The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Wo?" (How would I know?) I've sunk so many ship girls, Wo-chan thought for a moment and didn't say the second half of the sentence that might cause public outrage.

"Why don't we sink Xiao Bei and see what kind of ship girl she becomes?" Tidus, who had been thinking for a long time, came up with a terrible idea.

"Lady Tidu, the chances of a ship girl becoming an Abyssal, or an Abyssal ship girl transforming into a ship girl, are very low." Seeing Tidu's eager expression, the head maid, Renown, had to remind her, "And even if the transformation is successful, after losing all memories, she will actually be a different ship girl."

"Hey, even if you're my admiral, if you really think that way, I'll consider it a declaration of war against me." Ardon, who hadn't expected his admiral to think that way, immediately retorted.

"Ah, just kidding, I was just joking." Tidu, feeling a little stiff under the dangerous gaze of her blood-testing ship girl, quickly laughed it off.

“However… I could research how to transform a deep-sea creature into a ship girl without harming its soul.” After saying that, Adon looked at Xiao Bei with the eyes of someone looking at an experimental subject.

In an instant, the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 recalled the method of treatment that Adun had proposed when Renown was on the verge of death (or rather, already dead), in which she would protect Renown's soul and allow Renown's body to complete the transformation into the deep sea.

This time, even though the object has been changed to Xiao Bei, only the order has changed; essentially, there shouldn't be any difference.

“However, there is still a difference. When Reputation was destroyed, she was already transforming into a deep-sea character.” Adun, who could not explain the power of the world, continued, “If Xiao Bei were to come, I am not sure if she could transform into a ship girl again.”

Perhaps it was due to the approval of the world's power, or the fulfillment of some condition, that if Adun had not intervened, Renown would have begun to develop in the direction of becoming an Abyssal Ship Girl.

If we apply this change to Xiao Bei, Adun cannot make a 100% guarantee. Without sufficient empirical evidence, Adun still cannot provide a reasonable explanation for the mutual transformation between deep-sea ship girls and ship girls.

"No, I don't want to be a ship girl. You all look so rosy-cheeked, like you're about to die. I don't want to become sickly like you."

Xiao Bei perfectly demonstrated through her words and actions what it means that different species can't possibly have the same aesthetic views.

In the eyes of the abyssal ship girls, whose dominant color is pale and withered, the vibrant human ship girls are no different from those who have a serious illness.

Since the topic had shifted to Kobei's identity as a ship girl, Rodney's question, "But it still doesn't explain why Kobei can make diamond-shaped rice cakes," became less important.

At least we have to act like it's not that important, right...? That's what the head maid, who covered her sister's mouth in Nelson's place, said.

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☆ Chapter 106 Go to Sleep (Fourth Update)

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The noisy and eventful welcoming ceremony ended after everyone finished their late-night snack. Although it was unclear why the ship girls needed to sleep, after that time, everyone from Tidu to Kokang, including the deep-sea ship girls, said it was time to sleep.

For the Protoss, whose rest means immersing their minds in the light of the Khala, the idea of ​​sleepiness is not so clear to Adun.

So when he saw that Adon was still full of energy, Tidu, who was yawning one after another, simply ordered Adon to take the night watch.

Although she felt it was unnecessary, Adun still accepted her admiral's order and cleaned up her aircraft carrier dormitory, which she had only lived in for a few days, and gave it to Wo-chan. Xiao Bei, whose identity had just been questioned, also moved in.

After all, no matter what Xiao Bei's identity was in her past life, she is still an Abyssal ship girl in this life. If she is made to live in the heavy cruiser dormitory, what will happen if she is not used to it when new heavy cruiser ship girls join in the future?

Compared to the four-ship dormitories for heavy cruisers, aircraft carriers and battleships, being older sister ship girls, are all in standard one-ship-one-room dormitories. This is also to accommodate some of their sister ships, such as Lexington Saratoga, Bismarck North Carolina, and Nelson Rodney.

The dormitories for aircraft carriers and battleship girls, built according to naval standards, are constructed to the size of two single-ship compartments. Compared to the large, open-plan dormitories for destroyers and light cruisers, or the four-compartment dormitories for heavy cruisers and battlecruisers, they are much larger.

Although it wasn't as luxurious as the mansion of the Deep Sea Colonel, the Fleet Commander-in-Chief, which he lived in the deep sea, Wo-chan was still quite satisfied.

Judging from the meaning expressed by wo酱's string of wowowo words, for this former deep-sea captain, as long as there are enough aluminum pipes, living conditions and such are all minor issues.

Xiao Bei was a little unaccustomed to the decorating style of the human ship girl faction, but with Ya Dun's veto, she didn't dare to do any post-decoration work on the room, which was completely incompatible with the Deep Sea faction's decorating style.

"What's the rush? Once we have enough resources, I'll build you a place that will far exceed your wildest imaginations," Adun reassured you.

Unfortunately, upon hearing Yaton's words, Xiao Bei glanced at Wo-chan, who was lying on the bed still chewing aluminum tablets, and stared at her admiral with an eye that seemed to say, "You have Wo-chan, yet you still expect to have enough resources."

"Ahem, so what if Wo-chan can eat a lot? Besides, my Protoss don't use aluminum to build houses. Let me see if there are any suitable blueprints. Hmm, this style called Exodar Residential Area is pretty good."

With a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, Yaton felt a bit tempted to make some changes to Wo-chan's diet. It would be best if he could reduce Wo-chan's appetite.

Having calmed down Wo-chan and Kobei by relying on the admiral's authority, Chief Adon began to fulfill his duties as the night watchman... oh no, the night watch ship.

“The long night is coming, and I will begin my watch from this moment on…” Saying these strange words, Adun carried a fish to the cave launch channel of Temporary Naval Base No. 666.

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about? It's almost dawn, okay? What do you mean by 'the long night is coming'?" Nautilus, still unable to escape its fate of being tied up like a salted fish and dragged around by Adun, said.

"Huh, is it dawn already? I didn't know." After glancing at the still star-studded sky and calculating the planet's rotation speed, Adun tossed her third ship girl aside and continued:

"As a ship girl, don't you know how to respect your admiral? Look how much I respect my admiral."

"Why can't I tell at all?" If Adun hadn't admitted it herself, Nautilus really wouldn't have been able to tell that the somewhat airheaded half-ship girl was actually Adun's admiral.

Judging from how Adun treats Tidu, it's more believable that they are a pair of bickering lovers who love each other but kill each other, rather than just admiral ship girls.

"Ahem, who was it that swore in my mental network that they would listen to me from now on? Judging from your reaction now, I seriously doubt the validity of your oath." Adun gave Nautilus an attitude that said if he continued to be so blind, he would throw him back into the Light of Kara.

"No! I surrender! I admit my mistake, I'm sorry, sir, please spare my life." Nautilus, the most cowardly princess in history, has never failed to live up to her nickname.

Ignoring the Nautilus's pleas for mercy, Adun leaned against a pile of ammunition boxes, crossed his arms, and gazed at the starry sky and sea outside the sortie canal.

"Admiral... could you help me untie myself?" After begging for mercy for a while and finding that Adun was not responding, Nautilus stopped its slightly exaggerated movements somewhat awkwardly.

"Oh?" After glancing at Nautilus, the most unreliable of his three subordinates, with his pale blue pupils, Adun did nothing. The enhanced psionic ropes binding Nautilus emitted a blue light and then dissipated like air.

"Wow, this is good stuff." Standing up, Nautilus touched herself and then the ground, unable to find the psionic ropes that had bound her. With eyes like she'd found a treasure, she asked her admiral, "How much is this thing worth? Where can I buy it? Free shipping if you buy it through a proxy?"

“…” After giving the Nautilus a cold look, which had once again pushed the limits of his unreliability, Adun once again used his psionic energy to condense a rope in the air in front of him.

The way the rope twists and turns against the nautilus conveys the message that if this deep-sea princess utters another nonsensical word, she should be prepared to become a couch potato again.

"I was wrong. I shouldn't have coveted the Admiral's treasure. Admiral, please forgive me." Nautilus practically prostrated itself in surrender.

It's quite remarkable that Nautilus could become a legendary ship girl. Adun couldn't understand why Nautilus, who was still a ship girl before becoming an Abyssal, would launch such a fearless charge against the Northern Princess. Would changing one's faction also change one's personality so much?

Actually, this was a misunderstanding by Adun. Adun did not expect that the Nautilus would adopt such a undignified and cowardly attitude in front of him, entirely because Adun's previous casual fishing behavior had frightened the Nautilus.

To some extent, Nautilus has already regarded Adun as a ship girl as powerful as, or even more powerful than, Northern Princess. It's not a big mistake to be a little timid in front of such a ship girl.

"Um... Admiral, where is my room?" After a moment of silence, Nautilus, who was also feeling sleepy, asked.

"You want to sleep too?" Adon looked at him with an expression that said, "Even the Deep Sea Princess wants to sleep? I just don't believe it."

"...Abyssal Princess is also a ship girl, why... Ah, I was wrong, I'm sorry." Nautilus's voice had barely risen a little when she saw that rope she both loved and hated reappear before her eyes (why did she love it??).

"Just go to sleep if you want to," Ardon said casually.

"...But what about the rooms?" The Nautilus looked around and found that there were no suitable rooms for sleeping in the sortie canal.

"This is it. Don't you like this place? We first met here, didn't we?" Adun gestured with his eyes that this sortie channel was the room prepared for the Nautilus.

"...So...so we have to sleep on the floor?" Nautilus said, taking out a sleeping bag from her ship equipment space, filling it with water from the sortie channel, and stuffing herself in, looking quite skilled at it.

"Do you need the lights turned off?" Seeing Nautilus's wry smile, Adun, who had been joking with him the whole time, couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that becoming a legendary thief came at a price.

"Hmph..." Nautilus, who had tied herself up like a wet salted fish in her sleeping bag, turned around and snorted to express her complaint that as the Deep Sea Princess, she didn't even have a bedroom.

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Chapter 107 The Deep Sea Princess

Perhaps because of the many things that had happened before, or perhaps because the environment was not suitable for sleeping, Nautilus, wrapped in a sleeping bag and sleeping on the floor, tossed and turned and couldn't get a good night's sleep.

Just when Nautilus finally had a chance to drift off to sleep and chat with the Duke of Zhou (a figure in Chinese mythology associated with dreams), it was startled awake by its own wildly imaginative nightmare.

Regardless of the location or background, these nightmares all depict Adun treating the Nautilus like an experimental subject, slicing it up again and again.

"Huh? What's going on?" Nautilus woke up and immediately realized that something was wrong. She had just been lying on the ground wrapped in a water-filled sleeping bag, but now she was hanging from a beam by a very familiar rope.

No wonder the scene of being hung up and sliced ​​up by Adun appeared in my dream; it was a reflection of reality.

"Sleep peacefully and don't make a sound," Adun, who was chatting with a ship girl, said, glancing at the Nautilus, who was even having trouble sleeping.

"Who sleeps while suspended in a boat? I'm a submarine, not a bat." The Nautilus, realizing its sleeping bag was swaying from its struggles, quickly stopped moving.

"Then can you tell me why a submarine rolls around while it's sleeping?" Adun asked with a strange expression, recalling the Nautilus, which inexplicably rolled around on the ground after falling asleep.

"Ah, well... uh. Submarines are all round, you know..." The Nautilus was well aware of its bad sleeping posture, but how could it admit to losing its ship so badly?

"Oh, then why do you always roll into the water? If I wasn't sure you were sleeping, I would have thought you were trying to sneak away." Arden continued to complain about the Nautilus's sleeping posture.

This submarine, Princess, who has a bad sleeping habit, not only likes to roll around, but also instinctively rolls towards the sortie channel like a fish while sleeping.

"Hehe, hehe, I'm a submarine, isn't it normal for me to like rolling around in the water?" The Nautilus, blaming everything on its own ship type, said sheepishly, "If you think I can run away, then you might as well hang me."

After saying that, Nautilus hid in its water-filled sleeping bag like a hermit crab. It didn't matter if it slept hanging upside down, as long as it wasn't tied up like a salted fish.

"I didn't expect that a Nautilus would actually infiltrate this area." One of the ship girls talking to Adun was somewhat amused by the Nautilus's actions, reflecting on her accidental mistake.

“I think you don’t actually need to consider her as a Princess. At least compared to you, she’s weak.” Standing in front of Adun was the deep-sea Princess that had an unknown connection with Tidu, located in the waters near Naval Base No. 666.

If this scene of meeting in the dead of night were seen by the military police or the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, they would be suspected of treason.

"Aren't you afraid that your actions might cause some misunderstandings?" asked the Deep Sea Princess, who seemed to be concerned about someone else.

"What misunderstanding? I haven't done anything wrong," Adon said nonchalantly to the question posed by the Deep Sea Princess in front of her. "Even if someone misunderstands, I'm too lazy to explain to them."

Explaining it is a waste of time and can easily deepen misunderstandings in front of suspicious people, so it's better not to explain.

"That's good too." Deep Sea Princess said, seemingly pleased with something, "With a ship girl like you, I feel at ease."

"You mean taking care of Wo-chan and Xiao Bei?" Although she understood what the Deep Sea Princess in front of her was saying, she pretended not to understand and said, "Don't worry, I'm quite good at this kind of thing. It seems that no matter which world I'm in, I can't escape the task of being a babysitter."

"Um...yes, I'm entrusting these two to you. Also, tell them they can come back anytime if they miss home." The unknown Deep Sea Princess hadn't expected her words to be misinterpreted by Adon, so after covering up for herself, she simply went along with Adon's words.

"So, what you really meant was that you wanted me to take good care of my admiral, right?" Adon, who almost burst out laughing at the way Abyssal Princess was trying to cover up her misunderstanding, got straight to the point.

Abyssal Princess's face paled slightly after Yadun exposed her thoughts; a reaction from a ship girl would usually result in her face turning rosy.

Fortunately, this time the Deep Sea Princess, who was frightened by Adun's attack, came alone in her own ship. If she had brought her adjutant with her, the adjutant might have been executed by cannon fire on the way back after seeing his boss's expression.

Seeing Adon's confident expression, the Deep Sea Princess hesitated whether to reveal her relationship with Tidu.

Although ship girls summoned by the admiral are theoretically unlikely to betray their admiral, judging from Adun's behavior of almost causing the nearby deep-sea fleet to sound the highest alert, it is possible that Adun is one of the top-tier ship girls.

"Well, given that we're on opposing sides, I won't pry into your relationship with my admiral, and you don't need to force me." Noticing the other's hesitation, Adon reassured him before continuing:

"As for what you said, since she is my admiral, it is naturally my duty to serve her, and I can swear on this in the name of the firstborn son of God."

"The eldest son of God?" The Deep Sea Princess was somewhat bewildered by Adun's oath.

"Well, this is a tradition of my clan. You should know that my true form does not belong to this world." According to the technology of this world, they, who have not even crossed the Earth-Moon system, would not be able to build a spaceship that is hundreds of kilometers long.