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"Admiral has disappeared, and Naval Base has vanished into thin air. Everyone else is gone too, leaving just me. Lexington Sister, don't you all dislike Fireflies?" Loli buried her head in Lexington's arms, speaking in a muffled voice.
Even after everything that happened, she had never encountered anyone from Naval Base during her subsequent travels. Yet, Firefly firmly believed that everyone was doing fine; it was just that she hadn't found them. Therefore, Loli always felt wronged—everyone had left, yet no one called for her, not even Princess of Wales or her companion Trust.
"Admiral has disappeared, and Naval Base has vanished." Lexington murmured. Suddenly, she felt as if something was missing from her heart, and in that moment, it felt like all her strength had been drained away.
"Lexington Sister, what's wrong with you?" Firefly felt a weight on her shoulder as if all of Lexington's weight had pressed down on her.
"I'm fine; I just suddenly feel a bit dizzy." Lexington struggled to stand up, forcefully closing her eyes for a moment. Her gaze fell on a bench by the roadside. "Firefly, let's go sit over there."
"What happened to her?" Ye Zhengyang looked at Chuyang in confusion.
She seemed fine just moments ago; how could she become so weak and pale after hearing Firefly's words? Also, what did it mean that Naval Base disappeared and Admiral was missing?
"I'm not really sure," Chuyang replied dismissively. To be honest, it was only at this moment that he began to believe what Firefly had said before was true.
If Firefly was affected by the memories left behind on the Wreckage of Warships, then surely Lexington couldn't be the same! That would be too absurd. Chuyang absolutely did not believe that such coincidences existed in the world; thus, he thought Firefly's previous accounts were indeed her real experiences. However, what puzzled Chuyang was how such a large Naval Base could disappear overnight—there were too many questions surrounding this.
Lexington appeared to have gone through a severe illness in such a short time; she looked incredibly weak. This was solely because Firefly's words had struck her too hard. Compared to the other Fleet Girls in Naval Base, Lexington undoubtedly cared the most about Naval Base and Admiral.
As the former Secretary Ship of Naval Base, Lexington had single-handedly supported the entire base in Admiral's absence. Even though more Fleet Girls joined later and the position of Secretary Ship frequently rotated, Lexington continued to quietly perform the duties of a Secretary Ship. It could be said that without her, while Naval Base might not have collapsed entirely, it would have certainly descended into chaos.
Watching the Naval Base grow stronger through her efforts, Lexington undoubtedly felt a sense of accomplishment. Yes, the Naval Base was like her child; she had invested so much into it, but now... the Naval Base, which she had poured countless efforts and heart into, was gone just like that, leaving Lexington feeling empty inside.
The disappearance of the Admiral struck another blow to Lexington's heart.
The Admiral was particularly important for a Naval Base. Even if they did nothing at times and occasionally caused trouble, as long as they were there, the Fleet Girls within the Naval Base would feel a sense of support and motivation in whatever they did. Losing the Admiral often meant that the Naval Base was on the brink of falling apart.
However, the Fleet Girls were not unable to survive without the Admiral. In this world, there were many Fleet Girls who had lost their Admirals yet continued to live freely.
But for Lexington, at that moment, she truly felt as if the sky had fallen. Although she had never met the Admiral before, she could always feel their presence beside her. That feeling had vanished long ago. The old Lexington had dared not think about it or wanted to think about it, but when the words about the Admiral's disappearance came from Firefly's mouth, Lexington knew that the Admiral would never return.
Compared to other Fleet Girls in the Naval Base, Lexington's feelings for the Admiral were undoubtedly the deepest. While Firefly and others might have become indifferent to the Admiral after such a long absence and even forgotten them, Lexington would never forget. This was simply because she was the Admiral's Wedding Ship, his wife. She still remembered that day when she received the ring and wedding dress sent by the Admiral from afar; she was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night. Afterward, she even asked her sister Saratoga for help to decorate her room as a wedding chamber. Every night, she would put on her pure white wedding dress and quietly sit by the bed, waiting for the Admiral to return so they could spend a sweet and happy night together. Unfortunately, until that day when she inexplicably left the Naval Base, she never waited for the Admiral. Yet this feeling had not faded with time.
As written in a book she once read: "Longing is like flowing water; it does not dry up with time but instead gathers into an ocean."
In a way, this was also why Ye Zhengyang gave up on his desire to pursue Lexington after seeing the ring on her hand; despite any reluctance he felt inside, he had to accept that Lexington was someone else's Wedding Ship.
Although it is said that "as long as you wield your hoe well, there is no corner of a wall you cannot dig out," this is relative. If Lexington were just an ordinary Fleet Girl under another Admiral's command, after that Admiral went missing, with enough effort he might still have a slight chance of winning Lexington's favor and successfully pursuing her. But since Lexington was the Wedding Ship of that Admiral, no matter what means he employed or how hard he tried, there would be no possibility of success.
Ah! The Wedding Ship! To put it this way: even if a certain Admiral were a complete jerk and all his Fleet Girls abandoned him, the Wedding Ship would never leave; in fact, they would accompany the Admiral as they grew old together until they died alongside him.
"Firefly, can you tell me how exactly the Naval Base disappeared? And how did the Admiral go missing?" Just as Chuyang found it hard to believe that such a large Naval Base could vanish into thin air, Lexington felt similarly skeptical; in fact, part of her thought that Loli might be joking with her.
"I don't know either; it just disappeared like that." Firefly lowered her head slightly but quickly raised it again with a look of grievance and said: "Lexington Sister, you still haven't told me if you all dislike Firefly?"
(Isn't it true that writing this way has significantly increased the difficulty for the protagonist to pursue Lexington? The more Little Sword writes, the more it feels like an invitation novel. Is it just my imagination?)
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