The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

When Tidu uttered that mandatory command in a very serious tone, a power even higher than the innate hostility between special ship girls poured into Adun's mind from the void, instantly suppressing the hostility that had occupied most of Adun's thought process to some unknown corner.

This sudden surge of will almost caused Adun to lose control of her glorious ship equipment. Fortunately, Adun stabilized immediately and avoided the embarrassing situation of falling from a great height.

With a puzzled, confused, and bewildered expression, he glanced at his admiral, then at the versatile war fortress ship girl who was already teetering on the brink of collapse after his orbital cannon attack, and asked with a sigh of relief:

"Are you sure, Admiral?"

"Nonsense, when have I ever joked with you? Stop right now, or you'll really cause a shipwreck." Feeling that wasn't enough, the admiral added:

"If you're still unhappy, I'll have Xia make her apologize to you with her ship girl in a bit. Anyway, she attacked first, so it's not your fault in terms of reason or sentiment."

As the admiral spoke, he also consulted the British ship girls from the 233 naval base who were traveling with him. The British ship girls, who had no doubt that Adun could easily sink Omega Yuriko, nodded in agreement with the admiral's statement.

In the face of life, everything else is trivial, especially since this ship is the first ship girl built by the young master, which is of great significance.

"I'll make Omega apologize to you right now, Omega, did you hear me? Answer me now, answer me!" Charlotte shouted excitedly, unable to communicate with Omega Yuriko through the Admiral's mental network for some reason.

“If that’s all there is to it…” Adon didn’t react to the actions in the shelter. He turned his head stiffly and looked back at the ghost-headed mech floating in the sky.

"Adon, what are you trying to do? Are you going to disobey orders?" The admiral asked in surprise, realizing what Adon was about to do. Could Adon be the kind of top-tier ship girl who could disobey the admiral's orders?

“My answer is…” Using the power he had recently suppressed to quell his primal impulses, Ayton slowly and firmly said, barely holding back the forceful command from the Admiral, “No.”

Then, several orbital beam cannons, just like the ones that had just pierced through the Omega Yuriko Glory ship armor, burst forth from Adun's main body again, completely enveloping the Oni-head mech.

"No!!!!!!!"

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I only have seventeen chapters left in my drafts, and I'm starting to panic.

Chapter 84 How did they survive?

After the massive, sky-obscuring ship disappeared, the crew and passengers of the psionic crystal shelter were teleported back to the beach that had been transformed into a crystal-clear expanse.

When the ship girls recovered from the dizziness caused by the short-range warp, they realized that it seemed to be the quirky hobby of a certain ship girl whose main body was enormous. The place they were teleported back to was the same place where they had previously held a barbecue party.

Even the campfire that Adun rekindled with his psionic energy remained steadfast, burning brightly amidst the near cataclysmic changes, radiating its own light and heat in the darkness.

Although this heat and light seem insignificant compared to the forests already ablaze near Liuli Beach.

Unfortunately, none of the ship girls present were paying attention to why a small campfire could last so long. After recovering from the brief dizziness, the ship girls from Naval Base 233 and Naval Base 666 intentionally or unintentionally dragged their still unconscious admirals to stand clearly on either side of the fire.

They're putting on an act that suggests they're ready to fight at the slightest provocation.

"What are you doing?" Ardon, carrying two things, flew back and saw the tense scene. He asked in a strange tone.

"It's all because of you!" In a moment of excitement, Rodney couldn't control himself and fired a cannon at Adun, who was flying in the air.

Then, Yadun casually tossed the shell aside and dropped it into the sea, picking up a string of splashes and mud.

The scalding seawater, which was still half-open, poured over them, immediately roused the two admirals from their unconscious state.

"Hot, hot, hot, hot! What is this?" Tidu shouted as she jumped up and patted the hot water sticking to her body.

Compared to the image-ruined leader, Tidus, Charlotte, who was also awakened by the scalding heat, struggled to stand up from the Prince of Wales's lap as soon as she opened her eyes. Ignoring the fact that the ground beneath her feet was still scalding hot, she made a suicide pact and was about to rush into the still-cooling seawater.

He walked along with a blank stare, constantly muttering the name of the first ship girl he summoned with the construction tool: "Omega..."

This desolate scene not only resonated with the ship girls of Naval Base 233, but even the few ship girls in Naval Base 666 who were not particularly sentimental felt a little uneasy, even deep-sea characters like Wo-chan and Xiao Bei.

"Hey, have you guys misunderstood something?" Ardon, who landed in front of Charlotte, glanced at the handsome guy who was going through a period of confusion in his life, calmly turned to the side, and opened a portal on the spot.

Charlotte, whose eyes saw nothing but the still-scorching sea, plunged headfirst into the portal like a robot, instantly appearing beside a burning campfire, and then falling backward onto the ground like a wild goose landing on the sand.

Adun's actions immediately caused the ship girls of Naval Base 233 to point their cannons at her, and even Renown had no choice but to help Charlotte up.

Even knowing that all their ships combined were no match for Adun, the ship girls still acted as if they regarded Adun as an enemy.

"Reputation, wake up your young master." As Adun spoke, he threw the body, which was still emitting the smell of hot metal, in front of the 233rd Naval Base ship girl and said, "She was lucky. She didn't die after I destroyed her Glory Form, but she will definitely need to be put into the dry dock for major repairs."

The sight of Omega Yuriko's half-dead body lying in front of them instantly dispelled the hostility of all the ship girls in Naval Base 233. Apart from Renown, who was still trying to wake up her young master, the other three ship girls gathered around Omega Yuriko, wanting to see if what Adun said was true.

"To survive being shattered in its glorious form? This can't be a joke, can it?" Rodney, who had no intention of apologizing to Adun for that shot earlier, pressed his hand lightly on Omega Yuriko's chest. Feeling the weak pulse in her body, the British BIG7 ship girl said in surprise.

"Let go, and... hurry up and get a stretcher over here. Fix her before the young master wakes up!" Nelson slapped his sister's hand away, glanced at Omega Yuriko's smoking body, and immediately gave the order.

"Oh, oh!" Upon hearing his sister's order, Rodney hurriedly took out several pieces of steel from his ship's equipment space, kneaded them in his hands to form the frame of a steel stretcher, and then, in a moment of desperation, pulled out several Union Jacks and stacked them together to use as a stretcher cloth.

After watching Nelson and Rodney carefully lift the heavily damaged Omega Yuriko, who was on the verge of sinking, onto a stretcher, the Prince of Wales spoke to Adun, who had turned to go to her admiral's shipgirl:

"Excuse me, may I use your esteemed residence's repair canal?"

Unsure whether the two garrisons could maintain their friendship after this incident, the Prince of Wales had no choice but to ask in this very formulaic tone.

"Then you'll have to ask my family..." Before Adon could finish saying the word "Admiral," the eldest sister, Tidu, who had also heard this, immediately spoke up:

"No problem, no problem. Feel free to use the canal repairs or anything. We're all family, no need to be so polite! Go for it, lead them the way immediately!!"

"Oh, okay, Kogan received it." Before he could react, Kogan, upon hearing the admiral's order, immediately went to the Nelson and Rodney sisters carrying the stretcher and said, "Over here, over here..."

"Family"? The Nelson and Rodney sisters, who were carefully carrying the stretcher, both had a black line appear on their heads at the same time.

Your admiral's ship girl almost broke the keel of the young master's initial ship (but where is that starfish-shaped keel?), and you still dare to call yourself one of our own? If it weren't for the most important thing right now being the safety of Omega Yuriko, even Nelson would want to give that statement a good talking-to, not to mention Rodney, whose face is as black as a cauldron guard.

"Leave all the repairs to your residence to us, including compensation for the misunderstanding. We will give you a satisfactory answer."

The Prince of Wales's lips twitched slightly at the words of his young master's eldest sister, who seemed completely unconcerned about the situation. However, given the young master's unstable mental state, the Prince of Wales, as the fleet flagship on this trip, still demonstrated his sense of responsibility.

"Hmm," upon hearing the Prince of Wales's formal words, Adun looked up at the island forest where the fire was still spreading. While waving a ball of psionic energy to gag her admiral and prevent her from saying anything more polite like "no need," she said to wo-chan:

"Wo-chan, you and Xiao Bei put out the fire first. You know how to mix fire extinguishing grenades, right?"

"Wo!" (No problem!) Wo-chan is always so reliable. As long as there's enough aluminum tubing...

"Hmph, why should I listen to you!" Xiao Bei, whose favorability rating had been 0, raised her head and huffed arrogantly, before being dragged away by Wo-chan's tentacles to put out the fire.

No matter how unwilling she was, Xiao Bei had already become Admiral Adun's ship girl.

This is so sad, Little North, a deep-sea cruiser.

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That's it for today, let's get back to our daily routine~~

Chapter 85: Smash Your Window

"Adon, you went easy on him, didn't you?" After watching Wo-chan and Xiao Bei leave, Tidu turned her attention to Adon and said, half-guessing and half-certain, "You're quite obedient, aren't you!"

After hearing Yaton firmly say "no" to her forced command, Tidu's heart was pounding.

Although there are legends that the top-tier ship girls can disobey their admirals' mandatory orders, very few ship girls actually do so. From the time ship girls first appeared in human society until now, there has only been one officially recognized case of disobedience.

Tidu didn't want to become the second example, because the first officially recognized case of a ship girl disobeying orders directly led to the fall of the entire Australian war zone, causing the human ship girl faction to completely lose its territory in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hearing his admiral's sigh of relief, and watching Charlotte gradually awaken in Renown's arms, Adun directly dispelled his admiral's guess: "Not at all."

When he just negated the admiral's command, which was empowered by the power of the world, Adun had used the innate antagonistic connection that was also powered by the power of the world.

With both being world forces at play, Adun could barely guarantee that he wouldn't be corrupted by willpower like that versatile war fortress of the Rising Sun Empire. So, for Adun at that time, it was either the East Wind prevailing over the West Wind, or the West Wind prevailing over the East Wind.

Therefore, with Ardon's help, the innate hostility that gained the upper hand in a short period of time showed no mercy to Omega Yuriko.

Adon was able to find a living ship while scavenging corpses, simply because the mad scientists of the Rising Sun Empire used a very primitive but advanced concept when designing the Omega Lily.

When inevitable defeat and universal enmity were imminent, the Rising Sun Empire's all-purpose war fortresses were already set up so that it could continue fighting even if there wasn't a single living person left in the entire country.

Therefore, even without any support, she can utilize the redundant systems within her body to continuously maintain and repair herself.

Just like the Spear of Adun on the Protoss Ark, in a way, the situation envisioned by the Kalai engineers who designed the Spear of Adun coincided with that of the scientists of the Rising Sun Empire.

The only difference is that the Kalai engineers' goal was the preservation and continuation of their race, while the scientists of the Rising Sun Empire were only interested in revenge and destruction.

It was precisely because of this design that Omega Yuriko, the blood test ship girl summoned by Charlotte, managed to stay afloat after her glorious hull was shattered by several railguns fired by Adun, thanks to her constant self-maintenance.

After hearing Adun's explanation, both Master Charlotte, the Prince of Wales, and the Head Maid all breathed a long sigh of relief.

Because of the existence of the unscientific repair channel and high-speed repair fluid, as long as the ship girl is not sunk on the spot and still has enough health to last until the repair channel, she will be lively and energetic again after a few seconds to a dozen hours.

“But this design is really…” Tidu, who finally understood why Charlotte had made a conflicted expression just now, was momentarily speechless.

The admirals of this world are basically aware of the crazy side hidden in the personalities of Japanese ship girls, let alone the eldest sister, Tidu, who graduated as a top student.

But I've seen crazy people, but I've never seen anything this crazy. This kind of destruction command written in the underlying protocol can be interpreted by Ti as, if one day, the naval base where Omega Yuriko is located is defeated and falls, she will treat all targets of her activities as enemies.

Whether it's the deep-sea crew or allies from the same faction, she treats them all as enemies. This kind of ship girl who only recognizes one master after signing a contract makes Ti feel unsure whether to envy, be jealous, or feel apprehensive. Fortunately, the Adun she summoned doesn't have this personality.

"You're overthinking it. If necessary, I can go even further than this little girl." Yaton once again dispelled her admiral's sentiments, almost suffocating her.

"Hey, are you doing this on purpose? Is this how a ship girl should act? You just disobeyed orders. Aren't you afraid I'll send you to the dismantling ditch and dismantle your ship equipment?" The boss, Tidu, roared like a shrew.

“Even so…” Charlotte’s voice was weak as she said, “Omega is still my ship girl. As long as I never fail, isn’t that enough?”

"Young Master..." Charlotte's words moved the Prince of Wales and the Head Maid so much that their favorability ratings increased by several points once again.

"Even if you don't fail, you'll still die of old age, right?" Noticing the expression on Wales's face, which was practically asking for a ring, and thinking of how each of her ship girls was more troublesome than the last, Ti said irritably.

"..." Instantly, the beach covered in stained glass fell silent because of the words spoken by the eldest sister, Ti, who didn't care about the situation.

"Dear Admiral, when you were in school, did anyone complain about you talking nonsense?" After thinking for a moment, Adun still said it.

"Of course there were, some teachers even wrote a petition to the principal asking me to repeat a grade, but that didn't happen in the end." Tidu, still oblivious to what she had done wrong, said confidently.

"Then I can only say that your principal and teachers are really lenient with you." Ayton muttered to himself, wondering where his admiral got his confidence from.

"Ahem, that's because our leader led us to smash the windows of all the teachers' homes with slingshots back then," Charlotte said, struggling to get up from Reputation's arms.

"Xia Xia!!! No one will think you're mute if you don't speak!!" If she hadn't known that there was a fundamental difference in combat power between her and the head maid, Tidu, who had transformed from a shrew into a tiger, would have almost pulled out her dyed PG and given her little brother a good pounding.

Tearing the boss's face in front of Yadun is something that cannot be tolerated!

"Oh, I see. You two chat, I'll be going now." With that, Adon turned around and walked towards the direction of the naval headquarters office.

"Hey, Yaton, where are you going? Let me explain! It's not like this. Besides breaking the glass, I took all the locks off the doors. No, no, what was I saying?"

I really don't know what's so great about this behavior. Noticing that the ship girls around me were looking at me strangely, Tidu quickly covered her mouth to prevent herself from revealing anything again.

So that's why the young master calls her "Big Sister"? Young master, you've really had a tough time leading this troublesome brat. The Prince of Wales and the head maid both showed expressions of sympathy, and while sympathizing with their young master, they also gave Aden a little something as a buy-five-get-one-free deal.

As a ship girl under such an admiral, Adun, you've had a tough time.

"Do you even need to ask? Of course, it's a bath. Remember to reimburse the repair supplies." With the things in his hand in hand, Yaton walked away without looking back.

"Wait, I'm going to take a bath too. Renown, you carry Charlotte on your back and come with me," Tidu quickly said, catching up with her ship girl.