ALL NOVEL Chapter 004: You Mustn't Turn into a 'What If'!
Luo Ming’s move was, one had to admit, quite clever.
Elysia had just boarded the ship and hadn’t interacted with so many beautiful girls yet. She hadn’t been influenced by the pervasive yuri atmosphere on the ship. If he made such a declaration now, wouldn’t it be like cooking raw rice into a finished dish?
Elysia was preemptively anchored in the realm of heterosexuality.
It was precisely because of this kind of consideration that Luo Ming was so nervous when Bronya and Elysia interacted.
You mustn’t turn into a yuri!
But Elysia didn’t disappoint him. She kept holding Luo Ming’s hand, though what concerned him more was that Elysia and Bronya kept locking eyes. Surprisingly, the latter didn’t shy away and continued maintaining eye contact.
Generally, this kind of gaze either meant romance or murder.
On the Hyperion, it was usually the former.
Suddenly, Luo Ming became unusually nervous.
“Before I came aboard, I never thought that there would be so many beautiful young girls here. Is this paradise?”
Elysia suddenly turned around, smiling as she spoke.
Hearing her words, Luo Ming turned serious, realizing how serious the situation was.
Could the seed of yuri have sprouted? Could even his pre-emptive high-profile declaration not extinguish this yuri fire?
Bronya silently watched everything unfold.
What in the world is going on?
A misunderstanding sown long ago, accumulated over the years, has woven into such a complex web that it’s exceptionally difficult to untangle. It would take burning it down to clear things up.
“Luo Ming, Bronya, I…”
“Shh—”
Elysia extended a finger, placing it perfectly on Bronya’s lips. She had one eye open, as if winking in a tempting way.
Bronya was surprised to find herself unable to speak a word.
Everything before her turned pink.
“Bronya, have you seen ‘Animal World’?”
Elysia suddenly spoke, “A lioness carries a tender and delicious piece of meat in her mouth. At this point, other lionesses can’t resist moving in to snatch it. The more lionesses participate in the struggle, the more excited the lioness with the meat becomes…”
Elysia stretched in a lazy yawn.
Well… given the current situation, how many lionesses on the Hyperion are eyeing this tender and delicious meat?
Elysia turned her head.
Luo Ming’s silhouette was reflected in her pupils, especially distinct.
The more beautiful the girls, the better.
That way, as the lioness guarding the tender meat, she would become more excited and have the relaxed feeling a beautiful girl should have.
Jealousy and envy—this is what youth is all about.
“Um…”
Bronya couldn’t utter a single word, and Elysia took the opportunity to get closer to Luo Ming. It was a distance just enough for them to lock eyes, and both of them saw their own reflections in the other’s pupils.
“Make sure not to blink, oh. I want to see through your pupils and find out if today’s me is beautiful or not.”
A brief silence, and then Elysia smiled like a blooming flower.
“Tell me, dear Captain, do you think I’m beautiful today?”
Luo Ming’s heart raced as he nodded repeatedly.
Elysia continued, “I think making a declaration like this over the broadcast is too hasty. With so many beautiful girls on the Hyperion, how about we pair up, visit each other one by one?”
Right.
Luo Ming suddenly had a feeling of epiphany. The effect of an announcement on the broadcast surely couldn’t compare to declaring it in person.
The news of having a girlfriend must be broadcasted to the world.
Bronya was the starting point.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Luo Ming and Elysia left the broadcast room hand in hand, and Bronya finally regained her ability to speak. She pounded her chest while uncontrollably coughing.
In her iron-gray eyes, occasional traces of after-the-fact realization flickered, along with a heavy sense of crisis.
She wasn’t unfamiliar with that temporary loss of speech.
As a former assassin, she was familiar with that sensation. Even a long time ago, when she was active as Bronya Zaychik in the assassin world, she had used this sensation on others more than once.
It was a state where one’s entire body was locked down, where even a slight movement could lead to death—something extremely rare.
A wicked woman.
This was clearly a wicked woman.
But this wicked woman had captivated the Captain as soon as she boarded the ship, even accomplishing the goal that all the Valkyries had struggled for years to achieve—becoming the Captain’s girlfriend.
And all of this turned out to be due to a completely nonsensical misunderstanding?!
Yuri?
Did the Captain’s secret of bringing one Valkyrie after another onto the Hyperion while remaining single all this time not have anything to do with him being a man, but rather because he thought all the women on the ship were into other girls?!
What kind of misunderstanding is this?
Is the Captain thinking, “If I didn’t know they were into girls, I would have definitely thought they liked me”?
What’s going on inside that head of his!
Bronya, who should lack emotions, felt an urge to stomp her feet.
She activated the broadcast again.
“Urgent crisis, and I want to inform all the Valkyries on the ship that Bronya has made a significant discovery—”
Wait a moment.
Bronya suddenly stopped.
In the current situation, when things are unclear, your enemies are everyone except you. But once things become clear, you’re left with just one enemy.
Bronya’s enemy had suddenly shifted from all the Valkyries on the ship to just Elysia.
Should she form an alliance with her other sisters?
That’s quite difficult.
While Bronya indeed felt a familial affection for several of the Valkyries on the ship, the Captain wasn’t a shared bicycle. When it comes to matters of the heart, selfishness is inevitable.
“If only the Captain could be shared…”
She mumbled to herself, releasing her hand from the microphone she had covered, and calmly said:
“Meet me in the broadcast room.”
Elysia and Luo Ming walked hand in hand toward the dormitory area of the Hyperion. As a tool capable of traversing the World Serpent, the Hyperion was indeed a large ship.
On the way, they passed by the training room, from which came the sound of striking wooden posts.
Bang, bang, bang~
It was a dull sound, continuous and rapid. Elysia halted, tilting her head to listen.
No ordinary person could achieve such a high punching speed unless they had three hands.
“It’s definitely Delta.”
Luo Ming said with joy, “Delta is quite enthusiastic about training. Sometimes she’ll even drag me to spar at night, saying she wants to make me a formidable opponent who can stand up to her. I wonder why.”
“Girls’ thoughts are really hard to fathom, Captain. You think so too, right?”
Elysia blinked at Luo Ming, “How about we start our declaration journey with this girl named Delta?”
Luo Ming nodded.
“Sure, Delta always wears earplugs during training, so she probably didn’t hear my broadcast at all.”