The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Yes, that's right. Captain Veneto practically monopolizes the trading market in the Caribbean, so she can be considered one of the richest ship girls in the naval base." Under Charlotte's persistent questioning, the revelation from Renown simply revealed everything at once.

"This...that..." Charlotte suddenly regretted using this method to force Reputation to reveal information. Curiosity really is humanity's original sin.

“Actually, young master, there’s no need to worry. Veneto didn’t force you,” Reputation added, seeing the young master’s panicked expression.

"But... isn't that... illegal?" Charlotte said, trying to calm herself down.

“Indeed, if this matter reaches the master, Captain Veneto will certainly be put in solitary confinement.” Reputation acknowledged that Veneto’s actions had indeed violated the law.

"That's all? Hey, that's a very serious crime, isn't it?" Tidu asked incredulously when she heard that it was just solitary confinement.

"Imposing confinement on the main force ship girls of the Eastern Pacific Theater Admiral's Naval Base is a very serious punishment," Reputation said matter-of-factly.

"Huh? Could it be... Charlotte, doesn't your father care?" Ti was a little confused when she received such an answer.

This storyline is different from what we were promised. What happened to the cute and adorable ship girls who were supposed to be as courageous as Kogan? Why did the art style suddenly change so much?

“Actually, it’s nothing serious. Young Master, you should act like your master.” Reputation sighed as he looked at his equally bewildered young master.

"You mean... Vivi got my dad's tacit approval for doing this?" Charlotte still couldn't accept that her childhood playmate had such a dark past.

No, this isn't just a dark history anymore. Judging from the reputation, it seems like Vivi has been doing this all along. This is practically a cover-up.

"The Admiral's mission is to safeguard the peace of the Eastern Pacific and defend against attacks from the Southern Deep Sea Fleet." Reputation, without directly answering the young master's question, offered this explanation.

Having roughly guessed what was going on, Tidus shifted her gaze to her secretary ship, Adun, who was standing beside her, staring intently at Adun.

"Admiral, what kind of look is that?" Adun, who hadn't joined the conversation, asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Adon, would you do that kind of thing?" Tidu asked hesitantly.

"What kind of thing?" Aydon's sense of inexplicable confusion intensified, and she even considered checking if her admiral had eaten too much tiger shark meat and was suffering from an allergic reaction, fever, or cold.

"It's that kind of... that kind of... illegal thing," Ti said, not knowing how to describe it.

"Illegal? Who made the law?" Adon asked, finally understanding what the ship girl from Naval Base 233 and Ti had been talking about.

"It's that law." Seeing Adun's expression, Ti felt an urge to compile a complete encyclopedia of human federal law.

"Oh, you mean that? It's nothing, as long as the law enforcers don't mind." Adun sorted out the conversation between the admirals and ship girls and expressed her opinion.

"So, you'll be doing these things too, Adun?" Tidu said, feeling that Adun's somewhat imposing image was crumbling.

"If it's your order, I'll go through fire and water without hesitation. If you're not interested, why would I bother?" Although he understood what they were talking about, Adon still didn't quite understand why Tidu reacted this way.

"Oh...that's good, that's good." Ti patted her chest and said, seemingly unsure of what to do.

Renown wasn't surprised by Adun's reaction. As a ship girl, even a second-generation ship girl, she could understand the relationship between the ship girl summoned by the admiral from the construction machine and the admiral.

If an admiral wants to destroy the world and become the villainous big boss for various reasons, the next-generation ship girls who join his command may have some concerns and dilemmas.

However, the first generation of ship girls summoned by this admiral were all giving their admiral advice on how to destroy the world more conveniently and quickly.

This strange feeling, akin to blind loyalty, is still largely present in the Renown, which directly inherited the ship equipment of the first generation of ship girls, not to mention those first generation ship girls who were directly summoned.

Fortunately, thanks to the united front that has lasted for hundreds of years, and the lack of reproductive barriers, humans and ship girls, who have been together since they were on the verge of extinction, can be considered to be the same species.

Few admirals would be so idle as to want to destroy the world. Even if they were, some ship girls who discovered that their admiral was just giving up on himself because he couldn't change his African heritage would just give him a good whack to wake him up.

Speaking of this, we must mention some ideological conflicts between admirals and ship girls in the human camp.

In the eyes of most admirals, the relationship between an admiral and a ship girl in a naval base is like that between an officer and a soldier. Although there is a concept of superior and subordinate, they are actually soldiers serving together, just with a better relationship than that of ordinary soldiers.

Furthermore, these elves who inherited and possessed the ship equipment of those former maritime hegemons were all women, and their behavior often showed that their emotions overwhelmed their rationality, making many admirals feel that they were too precious to handle.

Many ship girls, however, feel that they should be weapons in the admiral's hands, sharp blades in his hands. Instead of using them properly like a weapon, they show excessive concern, which makes the ship happy, but it's strange.

This subtle mentality was especially prevalent among the first-generation ship girls who were directly created by the admiral.

Learning how to correct the mindset of one's own ship girls who don't see themselves as human is a required course for every admiral.

This is undeniably a very sad thing, especially in the eyes of some conspiracy theorists.

What happened to the National Strategic Defense, Attack, and Logistics Support Bureau that was supposed to control these powerful creatures from behind the scenes? Don't the humans of this world have any sense of crisis about being replaced?

It can only be said that the current state of the world is not suitable for people who believe in conspiracy theories.

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How can you guys be so dirty-minded... Sister Li from Naval Base No. 233 works in pharmaceuticals. The plot of the next volume is related to her story before she became a ship girl. The stories of Veneto and Washington haven't been written into the outline yet. As for Renown, she's more like a shadow agent.

Chapter 131 The World We Once Fought Together

Perhaps initially, some humans felt threatened by the ship girls' unscientific abilities and wanted to completely control these super weapons from certain angles... The dustbin of history can attest to the fate of these people.

It wasn't that the ship girls discovered this situation and rebelled. In fact, the ship girls have always had a lot of goodwill towards their creators, humans. In the early days, these ship girls fully understood the humans' thoughts and actively cooperated.

In the eyes of these elves who have always regarded themselves as weapons of humanity, it is only natural for humans to treat the weapons they have created in this way.

Some very responsible ship girls even feel that their emotional thinking is affecting their ability as weapons, and thus voluntarily accept what a small group of humans call brainwashing education.

Unfortunately, humanity didn't have many opportunities for the story to develop to the point where the characters were too evil, and the ship girls finally woke up and rebelled against humanity's tyranny.

Because when the first ship girl, transformed from a sunken deep-sea vessel, joined the human ranks, humanity was already on the verge of extinction.

Back then, there were no admirals, no so-called construction machines, and none of the various unscientific miniaturized resources we have now.

In that time when they faced the possibility of extinction at any moment, the remaining humans in their shattered homeland squeezed out everything they could to serve the elves who might bring them a glimmer of hope.

Just like the war hundreds of years ago when humans killed each other, thousands or tens of thousands of people served a single warship, only now the objects of their service were a group of beautiful ship girls.

The reason for doing everything in our power is simply to enable these ship girls to face the terrifying deep sea in a better manner.

Even so, in the early days, when facing the deep sea, an enemy that never accepted negotiation or surrender, and whose sole purpose was to kill and exterminate humanity.

The strength of the human ship girl faction, which can only increase the number of ship girls by sinking deep-sea ships and gambling on fate, seems somewhat insignificant.

Every day, ship girls are sunk in battle, and every day, human shelters are destroyed.

This life, where death could come at any moment, forged a strong bond between the original ship girls and the humans of that time, a bond that seemed completely different from that between different species.

Later, it was discovered that the hybrid offspring of humans and ship girls could not only greatly enhance their physical abilities, but the female members could also inherit ship equipment and become ship girls.

Most importantly, these new humans, whose bloodlines incorporate both human and ship girl genes (if ship girls also have genes), have a very, very small chance of awakening a special ability that can increase the power of ship girls.

Those who possessed this ability became the first admirals after the initial battle. With the admirals' special abilities, they jointly researched and invented the completely unscientific construction device through ship girls and humans.

The battle between the two sides gradually shifted from a struggle for survival to a back-and-forth exchange, and finally to the current situation of dividing the world into separate domains.

When humans and ship girls finally breathed a sigh of relief, they found that there was not much difference between them anymore, and even the situation of "those who are not of our kind must have different intentions" could not occur. This was indeed disappointing to some conspiracy theorists.

However, this symbiotic relationship does not mean that Veneto can remain calm after he learns that Prestige has revealed his secrets to the young master.

Seeing that the young master was no longer looking at him with the same eyes he used when he was a childhood friend, Veneto sighed and said, "Young master, are you very disappointed?"

I'm disappointed that you always treated me like a playmate, when in fact I'm dark inside and out.

"There must be some unspeakable reason why you did those things, Vivi." Charlotte really didn't know how to look at Veneto, who had been playing with her since childhood.

In fact, what Veneto did wasn't anything heinous; roughly speaking, it was just a transaction.

But no matter what, smuggling goods and acting as a human trafficker were illegal acts even hundreds of years ago, let alone now.

“There’s no reason I was forced to do this, I just want to make money.” Veneto’s words shattered the young master’s illusions, leaving him with a “what’s the use” attitude.

"Sigh, but... but, but isn't this illegal?" Charlotte couldn't understand why Veneto would so confidently admit to what he had done.

"So, young master, do you intend to arrest me?" Veneto said, his blood-red pupils glaring at the head maid standing behind Charlotte.

Don't pretend to be enjoying the scenery and I don't know it was you who said that. Your shady dealings are no less than mine, okay? I'll expose your dark history to the young master in a bit.

Seemingly noticing Veneto's gaze, Reputation looked up at Veneto before lowering his head back to look at the ground.

"Ha... Of course not, I'm just wondering why you didn't tell me before, Vivi, you kept it from me... Hey? Vivi, what's wrong with you? Why are you sweating so much?"

Charlotte, speechless after being silenced by Veneto's words, scratched her head in a rather unladylike manner. Just as she was about to declare that she was on the same side as Veneto, she saw the ship girl who had grown up with her looking terrified.

"Wow, Reputation, you've become so amazing!" The vanguard, who had been eyeing Adun since landing, exclaimed in surprise after noticing what was happening.

"That couldn't have been an illusion, could it?" Richelieu, who had been focused on the small campfire in the harbor, also noticed the sudden change in Reputation's aura.

"What's wrong, everyone? What happened? Vanguard, don't be so rude!" Charlotte, not understanding what was going on, quickly pulled Vanguard away from Adun to prevent this space ship girl with explosive combat power from having any unpleasantness.

"Young Master, I was just checking to see if that ship girl was a ship girl or an admiral. She seems different from normal ship girls." The vanguard, who had never seen Adun unleash her power, tapped his cane and said with dissatisfaction.

"The Headmaster is both a ship girl and an admiral," Head Maid Renown answered Vanguard's question.

"Huh? Ship girls can become admirals too?" This was the common sentiment of the second wave of visitors to Naval Base No. 233.

"Eugen-o!" Of course, there's also one that's deliberately being cute.

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Originally, Adun's first blood test ship was the one-eyed pirate Macri, but later, I thought the Paladin girl who liked to rob and shout slogans was also pretty good.

However, when I was brainstorming details for the next volume, I wanted to create a unique ship girl who could interact more with all sorts of random passersby.

Since mass-produced ship girls like Macri and Paladin lack unique features, I'll... reveal some spoilers.

Therefore, the storyline involving Markri and Paladin was temporarily put on hold.

Chapter 132 Detachable Pot

As expected, the most important question is why a ship girl named Adun became an admiral. Perhaps he was too preoccupied with this question, or perhaps he hadn't quite come to his senses. When Adun dragged out the two Abyssal ship girls, Wo-chan and Kobei, to introduce them as her own ship girls...

Among the second wave of reinforcement ship girls from Naval Base No. 233, neither the flagship Veneto, the vanguard ship Vanguard, nor the firepower ship Richelieu expressed any opinion.

It seems that those two mortal enemies, the deep-sea ship girls, are just ordinary passerby ships. The most important question for them now is to figure out why a ship girl named Adun became an admiral.

"Are you sure she's not some indescribable creature disguised as a ship girl?" Vanguard's words were immediately met with a slap from Reputation.

"Is it really that exaggerated for a ship girl to be an admiral?" Adun, who was following behind her admiral as a secretary ship just like Renown, asked curiously.

“Mmm, mmm, mmm,” Richelieu and Prince Eugen, unaware that Adun had done even more outrageous things, kept nodding in agreement, indicating that these were indeed outrageous things.

"What's her way of speaking?" Adun noticed a ship girl constantly saying "Eugen-ou" and assumed she used a completely different language system than the other ship girls, just like Wo-chan. She asked curiously.

"That's just Prince Eugen's way of speaking," the head maid said, indicating that the Master was overthinking it.

“Eugen?” Prince Eugen, a mischievous grin spreading across his face, asked again when someone mentioned his manner of speaking.

"Wo?" Following beside Adun, Wo-chan, who had just been introduced by Adun, noticed that some ship girls were using language different from the normal ship girls. Thinking that she had found a companion, she also said "Wo."

“Eugen!?” Prince Eugen was a little surprised that he didn’t feel any hostility towards the deep-sea aircraft carrier, and curiously exclaimed.