The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

“They’re just investors. I’ll teach them a lesson later,” Tirpitz said, a bead of cold sweat forming on his forehead.

It would be ridiculous to comfort others and end up drawing hatred onto yourself. Even without dismantling and retiring her ship equipment, a single hero-class ship girl like her wouldn't be worth a finger's breadth from these two interstellar ship girls.

After talking with her former colleagues at Naval Base 233, Tirpitz was constantly on edge after learning about the glorious deeds of these two starship girls, especially Adun.

"Can I continue now?" Hyperion asked Tirpitz, seeing that his threat had worked.

"Of course... wait, don't rush, it might take a while." Remembering that the third-party program was forcibly unable to connect to the game for an hour, Tirpitz inwardly complained about the third-party program trigger mechanism that he had created to save trouble.

"Huh?" Hyperion punched the virtual pod next to him with his fist, looking like he didn't know who he was going to smash into the next second.

"I don't know which engineering ship girl designed this third-party program, but regardless of whether the test results are available or not, you have to wait an hour before you can continue using it. You can wait a bit... play some other games."

Tirpitz, sweating profusely again, said that if the weather hadn't been relatively mild and the meeting room, which served as a recreation room, hadn't been air-conditioned, he might have already smelled of waste oil after being startled twice.

"Other games? Thunder Battleship and Thunder Fighter?" Adun, who had been silent until now, finally asked.

"Yes, and those two games are single-player, so the vehicle type won't be assigned based on the number of players." Tirpitz meant that those two games wouldn't assign a beat-up CV33 to Adun and Hyperion later on.

"Can we team up?" Adun pressed.

“Of course you can.” Tirpitz nodded and continued, “And I suggest you practice the team mode of the Thunder Fighter first. As for the Thunder Battleship, I believe it doesn’t matter whether you practice it or not.”

For players who primarily play Kantai Collection: Thunder World, there are still some ways to increase their strength through practice and training in Thunder Tanks and Thunder Fighters.

As for the Thunder Battleship...

Do ship girls, who are essentially the embodiment of warships, really need to practice...?

Calculating shell impact errors based on technical factors such as wind direction, distance, firing angle, and ship rolling is instinctive for ship girls.

Aside from players like Rodney who don't pilot ships of the same model as themselves but instead choose the Tirpitz battleship to play with torpedoes, most ship girl players don't need much learning curve when using ships of the same model as themselves.

However, Tirpitz seemed to have forgotten that the two starship girls in front of her were not actually seagoing vessels sailing on the ocean. Similarly, there was certainly no Protoss Ark or a Behemoth-class battlecruiser in the game.

☆, Chapter 233: An aircraft carrier can't even fly planes?

"Become a pilot? I... I could barely manage it." Upon hearing the order from his admiral, Admiral Adon, Kaga, who had just recovered from the dizziness, paused for a moment before speaking.

"Huh? Can't aircraft carrier girls fly planes?" Adon asked curiously, seeing Kaga's hesitant look.

"Admiral... I'm sorry to have troubled you since I've never flown a plane before!" Although Kaga wanted to argue with the argument that aircraft carriers must be able to fly planes, seeing the expectant look in her admiral's eyes, Kaga bowed almost ninety degrees and said loudly.

"...Fine, I can learn slowly if I don't know how." Seeing Kaga's expression, Adon said with a face full of black lines.

"Wo-chan, can you fly a plane?" Hyperion, who had just seen Adun and Kaga talking, picked up a taiyaki that Wo-chan was holding in her arms and asked the deep-sea aircraft carrier.

“Wo?” (What is flying a plane?) Wo asked curiously.

“Alright, I didn’t ask anything.” Hyperion, who had been defeated just like Adun, swallowed his mediocre aluminum fishing rod in a few bites, clapped his hands, and asked Adun, “Should we build a new virtual pod for both of their ships as well?”

“Just modify these two.” Ardon pointed to the two virtual pods that Tirpitz had initially assigned to him.

"Alright." Upon hearing Adun's words, Hyperion picked up the screwdriver and got to work.

"By the way, keep an eye on Wo-chan's phone," Ardon reminded Hyperion, remembering something.

"Are you careful not to let Wo-chan's deep-sea ship girl identity be discovered?" Without even asking, Hyperion knew what her good friend Adun was talking about, and confidently continued, "Don't worry, just install an identifier and a deception device. I guarantee the game server will only see Wo-chan as a... well, a ship girl again, um... um what."

“Essex,” Adun said with a sigh, pressing his finger to his brow.

“Oh right, Essex… if you keep talking about dumplings and stuff, the ship might misunderstand,” Hyperion said, seemingly unaware that he had done anything wrong.

When the Hyperion finished modifying the virtual gaming pods for Kaga and Wosex, the two starship girls, Adun and Hyperion, found that they still had to teach them how to use the virtual gaming pods.

"Hey, do I have to repeat something this simple a third time?" Hyperion really wanted to take a crowbar and pry open the head of the aircraft carrier ship girl in front of her to see what was inside.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." For an IJN ship girl, the abilities to arrange flowers, make tea, and do housework are innate, but when it comes to using these high-tech products...

“Wo?” Sextos looked at the piece of virtual pod she had broken off and uttered a strange “Wo”.

"Sigh..." Adon had already started rubbing his temples with two fingers.

Finally, under the cramming education of Adun and Hyperion, these two ships—one a novice ship girl and the other an Abyssal ship girl whose worldview is 95% aluminum and 4% admiral—finally learned how to use the virtual game pod.

"It's really simple, okay?" Exhausted and nearly collapsing, Hyperion climbed back into his virtual pod, sat down in his Viking-style fighter jet seat, and said breathlessly.

“Perhaps it’s because of our origins that these things seem simple to us,” said Adun, watching the virtual game pods of WoSex-chan and Kaga slowly close and fly up to his own virtual pod.

"Is that really the case? That makes sense." As a ship girl from the interstellar era, she has almost no trouble using these technologically advanced toys.

Before Adun and Hyperion entered the virtual world, Kaga, who had already entered the virtual login world, kept repeating to himself, "I am an airplane, I am an airplane, I am an airplane."

Meanwhile, Wo-chan, who was next to Kaga, was at a loss because she couldn't find the aluminum taiyaki that was placed next to her.

"...It's about letting you pilot the plane, not turning you into one." Hyperion, who entered this world through a water-ripple-like virtual projection, laughed as he heard Kaga mutter the words.

"Whoa." Kaga, who was lost in his own imagination of being an airplane, was startled by Hyperion's words and quickly bowed and apologized, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

"wowowo" (Admiral, admiral, where are my aluminum cakes?) It turns out that in wo-chan's eyes, those aluminum taiyaki are just pieces of aluminum cakes.

I wonder how that unscrupulous taiyaki shop owner felt when he found out that his carefully crafted aluminum taiyaki had been mistaken for aluminum cakes.

"This isn't the real world. Wo-chan, your aluminum disc is still safely hidden in your ship equipment space." Adun patted Wo-chan's head and said, adding a slight sigh that now that Wo-chan has become an Essex ship girl, she can finally get her head patted without any problem.

Previously, when Adun tried to increase her affection level by patting Charlotte's head, she would always get her hand caught by the jellyfish-themed equipment on Wo-chan's head.

“Wowo…” Although I still don’t understand what Yaton meant by the virtual world, at least I know that I can’t eat those aluminum cakes in this world, so I’m a little sad.

“Adun, let those two ships complete their beginner missions first,” Hyperion said, somewhat embarrassed by Kaga’s string of apologies.

“Okay, let’s go together.” Ardon felt that in order to avoid the situation that he and Hyperion encountered in the Thunder Chariot game, they should keep an eye on these two ship girls who had never been exposed to such high-tech toys.

Strange, don't the Abyssal forces have these things? It's understandable that Kaga doesn't know, but it's strange that even Captain Wo-chan from the Abyssal fleet seems to have never encountered such things before.

"Adon, are you out of your mind? You know this virtual world is a replica of the Admiral's Mind Network, how could it exist in the Deep Sea..."

While explaining to Kaga how to play Thunder Fighter, Hyperion was somewhat surprised to hear Adun asking Wo-chan, who was somewhat frivolous, whether the Deep Sea faction had such gaming equipment.

"Oh, I see." Only after Hyperion's reminder did Adun realize that it was a problem with his thinking.

In the Abyssal Fleet faction, where there are no admirals or very few admirals, the only way to maintain a subordinate relationship is by having the Princess mark the Abyssal Fleet girls. In that case, a virtual game world could not have been created... at least not the kind of virtual world we use today.

Even if they do exist, it's in a different form. However, judging from Wo-chan's performance, the Deep Sea faction really doesn't have any virtual reality games.

"Hehehe..." Hyperion chuckled as he saw Adun make another mistake.

"What are you laughing at? Go fly your trainer jet." Adun glanced at him irritably.

☆, Chapter 234 The Game System's Perverse Interest

When Adun and Hyperion joined Wosex and Kaga's newbie mission as trainer aircraft, they discovered that something was amiss.

"Hey, hey, hey? Didn't we just take off from the land-based airfield? How did we end up taking off from the sea?" Hyperion said, looking at the surrounding ocean and sensing that something was wrong.

"...This isn't taking off from the sea, it's an aircraft carrier," Adun, who was on another aircraft carrier with Kaga, said to Hyperion over the communicator.

"Oh, so it's an aircraft carrier." After looking around and seeing the bridge, Hyperion realized he had misspoke.

"It seems to be... a game... setting issue," said Yaton, after spending a few seconds analyzing the Thunder Fighter game client.

"Huh, it really is a game setting issue. If the player or the player's team has an aircraft carrier ship girl, the newbie mission scene will change from a land-based airfield to an aircraft carrier."

Hyperion, who, like Adun, spent some time analyzing the game client, said, "So that's how it is."

"Is it because of me?" Because the squad's communicator was public, Kaga, who was in the cockpit of a dive bomber, also heard Adun and Hyperion's conversation.

"If we have to find a scapegoat for the ship, then Wo-chan also bears some responsibility," Yaton said jokingly into the communicator.

"Wo?" Wo-chan, who was fiddling around in the bomber just like Kaga, heard Yaton's words and uttered a strange "Wo."

"Just kidding, Wo-chan, do you even know how to fly this kind of plane?" Ardon asked, knowing from Wo-chan's response that everyone was ready.

"Wowo" (No problem, no problem, wo-chan is very familiar with this kind of plane) wo-chan's words were full of confidence.

"That's good..." Just as Adon, who knew that Wo-chan was alright, was about to ask Kaga how he was, Hyperion's surprised voice came from the squad communicator.

"Huh? You're very familiar with this kind of plane, Wo-chan?"

“Wowo” (Yes, Wo-chan is very familiar with these planes) replied, not understanding what Hyperion was asking.

"Wo-chan, have you flown this kind of plane before?" Adun immediately understood what Hyperion had noticed.

“wo?wo…” (No, maybe…maybe in a past life) wo-chan has accepted the fact that she was once a ship girl, but as long as she accepts it, she can’t remember any of her memories as a ship girl.

"Huh? What are you guys talking about?" Kaga, who couldn't understand wo-chan's language, was stunned in the cockpit.

"Kaga, can you fly these planes?" Adon pondered the meaning of wo-chan's words and asked Kaga.

"I just learned it, and I've roughly figured it out," Kaga said, quickly flipping through the instruction book that the game system had left in the dive bomber's cockpit.

"Have you driven before?" Adon then asked.

"I've never flown an airplane, but I do know quite a bit about carrier-based aircraft." If it were a plane taking off from an airfield, Kaga might be a bit lost, but with planes taking off from an aircraft carrier, even if Kaga has never been one, he's certainly seen it all.

“Oh…” After a moment of silence, Adun continued in the squad communication channel, “Then let’s begin the newbie quest.”

As he spoke, Adun released the brakes, and the old monoplane propeller fighter glided across the aircraft carrier and soared into the sky.

"Hyperion... out... hey hey hey, pull up, pull up! Whew... that scared me to death." Hyperion, which was moving in sync with Adun, was probably not very familiar with the pull-up speed of carrier-based aircraft.

The monoplane she was piloting, just like Ardon's, didn't fly into the sky after it burst off the runway; instead, it plunged headlong into the sea.

Fortunately, as a starship girl, controlling these flying toys is as passive and skillful as using a high-tech virtual world game console.

Even though a momentary lapse in familiarity almost led to a blunder, they managed to pull the fighter jet, which was about to plunge into the sea, back up in the shortest possible time.

Compared to the Hyperion's safe and sound control, Wo-chan, who took off behind her, was more like a trainer aircraft. Not only did she take off steadily, but once in the air, Wo-chan even controlled her bomber to perform an energy evasion maneuver.

As expected, Wo-chan wasn't lying about being very familiar with this type of aircraft.

Kaga, the last plane to take off, watched his captain's piloting posture and wanted to do the same, but he almost broke the wing. He quickly gripped the control stick and dared not do anything else.

Even when it comes to piloting airplanes, Captain Wo-chan is better than me?

Kaga felt hopeless about her life, especially since she was completely outmatched by a deep-sea ship girl, even in her flying skills. She wondered if the Admiral would send her to the deep-sea territory as a spy because she was so useless.

Perhaps because they were both on an aircraft carrier, Kaga, whose view of life was confused, looked back at the aircraft carrier that had taken off.

Wanting to see if he recognized the aircraft carrier, Kaga immediately spotted the large "CV-6" on the deck where he had taken off.

"Ah!?" An ancient memory from the depths of her soul surged up, and Kaga stiffly moved her head to look at the aircraft carrier from which the Hyperion and Wo-chan had taken off. Sure enough, just as she remembered, the aircraft carrier's deck also had a large "CV-5" painted in white.

"This...could it be..." The IJN ship girl, caught in a panic, craned her neck to look at the dive bomber she was piloting.