The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"I didn't open any spatial anchoring field. Besides, that's just your human way of saying it," Adun said, looking completely innocent.

"Then how come I tripped and fell as soon as I tried to warp in?" Hyperion was very annoyed by Adun's blatant lie in broad daylight.

Upon hearing Hyperion's words, Adun lowered her head and glanced at the deck, and then all the ship girls present followed Adun's gaze.

All that could be seen was the leg that a Protoss Ark had just used to trip the Hyperion, still stuck there.

"..." Hyperion's face turned red, as if he had drunk too much alcohol.

At that moment, Hyperion felt that she wouldn't be able to hold her head up in the eyes of these naval ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 for at least several years.

"Let's just kill the ship and silence them," Hyperion said, scanning the surroundings with a threatening look. All the ship girls from Naval Base 233 whose gazes fell upon Hyperion, except for the head maid Renown whose expression didn't change much, all looked away, indicating that they hadn't seen anything.

Just as Hyperion was caught in a dilemma about whether or not to kill the ship to silence it, the IJN aircraft carrier finally emerged from its entanglement, popped the cork off the flask with a "pop," and gulped down several mouthfuls.

"Ha, that's more like it." The IJN carrier, his face slightly flushed, exhaled a puff of alcohol.

"This kind of wine can make you drunk?" The Hyperion, who had appeared beside the IJN aircraft carrier at some point, sniffed the faint smell of alcohol in the air and said with a hint of mockery.

"Of course, huh? Who are you? When did you get here?" He replied, then suddenly realized that Hyperion's appearance had been silent and immediately and skillfully drew an arrow from the quiver beside him and mounted it on his longbow.

Just as it was about to raise its weapon to aim, a slender arm pressed down on the longbow-shaped rigging, and a voice, both unfamiliar and intimately familiar to this IJN aircraft carrier, rang out:

"Given the difference in combat strength between you and the Hyperion, I suggest you don't act rashly."

"Admiral...?" Upon hearing this voice, the IJN carrier, her face instantly turning red as if she were truly drunk, hurriedly retracted her ship's equipment, straightened her clothes, and instantly transformed into a Japanese lady, the so-called Yamato Nadeshiko, bowing deeply to the source of the voice:

"Aircraft carrier, Kaga reporting for duty. Leave the air combat to me and...wait? Admiral, you're a ship girl too?"

The Japanese aircraft carrier ship girl named Kaga, while announcing her identity, noticed Adun, who was also standing on the water, out of the corner of her eye.

Surprised, even the most important opening lines between the ship girl and the admiral at their first meeting were changed to something else entirely.

My own admiral is a ship girl? A ship girl? Can a ship girl be an admiral? How could a ship girl be an admiral? But why is my own admiral a ship girl?

Kaga repeatedly confirmed that the aura of a ship girl that she sensed from Adun was definitely not an illusion.

Having already had a little alcohol, Kaga felt his thinking couldn't keep up with the changing world, and a string snapped in his brain.

"Did you scare her?" Hyperion looked at the sculpted Kaga and gave Adun a strange look.

Ardon responded by spreading his hands to indicate his innocence.

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Waaaaah, I've lost all confidence in life! Assassin's Creed is so hard to play.

☆, Chapter 187 It's better to forget

"Hey, snap out of it, snap out of it." Hyperion waved in front of the dazed Kaga, and seeing that the Japanese carrier didn't react, shrugged and said to Adun:

"It looks like you scared her. Should we give her a shock?"

"Ahem." Adon rolled his eyes at Hyperion, his voice carrying a hint of psionic energy that reached Kaga's ears.

To an outsider, it was just an ordinary cough, but with Adon's psychic power, it sounded like thunder in Kaga's ears, instantly bringing Kaga back to life, who seemed to be suffering from a soul separation disorder.

"Admiral... I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry." Realizing his lapse in composure, Kaga quickly bowed repeatedly to Adun, and also bowed several times to Hyperion.

As Yaton watched Kaga's practiced bowing movements, she thought that if a group of ship girls surrounded Kaga right now, she might bow to every single one of them from beginning to end.

"Wo?" Wo-chan, who had been hiding underwater watching, surfaced, seemingly wanting to enjoy the bow from the aircraft carrier girl.

"Deep? Deep sea? Admiral, run! I'll stop her!" As if it were an instinctive reaction, Kaga, who had only bowed halfway to Wo-chan before realizing something was wrong, rushed in front of Adon, drew his bow, and assumed an attack stance.

Then, just like before, he was pushed down by Adun.

"Admiral?" Kaga looked at Adun with some confusion, his hostile impulse towards the Abyss suppressed by a special force. He then looked at the Abyss Aircraft Carrier that was blinking at him with a strange expression.

"Let me introduce you." After calming down the restless Kaga, he glided over to Wo-chan's side, placed his hands on Wo-chan's shoulders, and said to Kaga, "This is your captain, Wo-chan. From now on, my air force is in your hands."

"Wo!" The high-ranking Templar Wo-chan exclaimed excitedly when she heard Adon introduce her like that.

"This...this deep-sea aircraft carrier is my captain?" Kaga asked hesitantly, sensing that the plot was going a bit too far.

"Wo-chan is pretty good. You two should get along well in the future," said Yaton, patting Wo-chan on the shoulder.

Kaga glanced blankly at Admiral Adon, then at his future captain, and for a moment his mind was filled with what felt like a midnight soap opera.

Is his admiral serving the Abyss? And is he destined to become a traitor, wielding weapons against his own people?

After a brief moment of hesitation, Kaga sheathed her Longbow rigging, closed her eyes, and exhaled. When she opened her eyes again, the IJN carrier stared at Adun with a resolute gaze and said:

"No matter what kind of enemy we face, the aircraft carrier Kaga will stake the honor of the First Carrier Division and swear to serve the Admiral to the death!"

As he spoke, the IJN aircraft carrier knelt directly on the sea surface.

“…” Ardon stood there, stunned.

"Wo?" Wo-chan also looked bewildered.

"Uh..." Hyperion, who roughly understood what had happened, covered his forehead.

“I think, Kaga, you’ve misunderstood something?” Ardon said, realizing what was happening after seeing Hyperion’s actions.

"Huh?" Kaga, who had made her stance clear and pledged allegiance with everything, was as bewildered as wo-chan, feeling that the plot shouldn't have developed this way.

"We're not from the Deep Sea Fleet..." After considering how to explain, Adun finally decided to be direct and began to speak.

"Phew..." Kaga breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing what Adon said. Although she was prepared to fight to the end for the admiral even if she became the most despicable traitor, she still felt psychological pressure.

"And who is this?" Kaga, whose expression softened, looked at Wo-chan, unsure of what to say.

"She's my first ship girl, I found her, so she's on our side now." After briefly explaining Wo-chan's background, Adun said, "She's really amazing."

"Wowo!" (Wo-chan is amazing!) Wo-chan exclaimed happily upon hearing Ya-dun praise her.

"Indeed very powerful..." Kaga, having calmed down a bit, finally realized how powerful Wo-chan was. For an aircraft carrier, especially a first-generation aircraft carrier like Kaga, which had evolved from a deep-sea corpse, Wo-chan's combat strength was obviously formidable.

"So it's fine for her to be your captain, right?" Ardon walked up to Kaga and patted the shoulder of this Japanese aircraft carrier whose values ​​had been thoroughly purged right after its birth.

"If it is your order, Admiral." Although she didn't know why a deep-sea carrier that should have been an enemy would be an ally, Kaga didn't feel she had the right to refuse since it was the Admiral's order.

"Don't think too much about it. Actually, Kaga should be considered the first ship girl I ever got," Adun said, comforting Kaga.

"Kaga is honored." Kaga's expression brightened a bit after hearing some good news. Her memories told her that the first ship girl a commander acquires and the first ship girl a commander summons are both very important to a commander.

"My name is Hyperion, the flagship of the Terren Empire. I'm the one who just blasted you to smithereens." Hyperion stepped forward and introduced himself after the misunderstanding was cleared up.

"..." Kaga glanced at Hyperion, then looked at Adun with an expression that said he didn't know what Hyperion was talking about.

"Ahem, do you still remember your previous memories?" Adon asked Kaga for the first time without beating her up when Hyperion acted recklessly.

"My previous memories? Memories of the Abyss? I have absolutely no recollection of them." Recalling the scene she saw when she opened her eyes, and the empty environment around her now, Kaga concluded that she might have been an Abyssal ship girl not long ago.

"I knew it..." After thinking for a moment, Adon asked, "Then, Kaga, would you like to recall it?"

“If Kaga’s past memories are helpful to you, Admiral, I am willing to accept them.” Kaga took a deep breath and continued, “But if those memories affect me, please do not hesitate, Admiral.”

He appeared to be willing to sacrifice himself for the admiral.

“It’s not that exaggerated. I will protect your individuality. The memories of the previous generation will not affect you.” As Adon spoke, he placed his hand on Kaga’s head.

Knowing that Adun was about to recall her memories as a deep-sea ship girl, Kaga took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and waited solemnly.

"..." After striking a pose, Adon suddenly let go of her hand without doing anything else.

"Admiral?" Kaga opened his eyes and asked curiously, not remembering anything.

"I just think it's better to forget about it." Adun turned around expressionlessly and looked at the Vanguard Glory ship slowly approaching.

"..."

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The glittering Archangel isn't even in the outline yet, but the ark of salvation from the Epic of Gilgamesh has already appeared in the novel...

However, the appearance of that weather control device is not known until many volumes later. Currently, I have started working on the detailed outlines for two volumes. The others are just some fun plot ideas that I suddenly come up with. They are all independent stories, but they are connected by the characters in the story.

☆, Chapter 188 Interrogation? Torture?

Aside from a bit of pity, another reason was that the information didn't necessarily need to be obtained from Kaga.

Besides being blasted into Kaga's deep-sea carrier by the Hyperion, another deep-sea vessel in that fleet was captured alive by the stealthy Nautilus.

This is truly rare, as due to certain inherent antagonistic reasons, there are very few prisoners of war in battles between ship girls and deep-sea ship girls.

If the Nautilus hadn't intervened, even if the battleship girls of Naval Base 233 had surrounded the fish, the deep-sea submarine would have simply chosen to scuttle itself.

Just like those ship girls facing a deep-sea siege with no chance of survival, opening the sea valve or detonating the ammunition depot are not too difficult choices.

"Huh? With me here, she still dares to self-destruct? If I weren't worried that she might have some secrets that were restricted, I would have stripped her of her brand long ago." The Nautilus, now a hero, said in the temporary interrogation room set up on the Vanguard Glory ship.

“Well done, but does stripping away the brand have these negative effects?” Adun praised the Nautilus’s caution.

"Of course, you don't know that some of the Abyssal Princesses are paranoid and have branded their subordinate Abyssal Ship Girls with multiple marks. If other Abyssal Princesses rashly remove these marks, they will either become self-destruct bombs or become madmen who have lost their minds."

Nautilus spoke with an air of superiority, as if she had seen countless Abyssal Princesses: "Sometimes I really feel sorry for those ship girls who have to work with these Abyssal Princesses."

"This tactic looks familiar." Adun remembered that a group of Protoss had done the same thing, and even went a little further.

"Familiar? Isn't that the Taldarim? Adun, have you forgotten?" Hyperion reminded Adun when he heard him muttering to himself.

“Of course I haven’t forgotten.” As he spoke, Adun used the arm that had been transformed into Taldarim ship armor to press down on the Hyperion.

"Wow, that scared me." Seeing the familiar colors on Adun's body, the Hyperion was almost startled enough to pull out the Yamato Cannon, but then it remembered that the Tal'darim had already integrated into the Protoss society. The star cruiser patted its chest and said, "You scared me to death. So Adun, you actually have Tal'darim technology inside you."

“Yes, including the Purifier, they are all on me,” Adun explained to Hyperion.

"Eek, I'll just call you High Lord from now on." Hyperion curled his lip in envy and jealousy at Adun's ability to fuse with all the Protoss.

"Shut up." Adun used violence against Hyperion again.

Having vaguely overheard what the two starship girls were talking about, the Nautilus was surprised to realize that Adun had always been very tolerant of her.

Having witnessed the miserable state of the deep-sea ship girls under the command of those crazy Princesses, Nautilus knew very well that if Adun could really reach the level of those paranoid Princesses, then she would truly have no future.

While the Hyperion was courting its daily mischief and Adun was suppressing it daily, the ship girls of Naval Base 233 had already used all sorts of supposedly "sturdy" chains to tie up the deep-sea fish captured by the Nautilus into a mummy-like state, much like Adun had tied up the Nautilus back then.

Even if they have little experience capturing deep-sea monsters, the ship girls, whose ship equipment has inherited the memories of those sea monsters from hundreds of years ago, at least know how to treat prisoners.