The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Of course, it's also possible that the boss didn't do it because she didn't think there was any difference." Feeling that the boss's authority had been damaged, and unaware that the boss had long lost all authority in front of Adon, Charlotte played the role of a good henchman and began to smooth things over for her boss.

"Why do you say that?" Could it be that the Admiral is really called Admiral? Adon blinked.

Charlotte glanced around, seemingly looking for something. Nelson, who was beside her, seemed to know what Charlotte was looking for and took out a quill pen and a piece of paper from his ship's storage space and handed them to her.

Charlotte thanked him and quickly wrote two words on the paper with her quill pen, which seemed to have an endless supply of ink. She handed it to Adon and said, "The boss's name is like this. Because the pronunciation is too close to 'Admiral,' she has always forbidden us from calling her by her name."

In a place like the Naval Academy, where you could hit seven or eight aspiring admirals with a single brick, shouting "Admiral!" would get several people turning around.

"So that's why you were forced to call her 'Big Sister'?" Ardon looked at the words written on the paper and finally understood what Charlotte meant by "no difference".

Admiral, whose real name is Tidu, sounds exactly the same as Admiral. In this light, Charlotte's parents' decision to give their son a girl's name seems quite normal. How much must Admiral's parents want their child to become an Admiral to give him such a name?

Congratulations! The admiral, who has appeared in over 100,000 words, finally has his own name, but it's all for naught.

On the contrary, it was Adun's words, that forced them to call her "Admiral Big Sister," that triggered Charlotte's almost neurotic twitching reaction:

"No, that's not how it is. It wasn't the boss who forced us. We all called her 'boss' voluntarily."

I really have no idea what happened between Sister Tidu and her little brother Charlotte.

☆、Chapter 51 The Holy Construction will begin at 3 PM?

In the end, the head maid, who cracked Adonis's skull after his Bankai transformation and awakening of the Bean Blast, didn't walk back on her own; she was carried back.

To be precise, it should have been retrieved first, and then carried by the two deep-sea ship girls, Wo-chan and Xiao-bei, in a corpse-carrying manner onto the deck of the Prince of Wales in its glory form.

After all, there is a price to pay for exploding beans. As an ancient ocean-going ship that has not yet been able to counteract gravity, it is already quite difficult to cause damage to a Protoss Ark-class ship girl, even if the opponent is careless.

Even Adun, whom they considered an enemy, would say of Prestige's performance, "Vanship, you did your best."

If you really fight seriously, Adun's defensive skills alone, such as the indistinguishable psionic illusions and the short-range warp that ignores terrain, are enough to make him invincible.

Unfortunately, Adun, who was too overconfident from the start, did not expect that Reputation's map-wide attack would overload her shield. She also carelessly misjudged Reputation's Bankai, and the power attribute gained at the cost of burning herself was so easily smashed open.

Adun's actions perfectly illustrate the saying "pride comes before a fall," but Adun will not admit defeat. Although the world's restraining force drastically reduced Adun's psionic shield and physical durability, the reputation boost alone was something that even a minor setback could not achieve for Adun.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had time to react and use his phase-shifting ability to swap his spatial positions with the psionic phantom.

Even if getting riddled with bullets isn't a big deal, it'll still be a disgrace to El.

Unfortunately, in order to do all this, Renown first damaged her own cannons by killing the enemy first, and then she removed the damaged ship equipment herself. This kind of behavior is not as simple as taking off clothes for a ship girl.

In order to retrieve the Vengeful Flame hidden in the keel, Reign chose to remove the ship's equipment instead of returning it to the ship's equipment slot.

This behavior is akin to hiding a deadly dagger in one's own arm, only to have to cut away the obstructing flesh to retrieve it.

Cough cough, Reputation wouldn't be so stupid as to hide a deadly poisoned dagger in his own body. On the contrary, it's the Admiral of Adun, that airheaded Admiral named Tidu, who might do such a thing.

Reputation's series of self-destructive actions, coupled with her attempt to gain the power to suppress Adun by using her power system in a way that was ultimately crippling, meant that her body had already collapsed while she was firing so many specially made bullets that turned Adun's psionic phantom clones into mosaics.

The only possible end for Renown is to sink in this unfamiliar sea, like most ship girls who die, besides being sunk in battle, through ship equipment disintegration. Otherwise, she wouldn't have said to Charlotte, "Young Master... it seems Renown can no longer serve you."

Even with her entire being collapsing from the inside out, the fact that Renown could still hold on until she said those words to the young master shows that she truly deserves to be called an elite ship girl who came from the war years. Her willpower is unmatched.

Unfortunately, even the strongest willpower could not change the fact that his whole body was collapsing. When Charlotte begged Adun for help, Renown, who had already lost the ability to float on the surface of the sea, slowly sank into the seabed.

A legendary ship girl, just like that...

that's it……

And so, following orders from Adun, Wo-chan, who had been waiting at the bottom of the sea, was scooped up.

Nonsense. Even if the other party was in the wrong and it was Renown who struck first, if it really resulted in the death of a ship, his own admiral would only blame him and punish him as well, especially causing unnecessary rift with the 233rd Naval Base, which was originally an ally.

In particular, Adun didn't want to risk his reputation sinking to the bottom of the sea and then miraculously transforming into the Deep Sea. Given his reputation's strength, the possibility of him becoming the Deep Sea was extremely high.

So when he sensed the problem with Renown's body, before Charlotte could even speak, Adun had already ordered Wo-chan to wait at the bottom of the sea to retrieve her.

It could be said that Charlotte's unequal treaty and the compensation she received, which left the Nelson and Rodney sisters speechless with envy, were all for nothing.

After all, he is the eldest son of the "battleship maniac" admiral of the Eastern Pacific. He has a lot of private supplies saved up with his pocket money. Didn't you see how happy Yaton was after counting them and finding that they were enough to support Wo-chan's expenses for half a month?

It sustained Wo-chan for half a month!! What kind of concept is that! The aluminum materials that the admiral gave to Adun were prepared according to the basic consumption of a regular Akagi-class aircraft carrier for a month, but Wo-chan finished them in one night, and according to Wo-chan, she was only seven or eight tenths full.

The compensation provided to Adun was enough to feed an Akagi ship for more than a year; Charlotte's wealth is indeed considerable.

Noticing Charlotte's conflicted yet relieved expression after seeing Wo-chan raise her reputation, Ardon felt that this young master was still worth squeezing a little deeper.

Unlike the human faction ship girls who are extremely afraid of diving except for submarines, Wo-chan and Xiao Bei, born in the deep sea, are absolutely top-notch professionals when it comes to underwater salvage technology.

This is probably due to their origins. Ship girls are essentially warships that existed in history, and non-submarine types have an instinctive resistance to entering the seabed, which is similar to sinking.

Deep-sea ship girls are sunken ships that crawl out of the deep sea, so what reason do they have to be afraid of the seabed?

Wo-chan, could you and Xiao Bei be a little more refined in how you're carrying reputation? It feels like you're carrying a corpse, which will upset Charlotte, the big spender.

Although Renown looks no different from a corpse right now, through the deep scan of the phase array system, Adun could even sense a trace of deep-sea aura from Renown's dead-fish-like body. Sure enough, if left unattended, Renown could very well become a deep-sea ship girl in the nearby sea.

The research spirit of the Protoss Kalai class (the Protoss's engineer class) burned fiercely in Adun's heart. If it weren't for his promise to Charlotte, and because the naval base where the nearly dead ship girl was located had a close relationship with his admiral, Adun really wanted to conduct an observational experiment on "how ship girls transform into deep-sea ship girls".

As the human side, Adun knew that this opportunity was rare, while there would be plenty of time to study how the deep sea transformed into ship girls later.

Who knows when I'll encounter another ship girl who's courting death in front of me and whom I don't need to help?

"What a pity..."

What, you're asking about morality? Sorry, I'm an engineer for the Taldarim Protoss now. If you want to ask me about morality, please turn left and find the Kalai Protoss on Aiur.

Note 1: The Kalai Protoss refers to the main Protoss civilization that believes in the doctrine of the Light of the Kalai. The Kalai class is the engineer-scientist class of the Protoss. They have the same name but different meanings.

Note 2: The Tal'darim Protoss are a branch of the Protoss civilization. They are a group of religious fanatics, much like the medieval fanatics who would launch a war against heresy in the name of the idea that three fingers should be used to make the cross when others use two fingers.

P.S.: Why didn't anyone remind me that the Holy Build Day starts at 3 PM? I tried 100 times this morning without success, then tried another 100 times, and finally realized something was wrong when I saw that South Dakota wasn't in the build list. I'm so frustrated!!

Chapter 52: A Salted Fish Stands Tall Between Heaven and Earth

Surprisingly, the near-hero-class ship girl, Prince of Wales, did not express any opinion regarding the two Abyssal ship girls appearing in her glorious form, especially since they were the eldest sister, Head Maid Renown, who had rescued all the British ship girls in Naval Base 233.

To this end, the Prince of Wales even manipulated his glorious form to lower the deck of his projected warship to a height similar to sea level, making it easier for Wo-chan and Xiao Bei to board, making unsuspecting people think that the Prince of Wales was about to sink.

Fortunately, the ship girl's glorious form is just a materialized projection; otherwise, this action, which is no different from opening a sea valve, would have sunk a normal human-built ship long ago.

On the contrary, the Nelson and Rodney sisters didn't give Wo-chan and Xiao Bei, the two deep-sea ship girls, a friendly look. It was quite obvious that the two ship girls were trying hard to suppress their desire to attack.

Similarly, Wo-chan, who is at least a senior commander in the deep sea, can perfectly suppress her instinctive hostility just like the Prince of Wales, but Xiao Bei, who is just an elite-class deep sea heavy cruiser, has a hard time controlling herself.

Realizing that Xiao Bei couldn't retract her ship equipment no matter how hard she tried, and to prevent it from accidentally going off, Yadun sighed and sent Xiao Bei back to sea to escort the Prince of Wales.

Although I knew from that Princess that there should be an inherent antagonism between ship girls and deep-sea ship girls, I really wanted to pat her breasts and say that I don't have any of those things.

Perhaps worried about Xiao Bei's feelings, or perhaps unsure about her escort capabilities, wo-chan, after placing her reputation on the deck with her tentacles, also let out a "wo" and followed Xiao Bei to escort the ship.

Are you really not worried about your admiral? What if I get suspected of being a Fallen again? Adon was speechless at how Wo-chan had become so unconcerned about her admiral's safety.

Fortunately, the ship girls who hadn't removed Adun from their list of threats didn't notice this situation; all their attention was focused on the critically injured and dying Renown.

To be precise, it should be attributed to reputation that is beyond redemption.

“You promised you could save her! Why did this happen?” Seeing the Prince of Wales and the Nelson and Rodney sisters shaking their heads in despair, Charlotte, who hadn’t expected the situation to be so serious, immediately went to Ardon, the culprit.

"Quiet, quiet, is this how you treat a doctor?" Adon said, using his height advantage to press Charlotte's head down, ignoring the bunch of 16-inch cannons already pointed at him.

“But Reputation looks like this…” Even though she wasn’t a top student like Admiral Adun, Charlotte could still sense the gradually increasing deep-sea aura within Reputation. This feeling kept telling Charlotte that the head maid who had always maintained a respectful smile and served her tea and water was now in a state of deep battle.

"What's wrong with this? It's just that he's dead. It's not like he's incurable." The Protoss population isn't very large, and given the power of the Kara Mind Network, many Protoss die in battle with their bodies collapsing but their souls remaining intact.

To deal with this situation, the Protoss have a lot of experience in reviving their dying or even dead kin.

Otherwise, how do you think Dragon Knights, Immortals, and even Purifiers came to be?

"You can revive the reputation?" Perhaps influenced by Adun's confident expression, Charlotte asked with some skepticism.

Even the ship girls beside him had an incredulous expression.

The Prince of Wales, misunderstanding what Adun might do, said, "First of all, let me make it clear that even if my reputation is reduced to the Deep Sea, I will not lay a hand on my former comrades, and I will do everything in my power to stop you from doing anything to her."

Understanding the hidden meaning in the Prince of Wales's words in an instant, the Nelson and Rodney sisters steadied their ship's guns and continued to aim at Adun, indicating that they shared the same idea as the Prince of Wales.

"Are you questioning my medical skills? Or is it that the British have always lacked imagination?" Adon said somewhat irritably.

She understood what the Prince of Wales meant. This British ship girl simply thought that Adun wanted to give Renown several major transformations based on the world rule that ship girls sinking in battle become Abyssal, and Abyssal sinking in battle become ship girls.

Putting aside the low probability of a ship girl turning into an Abyssal Fleet and then back into a ship girl, and the fact that each transformation would erase her memories, even if there were a way to revive Renown, it would be a new Renown, not the kind of Renown that dared to threaten Adun with a move that would hurt the enemy a thousand while also hurting herself eight hundred.

Those British ship girls who thought Adun would use such clumsy techniques are indeed all blockheads... or rather, rusted steel plates.

Ardon, who had walked up to Reputation, bent down and touched the head maid's forehead with his finger to sense it. Without looking up, he asked, "Hey kid, what do you want your head maid to become?"

"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked, not understanding what Adon was saying.

“It’s a bit troublesome.” Ardon, who had stood up, turned around, and clapped his hands, saw Charlotte’s expression about to collapse again and quickly added, “I mean, repairing her might be a little more difficult than treating your teleportation stun, roughly equivalent to treating two of you with teleportation stun.”

"..." Silence reigned on the deck of the black warship until the Prince of Wales once again accidentally crushed the whiskey in his hand, at which point Adon continued:

"I've been traversing the stars and the seas for so long (several days), and this is the first time I've seen someone so ruthless to themselves, even burning up their entire ship's equipment space." It seems that when comparing strength with himself, the smoke emanating from Renown's body wasn't entirely due to a power reactor overload.

"Ah, does that mean... even if she's rescued, Renown won't be able to be a ship girl anymore?" Charlotte, the second generation, was slightly stunned after hearing this news, but then immediately said firmly, "It doesn't matter. As long as Renown can be rescued, she will always be my Renown."

"...Kid, has anyone ever said you're particularly suited to be an admiral?" Seeing the three ship girls next to him with stars in their eyes and their favorability ratings rising steadily after hearing Charlotte's words, Adun sighed again. This time, the sigh was not for anything else, but because he wondered why his own admiral, that airhead, could become a full-fledged admiral, while this second-generation admiral in front of him could only be a trainee admiral.

"Huh?" Charlotte blushed immediately, realizing she'd just acted a bit childish. She was definitely no match for her dad's ability to maintain maxed-out affection levels with a bunch of ship girls at the same time. (Helena: Hehe, darling, could you buy me a hatchet?)

"Don't be nervous, it's just a small space on the cricket ship. Even if it's burned, I can get you a good one." It's just Gracchus, after all. Considering that this second-generation Tier 2 is quite decent, Adun decided to help him to the end.

"Really?" Charlotte felt her emotions fluctuate greatly in the past few minutes.

"It can't be boiled, can it? I'm supposed to be supporting the supply mothership." Adun felt no pressure about healing Reputation. She possessed not only what the Protoss Ark had, but also what the power of this world had bestowed upon her while suppressing her own power.

"Have you forgotten that you're a special ship girl too?" Hearing Adun say this, Charlotte, who didn't know what a support supply mothership meant, felt relieved again.

"Too?"

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Ignoring the 200 pulls in the morning, the 200 pulls in the afternoon using the 650-steel battleship formula yielded 1 Lion, 2 Presidents, 2 Levante, 2 Cats, 3 North Carolina, and 3 Garudas, but no South Dakota. No South Dakota. I'll say it three times: no South Dakota. The author is now retired. Please burn some 648 coins as a tribute.

Chapter 53 The Wisdom of Ordinary Ships

Because repairing the ship was the priority, Adun suppressed the inexplicable impulse he felt when Charlotte mentioned the special ship girls and began to seriously explain the repair plan.

"The first method is the simplest: extract the memories of your head maid's existence from the physical body and put them into a container I create. I will try my best to ensure that this container is no different from your head maid's former body. However, you should all know the saying that no two eggs are the same. (Adun: Although my Protoss race does not eat eggs)."