Azur Lane: The Tragic Admiral’s Azur Life

Chapter 867 The Monarch's Preference

The appearance of the monarch was expected. After all, Yang Sikang had previously collected a large amount of data on the George V class with great emphasis, and he even went to the Prince of Wales to obtain a lot of first-hand test data.

The emergence of the Royal Battleship was inevitable, but what appeared was the abandoned design of the King George V class, and it was also named Monarch, which was a delicate matter for the royal family in all aspects.

But Yang Sikang didn't care about this little problem. It would be better to say that he did it on purpose.

The construction of the Monarch had taken a long time to prepare. Although not as long as the Neptune, which was built based on Belfast's data and royal information, there were two people in Yang Sikang's fleet, George V and Howe, who had always had many cooperative operations and exercises with the fleet led by the Prince of Wales.

In addition to the exercises with the Duke of York during the previous period, and the test data collected specifically from the Prince of Wales, such abundant preparations were made to ensure that everything would be foolproof when building the monarch.

As a scrapped project of the King George V class, from the perspective of the prototype ship, the Monarch's plan had a significant gap compared to the Prince of Wales and others, which could be described as a generation gap. When the Monarch was being built, Yang Sikang had already thought of it and prepared a special 16-inch, or 406mm, main gun for her, and made structural optimizations based on the Royal and King George V-class related data.

To put it simply, he recovered all the things that the royal family had chosen to give up due to various factors in history!

This is also why he has to do so much preparation in advance to ensure that everything is foolproof: he has to make some risky changes in key places.

In this way, with the monarch endowed with ideal hardware conditions, coupled with her current special status as a project ship, Yang Sikang believes that she will definitely give the royal family a huge surprise in the subsequent royal trip.

Of course, whether Elizabeth and the others would feel surprised or frightened at that time was not something he had to consider.

Because it was a project ship whose existence needed to be concealed temporarily, the welcome ceremony was naturally put on hold like Neptune, and the monarch did not care much about it.

For her, the moment she opened her eyes and saw two King George V-class ships in Yang Sikang's fleet, it was even more shocking. Even if there was a dinner party now, she would not be so interested in attending it, not to mention that she did not like serious occasions like dinner parties.

Socializing is unimportant to her; demonstrating her strength and importance to the commander is what matters to her.

The monarch's inclination in this regard is very obvious for a ship girl who was replaced by someone inferior to her without even having the qualification to be born.

But if you want to talk about resentment...

The monarch looked at Hao who was enthusiastically selecting cookies and cakes over there, and he felt that he could not feel any resentment towards her no matter how hard he tried.

"Sorry for the long wait. These cookies and cakes are not made by the maids, but by Donghuang's companions. Although they are very similar to those made by the maids, they have completely different flavors. Ah, if you are interested, they can also make some special flavors. I have eaten cucumber-flavored potato chips and hot pot-flavored fried potatoes there before."

As Hao spoke, he put the snacks he recommended on a small plate with a small clip and pushed it in front of the monarch. The monarch hesitated for a moment, but still politely accepted it.

He picked up the biscuit and took a bite, then scooped a small piece from the cake next to it and put it in his mouth.

Two different flavors, but both were well made. Although she hadn't actually tasted what flavors the royal maids made, at least these two flavors were very much to her liking.

"It's delicious, what flavor is this?"

The monarch asked casually, and Hao, who was putting a cookie of the same color into his mouth, was stunned for a moment, and then the cookie broke in his mouth and then crumbled under her subconscious action.

After chewing instinctively, Hao's expression became a little subtle.

"Um, this, this is... a tomato and beef brisket flavored cookie."

The monarch was about to put the second piece into his mouth when he was stunned when he heard what Hao said.

After all, she is not completely ignorant and has some understanding of some common sense things.

For example, beef brisket with tomatoes is a stew and is made with beef.

"Tomato and brisket flavored...cookies?"

The monarch looked at the ordinary-looking cookie in his hand in disbelief.

How did you make this thing taste like tomato brisket?

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"Commander, this is not possible! Really, making tomato and beef brisket flavored cookies is already weird, we can't always provide such weird things to our new companions!"

Zhao He stood seriously at the kitchen door, stopped Yang Sikang, and spoke to him righteously, as if Yang Sikang had done something very wrong.

Yang Sikang shrugged and said with a smile:

"But as long as it tastes good, isn't it? It doesn't matter if the taste is a little weird, you only eat it once in a while after all. I usually eat normal flavors, so it's okay to take a risk once in a while."

"But, didn't the new companion just arrive? Although I don't know who she is, it's too weird to feed a new companion tomato and beef brisket flavored cookies!"

Yang Sikang sighed helplessly and prepared to put down the box in his hand.

But the next second, when Zhao He just breathed a sigh of relief, Yang Sikang suddenly handed the box to Zhao He.

Zhao He was stunned for a moment, then a pair of hands suddenly reached out from behind her, snatched the box containing a bunch of cookies of strange flavors, and ran away immediately.

"Wait, what?! Ying Rui! Stop right there, don't run!!"

Yang Sikang smiled slightly, then he opened the cabinet next to him like a magic trick, took out another box of cookies, and laughed triumphantly:

"Of course we can't give them all weird flavors. That portion is actually for you."

While talking to himself, he left the kitchen with these normal, common cookies in his hand.

After he left, the maids came to the kitchen and checked the kitchen that Yang Sikang had already cleaned up again. They left the kitchen only after making sure that there was no omission or forgotten corner.

When Yang Sikang brought the cookies to Howe and the monarch, George V had not returned yet. He put the cookies on the table and said:

"These are common cookies made by me. You can try them. Although the flavors are the same, there should be some differences."

Hao picked it up and ate it without hesitation, trying each flavor, and then nodded with satisfaction:

"Very good, the commander's skills are even better than those of the maids."

But the monarch was not in the mood after eating. Yang Sikang asked him about it and the monarch said:

"I think the ones with weird flavors are more interesting."