Shut up! I'm not a destroyer!

However, now, Veneto had no choice but to do as Nagato thought, fill his stomach first and worry about other things later.

On this deserted island, there’s no telling when a fight might break out.

She had to think about how to protect herself once the battle started.

She is just a junior ship girl.

She hadn't even fired her own guns many times, so she couldn't be relied on at all.

But in this situation, you have no choice but to grit your teeth and do it.

I just hope that the difficulty isn’t too high, otherwise this newbie like her won’t be able to handle it.

All signs indicate that Veneto traveled through time rather than a parallel universe, arriving at an era when ship girls were rare and the deep sea was rampant.

NO.261 You don’t need to fire a cannon to start a fire

"I'm not qualified to discuss matters between you and your sister. I'm just giving you advice."

Seeing Nagato frown, Veneto added.

"Thank you, I'm just making a decision."

The wrinkles on Nagato's brow smoothed out, revealing a handsome smile.

"You know, in this battle, our mission is to hold off the Deep Sea for at least a day and then retreat."

"But I think it will take even half a day! We are too few in number. There are four directions on this island. Although we are facing the inland side, there are only four ship girls on each of the other sides."

Nagato sighed.

Theoretically, the three of them are under the least pressure, but if the deep sea goes around behind them, the pressure will be the greatest.

Nagato was the commander, but the island was quite large and he couldn't take other aspects into consideration during the battle.

She only assigned some tasks at the beginning, and bet herself and the two weaker ship girls on the fact that the deep sea would not go around.

Command... Even if it is a commander who can only arrange tasks at the beginning, he must be there until the troops finish fighting.

Only when the troops are gone, will it be her turn to step up.

This is a duty, which is actually more painful than a fearless sacrifice. Watching colleagues pass away is not as straightforward as going ahead with full of passion.

"Just do your best."

Veneto was silent for a moment and then said.

"Actually, there are reinforcements, but we don't know when they will arrive. If they can't arrive at the critical moment, then..."

Nagato stopped talking, and Mutsu was already pulling away the bushes with a bucket of fresh water.

It seems that the two sisters have prepared sufficient supplies, at least the basic tools are sufficient.

Veneto scratched his white hair, took over Mutsu's bucket, picked up the fish that Nagato had cleaned, and came to the stove.

Putting the fish in the pot and setting it aside, Veneto stared at the stove where the firewood was laid for a while and thought of his reputation.

So she took out a cylindrical pack of propellant powder for the main gun shells from the main body's ammunition depot.

With a 'swish' sound, she tore open the outer layer of the barrel of gunpowder, wrapped it in waterproof oilcloth, and scattered the black gunpowder on the firewood in the pit.

Then she took out her secondary gun and switched its ammunition to incendiary bombs.

But when he pointed the muzzle of the gun at the pit under his feet, Veneto hesitated.

She wasn't sure if her skills would work.

If a blast turns a small pit into a bigger one, all the firewood in the pit will be gone.

She would have to start collecting wood again.

After thinking for a while, Veneto gritted his teeth and did it.

If you can't win and fail, start over.

"Attention! Artillery!"

Veneto turned around and shouted to the other two sisters.

"Ah? Enemy attack?"

Nagato's hands shook with fear and he looked towards Veneto.

But he found that Veneto lowered his head, looked at the ground, and raised his right hand.

Nagato's first thought was, can the deep sea drill into the ground?

But if you think about it carefully, if the Deep Sea can use a 3D attack method such as attacking from underground, then attacking from behind should be just a piece of cake for the Deep Sea.

Thinking of this, Nagato's hands and feet turned cold.

But the next second, a different kind of artillery sound was heard, different from the usual one.

"Kong!"

A red flash bomb popped out from the muzzle of Veneto's secondary gun and rolled directly into the pit.

“Swish, swish, bang!”

Amid the explosion, strong orange-red flames mixed with blue instantly burst into flames.

Veneto had already picked up the pot with the fish and held it in front of him.

The flames streaked along the arc-shaped bottom of the pot and pointed towards the sky.

Then Veneto loosened his grip and the pot fell onto the pit.

Only the hole reserved for adding firewood was emitting flames, and the other flames were suppressed in the stove by the iron pot.

"Scared me."

Nagato came closer.

"Ah, I was going to give him an incendiary bomb, but then I remembered that a flare might do the trick, too."

Veneto explained as he grabbed the bucket next to him and poured water into the large iron pot.

She then realized that her reputation was just a show of her control over the ship equipment.

You see, she changed her approach and solved the problem with such a quiet voice.

Because time is running out, we don’t know when the deep sea will attack.

In order to eat as soon as possible and to deal with emergencies, Veneto simply took out another gunpowder bag.

She filled the earthen stove with dry branches and sprinkled gunpowder grains to keep the fire under the pot very hot.

Under this forced heating, the water in the pot quickly boiled.

Taking out the seasonings from the ship's space, Veneto threw a few cloves of garlic into the pot, crushed a few pieces of ginger with his bare hands, then tied a whole scallion into a knot and threw it into the pot.

After sprinkling some salt, she just kept the pot dry and that was it.

Because of the rampant deep sea, there is not much human waste in the sea and the marine environment is very good.

In this era, marine fish is a type of food that only requires the simplest cooking methods.

Just use water, a little onion, ginger and garlic to make soup.

Apart from salt, you don't need to add anything else.

"Is it cooked? Is it cooked? Sister Veneto, is it cooked?"

Mutsu anxiously circled the cauldron.

"No, wait."

Veneto didn't even bother to pay attention to Mutsu.

"Oh……"

Mutsu stopped walking around, squatted beside the pot, and stared blankly at Veneto turning the fish in the pot with a large iron shovel used to shovel cement at a construction site.

Except for the Veneto which was too small, the size ratio of the pot, fish and spatula was just right.

Under the high temperature of gunpowder, the clear water in the pot gradually turned into turbid white.

The lines deliberately carved on the fish's body also curled up, revealing the tender white fish meat inside.

"Sister Veneto, are you okay? Are you okay?"

Mutsu suddenly stood up and walked around the big iron pot anxiously.

"Wait a minute!"

Veneto replied as he continued to stir the fish in the pan to prevent it from sticking due to the high flame.

She conveniently put the remaining gunpowder back into her own ship's equipment space.

These can be saved for next time.

The fish in the pot that is cooked over a strong fire in the early stage may not necessarily taste good, and it is more likely that the waste in the blood and flesh of the raw fish has not been stewed out.

So Veneto tried to warm it up a little over low heat as the dish was about to end.

Let's save this pot of soup.

After warming it for a few minutes, Veneto waved his hand.

After wandering around for a while, Mutsu took out a large stainless steel bowl and handed it to Veneto.

The chef sighed, used a spatula to cut off a piece of the tender, white and rotten fish meat that had been cooked over a high flame, and put it into Mutsu's bowl.

The reason Veneto sighed was that Mutsu's bowl was only the size of a human head, and it was definitely not enough for Mutsu to eat.

It was too tiring to carry the food back and forth. If Mutsu had taken out a bowl as big as his face, she wouldn't have sighed.

This would be an era when resource compression technology was immature.

Many ship girls have never even seen what compressed resources look like.

You can only eat resources in their original form, like chewing raw steel.

Veneto recalled the records in history books, there were even some ship girls who could only eat human food for a long time, and ended up going to the battlefield and failing in battle due to "malnutrition", and had to return home in tatters.

Therefore, it is normal for ship girls of this era to fill their stomachs with a fish on this desolate island.

After the battle is over, we will go back to the rear and collect resources.

NO.262: The first ship girl to fight against the deep sea

"It's OK."

Veneto took out a ladle and took a sip of the fish soup.

What a joke! To the cook, everything in the pot belongs to her.

Just eat it from this pot.

Soon, half of the human-sized fish was eaten.

"call out……"

"Enemy attack!"

The sound of cannonballs breaking through the air was heard, and Nagato and Mutsu dropped their bowls and rushed to the seaside.

"Suffer!"

Veneto took out a handkerchief from his ship uniform, wrapped it around the handle of the iron pot, picked up the iron pot, took it off the earthen stove, and placed it on the ground next to it.

Then she took a deep breath and rushed to the beach.

This was her first face-to-face fight with Deep Sea, and also her first time fighting Deep Sea as a ship girl.

It would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous, she was extremely nervous.

You know your own strengths and weaknesses. Not to mention that you have never fired a few shots, you are already unfamiliar with the ship's equipment.

But at this point, she couldn't retreat at all.

The looks of other ship girls, the people killed by the deep sea, the opposing positions... and so on.

No matter which one it is, if singled out, it can become the ultimate reason to prevent her from running away.