I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

"Did you guys see that thing clearly just now?"

Hearing Z23's question, Javelin and the others shook their heads, indicating they hadn't seen it clearly. Only Laffey looked thoughtful. Seeing Laffey's thoughtful expression, Z23 turned her attention to Laffey and asked:

"Lafite, what's wrong?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, Laffey snapped out of his thoughts and addressed the group:

"Laffey...that thing looks familiar, like I just saw it in the sky..."

Javelin looked at Raffi with a surprised expression after hearing his words and said:

"Just now... Eh?! Laffey-chan, when did you notice that thing?! How come I didn't know?!"

Regarding the javelin issue, Lafite, looking equally puzzled, explained:

"Because... at first, Laffey thought it was a shooting star... and didn't pay much attention to it, but later... when he saw that thing looked somewhat familiar... maybe?"

Hearing Laffey's words, Javelin and the others stared at her in disbelief. Although they hadn't seen the scene clearly, the only thing they could be sure of was that it didn't look like a meteorite or anything like that. It was more like an unknown aircraft. However, the only thing they were certain of was that the unknown aircraft wasn't a Siren aircraft. After all, Siren aircraft were painted primarily black with red accents, while that aircraft was painted a beautiful silver. It didn't look like a Siren thing at all, nor did it seem like something from their Azur Lane, and it certainly didn't seem like a technological product that only humans would have.

"But if that's the case, whose aircraft is it?"

Z23 stroked his chin and said this. After all, Z23 was also a little curious about a spacecraft of unknown origin. Hearing Z23's words, Laffey and the others couldn't help but think about it. The first one to think of something was Ayanami, who felt like a lightbulb had popped into her head. Ayanami then spoke up:

"Could it be like in a game, where the protagonist, who has escaped from enemies in outer space, arrives on Earth in a spaceship, only to accidentally crash into the ocean due to damage to the ship?"

Upon hearing Ayanami's words, Z23 looked at her with a speechless expression. Clearly, Z23 didn't think that any extraterrestrial spaceship would come to this world and happen to crash into their enemy and sink it in the sea, since the probability of that was too low.

Before Z23 could say anything, Javelin, who was standing to the side, seemed to have thought of something, her eyes sparkling, and she clenched her hands excitedly, saying:

"Wouldn't it be like in a manga, where a princess from a distant star escapes her planet because she doesn't want to marry the fiancé her parents have arranged for her, but accidentally gets attacked by bad guys while passing by Earth and falls to Earth by accident, and is eventually rescued by the male protagonist and falls in love with him or something—ah! That would be so great!"

Upon hearing Javelin's words, Z23 couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth and said:

"No, no, no, this is just too outrageous!"

If the probability of Ayanami's rescue is low, then Ayanami's rescue is practically impossible...

Raffi, who was standing nearby, looked at the bubbling water not far away and said:

"Speaking of which... are we just going to leave that thing alone?"

Hearing Laffey's words, Z23 also looked troubled and said:

"Well... even if we wanted to check what's underwater, there's nothing we can do. Even if we dive into the water, we don't have the equipment to retrieve that thing from the sea."

Upon hearing Z23's words, Javelin and the others couldn't help but feel regretful. After all, they wanted to know what that thing that had just helped them so much was. Just then, Laffey suddenly noticed something rising to the surface beneath her feet. So Laffey crouched down to check, and soon, Yuhaka's little head, with an "OwO~" expression, surfaced. Laffey, seeing Yuhaka quietly emerge from the water, also showed an "OxO" expression. Clearly, Laffey was quite surprised by Yuhaka's sudden appearance. So, with a curious expression, Laffey reached out and pressed Yuhaka's little head down, and slowly pushed her back into the sea while Yuhaka still had an "OwO?" expression.

"Purr lurr lurr~"

Immediately, bubbles began to rise from the sea, clearly indicating that Yuhaka was saying something. This commotion also drew the attention of Javelin and the others to Laffey's situation. Javelin walked over and looked at Laffey, who was crouching on the surface of the sea, and asked:

"Laffey-chan, what are you doing—whoa?!"

Seeing Laffey pressing down on Yhaka's head, Javelin was startled, clearly not expecting Laffey to be doing that. Javelin quickly pulled Laffey back and, with an anxious expression, said:

"Wait! Lafite-chan, what are you doing?!"

Regarding the javelin issue, Raffi pointed to Yhaka, who was emerging from the sea and spitting water from his mouth, and said:

"Just now... that person emerged from the sea. Laffey thought it was a submarine, so he wanted to test it out..."

"Huh?! This...???"

Upon hearing Laffey's answer, Javelin also showed an expression of not knowing what to say. Meanwhile, Z23 and Ayanami saw Yuhaka wearing a school swimsuit in the sea. When they saw her, Z23 and Ayanami mistook her for a ship girl, although neither of them had seen her in Azur Lane.

"Um...who are you? Why are you here?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, Yuhaka raised her little hand and said to Z23 and the others:

"Youyou is Youyou~ OwO/"

Z23 and the others looked puzzled upon hearing Yuhaka's words, as they had never heard of a submarine with that name. Z23 looked at Ayanami and asked in a low voice:

"Um, Ayanami, do you have submarines like this on your Sakura Empire side?"

When Ayanami heard Z23's words, she retorted with a question:

"I was about to ask you, Z23, didn't she just say she was a UU? Isn't she your famous U-type submarine?"

Regarding Ayanami's question, Z23 also commented:

"I've never heard of any U-shaped submarines called UU on our Ironblood side. Besides, the other side has beast-like features, doesn't that look like your Sakura Empire's submarines?"

"Well... Ayanami isn't entirely sure either? But our submarines all have names that start with the character '伊' (I).

Listening to their conversation, Yuhaka tilted her head and looked at them with an "OwO?" expression, feeling that they had misunderstood something.

P.S.: Seriously, there really isn't a U-shaped submarine called UU, is there? If there were, that would be troublesome.

Volume 1 [Lazy to Divide into Chapters]: Chapter 1266 [Z23: This is not scientific?!]

"Youyou isn't a submarine, OwO~"

Before Z23 and Ayanami could escalate the misunderstanding, Yhaka clarified that he wasn't a submarine. Upon hearing Yhaka's words, everyone looked at him with puzzled expressions, clearly not understanding. After all, Yhaka's current attire was practically identical to those submarine elementary school students from Sakura Empire. In fact, Yhaka wearing his current school swimsuit wouldn't look out of place at all in Sakura Empire.

Of course, this excludes the I-series submarines of the Sakura Empire.

Well... even though Yhaka said she wasn't a submarine, Z23 and the others mistook her for a submarine carrier.

"Huh? If it's not a submarine, then it must be a submarine carrier?"

Upon hearing Z23's words, Yuhaka's little head was filled with question marks, clearly indicating that she didn't understand what Z23 was saying. After all, Yuhaka didn't know much about World War II military matters. However, Yuhaka shook her head to indicate that she was not a submarine mother.

When Yhaka said that she wasn't a potential mother, Z23 and the others were a bit dumbfounded. After all, if she wasn't a potential mother, what else could they say?

Then, Javelin, looking at Yhaka floating on the sea with a curious expression, squatted down and asked:

"Um, Yu-Yu-chan, if you're not a submarine, then what kind of ship are you?"

Upon hearing the question about the javelin, Yhaka looked puzzled and said:

"Youyou isn't a ship, you're a giant monster! OwO~ Awoo~"

As she spoke, Yuhaka put on a self-assured and scary look and let out a howl. Of course, in Javelin and the others' eyes, she just looked very cute. Javelin, who was standing next to her, even rubbed Yuhaka's little head with an expression of saying how cute she was. Yuhaka, whose head was being rubbed, had a smug look on her face.

Z23, standing to the side, didn't take Yhaka's words seriously. To be honest, Yhaka's origins were somewhat mysterious, making Z23 suspicious. Z23 also wondered if Yhaka was a Siren. However, Z23 checked his radar system and didn't see any Siren-like signals on Yhaka, nor any other reactions. If Yhaka hadn't been floating on the sea surface with a javelin touching its head, Z23 would have suspected that he had encountered a ghost.

However, the other party doesn't seem like a bad person right now...

Z23 suddenly remembered something and asked Yuhaka:

"By the way, Youyou, when you were in the sea before, did you see a ship that sank into the sea and a silver-white flying machine?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, the ship girls present suddenly remembered being sunk by an unidentified flying object. After all, the details of that unidentified flying object and the unidentified Nagara-class light cruiser had not yet been fully investigated.

After hearing Z23's question, Yhaka thought for a moment. He realized that he had indeed rammed and sunk a ship, since that ship had been attacking Laffey and the others. So Yhaka delivered a divine retribution to that warship.

It rammed and sank the warship in one go. At first, it seemed like Yuhaka had hit some strange force field, but after using his imaginary ability, he rammed and sank the strange warship in one go.

"Youyou knows! Youyou rammed that bad guy's ship!"

"Oh, I see—hmm?"

After hearing Yuhaka's explanation, Javelin and the others nodded to show they understood. Suddenly, they realized something was amiss, and then they quickly understood what Yuhaka had just said.

"Wait, Yu-Yu!? Did you sink that strange Nagara-class light cruiser with your flying vehicle?!"

Z23 looked at Yuhaka with a surprised expression and said this. Obviously, Z23 hadn't expected that the strange aircraft was piloted by Yuhaka. However, Z23 still felt something was off. After all, who would fly a plane and crash into a warship? Didn't the aircraft have any weapons on it?

Thinking about all this, Z23 felt a bit conflicted about Yuhaka. After all, Yuhaka, who had no weapons, actually used her aircraft to ram and sink the unknown threat warship in order to help them. Z23 didn't know what to say to Yuhaka. If possible, Z23 also planned to thank Yuhaka properly for her help.

However, Yhaka's answer left Z23 completely bewildered.

"Flying? Youyou didn't fly a flying device, OwO?"

Floating on the sea, Yhaka looked at Z23 and the others standing on the surface and answered them in this way. Javelin and the others were stunned when they heard Yhaka's words, and then they couldn't help but exclaim in confusion, "Eh?!"

Javelin, crouching next to Yuhaka, waved his little finger somewhat haphazardly, pointing to Yuhaka and the location of the Nagara-class light cruiser that had been sunk by the unidentified flying object, and said:

"Wait, wait a minute?! Yuu-chan, if you weren't piloting a spaceship, how did you manage to sink that warship?!"

Z23 and the others nodded in agreement, just like Javelin. After all, if it wasn't Yuhaka piloting that aircraft, how could Yuhaka have sunk that warship?

When Yuhaka heard Javelin's words, he tilted his head slightly and looked at Javelin and the others, explaining:

"Because it was Youyou who directly crashed into it, and Youyou didn't drive anything, right?"

After Yuhaka's explanation, Javelin and the others finally understood what was going on: that silver-white unidentified flying object was Yuhaka.

After hearing Yuhaka's explanation, Javelin and the others looked at him with disbelief, as they couldn't possibly associate him with that giant flying machine. Seeing their incredulous expressions, Yuhaka submerged himself into the sea, leaving Javelin and the others puzzled.

"Huh? Why did Yu-Yu-chan dive into the sea?"

Yuhaka and her companions were puzzled by Yuhaka's sudden dive into the sea. However, soon, a silvery-white figure gradually emerged from the shadows in the sea. To their astonishment, the huge silvery-white figure burst out of the sea. Seeing the enormous figure emerge from the sea, Yuhaka and her companions couldn't help but show a shocked expression.

After the silvery-white figure floated on the sea, Javelin and the others could also clearly see the silvery-white aircraft that had previously rammed and sunk the Nagara-class light cruiser. Seeing that there was no mechanical structure on its body, Z23 and the others couldn't help but feel incredulous. The scale-like structure on the silvery-white figure made them realize that the silvery-white aircraft in front of them was not a machine, but a giant creature.

After Yhaka opened his forelimbs, which resembled the nose of an airplane, his ferocious head terrified Javelin and the others. However, upon seeing Yhaka's "OowoO~" expression, their fear lessened considerably. They stared in awe at the enormous third form of Yhaka before them.

Javelin, gazing at the enormous monster before him, couldn't help but whisper a shout to it:

"Um... Yu-Yu-chan, is that you?"

Upon hearing Javelin's words, Yuhaka also shouted back at Javelin:

"It's Youyou's OowoO~"

After hearing the enormous creature speak, Z23 looked at Eohaka with a shocked expression and said:

"You spoke?! No, wait?! You're Youyou?!"

Upon hearing Z23's words, Yhaka tilted her large head and repeated what she had said earlier. After seeing Yhaka transform into such a ferocious dragon-like being, Z23 couldn't help but show an expression of disbelief. Clearly, she found it hard to imagine that the creature with the OowoO expression in front of her was the same Yhaka who was about the same size as them just now.

Volume 1 [Lazy to Divide into Chapters]: Chapter 1267 [The Ship Girls Collectively Touching Youyou]

Z23 and the others looked at Yhaka in his third form, unsure of what to say. After all, they hadn't expected that the unidentified flying object was actually a living being, and more importantly, that being was Yhaka in disguise. This left Z23 at a loss for how to handle the situation. Z23 hadn't seen any similar cases of Yhaka in the library, leaving him unsure how to deal with it.

Most importantly, Z23 checked the radar system, and as before, there were no identification signals, not even the most basic biological signals. It was like a ghost, which made Z23 feel a little scared. If Yhaka was a Siren, then the Sirens could easily pass through their Azur Lane radar network. However, there was currently no proof that Yhaka had any relationship with the Sirens. After all, Yhaka did not attack them immediately, but instead helped them destroy a ship that was suspected to be a Siren. In this case, Z23 could not think of any connection between Yhaka and the Sirens.

While everyone was shocked by Ehaka's third form, Laffey, who was standing nearby, came to Ehaka's side with a curious expression. Seeing Laffey's actions, Z23 tried to pull her back, but Z23 failed.

"Wait, Lafite?!"

Z23 watched Laffey run towards Eohaka with a worried expression. Laffey responded to Z23 and the others with "It's okay, don't worry," and then came to Eohaka's side. Eohaka looked down at Laffey with a curious expression, wondering what she wanted to do.

Then, under everyone's gaze, Raffi reached out her little hand and touched Yuhaka's big nose.

"?!"