The lasers zipped past Yukikaze as she simply charged forward. As usual, her luck is ridiculously high in these types of situations.
"I will not sink!!" (Yukikaze)
The lucky destroyer aimed her 12.7mm Twin Gun and fired a rapid volley of shells at the assailant, a greyish warship with orange markings scattered all over its body. The last mass-produced Siren ship has two planes on its aft and 4 forward facing secondary guns on both sides, and a twin gun mount on its stern. The shells made contact, destroying all 4 secondary guns and blasting a hole in its hull. Its markings glowed amidst the darkness, giving its location away.
"Nice shooting, Yukikaze!" (Moriyama)
The Kure admiral cheered.
"Ehehe~" (Yukikaze)
"It's not dead yet! Don't celebrate too early!" (Nachi)
Nachi and Ashigara fired another volley of shells, blowing up the enemy warship. That's that. Operation complete.
It has been a month since we got intel about the Sirens and how there are different classifications of them. We are still unable to identify which ship belongs to which category though. Nagato-chan didn't mention it and I didn't bother to ask that time. Judging by the planes on its aft, the last one could be a CVL or an aircraft carrying CL, if those exist within the Siren ranks. Right now, we just wrapped up a small operation to retake the Okinoshima Island Seas from these Siren ships. 12 fleets of these ships just appeared out of nowhere overnight and started patrolling the area. Utilizing a combined Surface Task Force, it took Maizuru and Kure three days to clear up the waters, 4 Siren fleets each day. The main fleet consisted of my girls; Yahagi, Sakawa, Mogami, Mikuma, Zuihou and Ryuujou. The escort fleet is made up of girls from Kure; Isuzu, Nachi, Ashigara, Yukikaze, Tanikaze, and Mizuho.
"Mission accomplished. Good job, everyone."
"That was easy. Why did it drag on till the night?" (Isuzu)
"Ugh..." (Zuihou)
"Sorry." (Ryuujou)
"Ah. No, that's not what I meant." (Isuzu)
"Well, it is true that we screwed up earlier. Thanks for covering us." (Yahagi)
"It's alright. That's what friends are for." (Nachi)
Ashigara let out a small moan as she stretched,
"Mnn... Let's head on back. Admiral Keita, are there any bars with handsome men in Maizuru?" (Ashigara)
"Wait, didn't you just go to a mixer last week? I heard from Moriyama."
"Oh, you know. The usual happened." (Moriyama)
"Admiral!!" (Ashigara)
So she didn't meet anyone again. What's new.
"Alright. That's enough. Lets return. Zuihou and Ryuujou are injured so we ought to head on back." (Nachi)
Zuihou and Ryuujou are the only ones that got hurt. Their planes missed most of the fleet and they were bombed by prop planes sent from a Carrier-looking ship with blue markings, putting them out of action early on in the battle. There was a large black one with red markings and 4 Twin gun mounts which tanked quite a large number of shots and torpedoes before blowing up. From there on, barring the missed shots, mopping up the others was considerably easy but the last two enemies had to be finished off by the Escort Fleet after the sun disappeared across the horizon.
"I have the fairies on standby in the canteen for you. Today's dinner is Tonkotsu Ramen with four slices of Chashu."
"Yay! I'm starving!" (Tanikaze)
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Our Bonds (A Kantai Collection Fanfic) (Remastered)
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