Chapter 556: Pact

Moonlight like water, the night was silent.

However, Qin Ge's mood at this moment was not at all tranquil.

By rights, after several days of sorties, he should have been utterly exhausted, yet Qin Ge was unusually alert, so awake that he couldn't sleep even with his eyes open staring at the ceiling.

"Commander, are you asleep?"

A gentle voice appeared beside Qin Ge, but Qin Ge didn't turn his head at all, merely quickly closing his eyes and muttering, "Asleep."

"Hehe, even asleep you answer my words, Commander, you're really cute."

Qin Ge helplessly opened his eyes, then turned his body to look at the person lying beside him.

Under the moonlight, the white hair shone unusually bright, and that face was also rendered especially beautiful by the light, so beautiful that Qin Ge's breath caught when he looked at it.

And this familiar face wasn't Guanghui's—who else could it be?

After a recent request, Qin Ge finally agreed to Guanghui's request. Thus, Guanghui properly slept in Qin Ge's bed tonight.

Of course, the two weren't sharing a blanket, merely sleeping together.

"You weren't just sleepy a moment ago? Why are you suddenly so energetic?" Qin Ge asked Guanghui.

"Naturally, because the Commander is by my side—I've been looking forward to this for a long time." Guanghui smiled.

"Well, anticipation?" Qin Ge said in surprise, "So sleeping here tonight is also a plan you've been harboring for a while?"

"Oh, I accidentally let my inner thoughts slip out." Guanghui quickly covered her mouth with her hand, but the smile in her eyes had already betrayed her.

Qin Ge couldn't help but chuckle, "But your smile has already given you away completely."

"Hehe, since the Commander has noticed, I no longer need to hide it." Guanghui said, full of smiles, "Commander, then I can't sleep because you're by my side? Why can't you sleep?"

Qin Ge chuckled, "Naturally, because you, this great beauty, are by my side—it would be strange to fall asleep quickly the first time sharing a bed."

"Can I take that as a compliment?" Guanghui said openly, without any coyness.

Qin Ge was speechless, rolling his eyes, "If you like it."

"Commander, I suddenly noticed lying here looking at you, you feel much cuter than usual." Guanghui smiled.

"Cute?" Qin Ge instinctively reached up to touch his face, "Wind and sun have already made me not cute; lately looking in the mirror I feel I've gotten quite dark."

"Hehe, wind and sun are because the Commander fights side by side with us, and I feel this Commander, compared to when we first met, feels more reliable." Guanghui said.

"Hah, then what do I usually look like in your eyes?" Qin Ge asked curiously.

"Usually the Commander?" Guanghui smiled, "Sometimes he's very stern, sometimes he's silly, agonizing half a day over problems that aren't problems at all, yet on the battlefield he's decisive and swift, making firm judgments."

"Such a Commander leaves me troubled; I often wonder which side is the real you." Guanghui said.

Qin Ge chuckled, "It seems in your heart I'm still a very multifaceted person."

Immediately seeing Guanghui's smile, Qin Ge smiled, "These are all me, the truest me. I am also human, I also have emotions; precisely because I have emotions, there is love, hatred, desire."

And when emotions reach a certain point, one must touch the bottom line of the heart. Thus one thinks, weighs, and then decides in the heart.

That's why hesitation arises, why one wavers. But on the battlefield such things aren't needed, as Emperor Frederick once said: on the battlefield one must maintain absolute rationality, so these distractions must be discarded.

Hearing Qin Ge say this, Guanghui instinctively reached out her hand from the blanket and grasped Qin Ge's hand.

"Commander is not easy, I can see all these." Guanghui said softly, "So let us two make a pact?"

"What kind of pact?" Qin Ge asked.

"If the Commander has something on his mind, he can come to me to confide; I will absolutely not tell anyone else. I will try to tell the Commander some ways to resolve these matters, and these will be known only to us two."

"And if I have something on my mind, I will also go to the Commander to confide; then the Commander must not refuse." Guanghui smiled.

Looking at Guanghui's gentle eyes, Qin Ge didn't even think and directly agreed, "Okay."

Now it was Guanghui's turn to be a little surprised, "Commander, aren't you going to consider it?"

Qin Ge laughed and said, "What's there to consider? Haven't I already told you my affairs before? Since I've already told you, isn't this pact just a matter of course?"

Guanghui couldn't help but chuckle, "Commander, you're sly—past things don't count; I'm talking about from now on."

"My answer is also good." Qin Ge chuckled, "I won't have secrets before you—do you believe that now?"

Guanghui helplessly pinched Qin Ge's hand, "I always feel the Commander lacks sincerity, but since that's the case, then this pact takes effect from now on."

Qin Ge nodded, "Good."

Only seeing Guanghui's eyes shift, she said to Qin Ge, "Commander, actually I have something very hard to say and somewhat hesitant; I don't know if I can confide it to you."

Qin Ge stared for a moment, "This fast?"

"Not okay?" Guanghui asked.

"Sure, of course." Qin Ge agreed readily, but he faintly felt as if Guanghui had dug a huge pit for him, and he resolutely jumped into it.

Guanghui smiled, "I, I really like a person, willing to accompany him to the end, and if that person could put the Oath Ring on me, I would be very happy."

"But how could a girl be embarrassed to voice such a request? So now I'm hesitant, hesitant about whether to tell him."

"Commander, can you help me?"

Qin Ge was dazed; although Guanghui repeatedly said she had a very worrisome matter, when these words came out he couldn't fail to know what Guanghui wanted to express.

As a ship girl, the only person she could ever love in her life is her commander.

Thus, rather than saying Guanghui is telling me her tangled affair, it's more like a direct, straightforward attack.

Oath Ring, a piece of ship equipment that can increase a ship girl's overall strength, compared to ship cannons and such gear, adds very little power.

But on the other hand, it represents a deeper covenant between ship girl and commander.

In the name of love, establish the oath……