Iwo Jima, Japan

"Musashi, you surprise me! I expect to come here before you, you know? Before I departed from the island, your vessel was still docking here." Yamato sounded defeat while she was on a conversation via the link.

"Well, Lucky me. I contacted the possible nearby ship, and Takao answered my call. She said she was relaxing near Otaru canel on a holiday." Musashi answered.

"That means you surely arrived here before I started the operation?"

"Something like that. I peeked into your intense meeting; you fully got yourself into it, Onee-chan~"

"Of course! My team and I spent so much time studying specific details about weaponry and stuffs, direct assault on a navy base wasn't a joke. Ah…I must be concentrated too much that I ignored your presence." The eldest sister sighed.

"Seriously? Why did you have to use such brutal method like that? Kongou thought it's stupid, but I doubt you've some objective more than Shouzou-san." Musashi suspected.

"Well, human keep some information in a non-connected network so it's impossible to hack via data link. To my surprise, Kure naval base use old fashion hard paper as well! Did your husband weak against technology or something?"

"Sure enough"

They giggled.

"But sadly, those hard paper and closed-intel aren't that useful, mostly base-running business which we don't need." Yamato sighed.

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"Oh, I forgot to ask! Didn't Gunzou resist?"

"I drugged him with a sleeping pill; I calculated the necessary dose for a certain period and drugged him again. Don't worry, he's alive."

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"Are you still drugging him?"

'You're creepy, you know that?!' Yamato spoke differently with her thought. Musashi might be an honest girl, but that didn't mean she had to play straightforward.

"No. Once he was in a detention area, I let him awake. I told him that I'll tell him everything after Shouzou-san arrive"


An Assault & Suppression Vessel and four battleships held a short greeting at the port after the battleships finished escorting Zuikaku.

Yamato led Shouzou to the living room which Musashi had informed she would led Gunzou to, Taigei was separate by Shigure to the other direction.

Taigei was nervous as she sat among the Fog in Hyuuga lab after she was introduced.

"Hey..hey.. Taigei-san, do you want to have your own vessel?" Hyuuga asked. She wanted to experiment on her like the others, she paid more attention to Taigei as she was more special than Hibiki case. From her history study, Taigei hadn't only been changed name from Taigei to Ryuhou, she had been upgraded from a mere submarine tender into a Light Carrier! That was a lot of upgrade she got there, unlike Hibiki or Verniy which she was still a Destroyer to the end.

"What do you mean by that,..Umm..Who are you? You've not introduced yourself."

"Oh! My bad, I'm Hyuuga, Second-Ise-Class Battleship, Flagship of First Oriental Fleet as one of sub-fleet under Eastern Fog Fleet!" (Honestly, she hardly acted as flagship. She stayed in the lab all day and night doing crazy experiment, she let Takao, her lackey, did the job instead).

"As for the vessel; I mean that you don't have to float on water with your feet anymore, you'll get your own vessel. You can freely go anywhere without the need to refuel as the core I'll give you run on power source which it's able to replenish itself for eternity."

"It sounds wonderful, but what would you want in exchange?" It sounded too good for her, she believed there was No Free Lunch.

"We want you as a part of our Fog Fleet." Hyuuga planned; she tried to confirm her theory, and she had new idea about encoding the Complete Fog to obey superior without royalty to the Admiralty Code.

"-" Taigei was speechless, they recruited new members as easily as this?!

Hyuuga slapped her hand on Taigei's shoulder.

"You don't need to answer right away, my lab is always open so you can come to me whenever you feel like answer me."

Taigei marked this information as important inside her head.


Inside the room; the couples were sitting across each other face.

Now, it was a Family-Heavy- Interrogate time!

Chihaya Shouzou, despite knowing fragment information about Fleet of Fog from Jintsu, still stunned when he got the big picture of Human Greatest Enemy from Top 2 of the Japanese Navy's Enemy leaders indeed! Not to mention about his son, Chihaya Gunzou, who was overloaded with heart-breaking element.

Yamato and Musashi confessed their existence without holding back any information; Musashi was a bit relieved that Shouzou hadn't shown sign of dejection yet, but the same couldn't be said for Yamato as Gunzou's face turned troublesome.

One thing was certain, HE COULDN'T ACCEPT THIS ANOMALY!

How the Hell!? His girlfriend, A FOG?! Part of the reason the Humanity trade was cut off by Air and Sea was his girlfriend doing!?

The most heart breaking point was the possibly his mother's murder was alongside him for three years, THREE YEARS! He didn't notice at all, and she was sitting in front of him now!?

'IMPOSSIBLE! ! !' Gunzou ran out of the room.

"GUNZOU!" The left Three Family member shocked at the same time of the unexpected action.

Gunzou was overwhelmed with great emotional disorder; anger, sadness, despair, though none of them couldn't compare with Betrayal. Tear was running down his cheeks like tab water.

Fortunately, Yamato didn't change back to her supreme white dress. She was able to kick off after Gunzou immediately thanks to the short skirt that allowed for running (her both guns in the holsters couldn't weight her down one bite).


The National Diet Building, Tokyo, Japan

Kamikage Ryuujirou, the assistant secretary to Military Command of Ministry of Defense, was giving a report to Kaede Nobuyoshi, the Prime Minister of the Central Region about the assault on Kure naval base.

The casualty was very high as one-third of the base was destroyed! This was no laughing matter.

They gained nothing much from the investigation.

Close-circuit camera record was completely destroyed, even they were able to be recovered, they were still overridden many times with false data.

Fired casing types didn't give away attacker identity, they were randomly mixed: .44-40 Winchester, .454 casull, 5.7 x 28 mm., 9 mm. Parabellum, .50 Action Express, 5.56 x 45 mm., 5.45 x 39 mm., 7.62 x 51 mm., addition with rocket propel grenade shrapnel. They couldn't pinpoint suspect at all from these empty shells: NATO standard, Russian standard, American civilian caliber, and vintage late 18-century lever-action.

The only useful clue was the confirmation from ship girl witnesses (Kaga, Akagi, and Murasame) that Shigure and Hibiki were among the attackers. Also, there was such crazy claim form Hibiki that she was an active member of Fog Fleet now.

"Something smell fishy here" The handicapped PM commented.

"Indeed, sir. I assume the entire runaway Yokosuka ship girl, five in total, took part in this operation. But how they patch up their damaged body, or acquired such variety of weaponry were mystery (?). And the thing about defection to the Fog side sounds absurd! Fleet of Fog was just an over-technology mindless machine, how can she communicate with them?" Kamikage stated out his opinion.

"The possibility is they got a firm back up organization which no Yaguza in Japan was capable of, and slander the blame to the Fog. This is a nice farce those girls got here. Ha..ha" Despite his poker face, his voice through the loudspeaker betrayed it clearly.

"Well, back on the casualty. For Navy personnel; 200 dead, 1,500 wounded. For Kure ship girl; most of them got light damaged, some got moderate damage, except Kisaragi and Mutsuki who suffered heavy damaged as they got caught up in the blast radius." The secretary continued.

"Keep me post about this, and make sure that every military base is on full alert."

"Yes, sir!"

'Who in the world was behind this?'


Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan

He lost counted of how long he had run. When his consciousness back to himself, he had been panting, and sweating on his knees heavily on the top of Mount Suribachi with sunset background.

Suddenly, he heard footstep slowly coming after him.

He turned around; Yamato, who completely looked fine after went through the same running route as him, walked toward him.

"Have you calmed down?" Yamato asked. She could catch up to Gunzou any moment, but she wanted the boy to run out of gas so that he could think rationally.

Gunzou still had teary eyes, but his stance gave away that he almost collected himself up as the girl predicted.

"What do you want from me?" He coldly asked.

"Do you love me?" Yamato straightforwardly asked.

Gunzou shocked.

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"Yes" Even he felt betrayed and frustrated; he couldn't bring himself to lie.

"Do you want to stay with me in my little world here, or go back to your old day life?"

"Do I really have a CHOICE?"

"Yes"

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"I'll be blunt then, will you kill me if I choose the latter?"

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"I respected your choice, either one is fine." Yamato sighed.

"You don't look like to care a bit if I expose your true self to the government, that's unlike you, Miss Perfectionist." Ghouzou remaked.

"That's because it's not my problem to deal with" She acted spoil.

"WHAT!?"

"You know what? I nearly had a bloodshed fight with your step mom over this; because she was willing to go as far as killing you if I denied her idea, revealing who we are to you."

"Are you KIDDING ME?" Gunzou sweated drop.

"I'm serious, you dumb ass!"

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"The moment I truly accept human emotion; that I love you, I'm no longer your Perfectionist Rival." She opened up her mind.

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"I must ask you one thing Yamato, not as Kotono Yamato but as Yamato, the Fog Supreme Flagship" Gunzou gazed her.

Yamato got the message, he meaned business, she replied coldly.

"Just ask then.."

"What's your plan for my family and your fleet?"

"Oh? I understand about your concern of your family, but My fleet? Why do you want to know?" Yamato surprised.

"Just answer me, god damn it!"

"OK..OK..Regards to your family safety, I don't plan on Killing you so don't worry" She clapped his shoulder.

"For my fleet, even I get frustrate every I mention it, but finding Admiralty code is our top priority."

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"Hey, Yamato" Gunzou got an idea. Truly, he didn't want to end up fighting with her as enemy, he wasn't ready for that once he backed to the academy. Even he was still hate her for fooling him and whatsoever, he saw co-existence was more important than old grudge as right now the fog can communicate with human unlike the past, plus his girl friend was one of the highest rank so he couldn't miss this opportunity to convince her.

"What's up?"

"Why don't you negotiate with human and Establish Co-Existence Treaty with them? I think you can request their help to search for the AC this way too."


Chihaya family (included Yamato and Musashi) was back in the same room. Gunzou proposed his idea out, it got positive response from his step mom and dad.

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"Gunzou's idea is good, but what can we really give them?" Musashi wondered aloud.

"I think it might be a good idea if we offer them the cancel in some patrol route to let them start trading between 4 main islands." Yamato threw out an idea.

"But that action is clearly conflict with the Admiralty Code (AC), to make sea blockade: excluding humanity from oversea trade, and you know too well that we can't deny its' command!" Musashi emphasized the impossible.

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Suddenly, Yamato widened eyes as she just recalled something important.

"Wait a minute, Musashi! We don't suppose to reveal that Fleet of Fog has Mental Model, do we? And I've ordered you to hide the truth, what happened to my order?"

"Onee-chan! You bring this topic up because of Gunzou's persuasion, and you want to back down now after you was convinced! What Paradox are you?!" Musashi's aggressive tone told that her sister really irritated her to some point by now.

"That's because I forgot! I lost my standpoint to the flow, and now you push your work to my load when you saw the opportunity." Yamato assertively countered. She embarassed that she was unintentionally outwitten by Musashi.

"I swear, it's not my intention. My point is if you've prepared the solution, why not try it and see if it's work?!"

"Calm down, both of you. I and Gunzou will stay here if it helps you to settle down this topic now. So that you can continue the way you used to be." Shouzou spoked with concern, just seeing his Darling arguing with is Future Daughter-in-law was suffering enough for him.

"I assure you, Shozuou-san. I won't back down on my word with Gunzou; that I'll respect his choice, I still have my Pride as The Highest Authority of this Fleet." Yamato declared her determination.

She closed her eyes: arranging information she's going to reveal.

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"Actually, Hyuuga and I just know a method to be freed from the AC command recently." 'It should be the right time to reveal this to other Fog member like Musashi and see her reaction'

"What?! Why haven't you told me?" 'Onee-chan, What are you up to?'

"Listen to me, I'll explain"

"The ship girls you saw: Jintsu, Shigure, Yuudachi, Akatsuki, and Verniy, are the True Fog now, who aren't under the AC's influence anymore while I and the rest of the Fleet of Fog are."

The other three alarmed.

"H...How?" Musashi gasped

"By combinding our core and their physical body, matching name by name, of course! By the way, do you have information on the ship girls' origin? Because The True Fog is the confirmation that we, current fog, and ship girl have the same creature or at least the same root of origin, so I demand to know it."

"Sorry Yamato-chan, that information is top secret, only a few superior authority know about it. But I don't understand; if what you said is true, why don't your creator make you complete in the first place?" Shouzou shook head.

"Like hell I'd know that, Father" Yamato muttered.

"Onee-chan, if you have a way to deny the AC, why don't you take more action about this? What restrain you?" Musashi realized some oddity.

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"You're sharp~ There's a risk that we might not be the same once we complete merging."

The room stayed silent again.

"Explain, please." Musashi enquired.

"For those ship girls' case, their formulas are ship girls fuse with non-metal model cores. Result in actual physical body and fog processing power: with appearance majority being older ship girls and some minor change. But we can't predict the outcome of Metal Model core fuse with ship girl."

"Not to mentioned that, I wouldn't be the boss of a Completed any longer as she was broken out of AC protocol, I must make her acknowledge me as her boss, either by force or other acknowledgement. If not, she's going to become Rogue! So, you get some dangerous scene here?" Yamato smiled melancholy.

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After thinking for a while, Musashi gasped.

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She opened her eyes; reveal a pair of red eyes behind eyelids, this showed how serious she was.

"Onee-chan…." Mushashi met Yamato eyes.

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"You think I will BETRAY you, don't you?" She didn't shout, but cold rage could be perceived easily from her gaze toward her older sister who smirked menacingly at her.


Navy infirmary, Kure naval base, Honshu, Japan

"Onee-chan, I wish this nightmare to end soon"

Kisaragi pondered, clinging on her older sister for comfort.

Their appearance were rag as a rag doll; they were bandaged all over under their torn uniform, with noticeable eyes' bandage for Kisaragi and neck's bandage for Mutsuki.

Mutsuki patted on Kisaragi's head sadly. She sighed and gazed to the blazing star in the sky.

Her mind drifted to the recent bloody event ever happened.

They were caught in the big explosion which Yuudachi had ignited: sending them to crash through many concrete walls. When they actually realized what happened; other than heavy physical injury, Mutsuki lost the ability to speak from the shrapnel cut at her larynx, and Kisaragi suffered blindness from flying iron fragment plunged into her eyes.

Actually, she couldn't accept what had happened with herself since that event. However, when she saw that her younger sister condition was worse than her, that made her pitied her sister more than herself.

Kisaragi had been mind broken (freaking out) real hard since then; she tried any method of commit suicide: bit her own tongue, fired bullet into her mouth, self hanging, self burning, self drowning, etc.

Coincidently, Mutsuki was nearby every time it happened.

It made Mutsuki realized something.

She once blamed the navy in her mind (as she was mute), those people put their effort to tend their comrade and did nothing to injured ship girls in the meantime. She was angry (her personality was childish compared to Hibiki; class ship era, war time experience, might have an influence in unique personality. But there was no confirm on this information).

After a while, she gave up on trying to blame. What could a mere destroyer like her do in this situation? Nothing!

She had more serious issue to be concerned with.

Right now, Kisaragi was desperate. She needed supporter to be here for her to fight through this hardship before she was scheduled to be repaired. That person was no other than Mutsuki, as the closest to Kisaragi, without doubt.

Mutsuki forced herself to accept this cruel reality; she had to act strong in order to support Kisaragi, which result in natural acceptance of her voice lost without her knowing as she continued supporting Kisaragi.

After a while after her sister pondered, Mutsuki used her finger to write on Kisaragi cheeck, as an only way to communicate between Mute and Blind.

'Me too'


Wharfs, Kure naval base, Honshu, Japan

Pale skin hands climbed up from the sea, followed by mass of something looked like xenomorph.

Two blue eyes entities were stood out among the drench new comers; they dressed in a similar fashion, black sleeveless school uniform-style shirts, black ties, black short skirts, black glove & gauntlet, black thighhighs, and black armour shoes. The differences between the two are their hair colour: Black and White, and the different in height (with Black taller). Also, the white hair had black beret on top, while the black hair tied hair into 2 buns.