The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

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"Sister, tell me this is just my imagination," Rodney said, rubbing his eyes and covering his forehead.

“It’s clearly not an illusion.” Nelson noticed the look in Adton’s eyes and instinctively lowered his head, seemingly out of fear.

"What's wrong?" Yaton asked, puzzled by the reactions of the naval girls at Naval Base No. 233. Previously, the emotions she felt from these native ship girls were things like worry, fear, speechlessness, shock, astonishment, and surprise. But this time, strangely, it turned into a kind of fear and... and reverence.

Adon glanced at herself and couldn't see any changes in herself. Why were these ship girls so revering her?

"Because they were facing a governor," Reputation explained to Adun after returning from his report.

"Governor?" Adon, who wasn't a native ship girl, didn't know what the word "Governor" meant to these ship girls.

"Governor, my admiral is the governor??" Upon hearing Renown say this, Kaga almost spat her drink onto Adun. She quickly wiped her mouth, straightened up, and struck a pose as a ship girl directly under the governor.

The IJN aircraft carrier, who had just been rescued, was now filled with thoughts of how she was actually a ship girl rescued by a governor, and how she was a ship girl directly under the governor's command. She absolutely could not let down her status as a governor's ship girl.

"Only the Governor-General has the power to forcibly sever the contract between another Admiral and a ship girl; only an Admiral who possesses this power can be called the Governor-General," Reputation said to Adun in a tone that suggested he had expected this.

"The Pacific Theater has not had a second admiral with this power for many years since it lost its former governor."

"It seems I've inexplicably become a governor." Ardon, who still didn't quite understand the identity of a governor, complained helplessly.

“This is not inexplicable. Just as you said, Master, it is all fate’s arrangement. The Pacific Theater has been without a governor for too long.” Renown bowed deeply to Adun.

The remaining ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 also adopted the same bowing posture as Renown, including Prinz Eugen standing at the door.

Upon seeing this, Hyperion whistled, then realized that something seemed off. These native ship girls were serious. Hyperion reluctantly bowed slightly to Adun to show her respect for the governor, even though, like Adun, Hyperion didn't really know what a governor was.

With Hyperion taking the lead, all the ship girls in the interrogation room immediately bowed to Adun to varying degrees, including the deep-sea ship girls.

Fortunately, Adon was only surprised. Despite her high status, she was not embarrassed by the behavior of these ship girls.

However, the last line, "Let's all disperse," was quite a mood killer, at least that's how the ship girls at Naval Base No. 233 felt.

“I’m not very interested in being governor.” Ardon didn’t want to be like that South Dakota, who was always looking exhausted and overworked.

"You who possess this power are the governor," Reputation said directly, unconcerned that Adun did not want to be governor.

"I'll go back and discuss this with Tidu after I register as an admiral," Adon said, sighing slightly as he saw Reputation's serious expression.

“Governor, oh~~ Governor Adon, oh~~” Hyperion’s gloating expression earned him a punch from Adon.

"Governor... I will do my utmost to serve you." Kaga was so excited that his face was flushed, as if he had drunk several barrels of sake.

"Do you know what a governor is?" Yaton asked, seeing that all the ship girls were like this, but at least wo-chan, who didn't seem to care, was.

“Wo?” (Is it something edible?) Wo-chan looked at Yaton with some confusion.

"Okay, I asked the wrong ship." Ardon felt somewhat bewildered by the current situation.

"Ha, Adun, you've become the governor?" Charlotte, who had been in a coma, was even more confused by this.

“At least that’s what your head maid says,” Ardon explained to Charlotte.

"If that's what Renown says, then you must be the Governor, Adun. I heard that the Governor can forcibly strip the Admiral of the contract with the ship girl. Should I stay away from you from now on?" Charlotte said, half-jokingly and half-certainly.

"I don't need your orders anymore, they're far enough away from me now." Ever since Renown declared Adun the governor, all the ship girls in Naval Base 233 have started avoiding Adun in everything they do.

"They're probably just in awe of you. After all, to ship girls, the governor is a very important figure." Charlotte, on the other hand, didn't seem as reserved as Adun, who was the governor. Perhaps it was because her father was already considered a big shot.

Although his father, the battleship fanatic Admiral Xia Yuantang, was so frightened when he heard the report from Renown that Admiral Adon had demonstrated the power to strip away the Admiral's contract that he broke the leg of his chair.

While a governor of a war zone may not be considered the supreme ruler, the presence of this power makes the governor appear in the world as the highest enforcer of the law.

Once Adun understood what the governor really was, he pursed his lips: "Isn't that the supreme arbitrator?"

We Protoss have been doing this for years.

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I think I should delete Overwatch; playing it too much gives me a headache.

Chapter 193 Hyperion's Confession... Truth Potion

The Nautilus found itself inexplicably elevated in status.

The way Adon looked at herself was no longer the same as the way those Deep Sea Princesses looked at the unconscious deep sea.

That battlecruiser, whose combat power was similar to Adun's (?), always looked at him with a playful gaze, whereas the previous battlecruiser basically treated him like he was invisible.

Even Wo-chan... oh, Wo-chan still watches Nautilus the same way she always has, nothing has changed.

Although she didn't understand what had happened, Nautilus knew it must be related to U-571, who had become a burden to her. Because she found calling U-571 too troublesome, Nautilus named her Yu.

"Xiaoyou, do you really not remember who your admiral is?"

The Nautilus was very concerned about this important task that Adun had given it, since it was no longer a task like taking care of Wo-chan or finding food and fishing.

“I really don’t remember. In fact, I’ve never seen my admiral,” said U-571, which was submerged in the water with only its head showing, just like the Nautilus.

"Never seen your own admiral before? Who gives those orders? The secretary ship?" Nautilus, who didn't have much contact with the Abyssal Admiral, asked curiously.

"I've never seen the former admiral's secretary ship, or rather, I don't even know if there was such a thing as a secretary ship," Xiaoyou shook her head and continued in reply.

"Each mission involved forming a temporary squadron, and only the captain and vice-captain knew the details of the mission. If it weren't for the captain's initial intention for me to remain in the background as a reserve force, he wouldn't have told me the details of the target."

Simply put, the lowly soldiers in this deep-sea fleet never need to ask who the enemy is, they only need to ask where the enemy is.

"A very strange feeling." When Nautilus first came into contact with these deep-sea fleets that were related to the R'lyeh cult, all she could think was, "As expected of a cult."

The conversation between the Nautilus and U-571, also known as Yu, was constantly monitored by Adun, and it was not kept secret from the Hyperion, which was serving as Adun's escort ship.

"Looks like we've run out of leads again?" Hyperion, who was sitting on the forward signal tower just like before, glanced at the two submarines in the nearby water and said to Adun beside him.

"It's over, it's over. These are minor matters," said Yadun, who was listening to cheesy songs with headphones on, seemingly unconcerned.

"Um..." Hyperion, who wanted to complain that Adun had become a governor and should be more conscientious, realized that he didn't even know what governor meant.

"What you said seems to make sense. Anyway, it's just a small cult on a small planet."

After remaining silent for a moment without offering any personal opinion on Hyperion's words, Adun suddenly asked, "What exactly did you inject into that submarine?"

"Truth serum, huh?" Hyperion said, somewhat taken aback when he heard Adun's implication that he wanted to settle scores later.

Adun opened his eyes and stared at the Hyperion with his pale blue pupils until the starship lowered its head somewhat embarrassedly before asking, "Is it really just truth serum?"

“At least one side effect is similar to truth serum, but even stronger. Even elite ghosts with special training would find it difficult to resist,” Hyperion said, scratching his head.

"...Then what was it originally?" The Protoss had collected samples of the various potions developed by humans and concluded that the human race was very experienced in courting death, and it was a miracle that they hadn't been wiped out yet.

“Oh, so it’s a synthetic potion that Tosh used to increase the loyalty of ghost warriors,” Hyperion replied somewhat awkwardly.

"Wraiths? I think I've seen your kind of psionic unit before." After recalling where he had seen wraiths, Adun asked, "Does this potion have any side effects?"

"The effect of vomiting truth?" Hyperion replied when Adun mentioned the side effects.

"I was asking about other side effects, such as the degree of harm to the body." Now that U-571 has joined their fleet, they should still be concerned about the aftereffects.

"Oh, there aren't any major side effects. The clinical mortality rate is only 30%, and it's effective immediately," Hyperion said in a nonchalant tone.

"..." Adon stared at Hyperion without saying a word.

"What kind of look is that? Okay, okay, actually the mortality rate isn't that high. I was just joking." Hyperion quickly waved her hand to indicate that she was joking and said, "I've been specially diluted according to the ship girls' constitution. At most, there will be some pain, but it won't be fatal."

In fact, the lethality rate of this kind of loyalty drug is more than 30%. If a human without psychic abilities were to be injected with it directly, it could be considered a death sentence.

But that deep-sea submarine named U-571 was, after all, a ship girl, and its physical strength was far superior to that of the humans in the Koprulu Sector.

After all, it's a comparison between a body weighing several thousand tons and at most a little over a hundred kilograms.

"Are there any other side effects?" Ardon asked, sensing that things weren't so simple.

“That’s it… well, I guess that’s it…” Hyperion said hesitantly. “If we’re talking about side effects, according to the predictions made by medical computers, humans who were injected with this drug would only live for about five more years at most.”

"Why a prediction?" Adon asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Because humans who haven't been injected with this drug die from its side effects." Although Hyperion didn't say it, Adun understood it immediately.

"I see..." Adon closed his eyes without saying anything more.

"But that submarine is a ship girl, so it shouldn't have such a deadly side effect..." Hyperion's voice trailed off, indicating that she wasn't entirely sure either.

Just as the two interstellar ship girls perched on the signal tower fell silent, the voice of the Vanguard, the owner of this glorious ship, rang out somewhat hesitantly:

"Excuse me, could you two please do me a favor?"

Upon hearing this, Adun and Hyperion simultaneously looked down at Vanguard, who was struggling to climb onto their ship's hull.

The newly-minted battleship girl noticed the looks in Adun and Hyperion's eyes, was startled and almost slipped and fell. She carefully glanced around and repeated what she had said:

"Could you two please do me a favor?"

"What kind of help?" Ardon asked.

"Ship repair?" Hyperion asked, glancing at the ship girls on the Glory's hull who were still using steel plates to perform preliminary repairs on the Vanguard.

"No, no, I just want to make some changes, like Sister Renown, is...is that okay?"

"I'm a bit embarrassed," Qianwei said.

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It's either 3D motion sickness... or I'm too tense while playing Overwatch.

I recently had a brilliant idea...

Adun and his crew will participate in a game test called Thunder World.

They will experience the history of World War II in the virtual V world.

From the European theater to the Pacific theater

From the Battle of Stalingrad to the Normandy landings

From the Battle of Midway to the Battle of Leyte Gulf

These ship girls and admirals will become pilots, captains, tank crew members, infantrymen, and artillerymen.

Experience the romance of iron and blood in a virtual war.