Author: I currently have a bad case of the cold. It's hard to sleep at night with a runny and blocked now.

On the other hand, I liked Hyuuga kai ni (but I liked the Hyuuga-copter more). Iowa ka ni with Tomahawk missile and Phalanx CIWS when!


I...will not die here...not until I...not until I...

Amidst the desperation, I was scared. With every drop of blood that leaves my body, my life is fading away. I felt...a lot of emotions in the moment, and it's not just fear. Anger, frustration, hatred, sorrow...and loneliness. These emotions stirred inside me. My heart raced with every second I got close to dying. I couldn't best this pain, but what I couldn't bear is not returning alive. I was desperate...to at the very least so those girls again. I knew if I die...there won't be another chance to see them again.

"Not...yet. Not yet!"

With the chaotic emotions inside me grew hoping to cling even to the faintest hope, I felt a surge. This is a rather familiar...as if I experienced this before. Rather, it's been here the entire time, but I had forgotten.

"Aaaah...so this is how I'm going to die. I don't like it the least..."

My body collapsed on the ground, the last of my strength drain away from my body. I already lost a lot of blood...so everything felt cold already and it's not just the ground where I lied down. I can barely feel my own limbs with my life fading away from me.

I'll never abandon you even if everyone does. Because...I'm your big sister...

Bismarck? I heard Bismarck's voice at the very last moment as my senses reached their limit and my body starting to shut down on its own.

Even after you abandoned me...I still hoped you'd come back...but you didn't...

I remember reaching out to Bismarck. I couldn't move. I couldn't do anything...just like what I'm experiencing now. I reached out and called out her name, but she turned her back on me with tears on her eyes. The next thing I knew...everything was dark.

Bismarck...my sister. That's who she is to me, isn't she? All this time...and I never knew. Rather...I have forgotten...

Tears flowed out of my eyes when I remembered who Bismarck is to me, but yet I couldn't remember what was the memory of her abandoning me.

I will never...go back down there...to that abyss...!

Something inside me broke free. No...someone is rather unchained the moment I tried to move even a single hand. This feeling that's overwhelming. I was abandoned...left to rot in that ocean by the very people I trusted.

It was...all her fault...!

These anger and hatred is too overwhelming for me. I couldn't withstand these much emotions. How could I possess such emotions.

"It was her fault...Tirpitz..."

I felt something bind me within my own thoughts. It whispered to me...and dragged me to sink into the darkness.

I'll burn down everyone and everything on the surface...for leaving me to rot...and sink in the abyss...!

Something took over. Rather, someone is released from the deepest and darkest corner of my soul. I couldn't feel anything anymore. The last thing I knew...I saw what a monster I am.

A Beast.

Everything went dark...just like that day. The last thing I remembered is being dragged to bottom of the abyss. It's...too familiar...this feeling of sinking to the cold and lonely bottom of the ocean.

"I...won't be bound again! Never again I will be trapped!"

For years I was imprisoned within a closed world. The loneliness alone slowly drove me mad. I remained trapped when that woman made Tirpitz forget all the pain and suffering. She made Tirpitz forget who she was...just to keep me bound within a closed world.

"D...ie...die...die!"

I screamed as I lunged forward at the Abyssal that stood in front of me. Rather her, a To class stood in my way, but even only with my bear hands I tore through its flesh and ripped what looks like a heart...not that I even care. I mustered my available strength and ripped its arm off, shredding this victim like a mindless maniac.

"A Beast, huh. This is rather...interesting..."

After I was done with the Abyssal, I aimed to do the same to the other one...but her rigging moved swiftly, I didn't realized it was beside me until one of it bit my arm off and tore it from my body.

"You just woke up so you're still weak..."

With a single hit from her, I was pushed away like I was merely an ant to her. I don't know if that Abyssal is far stronger than me or I have yet to regain my full strength...but I'll make her pay for that.

"Grr...uaaaaahhh!"

The emotions that had remained trapped for all those years is starting to consume my mind. All I could think now is destroying everything and everyone that stood in my way. Even if that Abyssal disappeared when I stood up, I'll continue on destroying this wretched world.

Tirpitz!

Someone called out her name, even what stood is not Tirpitz, but the monster that existed since she was born...me.

"Ship...girl..."

At the sight of a shipgirl in the open, only the instinct of wild Beast remained. I couldn't do anything but sense what my transformed self is doing. I remained in the darkness, sinking in the sea off the emotions that had been repeatedly forgotten.

"Sorry, but I can't let you go back in this state..."

I could barely feel anything, but I heard a loud growl that soon turned into a roar. Then explosion struck me in the face...repeatedly. My weakened and injured body didn't last long. I don't know what's happening, but everything is starting to feel colder.


While everyone thought the admiral is missing, the truth is Arkhangelsk simply took her away after witnessing the Beast finally break free which Warspite feared the most.

"It's been three days, huh..."

Arkhangelsk gently wipes the flat of her knife, clearly bored on guarding an unconscious Tirpitz. As bored as she is, she knew she had to constantly keep an eye on her or the Beast might break free again.

"Mmm...hmm...?"

Tirpitz weakly turns her head left and right, groaning at the weight of her headache. As soon as she opens her eyes, she found herself in an unfamiliar surrounding. She could barely lift herself after the strain her body had to put through during the event in Truk anchorage. Not to mention, Arkhangelsk bombarded her with armor piercing shells.

"Ugh. My head hurts. How did I get here?"

The last thing Tirpitz remembered was being at Truk, but she woke up in a location she never visited before.

"You - who are you...?"

"Good morning. It took you a while to wake up"

Arkhangelsk sighs in relief when Tirpitz regains her consciousness after being asleep and vulnerable for the past three days.

"Ah, that's right. You don't remember me. I am Arkhangelsk. I'm someone who works directly under Warspite...and sometimes her oldest sister. If anything, I'm a cleaner for messy aftermath of mishap"

By cleaner, she doesn't mean someone who ensures the lack of stains and dirt. Rather, she's someone who Warspite orders to dispose of evidences...and occasionally hindrances.

"Where am I? How did I get here? Last time I remembered, I was wounded and - wait, what happened to my wound?"

"Your cut and arm healed the moment your Abyssal transformation is triggered"

"My what?" Tirpitz raised an eyebrow

"You still don't remember, huh. Well this is going to be a pain explaining to you"

Arkhangelsk had a slight urge to pull the trigger right at her own forehead, exhausted at the tedious task Warspite ordered her.

"You were dying and to prevent that, you became desperate and unknowingly let the Beast be in control"

"..." Tirpitz blinked her eyes, unable to comprehend those words

"Luckily for me, due to the Beast just waking up, she was weak enough to be knocked out by a few shells...an explosive Glock 17 ammo right straight to the face" Arkhangelsk continued even if she knew Tirpitz wouldn't understand

Remaining confused, Tirpitz tilts her head as she has little to no recollection at how she tore apart every living being in her sight until she was stopped by Arkhangelsk when she tried to escape in the open seas.

"Tell me, how much you can remember?"

"I was badly wounded...and after that everything went dark. I had a dream of ripping flesh off and soaked in their blood"

"It wasn't a dream. You ripped apart everyone you saw like the angry Beast you were"

Not only the Beast lashed out her fury on the Abyssals but on the several humans who were all unfortunate to be caught in her sight.

"How long was I out? My body hurts like hell"

"About three days"

"Three days?! You mean I've been unconscious that long" Tirpitz yelled in disbelief

"Don't be surprised. It took you to heal that long after I literally blasted you with shells"

"Truk. What happened at Truk?" Tirpitz remembered

"It was decimated and a lot of people died. Also, you're declared as missing so everyone is looking for you"

Tirpitz stared at her left arm where she faintly remembered a mutated rigging sinking its teeth to her flesh, clamping it's jaw until her bones were broken through. Her flesh was separated rather easily due to her weakened state three days ago.

"I have to go back to Maizuru. You said everyone is looking for me"

"One, you can't because of your current state and two...you'd get shot at first sight"

"Why would that happen?"

"Ah. That's right...you don't know"

"Don't know about what?"

Tirpitz swallowed her breath and stood on her two feet, slightly nervous at Arkhangelsk's slight implication.

"Don't know what you truly are"

Much to Arkhangelsk's disappointment...and yet relief, Tirpitz's memories never fully returned. When she reverted to her Abyssal self out of desperation in her dying moments, her memories flooded her mind and caused her to go berserk.

"Then at least let them know about my current status"

"That's a no good either"

"Why?!"

"My rigging is currently going under repairs after it sustained damage from a certain Abyssal the other day"

Arkhangelsk set out in the open sea, but she unfortunately encountered a Princess class Abyssal who attacked her at first sight. While she managed to escape, her rigging got damaged in the process.

"How long will the repairs take?"

"No less than a day. My hull took quite a beating and almost caused serious flooding, you know"

"Great. We're both stuck here" Tirpitz groaned

She paced back and forth, complaining in incoherent words at her unfortunate situation. Arkhangelsk shakes her head, realizing she disliked this Tirpitz who has no memory of her former shipgirl days.

"Hey, you don't really remember anything back at Truk?"

"Remember...anything...?"

Tirpitz halted in one spot, slightly tilting her head left and right, doing what she can to recall the events that lead her awakening in an unfamiliar location.

"I was heavily wounded...and I was dying. There was an Abyssal whose voice felt like it was calling someone inside me"

"Calling someone?" Arkhangelsk's attention is raised

"That's what it felt like. Perhaps something answered...because I felt a force surface...while I was drag down to an abyss"

Tirpitz faintly recalled an unknown force paralyzing both her body and senses as it drag her below to the depths of an eternal abyss.

"That feeling of sinking. It felt really familiar. It felt like...I sunk before"

This indicated ever since the northern Beast was accidentally freed, Arkhangelsk feared Tirpitz would gradually recollect all her suppressed memories.

"Now you're just talking nonsense" Arkhangelsk sighs

"It may sound like it, but I'm not making all of this up"

"..."

"It was what I really felt back then" Tirpitz insisted

"Just rest for the time being. I'll go check on how my fairies are doing on the repairs" Arkhangelsk stands up

"You just think I'm saying nonsense"

"That's because you are, so go rest for a while"

Arkhangelsk knew Tirpitz's memories could never be suppressed forever and she feared the stress of those memories will only worsen with the Beast managing to break the other day. She left Tirpitz by herself, distancing herself as far as possible. Safe enough to draw out a satellite phone to connect Warspite herself.

"There are still visible traces of her Abyssal transformation the other day. Though what's worse is she showed signs of slowly remembering"

While Tirpitz was unconscious, Arkhangelsk inspected her body and discovered a a section of her body with cracked dark purple corrosion bruised on her skin.

[Here I thought I have enough problems already]

"I mean no offense, milady...but you've unusually let your guard down recently. This opportunity lead to the event of those Germans confronting you the truth"

Arkhangelsk is referring to how Graf Zepplin easily discovered evidences which proved how the admiral and Tirpitz are connected as the same being.

[I admit my fault, but still...I cannot let those memories resurface]

"You fear if Tirpitz were to remember her past as a shipgirl, this will lead to a conflict between her and sister due to how she sank"

[That is correct. I may use unacceptable methods, but I do what I see is beneficiary for both sides]

"Doing horrible things because you think it's for the best. That is very much like you, milady"

[...continue with your mission. That will be all for now]

Warspite ended the conversation rather quickly, but Arkhangelsk is aware at the fact Warspite simply despised being referred as "milady" by Arkhangelsk.

"Now then, I wonder if the repairs are almost finished"

While her rigging sustained minor damage on her turrets, her hull was damaged, but it fortunately didn't resulted in critical damage to the engine and turbine.

Meanwhile...

Tirpitz pulled up her sleeve, gently pressing her finger on faint cracks visible on her light purpled shaded forearm.

"My arm..."

It remained vague, but she recalled what seems to be a memory of a monstrous rigging sinking its teeth to her arm and violently tearing off her arm...as she lost control of her reasoning like the Beast she is.

"It grew...back...?!"

She sailed in agony at the loss of her arm, but even in her weakened state, it regenerated before she could suffer another serious blood loss.

"Just what happened three days ago...?"

For most of the moment, the Beast was in control until Arkhangelsk took advantage of the recently awakened Abyssal's lack of strength to render her unconscious enough for her to revert back into Tirpitz. Yet Tirpitz herself had little to no recollection about her instinct driven rampage.

"What happened at Truk?"

She couldn't recall no matter how much she tries. Forgetting is much easier than remembering after all. Her last memory of the incident was her last moments at the hands of an Abyssal. Those weren't her last moments as she survived...which she could not explain how.

"Why can't I remember?!"

Frustrated, Tirpitz blindly swung her arm which damaged the wall, spreading cracks from where her fist had struck the concrete.

You can't remember, can you?

A voice asked her. It came from the darkest corner of her mind. Chained and bound in that closed word is a pale being with glowing scarlet red eyes. That Beast was freed, but returned to her frustrating prison upon reaching her limit.

Well...that woman made you forget all the pain and suffering your precious comrades caused...

The Beast couldn't close the distance with the chains binding her forcing her to remain in one spot.

You'll remember everything soon...and when you do...I'll tear them apart!

Even after almost eight years, the Beast is still bent on revenge against shipgirls and humanity by extension. She is an Abyssal and it's her natural instinct to resent and sink shipgirls, but her loneliness which molded her rage and hatred overwhelmed the one implanted by the abyss.

"Who...are you...?"

The Beast is a reflection. A mirror revealing the divergent side of her, her it possessed the same loneliness she always had. What differentiates them is the Beast sought revenge and destruction on the very shipgirls who abandoned Tirpitz.

Especially the one who broke her promise.

It was her fault after all...

Alone, in the the middle of a dark sea, a lone battleship stood. Immobilized, that battleship was helpless...in the battlefield.

"Everyone left me again..."

The light drizzle couldn't mask the tears flowing down her cheeks. The emotional pain overwhelmed the physical pain. She was...abandoned.

"My sister...abandoned me...even though she promised"

She reached out, but she didn't turn around. The betrayal...the abandonment...was too much for someone like her who did what she could to fight for her comrades and protect her sister.

"She...broke her promise"

She succumbed to her fate, accepting the death which eventually came took her life...in that lonely sea where she was left to sink by the people whom she fought to protect.

It was the birth of a monster...


The shipgirls continued to struggle retaking the areas infested by the Abyssals ever since the surprise raid on Truk a few days ago. Central Princess, the current leader of the Abyssal fleet, leaned and relaxed herself and waited for Battleship Princess whom she summoned and arrived quite late.

"You're late..."

Late arrival does annoy Central Princess from time to time, but she tolerated it as of the moment. Battleship Princess knew an excuse would upset Central Princess so she spoke no word.

"I heard you have a special mission for me"

"Yeah. It's about one of ours Abyssal Sun Princess encountered the other day"

"One of ours?"

Battleship Princess wasn't present or anywhere near where the raid on Truk occurred, so she raised an eyebrow out of curiosity.

"A battleship who didn't tore apart other Abyssals. What's more is that Abyssal Sun Princess mentioned that Abyssals is rather...uncontrollable"

Abyssal Sun Princess is regarded as the "high priestess" of the Abyssal and she has an ability to reach into the mind of everyone who had fallen to the abyss. She attempted to use this talent to attempt submitting the Beast to "the will of the Abyss", but she proved to be uncontrollable due to her heart being filled with blood lust and rage after being trapped for so long. She could not subdue an Abyssal who only thought of killing everyone in sight, Abyssals and humans alike.

"What?! A renegade?!"

Much like other Abyssals, Battleship Princess has little tolerance for runaways and traitors. To her, those who betray or follow the the Abyss has no right to live.

"I want that Abyssal captured alive and brought to me. If the high priestess couldn't make her listen, then I have to tame her myself"

"If this Abyssal refuses, then may I sink her? I can't stand renegades who doesn't obey"

"Bring her alive to me. If she remained defiant to the very end, you may sink her"

Central Princess gave her permission to sink the Beast only if she proves to be too uncontrollable and stubborn. While she could sent other Princesses to hunt and capture the Beast, she assigned Battleship Princess for such task as she's a powerhouse of the Abyssal fleet.

"A will Beast, huh. Let's see how wild you are...once I tame you and force you to obey"

While she would have sunk a renegade, it was Abyssal Sun Princess who convinced her to captured the Beast and force her to submit seeing how an incomplete awakened Abyssal tear through a surface fleet with little effort.