The time-based admiral of KanColle

[Hey? Why isn't my sister going? Why does my sister have to beat Mutsu to send him out? Where's my sister? Isn't my sister going out? ]

Like a curious baby with a hundred thousand questions in mind, Mutsu asked Nagato, whose shoulders were shaking, one question after another cheerfully, and then smiled innocently and said, "But, I want to be with my sister."

[Mutsu...]

After slowly hugging his sister, the twin-mounted guns on the ship behind Nagato gradually sank.

No, she should, she should send Mutsu out as soon as possible. Only in this way can she be a good sister.

However... Nagato did not fire that shot. After all, she still did not have the courage to face the unknown alone.

So, in this illusion where there is nothing but oil supplies, in this illusion where everything is stagnant, in this illusion where no one knows if it will collapse at any time, she and Mutsu are in this world where even the sea is frozen...

After about a year...

Until one moment, this illusion finally started moving again, and based on Nagato's ideals, it depicted a world belonging to the Sakura Empire.

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"Nagato...Nagato!?"

"Huh? Excuse me, what's wrong, Mikasa-senpai?"

Filled with joy at meeting his friend, Nagato blinked his eyes as clear as lake water and smiled, "Wait, do you want to go have a meal together? There is a new volcanic rock offered from Lihuo Island recently, so we can have some grilled food."

"Nagato...what I just told you..."

"Hmm? Did Mikasa-senpai say anything just now?"

Finally, realizing the truth, Mikasa pursed her lips and slightly opened them, but when she saw the tears that appeared on Nagato's cheeks, she silently choked back her words.

As a perceptive ship girl, she also felt Nagato's current situation. He was trapped in the shadow and completely immersed in his own world.

Everything she just said seemed to be just an illusion.

"Mikasa-sama, that's enough."

Finally, the silent Amagi grabbed Mikasa's arm and said in a deep voice: "Let's talk alone, Lady Mikasa."

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Chapter 270: Sakura Empire's Position

In Amagi's room, both Mikasa and Kitakaze looked unhappy. Seeing that the respected Nagato-sama even had cognitive bias because of the shadow, it was undoubtedly the worst news for these loyal Sakura Empire ship girls.

"So, seeing Nagato-sama in this state, Mikasa-sama, do you still want to take her out by force?"

Although he poured a cup of hot tea out of habit, Amagi was in no mood to drink tea. He stretched out his white index finger and tapped the cup, saying in a deep voice: "It is undeniable that it is because Nagato-sama has stayed in this illusion for too long. If we forcibly take her out, it will seriously irritate Nagato-sama."

"Sometimes, inner cracks are most likely to lead to serious consequences."

"But Mutsu is not..."

After hearing Amagi's explanation, Mikasa, who was sitting on her knees, clenched her fist silently and frowned, "Mutsu still looks very cheerful!"

"This is probably also the work of Lord Nagato. Although I don't know what happened specifically, this illusion was originally empty. The loneliness and emptiness brought too much pressure to Lord Nagato."

The deep purple pupils rippled, and Amagi finally took the initiative to speak to the hesitant Mikasa: "Mikasa-sama, we all owe Lord Nagato a favor, don't we? Even if you take over the flag of the Sakura Empire, Lord Nagato is just a child who is not much older than Miss Mutsu."

“There are some things that cannot be done with faith alone.”

"In the beginning, I should have been allowed to stay, but I didn't expect Nagato to..."

Recalling the situation at that time, Mikasa pounded the tatami lightly with mixed emotions, and her amber eyes, which had always been firm and confident, inevitably showed confusion.

"What about you, Beifeng? Do you still want to continue to follow your instincts?"

"me……"

Even the north wind, which had always firmly followed its instincts, had to lower its ash-gray and silver-feathered ears, realizing that some things could not be solved by reason alone.

"I won't force you to do anything that will embarrass you."

With her charming eyebrows slightly lowered, Tiancheng pondered for a moment before forcing out a pitiful smile: "As I said at the beginning, all of this is my own decision. As a counselor, I pity the master I serve."

"No matter the consequences or the result, after I have trapped Lord Yaxu for a few months, I will drown myself in front of Lord Yaxu alone to apologize."

With the demeanor of an orchid in the valley, Tiancheng gently held the brown sleeves and smiled: "Mikasa-sama, continue to play with the ship model as if you are kept in the dark. Beifeng, you should go and accompany your Akizuki-class sisters."

"So... please don't stop me."

In the warm Japanese-style room, there was soon a long silence.

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"Meow! Akashi, I'm just a cute cat. Please don't come looking for Akashi again, meow!"

In a remote side hall, facing the Nth time of being asked to do something with his magical powers, Akashi simply shrank into a cardboard box covered with paper with tears in his eyes, causing the box to shake.

"Akashi! We can only rely on you. We've informed you of Nagato-sama's condition, haven't we? Are you really indifferent?"

Shentong tried to persuade Mingshi earnestly and kept poking Mingshi who was lying in the cardboard box with his purple fan, causing Mingshi inside to shake.

She and Amagi both knew that delay would not last long, and for that human, the longer he delayed, the more likely he would be to wait for the ship girls in the outside world.

No one's patience is unlimited, and that human is not a pleasure-seeking person. Rather than pouring wine with them, he even prefers to play with the little ship girls.

Shentong just saw that Yaxu, who was the commander of Baiying and the others, actually used that ability to help them play pranks under the command of Xiao Chicheng and the others.

Although they already had some emergency response measures for Yaxu, they were still not as helpful as Akashi and the others who provided the best solution.

"You really can't make some device that can put that human to sleep for a few months while we appease Nagato-sama?"

"Meow! Why do you and the previous Akagi want these things, meow! There are some things that we Akashi can't do, meow! Although Yaxu is not my commander, he is also my friend, Akashi, meow."

Feeling his green whip hair and the ribbon tied to it being pulled by the magic power, Akashi choked and stammered: "Besides, even if I really made that kind of thing, it would be useless meow! He has helpers outside meow!"

"Helper? What helper!?"

"Meow meow!"

At this moment, Akashi's bright yellow eyes immediately narrowed, revealing a guilty expression, pretending that nothing had just happened, as if nothing had happened: "Meow? Meow meow meow? Did Akashi say anything just now, meow?"

Seeing Akashi deliberately concealing the truth and unwilling to cooperate, Shentong had no choice but to tighten his white fur coat and turn his eyes for help to Yubari who was taking a nap in the kotatsu.

The black fox ears trembled slightly, and there were split hairs on the pure black hair. Yubari, who was wearing a light green kimono, carefully took out a small fan from his arms: "This is the latest equipment developed by Yubari. It can blow away the sea mist."

"Yubari..."

Looking at the little unstable random inventor of the Sakura Empire in front of him, Shentong sighed and said, "Well, I won't force you. We will find a way to deal with Lord Yaxu."

"..."

Listening to the lost tone of his Sakura Empire companions, Yubari, who was lying on his back, finally compromised and took out another thin rope.

Instantly, seeing Yubari taking out something again, Shentong couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Do you want us to use this to tie up Lord Yaxu?"

"No, this rope has no weight and can stretch, and it has a camouflage system. You... can secretly tie it to the human's clothes to connect you two, so that you won't be affected by the time stop you mentioned."

"Really? Thank you, Yubari."

Seeing Yubari helping them a little within his ability, Shentong couldn't help but sigh softly: "Sure enough, your scientific research ability is really exaggerated."

"Meow meow!"

Instantly, Akashi's green fur stood up straight, and he retorted aggrievedly: "Meow! Obviously, Akashi worked all night for everyone, meow."

"Really? In that case, Akashi, you can help us in whatever way you can."

Finally, I realized that although Yubari and the others couldn't do anything extreme, they could still do something that could help in other areas.

"Akashi, can you help us transform a special room to confine Lord Yaxu?"

"Meow? What do you want to do, meow!?"

Looking up at the Avatar who suddenly chuckled, Akashi hugged his tail tightly and trembled.

Chapter 271 Yaxu's Understanding

Under the screen with a portrait engraved on it, Yaxu looked down at Akagi's wooden lunch tray and sighed leisurely.

He had been in Sakura Empire for two days. With the luxurious treatment around him, he clearly felt that Amagi and the others were not just treating him well. He also vaguely felt the inexplicable pressure of favors, so in order to avoid suspicion, he had to deliberately use time stop to hide in Akagi.

So in the end, he came over to eat Akagi and the others' lunch.

"Ah, dear, you are still so sharp."

Lazily lying on the tatami, holding her cheeks with both hands, Akagi looked at Yaxu who was deliberately avoiding Amagi and the others. On her charming face, there emerged a sincere expression of joy and understanding. After a long while, she smiled and said, "Haha~ As expected, dear, you are really cute."

"cute?"

Chuckling, Yaxu poured the sweetened sterilized egg white that the Sakura Empire often eats onto the rice, and then said to himself, "Akagi, that Sakura Empire token wasn't actually lost by you, right? I originally thought that you guys were jealous again and didn't want Enterprise and the others to follow me in, but now it seems that's not the case."

"Akagi didn't say anything~?"

With a charming look, Akagi held her chin and gazed intently, her rosy phoenix eyes full of teasing. Having been with Yaxu for such a long time, no one except Kaga knew how many times Akagi had tried.

Be it in the world where time has stopped or in the previous reincarnation, after so long, she has wanted to lock up Yaxu every day from the beginning, and then add some seasoning to the calming tea every day to make their love sweeter.

Then, now she had no choice but to change her strategy and secretly pay her respects to Yaxu's mother every day. She had long since given up those meaningless attempts.

"Is that so... Should I say it's as expected of you..."

Looking at Akagi wagging his tail in a happy mood, Yaxu pinched Akagi's fox ears lovingly and said nothing more.

By the way, these past two days, Yaxu still felt that playing hide-and-seek with the little ship girls was more comfortable.

"Subordinates? Subordinates, where have you been playing!?"

At this time, childish voices gradually came from outside, and soon, accompanied by the sound of the paper sliding door opening, little Akagi rushed in angrily wearing small wooden clogs.

After seeing Yaxu, Xiao Chicheng immediately waved his red and black small Japanese sleeves up and down, and taught Yaxu a lesson: "Subordinate, how could you abandon your superior!? Aren't we going to play tag today?"

Yes, ever since he 'reconquered' the convenient Yaxu as his subordinate, Xiao Akagi has never lost even a game of hide-and-seek again.

Seeing the little Akagi with playful pigtails suddenly barging in, Akagi, who had just been smiling, suddenly froze his expression. He then looked at Kaga who was at the door with little Akagi: "Kaga...you?"

"Well."

Faced with her sister's glare, the cold and beautiful Kaga couldn't help but hide her hands in her sleeves, and walked in guiltily and knelt behind Yaxu.

No, there is no way. Looking at the cute little Akagi who is the young form of his sister, Kaga can't refuse her request at all.

After all, only when he saw little Akagi could Kaga subtly produce a sense of strength that made her yearn for him to be superior to Akagi.

"Haha, sir, your subordinates also need to eat."

"Well... okay, I really can't do anything about you, but you need to eat faster, my boy."

After skillfully positioning himself on Yaxu's thigh, little Akagi assumed the posture of a little ancestor, then proudly raised his fox ears, enjoying the feeling of being in a superior position.

"Ah, ah."

Looking at the little Akagi who was in a sense the same as himself, Akagi tensed up the tails behind him, and a trace of madness flashed in his scarlet eyes: "Little guy, didn't your sister Hiei, who is taking care of you, tell you not to take other people's things casually?"

"Well!"

After feeling the pressure from the beast instincts of the Sakura Empire, little Akagi immediately trembled and hid behind Yaxu.

The wine-red eyes flashed with vigilance and fear. Little Akagi puffed up his face and finally mustered up the courage to point at Akagi and ordered: "Men, use your invincible superpowers to teach her a lesson!"

"I'm sorry, sir. She's my wedding ship. As a husband, I can't lay hands on my wife."

"Hey? If you don't obey me, I'll lock you up!"

"Pfft!"

Looking at little Akagi's tearful and threatening look, and then looking at Akagi whose expression became subtle and stiff, Yaxu couldn't help but laughed out loud.

Seeing that Akagi, who was still the size of a small pudding, could show such a strong possessiveness, Kaga sighed and couldn't help but complain: "Really, you are worthy of being a big sister."

"enough!"

Facing the tacitly teasing gazes of Yaxu and Kaga, Akagi slightly opened her red lips and wanted to stand up, wanting to pick up little Akagi and throw him out.

Faced with this imminent threat, little Chicheng, who found that Yaxu was not helping, hurriedly took out a small paper man with red flames from his sleeve, then raised his white and tender little hand and pointed it at Chicheng, whose brows were twitching: "Ah~~~Teach, educate you."

"Oh?"

Seeing that little Akagi dared to use the talisman paper of the aircraft against him, Akagi silently took out many small paper figures wrapped in red flames from his sleeves.

"well!?"

Staring blankly at the aircraft talismans in Akagi's hands, which were much larger than his own and had more violent red flames, little Akagi blinked his eyes, thought for a while with his little head, and silently put his own back.

Finally, after realizing the difference in strength, Xiao Chicheng pulled at Yaxu's clothes helplessly and said aggrievedly: "Subordinates, please save your commander! Woohoo~"

Hurrying to hold the frightened little Akagi in his arms, Yaxu reached out to appease the hostile Akagi and said softly, "Okay, Akagi, why are you angry with the little ship girl?"