"Boom, boom, boom......"

The sound of artillery fire tore through the air, and the piercing explosion turned into a substantial air current, setting off waves more than one meter high, making the already difficult battle of the ship's girls even more into a bitter battle. The debris of the torpedo sank to the bottom of the sea after the explosion, and the burning gunpowder stained the sea water black, and under the surface of the sea, countless deep sea expulsions rushed out of the bottom of the sea in a frenzy, and then pounced on the shipwives on the surface of the sea.

The black muzzle, the hideous blood-red one-eyed, and the huge figure brought a sense of oppression that was difficult to ignore to everyone.

They, just expulsions.

"Boom!"

Raising the battleship armament in his hand, without waiting for the ship's mother to aim at the target, the oncoming artillery bombardment made them fall into a state of breakdown.

One shot, just one attack from the enemy, is enough to make them ineffective.

However, no one knows what kind of damage the enemy's next attack will bring to them and to themselves.

Break or sink?

"Come on, everyone!"

Turning around, a girl with short brown ear-length hair shouted to the ship girls behind her: "The Admiral will send the main force over soon, hold on a little longer, and it will be good for a while!" ”

"The Admiral will come, he will!"

"The main force is behind us!"

"We must buy time for them!"

Countless ragged girls are trying to bombard the enemy in front of them with the tattered weapons in their hands, and they are all doing their best, because this is the order of the admiral they love—————— take up arms and go to fight the deep sea!

One by one, their companions were hit by artillery fire, and the number of enemies far exceeded their imagination.

This is the uncharted sea, and they are not even a vanguard army......

"Why are we fighting, what are we fighting against?" Standing on the surface of the sea, the royal sister with long straight black hair opened her empty eyes, looking blankly at her enemies, and the poor little girls who kept dying.

Seven years have passed, how many times, repeating the battle of that day, repeating the sorrow in the depths of my heart, I know better than anyone else that what I see now is just a nightmare that keeps repeating!

But why......

'Stop, that's enough. ’

Why can't you still forgive yourself?

'Enough! ’

Forgive the mistakes you once made.

'Please, stop......

Also, the cursed self.

"Stop!!"

Fight desperately, fight everything, and even if you run out of ammo, you must defeat the deep sea in front of you.

Just, unconsciously.

The girl she was familiar with was gone, and the figures she was familiar with disappeared into her world one by one.

"It's strange, they, they're just expelling, they must be on an expedition in the rear, Admiral?" Nagato stood in the Admiral's office in her dream, looking at the man sitting behind her desk, and she tried to smile at him: "But, why, why are they gone, from our town guard's mansion ......"

"Yes, no," tears welled up in her eyes, "Please, tell me, those children, those children, where the hell did they go?!" ”

A hoarse cry echoed in the office, but the man was not moved by it in the slightest.

"Don't you already know, Nagato......"

"They're not coming back," the man's voice was so calm, but in Nagato's ears, it was more terrifying than anything else: "Never come back." ”

The man's gaze met Nagato's teary-eyed face, and he said coldly, "It's like Mutsu!" ”

Nagato was trembling, she didn't want to believe it, she didn't want to admit that it had actually happened!

"How, how so?"

"This kind of thing, Admiral, how could the Admiral do such a thing?"

"How could it be ......?"

The crying stopped, Nagato clenched her teeth, a wisp of bangs obscuring her gaze, but the man knew that she was asking herself, asking herself why she had made that decision.

I don't know when the familiar faces disappeared one after another, replaced by strange children, and then one day, these children will also disappear inexplicably.

Where did they go?

Why did it disappear?

Until he heard the answer from his respected admiral, Nagato still couldn't believe the fact: "Yes, I'm on the battlefield, I'm going to fight the deep sea......"

Nagato no longer shed tears, she looked at the Admiral, her eyes were still gentle and kind: "Admiral, you are just careless, and those children, they, they are just lost, because they are so happy to play, so they forgot the way home......"

"Accidentally, this kind of evaluation!" The man whispered this fact: "I have never let my guard down from the beginning to the end of this war!" ”

In the office, on the bright marble floor, Nagato bowed his head and said nothing.

"Can you tell me...... Lost, gloomy, and incredulous, with all sorts of emotions encompassing all sorts of emotions, Nagato asked, "Why did you do this?" ”

"Why, isn't it obvious," the man raised his head, and above the heads of the two of them, on a huge chart, marked countless deep-sea strongholds: "Everything I do, everything, is for the victory of this battle!" ”

All for the sake of victory in this battle!

"They're still children......"

"But they're ship girls!" With a firm tone, an answer that was so cold that it didn't carry any human emotion, he defined all the ship's mothers: "In order to win, we must make a choice, any battle, any war, sacrifice is inevitable!" ”

Raising his head, the man looked directly at Nagato and said, "Their sacrifice is to obtain this victory, for the future of all mankind, and to pay for their lives, for the ship's mother, isn't this their most glorious destination?!" ”

Do you want to belong......

Yes, isn't the fate of all ship mothers just sacrifice?

Fighting for the Admiral, sacrificing their lives and all their love for the Admiral, for all ship girls, this is their most belonging choice, and it is also the most beautiful fate: "Is it just like Mutsu?" ”

"Ahh

As if thinking of Mutsu, the man smiled appreciatively: "She has indeed made the most correct choice!" ”

Yes, Mutsu is indeed a very good child.

'Nagato, I've always been a strong person, the back that has been working there non-stop, really, I really want to catch up,' in his arms, the girl's body is getting heavier and heavier, and her body is sinking into the sea little by little, Nagato desperately wants to grab her hand, but he can't stop it: "I can't fight with Nagato for the Admiral anymore......

'Take care of them, sister.' ’

The girl's voice, that gentle smile, obviously she is her sister, but why, she can't even fulfill her last wish?

Why......

"Sister Nagato, we're on an expedition!"

"In order to make you on the front line better able to fight, we also have to work hard to get resources!"

"Come on, everyone!"

"Oh! Oh! Oh! ”

"When you come back, let's play together again~~~"

Those innocent, trusting smiles, they are innocent......

"I'm sorry, Mutsu, I'm still," two pitch-black muzzles unfolded in the office, Nagato raised his head, ruby eyes stared coldly at the man in front of him, her admiral, tears, dripping down Nagato's cheeks: "Unforgivable......"