The Admiral of Hogwarts

Because the three boxes found in the hidden compartment of the large cabinet seemed extremely important, Hugo and the others first stored them in Saint George's ship-equipment space, planning to deal with them last after everything else was settled.

Since only a small portion of the books remained, most of the ship girls, except for a few who stayed behind to continue scanning the contents of the books, began to clean up the various supplies on the shelves.

For the ship girls, the difficulty of transporting and taking these things away was obviously not significant, as they could simply use their ship-equipment space to stuff them in.

It was during this cleaning process that Hugo and the others discovered that what they had previously seen on the floor, thinking they were floor tiles, were not bricks or stones, but several layers of metal ingots.

According to statistics, these metal ingots were mainly high-grade magic metals that were difficult to buy on the market, such as mithril, and orichalcum. However, the largest quantity was a type of man-made metal: fairy silver.

"Where did this fairy silver come from?" Cossack asked while grabbing metal blocks from the floor and stuffing them into her ship-equipment space.

"Didn't they say that the fairies guarded this stuff very closely and basically didn't sell it?"

"I don't know, there's no record of it here at all," Warspite, who had been responsible for checking the surrounding situation, said. "But considering Grindelwald's sweep across Europe back then, it's not strange to be able to obtain this wealth."

Amidst such conversations, the various treasures in the vault were being sorted, marked, inventoried, and then loaded into their respective ship-equipment spaces at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Since the ship girls were all quite efficient, everyone quickly sorted out almost all the treasures in the vault.

While a few ship girls were conducting a final inspection and handling of the three gold boxes from earlier, Hugo used the Admiral Network to consult Enterprise about a question he had been holding back for a while.

"There's a question that might involve… intimacy…" Hugo carefully sensed Enterprise's emotions through the Admiral Network while carefully choosing his words.

"Of course, I authorize you on this question, and you can choose not to answer if you don't want to, which doesn't violate the contract between Admiral and ship girl—"

"Alright, my dear Admiral," Enterprise smiled helplessly at Hugo's appearance. "I can feel that you don't have any malice, so I won't be angry no matter what question you ask."

"Okay—what I actually wanted to ask this time is, how do you really feel about me?" Knowing that ship girls wouldn't lie to their Admiral, Hugo asked the question directly after receiving her answer.

"You know, in my impression, Admirals and ship girls are very close. But from the first time I met the ship girl Victory to now, I've come into contact with many ship girls. But the feeling you give me—"

At this point, Hugo became hesitant because even though he knew Enterprise wouldn't be angry, he didn't know how to express the following words in a suitable way.

"You mean why we don't seem as close to you as you imagined, and why we're so businesslike in our usual interactions, right?" Because of the connection of the Admiral Network and Hugo's expression, Enterprise quickly understood what Hugo wanted to say.

"Please rest assured, dear Admiral, our love and loyalty to you are unwavering, and you don't need to question or worry about that."

"And since coming into this world, we have also felt your heart and can confirm that you are the Admiral who best meets the requirements in our minds."

"As for why we seem a little cold to you and usually communicate in a businesslike manner, the reason is simple." At this point, Enterprise smiled at Hugo.

"Because you haven't made certain preparations yet."

"Preparations, what do you mean?" After hearing Enterprise's words, Hugo felt even more confused. "Does your emotions have something to do with my body?"

"There's no mandatory connection, but there are some things we have to consider more." At this point, Enterprise paused. "I don't think you've seen our true selves, have you?"

"True selves?" Hugo felt even more confused. "Are you referring to a warship state like Belfast on the Thames?"

"Of course not." Enterprise shook her head with a smile, and then said after thinking for a few seconds.

"In fact, as ship girls, we have obvious differences from ordinary people in appearance alone, so we have never revealed our formal appearance since coming into this world."

"In addition, we have also restrained our aura and fine-tuned the structure of our bodies. Because we usually have to imitate ordinary people as much as possible to avoid attracting unnecessary attention."

"Then what do you really look like?" Hugo asked somewhat eagerly, he really couldn't understand why the ship girls had to hide their appearance from him.

"Well—it's like this." Enterprise contacted the other ship girls through the Admiral Network for a few words, and then took Hugo to a corner and said, then closed her eyes.

In an instant, Enterprise emitted a non-glaring but very bright white light from all over her body. After the white light dissipated, Enterprise remained standing there in her original posture.

At first glance, Hugo didn't see any difference between Enterprise and just now, but soon, he found that compared to the previous Enterprise, the current Enterprise was obviously more beautiful.

If the original Enterprise was just a very beautiful girl, then the current Enterprise's level of beauty far exceeded the limits of humanity. With just small-scale adjustments to her body, her appearance rose to another level.

More importantly, her unique temperament was also fully displayed at this time, making her feel more like an angel or an elf, rather than a human.

"This is—" Hugo felt his heart beat faster and his face began to heat up. "Just like we said, we are not flesh and blood creatures, but elves born from human imagination."

Looking at Hugo, who had adjusted his state through deep breathing, a look of appreciation flashed in Enterprise's eyes.

"We are born from the most perfect imagination in human consciousness, so naturally we have appearances that surpass humans." Enterprise shrugged and then said. "You should be controlling some of your thoughts now, right?"

"Yes—" Hugo grinned and showed an embarrassed smile, he felt that he didn't need to hide this from the ship girl.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, to be honest, I'd be worried if you didn't have these thoughts." Enterprise showed a knowing smile here.

"Think about it, my dear Admiral. You now have the mind of an adult and the body of a child, so in this case, we not only have to hide our true image at ordinary times, but also try to keep our distance from you as much as possible, otherwise it will definitely have a bad impact on your development."

"Of course, if your body is strengthened to a certain level, these preparations will naturally not be needed. So Admiral, you must work hard and strive to become an Ancient God Admiral as soon as possible."