The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"It's not so much that she dislikes it, but rather that this style restricts her too much." As the admiral who signed with Wo-chan, Ayton was well aware of the changes Wo-chan had undergone.

"Restrictions? Restrictions on combat power?" Charlotte asked, equally interested.

"That's part of the reason. If Wo-chan's combat power was a 10 before, then her current combat power is only between one and three," Adon replied after analyzing Wo-chan's combat power.

"Huh, isn't that even worse than me?" Rodney, who was the weakest of the 233 naval base ship girls present, asked.

“Wo-chan is a colonel-level deep-sea warrior. Even if she only has one-tenth of that strength, she should be able to sink you,” Rodney’s sister, Nelson, retorted.

“Well, if this deep-sea aircraft carrier really was a deep-sea captain before, even if it only has one-tenth of its combat strength left, it would be enough to give us a hard time unless we get close to it,” Veneto said with a serious expression.

"Oh, I see. Then, Adun, hurry up and turn Wo-chan back to normal." Although Wo-chan is a deep-sea carrier, since Wo-chan has already signed a contract with Adun, Tidu still considers Wo-chan as a combat force of her own naval base.

"Not for now. I plan to let Wo-chan get used to this form," said Ardon, who had no intention of turning Wo-chan back.

"Huh? What are you planning to do, Yaton?" Tidu asked, somewhat surprised.

"Didn't you tell me to register as an admiral in a few days? I don't think you can just do that here," Ardon retorted.

“Of course, whether it’s the Eastern Pacific Theater or the Western Pacific Theater, registration as an admiral must be done at the Central Academy.” Tidu nodded in agreement with Ayton’s statement.

"So I plan to bring Wo-chan with me when I register as an admiral," Adon said, expressing his opinion.

"Huh? Wo-chan is a deep-sea ship girl, aren't you afraid of being blown to smithereens by those old ship crews if you just take her there?" Ti couldn't understand Adon's idea.

"If this were your first time seeing Wo-chan, would you still think she looks like a deep-sea ship girl?" Yaton asked Tidu, glancing at Wo-chan who was engrossed in eating aluminum bars.

"It seems so. No wonder you said you wanted Wo-chan to get used to her current state, Adun." Tidu couldn't find any trace of the Deep Sea Ship Girl in the current Wo-chan, and said hesitantly, "But why do I still want to report you to the Military Police?"

"Why?" Now it was Adun's turn to be confused about his admiral's thoughts.

"I have a feeling you're going to do something bad, like secretly taking Colonel Deep Sea into the core area of ​​the Pacific Theater to cause trouble or something," Tidu said, looking at Adon, who was about to take Wo-chan to the Central Academy, with a strange look in her eyes.

"What good would it do me to do those things? Or is it an order from you?" Adon wouldn't bother with anything that was neither an order nor beneficial.

“Didn’t you always say you wanted to join the Deep Sea? Isn’t this a great pledge of allegiance?” Tidu said, already convinced that Adun would definitely cause trouble.

"..." What kind of refuge? The nearby deep-sea forces have already defected, how am I supposed to go and join them? Adun felt immense pressure from her admiral's wild imagination, and glanced at the somewhat bewildered Charlotte, saying:

"I have this feeling that even if I cause trouble, as long as I reveal that I am the admiral, the people there will think it's perfectly normal."

"Hey! What you said is absolutely intolerable! Come on, show your weapons, I want to fight you one-on-one!" Tidu, who was stunned by Adon's unexpected words, immediately pulled out his butt and said.

"Calm down, boss, calm down." Charlotte quickly pulled Tidu aside and said, "Besides, what Adon said is right. We are all registered with the military police."

At least Charlotte remembered that the big sister who used to cause trouble with him was now in the same filing cabinet as the Deep Sea Princess, put by the military police.

"Xia, you little brat, you're siding with outsiders! Today I'm going to act on behalf of Heaven and punish this traitor!" the head of the Tidus gang roared as Charlotte hugged her.

"I'm doing this for your own good, boss. You can't beat Adon!" Charlotte quickly snatched the PG from Tidu's hand, not having time to dwell on why Tidu considered Adon an outsider.

"..." Upon hearing Charlotte say that she couldn't beat Adun, Tidu suddenly stopped in her tracks, not even noticing that her innate treasure, PG, had been taken away.

"I can't beat Adun, I can't beat Adun, I can't beat Adun." Tidu, who started drawing circles on the table, looked quite pitiful.

"..." Seeing Tidu's reaction, Adon just wanted to say, is it really that big of a deal? Even if she wasn't a starship girl, but just an ordinary destroyer, it would still be quite embarrassing to be defeated by her own admiral.

"Young Master and Tidu have such a good relationship," Rodney remarked awkwardly, watching the scene unfold.

Veneto and Richelieu simultaneously turned to Richelieu, who had spoken those words, their eyes conveying, "You call this a good relationship? Are you kidding me?"

“Eugen Eugen…” Prince Eugen stared blankly at the Gothic-style ceiling of the hall.

☆, Chapter 150: The Origin of Wo-chan

"Young master, I'm back." Just when Tidu had almost turned Charlotte, who dared to steal her butt, into a mosaic, the head maid's voice saved her young master.

“Renowned, you’ve come at the right time. You’re very knowledgeable. Take a look and see which ship this is from the first generation of Essex.” Richelieu said as he saw Renowned approaching.

"Essex?" Renown, slightly surprised, turned his gaze to the Essex version of Wo-chan. As if he'd seen something, Renown's pupils suddenly contracted, and he asked, "Is this Wo-chan?"

"Huh? You recognized Reputation right away? How did you recognize him?" Rodney asked in surprise.

"It's just a gut feeling." Renown was too embarrassed to admit that he had just witnessed a deep-sea ship girl transform into a ship girl right in front of him.

"When did you start researching the sixth sense, Reputation?" Avant-garde recognized Reputation's Essex version of Wo-chan at a glance and said as if he had seen a ghost.

"Just now..." Clearly, the head maid's reputation didn't intend to discuss this topic any further.

"Do you remember which of the original Essex ships sank in this area?" Since Reputation didn't want to say more, the Prince of Wales asked the question that everyone wanted to ask.

"Around here?" Reputation recalled for a moment and said, "No, there's no original Essex shipwrecked in this coastal area?"

"Are you sure?" The Prince of Wales was somewhat dissatisfied with this answer.

“Since it was Reputation who said it, then it definitely isn’t.” For some reason, Veneto strongly supported Reputation’s words.

"Is it possible that Wo-chan was sunk in battle elsewhere and was later abducted by the nearby Deep Sea Princess?" Richelieu asked, considering one possibility.

"Theoretically, no. If Wo-chan was transformed after the sinking of the first Essex ship, she would be immediately captured by the Abyssal Princess who sank her. And each Abyssal Princess has a fixed territory. The only way to change territories is through war."

The Prince of Wales refuted Richelieu's words with what she knew.

“It’s also possible that it wasn’t the Deep Sea Princess that sank it?” Rodney asked.

"Besides the Deepsea Princess, what other Deepsea ship girl could sink the first generation of a legendary ship girl, Essex?" The Prince of Wales's words silenced all the ship girls.

“No, it did happen.” The Prince of Wales’ words seemed to remind him of something, and the head maid, Renown, suddenly spoke up.

"What did you say, Renown?" Upon hearing what the head maid, Renown, said, all the ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 looked at their head maid.

"Indeed, there was a Hero-class first-generation Essex shipgirl who wasn't sunk in battle against the Deep Sea Princess." As Renown spoke, he kept staring at the Essex version of Wo-chan, trying to glean something from her.

"Was that many years ago?" Prince of Wales, unable to find the original Essex ship girl in his memory, directly pulled the timeline back to the first battle. According to the battle situation at that time, it was possible for a hero-class ship girl to be surrounded and killed by a bunch of ordinary deep-sea ships.

"That happened in the last few decades." Reputation's voice became somewhat calm.

"The last few decades? Then why is there no record of them?" the Prince of Wales asked in surprise.

"Because that's not something worth recording." Finally, Renown's gaze settled on the side armor plating of the Essex version of Wo-chan, seeing the four already blurred "正" characters next to the number 9 that represented CV-9's identity, as well as a "正" character that was still missing a stroke.

"What happened back then?" Veneto suddenly asked.

"Back then? What back then?" Vanguard, a newly recruited ship girl from Naval Base No. 233, asked with a puzzled look.

In fact, it wasn't just the avant-garde who were baffled; even the relatively senior Prince of Wales, the Veneto and Rodney Nelson sisters, were completely bewildered.

"What's wrong? Renown, do you know Wo-chan?" Charlotte asked curiously, seeing Renown's reaction.

"No, it's nothing, maybe I remembered wrong." Reputation suddenly changed his tune after turning his gaze away.

"Wo?" After finishing the aluminum bar, Wo-chan felt a little uncomfortable under the gaze of the reputation and uttered a "wo".

"Continue." Ardon, having pulled out a few more aluminum bars, glanced subtly between Wo-chan and Reputation before finally settling on Charlotte.

It seems that Wo-chan had quite a story in her past life. Recalling the crazy way Reputation looked when she first met him, Adun thought to herself.

Hyperion, who also witnessed this scene, whistled and said, "What is this? What am I seeing? An eight o'clock drama... Ouch, that hurts."

Before Hyperion could finish speaking, she was punched in the stomach by Adun, who had appeared beside her at some point. Not used to abdominal muscle stimulation, Hyperion immediately collapsed onto the table, barely able to breathe.

"Um, Xia, could it be that Wo-chan used to be your family's?" Even the most clueless person like Tidu could sense that something was amiss and asked in a low voice.

"I...I don't know either. I don't remember having any aircraft carrier ship girls at home," Charlotte asked, sensing the slightly awkward atmosphere.

"Thinking about it now, it's really strange. Your dad was a general, so why didn't he have any aircraft carrier ship girls under his command?" The general asked, somewhat puzzled, recalling the legend of Charlotte's father.

"I don't know, and I rarely see my dad use the builder," Charlotte said earnestly, worried that she would turn into a mosaic.

Through the conversation between Tidu and Charlotte, the reaction of Renown just now, and Veneto's mention of "back then", the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 present all understood one thing.

"Wo-chan, you used to be a ship girl in our naval base?" Rodney asked in an incredulous tone.

"This seems a bit too much." The Prince of Wales wanted to take a sip to calm his nerves, but found that the whiskey he had just taken out had somehow fallen to the ground again.

"Are you sure about the reputation?" Veneto, who only vaguely knew about the past events at Naval Base 233, asked again.

When asked about Veneto, Reputation chose to remain silent; her silence was tantamount to acknowledging the matter.

"There's a traitor among us?" Vanguard had barely finished speaking when Richelieu kicked him out of the room with a spinning kick.

“Because I’m a newcomer, I won’t offer any opinions,” Richelieu, who kicked the avant-garde forward, was the first to state his position.

“To meet a ship girl who was once a comrade-in-arms again, but now on a different side, I thought this kind of plot could only be seen on TV,” Nelson said calmly.

Although this statement is not entirely accurate, most of the ship girls present at Naval Base No. 233, apart from Renown, have not actually experienced the past events.

However, seeing Essex version of Wo-chan intently eating aluminum bars, the hearts of all the ship girls still felt like a spilled fuel tank.

Chapter 151: A True Prime-Time Drama Plot

"Let's get this straight, even if Wo-chan used to be your ship girl, I won't give her back to you, not even if your dad comes to ask for her back," Tidu said, setting the stage from the outset.

"Um, even if Wo-chan used to be my dad's ship girl, she's an Abyssal ship girl now." Charlotte quickly waved her hand to clear herself of suspicion.

"Hmm, men really are all the same, starting something and then abandoning it." Tidu stared at Charlotte with a malicious look.

Charlotte, who was being stared at by Tidu, felt that her own ship girl's favorability was still dropping, so she quickly changed the subject and said, "Besides, Wo-chan is no longer your ship girl, Big Sister. She is Adun's ship girl now. Even if my dad comes, he will ask her for her."

"Ship girls should be the admiral's ship girls, right? Besides, I summoned Adun from the construction machine." Tidu said shamelessly.

“Ahem…” Yaton expressed his disagreement with this statement.

“Even if that’s what Adon thinks, Wo-chan wouldn’t agree, would she?” Charlotte said after glancing at Wo-chan.

"What's there to be afraid of? It's just a matter of having enough aluminum tubes. When I get the chance to go back to Central Academy, I'll take out my little treasure trove and raise ten... oh no, five Wo-chans shouldn't be a problem."

It seems that Wo-chan's big appetite has become deeply ingrained in people's minds, and even Ti, who has started her little savings account, doesn't dare to make such a boast.

“Cough cough cough…” Yaton continued to express his objection.

"Wo?" Upon hearing the words "enough aluminum tubes," the Essex version of Wo-chan glanced at Tidu, then at Ayton, before continuing to concentrate on eating the aluminum bar in her hand.

While Charlotte and Tidu were discussing Wo-chan, no one noticed that Head Maid Renown had her hand on her left earpiece.

Thousands of kilometers away, in the admiral's office of Naval Base No. 233, Charlotte's father, Admiral Xia Yuantang of the Eastern Pacific Theater, was lying in his chair, also holding a pair of headphones, staring at the spider building its nest in the corner of the ceiling with a look that seemed to be both nostalgic and regretful.

“Essex…” After a long silence, General Xia Yuantang relit his extinguished cigar, took a deep drag, and exhaled puffs of strangely shaped smoke as he spoke.

Lost in the flavorful cigar, his nostalgic gaze gradually became hazy, and a few tears appeared in the eyes of this general who was always known for his tough style.

"Can't you forget after all?" Xia Yuantang took a puff and stubbed out his cigar, then opened the bottom drawer of his desk and rummaged through a pile of clutter to find a key, a key that, even if well preserved, could not hide the erosion of time.

After looking at the key for a while, Xia Yuantang walked from his desk to his own portrait, lifted the scroll, and saw the safe behind it that had already been opened. He smiled bitterly and said, "I told you that hiding it here was useless. Those girls are good at everything, but they're all excellent at finding things."