Incident

Uzuki, Yayoi, Aoba, and Kimura are waiting as their ship cruise towards the designated place. In the past, the usual procedure is the Admiral must stay alert with his crew on the way towards their destination. But, now with the newest technology, they could reduce the Admiral's workload and let the system monitor the sonar and radar rather than risking more human on board. But even with that technology, the Admiral still need to look after the data given to them by the system.

For Kimura's case, the condition of the sea is really calm and there is no change in his ship radar and sonar. Because of that, Uzuki and Yayoi are really bored and play with themselves. Meanwhile, Aoba waiting at the outside and looking at the clear blue sky above her and let the wind blows her hair. She smiles as the wind blows her hair.

Suddenly, she could hear a camera shutter from somewhere. She looks behind her and could see Kimura with his usual camera. Because Aoba already used with Kimura, she only says,

"My... My... Did Aoba really charm you a lot, Admiral?"

"Ahahahahahaha... Probably." answer Kimura

"Well... This could be count as sexual harassment. Maybe, Aoba will report it to the Military Police."

"But, you never do that."

Aoba then laughs after hearing Kimura answer and then looks again at the scenery in front of her. Kimura then walks near her and ask her,

"Do you want to try it?"

"Heh? Are you sure about that?" ask Aoba as she sees Kimura gives his camera to her.

"Of course."

Aoba thinks for a while and Kimura jokingly says,

"So, you didn't want to try it? Are you chicken out?"

"Aoba didn't scare with your challenge. Rather why Kimura here? Aren't you need to look after the equipment when we are cruising?" says Aoba

"Nothing special around here. And I also prepare the alarm if something near us. So, you don't need to worry."

"Alright."

"So... Will you try it out?"

She then takes the camera and tries to take a photo of the island on her right side. He tried it so many times and most of them Aoba quite disappointed with all of it. Kimura then ask her,

"Could I see all of them?"

Aoba gives his camera back and says,

"Please don't laugh."

Kimura looks at all of it and then he chuckles a bit. Aoba that sees that immediately shouts with an annoyed face,

"Aoba already said to not laugh at it, right?!"

"Ahahahahahaha... Sorry about that," answer Kimura

Kimura then asks Aoba to try it once more and Aoba immediately tried it out. And now, Kimura instruct Aoba to take a photo that he asks for. Aoba immediately does everything that Kimura says and sometimes both of them laughing with each other about the result.

Meanwhile, Uzuki and Yayoi stop playing and looking at Kimura and Aoba. Uzuki smirks a little bit and then says,

"You know both of them are really fit with each other."

"Yayoi knows about it," answer Yayoi

"Fufufufufufu... I believe Kimura will be the first one to break the rule regarding Ship Girl and Admiral."

"He already did it... And more of it will crumbles. Yayoi really sure about that."

Uzuki and Yayoi look at each other and smiles together when seeing their two comrades interacting with each other.

Thirty minutes later, Aoba already takes a lot of pictures and then some of the results are exceptional. Kimura praises her a lot about it and that makes Aoba really happy. Then, when they want to continue it again, they hear,

"System to Admiral Okazaki. We already arrived at the designated place. Please enter another order."

Kimura then looks inside the command room and ask Aoba to follow him to there. After she arrives at the command room, he says,

"Admiral to the System. Please stabilize the ship for launching each Ship Girl for the mission. Heavy Cruiser Aoba, Destroyer Uzuki, and Destroyer Yayoi, please prepare yourself there."

"Sir, Yes Sir!" shouts three of them

Uzuki immediately dashed towards the door and Yayoi right behind her. Meanwhile, Kimura stops Aoba and says,

"We will start the photography training again tomorrow. Every day we will train so you could use my camera easily. Do you accept that?"

"Of course Aoba will accept it. Except if Aoba has another task to create an article."

Both of them nods each other and Aoba start to run towards the bottom part of the command ship. Kimura then closes his eyes for a while and then he says,

"Admiral to the System. Please call Admiral Amarov now."

There's a little static voice before the system project a video in front of Kimura. There he could see Viltus already ready to report his finding and tactics with Kimura. Viltus then says,

"So you just arrived there, huh?"

"I'm sorry about that, Viltus. Some of the equipment inside this ship is broken, so they need to repair it first," answer Kimura

"That's alright Kimura. Then, did your units already dispatched now?"

"They are preparing themselves right now."

"Good. So, we will continue this mission according to the initial plan at Yokosuka."

"Alright."

"Harusame will relay the information to your unit after they rendezvous with your unit. The location still the same as the number of Abyssal reported by them are quite small. But, please be cautious with the possibility of a submarine around here."

"Alright. Thank you for the information Viltus. See you after the mission finished."

The communication between Viltus and Kimura already ended and together with that he gets the report about his Ship Girl already start to move. He then says,

"Admiral to the System. Please call Heavy Cruiser Aoba now. I must relay the information to her."

After he says that, he hears some static sound until he hears Aoba says,

"Heavy Cruiser Aoba here."

"Aoba, you need to meet with Viltus units as they hold the information about the enemy right now. The location is still the same as the one that we plan. But, please be cautious with the possibility of submarine there."

"Alright. Aoba will proceed with care now. Aoba out."

Kimura smiles after hearing that and then sits down. He is waiting for them and says,

"I hope all of them will save. Isn't that right, Viltus?"

Several hours already passed and that really make Kimura quite uneasy. The reason is the current mission didn't have many enemies and they could easily sink all of them without hesitation. He then remembers the caution given by Viltus,

"There is a possibility of the submarine. Please don't jinx me with that," says Kimura

He then stands up and wants to call Viltus regarding that information. But, before he says everything he could hear Aoba says,

"Aoba reports to Admiral!"

Kimura really relieved to hear Aoba's voice and then says,

"Admiral Okazaki here. Please continues your report while moving to the command ship."

"Yes. We already sunk the target. Three Abyssal Destroyer and one Abyssal Light Cruiser. And together with that we also sunk another Destroyer that helps them and one submarine. Aoba will give the more detailed report as soon as Aoba arrived at the command ship." answer Aoba

"Alright. Then, did any of you injured in this mission?"

There is no answer from Aoba regarding the casualty of the mission and that really make Kimura quite uneasy. He then asks again,

"Aoba, please answer my question. Is everything alright?"

Still, no answer from her and not long after that the system stated that Ship Girls already arrived at the command ship. Kimura immediately runs towards the docking compartment of the command ship to meet with his Ship Girls.

When he arrived there, he could see Aoba that injured at her face, arms, and feet. Kimura then runs to her and quite panics about it. Aoba, who sees him, says,

"You don't need to worry about it. It's just a scratch."

"A scratch?! Did you just say that this just a scratch? I will start the first aid to stop the bleeding at your body."

He searches the first aid kit around there and then after finding them, he says,

"Admiral to the System. Start to move to Yokosuka with speed 40 knots."

After hearing the command, the ship starts to move after lift the anchor. Kimura then helps Aoba to walk toward the command room and after arrived there, he tends her injury. Everytime Kimura asks her, Aoba only closes her mouth.

After he finished, he hears Aoba says,

"Kimura... Aoba really sorry to make you worry. This happens because Aoba spacing out a bit out there. Aoba really sorry about it..."

Kimura looks at Aoba that show an apologetic face for a while and then pats her head. Aoba quite surprised with that and looks at him. Not only Aoba, Uzuki, and Yayoi also quite surprised by that. Kimura then says,

"That's alright, Aoba. That's true that I am worried about all of you. But, right now all of us still together, right? And now, how about all of you give me the details regarding the mission?"

Aoba nods after hearing that and starts to tell him what really happens at the mission together with Uzuki and Yayoi. And Kimura hears all of it and tried to cheer them off while their ships moving back to Yokosuka Naval Base.