Having found out about her new position, Belfast will act a bit jealous sometimes, not to the extent of Akagi or others of course. Anyways, sorry for the 4 day delay, written multiple versions of this chapter that I scrapped. I also started working on a sequel for this story, it'll probably be for a more mature audience. The sequel will be much longer than this story, so look forward to that.

New Addition

"Oh man..."

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Looking over at Purity, she had a worried expression on her face. Kneeling down, he ruffled her hair to comfort her.

"Now I know you want to see Purifier, but we don't know what her motives are for being here."

"I know, but she'd probably listen to you if you tell her to stop."

"I was debating in my mind whether I should take that chance or not, regardless, I still need to be present in the battle to assist the girls if she is attacking."

Purity's eyes looked downcast at the thought of her mother being hurt. But the Commander was right, they didn't know if Purifier was here with malicious or malevolent intent. Still, either her or the Commander needed to talk some reason into Purifier in order to limit casualties.

"Can I go with you then? Since Mom won't attack me or you, we can reason with her."

"It's dangerous, stray shells can hit the ship if we're not careful."

"...Please?"

Sighing in defeat, he couldn't ever dare to go against his daughter's wishes.

"Fine. Belfast, I need you to come with us and protect Purity if anything happens. Bel, do you want to come along?"

"Hmm, I do want to see if Mama Purifier is as crazy as you said she was in the future, so yes."

He motioned for them to come with him while sighing.

Dock...

Running towards the dock, the Commander boarded the command ship along with the others. Starting the engine, they raced to where the battle was taking place near the beach. Arriving at the battle, it was chaos with everyone present converging fire on Purifier who was dodging every shell thrown at her. Prinz Eugen saw the Commander and skated away from the battle up to the ship.

"Herr Kommandant, good afternoon."

"Good afternoon to you too Prinz. Now what's the situation?"

"Purifier came through a portal that was beyond the range of shoreline artillery. Those of us close to the beach engaged her, yet she hasn't fired once at us, I wonder why?" Prinz put her finger on her lips.

"Can you tell the others to cease fire?" this got Prinz's attention.

"My, already sympathizing with the enemy when you learned of your daughter? How shameful." she teased, though the Commander wasn't fazed.

"Just do it."

With a shrug, Prinz skated up to the group to tell them the news. The sound gradually stopped as the girls looked at him with confusion on their faces. Seeing this as a chance, Purifier dashed through the group and jumped onto the ship, all guns were trained on her.

"What're you doing here Purifier?"

Grinning, she pulled the Commander into a surprise hug and kissed him in front of everybody.

"Hehe, is it so bad that I want to visit you, my dear husband? And plus, Purity misses me too, so I had to visit even if it hasn't been a day yet."

"Can you please not do that in front of the others? It's going to give them ideas." he whispered to her.

"Too bad, I do it if I want to." she smiled at him, a genuine one.

"Anyways, what're are you actually doing here?" her smile faltered.

"I may not have been subtle with how I acted after we kissed yesterday. Alpha's been on my tail all day wanting to probe my mind for that, and I didn't want you or Purity to get hurt. So, I destroyed my own data terminal and went on the run to join you guys!"

"Isn't that a little rash of you?"

"I think it was worth it." she beamed.

"And you want to join Azur Lane?"

"Yup! So, I can be closer to you and Purity."

The Commander was troubled by the news, Purifier put her life in mortal danger just to protect him and Purity. A little voice inside his head was rejoicing at the fact that Purifier has joined them with relative ease and little casualties. But, still, isn't all this supposed to happen in about a few years?

"Are you sure you're here on you own volition, no strings attached?"

"If I wasn't, would I willingly do this?"

She pulled him down to another kiss, it was more passionate and gentler than their previous kisses. They separated with flushed faces, breathing heavily with a smile on both of their faces. The sound of manic laughter broke them out of their trance, it was Gridley.

"Haha, I finally got a worthy scoop, Aoba's going to love this!" she shouted in triumph and left before the Commander could stop her. He noticed some recording the whole thing with their phones, having the intent to post it on Juustagram. He'll just have to deal with the storm of chaos tomorrow.

"Can you guys just leave us alone?" he asked the girls.

They jumped at his remark, quickly dispersing to leave them alone.

"Mom!"

"Purity! How's my little girl?"

"I'm so happy right now, I can see you every day now!"

"Me too! Let's play a prank on your dad sometimes, how does that sound?" she whispered the last part out, Purity eagerly agreeing with a vigorous nod of her head. The Commander wondering what they were talking about.

"Anyways, Belfast here will be your bodyguard so to speak. She'll show you around and stop anyone who attacks you without lethal force."

"Nice to meet you, Purifier." she bowed.

"Oh, hi Belfast, it's nice to talk to you without being fired at."

"That opinion is seconded here as well." Bel peeked out from behind Belfast.

"Hmm, who's that?"

"Uh... *cough* Purifier, I'd like you to also meet my second daughter Bel..."

"Second daughter, she looks exactly like the maid... ARE YOU CHEATING ON ME BEFORE WE EVEN GOT MARRIED!?"

"Hold on, Bel's from the future as well! And I'm sure you agreed to share me with the others in the future!" he held up his arms defensively in front of him.

"Purity, is that true?" Purifier asked her daughter.

"I think, I mean all my other mamas share Dad equally with you. If not, us sisters wouldn't have gotten along so well."

"I guess that's fine if I agreed to it but..." she latched onto his right arm.

"He belongs to me right now."

Belfast hugged his left arm.

"I don't mind sharing; he has two arms after all." Belfast said with a smug grin.

"You!"

Breaking free from their grasps, he got in between them.

"Ok ladies, you can share me, but please keep the arguing to a minimum."

"Fine."

"Anything for you, dear."

He sighed a breath of relief.

"Now Purifier, you'll be staying in my office during the day as my secretary from now on."

"Yeah! I get to be with you all day!" now grinning smugly at Belfast.

"But you have to work as well, can't let you just sit around as emotional support." her smile fell.

"Aww boo. I hate work, it hurts my head."

"Don't worry, it's just signing and filtering out unnecessary documents, though there is a lot."

"Oh ok, it's not that bad I guess." she said with a shrug.

"Good, we still have a few hours before the days ends, Belfast will teach you the basics of everything. Now, let's head back."

Office, 5 P.M...

Work was done surprisingly quickly today, they had 2 hours to spare before the day officially ended. Purifier was surprisingly helpful, despite a rough start, she got quicker and quicker with each document she went over. Finally done with all the documents for the day, they got up and stretched.

"Good job Purifier, you got it all down rather quickly, I'm proud of you." he patted her head. Belfast had a jealous pout on her face, it didn't go unnoticed by the Commander.

"And thank you Belfast for teaching and helping her." he patted her head as well, finally making her smile.

"I'm thirsty, you ladies want anything?"

"Apple juice!"

"I'll have apple juice as well."

"Cold Coffee!"

"Water please."

"Oh, you girls want to come with me? You can have snacks." he asked his daughters.

"I want to go!"

"I want to go too."

"Ok then, see you two in 10 minutes." leaving Purifier and Belfast behind while he and the girls went to the vending machine. An awkward silence settled over the two, sitting there, Purifier wracked her head for anything to break the tension.

"Do you really love him?"

"Huh? Oh, I do, why?"

"Well, you aren't close to him at all compared to us. And you barely know him that well, what's your reason?"

"Oh," Purifier's expression turned solemn, "it's because he's the first person to ever look at me without disdain. I was always blamed for my screw ups when you guys intervened, even after giving the mission my all. The other Sirens saw me as this deranged monster, when in reality, I just release all my pent-up emotions and frustration during battle. Of course, the others really thought I was crazy, and avoided me. My entire existence up to this point was cold and empty. He came into my life without hate or fear, he accepted me for who I am despite my past transgressions."

"I see... I'm the same you know? We all started from a professional relationship. The days would pass without anything happening. He told us to open up and socialize more beyond our factions. We were created as weapons of war, but he never saw us that way. Always treating us with respect and kindness, turning some around for the better. And I can see he's done that to you as well."

"Really? I don't feel like I've changed at all."

"You being here proves that you've changed. You don't feel empty and alone anymore, do you? Do you still view this world as a cold and hopeless?"

"No. When I'm close to him, these feelings all fade away."

"Then you have changed." Belfast smiled and gave Purifier a hug, she reciprocated in kind.

"Thank you, I guess you aren't that bad. I give you permission to share him with me!"

*Knock *Knock

"What'd I miss? What're you both talking about?"

"Nothing, just why we love you is all." Belfast cheekily said.

"O-oh, ok? Anyways, I got your drinks." he handed them their drinks.

Seeing as they still had over an hour of their day left and no work, he decided they go shopping.

"Do you guys want to go shopping? I need to buy groceries as well as some other things."

"Does anyone here sell coffee jelly?"

"I'm sure Akashi and Shiranui sells it, we'll have to look though."

"Ok, can I also buy some paint?"

"Why? You into art?"

"I guess you can say that."

"Do you need anything Belfast?" she shook her head.

"I guess it's just my groceries, Purifier's jelly and paint."

"I want another cake from Miss George! Bel ate most of mine."

"Hey, you started it!" Geez."

"Hehe... sorry."

"We can probably stop by her shop as we leave. And you can only have it after dinner, share it with Bel as well."

"Alright fine."

Commander's Residence...

Coming home, Belfast instantly started preparing dinner with their newly brought groceries with Bel helping. Purifier and Purity went to the living room with the paint they got to make something. He went to the living first to check if they were making a mess with the paint. To his surprise, he saw Purity drawing a sketch of his first kiss with Purifier in amazing detail.

"That's... good. How did you learn to draw like that Purity?"

"Hi Dad, well since I'm part Siren, I have amazing dexterity and memory. So, I'm able to draw what I've seen before in extensive detail."

"Impressive, can you draw something from the future about me and Purifier?"

"Sure!" she started sketching on another paper.

"Wait..."

Purity was drawing a bed with Purifier on top with her hair down and head tilting up. He quickly took the paper away and folded it up, Purifier was blushing a deep crimson.

"Purity, why did you draw this? And when did this happen!?"

"Oh, I was two or three when this happened. My toy went missing and I went to your room to ask you where it went. But Mama Belfast found it and led me away from the door back to my room. I asked the next morning, but you said you guys were playing."

"I've got to thank Belfast later for this."

"Um, how about you just go back to drawing what you were working on originally?"

"Ok Dad." he went to the kitchen to see how dinner was coming along.

"Smells amazing, what's for dinner?"

"Chicken curry with roasted potato Bel's making as the side."

Bel was standing on a stool, cutting and seasoning potatoes, some were already done, he assumed those to be for taste testing. She was struggling with getting paprika at the top of the cabinet.

"Here you go."

"Thanks Papa, would you like to try some potatoes?"

"Sure," he took a piece and chewed it, "needs a bit more pepper and maybe something spicy. Hey Purifier, do you like spicy food?"

"Yeah, Purity says she doesn't mind as well!" she shouted back from the living room.

"Thank you for your hard work." he ruffled her hair to help Belfast till dinner was ready. Dinner was a rather uneventful affair, by the time they were finished with the dishes, it was eight. It wasn't late but it wasn't early either, and they still didn't know where Purifier and Purity's going to sleep.

"I know it's still early, but where are you going to sleep, Purifier? Belfast can probably share the bed with Bel and Purity, but what about you?"

"I can sleep with you, after all, we are considered husband and wife now, are we not?"

"W-we aren't even technically married yet, and we can't just jump the gun you know?"

"She can use the room in front of mine, it's vacant."

"Sorry Belfast, but we'll probably need to inform Elizabeth about having Purifier in the Royal dorms. But with how she is, she's probably sleeping already."

"How about we have a big sleepover?" Purity asked.

"What do you mean?"

"We can rearrange the couches in the living room to make space for sleeping bags or mattresses. So, then we can all be together as we sleep!"

"But I only have one spare mattress and sleeping bag, I don't want to mess up my own bed. Bel and Purity can share the sleeping bag... I'll share the mattress with Purifier and Belfast."

11 P.M...

The girls were fast asleep, the end credits of the movie rolling. The Commander turned the TV and lights off before getting in between Purifier and Belfast. They were still awake, waiting for the kids to fall asleep so they remember to turn the TV off. Holding him, they both gave him a kiss on the cheeks and said goodnight before going to sleep. Holding them closer, he smiled and eventually fell asleep as well.