Shut up! I'm not a destroyer!

The boss nodded resignedly.

The customer insisted, so of course he had no choice but to do it.

But before that, he should show his professionalism and remind the guests.

"Thank you anyway."

Veneto is more in favor of this frugal behavior.

Nagato looked at Veneto who was unaware of the situation, then looked at the shop owner who had mistaken the ship girl for someone else, and silently worried for the owner.

Isn't this unlucky?

There are also taboos for KanColle, like Veneto, Akagi, Alaska and many others.

It will be very miserable if you don't know the business.

Even she herself has it.

For example, if anyone dared to touch Veneto, she would execute that person.

This has become her obsession.

After returning from Veneto, the obsession of finding Veneto turned into an obsession of never letting Veneto be kidnapped again.

KanColle and the deep sea were born out of obsession.

NO.468 Build your own garrison

It was quite comfortable to return to the human world. At least the food problem that she was most concerned about was solved.

And it seemed like Nagato stopped asking her about the time she was missing, which made her feel relieved.

Theoretically, she should have escaped the interrogation period? The intensity of the defense should be lowered from now on.

She believed that Nagato would not test her for no reason, and the ship girl who could do such a thing was called Aoba.

Sure enough, after that, Nagato never asked Veneto about what happened during his disappearance.

According to Nagato, now that Veneto is back, all we need to do is figure out how to prevent that from happening again.

She stopped asking Veneto about those bad things, because every time she asked, it seemed that Veneto would recall those bad things again.

Nagato didn't want Veneto to think about those things again, so she didn't plan to bring it up again.

After dinner, Nagato took Veneto to find a place to stay.

"There is no tutelary fort here. Let's build one ourselves."

Veneto followed Nagato forward and finally spoke out the thoughts that were circling in his head.

She didn't know who had originally established the naval base in Sasebo, but she felt that even if it wasn't her, now that she had established it, any admiral could move in.

But these ship girls don’t have to stay in a hotel every time.

Although the cost of staying in a hotel is not high compared to the money they earn from missions, some hotels even offer discounts.

But after all, it’s not my own territory, and I always feel something is weird living here.

It’s still a comfortable house to live in because it’s built by myself.

It may be that the time spent living on the deep-sea Yamato Island caused Veneto to develop this strange habit.

"We build it? But doesn't that require an admiral to build a tutelary fort? If there's no admiral, the authorities won't recognize it."

Nagato frowned and asked Veneto.

"That's true, but we are stationed here now. We can't just not have a base."

Veneto pursed his lips.

"Besides, we now accept missions at the mercenary hall, which seems like we are competing with mercenaries for missions, which seems a bit offensive. Why don't we set up a mission hall of our own?"

She remembered the underground mission base she saw in Saga Castle.

If they can set up a place like that, then as serious ship girls, would there be any problem in setting up a ship girl mission hall?

Even if the authorities do not admit it, at least they will not ban it. They are not doing anything illegal.

"But this requires cohesion. Besides, the money between the two of us is barely enough to build a house, let alone buy land."

Nagato also realized that what Gwen said made sense.

Even if a ship girl can live well anywhere, she actually hopes to have a place where she can stay for a long time. It would be great if that place can be called home.

But in reality, there are very few ship girls who can buy a house and settle in a city.

Because many ship girls actually don’t have any other survival skills except fighting in the deep sea.

They only go to the cities ravaged by the deep sea, seemingly to provide support but actually to "migrate".

But in reality, no ship girl is willing to wander around like this and have no fixed place to live.

Nagato thought about the pitiful time Veneto had spent outside, and felt that perhaps it was because of that stimulation that Veneto burst out with his current thoughts.

"If it is supported by the higher-ups, we can build the garrison without having to pay for it."

The garrison was built with official funds, so of course the ship girls didn't have to spend any of their own money.

But at the same time, you need an admiral to get government funding.

They are just ship girls entangled with each other, there is no way to solve the problem.

"So, Nagato, you've been here for quite a while, but you haven't met any other ship girls? We can tell them about our plan, maybe they will be willing to help us."

After all, this is a good thing that benefits all the ship girls. Veneto thinks that there should be no ship girl who really can't figure this out.

Besides, for the Freedom Ship Girls, spending money to build a garrison and then living in it is actually the same as staying in a hotel and then paying the money to the hotel.

But the biggest difference is ownership.

No matter how comfortable the hotel is, it does not belong to the ship girl herself.

"Veneto, you should know that many ship girls go wherever there is a deep sea. They don't have a fixed place. Even if they want to, they won't really go find one."

Nagato remembered the key question.

"Even if Sasebo is the front line, many ship girls can't stay here forever... or in other words, during the intervals when there are no deep-sea invasions, many ship girls still have to go somewhere else to seek a livelihood."

This is a very helpless thing.

"Without official funding, the garrison built by the shipgirls out of their own pockets will not last long."

Nagato's words made Veneto stroke his chin and think.

Why would those ship girls go to the city with deep sea invasion to make a living when there is no deep sea invasion? Because the deep sea doesn't have to come, they just want to find the deep sea.

It cannot be said that they will not fight against the deep sea just because the deep sea is not there.

For ordinary free ship girls, more than half of their income comes from the various resources brought back from the deep-sea wreckage when they are fighting against the deep sea.

They are not like the ship girls of the naval base.

Even if the ship girls of the garrison do not go out to cause trouble in the deep sea, they still have resources and food subsidized by them.

Even in the most impoverished naval base, even if the equipment is not that comfortable to wear or use, at least the ship girls can still have food to eat.

Living a hard life doesn't mean you can't survive, but if the ship girl builds her own garrison, she may not even have enough food to eat.

In the absence of deep-sea invasions, they might end up not even having enough to eat.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that there are no ship girls who would agree with Veneto’s idea. It’s just that those ship girls are either little ones who have just been born not long ago and don’t understand the dangers of the world. They just wishfully do what they want according to the ideas in their minds.

But those guys don't have much money.

Or they are some very powerful characters, those high-level ship girls who are already financially independent.

They didn't care at all whether setting up a garrison would cost money, thinking that they already had enough money to spend through their long-term missions.

But there's no reason for those older sisters to form a naval base for ship girls with a ship girl like Veneto.

If they want, they can do it themselves.

Maybe based on their fame, many more ship girls will come to visit them.

How could a ship girl come to a little guy like Veneto who has no fame at all?

This is a very realistic problem and one that cannot be avoided.

A letter to readers

I'm sorry for not updating in February. After careful consideration, I decided to tell you the truth. Please forgive me.

I am young and incompetent. I got hemorrhoids two months ago, which later worsened into a cyst. I can no longer sit at my desk and can only lie down or lie prone.

If I sit at the desk, the abnormal sensation in my anus will be unbearable.

The injury has now subsided and he is gradually returning to normal.

NO.469 See Yamada Office Again

"But what you said is true..."

Nagato hesitated, looked at Veneto, and stopped.

"Let's find a house first, and then we can talk about where to stay."

Only then did Veneto realize that the two of them had arrived at the door of a real estate agency.

The company is not big, just a two-story building. The downstairs is a storefront, and no one knows what the upstairs is used for.

The door is a defenseless paper door, but it will most likely be replaced with a wooden board at night. This shows that this agency actually does not have much money and is not worried about theft at all.

Nagato was the first to push open the sliding door made of a wooden frame and paper.

"Excuse me, excuse me... who are you?"

A young man in the room was eating ramen.

When he was having a great time, the door of his shop, which had not been visited for a long time, was opened. He was so startled that his hand holding the noodles stopped in mid-air.

After he realized what was happening, he quickly put down his chopsticks, stood up and smiled apologetically.

But then he was stunned again.

"You are shipgirls, right?"

After saying this, Veneto saw the young man rub his hands together in excitement, a movement similar to that of a fly.

"Yes, is this a real estate agency?"

Nagato didn't think there was anything wrong with the young man's behavior.

In the era when people lived in Veneto, most ordinary people rarely saw ship girls, let alone in this era when ship girls are even rarer.

Therefore, she had long been accustomed to seeing the various strange behaviors of the ship girls.

But Veneto was startled by the young man's actions.

The person actually looks pretty good, but when he does this action, he looks vulgar no matter how you look at him.

It's like a gangster seeing a beautiful woman or something, it's really worrying.

So she actually wanted to change an agency, at least to stay away from this strange guy.

When he was still a boy, he was at least a handsome young man, otherwise there wouldn't be so many ship girls following him.

Now that she has been a ship girl for some time, she has become more sensitive to former people of the same sex getting close to her.

But Nagato stopped, and Veneto had to keep his temper.

"Excuse me……"

The young man looked Veneto up and down, as if he had noticed something, but he did not make any changes to himself.

"Let's look for a house."

Of course Nagato understood what the young man meant.

With this idea in mind, few ship girls would choose to buy a house.

It’s still the same reason, because they have to make a living by destroying the deep sea, so the ship girls are often nomadic, following the deep sea, and going wherever there are more deep seas.