The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

“Lieutenant Tirpitz, former deputy captain of the reserve squad at Naval Base 233, if you don’t let go, I will consider you to be attacking the young master,” Reputation, who was standing next to Adun, sighed.

"Tch, even you old hag, Renown, have come. I was just expressing my excitement at not seeing the young master for so many years." It seems that this retired Tirpitz didn't have a good relationship with the head maid, Renown, back in Naval Base 233.

"Ah... I think I saw the River of Oblivion." Charlotte, who had broken free from Tirpitz's embrace, had circles of sweat around her eyes.

"When you were little, young master, you really liked being held by me." Tirpitz put on a pitiful look.

Just as Tirpitz's subordinates were covering their faces in dismay at their commander's performance, Adun stepped onto the ground of this fortress city, his face showing surprise as he exclaimed, "Huh?"

“Eek…” Hyperion, who was following Adun alongside Reputation, showed the same expression as Adun the moment he stepped onto the ground.

"What's wrong, Master?" Noticing the strange expressions on Adun and Hyperion's faces, Head Maid Renown asked, knowing that the two starship girls had discovered something.

“This…is not land.” Adon, who had not carefully explored the geology and topography of this fortress city beforehand, sensed something was wrong the moment he made contact with the ground.

"It's an artificial floating island! It's huge!" Even if the humans of the Teren Empire were to build such a large artificial floating island, it would take them a lot of effort and time. It's unexpected to see such a man-made wonder in such a backward world. No wonder the Hyperion was surprised.

"Because this fortified city was originally built as a mobile governor's residence, after the governor of the Pacific disappeared, it was fixed here as a fortified city."

Upon hearing Adun and Hyperion's words, the head maid explained the difference between this fortified city and ordinary city islands.

"Have you been here before?" Tirpitz asked curiously after overhearing the conversation between the two unfamiliar ship girls and Reign.

After learning from Charlotte that the two powerful ship girls in front of her had just come out of the construction equipment and hadn't been here before, Tirpitz looked Adun and Hyperion up and down and said:

"This is the first time I've seen a ship girl who can discover the secrets of this land the moment she sets foot on it."

Moreover, we saw two ships at once.

Especially after hearing the introduction that Adun and Hyperion were starship girls, Tirpitz became extremely enthusiastic and said:

"Do you want me to help you contact reporters? The appearance of starship girls is big news, I guarantee you'll become famous ships."

"The commander is here again..." The retired ship girls, who were following behind Tirpitz and hesitating whether to raise the welcome banner for the lost ship, covered their foreheads.

"Commander, what's this again?" Vockland, who was at the end of the group, asked Wichita, the retired ship girl standing next to him, with a puzzled look.

“Our commander is usually like she has no fuel, but when she encounters something new, she becomes more… more…” Wichita sighed heavily after thinking for a long time but not finding a good adjective.

"Luckily, the commander's enthusiasm only lasted three minutes, otherwise we really would have had to contact some news reporters." Tennessee, standing next to Wichita, also sighed.

Perhaps because Adun and Hyperion's status as interstellar ship girls was too shocking, Tirpitz overlooked the fact that Adun, as a ship girl, could also become an admiral.

Especially knowing just how vast and powerful the 233rd Naval Base was, Tirpitz was incredibly lucky to have a first-generation Essex (with a cameo appearance by wo-chan) and a first-generation Kaga under the command of Admiral Adun, who was not even officially registered yet.

He simply said to Charlotte, "Young Master, you must also work hard and not disgrace your European heritage."

On the contrary, her ship girls, after seeing the original ship girl Kaga and Wo-chan making a cameo appearance as the original Essex, all looked at Adon with the eyes of someone looking at a big shot.

Especially for trainee ship girls like Vauquelan, if they are noticed by an admiral like Adun who will definitely have his own naval base in the future, it's like skipping thirty years of hard work.

Kaga, who had only been rescued by Adun a few days prior, proudly basked in the gazes of these retired and prospective ship girls.

These ship crew members probably don't even know that their admiral is the governor-general, wahaha... Kaga, who was half-laughing to herself, noticed Captain Wo-chan, who had turned into a ship girl next to her, and immediately stopped laughing.

Kaga, who was curious about Adon's ability to turn Wo-chan into Essex, inadvertently asked if she would also be turned into a deep-sea creature.

As a result, two Wo-chan ships appeared in Admiral Adon's fleet before they even landed.

When Kaga looked in the mirror and realized she had become a deep-sea aircraft carrier, it took her three whole jugs of sake to resolve her self-awareness issue of whether she was a ship girl or a deep-sea ship girl.

Looking back now, it's really scary.

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Today's fifth chapter, and there will be five more this afternoon, then I'll have four chapters saved up. Oh no!

Chapter 205 The Relationship Between the British and German Systems

"Come on in, make yourself at home...cough cough" Tirpitz choked on the dust as soon as she opened her office door, ready to properly entertain Admiral Adun and the ship girls.

"Young Master, please wait a moment." Knowing this would happen, the head maid, Shengwang, took out a vacuum cleaner and said to Young Master Charlotte beside her.

"It's so dirty." Hyperion covered his mouth and nose and said disgustedly, noticing the thick layer of dust in the room.

"Need any help?" Adon asked decisively, taking a step back. Her resolute action caused the ship girls behind her to take a step back as well.

"Please wait a moment, Head Maid." Reputation, who believed she was second to none in cleaning skills, said crisply and decisively. Then, the head maid walked into the office, carrying cleaning tools in one hand and Tirpitz by the collar in the other.

"Why did you drag me along! You damn Brits, let me out!" Tirpitz's cries for help came from inside the slammed office door.

Upon hearing the commander's cry for help, the retired ship girls glanced at the visiting ship girls and admiral, and after confirming the comparison of enemy and friendly combat strength, they all adopted a "not my problem" attitude.

It's not that we're heartless and unwilling to save you, Commander, but the enemy's fighting power is too strong. Facing at least three Hero-class ship girls, we retired ship girls and prospective ship girls are no different from mantises trying to stop a chariot.

I believe you, Commander, can understand this from heaven. You must understand.

Furthermore, Commander, your office certainly needs some tidying up.

"Would you like something to drink? No black tea, no milk tea, and no alcohol," Tirpitz asked, sitting in his office chair with a disgruntled expression, after being forced to clean by Reputation through violence.

“What else?” Nelson asked, not taking Tirpitz’s words seriously, as he picked up a cup of tea from the tray in Reputation’s hands.

"Only fuel-powered cola!" Tirpitz's anger was rising as these British ship girls repeatedly provoked her.

"I love cola!" Hyperion saw the cola can in Tirpitz's hand, happily teleported to Tirpitz's side, snatched it, and then teleported back to Adun's side.

"Huh?" Tirpitz clenched his empty hands, seemingly not yet realizing what had happened.

Seeing Hyperion use the short-range warp techniques she had been teaching her to do in this way, Adun felt she needed to teach this flagship of the Terren Empire a lesson.

Given that even the combined strength of her ship girls couldn't defeat the two extra-spaceship girls, Adun and Hyperion, and considering that Adun herself was not only a ship girl but also an admiral with the power of a governor, Charlotte had no choice but to pretend she hadn't seen this scene and awkwardly told Tirpitz the reason for her request to enter the port.

"Borrowing the modified canal? Of course, no problem, as long as it's not a British ship borrowing it."

Having understood what had just happened, Tirpitz squinted and took a good look at the Hyperion before taking out another bottle of fuel cola and replying.

"Uh..." The vanguard lowered his head somewhat embarrassed after hearing what Tirpitz said.

"Oh? The Avant-garde wants to use it... Well, for your sake, young master, I'll reluctantly agree."

Seeing the avant-garde's reaction, Tirpitz knew who wanted to make the changes. He hesitated for a moment and said somewhat reluctantly.

Then, Charlotte surprised him by suggesting using the retrofit channel of a hero-class ship girl.

"Huh? Vanguard is already a hero-level hero! That's impossible. I remember when I retired and just joined the naval base, she couldn't even hit a stationary target."

Upon hearing that Vanguard was already a Hero-class ship girl, Tirpitz immediately shifted her attention from the two interstellar ship girls to Vanguard and asked in great surprise.

Seeing Tirpitz's reaction, the Nelson and Rodney sisters, who were already at Naval Base 233 when Tirpitz retired, could only say, you have no right to say that. It was you who shocked us when you quietly became a Hero-class hero and immediately applied to retire.

"Because I've always worked very hard!" Vanguard said immediately when he saw that the retired ship girl in front of him, who was considered his senior, looked unconvinced.

"It took you more than ten years to become a Hero-class ship girl. Well, as a British ship girl whose brain has been soaking in black tea and getting moldy, you've already tried your best." It seems that the infighting between German ship girls and Hero-class ship girls in Naval Base 233 is a bit serious.

Having used his sharp tongue to incite hatred, Tirpitz then asked Reputation, "So, the dilapidated ship you saw when you entered port was the hull of the Vanguard Glory?"

"Whose ship is in such bad shape? It just had a battle with the Abyss!" Vanguard couldn't help but say, even though Tirpitz was a senior, when he heard Tirpitz say that his ship was in such bad shape.

"Deep Sea? Just now?" Tirpitz said with a cold look in her eyes. This retired ship girl, who was always lazy and had a sharp tongue, finally showed the aura of a former hero-class ship girl.

"It should be said that it was four days ago," Charlotte said, correcting the error in the avant-garde's words.

"Four days? Vanguard, what's your speed?" Tirpitz pulled open a drawer in her desk and pressed a button. The window behind her was suddenly covered by a folding metal curtain, and then the projector on the ceiling projected a detailed view of the sea surrounding the fortress city onto the metal curtain.

“30 sections, uh, 32 sections…” Qianwei said hesitantly.

"Have you British ship girls in the naval base become so stupid that you don't even know your own speed?" Tirpitz complained to Vanguard while enlarging the scale of the sea map.

“In this place.” Adun, who had been staring at the map, suddenly spoke up when Tirpitz enlarged the map of the sea area to a certain scale.

"Where?" Tirpitz looked toward Adun's location upon hearing her voice, only to see the starship girl named Hyperion slumped on the sofa, having lost the object she was leaning on.

“Here…” Adon, who had appeared beside Tirpitz at some point, pointed to a spot a little south of the sea map and circled it in a small circle before continuing, “The battle zone is here. The enemy’s location was first discovered here. At that time, those deep-sea creatures were entrenched in this area.”

"The reconnaissance distance is that far?" Tirpitz, ignoring how Adun got there, glanced at the current map scale, calculated the distance Adun was referring to, and asked with some surprise.

"Huh? Adun, you found it from so far away?" Charlotte and Tirpitz were equally surprised to notice that Adun's account and reputation were somewhat different from what they had reported.

“Yes,” Adun nodded, not trying to hide his reconnaissance range.

"Then why didn't you tell us sooner?" Charlotte was puzzled by Adon's choice at the time.

“Because there’s no real need for it, and the time it took us and the Reputation to detect those deep seas wasn’t long apart,” Adun explained, also bringing Hyperion into the conversation.

Upon hearing Adun mention his Hyperion, he stood up from the sofa, patted Charlotte on the shoulder, and said:

"Moreover, the combat strength of those deep-sea creatures is less than five, so we felt there was no need to tell you in advance."

Seeing that he could pat Charlotte's shoulder without having to stand on tiptoe, Hyperion felt satisfied.

Chapter 206 Too troublesome, never mind.

“This part…” Tirpitz increased the map scale again, staring at the area Adun was pointing to for a long time without saying a word.

Just as everyone was waiting for the fortress city's administrator to express his opinion, Tirpitz said in a very unhappy tone:

"It's right outside my jurisdiction. Ugh, this is so troublesome. Never mind, never mind."

"Are we just going to leave it like this?" Charlotte, whose goal was to become a full-fledged admiral and have her own naval base, asked, puzzled.

“Those deep-sea creatures must have planned this ambush on you. They just happened to choose a place where the jurisdiction of several fortified cities intersects. Sending people randomly would easily cause misunderstandings.”

Tirpitz said, closing the map and letting the sunlight stream back into his office, "So be it. Aren't all those deep-sea creatures wiped out anyway?"

"Those deep-sea ship girls' ambush target isn't us." Charlotte relayed the information she obtained from interrogating Yu to Tirpitz, hoping that this retired ship girl would take it a little more seriously.

"Yin Wu?" Judging from Tirpitz's reaction, she clearly knew this admiral, and immediately said to Charlotte, "If it's him, then there's even less need to worry about him."

"Ah, why?" Charlotte asked, puzzled by Tirpitz's words.

"What else could it be? That admiral comes from the military police, he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve. Young master, you should stay as far away from that admiral as possible in the future, okay?"

As Tirpitz spoke, she noticed that Charlotte still looked confused, so she turned her gaze curiously to the active ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, including Renown, and asked:

"Didn't you tell the young master about these things?"

“I don’t think these things are important,” Reputation said, giving Tirpitz a warning look.

"You even kept this a secret..." Before she could finish speaking, Tirpitz saw a hint of murderous intent in Reputation's warning gaze, and realizing she had said too much, she immediately covered her mouth.

"What are you hiding?" Charlotte asked, her curiosity piqued, seeing her head maid and Tirpitz speaking in riddles.

"There are some things that the young master will naturally know after he inherits the garrison." Reputation seemed to have no intention of telling Charlotte many things so soon.