The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Then what did you mean by keeping it like this?" Oh, so you can only drink three times as much, huh? Your alcohol tolerance isn't that great, is it? Ardon said without much change in expression.

"Kokang is just thinking how wonderful it would be if every day could be like this." If Nelson Rodney heard Kokang's words now, he would definitely be criticized for lacking a sense of crisis and responsibility for a single warship.

"Oh, you want to hold a barbecue every day? Aren't you worried about running out of vodka?" Ardon nodded, thinking he understood, and pressed on.

"Hey, that's not what I meant." Upon hearing that the vodka reserves were insufficient, Guogan clutched his chest again, looking terrified. He knew that to meet the admiral's demands in the future, Guogan's vodka reserves would suffer a major blow today.

"Oh, so you find starting a fire troublesome? Then let the fire burn a little longer." Clearly trying to change the subject, Adon snapped her fingers, and a ball of blue psionic energy flowed into the embers of the firewood.

"Boom..." The campfire reignited.

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The era of Kantai Collection has lasted for countless years, with the initial spark ignited at the 666th Temporary Naval Base in the Eastern Pacific Theater.

Hahahaha... Hahahaha.

Chapter 75: Courageous Efforts

"That's not what I meant!" Feeling that her sister Yaton had misunderstood her thoughts and not knowing what Yaton was really thinking, Guogan didn't know how to explain.

Seeing Kogan's somewhat agitated reaction, Adun, who had just rekindled the fire using Protoss methods, summoned the hat that Kogan had tossed aside, put it on Kogan's head, straightened it, and said:

"I know what you mean by Kokang. Didn't you guess what I meant by doing this?"

"Huh? Sister Yaton, what do you mean?" Guogan asked, looking puzzled as he touched his hat.

"The Master probably meant that you shouldn't overthink it," Reputation said as he walked to the rekindled fire, carrying a bowl of coffee and tea.

"Don't overthink it?" Guo Gan asked, still not quite understanding.

Seeing that Kogan still didn't understand, Adun picked up the cup of black tea that Renown had handed her, took a sip with the elegant posture of a British ship girl, and said:

"What I mean is, Kokang, instead of thinking about all that nonsense, you should just focus on the present. It's not a bad thing to dream about the future; it's foolish to let the future control you."

"Kogan is not an idiot!" Although he didn't quite understand what Yaton was saying, Kogan still realized that Yaton was calling him an idiot, so he jumped up and tried to grab Yaton to say it.

Unfortunately, due to the height difference, Kogan's hands, which were originally meant to grab Adun's neck, ended up pinching Adun's breasts, which could infuriate any warrior.

"This way of proving you're not an idiot is quite novel," Reputation added, adding insult to injury.

"Waaah, you're all bullying Kokang. Kokang tried so hard!" Kokang said, looking very disappointed as he squatted on the beach.

"Renowned, look, your young master is about to throw up. Go check on him quickly." Adun glanced at Renowned, who had just acted rather rudely, put the half-finished tea back on the plate in Renowned's hand, and was practically waving him off to the ship.

How come I never realized before that this head maid had such a cunning and sharp-tongued side?

After driving away Shengwang, Yadun bent down and asked Kokang, "Kokang, have you ever thought that one day you would become a great man?"

"A big shot? Hmm, hmm, of course I've thought about it... becoming a hero ship girl or something." Guogan said, squatting by the fire, feeling the slightly different temperature after it was relit by Adun.

"Kokang, what do you think historians would say about today's scene if you became a big shot someday?" Yaton asked a strange question.

"..." Kogan, stumped by Yadun's question, stood frozen in place.

"Perhaps those people will describe today's scene in all sorts of wild imaginations, such as the two governors forging an unbreakable friendship when they had just become admirals, and the famous hero-class ship girl Kogan witnessing this scene."

Yaton used a subtle tone to unleash his bold imagination.

“…Sister Yaton.” Guogan, whose mind had been opened, said hesitantly.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Guo Gan's strange reaction, Ya Dun almost thought he had misunderstood something.

"Do you think it's possible for the Admiral to become a big figure like the Governor-General?" Guogan said, glancing at the Admiral who was stacked on top of wo-chan and xiaobei, two Abyssal ship girls.

"Who knows what the future holds?" Judging from the admiral's style, he seems quite different from the kind of war zone governor whose word is law and whose every stomp shakes the entire sea. However, Adun has never seen what a governor looks like, so perhaps there really is a governor with a similarly goofy style to the admiral. (You guessed right.)

Given Admiral Adon's relationship with the nearby Abyssal Princess, perhaps becoming an Abyssal Governor wouldn't be so bad.

"Although I also feel that the admiral is not quite suitable to be the governor-general..." Under the watchful gaze of Guo Gan, Ya Dun finally said something that was not so insincere.

"Hey, I'm not dead yet, you...you guys are talking about me like that." The admiral, who was just piled up with the deep-sea ship girls, suddenly stood up, swaying like a zombie, and said.

“At least we were right, weren’t we?” Adun said, glancing at the admiral who was making a gesture of anger at thin air, unable to get the focus right no matter what he did.

"Tch, governor or whatever, I don't care! What I'm after is the status of a lucky queen!!" With that, the admiral collapsed onto the beach with a thud, landing on top of the drunken Xiao Bei, causing negligible damage to the deep-sea heavy cruiser.

"Wow, I wonder what kind of person the emperor of this world is." Adun muttered to himself as he heard the admiral mention that recurring name.

"Sister Yaton, the European Emperor is not an Emperor!" Guogan quickly corrected Yaton's mistake.

"Oh, not the Emperor? I see." Adon's gaze fell on the dark ocean, where a Deep Sea Princess was looking at the beach where people were cleaning up the mess with a very special expression that seemed to be happy, reluctant, and relieved at the same time.

Aren't you afraid of being noticed by these ship girls when you're so close? Although they were all drunk, when they saw the Deep Sea Princess, who seemed to have a close relationship with their admiral, appearing in the waters not far from the naval base, Adon nodded slightly in acknowledgment.

As if noticing Adun's actions, the Deep Sea Princess, which had not shown any hostility, nodded in response. After shifting her gaze from the Admiral who was drunk on the beach to Wo-chan and Kobei, who were in the same position, she spoke a few words and then slowly submerged into the deep sea.

“Even if you didn’t say anything, I would still take care of them.” Ardon felt that the Deep Sea Princess’s actions were somewhat unnecessary.

"Sister Yaton, what are you talking about taking care of?" Kogan, who hadn't noticed the Deep Sea Princess, asked curiously.

"It's nothing..." Before Adon could finish speaking, a weak, groggy voice came from beside him. Charlotte, the second-generation Tier 2 from Naval Base 233, stood up, clutching her throbbing head, and also looked towards the sea, asking:

"That ship girl, is it the Deep Sea Princess?"

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The cozy and pleasant daily life of the ship girls is finally coming to an end. The next chapter will be all about fighting. Adun will encounter the first special ship girl she has met since coming into this world. Then it will be a battleground where they start tearing each other apart. Well, maybe not just a fight.

Although this week's recommendation is the worst written recommendation ever, a mere drop in the bucket, I promise to still post four updates a day over the weekend.

So drown me in all sorts of comments and criticisms!

After all, this comes at the cost of having a stockpile of drafts!

☆, Chapter 76: The Relationship Between Special Ship Girls

"That ship girl, is it the Deep Sea Princess?"

As soon as Charlotte finished speaking, the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, who were still drunk, sobered up one by one. Even Rodney, who was completely drunk, was sobered up by his sister dousing him with a bucket of ice water.

Well, first of all, I have to thank the condenser compressor that was integrated into Reputation's ship equipment, and I also want to thank Adun for keeping the compressor when Reputation was remodeled.

"Deep Sea Princess? Where, where, where?" Rodney, having figured out why he had been doused with coolant, frantically asked after loading his three 16-inch cannons with super-heavy shells.

Then she discovered that no ship paid any attention to her.

"Do you recognize that Deep Sea Princess?" Adun asked Charlotte, who was trying to wake up, and tapped her forehead with a finger.

"Thank you, wait, what kind of technology is this? Do you have the skill to help people sober up?" Charlotte, who instantly sobered up, was extremely surprised by Adon's skill.

The ability to create illusions, become invisible, and even modify ship girls without modifying their cores is quite surprising, but these things are ultimately related to the ship girls' combat power.

What kind of weird skill is this that can sober someone up with just one finger?

"This isn't a skill, it's just a way of using psionic energy." Without caring whether the other person understood or not, Adun gave a brief explanation and then asked, "You also recognize that Deepsea Princess?"

"How could I know Abyssal Princess?! I'm going to get arrested and eaten by the military police! Even though you're the boss's ship girl, don't insult me ​​like that!" Charlotte immediately protested excitedly after finally understanding what Adun was asking.

"Oh?" Seeing that Charlotte didn't seem to be faking it, Adun asked curiously, "Then how did you find that Deep Sea Princess?"

"My ship girl told me that." Charlotte continued to look at the dark sea, but unfortunately, with his normal human vision, he couldn't see anything special.

"Your ship girl?" Adun's gaze fell on Nelson Rodney, who was activating her ship equipment, then shifted to the Prince of Wales, who was tidying up his clothes, and finally glanced at Reputation, who was helping the Prince of Wales clean up his clothes.

As if confirming something, the Protoss Ark ship girl's expression changed, and she asked, "You have another ship girl?"

"What? Charlotte, you have another ship girl? Where is she? Where is she? Why didn't she come to eat barbecue with us?" The admiral, who seemed to have woken up somehow, asked loudly.

"She said she doesn't like crowds, so I arranged for her to patrol the area." Charlotte, somewhat puzzled as to why Adun's expression had turned gloomy, scratched the back of her head and said.

"Outrageous! You only bring this up now that it's almost over. Call her back right now, Kogan. Is there any more wine? If so, bring it out." The admiral said, looking like he wouldn't stop until he'd gotten every single ship girl drunk.

The two admirals were completely unaware that Aydon's expression was changing from gloomy to increasingly grim.

As a master of the soul, Adun felt a strange sense of unease welling up from the depths of his soul. For a Protoss, especially a high-ranking Protoss Archon like Adun, such fluctuations from the soul were almost impossible.

This anxiety and manic feeling did indeed spread through Adun's soul, and at the same time affected the skill Kara's Light that Adun used as a part-time admiral.

"Wo?" Startled awake, Wo looked at Yaton with a panicked expression. Xiao Bei, who had been lying next to her, also tried to curl up into the shadow of Wo in the firelight.

“She said she doesn’t like crowds, fine, fine, I’ll call her back right now.” Charlotte surrendered in less than a second under the boss’s threatening gaze.

"What's wrong, Master?" Although she wasn't linked to the Light of Kara after being modified, Reputation, an immortal ship girl who was practically half a Protoss, sensed that Adun's aura was a bit off.

"I... my phase array system didn't detect your young master's ship girl." Adun glanced at Renown and said, his icy gaze almost making Renown stumble back.

"Young Master's initial ship is indeed a bit strange, but I've never seen her with stealth capabilities? How come your phase array system can't see her?"

Those who have traversed the world of Kara know what Adun's phase array system is; it's a high-end device used for creating star maps. How could they not detect the young master's initial ship?

Even he himself can now… Huh? Reputation suddenly turned around to look at the black ocean, as if he had seen something incredible, his expression showing utter astonishment.

"It's not her invisibility system, it's that she's deliberately avoiding my senses." For the first time, speaking was incredibly difficult, as he struggled to suppress the turmoil within his soul.

"Huh? Did Sister Aden get an upset stomach?" Guogan asked, noticing Aden's strange reaction.

"Huh? Ship girls get stomach aches too? Haha, Adun, don't kid me. If you really get a stomach aches, I'll send a telegram to Aoba Society tomorrow." The admiral, oblivious to the slightly strange atmosphere, said with a laugh.

"Wo-chan, protect the admiral," Adun, who had no energy to retort, ordered her initial ship girl.

"I'm not talking about your admiral, I'm talking about my admiral." Seeing Wo-chan standing in front of him again, just like last time when he faced that Abyssal Princess submarine, Adon said helplessly.

Wait... deep-sea submarine... deep-sea submarine? Damn, what kind of weird skills are these?

Upon realizing that there was a bound deep-sea submarine princess in the naval base, Adon immediately understood what the deep-sea submarine princess's special ability was.

Actively reducing her presence to almost nothing is truly befitting of that deep-sea ship girl.

Unfortunately, before Adun could activate the high-frequency detection mode of the phase array system to locate the deep-sea submarine, Princess, the distant seawater suddenly exploded.

"What's going on? Wait... this is sonic vibration?" The Prince of Wales, who was the first to realize what was happening, quickly picked up Charlotte, who was dizzy and had tinnitus, and jumped away from the beach where the barbecue had just been held.

Immediately afterward, before the sound even arrived, something that appeared at supersonic speed, accompanied by waves of sand and gravel, covered the entire beach.

"Clang... Sizzle..." Several short, sharp sounds, like metal clashing or an electrical short circuit, rang out from within the water curtain that obscured the view.

As the murky water curtain fell and the boiling steam dissipated, the admirals, who had retreated to the outer perimeter with the help of their respective ship girls, only saw a scene of two ship girls who shouldn't have been considered enemies engaging in close combat.

As Adun extended psionic blades from both of his arm armors for the first time, he assumed a defensive stance, blocking a weapon resembling a Japanese longsword.

However, judging from the way the Japanese sword vibrated continuously and emitted a pale purple light, it was clear that it was not just an ordinary knife.

The knife was being held by a ship girl who looked to be about the same size as a destroyer ship girl, wearing a pure white bodysuit and a collar with half a chain around her neck.