Azur Lane Mobile Front.

Richelieu pointed out Rob's mistakes.

"???"

"Joan of Arc has also decided to stay, Commander."

"The Iris of Liberty, Joan of Arc, is now under your command, Commander."

Joan of Arc stepped forward and openly announced her joining the port.

The once bustling office suddenly fell silent.

Everyone stared at the ship that bore the name of the saintess.

Belfast looked at the two members of Free Iris, her eyes gleaming, lost in thought.

Zhenhai was taken aback at first, then immediately turned his gaze to Luo Bo.

Yi Xian, however, seemed to have been prepared for this situation and did not show much surprise.

Luo Bo, the person involved, took several deep breaths to calm himself down.

"Fine, do whatever you want. Yixian, take them to complete the formalities."

After Richelieu's elaborate plea for joining yesterday, Robb is now completely unleashed. As the saying goes, "Many lice don't itch, many debts don't worry."

"By the way, Commander, where is the kitchen? I'd like to make some breakfast."

Before leaving, Joan of Arc suddenly turned around.

"Wasn't breakfast already served in the dining room? Didn't anyone tell you?"

"Oh, Master, it was Belfast's mistake. Please punish me, Master."

The head maid was the first to step forward and take the blame.

"Don't bully the newbie!"

Rob has seen plenty of this kind of thing in his entire life.

Sure enough, with so many people, the team becomes difficult to manage.

No one knows how much of Rob's somewhat stern remark actually took to heart.

It is foreseeable that the future of Robo's port area will be quite colorful.

They had just seen Richelieu off when, not long after, the company pushed open the door and rushed in as if fleeing a disaster.

"Grey Ghost, don't run away! What kind of hero runs away after winning one game! Come and fight me again!"

Okay, no need to ask why.

Before Zuikaku changed its uniform, it knew it was no match for the company, so it always refrained from challenging them to a "duel".

Now that the Destiny Gundam is in his hands, if he could still hold back, he wouldn't be Zuikaku.

To be fair, Rob did have some foresight, promptly replacing the body parts of his own company with equivalent ones.

Zuikaku followed closely behind; his voice entered the room even before he arrived.

"Grey Ghost, you... Ah! Good morning, Commander!"

Since changing her clothes, Ruihe felt like she was invincible again. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion yesterday, she would have challenged the company to a "duel" on the spot.

Of course, Rob also thought she was really capable.

This point actually managed to pull the company out of bed. Even Rob himself might not have been so confident.

Moreover, according to what Ruihe said, the two of them have already fought at least once.

Looking at his initial ship's messy white fur, Rob estimated that it probably hadn't even had time to wash up before being dragged away by Zuikaku.

Yes, Ruihe is truly courageous to have withstood a round of morning grumpiness.

"Alright, alright. Zuikaku, it's so early in the morning. Perfect timing, let me assign you a task."

Seeing the pleading look in his company's eyes, Rob took a letter of authorization from Belfast.

"Task?"

Zuikaku received the commission letter for a patrol mission, and it was a patrol mission to a rather distant place.

Even at my current pace, I can't finish each one in two or three days.

"Tch~ Gray Ghost, you wait, I'll settle things with you when I get back!"

After uttering a harsh remark, Zuikaku took the letter of authorization and turned to leave.

At the very least, she couldn't refuse the assignment given by her own commander.

"Oh, right... Commander, um... Shoukaku-nee, she..."

Like the wind, he didn't even see how Zuikaku turned back from the doorway. By the time Rob reacted, Zuikaku's face was less than ten centimeters away from him.

"Huh? Wh...what?"

"Well...look, Shoukaku-nee has been recuperating for so long..."

"Oh, I understand. I'll arrange it as soon as possible."

Upon hearing Zuikaku's words, Rob remembered that there was such a "sickly beauty" in his port area.

"Really? But Commander, you've said that so many times?"

Ruihe looked at Luo Bo with suspicion, indicating that he was not trying to fool him and that he was quite well-read.

Robert didn't want to say anything more and pushed Zuikaku away.

After Ruihe left, the companies that had been hiding behind Luo Bo finally came to light.

Seeing the lingering fear on the company's face, Luo Bo chuckled.

It seems that being dragged out of bed is still too terrifying for businesses, especially now that winter is approaching and the sealing power of the blankets is becoming stronger.

"So, are you going back to sleep, or why don't you just get up and help me complete a few tasks?"

After tidying up the messy hair for the company, Rob pulled out a few more power of attorney documents.

"Commander, please help me think of a solution."

The company accepted the letter of authorization without even glancing at it.

It seems that after being disturbed by Ruihe for a while, the company is wide awake.

However, this can't go on forever; sooner or later, I'll be driven crazy by that Ruihe.

"Why don't you just lock the door?"

"She came in through the window!"

The company's words resonated deeply, and the ship, which had been busy working in the room, instantly fell silent.

Zuikaku, that's a bit outrageous.

"Well... you go ahead. Anyway, Zuikaku probably won't be in the port area for the next couple of days. I'll think of something else for you."

After a long silence, Rob couldn't think of a solution and could only tell the company to go wash up first.

Chapter 88: The Observer Decides to Make a Big Mistake

An unknown territory.

A place completely incomprehensible; perhaps, for humankind, this is the realm of "gods."

Or perhaps, this is another world, a place that observes and records countless worlds.

Surrounded by strange ship-like equipment resembling box jellyfish, a girl dressed in white, with white clothes, white skirt, white socks, and even completely white hair, rests her head on a huge white pillow.

Her slightly open eyes made it impossible to tell whether she was awake or still dreaming.

"Humanoid weapons... that don't rely on the Mind Cube as their core energy source..."

"Did 'his' research succeed...? Or was it just an extra, unnecessary page in the story...?"

"Requires...special marking...testing ground β..."

"Phew...zzz"

A few barely audible words, it's hard to tell whether they were a young girl's murmurs in her sleep or a conversation with someone in an unknown way.

The only certainty is that the girl did indeed fall asleep after a few words.

The unknown depths of the ocean.

The observer awakens from the new container.

She moved her body, her joints making a "crackling" sound.

"Wow~ Observer, you actually got sunk~"

The Purifier circled the Observer with a gloating expression, its silly grin making the Observer's fists clench.

However, she doesn't have time to deal with the Purifiers for the time being.

Through the observer network unique to the observer, Zero, the highest-ranking observer among the sirens, sent her new instructions.

"Purifier, go fetch the test subject. There's a new mission. Hehehe~ Sure enough, my conclusion was correct. That commander... there's something wrong with him~"

The familiar smile returned to the observer's face.

Being sunk once seemed to be no big deal to her at all.

This time, she could finally expand the scope of her experiment and test who exactly the commander she had been concerned about for so long was.

"However... Lord Zero didn't send any arbitration body to me? This is a bit troublesome~"

After the Purifiers left, the Observers began planning this "experiment".

Given the limited manpower available, this experiment is proving quite difficult.

The observer played with the tentacles on the ship's equipment, his eyes gleaming and his expression complex.

As one party in the experiment, they are now being suppressed in terms of power by the "experimental individual." If the experiment goes wrong, it will be difficult to resolve the situation.

"Hmm~ how about we just combine the several 'experiments' together?"

However, observers say she's a professional when it comes to courting death.

Since things are going to end badly anyway, why not go all out? The outcome can't be any worse, right?

"Hehe~ Let me think about it carefully, how can I ensure that all the actors are on time?"

...

Somewhere in the Iron Blood.

Frederick the Great is sorting through the intelligence he has recently received.

Since the Royal Navy acquired the new "ship equipment", the ports owned by Ironblood have never been peaceful.

Every now and then, Queen Elizabeth would give the Iron-Blooded Army a fancy demonstration of what it meant to have a dragon riding in their face.

Fortunately, all of this is still within the scope of the plan.

The only thing Frederick the Great couldn't understand was that the old lady who posed the greatest threat had never appeared on the battlefield since the North Sea Crown Incident.

"Besides nighttime... are there any other restrictions?"

With his hands supporting his chin, Frederick the Great's dark golden eyes shone brightly in the dimly lit room.

"Gneisenau, move this batch of experimental equipment to...the port."

“There? But that’s the port most vulnerable to royal attacks.”

Gneisenau, unusually, raised objections to Frederick the Great's decision.

Although this batch of experimental equipment has already been used and is no longer of great value, the current shortage of resources for Ironblood is even more severe than before.

It seems a bit inappropriate to leave it in the port and let the Royal Navy blow it up like that.

"Execute the command."

Frederick the Great did not offer much explanation, nor did she need everyone to understand her actions; she only needed the results.

"Okay, I understand!"

The dialogue window closed after Gneisenau accepted the mission, and the room returned to darkness, leaving only Frederick the Great's dark golden eyes still gleaming.

"The bait has been laid. Now, let's see if the prey will take the bait on its own."