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The Shimosuwa/Fujimoto home south of the Moroboshi home, the fourth Friday of May in 2012, after supper...

"...truly divine! You must READ the words of the Holy Company lest you be LOST...!"

"Hey, Ten-chan?"

"Hai, Ayako-onēchan?"

"You've had to put up to this mindless crap for HOW long now?!"

"Since I was born!"

Hearing that from the weary-looking Redet Ten, the reborn first of her class of heavy cruisers sighed before she reached over to squeeze his shoulder. "You damn hell deserve your people's equivalent to a Medal of Honour with the Blue Ribbon for putting up with THIS all the time!" she declared, pointing.

Ten chuckled before he glared at the large screen television now displaying the image of a wailing Niphentaxian man about the same age as his "divine" cousin now strapped to a table in the basement of a certain boarding house not far from Butsumetsu High School. As they and the three other residents living her watched — they were in a converted bedroom on the opposite side of the second floor from where the cruisers slept closer to their admiral's old bedroom — a smiling Toyohara Etsuko came over to inject something into her screaming prisoner's arm. That made the man — his name was Zani odai-Marreth — jolt as his eyes went wide, then he collapsed against the table's surface. As his chest stopped rising while his heart was stopped thanks to the techno-organic virus just pumped into his body to program his new android replica — one that was shaped to be a pure Terran in looks — Etsuko looked towards the camera relaying this scene to the effective "flagships" of the force of shipgirls now in Tomobiki. "Programming Zeshin-kun's replica will take an hour, Tamiyo-sama. We'll dispose of the corpse then, then send him to report to you right away to secure his loyalty programming."

"Appreciated, Etsuko-san," Shimosuwa Tamiyo said as she keyed the television remote.

Once the signal was cut, all four shipgirls breathed out in relief. "We were lucky about that guy," Fujimoto Ayako noted as she moved to prepare new cups of tea for everyone. "Despite his youth, the idiot was a special observer for this 'guardians' group that keeps themselves separate from the 'one true faith'."

"Wish I could help on that, Ayako-onēchan," Ten lamented.

Tamiyo reached over her shoulder to playfully rub the boy's head. "Hey, relax, kid! That's why we've got to work with the free Shōzoki in town. Decision's going to come soon on when we make the big move on your 'most faithful', so we have to make sure anyone who has access to that bomb in the Ginza is neutralized right away."

"Pity we'd have to worry about liberating the Avalonians before we destroy their fleet," her sister Tadako noted before nodding as Ayako came over with a fresh cup of tea for her. "Then again, if this was the old days..."

The other shipgirls snorted in disgust. "Ne, ne, Onēchan-tachi, will this one who helps you that's up in the Arctic be there, too?" Ten wondered as he gave each of them very curious looks.

The others grinned. No, this kid was NOT dumb by any shade of the imagination. "Yeah, she'll be there, Ten-chan," Tamiyo noted as Ayako's sister Kinue reached over to playfully rub the head of the firefighter's son from Onishuto, making him laugh. "Matter of fact, it'll be her first battle since she was commissioned."

That made Ten gape. "Is she a Russian shipgirl?!"

"No, she's one of ours," Ayako answered. "The one that was missing at Pearl..."


That moment, in a hidden cover in far northeast Siberia (local time: Two hours before midnight)...

"AH-CHOO!"

Hearing that shrill sneeze from the seventh carrier of Operation Z, a certain shipgirl child of the Summer of Love reached over to pat the shoulder of the woman she helped get Gifted at the start of the previous month. Both women were standing on a glacial cliff overlooking the now-empty Sano-wan, the Sun high to their southeast. "Cool gals in T-town were talking about you, Big Y," Naomi Haight-Ashbury advised.

Itō Yoiko moaned. "About what?"

"The little fireplug's wanting to know about you."

The adopted native of Maizuru nodded. "Oh, young Ten, you mean...!"


The End of the Circus: A Tale of the Yizibajohei
Aoba News Omake: The Coming of the Planetary Guardians
by Fred Herriot

Based on a suggestion by Dr. Tempo.

Including characters and situations from Bishōjo Sensei Sailor Moon, created by Takeuchi Naoko.


The Toranoseishin Tower in downtown Tomobiki, the fourth Saturday of May, dawn...

Moroboshi Ataru had decided a little over a month ago that he didn't really care for surprises anymore.

Even surprises like THIS.

He was now in his guest bedroom near the top of the northern of the triple towers that marked the very heart of Tomobiki, in his bed naked with a very warm and very female companion lying against him, also sans any clothing. A glance at her serene face revealed she was a pretty brunette with mixed Oriental and Occidental features, her hair possessing a deep azure sheen, such parted on the left with bangs falling over her forehead, the whole mass cut to a taper at the base of the neck. She was physically his age — he could fell by the very regimented heartbeat in her wrist she was a gynoid — with a slender body possessing no unnecessary fat anywhere, especially her breasts. Blinking as a haunting sense of familiarity overcame him, he moved to rub her spine, causing her breathing to pick up as her eyes then snapped open, they very blue though now glowing.

"Er-ror..." she then declared in robotic lock-step Japanese with a faint Ōsaka-ben tone, her head twitching noticeably. "This...u-nit...has...been...in-fect-ed...with...a...vi-rus. This...u-nit...must...be...Gift-ed." Her head then twitched even more. "In-ter-nal...di-ag-nos-tic...re-veals...pre-Gift-ing...has...oc-curred. En-gag-ing...hu-man...e-mu-la-tion...mode." Here, her eyes went back to their normal sapphire. "Oh...!"

"You okay?"

Perking on hearing her lover's voice, she blushed. "Ah, Ataru-kun...!"

He chuckled, reaching over to rub his eyes. "Much that I'm happy to have helped you be pre-Gifted, I didn't know that Mother was the type of camera-in-the-sky who makes use of computer viruses, Ojō-san."

"I'm not Shōzoki."

"So who created you?"

"Isaac Thomas did."

He jolted on hearing that name. One of the several people who got on the casting drive bandwagon after he was mysteriously Gifted in the winter of 2007, Isaac Thomas of Queens in the Big Apple was currently the Wise Lone Sage, Raer'buo Erba ("Doctor Renaissance"), one of Yiziba's most smartest people bar none. A nerd and an otaku in the modern sense, the reborn scientist had engaged in a LOT of research towards making "Replicants" whom he based on fictional scientists and other characters to better help enhance his own studies and fighting abilities. Many of these people were based either on Isaac's main work station in geosynchronous orbit, Station Robert, or at a private research facility he ran for his creations on the far side of Noukiite space from Earth.

"So why didn't you tell Isaac this had happened to you? I'm sure he would have whipped up a counter virus to purge out your systems easily enough even if he is busy on Remnant these days."

"Because it's the same type of virus that Pyrrha Nikos and Penny Polendina found at the research base earlier this month," she explained. "I was helping analyze it when it got past my own anti-virus programming, then inserted itself in a dozen major processors. Knowing how dangerous this was, I self-isolated, then moved to contemplate the best solution to the issue. Logically, Gifting had to occur."

He nodded. As far as he knew, the New Yorker who had moulded such a pretty woman didn't bar his creations if they wanted to take THAT particular step; unlike other planets who had a considerable population of artificial intelligences, Yiziba was quite accepting of such people becoming of the Named. "Did you at least warn him about this, Ojō-san...?" He paused while trying not to fluster. "Um, excuse me..."

"Mizuno Ami."

He looked at her, then whistled. "Oh, that's right. He DID make replicas of the Sailor Senshi before he began training the Wondercolts a few years back." He then looked at her. "Did you tell the others?!"

"Hai, hai, I did, Ataru-kun. And yes, I sent a message to Isaac about it! Stop being so much like the Thought Police, for Heaven's sake!" Here, she playfully slapped him on his shoulder.

Ataru winced at that comparison. Indeed, fans of George Orwell's seminal work would be horrified to learn that there were planets that did have groups known as "thought police" to ensure no defiance could rise against government, pre-Dawn of Power Yiziba included. "Ouch! You wound me, Ami-chan!"

Ami laughed as she moved to mount him once more...


The Tomobiki Ginza, breakfast...

"Aren't you worried that someone will see us like this?"

The male-half of the Trickster of the Show snorted as he walked arm-in-arm with his latest "pre-Gifting beneficiary" down the centre of the now-quiet main shopping district towards the one place that was open 24/7, Tampopo's Rāmen and Beefbowl Bar. "It's necessary, Ami-chan," Moroboshi Ataru stated as they paused before Esmerelda's Ladies Boutique to stare at the window displays. "This is the time of day that our 'guests' from Phentax Two send people to pick up dead-drops from the recording devices they put out to get copies of everyone's diaries. If they see the 'great evil' with a pretty lady who isn't their 'goddess', they'll immediately want to relay same to their bosses. Which allows the girls doing a standing patrol to find their locations."

Mizuno Ami blinked before she glanced past his shoulder towards the Yakitori Kotobuki. "Like that one at your four o'clock," the adopted native of Kaizuka near Ōsaka (home of her template's first voice actress) asked.

Ataru slightly turned his head to see a middle-aged woman with barely noticeable tapered ears now gaping in shock at them from the entrance to one of the several alleyways that lead into the Ginza proper from neighbouring blocks. Said person then perked on noting that the "great evil's" companion was glaring directly at her before she immediately charged back into the alley, moving swiftly for someone her age...

...but not swift enough for one Ashikaga Sayako.

Ataru and Ami watched as a blur topped with long greyish-silver hair over quite stylish exercise clothing flew at top speed into the alley from the south. Both their enhanced hearing — which Ataru had thanks to his synthetic battle doll body — picked up said observer's squawk at being captured by the woman known as the Hazy Storm, Dyuono ("Sagiri"), before she was electrocuted unconscious by a gingerly use of Sayako's meteorkinetic abilities. Noting another chink in the "invulnerable" armour of the "Church of Lum" had been unleashed by the reborn sixth of the Ayanami-class fleet destroyers, both teens giggled before they headed towards Tampopo's.

"DARLING! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT GIRL?!"

ZZ-ZARK!

Ataru and Ami perked before looking left...

...then both laughed on seeing the former's "wife" now dropped face-first into the street thanks to Sayako's elder sister Ashikaga Ami and a well-aimed lightning bolt. "From what I can see, you selfish alien bitch, Shirei-kan is escorting a pretty visitor from Texas out on the town while she's doing business with his family's company," the adopted native of Tōkyō known now on Yiziba as the Wild Storm, Kuono ("Amagiri"), snapped.

"Thank you, Ami-san," Ataru calmly stated, earning him a delighted grin from the reborn destroyer. "I doubt Miss Anderson here would appreciate being electrocuted by this ecological terrorist here."

"You mean this here's the selfish alien varmint that let that space taxi driver try to steal the world's oil, Mister Moroboshi?!" his gynoid companion asked, recognizing his use of the name "Anderson" and shifting her accent to a very acute east Texan accent one might expect of a native of Dallas.

"The same person, ma'am," Ataru affirmed as Lum slowly staggered into a sitting position, her eyes spiralling as her body quaked from the massive levels of bio-electricity that had been shot into HER by the silver-haired, highly fit reborn destroyer now lowering herself to stand close to keep her down. "Though as always, the REAL fault stands with THOSE traitors to humanity now running up to rescue my so-called 'wife'..."

"ATARU! YOU BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU TWO-TIME LUM-SAN...?!"

The "Texan" teenager reached into the flap of her own jacket to draw out a familiar make of alien particle photon pistol, levelling it on target; doing that made the four members of the Stormtroopers shriek.

You can guess what happened next...


Tampopo's, an hour later...

"I DEMAND SHE BE ARRESTED! EXTRADITE HER! SHE TRIED TO KILL US...!"

KK-KLONK! KK-KLANG! KK-KRUNCH! KK-KLONG!

"Self-defence, you traitors to Tennō!" Ashikaga Ami snarled after smashing the Stormtroopers into the sidewalk before Moroboshi Ataru's favourite eatery in Tomobiki to shut them up.

As her sister Sayako giggled while she watched over the still-stunned Redet Lum, Fujimoto Ayako sighed before holding out her iPhone/PAA towards her current admiral, who was entertaining his current guest with breakfast at one of the outdoor tables. "So Miss Anderson here is the daughter of one of the senior executives of an American oil company who was badly affected by the oil theft incident last fall, correct?"

"Yes, Captain, that's correct," Mizuno Ami — now pretending to be "Amy Anderson" of Dallas — answered with her most polite Texan accent. "You should have seen the mess that fellow's friends made when they came over the oil wells in the Gulf. Thank heavens for that nice lady from that Yiziba planet who came by..."

"DON'T SAY THAT NAME!"

KK-KRACK!

The recovering Stormtroopers awked in horror on seeing Lum now smashed into the street thanks to Sayako's well-aimed fist. Gazing at the warlord's daughter from Onishuto, the gynoid replica of one character of the most popular shōjo manga series from the 1990s scowled. "Well, wouldn't you look at that, Mister Moroboshi?" she then bade her current escort. "A simple WORD is enough to bring the big, bad alien DOWN!"

The small crowd of people who had gathered around to see what was going on perked on hearing the "Texan" say that before laughter filled the crowd. As the four members of the Stormtroopers awked on seeing that people they believed would have gladly supported Lum so readily turn against her in such a public way, Ataru decided to drive the knife real deep. "By the way, guys, look over here!" he declared, pointing.

Megane and his peers tensed before their heads snapped over...

...then they screamed in shock on seeing a hand-held CAMERA be aimed their way by Ayako's sister Kinue. "And this is going out on YouTube right now, ALL LIVE!" Ataru added.

"Amy" looked directly at the camera. "«Yes, folks, THESE four people are the ones who tried to steal the livelihoods of MILLIONS of innocent people worldwide,»" she declared loudly in English, knowing that the device being held now by the reborn THG Kinugasa would pick up her words clearly over the background noise. "«Because of that, these four monsters been indicted by the International Criminal Court on co-conspiracy charges in that horrible act of ECOLOGICAL TERRORISM from last October.»"

"«As an add-on folks, that interview I was forced to make back in January with my so-called 'wife' was done under SUPREME DURESS!»" Ataru added in excellent English that he — as Tariko Katabarbe — had picked up over a decade during MANY visits to America, Canada, Britain and other such nations. "«Do not for an INSTANT believe I supposedly love the monster now being guarded by Commander Ashikaga. She LIED THROUGH HER TEETH when it came to our 'marriage' and the authorities in Japan will not recognize same.»"

"DARLING! HOW DARE YOU SAY THOSE LIES...?!"

ZZ-ZAAP!

Lum once more dropped to the street, nicely fried thanks to the Hazy Storm and her powers. Ataru and "Amy" stared at the twitching warlord's daughter from Onishuto, then the former called out, "Yiziba!"

"Yiziba!" the latter chanted.

"Yiziba!" came from Ayako.

"Yiziba!" Sayako and her sister Ami called out.

"Yiziba!" others in the crowd began to chant. "Yiziba! Yiziba! Yiziba...!"

Lum screeched as she plugged her ears before dropping into a dead faint on the street. As the crowd around her laughed on seeing the supposedly invincible alien brought down so low, the Stormtroopers all shrieked in agony, spitting out a torrent of revenge vows towards their former classmate...


Meanwhile, out on a certain island in the Sagami Sea near the coast of Odawara...

"Pyon! U-chan hates the fact that none of U-chan's sisters are listening to her, pyon!"

"They probably believe our transformation is some sort of American trick to force them to betray Tennō."

Hearing that from the Eternal Purifier, the Rainy Scrapper of Spring humphed as she leaned her head on the table in the central dining room of Welcome House, located in the Martello tower-shaped rotunda at the "seaward" side of the youth hostel owned by the Inshin Group serving as a residence for the new Matriarch and Matriarch in Waiting of the Moroboshi Clan of Mutsu. As the third of the Mutsuki-class destroyers reborn as the Wise Wish Bringer played an excellent game she downloaded into her PAA from that unbelievable thing called the "Internet", Kisaragi Utako moaned. "We gotta think of some way of making the others listen to us, pyon!" Shaking her head, she buried her face in the table "U-chan doesn't want to bug Hinako-chan about this, pyon!"

"No, that would not be the right thing to do," her sister Yayoi calmly stated before sipping the tea she had made for herself in the kitchen moments before. "Given how much Japan has changed, they're no doubt VERY scared of returning back. Look how much the whole militarist movement was denounced post-war."

"They'd think we'd be war criminals, pyon?!"

"That is a possibility," the silver-haired girl noted with a curt nod of the head. "Atop that, would they trust how much the lines of power have shifted away from Tennō towards the Diet?"

Utako snorted. Unseen by all three girls, a certain teenager draped in a white cross-embossed hooded cape gazed on them from her place in the main foyer, then she turned to her left, walking to the third door in the ring-shaped hallway surrounding the dining hall. Knocking twice, the Dark Heart of Pure Chaos then opened the door to look in and see the Healer of Men's Hearts busy styling her hair after a long shower. "The girls are restless," Hirosaki Chikage noted as she came inside, walking over to relax herself on the couch at one corner of the room.

With a gesture, the teen arch-mage from Tōkyō prepared some tea for both herself and her half-sister from Ōsaka who had lived in Welcome House for some years now. "Dōmo," Sukeyama Sakuya breathed out as she finished tying some braids of her hair into her preferred low odangos with long ponytail. "Yeah, Hinako-chan sure made it pretty damned easy even if she didn't get all of Fujiko-chan's and Akemi-chan's sisters."

"We're still missing Shiroko, Susuki and Shinobu from the Fukushima sisters, plus Saki and Yūko from the Ashikaga sisters. It's a miracle that Tennō hasn't told Hinako-chan to stop doing that." Chikage chuckled before sipping her tea. "Then again, given the level of success Yvonne and Naomi have had..."

"I'm sure Bartlet-hakase will put a stop to that soon. If Yvonne-chan and Naomi-chan start targeting ships sunk as diving wrecks, people are going to notice BIG TIME," Sakuya trilled as she combed her still-free hair.

"Hey! Who are you, pyon?! What are you...MPH!"

Both girls perked on hearing Utako's shout from the dining room, then Chikage gestured to have the rest of Sakuya's hair quickly done up. Nodding her thanks, the teen matriarch surged out of her chair, following her present second-in-command out of the bedroom, heading into the dining room...

"Um...miss, please. You must stop this."

"Oi! Oi! Oi! I'm trying to play my game, lady! You'll make me loose...!"

Seeing the three well-dressed girls — two teenagers and someone appearing to be twenty or so — as they tried to crawl over Yayoi, Utako and their sister Nozomi, Chikage and Sakuya blinked a couple of times before the former sighed, she giving her sister a knowing look. "Call Rinrin, Sakuya. These are three of Isaac's girls."

"Er...right," the older girl moaned before she headed off...


Meanwhile, out on an effectively abandoned atoll over three thousand kilometres southeast of Tōkyō (local time: Noon)...

Please...please come back, Kyōko-sama...the world needs people like you now...!

Sitting seiza as she gazed out on the rolling waters of the Pacific towards where the wreckage of the second Mutsuki-class destroyer had lay since she was sunk during the invasion of Wake Island in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, the gynoid with the long blonde hair that went to her hips — save for a small ponytail secured at the back of her skull with a red bow tie — and the deep blue eyes relaxed. She knew she had a lot of disadvantages over someone like one Saeru Hinako of Niigata. Not only was Aino Minako an artificial intelligence, a replica of a fictional character from a very popular shōjo manga and anime series from two decades ago, she had no true metahuman powers; all her abilities as "Sailor Venus" was all done using her creator's incredible technology.

But it wouldn't hurt her cause if she PRAYED for the spirit of THG Kisaragi to be reborn and Gifted.

The adopted native of Kyōto — like the other replicas of the Sailor Senshi from Takeuchi Naoko's seminal work, Minako saw the home of her template's first seiyū as her own spiritual home — knew there were actually FOUR warships sunk close to Wake that had been involved in the Fourth Fleet's attack on the atoll seventy-one years before. Atop Kisaragi, there was the Kamikaze-class destroyer Hayate and two old Momi-class destroyers transformed into nameless patrol ships, the former Aoi and Hagi. Since the now male-half of the Trickster of the Show was informed about the warship spirits his youngest sister helped see reborn and Gifted, human names had been drawn up for almost the whole Combined Fleet that existed before and during World War Two.

As Ataru followed the "ship class equals one family" rule in making names for Japanese shipgirls, it didn't surprise anyone that the destroyer Kisaragi would get the name "Kisaragi Kyōko"; he always aimed to choose given names that were as practically close as possible to the original ship name.

For those lucky enough to keep their ship name as their given name...

True love is Kyōko,
Spirit of Kisaragi;
Banish all dark hate.

The English haiku just flew from Minako's lips, making her giggle; she was glad that when she was first created, she was given a much more thorough education than her template showed in the series...

Ah! I'm blushing! Ojō-sama's making me blush...!

The gynoid gasped. "Kyōko-sama?!"

Tene lomher'buo, Kisaragi Kyōko...

Minako screamed in delight as that welcome voice flooded her ears, her sharp eyesight focusing on the rising wreckage of Kisaragi now surging once more into open air, the rust-covered and twisted mound of metal reforming itself as wave after wave of mesonium energy from the World of the Forge sought to restore the destroyer to the condition she was when she was commissioned into the Imperial Navy in 1925.

Oh, my! Is this what Yayoi-chan, Uzuki-chan and Mochizuki-chan became...?!

Seeing the transformation light of the Gifting overcome the restored destroyer, the gynoid closed her eyes...

Nesu...MYUDAKE!

The very air around Wake suddenly swirled, nearly knocking Minako over...

...then a pair of booted feet landed on the sand in front of her.

"Hello, Shirei-kan! Destroyer Kisaragi reporting as requested! Please keep me by your side!"

Minako looked up into the face of a perfect teenage GODDESS!

"Ah! I'm not your commander, but I can take you to him!" the adopted native of Kyōto then offered.

The woman now to be called on Yiziba as the Weaver of Love Light, Myudake ("Kisaragi"), blinked...

To Be Continued...


WRITER'S NOTES

Zani odai-Marreth first appeared in Lonely Souls.

Both Itō Yoiko (THG Yonaga) and Naomi Haight-Ashbury (USS Long Beach) chronologically first appeared in this series in the side story Of Gifts and Semblances. Note that the issue concerning Pyrrha Nikos (Polarity) and Penny Polendina (Operator) from RWBY will be revealed in a future chapter of that story.

Amy Anderson is the name given to Mizuno Ami in the English translation of the Sailor Moon anime series.

Yes, Aisuru Satoshi AKA Megane made a mistake when he demanded that Ami be "extradited" from Japan after she shot him with a Lawgiver. Extradition occurs only when a country makes a request to have a foreign citizen brought to its territory for legal purposes. The proper term he should have used is "expulsion".

The missing members of the Fubuki-class and Ayanami-class destroyers mentioned by Hirosaki Chikage (Dragonheart) in her conversation with Sukeyama Sakuya (Courtesan):

Fukushima Shiroko-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Shinonome [KK-161])
Fukushima Susuki-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Usugumo [KK-162])
Fukushima Shinobu-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Shirakumo [KK-163])
Ashikaga Saki-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Asagiri [KK-168])
Ashikaga Yūko-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Yūgiri [KK-169])

Of the above give, only Fukushima Susuki (THG Usugumo) has been implemented in Kantai Collection. Were the others to appear here (unless KanColle versions of them appear in the immediate future), Fukushima Shiroko (THG Shinonome) will take after the Warship Girls version of her elder sister Fukushima Fujiko (THG Fubuki) while Fukushima Shinobu (THG Shirakumo) would take after Fujiko's Azur Lane self (without the therianthropic parts, of course). Ashikaga Saki (THG Asagiri) would resemble the Warship Girls version of her eldest sister Asagiri Ayako (THG Ayanami) while Ashikaga Yūko (THG Yūgiri) would resemble the version of Ashikaga Shikuko (THG Shikinami) from that specific game.

Kisaragi Kyōko (THG Kisaragi) was first introduced in Part Twelve of Book One in the main story. As for the others who participated in the Battle of Wake Island that was spoken of in the final scene:

Morimoto Aoi-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Aoi [KK-100], later Tennō Heika Gunkan Dai-32-Gō Shōkai-tei [SK-32])
Morimoto Haruna-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Hagi [KK-101], later Tennō Heika Gunkan Dai-33-Gō Shōkai-tei [SK-33])
Taruka Hayami-chūsa DNTK (Tennō Heika Gunkan Hayate [KK-141])

Very old destroyers in the Imperial Navy were often turned into patrol boats (Shōkai-tei, hull code SK) when they reached the end of their useful life as fleet ships; when this happened, the names were dropped and later recycled for new construction. Thus, Morimoto Aoi (ex-THG Aoi) would be given the name THG Wata and her sister Morimoto Haruna (ex-THG Hagi) would get the new named THG Yamahagi. Were they to appear, Aoi would take after the Warship Girls version of Hamamoto Miroko (THG Shiratsuyu) while Haruna would take after the version of Miroko's sister Hamamoto Kodachi (THG Yūdachi) from that game. And as a reminder, Taruka Hayami (THG Hayate) did appear in Part Twenty-five of Book One.