Author's note: I will ask you all if you want to see chapters with weddings along with more comedic scenes. I am taking more inspiration from the manga after I binge-read it all to find myself laughing. Enjoy the chapter

Shikikan awoke with a sharp pain in his neck. His sleeping position was not suited for his neck which made it all the more painful. Note to self, don't sleep on a chair unless you want a sore neck. Rubbing the sore muscle, he looked around the room to find it mostly neat and tidy. Either Belfast came in before he awoke or Hornet tidied up the place before she left.

Looking at the clock, he found it to be around nine o'clock. The pretty standard time for him to wake up when he wasn't awoken by his secretaries. They seemed to be awake for at least an hour or two before he even got close to. He needed the rest after so many restless nights dealing with Sirens or brainwashed shipgirls.

Rolling his head around to stretch out the sore muscle, he got up from his chair and made his way out of the office. He might as well get some breakfast before his secretary got here. He never gave them an exact time to be here. So long as they arrived around the time they were assigned, they could come early or late.

"Herr Kommandant!" a voice rang in his ears as he was about to leave the building

The Commander turned around to look down at a girl that was probably four inches or more smaller than him. Although not as short as the other Destroyers, probably one of the tallest, she was still shorter than him. She wore a white navy uniform that barely passed her rear paired with leggings that reached all the way to her thighs. She had recently undergone a retrofit which she wore a blue cape with a red interior. An iron cross fitted on a band held a group of her blonde short hair on her right side. Lastly, she wore dark gloves along with additional material that covered her arms just before her shoulders.

It was his first ship that willingly joined his side years ago, "It's been a while, Z23."

The Ironblood destroyer smiled before suddenly giving the much taller Commander a hug, "Endless sorties and patrols for Sirens have kept me away."

Shikikan embraced Z23 in return but not noticing she was blushing quite brightly. After a short moment of hugging each other tightly, the Commander let the Ironblood Destroyer go. They proceeded to walk to the mess hall to get some breakfast before they got a crack at the paperwork.

While at the mess hall, Z23 looked at Shikikan with an expectant look on her face, "Erm, is something wrong?"

Z23 shook her head before she cleared her throat, "Kommandant, I was speaking to my fellow Destroyers the other day and we wanted to see if you could join us in a session of King's Game."

Shikikan rose a brow at the mention of a game he heard of but never played, "King's Game? What is that? Sounds like some sort of game the Royal Navy would play."

Z23 shook her head, "Actually no, it's actually a game I learned from Ayanami. The rules are simple but can be quite hilarious. You put any number of chopsticks corresponding to the number of players and one of them is marked as king. Whoever gets that chopstick is the king for the round and basically gives a random dare to random numbers of their choosing. The players with the numbers must obey the dares and it continues on until everyone quits."

"That's it?" the Commander looked quite interested, "Sounds like fun. I'm assuming it will just be you, me, Javelin, Laffey, and Ayanami."

The Ironblood Destroyer nodded, "Yep, just us. At least, that's the plan. We considered adding a few more players."

"Just a few more? So long as they aren't Akagi, I'm good. I really don't want today to be filled with sexual matters." the officer stated firmly

This got the blond girl to get curious as to why her Commander was so reluctant to even engage in biological matters, "Kommandant, may I ask why you don't ever indulge yourself? You're married to Eugen but neither of you has participated in what couples normally do for procr-"

Shikikan covered her mouth as a scarlet blush appeared on his face, "Let's just say I would rather not make any mistakes. We have a war to finish."

Z23 nodded slowly before the two of them sat in silence for the rest of their breakfast.


It was afternoon by the time the duo headed over to the Eagle Union dormitory. Unlike the other factions, the Eagle Union had surprisingly more space and less restricted rules which made the starter squad hang out around this area. Z23 led the Commander to a specific part of the dormitory where mostly the Destroyers settled. Opening a specific door, the Commander was greeted with something surprising.

The first shipgirls in his sight were Laffey and Javelin, not surprisingly. However, he soon found Ayanami sitting with Takao while Tirpitz sat in the corner. Even Z23 looked a bit confused with the Battleship and Heavy Cruiser being here. Their attention turned towards Shikikan in an instant, Tirpitz having a faint smile on her lips at his sight while Takao held her composure.

"It's good to have you here, Shikikan," Takao said calmly, internally struggling to keep her facade of discipline together

"Is this what you meant by more players?" the Commander said out loud, looking to the Destroyers for an answer

Laffey was drinking a fresh bottle of cola with her sleepy look on her face, the usual look she had, "Laffey did not invite them, they asked if they could play."

Javelin looked excited to get the game started, having set up a table that everyone could sit around. There was already a cup with sticks ready to go. The officer couldn't see which one had the title labeled on it so this was going to get interesting.

"Are we waiting for more players or are we going to start?" Shikikan had to ask, hoping that no more shipgirls would arrive to make this experience embarrassing

If it was him and the Destroyer squad, he would be perfectly fine. They didn't show any signs of interest for him even though they all served under him for some time. The only one who had any interest in him would have been Z23 but she never outwardly displayed any forms of affection. As his thoughts lingered to the possibilities, the door was opened to reveal particular Union tomboy and nonchalant looking maid.

"Are we late?" the Union shipgirl asked while the maid looked uninterested

"No, we were just about to get started," Ayanami answered, double-checking the number of sticks there were to accurately display all the players

Nine of them and nine sticks. One of them was labeled to be king. That meant after every draw, eight of them would be subjected to some hilarious and embarrassing orders. The atmosphere began to get tense, not in competition, but in wariness to each stick. Javelin gave a nod as everyone put their hands on one stick, drawing it out at the same time.

The Commander looked at his stick to find the number three labeled on it, not making him the king. Now it made him wonder who was.

"Looks like I'm king," Sheffield said in a bland tone, a complete contrast to the rest of the maids, "Nine must be three's servant for the rest of the game."

There was silence, who was number nine? The Commander knew this game had to be rigged since it was too coincidental that his number has been called out right away. Either that or Sheffield saw his number to purposely make fun of him. That maid always made the Commander wonder if she hated him or just treated him like that on purpose. Then, he saw Takao begin to shake in her place, causing the other girls to realize what her number must have been.

"Takao? You alright there?" Shikikan asked, noticing how despite her discipline, her face was scarlet and her lips quivered

"O-of course….M-master," the Sakura Heavy Cruiser looked at him with her dark blush

Before the Commander could question her further, his concern would be met with his head planted on her lap. A light blush fell on his face but at least Takao wasn't shaking anymore. If it wasn't obvious, the officer began to put the pieces together. Tirpitz's light smile faded in an instant with her cold eyes piercing the Commander's soul.

"I made a mistake in joining this game haven't I?" he thought to himself while feeling the air around him get cold

All the sticks were put back in the cup and mixed around so it wasn't obvious where the king stick was. Everyone took another stick and pulled them out to get their new numbers. The Commander noticed his number was now a two and due to being on Takao's lap, he thought he saw a four on hers.

"Yes! I'm king!" Javelin exclaimed while thinking on her order, "Number seven must tell us an embarrassing secret."

The cold atmosphere went away as Tirpitz was blushing quite noticeably. She looked down to hide from the rest of the group who were expecting something really funny. However, the Bismarck-Class battleship simply took her left gloved hand and began to remove it. The rest of the players were confused about why Tirpitz was not speaking until her white glove came off.

On her ring finger was a simple ring with inscriptions on it which caused the entire room to erupt in blushes and surprised looks, "N-Nani?!"

"When the hell did I give Tirpitz a promise ring like tha-?" The Commander's face was extremely embarrassed before he began to think


Shikikan was sitting at the Ironblood bar with a large mug of beer in his hand. His face had a blush on it and he felt himself become buzzed after he had at least two or three full mugs. While the Eagle Union had great hard liquor, and the Royal Navy having great wine, the Ironbloods knew how to brew an excellent beer.

Tirpitz was sitting next to him with a heavy blush on her face and several empty mugs to her right. They had just sortied together against some Sirens and their hard-fought victory deserved some celebration. The rest of his fleet were indulging themselves in beer off to the side and heavy in conversation. It was just the officer and his flagship to sit at the bar itself.

"Mmm...Kommandant...have you decided what you will do after the war?" The battleship asked him with a slur in her voice and her look giving off a drunk love

Shikikan took a few gulps of his current mug of beer before turning towards his flagship with half-lidded eyes, a sign that he clearly wasn't in the right mindset, "Hm? Oh...I don't know. Go home, find a lovely girl and get married like most guys."

"Children too?" Tirpitz asked with her head resting against her arms that were resting on the counter

The officer chuckled as he drank more, his drunkenness increasing as the alcohol was being administered to his systems, "Yeah, if it comes to that. Who knows what they would look like."

He reached into his white slacks and put a small box on the counter between them. Tirpitz, even in her drunken state, was curious enough to open it and find a simple ring with inscriptions on it. She didn't even bother asking the drunk Commander if he was promising her. Instead, she took the ring and put it on her ring finger.

"Looks good on you. You can...keep it," Shikikan said, his voice stopping for a moment when he felt himself about to vomit

The Ironblood battleship looked at him with a smile, "Hm...Does this mean...a promise?"

"Yeah, sure...hic...we can be married at this point. No more Lonely Queen of the North,"


Back to the present time, Tirptiz had a loving smile as she looked at the Commander. However, he looked like he was in shell shock when he heard the tale of how she acquired a ring from him. Although it was nowhere near as ornate as Eugen's, a promise ring was a promise ring. But, that would mean that he was now married to two Ironblood shipgirls which meant….

Takao's hands, which had been massaging Shikikan's head, suddenly clamped around him. The officer didn't need to ask what she was doing as he could feel her aura intensify around him. Akagi had a limitless fury but Takao had kept her fury from rising so much that when it did release, it put Akagi to shame. The other shipgirls all had a mix of happiness, utter horror, and uncaring, especially Sheffield, Ayanami, and Laffey.

"Shikikan is going to die," Laffey said in her tired voice, drinking her cola as usual

Indeed he felt like he was going to die, slowly turning his eyes upwards to see Takao's amber eyes staring at him. Her hands were on her sword which was dangerously about to be drawn to slash him in an instant.

"Master...You saved a ring for me yes?" her tone was delicate enough to seem innocent but Shikikan knew better of the sharp edge hidden underneath

He couldn't respond as fear overtook his senses. He looked around the room for any form of help but the other girls were asking Tirpitz about what kind of wedding she would want. Even Cleveland, who was a tomboy, seemed eager to know. That didn't help when the Commander's eyes landed on Z23 to find her with a heavy blush and an angry look.

"Why does she have that look?!" his mind panicked as he saw her summon her rigging

Her retrofit armed her with an even larger arm cannon that looked like some sort of dragon with a gun barrel in its mouth. More torpedos appeared around her as she gave him a look that meant death.

"Kommandant...I come back after almost a hundred sorties…and this is what I learn?!" she pointed her arm cannon at him as a red aura engulfed her

Yep, that was her Destruction Mode. Her retrofit made her more uncontrollable once she got angry. This made her a valuable asset on the battlefield but also a bane to the Commander outside of it. Usually, she was calm and composed but now she was far from that. Without giving the Ironblood Destroyer or Takao a chance to murder him on the spot, he booked it out of the room.

A couple of moments passed for the scene to settle before both girls rushed out of the room in hot pursuit of the officer. Other Eagle Union shipgirls watched as Shikikan ran for dear life out of their dormitory only to see Z23 and Takao run after him. One of the Union girls was Hornet, the aircraft carrier giggling before she sighed.

"Commander, you really work fast," she commented before looking outside to watch the chase ensued.


The Commander was working on paperwork with several bandages adorning his body. Parts of his uniform were ripped or covered in gunpowder while he had bandages over some cuts on his face and hands. His whole body was hurting but he honestly deserved it after the mess he caused, well, more like what Tirpitz caused. He really wanted to cry right now about how stupid he was in the past. Not just for causing this unnecessary drama, but also for the lack of gems he had now after the shipgirls caught him.

Outside of his office, Z23 and Takao were working together on paperwork as well. However, it wasn't the usual paperwork that the secretaries were assigned. Instead, it was paperwork to approve the renting of the Performing Arts area. Multiple events were carried out by the shipgirls to give them some form of cohesion when not fighting off enemy fleets. Such things as singing competitions, fashion shows, and weddings.

Speaking of weddings, two nicely constructed promise rings adorned the shipgirls ring fingers. Z23's having a blue gemstone in it while Takao's had an amber one. After chasing the Commander down all day, they caught up to him and punished him for his crime. After the anger subsided, they forced him to use his gem reserves to buy them a promise ring for the emotional pain he gave them. He didn't protest against them once they had their weapons trained on him.

"Herr Kommandant, do you know the Royal Navy is hosting a ball within the next few days," the, now happy, Ironblood destroyer asked

Shikikan nodded, "Yeah, Hornet told me all about it."

Takao turned towards him with an inquisitive brow, "Will you be attending? All of us have received invitations but I don't find anything for you."

The Commander looked up from his paperwork, his tired and pained look plastered evidently, "I really can't say no can I?"

Neither of the two shipgirls answered since the answer was obvious. The officer sighed again since he was going to have to not only get himself a new suit but now he might have to pay Akashi another visit. The girls were mostly self-sufficient but he wouldn't be surprised if he had to help pay for their dresses. As much as he really didn't want to, he had a bad feeling he was going to.

"How could this get any worse?" he wondered

So leave a comment and stay tuned to what will happen to our poor Shikikan.