The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Chapter 214 Real-name Authentication

"If you also want to participate in the competition, there shouldn't be any major problem. As the host of this final, I still have one spot guaranteed for the knockout stage."

Tirpitz, who overheard the conversation between the two starship girls, glanced at Adun and wondered why the scent on this starship girl seemed so familiar.

"So there's a problem?" Noticing that Tirpitz dragged out the last syllable of "there's not much of a problem," Adun asked, following the other's lead.

"It's not really a problem, just some paperwork to go through." Tirpitz thought for a moment and said, "Because the official competition is based on real names, if you are an active-duty ship girl participating, you must obtain the approval of the admiral of your naval base. It's much easier for non-active-duty ship girls."

"Is that so?" Not wanting to bother his admiral with such a trivial matter, Adon continued, "Then, in the admiral's capacity?"

“As an admiral, there’s no problem with that, but you probably haven’t registered as an admiral yet.” Tirpitz learned about Adun’s current situation through Charlotte’s introduction.

"Can't I register here?" asked the retired ship girl opposite Adun, who seemed more like a local bigwig than her own admiral.

“If I could register here, I would be rich by now.” Tirpitz just smiled and didn’t mock Adun Xiaobai, and continued, “Unfortunately, all newly promoted admirals, trainee admirals and reserve admirals in the Eastern and Western Pacific theaters need to register at the Central Academy.”

"Is that so?" Feeling that distant water couldn't quench a nearby thirst, Adun shifted his gaze to Charlotte and asked, "Can you contact Tidu?"

"Of course you can, but don't you have a cell phone too, Adun?" Charlotte was referring to the Orange Cellphone that Adun and Hyperion had made together.

“I don’t know how to contact Tidu,” Adon said, taking out his knock-off cell phone from his pocket.

"Huh? What brand of phone is this? Is it the new Orange 10? Or a limited edition?" Seeing the knock-off phone in Adun's hand that was similar to but not the same as the Orange phone, Tirpitz, a hardware expert, immediately asked curiously.

"Hyperion Orange Phone! Imperial quality, lifetime warranty!" Seeing that a ship was very interested in his masterpiece, Hyperion immediately spoke up.

"I've never heard of this brand before? Did you assemble it yourself? What CPU does it use? How much RAM? What's the camera's resolution? Is it compatible with all networks? Does it have any special features?" Tirpitz asked a series of questions.

"...Uh..." Hyperion was a little embarrassed when he was stumped by the question. Although the technological system of the Terren Empire was very similar to that of this world, it was only very similar. Many specifications and standards were completely different. Even if Hyperion explained the data, Tirpitz would not understand it.

"Could it be using a completely new architecture?" Tirpitz asked with great admiration, thinking that Hyperion's silence was a secret.

"..." Now Hyperion was even more embarrassed, because the architecture of the Orange Phone she copied was completely modeled after the Orange Phone in this world.

Seeing Hyperion turn to him for help, Ardon came to her rescue by asking, "Did you install a communication protocol on this phone?"

"Of course it's installed, and we've also added a 3D projection communication device, but this requires another machine to support this configuration," Hyperion said hastily, as if grasping at a straw.

"In other words, it's useless." Because the only Hyperion Orange phone with a stereoscopic projection communication device currently available is the one that Arden has.

Having obtained her admiral's communication code from Charlotte, Adun also exchanged communication codes with all the ship girls present, as well as a certain retired ship girl.

However, to the surprise of these ship girls, Adun's communication code was just a string of gibberish displayed on their phones, meaning that Adun was the only one who could contact them, and they had no way to contact Adun in the first place.

“There’s no other way. Skipping hardware detection is already troublesome enough, and adding a fixed communication code would be too obvious,” Adun explained Hyperion’s reasoning.

“Oh, it seems we can only communicate with each other after the Central Academy completes its real-name authentication,” Charlotte said, knowing how Ardon got the phone.

"Stop, stop, stop! Although I can't register as an admiral here, I can still do ship girl verification," Tirpitz said quickly, staring at a string of gibberish on her phone.

"Is that okay?" Although she was still learning many basic things, Yaton knew that as long as she verified her identity as a ship girl, she could obtain a legitimate communication protocol code, and she wouldn't have to act like a hacker every time she used Orange's phone to go online.

"Of course! Certifying active-duty ship girls isn't difficult; your admiral just needs to verify it using her real name." Tirpitz pulled a stamp from her desk and called out towards the door, "Volkeran!"

"Yes, Commander, what are your orders?" The rookie ship girl, Vauquelan, rushed in from outside upon hearing her commander's summons.

"Take this stamp and go print a few copies of the ship girl certification documents. Also, take care of any necessary procedures while you're at it," Tirpitz said, tossing the stamp to Vockland.

"Huh? Isn't the ship girl certification document supposed to be handled by the ship girl herself? That's not in accordance with the rules." Vauquelan asked in confusion after hearing his commander's order.

"I'm just following the rules. Remember to leave the name and naval base blank." Tirpitz waved his hand, shooing Vauquelan out of the office before he could say anything more.

"..." Seeing Tirpitz's blatant violation of office regulations and procedures, the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 present were speechless.

"Sigh, both of my subordinates are such a handful, they don't even know how to help me out." Ignoring the gaze of her former comrade, Tirpitz was quite disappointed with the behavior of the rookie ship girl, Vauquelin.

This shouldn't be within the scope of sharing, you're just slacking off. Fortunately, the fortress city managed by this retired Tirpitz isn't a military or industrial center, otherwise, given her style, trouble would have broken out sooner or later.

Ardon didn't think there was anything wrong with what Tirpitz did, or perhaps he simply didn't care what Tirpitz did. He dialed Tidu's number using his orange phone.

After a few brief exchanges, the voice of a South Dakota harbor princess, who had temporarily joined the 666th temporary naval base as a wandering ship girl, rang out on the phone:

"This is Temporary Naval Base No. 666. May I ask who you are looking for?"

"..." Ardon was puzzled as to why it was South Dakota who answered the phone instead of his own admiral.

"Hello?" South Dakota's voice was soft and sweet when she became a ship girl, unlike her harsh and hoarse voice when she was the Harbor Princess.

Just as Aydon was about to ask South Dakota if he had kidnapped Tidu to the Deep Sea Territory while she was away, a familiar, energetic voice came from the Hyperion Orange phone.

"Nanda, whose call is that?"

Upon hearing this, everyone—Adon, Hyperion, and even Wosex, who had stopped eating the aluminum sheet—let out a long sigh of relief.

The young master and ship girl of Naval Base No. 233, who only reacted a few seconds later, also breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's wrong?" Tirpitz asked curiously.

This long-retired ship girl had no idea that the timeline of this world almost veered in a completely different direction.

Chapter 215 Another Blow to Europe

"Huh? Ardon, you're at Central Academy?" Tidu's surprised voice came from Orange's phone when she realized that it was Ardon calling her.

"Not yet..." Adon was trying to figure out what he should ask first.

“I knew it. If you were the one calling me from the Central Academy, you definitely wouldn’t be saying this.” Tidu’s words carried a strange undertone.

"What?" Adon was stunned when his train of thought was interrupted by his admiral's words.

"Ahem, I was asking why you called me, Adun. Was it to let me know you're safe? It's alright, I'm perfectly fine here. With South Dakota around, I feel like the entire deep sea around here wants to come and pay homage."

Realizing she had let something slip, Tidu immediately changed the subject.

"I think they really came to pay homage..." While casually asking when their boss would be coming home, in just a few seconds, Adon pictured in his mind the deep-sea ship girls looking dejected because their boss was so happy that they didn't want to leave.

"Yeah, if I wasn't worried that South Dakota would fight with that Abyssal Princess on the other side, I would have really lured those Abyssal ship girls over here, just to be your reserve force, Adun."

Knowing that Adun could sign contracts with deep-sea ship girls, Tidu seemed to be thinking of his own ship girl.

"This doesn't seem like a problem." South Dakota is fighting with itself? Is it fighting with both hands? While talking to Tidu, Adun noticed that the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 were looking at her strangely.

"What's wrong?" Yaton asked curiously, covering the microphone of his phone.

"N-nothing...please continue." Knowing that Adun was talking to that dim-witted Tidu about a certain Deep Sea Princess, these ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 didn't even dare to suggest that Adun should avoid other people when making the call.

"Hello, why is there no sound? Is the signal bad?" Yaton's silence puzzled Ti on the other end of the phone.

“Oh, it’s nothing,” Ardon quickly replied.

"It's strange. I have a feeling that one or two of your ships are hiding something from me, and the Prince of Wales and the others have been avoiding me too," Tidu asked curiously.

That's not because they're avoiding you, but because they're avoiding your "wandering" ship girl. Apart from Tirpitz, who didn't know what was going on, all the ship girls present were thinking the same thing.

"They're probably busy with something," Adun said, trying to smooth things over for the Princes of Wales who were nominally there to assist in the defense of the temporary garrison at No. 666.

"Is there something you have to hide from me? This is my naval base. By the way, why are you calling me, Adun?"

Although not satisfied with Ardon's answer, Tidu at least managed to steer the conversation back to the main topic.

Ardon glanced at Tirpitz, whose eyes were full of questions, and told Tirpitz on the phone why he had called her.

"Real-name authentication for ship girls? No problem. Send me the QR code on the document in a bit, and I'll scan it." As a top student, Tidu naturally knew that real-name authentication for active ship girls wasn't a troublesome matter, at least not for the admirals of the ship girls who needed to be authenticated.

"But why did you suddenly decide to register your ship girl identity with your real name, Adun? Aren't you going to register it together with your admiral identity when you get to the Central Academy?" Tidu said to Adun with some amusing thoughts.

"Because I plan to participate in some Thunder Games competition with Hyperion and the others." Since the phone call had already been made, Adun didn't want to hide the reason.

"Huh? Is it the Thunder Battleship, the Thunder Tank, or the Thunder Fighter?" Tidu, who is not only a top student but also a gaming expert, asked in surprise.

"It seems like they all exist, and there's also one from the Thunder World." After a moment of surprise, Adun replied when he heard that Tidu also knew about it.

"Wow, Thunder World! It's a pity that you can't play it if you're not a ship girl. I can use the virtual pod, though." Titi said somewhat unhappily, as if Thunder World was a more powerful game.

"What virtual pod?" Adon asked curiously after hearing a certain word in Tidu's words.

"Adon, you don't know? The slogan for that three-in-one Thunder World ad is to let everyone experience the most realistic war. It uses virtual pods to simulate reality, but unfortunately only ship girls can use the virtual pods." Tidu continued to be unhappy.

"Is it for ship girls only?" Adun asked curiously.

"I wouldn't say it's exclusively for one person, but that virtual pod does require some special ship girl technology. It would be very dangerous for an ordinary person like Charlotte to use it." Only after mentioning that Charlotte couldn't use the virtual pod did Tidu recover a little from her unhappiness.

“No wonder it’s just an invitational tournament,” Adton said, understanding why Thunder World was an invitational tournament.

"Huh? Adun, are you really qualified to participate in the Thunder World Invitational Tournament?" Tidu exclaimed loudly upon hearing Adun mention the invitational tournament.

“Oh, I happen to be in the host city of this competition right now. The lord here said he can recommend us to participate directly.” As Adun said this, Tirpitz, sitting on his desk, once again made a victory sign.

"Ah, why didn't I go with you and participate in the competition directly! I was planning to make it to the finals after graduation and when I was free." After hearing about Ayton's incredible luck, Tidus fell into deep regret.

"There will be plenty of opportunities. This time, I also got in thanks to Charlotte's connections."

Charlotte, a little embarrassed by Ardon's words, whispered, "Oh, not at all."

"Hey, don't let me hear that second-generation rich kid's name!" Tidu immediately flew into a rage upon hearing that Charlotte was related to him but that he hadn't told her.

"Ahem." Given what he had just said, Ayton felt it necessary to remind his admiral to be mindful of the implications.

"Forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities to settle the score with her later. By the way, Adun, do you have enough people for the competition?" In her anger, Tidu mistakenly referred to Charlotte as "she" instead of "he."

"Number of people?" Yaton hadn't expected this requirement.

“Yes, Thunder Battleships and Thunder Fighters don’t really have a limit on the number of people; you can play with just one ship. But Thunder Tanks require several people… well, several ship girls.” Tidu explained to Adun.

"I see. Are four ship girls enough?" Adun asked, glancing at Wosex and Kaga standing behind her.

"Four ships? You've turned the Nautilus into a ship girl too?" Tidu asked immediately upon hearing Adun mention the number of ships.

Although Adun immediately covered the microphone with his hand, Tirpitz had already heard Tidu's unfiltered words and looked somewhat surprised.

"She's not here. I found that ship girl on my way here." Seeing Tirpitz's expression, Adun knew that the other woman must know something.

"Huh? Adun, you encountered the Deep Sea? What kind of ship did you salvage?" Regardless of how Adun had bullied the Deep Sea, or why he had encountered the Deep Sea, Admiral Tidu immediately asked about the matter he cared about most.

Kaga

"Hey, Otti, take this spear!"

Chapter 216 Ship Quantity Requirements

The real-name authentication of a ship girl is indeed as simple as Tidus and Tirpitz said, especially for active ship girls like Adun.