Chapter 647: New Year's Day Ceremony Begins

Compared to the iron-blooded wolf pack and the fish of the White Eagle, the "I" submarine ship girls of the Sakura Empire are not very present in the game due to their strength, but they are still Lin Lan's favorite.

Of course, what he feels most healed are the children of the Mutsuki class. The clear and innocent eyes of these little cuties are simply their biggest weapon.

However, due to the large number of little lolita of the Sakura Empire, Lin Lan really can't take care of everyone.

While he was playing with the little lolita, other Sakura Empire ship girls also came to the square of the shrine one after another.

The originally deserted shrine is now very lively. Today, almost all the Sakura Empire ship girls have changed into beautiful and eye-catching kimonos, even the senior Mikasa is no exception.

Just as Lin Lan put the little expression bag Mutsuki of the Sakura Empire back to the ground from his shoulders, Nagato and Mutsu walked out of the main hall of the shrine accompanied by Shimanto and Fuso and other ship girls wearing shrine maiden costumes.

When they appeared, the originally lively shrine gradually became quiet.

At this time, Lin Lan noticed that the sky was completely bright, which also meant that the Sakura Empire New Year's Festival had officially begun.

He originally thought that he could enjoy the New Year's Festival with the Sakura Empire shipgirls under the steps of the shrine.

However, his idea ended when Nagato raised his hand slightly to him.

As the commander of everyone, how could he only enjoy the New Year's Festival from the audience?

The cute Sakura Empire little lolita sensibly made way for Lin Lan, and Jiang Feng, Shan Feng and Hai Feng, who were Nagato's guards, also took the initiative to stand behind Lin Lan.

So Lin Lan walked to Nagato's side under countless gazes.

Nagato had long been accustomed to hosting festivals in such a big scene. At this time, the battleship fox girl had a dignified and majestic face, and she was no longer lazy when she just woke up in the morning.

After Lin Lan stood up, Mutsu took the two tall Sakura Empire shipgirls and walked to the stone well beside the shrine square.

"They are... Yura and Mikuma, right?"

Lin Lan looked at the two Sakura Empire shipgirls wearing red and white shrine maiden costumes following Mutsu, and recognized the identities of the two light cruiser shipgirls in his heart.

The green-eyed girl with long dark brown hair and a pair of red horns on her head is the Nagara-class fourth ship Yura, and behind Yura there is a vague human-shaped afterimage with the same appearance as her.

However, Lin Lan was not surprised, because he remembered that Yura was a shikigami who could control a certain connection with her name, which can be seen from the game portrait.

And the true identity of this shikigami Lin Lan also learned about it when he was on Blue Star. It is based on the ghost girl Suzuka Gozen on Mount Suzuka in the legend of the Sakura Empire.

Yura's original name was Suzuka, which is why Yura said that her shikigami has a connection with her name.

But Lin Lan still remembered that Yura's lines in the game mentioned that as a commander, he could not see this shikigami.

Now that he can see Yura's Shikigami, it is probably because of the passive skills that can see souls in the brave skill column that he obtained after crossing.

Next to Yura, the white-haired, red-eyed girl with a bun and a white horn on her head, wearing a high-split red shrine maiden skirt, is Mikuma, the second ship of the Mogami-class cruiser.

Whether it is Mogami standing on the stage or Mikuma who has changed into a shrine maiden's costume, the sisters have such a white horn in the middle of their foreheads.

This also made Lin Lan once jokingly complain that it is necessary to reasonably distinguish between fake unicorns and real unicorns in the port area.

Soon, Mutsu brought Yura and Mikuma, two shrine maidens, to draw a bucket of clear well water from the well and poured it into a porcelain bowl.

Although little Mutsu looks like a curious baby on weekdays, when he saw Mutsu holding a bowl in both hands and walking towards him with a smile, Lin Lan also understood why the New Year's Eve bell ceremony yesterday was given to this little loli.

As long as he didn't launch a series of questions, Mutsu's dignified temperament and elegance in his gestures were comparable to her sister Nagato, the daughter of God.

"Commander, please accept the water of worship that represents the good wishes of everyone in the Sakura Empire."

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Mutsu brought Yura and Mikuma to Lin Lan, and Nagato spoke at the right time.

Seeing Mutsu holding the bowl with both hands and handing it to him, although Lin Lan didn't know much about the traditions of the Sakura Empire camp, he just had to do it at this time.

After taking the bowl of well water handed by Mutsu with both hands, Mutsu also returned to the queue behind him and Nagato with the two light patrol priestesses.

Next, Nagato set his sights on all the Sakura Empire shipgirls in the square below the steps, and said loudly in a solemn and dignified tone:

"Everyone, please join me in praying for the commander, and wish the commander, the Sakura Empire, and all the partners in the port area to be safe, healthy, and well in the new year."

Under Nagato's guidance, all the Sakura Empire shipgirls, including Akagi and Taiho, closed their eyes.

For a moment, the entire shrine fell into silence, and all the Sakura Empire shipgirls offered their beautiful wishes on the first day of the new year.

But Lin Lan, holding the bowl, found something strange at this time.

That is, he did not see Musashi and Yunxian, who were responsible for imprisoning the Demon King in the Imperial God Tree barrier, and Akashi, who was sending the Demon King into the barrier.

Yesterday, they all promised to attend the New Year's Day Festival. Could it be that they encountered some trouble?

Lin Lan wanted to speak, but now that the New Year's Day Festival had started normally, Nagato was not in a hurry to explain the reason. He probably guessed that something might have happened to the Demon King, but it was not very urgent.

So he could only wait until the prayer was over before asking Nagato the reason.

"The prayer is over. Next, please enjoy the Kagura dance."

The quiet prayer session lasted about three minutes.

After Nagato spoke again, Lin Lan was surprised to see a band of Manjus came out from behind them.

And these cute Manjus were obviously round, but they could actually hold various traditional instruments of the Sakura Empire, looking like professional musicians.

He remembered that many of the Sakura Empire's shipgirls were good at using musical instruments, such as Haku and Kashino, who had special costumes.

Just looking at more than a dozen Manjus holding different instruments, he also understood why Nagato arranged the Manjus band to accompany the Kagura dance performance -

There are too many types of instruments required for the Kagura dance accompaniment music.

If it was a live show in the port area, the ship girls would probably perform enthusiastically, but for a festival like this that requires the participation of all members of the camp, the task of accompaniment must be handed over to the barbarians for more convenience.

"Commander, follow me to the bottom to enjoy the performance."

At this time, Nagato whispered to Lin Lan to vacate the space in front of the main hall with her, go to the bottom of the steps, and hand over the stage to the shrine girls holding Kagura bells.

But Lin Lan still stood there, he looked at Nagato in confusion, and asked the most critical and realistic problem he was facing now:

"That... Nagato, should I continue to hold the bowl of water in my hand, or drink it?"