After eating Peter's breakfast and washing up, Lin Lan, now dressed in a clean white commander's uniform, walked to the second floor with Peter and said goodbye to her by the stairs.
It was still early in the morning, and as Lin Lan thought about the difficult Deutschland he had to deal with, he couldn't help but take a few deep breaths to calm himself.
"It's so early; maybe she hasn't arrived yet. I'll go to the office and sit for a while and think about how to coax her," Lin Lan thought, pondering how to apologize to Deutschland for offending her the day before.
But as he reached the office and saw the door wide open, his heart instantly sank.
"Inferior animals! What are you still standing there for, come in!"
"Why is this little princess the secretary today...?"
Hearing Deutschland's call, Lin Lan realized that his footsteps had betrayed him.
It wasn't a good idea to keep stalling, so he walked into the office with a bitter expression.
Today, Deutschland—her long black hair and iron-blooded shark demeanor—was wearing a cute black dress.
Her cute cheeks were slightly flushed beneath two red and white highlights on her forehead, and she looked quite upset.
To his surprise, Deutschland didn't sit directly behind the desk but instead sat on the sofa, her legs wrapped in thick black stockings.
Compared to the arrogant dragon girl, Ruprecht, Deutschland, though also difficult to get along with, was still better in this regard.
"Sister, sister, don't scare the commander…"
Just as Lin Lan was about to speak and explain the previous day's events, a silver-haired cutie suddenly appeared under his desk.
It was Deutschland's sister, Spee, the little angel.
The silver-haired, blue-eyed girl was also wearing a short black skirt similar to Deutschland's, and it was clear that the two of them were sisters.
Seeing that Spee was holding several sheets of paper in her hand, Lin Lan immediately remembered that he hadn't closed the window when he'd been dragged away by Peter the day before, so the papers on the desk must have been blown all over the place.
"Are you still talking to this low-level animal who has a habit of voyeurism? Are you my sister or his wife?"
As soon as Deutschland heard her sister helping Lin Lan, she suddenly stood up angrily and questioned Spee.
"Of course, I'm Deutschland's little sister... but I'm also the commander's... the commander's..."
Spee was halfway through speaking when she noticed Lin Lan looking at her directly. Her face turned red, and she became too shy to finish her sentence.
"What are you looking at? I'm telling you, inferior animals, if you dare to hurt my sister like you did yesterday, I'll snap your eyes out!"
Seeing Lin Lan standing by the door still looking at her sister, Deutschland furiously ground her teeth.
"Yesterday was a pure misunderstanding. It was Akashi's profiteer who showed me the Muscle Manjuu function. As soon as it started, the picture of your room appeared!"
Lin Lan quickly explained as he saw Deutschland's teeth grinding.
"I know you've been misunderstood..."
Hearing this, Lin Lan relaxed, thinking he had managed to escape.
But as soon as Deutschland recalled the humiliating scene from the previous day, her face flushed again.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and with fierce momentum, she rushed toward Lin Lan.
"But you just said you didn't see it!"
"?????"
This sudden attack caught Lin Lan off guard. By the time he reacted, Deutschland was about to pounce on him.
Though his reflexes and physical fitness were much improved, how could they compare to the ship girl he had personally trained to the fullest?
As soon as she reached him, Deutschland knocked him down from behind.
In his panic, Lin Lan struggled to roll over, but Deutschland had already straddled him.
"Hehehe... The inferior animals react quite quickly, but how can you escape the punishment of the Deutschland lord?"
Falling to the ground and looking up at the long-haired black-haired girl grinning at him from above, Lin Lan realized that no matter how much he struggled, he couldn't escape Deutschland's hold.
When he saw her lean down with her fanged mouth close to him, he tightly shut his eyes and wailed, "No, no... I was wrong! I was wrong! Help me!!!"
However, the sharp pain of a bite never came.
Instead, he felt a gentle nibble and a licking sensation on his cheek.
"Poofhahahaha! Sister, did you hear that? The inferior animals are shouting for help, hahahahaha!"
The sound of her laughter rang out, and Lin Lan opened his eyes only to see Deutschland, who had been straddling him, standing up with a look of triumph.
She glanced sideways at Spee with a smile of excitement.
Confused, Lin Lan touched his cheek where she had bitten him and looked at Deutschland in a daze.
"Hmph, for the sake of a misunderstanding, that bite was my punishment for this low-level animal."
Deutschland sniffed in satisfaction and then stood up, crouching down and extending her hand to him.
Seeing that Deutschland had stopped pursuing the issue, Lin Lan gave a wry smile and took her hand.
"Thanks, thanks... Shh, Deutschland, you sly fox!!"
In the early morning, Lin Lan's wail echoed in the commander's office.
Lin Lan, now seated at the desk, took the cup of brewed iron-blooded mint tea that Spee had handed him with a bitter expression.
As he looked at the neat bite marks on the back of his right hand, he turned to Deutschland, who was sitting on the sofa, also holding a teacup.
Feeling angry, he asked,
"Didn't you say that was a punishment earlier? So what does this bite mean?"
After taking a sip of her mint tea, Deutschland, the iron-blooded little princess, seemed not to like the taste and placed the cup back on the coffee table with a few snorts.
"The first one was yesterday's punishment, and this one is a greeting to you today. Is there a problem?"
Deutschland's face lit up with an uncontrollable smile as she recalled Lin Lan's expression when she had first bitten him.
"Okay, count you... ruthless..."
After Lin Lan took a sip of the steaming mint tea, he set the cup on the bite marks on his hand, his face full of helplessness.
But then, as he looked at the mysterious pattern on the back of his hand, he suddenly felt something was off. He looked up at Deutschland.
"Speaking of which, when you bit me just now, you should have seen the pattern on the back of my hand, right? Don't you wonder where it came from?"
"Huh?"
Deutschland froze, not understanding what Lin Lan meant.
"You have a pattern on your hand? I didn't see it."
The iron-blooded little princess stood up quickly and walked to his desk. Leaning over it, she carefully examined the back of his right hand.
To make it easier for Deutschland to see, Lin Lan extended his right hand in front of her for closer inspection. Then...
"Shhh..."
Deutschland bit him again, this time leaving two bite marks instead of one.
"What do you have on the back of your inferior animal's hand? Are you taking me for a fool?"
Lin Lan was about to ask why she had bitten him again, but upon hearing Deutschland's words, he was instantly stunned.
"What did you say?"
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