The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Wo?" The mention of Charlotte from the deep sea caught Wo's attention. A black jellyfish swam up to Charlotte and extended a tentacle, patting Charlotte's back along with Reputation.

"Ahem, thank you." Charlotte, who remembered to say thank you, saw that none of the ship girls in the repair channel responded to her warning, and quickly shouted, "It's not Wo-chan and Xiao Bei, it's another Abyssal Fleet! There's another Abyssal Fleet here!"

This action was so obvious that all that was missing was someone to help him sound the red alert.

“Young man…” Ardon, who had somehow left his repair post, walked naked up to Charlotte and asked, “Is the other deep-sea vessel you mentioned this fish?”

"Ah..." Startled by Adun's bold behavior, Charlotte quickly covered her eyes with her hands, silently chanting "Don't look at what you shouldn't look at."

"I'm asking you a question, why are you covering your eyes?" Ardon pulled the deep-sea submarine, which was trying to sneak away, out of the repair channel again, shook it to remove the repair fluid, and placed it in front of Charlotte before asking.

"Ah... Clang." Seeing the Deep Sea Princess with a lifeless look in her eyes through her fingers, Charlotte was so startled that she fell backward with a clatter at the edge of the repair ditch.

"It hurts so much." Charlotte, rubbing the back of her head, suddenly felt a little envious of her older sister who could heal her injuries by soaking in the repair canal. Even without ship equipment, Tidu, who had awakened other abilities, was on par with ship girls in terms of self-repair. Unlike Charlotte, who was still human, she had to take medicine for every little headache or fever.

Compared to the young master's blunder, when the Prince of Wales saw the deep-sea submarine ship girl being carried by Adun, her pupils shrank slightly. As a near-hero-class ship girl, she naturally realized immediately that the deep-sea submarine was a Princess.

Although she wasn't a very strong combat princess, she still had a certain intimidating presence as a princess. However, she noticed that this princess was bound up like a dumpling and hadn't summoned her ship equipment in the bathhouse like the Nelson and Ronnie sisters had just done.

On one hand, they realized that the Princess was currently under control; on the other hand, the Prince of Wales' ship equipment was not as useful as Nelson's and Rodney's at times, such as when they were not wearing clothes.

As for the head maid, who was gently massaging Charlotte's impacted area, she didn't react at all. As the head maid, her first observation upon entering the repair channel was of the deep-sea submarine that Adun was playing with by his toes.

"Hey, is this the Deep Sea Princess?" Charlotte, whose excitement had subsided, wanted to poke the Deep Sea Princess with his hand. For him, this was the first time in his life that he had been so close to the Deep Sea Princess, a disaster on the high seas.

"Genuine and genuine." After throwing the submarine princess, who was tied up like a dumpling, next to Charlotte to play with, Adun lay back down in his repair bay and said.

"Wo" (the real deal!) Unlike Charlotte, who hesitated, Wo-chan tapped the Deep Sea Princess with the tentacles hanging down from the jellyfish-like vessel on her head and said in a firm tone.

"I think I need some peace and quiet," Charlotte said, having ultimately decided not to touch the deep-sea submarine Princess, whose eyes were still blazing with fury, and instead moved to the other side of the repair channel.

When did we become so easy to see Abyssal Princesses? When did ship girls become so easy to beat... oh no, this isn't just beating them, this is pure humiliation of Abyssal Princesses.

Young Master Charlotte felt that his worldview had been under severe attack ever since he stepped out of the portal. If this continued, he would collapse before his worldview did.

"Just a Deep Sea Princess." And it's a submarine Princess with a combat power of less than five points, but Adon didn't say the second half of the sentence.

Although Adun still doesn't know how to deal with the Abyssal Princess near his naval base that can exchange materials, that doesn't stop him from putting on a show for now.

“But she is still a Deep Sea Princess. Aren’t you afraid that she will retaliate after she breaks free? Your Excellency Ardon.” The Prince of Wales kept his eyes fixed on the Deep Sea Princess, who was sitting like a salted fish on a chopping board, as if afraid that she would disappear in the blink of an eye.

Being targeted by the Deep Sea Princess is troublesome enough, but being targeted by a submarine Princess skilled in stealth is simply terrifying.

Prince of Wales put himself in her shoes. If he, as a Princess, had been humiliated like this, he would not have let any of the ship girls present get away with it if given the chance to take revenge.

"Before she was a Deep Sea Princess, she was a despicable thief. Is it wrong to treat a thief like this?" Adon still remembered what this Deep Sea Princess was doing when he first captured her with the help of Wo-chan's unintentional ultimate move.

"Huh? A thief??" The Prince of Wales was taken aback by what Adun said. When did the Deep Sea Princess become a thief? Wait, could it be that ship?

"When we caught her, she was stuffing the supply ammunition from the sortie channel into the ship's equipment compartment, and judging from her behavior of only taking a little bit from each box of ammunition, she was a habitual thief."

Sensing the Prince of Wales' surprise, Adun adopted a tone of "How was I supposed to know that a Deep Sea Princess would abandon a perfectly good big boss and instead choose to become a thief?"

“It really is her…” The Prince of Wales’s gaze as he looked at the deep-sea princess submarine subtly shifted from wariness to pity.

"Do you know her?" Ardon asked, noticing the change, which also drew the attention of the others.

“…I can only say I knew her from before…” The Prince of Wales closed his eyes, lost in memories, and then said, “Lord Adun, could you spare her?”

"Huh?" Adon was a little confused by the plot's unexpected twist.

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Comrades! This admiral has left South Dakota! Left South Dakota! I'll say it three times: Left South Dakota!!!

与之一起来50发里还有2发黎塞留、1发总统、1发爱丽、2发锅卫、1发饺子。

To commemorate the re-ascension of this European Emperor after temporarily abdicating on April 15th, Holy Sword Day, four chapters will be updated today!! This is the first chapter!!

As for drafts... I'll try my best to write four or five chapters a day these next few days to accumulate them.

☆, Chapter Ninety-One: Fantasy Ship Girl Nautilus (Second Update)

The relationship between the Prince of Wales and the thief Princess Suzuki was quite simple, just a classic tale of a hero rescuing a damsel in distress.

A young girl, who was recognized as qualified to inherit the Prince of Wales's ship equipment from a very young age, has always enjoyed the best resources and received the best education in the strongest naval base.

The girls who received aristocratic ship girl education from a young age also aspire to become the strongest ship girl.

This girl's fate followed her will, keeping her in a state of being a top student in school, an MVP in the training field, and receiving countless honors after serving in the military.

At least that was the case for the first half of this girl's life.

Unfortunately, fate played a cruel joke on her later on.

When this ship girl, who was already a near-hero-level ship, finally awakened her glorious form one day, fate arranged for her an enemy that she could not defeat no matter what—the Northern Princess.

Just as she always believed herself to be the strongest, even the enemies she encountered were the strongest.

So powerful was this enemy that, without lifting a finger, she and the naval base she served in became nothing more than an inconspicuous ripple in the invasion of the Northern Deep Sea Fleet.

However, the cruel joke of fate did not end there. A submarine that had been following the Northern Fleet and looting the ship girls picked her up from the wreckage of the dying ship girls as a trophy.

"Why do I think you should hate her..." After hearing the story of the Prince of Wales, Adun glanced at the deep-sea submarine Princess, who was tied up like a dumpling, and said half-jokingly.

“That’s what I thought at first…” The Prince of Wales did not deny Adun’s words: “But I couldn’t beat her back then, no, even when I was at my peak, I might not have been her match.”

"Splash..." Unexpectedly, the usually serious Prince of Wales suddenly came up with such a reason, and several of the ship girls who came over to listen to the story lost their balance and fell into the repair ditch.

"Later, I realized that it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death," the Prince of Wales said, taking a sip of his already warm whiskey. "And what kept me going at the time was my desire for revenge against the Northern Princess."

"Didn't the Northern Princess sink in battle?" Tidu asked, having secured the most comfortable spot on the edge of the repair canal.

"So I learned to drink, and learned how to get myself completely drunk." The Prince of Wales said expressionlessly, swirling the pale brown liquid in his glass.

An eerie silence fell over the repaired canal. Those who understood what the prince was saying didn't know what to say, while those who didn't were rendered speechless by the subtle atmosphere.

"How can you be so sure that this deep-sea submarine, Princess, is the same one that saved you? From what you've said, when it saved you, that submarine wasn't even a deep-sea submarine yet, was it?" Adun was the first to break the silence in the repair bay.

"She has indeed changed a lot, but I won't mistake her." The Prince of Wales glanced at the deep-sea submarine Princess, who had turned into a salted fish. Because of the unique deep-sea submarine mask, the Prince of Wales couldn't recognize her appearance, but he still said with certainty.

“That’s true, after all, he saved my life.” Although Yaton said this, he did not loosen the ropes at all.

"It has nothing to do with that. It's just that there's only one submarine that can be famous as a master thief, whether it's a ship girl or a deep-sea ship girl. There won't be any other ships." The Prince of Wales' words once again resulted in a splashing sound as people fell into the water. Even the usually calm Adun swayed and almost lost her balance.

"Ah!!? Could it be! Could it be, could it be that the ship girl who saved Your Highness was...that one?" Nelson seemed to suddenly remember something, her tone losing its usual composure.

"So it was her." Reputation, startled by Nelson's reaction, paused for a moment, then his expression darkened as he said, "I didn't expect her to become a member of the Deep Sea too?"

"What are you talking about? Stop speaking in riddles!" Ti said irritably, a little confused. And she wasn't the only one confused in the repair ditch. Everyone in Naval Base 666 and the young master of Naval Base 233 all had bewildered expressions, as if they were communicating in some secret code.

With Nelson and Renown's explanation, the bewildered crowd finally understood who the Prince of Wales was referring to as the legendary submarine ship girl.

A hero-class ship girl who, despite not having accomplished any great feats in the more than one hundred years since her birth, achieved legendary status solely through the act of theft, is the Fantasy Ship Girl Nautilus. Of course, it should now be called the Deep Sea Princess Nautilus.

Because of her many legendary deeds, there are even magazines in the ship girl community dedicated to compiling her stories into tales that challenge the ship girl community's imagination.

If it weren't for the high bounty on its body, which led to it being jointly wanted by various famous governor's offices, this hero submarine, which has achieved the most success in the fantasy ship girl series, might very well be a big star.

"Wowowo!" When Wo-chan heard the identity of the deep-sea submarine Princess, she sang a long "wo" to the ship girls in front of her, saying that even in the deep-sea faction, the elusive Nautilus was a legend.

"A legend indeed." It seems that Tii, who grew up watching the Nautilus adventures, knows the origin of this submarine, Princess. Gazing at the standard deep-sea ship equipment on the other side, Tii said with a strange sigh.

"Perhaps for her, it doesn't matter whether she becomes a deep-sea creature or not." After Wo-chan and Renown, two veteran ship girls from different factions, recounted the legendary story of the Nautilus thief from different perspectives, Adun, who had sketched out the image of a ship girl with a very neutral faction in her mind, said.

"She's the pride of our ship girls! Turning her into an Abyssal is an insult to her. It must have been a conspiracy by those Abyssal Sprites that caused her to fall into this state!" Nelson shouted in the tone of a brainless fan.

"Wowowowowo," wo-chan retorted in her own special language, seemingly quite dissatisfied with Nelson's words.

"I've seen your deep-sea ship girls' ways all the time. Your explanation is just a cover-up." Nelson, interpreting Wo-chan's words from her own perspective, had no idea that she had made a huge blunder.

"Ahem...Wo-chan said that the Nautilus is clearly the pride of the Abyssal Ship Girls, when did it become your ship girls' place to interfere...Wo-chan, please don't use foul language in the future, it's hard to translate. When did it become your ship girls' place to point fingers?"

Adon didn't translate what Wo-chan said about ship girls being mistresses, but saying that ship girls are mistresses of humans seems understandable... However, if we follow this line of reasoning, who are the human's legal wives? The Abyss?

"Huh? Since when did the Nautilus become the pride of your deep sea?" Upon hearing Adun's translation, Nelson realized that something was amiss.

“Wowowo!” (Isn’t she one now!) Wo-chan said without backing down.

"Stop arguing, just ask me." With that, Adun bent down and tapped the face of the deep-sea submarine Princess, which resembled the Nautilus, and said, "You can speak now."

Hearing that Adun had regained her ability to speak, the deep-sea submarine Princess, who had just discovered she could finally speak, blinked and said in a somewhat innocent tone:

“I am indeed the Nautilus, but none of the things you’re talking about… I haven’t done any of them.”

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Oops, I overslept.

Chapter 92 What She Knows and What She Has Forgotten

After a ship girl is sunk in battle, there is a certain chance that she will transform into an Abyssal Ship Girl.

Just like transformation, the higher one's own combat power, the greater the possibility of transformation.

For example, the head maid of Naval Base No. 233, after she tormented herself to the point of kneeling, is now developing her entire body towards the deep sea at a relentless pace.

If it weren't for Adun's help, the Immortal ship girl Renown would now be a newly formed deep-sea battlecruiser.

Unfortunately, this transformation is not an orderly modification. So far, the generally accepted method is that ship girls transform into deep-sea characters, and deep-sea characters lose all their memories during the transformation process.

Perhaps because this kind of soul-based transformation would damage these things, or perhaps because of the fundamental conflict, the memories of the past are simply discarded.

So whether you go from being a ship girl to an Abyssal Fleet member, or vice versa, it's basically like giving up everything from the past and starting a new journey in your ship life.

The only difference is that becoming a ship girl from a deep-sea character will result in an independent blank personality, but becoming a deep-sea character from a ship girl is not necessarily so lucky. You may start as a low-level deep-sea character with no self-awareness and only instincts.

Unfortunately, these generally accepted principles, though without a clear explanation, do not apply to the Nautilus, a submarine ship girl who has transformed from a hero-class ship to a princess.

Surrounded by the ship girls and under the subtle gaze of Adun, whose combat power far surpasses her own, Nautilus spilled everything she felt she should confess, showing no pride whatsoever as a deep-sea princess and a mobile calamity.

The legendary pirate ship girl Nautilus, even after becoming an Abyssal, did not lose her memories of when she was a ship girl.

Or rather, she believed that there was nothing missing from her memory, but when Nelson asked about several major events in which she did appear, this legendary pirate ship girl, who had already joined the Deep Sea faction, put on an expression as if she had no idea what she had done.

Even the Prince of Wales, with whom she had once saved her life and spent a long time, was treated as if she didn't recognize him and asked, "Who are you?"

She doesn't remember committing so many major incidents while robbing people, nor does she remember following the Northern Princess and picking up a glorious ship's equipment that was destroyed and fell from a Hero-class ship.

“But why can you remember following the Northern Princess, but not what you did following that Princess?” Nelson asked, somewhat unable to accept it.

"What do you mean I don't remember? I didn't do any of the things you're talking about. I don't even know this big-wave one-eyed dragon. All I remember is that following behind that little deep-sea girl was the most comfortable time of my life."

As she recounted her experiences, Nautilus, feeling somewhat relieved, showed signs of regaining her former dignity.