The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

Or rather, the psionic blade used to block that rifle was being gradually suppressed by an obsessive force.

"Thought... huff... that's how it ends, huff huff? Fallen... one." The Renown, whose output had far exceeded the limits of its power reactor, glided headlong toward the direction of the heavily damaged and sunken ship. Not only did smoke rise from her body, but there were also some metallic clinking sounds coming from her body.

If it weren't for the enemy, this force, whether it be obsession or will, would have earned Adun's praise. After all, for the Protoss, the strength of one's will largely determines the upper limit of the power she can mobilize in the Sea of ​​Light of Khala.

Distracted, Adun didn't notice that the rifle muzzle, which was being used as a spear, was gradually pointing at his head. By the time he came to his senses, the Renown had already smiled and pulled the trigger.

"boom"

A direct piercing wound ripped off a third of Adun's forehead, revealing a blue mechanical body that was also flowing with golden energy.

"This is the one for Enterprise."

While the first shot had been incredibly effective, Reputation shifted the muzzle and fired another shot, turning Adun's left eye into a deep hole.

"This is the portion that belongs to the Kaga."

Sensing that Adun had no reaction, Reputation took a step back, pulled the rifle from the psionic blade to his side, and used the force of the pull to spin the gun in the air to load it. Then, he fired two more shots with a sound no less than that of a ship's cannon.

"This is the portion for Saratoga and Lexington."

Without wasting attention on Adun's hollow neck and heart, Reputation kept reloading, repositioning, and pulling the trigger.

"This is Kaga's share."

"This is Akagi's share."

"This is Essex's share."

"This is Langley's portion."

With each shot fired, each new hole pierced Adun's body, Renown would announce the name of a ship girl. And these ship girls had one thing in common: whether they were aircraft carriers, light carriers, or jellyfish, they all belonged to the aircraft carrier category.

Finally, after loading a bullet with strangely carved patterns into the magazine, a head maid, who was already close to Adun, raised the Holy Flame of Vengeance in her hand, aimed it at the center of Adun's relatively intact eye, and said:

"This is the share that belongs to reputation."

"Boom!" "Reputation, that's enough!!" The roar of gunfire drowned out another voice from a human male. By the time Reputation realized who was calling him, Adun's head had already been turned into an unsightly mosaic.

"Ah, young master?" Under the influence of the young master's voice, the black aura surrounding Renown vanished instantly. Looking at the rifle in his hand, which was much lighter than his ship equipment, Renown muttered to himself in a daze, "What was I doing just now? Where is my ship equipment?"

"Sister Renown, I saw everything." Although he didn't know why Renown was like this, the young master, who had been watching Renown's dark turn from beginning to end for some reason, sighed.

"Young Master, did you see everything? Then... it seems that Reputation is no longer able to serve you." Reputation, whose strength had been drained in an instant, knelt on the sea.

"It's okay, Renown. No matter what happened before, you'll always be my Renown. Even if you lose your ship equipment, you can always get another one." The young master tried his best to comfort the older sister who had watched him grow up.

"No, it's no use, there's no chance anymore." Modifying one's ship equipment to this state comes at a price, a price from which there is no turning back.

"There will always be a chance! Right, Noble? That's what you've always taught me. Come back first." The young master said nervously, worried that Noble might do something rash. Based on his understanding of Noble over the past ten years since he was old enough to understand, Noble was a ship girl who would really do such a thing.

“Young master, you’ve grown up and learned to advise others.” Renown laughed through his tears. “Helena will be very pleased; her son has become a qualified admiral.”

Seeing that the reputation didn't move, the young master sensed something was wrong and whispered to the person next to him, "Hey, help me think of a solution. After all, you're the one who caused this."

"Are you speaking to a ship girl like an admiral, or like an admiral to another admiral?" Adun asked, his left head still sparking, as he emerged from stealth, the air distorting slightly.

Chapter 49: New Techniques of Ship Control

"Is there a difference?" The young master's academic performance at school was obviously not very good, otherwise he wouldn't have ended up working as his father's assistant.

"Of course! If it's the former, you can use your authority to command me when my admiral is away. As a ship girl, I must obey as long as it doesn't violate certain principles." Adon, annoyed at having suffered such a loss here, continued irritably:

"If it's the latter, why should I help a ship girl who just cracked my head open?"

In fact, when Reputation turned to the dark side, Adun had already arranged for a psionic phantom to be placed next to the young master. After revealing his identity, Rodney and Nelson did not make things too difficult for Adun.

After all, the admiral sent Aden out to contact her underlings, not to fight, and Aden didn't have the habit of putting personal matters before official duties.

Unfortunately, I didn't expect that the reputation and combat power after the corruption would be so high. In the short time that Adun was treating the young master's teleportation dizziness, he almost destroyed Adun's city.

The moment Reputation fired the first shot, Adun, who had quickly switched positions with the psionic phantom, inevitably had part of his skull pierced through.

Fortunately, the ship girls are of extraordinary biological types. In particular, the Protoss Ark Adun was built with various potential dangers in mind, so discarding some seemingly important parts did not actually affect the overall performance of the ship.

As long as the solar reactor isn't destroyed or all of Adun's psionic nodes aren't disabled, the cricket's split open won't have much of an impact on him.

Of course, the time it takes for the canal to be filled into the canal for decades or even centuries cannot be changed, but at least this world still has the high-speed repair tank.

"Then... let's go with the former." The young master decided to choose the role of Admiral, ordering Adun to act as a ship girl.

"Okay, I'll help you. Actually, restoring your maid's ship equipment isn't more difficult than treating your teleportation dizziness. But can you guarantee that she won't go back to her evil ways and crack my head open again after she recovers?"

Ardon needed a guarantee, otherwise she felt it would be better to get rid of the black maid.

"I promise that I won't do anything excessive to you, in order to... in order to..." The young master couldn't think of anything to use as an oath after thinking for a long time.

"No need for oaths, I believe you." Adun waved his hand, signaling the male admiral in front of him not to try to swear any more oaths, lest he develop some kind of problem.

"Thank you, thank you," the young master said gratefully.

"No need to thank me. Since you consider me a ship girl, I will report everything that happened to the admiral once we get to the naval base. Isn't that the duty of a ship girl?"

Knowing the relationship between the admiral and the incredibly handsome male admiral in front of him, Adun revealed a malicious smile and said.

"Ah!!" So it was a trap set for him on purpose? Realizing what had happened, the young master quickly said, "Can I take it back? Actually, I considered you an admiral. You see, I can accept a half-ship girl like Big Sister as an admiral, so why can't I accept you, a first-generation ship girl who came out of the construction plant, as an admiral? Right!"

Let the boss know that the ship girls under her command... or rather, the ship girls under her father's command, are all the same in the boss's eyes. If the boss knows that they fired a shot at the head of her initial ship in the waters near her naval base, maybe the boss will fire a shot at the young master's head!

Given the boss's personality, it's entirely possible that she would do something like that. In particular, she might even go out of her way to get her modified ship-mounted rifle from Reputation, and use it to hit the young master on the head, to ensure an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

The young master said that as a human with half ship girl blood, although the ship girl's abilities are basically not awakened, his head should be able to withstand a bullet from an ordinary pistol, at most he would have a concussion for a few days. But if he were to carry a modified ship-mounted rifle of the reputation, Mom, I want to go home.

"It's too late." Adun cruelly rejected the young master's suggestion, then said as if remembering something, "By the way, two Abyssal ships may be boarding later, so make sure your ship girls are safe."

The words had barely left her lips when the Nelson and Rodney sisters, who had been standing guard beside her, revealed angry expressions. What did this ship girl mean by that? What did she mean by "behave yourself"? Shouldn't the Abyss be our enemies? Even if the young master vouched for her and cleared her name of suspicion as a Fallen One, her actions still made us suspicious.

"Why?" Despite living under the constant threat of the boss's authority, the young master still wanted to get to the bottom of this important matter.

"Didn't you just acknowledge me as the admiral? That deep-sea aircraft carrier is my starting ship. The other one isn't, but it should be able to become my ship girl soon, right?"

At this point, Adun suddenly sighed inwardly. Other admirals who rose to the top all had all sorts of resources and resources to build ships. Whether it was an African family or a European five-star party, at least they had a bunch of decent ship girls.

Even without building them, you can still salvage a few ship girls awakened from sunken Abyssal battles by hunting secondary Abyssals or by relying on luck in battles against Abyssals for habitat.

As for himself, he had neither the ability to build nor the resources to salvage, so he simply picked up two Abyssal ship girls to be his own. If he weren't a ship girl, people would believe he was an Abyssal admiral.

As expected, it wasn't just Adun who was baffled by this question. Both the incredibly handsome young master in front of him and the two battleship girls beside him wore expressions of bewilderment and disbelief.

The fact that the first-generation ship girl became an admiral was already unbelievable enough, but now the news that this ship girl admiral actually signed a contract with the Abyss has suddenly popped up, refreshing everyone's worldview.

Could it be that a temporary hyperspace teleportation not only transported space but also the entire world? Did we travel to a parallel world that is very similar to our original world in every way, except for the worldview?

"I can guarantee that my ship girls won't do anything excessive. After all, they are all veteran elite ship girls, and controlling their hostility is quite easy for them." The young master, who felt like he wasn't getting enough brainpower, rubbed his temples and glanced at the Rodney and Nelson sisters beside him.

Seeing the young master's gaze, the Rodney and Nelson sisters took off their identical military caps and saluted. Nelson, the elder sister, said, "The English are all dutiful, and your orders are our will."

"But you have to make sure those deep-sea, uh, your deep-sea ship girls don't do anything too extreme," the young master said seriously.

"Don't worry, if they dare to do it, I dare to cut off their food." Although I don't need to eat and don't particularly like to eat, the "magic" of this world that can turn all kinds of materials into all kinds of flavors is really attractive.

"..." The young master's mind was filled with only one sentence: After the general ship control technique of dismantling ships with the left hand and strengthening techniques with the right hand, is there now a food rationing ship control technique?

☆ Chapter 50 I realized I should name the characters.

To avoid being censored into a human mosaic by the boss, the young master from Naval Base No. 233 endured the humiliation and signed a series of treaties with Adun that ceded national sovereignty.

For example, he would give all the oil, ammunition, steel, and aluminum he had as assistant admiral, as well as the pocket money his mother secretly gave him, to Arden in exchange for Arden keeping these matters secret.

As a ship girl, Helena's allowance for her son is naturally not human currency. In fact, given that the ship girl race has been fully integrated into human society, the modified materials, like gold and silver in the past, have become equivalent in a certain sense.

Looking contentedly at the small pile of supplies in the corner of his Grakku, Adun nodded, indicating that his rations for the next two weeks should be sufficient.

Although they have always been called gods and have always adhered to a noble and righteous code of conduct, the Kalei Protoss are similar to the gods in some ways.

But if you really think that the Protoss are all a bunch of saints who are easy to bully, then you'll end up with them as decorative objects, reduced to glass balls.

The Protoss have never been known for their good temper. They have created a plethora of forbidden weapons. In addition to the Khalai Protoss, there are three other branches, any one of which could thrive in the Dark Forest universe.

For example, the Tal'darim Protoss with their true slavery system, the Purifier Mech Protoss who can drag out and whip corpses even when they're beyond dead (Phoenix! I'm talking about you!), and the Dark Protoss (Dark Templar) who, judging by their appearance and behavior alone, seem like major villains.

Inheriting all the advantages of the Protoss, as well as the shortcomings of that group of mute races, the Spear of Adun is ruthless when it comes to scheming against others, even if they are allies in the same faction. After all, the other party is the slave of her admiral, and what the admiral's slaves possess is what Adun possesses.

If he knew that this was how Adun viewed him, I wonder if the young master of Naval Base No. 233 would immediately tear up the newly signed unequal treaty and order his ship girls to fire at Adun.

However, given the formidable influence of Admiral Aden, the big sister figure in the young master's life, he would probably choose to swallow his pride and bear the pain.

At the same time, through the signing of this verbal agreement, Ayton also learned the name of the young master of the 233rd garrison, who seemed to be a second-generation Tier 2.

Charlotte, Charlotte Helena, this name sounds like a girl's name, but it fits the 233rd naval base's young master, whose handsomeness could make him a world-class idol, in an inexplicable way.

Charlotte's father, the admiral known as the "Battleship Maniac," was surnamed Xia, and Charlotte's mother was the ship girl Helena. So, in the years after his birth, after dozens of family meetings and various violent or non-violent exchanges and consultations, they finally decided on the name Charlotte Helena, a name that combines Chinese and Western elements for good therapeutic effect.

So his father's previous statement, "Son, the day you were born, your name echoed throughout Naval Base 233," was a complete lie. Charlotte's name wasn't finalized until he was almost in elementary school; before that, he was always called "Baby," "Good Son," "Young Master," and so on.

This result clearly shows that the ship girl Helena was the ultimate winner in the naming war, because according to the customs of Western civilization, the last name is the surname.

However, given that Charlotte's father is a very rare pure-blooded human, this conclusion is understandable. Even if Charlotte's father is as strong as a gorilla, he would still be no match for Helena, a light cruiser.

Fortunately, Charlotte's father wasn't an idiot. An idiot could never become a general or admiral. Thanks to Charlotte's father's efforts, the last three characters of Charlotte's name were rarely used except on documents like ID cards and household registrations. In most informal situations, the young master referred to himself as Charlotte.

If the Admiral of Adun, that big sister, calls her that, Charlotte becomes "Little Charlotte" when she's in a good mood, and "Little brat" or "stinky brat" when she's in a bad mood.

In any case, the most regrettable yet congratulatory thing is that Charlotte, the young master of the 233rd naval base, finally got her own name after appearing for tens of thousands of words.

Incidentally, Adun also asked Charlotte, who was an acquaintance of the admiral, about the admiral's name.

"Huh, didn't Big Sister tell you?" Charlotte was puzzled as to why Adun would ask this question. In his opinion, this kind of thing seemed, perhaps, not even necessary to ask. "Didn't you see Big Sister's name on the Admiral's Network?"

In theory, the admiral's name would be displayed on his own admiral network like an identity badge, making it easy for his ship girls to see. However, it's not very useful. Most ship girls rarely call their admiral by his name directly. At most, they would use his name when they need to do something for him so they won't be caught off guard.

"Hmm, it doesn't seem like there is... wait a minute." Reminded by Charlotte, Adun carefully examined the Admiral's Protoss Network, which resembled the Light of Kara's Mind Network. After searching for a long time, he finally found something that should be the Admiral's name, but the result left Adun quite bewildered:

"Could it be that my admiral's surname is No. ...

"Huh? Which admiral?" Charlotte, bewildered by Adun's words, quickly asked what had happened.

"Which other admiral could it be?" Adon said after using psionic energy as a coloring pen to write the word "admiral" in the air.

After receiving Ayton's reply, Ti Erdai thought for a while before saying, "It seems, it appears, that the big sister forgot to add her name to her admiral's network."

"This is possible?" The fact that the admiral forgot to add his own name after opening the admiral's mental network shocked Ayton. However, considering that his own admiral could go to the wrong door when registering at school, this was actually acceptable.

At crucial moments, being cute and adorable has become the Admiral's established impression of Aden.