Season 1 Chapter 11: "Seaman Recruit and Bootcamp"

(Location: USA — Washington D.C. — Eagle Union Main Stronghold)

(Time: Monday Early Morning in the 2nd Week of January 1930)

Accel just arrived in Washington DC, if you are wondering how he got from here to the Sentinel Base (Base of Operation), he uses super-sonic flight magic making him undetected from the Eagle Union Defensive Mechanism (EUDM), but one surprises himself was that the Defensive Mechanism is powered with magic (mana), as expected from the information they received that due to the otherworlders going here, the world is now exposed with mana and this world is using by infusing mana and the weaponry of this world.

Since Accel plans to investigate more information about this world and current affairs, he plans to disguise himself and use a fake name. He changes his appearance that look like a middle-aged man with a slightly deep-toned, his fake name will be "Valerius Silverblade", and his nickname will be "Vale". After that, he began to talk or listen to people's conversations, but what surprised himself is that there were people who lived in this world, and thought that the game and reality do differ from one another.

Accel stops thinking that the World of Azur Lane is not anymore a game, but reality itself. People and Shipgirls living with one another and those strange-looking small birds also known as "Manjuus". But, right now they are in conflicts with the Siren Nation (not sure with the META) and those new enemies that are otherworlders who have much greed in seizing the power of the wisdom cubes and the siren technology. Accel learns first about the currency and it was expected that it is similar to his world, US Dollars.

Accel picked up a $1 bill and used his ability to duplicate it. Though this method is cheating, he has no choice but to do it since he needs the money, he duplicates the $1 bill from that to a $100 Bill. Using the money he has, he buys a newspaper and a cup of coffee. As he read the newspaper, it mostly talks about current affairs from the outside, like the ongoing war with the Siren Nation and the Void Dominion. And Accel saw something that it was the best opportunity he had. According to the newspaper, the Eagle Union Fraction is recruiting new naval ranks and would like to fight for freedom and peace. With that, Accel heads towards the Eagle Union Recruitment Center.

(USA — Washington D.C. — Eagle Union Recruitment Center)

Accel arrived at the Recruitment Center which was filled with thousands of people, using his Aura and Mana he sensed that people who were willing to join the naval ranks of Eagle Union are the majority of people who live on this world, while the rest of them are people who do not belong to this world, basically otherworlders. Accel enters the Recruitment Center and falls in line, when he reaches the end of the line, he sees that it is split into two lanes, the left lane is a native of this world and the right lane is people who do not belong to this world they separated the natives and otherworlders.

Accel goes to the Otherworlders Lane. He was greeted by a Female Naval Recruiter, but the way she spoke and talked was very unfriendly, her eyes were looking at me with a distrustful look, and didn't care much. Accel understood why they were like this, because of the Void Dominion. All Naval Recruiters have no trust in the otherworlders, they just give us simple questions and information about the recruitment, some of the otherworlders got mad at them but he/she got restrained and kicked out of the recruitment center.

Female Naval Recruiter A: [Cold-Tone] "You will do a Written Test and a Practical Test. According to your background application, you are Valerius Silverblade, correct?"

Valerius Silverblade: [Slightly Deep-Tone] "Yes, that is correct. I am a lost wanderer who is very unfamiliar with this world, but I have experience on naval training and a simple knowledge."

Female Naval Recruiter A: [Cold-Tone] "I see... Just follow those people where the test sites are... Next!"

Vale: [In his mind] "How distrustful are they to the otherworlders, maybe something happened before we came to this world..."

(Eagle Union Recruitment Center — Testing Site C — Late Morning)

Vale enters the testing site, where there is an empty seat. He sat down on the empty seat as the rest of the otherworlders and the people of this world took their seats. Once everyone was ready, the test began as everyone started writing down the questions, others struggled while others were doing fine. As for Vale, the questions related to history and political affairs, as for the history he based on his memories from the game and made his answers, while for political affairs he didn't struggle because he was taught at the age of 12 about this. (Refer to the Novel)

30 minutes later, the test ended and we were all guided to the practical test site. The practical test site involves our physical abilities and supportive activities. As the test began, he scored an average grade for the physical abilities and an average grade for the supportive activities. The test results immediately displayed on the screen were Vale's results with a passing grade, he then proceeded to the big dome building where the people of this world and a few otherworlders gathered, we stood in an attention position and waited as everyone was all here.

A few minutes later, Vale observed that half of the otherworlders and the people of this world managed to reach this far and a group of officers and a familiar shipgirl appeared on the stage. It was "Light Aircraft Carrier Langley-Class Langley", she goes to the stand with a group of officers as she makes her speech.

USS Langley (Light Aircraft Carrier): "Good noon to all! I am a Light Aircraft Carrier, Langley-Class Langley. Or you may call me Officer Langley or Miss Langley, today I declared every one of you to be part of the Eagle Union's Enlisted Ranks! Congratulations on passing and earning the naval military rank of Seaman Recruit (SR), that is all." [Steps down the stage and leaves]

As Miss Langley left she gave a distrustful impression to us otherworlders that made Vale understand that something bad happened between them and the otherworlders like us, he hoped that his investigation and adventure would not turn into something chaotic.

(Eagle Union Outer Base — Barracks — Early Afternoon)

His military identification is complete:

Full Name: Valerius Silverblade (Fake Name), Accel Winchester (Real Name)

Rank: Seaman Recruit (SR)

Branch of Service: USS (United States Navy) Eagle Union

Date of Birth: September 5

With his name as Valerius Silverblade or Vale, in short, he was guided by a group of 60 Seaman Recruits (SR) into the barracks. Once arrive, we all wear our sailor attire and head towards the Bootcamp area where things will finally start.

(Eagle Union Outer Base — Bootcamp — Early Afternoon)

More than thousands of people gathered at the BootCamp and in front of us where officers and also familiar shipgirls appeared. It was "Battleship Nevada-Class Nevada" and "Battleship Nevada-Class Oklahoma". And for some reason, they are starring us and they are currently equipped with their riggings that are ready to fire...

(End of Chapter 11)

(The next Chapter is tomorrow!)