a story; that story is fairly long, so I didn't finish it last night.

Only later at night did I let them go to sleep; they asked if they could sleep in my room, I thought a few kids wouldn't be a problem, so I agreed, but I never expected you all to be overthinking like this.

"That's it; nothing else happened after that, right?" Banrenma wondered.

Qin Ge rolled his eyes, "You guys aren't hoping something happened, are you?"

"It's just that the commander has never before let destroyers sleep with him, so suddenly coming here like this just causes a bit of confusion." Guanghui said, though at this moment her face was somewhat red, obviously because she was shy from her own earlier words.

"No, the commander suddenly telling stories? You previously, aside from those military basics, hardly did anything else, right?" Ou Gen Qin Wang asked.

"I live in an age of information explosion; even if I focus on research, some information still gets through. After all, I lived in my world for over twenty years—what's so hard about telling a story?" Qin Ge explained helplessly.

"Well, if the commander passes, that's fine; but I now want to ask, which person in our fleet does the commander like?" Ou Gen Qin Wang asked.

As soon as that was said, Guanghui narrowed her eyes, and even the usually shy Banrenma beside her showed an expectant look.

Qin Ge only felt a cold sweat break out on his back; he suddenly felt this question was really hard to answer. Just as he was about to deflect, he saw the three of them looking expectantly, obviously today it's absolutely impossible to deflect.

Thus Qin Ge could only steel himself and say to the three, "I like them all."

"Oh? I didn't expect the commander to still be such a benevolent person, but that's a clever answer." Ou Gen Qin Wang smiled; beside him, Guanghui also smiled and nodded, while Banrenma's face grew warm, though she couldn't hide her inner joy.

Just then, Qin Ge's door was knocked, and a small head appeared before the four people, "Yah, a few older sisters are here."

"Oh, it's Biaoqiang; what do you want with the commander?" Guanghui asked with a smile.

"It's like this: last night the commander gave us a story that wasn't finished, so today we came to find him to continue the story." Biaoqiang said.

At this moment, Guanghui looked at Qin Ge with a smiling face and said, "Commander, can we few stay to listen? We've never heard the commander's story before."

Qin Ge was speechless, "Of course."