The slightly weird commander's ship girl tour

"Yeah! Laffey is your first wedding ship, but Nagashima arrived at the port area before Laffey. I don't know what her situation is."

Yes, in Guayou, you can choose one of three initial ships, from Laffey, Z23 and Javelin, but you will find that there is an extra Long Island in the warehouse.

"Besides Long Island's first carrier?"

"Enterprise senior!"

"The first fully-leveled ship?"

"Tirpitz!"

"...Wait a minute...I'm feeling a bit confused." Huang Chen shook his head. What was going on? How did everything line up?

Is she really my ship girl?

But...it's just a game, right?

Did I travel to the world of the game?

How could this happen?

"Then... what is the tomb?" After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a conclusion, so he simply put it aside and solved other problems first.

Yes, if this is really the ship girl in my previous game, then who is lying in that grave now?

"Grave..." Hearing this topic, the blue-haired girl seemed to have thought of something. Her eyelids drooped slightly, and her tone was a little low, but it disappeared in an instant. "When they thought you were dead, they built a cenotaph for you."

"They? Think? A cenotaph?"

"The Sirens were active at the time, even high-level Sirens appeared, and several fleets launched attacks. They said you were in command at first, but suddenly you went back on your own. This has happened before, but you would quickly return to the front lines, so they didn't pay much attention to it."

"But I can't find you like this."

"Later, I learned that there had been an inexplicable explosion in the port area, and your office had been reduced to rubble. I couldn't find you after that."

"Of course we don't believe you died just like that. After all, it was just an explosion! How could the commander die from a mere explosion? And we can't even find your body!"

"But we can't find you either. The communicator isn't responding either."

"Some suspected you had been abducted by the Sirens, though the possibility was slim. So we hastily attacked again, routing the enemy at the time, but we still couldn't find you."

"You just disappeared like that."

"Later, people from Kanmusu headquarters came to investigate and confirmed that you had entered the office and had not left. Then the port exploded, the office was reduced to ruins, and you disappeared."

“So you are considered dead.”

"But how can this be accepted? It's just the way it is. How could the commander just die suddenly when he was perfectly fine? He was clearly directing the battle just a moment ago?"

"And there's no body. He must have left before the explosion, right? He probably drifted off somewhere and couldn't find his way home."

"So everyone scattered and tried to find you. At first, there were only a few small teams."

"Later, everyone wanted to help, and more and more people went out. There were almost no people in the port area. At first, everyone would still go back to the port to replenish resources. But some sisters worked along the way to go to farther places and walked a long way in one breath."

“It was several years later when I came back.”

"And so, the number of people outside increased, while the number of people in the harbor decreased. Finally, when we returned to the harbor one day, it had become a ruin, with no one left. I heard it was revenge by the Sirens."

"Then it was taken over by the KanColle headquarters, after all, the commander disappeared."

The blue-haired girl spoke calmly, but her indifferent tone made Huang Chen feel distressed.

Time can smooth everything out, and the memories that were engraved in the heart at that time can now be told as a joke, but how can those who hear it for the first time not feel sad?

I searched again and again, but came back disappointed again and again.

From the initial hope to the end, all hopes were worn away bit by bit.

Every time I returned to the port area, I watched the sisters I once knew disappear. The once glorious port area became more dilapidated and run-down, until it finally turned into ruins.

Then I wandered around like a lost soul.

I do not know how long it has been.

The memories of the past are so long that they seem like a dream, making people really doubt whether that beautiful past really existed.

"But! No matter what, the commander is finally back." The girl raised her head and looked at Huang Chen, "As long as the commander is back, nothing else matters."

"No matter how far you go, I will always be by your side, and keep going with you."

"Essex-class aircraft carrier - Essex, hull number CV-9, reporting to you!" The blue-haired girl had tears in her eyes, but she raised a bright smile.

Chapter 003: Actually, I refuse to be the commander

"Essex?" Huang Chen looked at the girl in front of him carefully again.

She has long lavender hair and amber eyes. Her face is filled with joy and sweetness. There are still some unwiped water stains at the corners of her eyes, which are slightly red. She looks very cute.

Huang Chen had an impression of Essex in the game. She was very powerful, with a cute portrait. How could he forget her as a target of persecution?

After all, there are so many ship girls in that game that it is impossible to remember them all, but there are always some characters that have outstanding advantages.

For example, powerful strength, portraits or skins that happen to match the XP system, interesting settings, etc.

Essex fits the bill perfectly. He appears to be an excellent student, but is actually a bit of a loser.

Especially lifting the firing restriction is a great skill!

How can you not like it? After getting it, hang a secretary ship, commission it, reach level 100, then go out to force a marriage in 1-1, and then put it in the dock after a set of processes.

But no matter how much I like the girl in the game, it still feels a little unbelievable and hard to accept that she suddenly appears in front of me.

In my previous life, I had thought many times how nice it would be if the wives in the game were real, but now that they have become reality, I don’t know what to say for a moment.

Whether it was because of Ye Gong's love for dragons or because he followed his heart, Huang Chen was at a loss and didn't know what to do.

For a moment, I actually felt that the withered branches not far away were quite artistic - why didn't I feel that way before?

"Ah! Essex, I remember you have an eagle?" But this wouldn't work. Turning his head and looking at the girl in front of him, Huang Chen made small talk.

"Hawk-chan? It's at Bumblebee's now. Commander, do you want to go check it out? It's a pity she slept in this morning, otherwise she could have seen the Commander."

"Is Bumblebee here too?" Huang Chen asked.

Speaking of Bumblebee, he also had an impression of her. Obviously, all the Yorktown-class aircraft carriers had white hair, but she had golden hair. Coincidentally, Bismarck had golden hair, and Tirpitz had white hair. They happened to be members of the Eight Talents Team, so some people jokingly said that they might have picked up the wrong one.

It seemed like he had accidentally fished it out and put it aside. After all, he had quite a lot of aircraft carriers at that time. He was a lazy person and treated the game almost as a picture collection game.

I didn't pay much attention to it. Later I seemed to practice it for the illustration mission, but that was it.

"After the port area was dispersed, everyone dispersed. Although we know that the commander is definitely fine and will not disappear like this, how should we put it? We still feel a little confused, right?"

“So everyone found something they liked to do.”

"Enterprise-senpai works at the Kanmusu headquarters. The last time I saw her, she was already the vice-chairman!"

"I heard Benson opened a coffee shop, and several of her sisters are helping out there."

"Nagato seems to be at a shrine? Or maybe Amagi and the others? I can't remember exactly."

"Bumblebee and I are traveling together, and this time we're just going back to the port to check it out."

"Come back?" Huang Chen was a little confused. He had been in Fengcheng for two or three months and had never heard that there was a port here. He had heard that there was a ship girl branch, but he didn't know where it was.

"Yes! Come back! This used to be our port!" Essex pursed his lips and asked doubtfully, "Commander, don't you remember?"

“…I don’t quite remember.” Huang Chen was silent. What could he remember?

"Is this where the port area used to be?" He looked around. The gravel road was winding and rugged, with weeds growing everywhere. There were small debris everywhere that might be stones or other things.

You can still faintly hear the chirping of insects and the occasional bird calls.

In the distance is the vast sea level. The morning sun creates ripples on the sea like fish scales, and several cruise ships can also be seen.

But I can't imagine what this place used to be like as a port area.

"Yes! This was the front line back then! The port was stationed here. Now it has become a safe sea area. After the port became a ruin, it was converted into a park by the ship girl headquarters. That cenotaph was also built by them." Essex replied.

"But at the time, we didn't really want this so-called cenotaph. After all, the commander was definitely fine! But the KanColle headquarters insisted on building one."

"Then I thought since the port area was gone anyway, it would be nice to have a memorial there, so I stopped paying much attention to it."

"...How many ship girls are there in our port area?"

"About four hundred or so? I'm not sure, but Commander, you can ask Tirpitz. She's the secretary ship leader, so she'll definitely know."

"Tirpitz...where is she?"

"As for her? She should be with Bismarck, right? The last time I saw them, they seemed to be running a bookstore? Serious shipgirls like them, they're only suited to that kind of place, right?"

After Essex finished speaking, he stared at Huang Chen for a long time, until the latter could not help but turn his head, and then he said, "Commander, you won't leave this time, right?"

"What are you talking about leaving or not? I'm just here, where else can I go?" Huang Chen didn't know how to answer. What commander, what ship girl, suddenly appearing like this, it was really too dreamy.

"Why don't you come over to where I live?" He suddenly said, inexplicably.

……

Walking along the dilapidated streets towards the rented place,

Essex followed behind, his amber eyes sparkling with energy.

The girl looked around, passing many low, dilapidated buildings along the way. They had been abandoned for a long time, and weeds had grown into the houses.

Continuing along the path, we came to an alley with dilapidated brick walls on both sides. There may have been pictures on them in the past, but now only some colors that have not faded are left.

Huang Chen walked in front, feeling uneasy.

He had thought that traveling through time inexplicably was the most fantastical thing, but now he was told that not only he had come here, but the hundreds of girls in his previous life’s phone had also come here.

No one can be calm.

As for why there were several decades of errors in the middle, even the tombs were built...

After all, it is a time travel, and anything magical can happen!

It's just a little time difference.

But even though he knew that these were all his ship girls, he still found it difficult to accept it and feel at ease being the commander.

He understood what Essex meant, which was that he wanted him to go back to be the commander, but there were many reasons why he didn't want to be the commander.

First of all, I can’t accept it in my heart, just like I said before.

To these girls, he is the commander they live with day and night, but to him, this is just a game?

What's the difference between the girl in front of me and a stranger?

Although I felt quite sad when I heard Essex talk about the past of the port area, it was more of a sense of guilt that the lucky ones felt towards the unfortunate ones.

It's more like someone else's story, without any personal experience.

Secondly, although Huang Chen is not a good person, he does have basic moral bottom line.

Such a lovely and perfect person suddenly appeared out of nowhere and called you Commander, and you just accepted it?

Something's wrong with you!

At least Huang Chen couldn't. Not to mention that he was being pretentious or anything like that, the education he received in the past didn't allow him to do such a thing of taking advantage of others.

Finally, it’s ability.

This is a port area with more than 400 people!

Just to put it simply, how can you take care of the eating, drinking, defecating and urinating of more than 400 people without any skills?

In addition, what about sorties, missions, resources, ship girl training, acting, equipment distribution, ship equipment modification...

It makes me feel dizzy just thinking about it, right?

In his previous life, he was a slacker when playing games. He had no idea about scientific research, fleet technology, command, etc. Now he is asked to be a commander?

Anyway, he doesn't think he has such ability.

Even though he had heard about the commander's wonderful life, he still refused when you suddenly asked him to take up the position.

Turning his head slightly to look back, he saw Essex following quietly behind him, his face expressionless, but he couldn't hide the curiosity and joy in his eyes.

He couldn't bear to tell such a lovely girl, "I don't want to be a commander anymore, leave!" or something like that.

Let's take a step by step.