Mission

Two months already passed since the founding of Okazaki's units at Yokosuka. And today Aoba wakes up in a good mood as usual. She stands up and dashes towards the bathroom to take a bath without waking up Kinugasa.

The moment Kinugasa wakes up, she already sees Aoba that already prepared for today mission. She then smirks and says,

"Good morning, Aoba..."

"Good morning, Kinugasa," said Aoba as she finished everything

"Another mission today? It seems you are really busy lately."

"Ahahahahaha... What do you expect? Aoba's unit is the unit that will be used as the core for a bigger operation."

"Isn't that good for you? But, when will you gather with your team?"

"At 700 Hours."

"Isn't that 15 minutes from now?"

Aoba quite surprised to hear that and looks at the clock in her room. She then starts to run towards the door and says,

"Probably Aoba will come home late. So you didn't need to wait for Aoba! Bye, Kinugasa"

"I know. Be careful out there and see you later Aoba."

Kinugasa only could smile to see her sister and then she starts her usual days as usual. It needs five minutes for Aoba to arrived at the dock. She could see a lot of Ship Girls already prepare themselves for their next mission. That including Yayoi and Uzuki that already near Kimura. She runs towards them and salutes Kimura. She also says,

"Good morning, Admiral!"

"Good morning, Aoba," said Kimura when he seeing Aoba that just arrived there.

"Aoba really sorry for comes a little bit late."

"That's alright. Our units will be dispatch soon after the mechanic finished repairing some equipment inside the command ship. And at the time we arrived at the designated points, Admiral Amarov should be already done gathering any information regarding the enemy for us." explains Kimura

"Eh? Is that so?"

Kimura nods at Aoba's comment and then looks at three of her Ship Girls. He then says,

"Then, I will relay our mission today. The goals for today mission is to find and eliminate three Abyssal Destroyer and one Abyssal Light Cruiser. Do you understand?"

"Sir, Yes Sir!" answer three of them

"But, we still need to move with caution. There is a probability of the enemy already called for reinforcement."

Uzuki, Yayoi, dan Aoba nods after hearing the caution given by Kimura. Then, Kimura says,

"Now, three of you could wait inside the command ship. I must tell the higher-up regarding our unit that will be dispatched soon and get their permission to use any of your weapon on the mission."

Kimura salutes three of them and starts to walk towards the main building at the dock. Aoba then smiles at him and ask Yayoi and Uzuki to follow her to the command ships. When three of them already inside the command ships, Uzuki ask Aoba,

"Aoba, are you free this evening?"

"Huh? If there is no task for creating a new article, then Aoba is free. Why did you ask that Uzuki?" ask Aoba

"Then, how about you join our small party?" ask Uzuki again

"Small party? Maybe Aoba will join you. But, who is the one that creates that party?"

"It's Kimura the one that creates it. He said something about to make him knows better about Ship Girls." answer Uzuki

"Huh? Kimura... Wait... The one that he invites is the two of you... Don't say... Kimura is lolicon?!"

Uzuki and Yayoi looks at each other and then Uzuki says,

"No. It's not only us. Kimura also invite other Ship Girls and even he could invite Houshou to join us, pyon~"

"Wait... Houshou?!" said Aoba quite surprised

Aoba looks at Uzuki and thinks,

'Wow... Kimura is really splendid. How in this world he has that connection with the other Ship Girls? Is it because of Haruto?'

She then shook her head and then she could hear Uzuki and Yayoi that really waiting for that party. Aoba couldn't believe anything that Uzuki and Yayoi just said before, but when she remembers how easy-going Kimura is, she only could smiles.

She then walks towards the desk inside the command room and sees Kimura's camera there. She takes the camera once more and inspects it. She then says,

"The first time Aoba takes it back then, Aoba didn't feel as heavy as today... Aoba can't believe something this small is quite heavy."

Aoba then turns it on and check his gallery once more. She still astonished by every photo taken by Kimura there. She looks until the end and mumbles,

"Aoba really want to try photography. And make a beautiful photograph like this."

"How about I teach you about photography, Aoba? I believe that could be really handy for you to gather some scoop," said Kimura behind Aoba

Aoba screams a little bit and looks behind her. She could see Kimura stands there and smiles at her. She then asks him with a red face,

"Since when you are here, Adm..." ask Aoba that being interrupted by Kimura,

"Didn't I already says about don't call me 'Admiral' when only three of us here? And to answer your question, I already stand here when you looking around my gallery at my camera."

Aoba really embarrassed to hear that and her face is as red as a tomato. She then says with an annoyed face,

"Why didn't you tell me that you already here, Kimura? Uzuki and Yayoi too!"

"Why should I tell you that I am here, right?" says Kimura with Yayoi and Uzuki nodding at him

"All of you are a meanie!"

Three of them only laughs after seeing Aoba flustered there. Kimura then closes his eyes for a while and then says,

"Admiral to the System."

"Please give the credentials." answer the system at the command ship

"Admiral Okazaki Kimura."

"Acknowledged. Your command, Admiral Okazaki."

"Please move this ship towards the designated location defined at the system with speed 35 knots. Keeps the bearing at north."

"Acknowledged. Moving the ship."

And together with that, the mission started again for three of them.