In 2013.

More than 70 years have passed since the great battle with the deep-sea fleet, and the dust of history has blurred the traces of the past.

An ordinary young officer, Suzuki Asagi walked on the forest ** of the Kure Port Naval Academy, it was class time, and he didn't see a person along the way. The college of Nuo University, it is rare to have a quiet morning, and it happened to be met by Suzuki Asaki.

"Today is another lucky day."

Stupidly issued the declaration of the second second, he didn't realize that there was a person behind him.

"Young man, your stuff has dropped."

Instead of the gentle senior sister in GALGAME handing over the forgotten textbook, the girl who appeared from behind him like a ghost, dressed in an antique sailor suit of the last century, hung a pair of dead fish eyes, and weakly stuffed Suzuki's cigarette case back into his hand.

"By the way, smoking is not allowed on campus, and if you want to smoke, remember to go to the staff smoking room."

"Old woman, it's very scenic. I didn't expect you to be a doorman here. Suzuki remembered the "girl" in front of him with a black ponytail and no concept of fashion. Although the exact age is not known, according to the recollections of his predecessors, he was at least 50 years old.

The doorman girl jumped up and slapped Suzuki's head. "Young man, put a point of respect on your mouth. If I hadn't broken away from the hull, I would have knocked your head open with a single finger. ”

By chance, Suzuki Asagi, who has grown into a young officer, saw an unknown feeling from the inconspicuous doorman girl in the past, and the other party may really be as the window predecessors said, after decades of years and witness the changes of the times.

"Old woman, it hurts!"

Anyway, everyone is calling her an old-fashioned old woman behind her back, and the bold ones will say this to her face.

"What a nasty guy. Be careful when someone smashes the glass window in the middle of the night. As a special faculty member of the Wugang Naval Academy, she still maintains the heart of fun and is willing to live happily as an ordinary person.

Asagi Suzuki walked into the teaching area and walked up the stairs leading to the classrooms as he had once studied here, and although the campus was fully equipped with elevators the year after he graduated, he still liked to visit his alma mater in the cumbersome way he used to be.

He just crept past the classrooms and watched the instructor explain the naval battles that took place in human history.

“…… When the flagship of the Deep Sea Fleet, the remote island of Suhime, launched an air attack on the important air carrier of the Combined Fleet, Yunhe, as shown in the picture. The Fifth Sentai was at a numerical disadvantage, and the Sixth Sentai flagship Furutaka was hit by multiple bullets, and sent a message to the Kii to change formation. That is to say, the detachments on the battlefield were all busy at that time, and they all needed to be given detailed instructions by Commander Kii. Under normal circumstances, no commander would disregard the safety of the two heavy patrol teams and even directly support the fifth team. But Kii didn't do that......"

A straight, blue woman on the podium is enthusiastically explaining to her students the second Battle of Santa Cruz in the Battle of the Pacific. She switched the slide to the next page, and a layer of gray color overshadowed the chart. "Note that at that time a thick fog rose in the area of the deep sea and visibility was extremely low. The Yunhe air carrier was in the rear and could not take off carrier-based aircraft, and at that time no one would have imagined that the enemy would take off carrier-based aircraft in a cluster in the fog and raid the rear carrier......"

"Deep-sea fleets are not human fleets, they have an innate arrogance. Therefore, a perched concubine relies on the advantages of time and place, and will not care about the results of a few heavy cruises. At that time, the only large ships were Kii and Yunhe, and it was not impossible for Commander Kii to think of this layer. Suzuki knocked on the door and walked into the classroom, explaining to the teacher on the stage. Amamiya-sensei, wouldn't it be better to explain this war in the context of the deep-sea fleet? For example, the performance data of the remote island is listed first. We will find that she is a roadbed-type perch that is biased towards the nulla type. ”

"This classmate, I'm in elementary naval warfare history class, and the psychology of the deep sea fleet won't be taught until the third grade."

"It doesn't matter, the students sitting here are the best students in the country, and they don't have the literacy to read the third-grade books in advance, or they don't even have basic common sense. It won't be a big deal in the future. ”

Suzuki's contemptuous tone immediately detonated the anger of most of the students in the classroom, who were not afraid of a young officer of the Osa-level rank.

The female teacher of Lan Chang in class, Sayo Amamiya saw that her students were about to roll up their sleeves and come up to beat the intruder, so she quickly slapped the desk. "Everyone, be quiet, now study on your own." After saying that, Amamiya Sayo grabbed Suzuki's ears and walked out of the classroom quickly.

In Sayo Amamiya's separate office, Asaki Suzuki unceremoniously opened the refrigerator and grabbed a can of coffee. "Amamiya-sensei, it's rare for me to come back to school to see you, so I don't need to keep a straight face, right? You have just seen which students did not show their anger in the first place, and there must be something to be made in them. ”

"Suzuki-kun, can you learn to respect others? Not everyone has the talent you have, and I've only seen you alone as a high school student who knows how to learn from the third grade in the first grade. But when you go straight to college, you waste your academics and concentrate on mixing up your resume, and you are qualified to laugh at my students? ”

"That's my goal from the beginning, to be a fleet commander. Now please call me Admiral Suzuki. ”

Amamiya felt that it was a waste of time to discuss respect and modesty with Asaki Suzuki, "Say, what are you going to do when you go back to school this time?" I don't think there's anything else here that can teach you. Although you are not popular, I have to admit that you have learned. ”

"My fleet has the privilege of participating in the main attack force, and as you know, there are powerful warship water ghosts in the waters of the Solomons. In the last battle, two admirals were unfortunately killed. I thought that if I died, I would leave no regrets before leaving the station. ”

"The waters of Solomon? Now it is also the most tragic front? Amamiya-sensei seemed to think back to the past, when she was still an ignorant newcomer, and for the first time she broke into the enemy line in a night battle, she was half frightened to death when she dropped a torpedo.

"Don't bother you, thank you for the coffee. I'm going to meet the other teachers. ”

Suzuki got up to leave, and when Amamiya-sensei heard that his former student was leaving for the battlefield, he couldn't help but ignore the other party's bad character. She chased after him and grabbed the other man's sleeve.

"I must return to ...... alive"

Amamiya exerted too much force and dragged the tall Suzuki Asaki to the ground. The originally warm parting of teachers and students has become a different kind of "tragedy".

Suzuki got up from the ground with his back on his back, crying out in pain while complaining about Amamiya-sensei's strength. "Lightly, Teacher, when I come back alive, it's not too late for you to teach me a lesson."

"I'm sorry, I didn't control my strength for a while." Amamiya Sayo has a physical ability that is different from ordinary people, because the government deliberately conceals the relationship, and no one has a detailed understanding of the ship mother of the last century, and the ship mother of the new era is through biotechnology, allowing artificial people to serve as ship contractors.

"My military hat!" Suzuki screamed and quickly picked up the cans that had been dumped on the ground, but the coffee inside had already spilled all over the floor, staining Suzuki's military hat with a large brown color. "It's over, I'm going to Kure Harbor in the evening to attend the sailing ceremony. Sending someone from the town guard must at least ......"

Suzuki Asaki estimated the time, quickly took out his mobile phone, and called the ship's girls who had not left the town guard mansion yet.

"No need. Since you're going to fight, I, as a teacher, don't worry about you leaving like this. Amamiya-sensei was proud of her ability to educate a young and excellent admiral, and she felt that it was time to give that important item to the children of the new era.

As soon as Suzuki heard that the teacher was going to give him a gift, he stopped performing, and he pretended to be in a hurry, but he just wanted to ask for something from the teacher through the matter of the military hat.

Amamiya took out a wooden box from the bottom of the bookcase and placed it solemnly on the desk. When opened, there was only a yellowed military cap inside. "I soiled your hat, so I'll give you back. Cherish it. It's your idol's item. ”

"Kii? A military hat used by Commander Kii during the Pacific Naval War? Suzuki Asagi was very excited, and suddenly felt that he had made a lot of money. I can get the military hat used by my idol, and I can show off like my subordinates in the fleet. "Amamiya-sensei, how do you have Kii's items?"

"Secret."

Before parting, the gentle daughter of the deep put her military hat on her face and agreed to pass on the story. So she became a teacher at the Kure Harbor Naval Academy, and has been trying hard to tell the future children about the glory of the Ninth Sentai in the past.

"With this treasure, I feel that my luck has increased several times."

————

"Suzuki Asahima! This time, you kid actually won the place in the main attack force! Wait, your fleet will surely be defeated anyway. In the end, it will be up to my fleet to sweep the waters of the Solomons. "The admirals who participated in the sailing ceremony were present one after another, and a corner of the dock gathered some of the best admirals in the world.

The one who shouted at Suzuki Asagi was Suzuki Asaki's senior, and the Nagato-class battleships under his command had made a lot of achievements in the previous naval battles.

"Oh, Suzuki-senpai. This time we are part of the main force. Happy to work with. "A yellow-haired boy of Germanic descent walked up to Suzuki and said hello, and behind him was a shipwreck from the German Empire." Bisman-chan, this is my senior, although I graduated a year before him. ”

shook hands with the blonde and blue-eyed German shipwive, and King Kong next to Suzuki Asaki was immediately unhappy and hurriedly stopped by his admiral.

"Suzuki-senpai, the lone female admiral over there is a rookie from the United States. She is said to know the language of the deep sea. It was her fleet that wiped out the canal dwellers that had entrenched the Panama Canal for decades. ”

Suzuki Asaki did not rush to greet the admiral who was traveling with him, because he saw a great man in the crowd walking - Marshal Sakiko Fujita, the soul of the formation of the new combined fleet, and the head of the military command department for decades, walked in front of Suzuki Asaki.

"Don't worry about me. Young people greet each other and chat about gossip to be energetic. "Saki Fujita, who once controlled the Japanese Empire in the name of Akagi, is still in the top position of the navy, although she is old and can't do it as personally as in the past, but at the age of more than 100, she only has a few strands of pale hair, and her appearance is still exactly the same as in the past. Although the ship girl has no fertility, she will not age significantly before the end of her long life.

"How dare you, I don't know what Marshal Fujita is looking for." Suzuki Asaki had a rare look of respect in the face of Marshal Fujita, he had seen Marshal Fujita's inhuman wisdom, as if he was a sage in Western legends.

Fujita's words of advice were unspoken when she saw the military hat, "I wish you good luck." Admiral Suzuki, don't let me down in the first big battle you participated in. ”

"Yes, as told."

————

The rhetoric was just a momentary effort, and Suzuki Asagi couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the battleship water ghost standing in front of him like a high wall. Unfortunately, he collided with the deep-sea core forces including the battleship Water Ghost and the two battleship Qi Ji. The reinforcements from other sides were entangled in the plurality of the empty mother and were unable to divide their forces to support Suzuki Asaki's fleet.

"They are all unreliable teammates, and they still have to rely on me Suzuki at a critical time. Going north, Oi, again preparing torpedoes. The Kongo retreats, Hiei and Haruna attack the remaining battleship Suhime, and Kirishima clears the other enemy ships. Let's find an opportunity to evacuate first, and if we can sink a battleship, we can already make a lot of money. ”

Suzuki Asagi, who was standing on the deck of the Yutachi and commanding the fleet, did not notice that the enemy was quietly coming underwater, and by the time Yutachi beside him changed his face, it was too late to change course in a hurry. The three-headed deep-sea destroyer collided with the Yutachi, and Yutachi also tried to stabilize the hull at the first time and returned fire with naval guns.

Suzuki Asaki and more than a dozen crew members unfortunately fell into the sea, and he probably never thought that he would fall into the water and die in embarrassment.

"This was my first battle at sea, and I had the opportunity to show my commanding skills. I...... Can it ...... Can't ...... at this time."

His mind was blurred by the tremendous impact, and Suzuki felt only salty sea water pour into his windpipe, and the helpless feeling of suffocation deepened his pain.

"Yes, you can't fall here. The first major battle in which the main fleet participated, and the victory without regrets, was the demeanor of the best admiral. ”

In a trance, Suzuki heard someone saying words of encouragement to him, and the voice was particularly beautiful, as if it was a direct conversation with the soul. Familiar and unfamiliar embrace, in the deep sea, a certain girl hugged Suzuki Asaki and took him to the sea.

The story of their bond can't be hastily over, because now is the time to begin.

Breathing air again, Suzuki awoke to be held in the arms of a girl he had never seen before.

Choking on several mouthfuls of water, Suzuki reluctantly crawled back to the Santu River. "Ahem, who are you?"

The girl controlled the ship's guns and aimed at the warship water ghosts who were hostile to her not far away. The salvo of the entire main gun knocked out multiple holes in the ship's sturdy armor.

"Kii, the flagship of the Combined Fleet. I will present you with a miraculous victory. It's agreed~"