He is the commander and the admiral.

"Akashi! I need your help! You must know a lot about the mind unit!"

"Nya!? How did the Commander know that?"

As soon as the call was connected, Roger immediately stated his request, which made Akashi look surprised, but he soon calmed down.

"So what does the commander want to know about this mental unit issue, meow?"

"Regarding its use and some precautions, you should have already understood this aspect, right?"

"That's about right. Iron Blood already has detailed information, so there's nothing I don't understand about the situation."

Akashi nodded, which made Roger not only pay attention to the situation on the Iron Blood side, but also how did they cooperate with the Siren to obtain such important information? What was the purpose of the Siren cooperating with Iron Blood in this way?

"Wow!! They are real cat ears! So cute! I really want to touch them!"

While Roger was thinking about this, Cheshire suddenly peeked over from the side at Akashi who was in contact with Roger, and his eyes lit up when he saw the cat ears on her head.

"Akashi's ears aren't something you can just touch meow, but if you like, Akashi has quite a few cat ear headpieces meow."

Akashi quickly took out cat ear headdresses of various colors, which made Cheshire's eyes light up immediately. Then she looked at Roger beside her with anticipation, and her eyes revealed his intention to buy them for her.

Facing Cheshire's irresistible gaze, Roger could only nod.

“…Give it all to me.”

"Thank you for your patronage, meow~"

Chapter 201 Triggering Factors

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Chapter 202 A Meeting That Can't Be Serious

"TB, have you come up with your analysis of the nearby sea area intelligence at that time?"

"The command has been confirmed. The current analysis results show that there was an abnormal magnetic field reaction in the sea area at that time, but we are still unable to accurately analyze the exact situation. I am very sorry, Commander."

TB's answer made Roger shake his head slightly.

"It's nothing. I was just trying it out. If there is no result, it's acceptable. Besides, it's not your fault."

Moreover, based on what we know now, the only ones who caused this situation are Siren and those guys from the black enterprise we saw before, but it is really hard to guess which one it is. After all, what we know about these two forces is just that much.

"Peace has been restored on the sea for the time being, and the next question is how to proceed."

The Sakura Empire did not provoke any more conflicts, and the Iron Blood seemed to be busy with something. The matter regarding the mental unit on our side had already yielded results, and we only needed to hand it over to the Northern Union for trial, so the daily schedule was suddenly freed up.

"Continue to attack the sea area controlled by the Siren? Well, this is the only thing that is more suitable at the moment, not to mention that it is also my main responsibility."

Roger thought about it for a moment and decided on the next course of action. He applied to the headquarters for a transfer, and the application was quickly approved. When he met Aurora later, the other party was slightly surprised when she heard Roger's plan.

"Eh? Comrade Commander isn't going back to the Northern Union?"

"Well, the transfer request from the headquarters has been approved. I will deal with the issues in the Siren Sea next. I don't need to worry about the mental unit anymore, and I need to be responsible for my fleet issues."

After all, the use of mental units mainly requires the ship girl's own conditions to meet the standards. At present, due to his own special circumstances, all the ones built are deep-sea princesses, which has delayed this matter a lot. So now the only way is to improve their experience through battle.

"That's really a pity."

After listening to Roger's explanation, Aurora's expression suddenly became full of regret. After all, she was still thinking about spending more time with Roger, drinking together, and having some special interactions when circumstances permitted after returning to the port area of ​​the Northern Union. But now it seems that all this plan is going to go down the drain.

"Let's get together next time if we have a chance. I'll try to improve my alcohol tolerance and we can have a few drinks together then."

Seeing the regret on Aurora's face, Roger comforted her, which made her mood slightly better.

"Well, it's settled then, Comrade Commander."

Roger's comfort also had a great effect. Aurora's mood quickly changed, and then she left with the Mind Cube box.

"Honey! Look! The cat-ear headdress has arrived! Try it on and give it a try!"

After seeing Aurora off, Cheshire, who received the cat ear headdress delivered by Manju Express, immediately ran over to find Roger and put one of the black ones on Roger's head, then admired it with a happy look on his face.

"My dear, with the cat ears, you look even prettier! It feels like you are touching a real cat."

Cheshire touched the cat's ears and was surprised by the real feel.

"Okay, let's stop playing this for now. I need to talk to you about the next goals and tasks."

After making Cheshire happy for a while, Roger prepared to take off the cat ear headdress on his head.

"Please keep it for a while longer, dear! Let me look at you like this for a while longer! And in fact, Akashi gave you something else."

But Cheshire was very reluctant to let Roger take off the cat ear headdress like this, and while persuading him he also said something else.

"Something else? What is it?"

"There are cat paw gloves and a tail."

When Roger heard her answer, his expression became a little confused. He felt that there was nothing special about this.

Seeing Roger didn't react, Cheshire blushed and said, "I can wear it when we are intimate. How about it? Honey! You must be looking forward to it and like it, right?"

After hearing this, Roger immediately understood. He imagined Cheshire wearing a full set of decorations in his mind, and continued to wear the headdress that he was about to take off.

"Okay, then go get everyone over here."

"Yes!"

As Cheshire happily left the office, when everyone came in, they were all stunned when they saw the cat ears on Roger's head.

"Commander, you look so cute like this."

When Guanghui saw Roger's expression, he immediately laughed, and the others nodded in agreement.

"Although I'm used to seeing cat ears like this in the Sakura Empire, it feels special and novel when it's on the commander."

Shokaku also found Roger, who was currently wearing a cat ear headdress, interesting. He suddenly felt that Roger looked quite good in this state, and even had a sense of familiarity.

Rafi touched his bunny headdress, then looked at Roger's cat ear headdress, wondering if it would be better if they both put on the same headdress.

Facing everyone's gazes, even though Roger was mentally prepared, he couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

"This was made by Cheshire...it was hard to refuse, so I wore it."

After hearing this, everyone looked at Cheshire and couldn't help but say that she did a great job.

"If everyone likes it, would you like to try it on together?"

Cheshire took out cat ear headdresses of other colors and wanted to invite everyone to wear them together. Javelin and Unicorn were very interested in putting them on. Glory also found it interesting and put one on his own head. Then he meowed at Roger a few times. His cute appearance was very heart-warming.

"Shouldn't we be discussing business now? Why did it suddenly become like this?"

Mikasa's expression became complicated as she saw the situation was developing in a strange direction. They were supposed to be discussing future plans seriously, but it suddenly turned into a cat ear party.

Chapter 203: Iron Blood Suffers an Unexpected Incident

"So the most important thing now is to improve my own strength and experience as quickly as possible, so that I can conveniently use the mental unit to increase my upper limit."

Roger, wearing a cat-ear headdress, was talking about the relevant arrangements very seriously, but it still made people want to laugh.

"We have already learned something from Akashi, and it has been confirmed that the mind unit will not cause any problems under normal use. However, the cause of the situation like Akagi's has not yet been figured out."

"If it's just like this, we can feel more at ease."

After all, Akagi's previous performance was too worrying to think that the situation would occur after using the mind unit. Since it is not that kind of problem, at least a lot of worries have been reduced.

"So this is the most appropriate way to cooperate with each other and share intelligence, so that both sides can avoid and reduce many problems."

Mikasa couldn't help but sigh. She really hoped to get the Sakura Empire back into Azur Lane, but it was a pity that this was not something she could succeed with as she wished. However, cooperation like this was also a relatively good situation. At least there was a vague feeling of reconciliation.

If this situation can be maintained well, it may not be impossible to recover successfully, but Mikasa doesn't have much idea about what to do specifically. After all, the ship girls who are still in the Sakura Islands will not be persuaded so easily.

"Mikasa, what's wrong with you? Is there something else wrong?"

Seeing Mikasa suddenly sigh, Roger asked curiously.

"No, that's not it. I just think it's a pity that we can't be together like before."

Mikasa's answer made Roger understand what she meant. Although the relationship between him and the Sakura Empire has eased and improved, it is still difficult to achieve the same relationship as before during the Azur Lane period.

Especially after seeing that hallucination, when I think about how they, as ship girls, are beings born out of hope and miracles, but now in their current situation, their relationships with each other are very unfriendly, which makes people feel a bit helpless.

"Commander, do you also think that what I said is right?"

Mikasa looked at Roger with an equally complicated expression and thought that he also felt and supported her ideas.

"There are some, right? But there is nothing we can do to restore this relationship now, right?"

"It's not that there is no way, Commander. This kind of thing is still possible. Isn't our current situation a possibility?"

Mikasa's answer made Roger look at the many ship girls in front of him and understand what she meant.

"Does this mean that you want the commander to take over the Sakura Islands?"

Zuikaku couldn't help but have this idea. She understood that what Mikasa meant was that as long as everyone belonged to one person, then the original problems would disappear.

Thinking back to the split of Azur Lane, wasn't it because there was no one who could fully integrate and make everyone obey his/her arrangements? In the past, no one was the leader of everyone, so when opinions differed and no one thought the other's ideas were right, someone would appear to mediate, which led to this split in the end.

"You could say that, if the commander becomes everyone's commander, then there will be a way to solve the problem between the two sides. In the beginning, it was because there was no one who could completely convince everyone that this result was caused. Moreover, dealing with the Sirens cannot be done by one person alone, but requires the combined strength of everyone to have hope."

Although I think Mikasa's answer makes sense, the things we need to think about beyond that are not that simple.

"That kind of thing is unlikely no matter how you look at it, right? Let's not talk about the situation on the Sakura Empire side, just looking at the situation on the Iron Blood side, do you really think I can do it?"

At least there have been some contacts with the Sakura Empire, and with the existence of Mikasa, the situation on both sides has remained at a relatively good level. However, the Iron Bloods really don't even have the chance to have any interactions with them. There is no one they can talk to. At most, Prince Eugen can barely say a few words, but that is not necessarily proof of friendly relations.

"Yeah, those guys from Tiexue are really not easy to get along with."

Xianghe nodded in agreement and said, "Even in our previous cooperation, they always gave us the impression that they were doing something mysterious. Unless they revealed it themselves, we had no way of guessing what their plans were."

"Or unless there is a very serious problem that causes problems within Iron Blood, then we might still have a chance to do something like that, but is that possible? We really can't think of a situation that could cause major problems for Iron Blood."

When Mikasa heard what Shokaku said, she felt that this was indeed the truth. The more she thought about it, the more difficult it would be to restore the relationship they had in the past. For a moment, she couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment, Roger received communications from the Royal Family and White Eagle. The situation of sending these communications together was somewhat incredible.

"Commander!" "Servant!"

After Roger answered the call, the images of Saratoga and Elizabeth appeared at the same time, and judging from their expressions, it seemed that something important had happened. However, the two people, who had originally had serious faces, were stunned when they saw the cat ear headdress on Roger's head, as if they had never expected to see such a situation.

Roger silently took off the cat-ear headdress on his head, then asked, "What happened? You two said you contacted me at the same time?"

"Yes! Something did happen! And it's a very big thing!"

Saratoga was the first to react and explained, "Something big happened with the Iron Bloods! They were attacked by the Sirens, but the most important thing is that Bismarck disappeared in the attack!"

Chapter 204: Iron Blood's Hidden Card

"Are you kidding me? Bismarck is missing? This is impossible!"

Roger simply couldn't believe that Bismarck, the flagship of Iron Blood, was missing, not to mention that she was attacked by the Sirens. Unless all the ship girls of Iron Blood were good-looking but useless, how could such a thing happen?

"But the fact is, we saw everything that happened on the Iron Blood side. Originally, there was a conflict between the Iron Blood side and us, but then the Siren appeared and the Iron Blood side suffered a stronger attack, which led to problems with the Iron Blood side's defense line."

Elizabeth explained, but the result still made Roger's face full of confusion. The whole thing made him feel confused. Not only was there a conflict between the Iron Blood and the Royal Family, but also after the Iron Blood was attacked, Bismarck disappeared? This is too outrageous, isn't it?

"What the hell is going on?"

Roger was completely confused. The reason why the Sakura Empire was attacked by the Sirens before was probably because of him. The power of the deep sea affected that place, making the Sirens alert and wanting to deal with it. Then what about the Iron Bloods? There was no reason at all, right? Why did it suddenly become like this?

"So what's the situation over there at Iron Blood?"

"Except for Bismarck, the rest of the ship girls were just injured, there are no other problems."

Is it just Bismarck? It still feels strange, but I can't explain it at all.

"Commander, this may also be an opportunity."

Compared with the problem between the Sirens and the Iron Bloods, Mikasa values ​​this opportunity more. If Bismarck is not there, the situation on the Iron Bloods side will give Roger the opportunity to integrate the power of the Iron Bloods. She believes that with Roger's ability, it is not impossible to make the Iron Bloods ship girls choose to join.

"Were you discussing any plans before?"

Saratoga listened to what Mikasa said and realized that Roger seemed to be discussing something with everyone before.

"Well, it's about how to integrate all forces to fight against the Sirens. At first we thought it would be difficult for the Iron Bloods, but now Bismarck is in trouble, so we have a chance to complete this idea."

"So that's how it is. But if that's the plan, I think you can give up now. There are new people on the Iron Blood side who are in control of the situation now."

Elizabeth continued to explain the situation of Iron Blood.