"My name is Kaga Yamamoto," the side ponytailed girl clad in Kuoh Academy uniform introduced herself to the class. Her tone was calm and her expression was indiscernible. The first thing most students in the class thought upon seeing the girl was that she somehow carried the aura of 'a cool lady'. "I am pleased to make you acquaintances," she said as she dipped into a slight bow.

"Whoa, she's pretty!"

"She looks so cool!"

"Side ponytail, huh? Well, she definitely pulls it off, that's for certain."

"First, Yamato-chan, and now, her? I think I'm living in an anime!"

"Dude, I think I saw her coming to school together early this morning with Hyoudou. That would mean…"

All eyes were directed at Issei, who sheepishly looked away upon receiving those looks from his classmates. He believed that he also somehow received some glares from the boys in the class. And it was noteworthy to mention that his fellow perverts, Matsuda and Motohama, were shooting daggers at him. If looks could kill, he might have been riddled with countless daggers all over his body.

"Issei…" Motohama's glare intensified. "First, Yamato-chan, and now…"

"W-well…" Issei glanced around nervously.

And to make the situation much worse, Kaga spoke further, "And I shall mention that I am currently living in Hyoudou residence. Due to some complicated matters, I am living together with Issei Hyoudou." There was a faint shade of red on Kaga's cheeks as she continued, "And… I would say that I am not displeased with this current arrangement…"

Issei gulped, noticing that he was no longer showered in figurative daggers from the glares that he received from the other boys, but instead, he felt like he might have been showered in figurative swords, spears, arrows or any sharp weapons larger than daggers. Two desks away from him, Yamato was giving Issei a concerned look.

Two days ago, upon her materialization, there was a shift of reality to accommodate Kaga's existence. But unlike Yamato, who had been living together with Issei as a ship's shard for ten years, the shift of reality wasn't as precise as Yamato's. As a result, the only thing Kaga got from the shift of reality was her civilian identity, Kaga Yamamoto. That was why she had to be introduced to Issei's parents first, because the shift of reality didn't make her Issei's cousin, unlike Yamato.

Issei told his parents that Kaga's parents were going overseas due to their works, leaving their daughter alone. He managed to convince his parents to let Kaga to live with them for the time being. Much to his relief, both of them agreed to let her stay with them.

And Kaga also needed to attend school, so unlike Yamato, she took the entrance test so that she could attend Kuoh Academy. Amazingly, she managed to pass the test with flying colors. All she needed in order to pass the test was to study for only one night. When Issei asked her about how she managed to pass the test, which, from his experience, was super hard and he barely passed the test when he took it, Kaga told him that it was one of the perks of being a non-human creature that was born from the spirit of a sunken WWII-era warship. For Issei, that was quite a nonsensical answer, but that's the only answer he got from her, so he believed that had to be the best answer she could provide to him.

She also told him that it was due to her pride of 1st CarDiv, whatever that actually meant.

One thing that Issei realized after having both Yamato and Kaga in the household was that they were a couple of big eaters. Saying that they ate a lot was an understatement of the century. Luckily, both of his parents didn't seem to mind that both girls had exceptionally large appetite, saying that girls nowadays still needed some growing up to do. Issei wanted to say something about that line of thought, considering that both girls were 'heavily-stacked', for the lack of better words, but he figured out that it's better for him to keep whatever he wanted to say about such line of thought to himself.

After all, there's no use complaining about why his parents didn't say anything about both girls' abnormal appetite, now that he had two girls living together with him, something that he could only dream before. It helped that each of those girls had a pair of large Oppai.

He also had discussed with both Yamato and Kaga about the next thing to do. Now that he had the embodiments of the spirits of battleship Yamato and aircraft carrier Kaga, the next thing to do would be to provide essential resources for both of them. While both Yamato and Kaga were humanoid in appearance, they were first and foremost the embodiments of Japanese warships and also the youkai that were born from the wills of the ships.

Resources such as steel and fuel were essential for the Kanmusu. It's not like they mandatorily needed them, but by consuming them, they would grow much stronger, which would make it easier for him to achieve his dream; collecting shipgirls to make his own harem.

Back at the classroom, Issei was grinning lecherously while sitting at his desk, imagining himself being surrounded by his harem that consisted of the shipgirls. Finally, a real-life harem! The one thing that he previously thought as mere dream could finally come true!

Like Yamato, Kaga also agreed to help him to achieve his dream of making a harem of Kanmusu. And she was also willing to use her powers to search for more ship fragments in order to awaken more shipgirls. As a personification of an aircraft carrier, she could use her reconnaissance planes (which were shaped like toy planes, by the way) to track down the fragments. She had assumed that within one week, the planes would be able to detect at least seven fragments across the country, and the planes would retrieve the fragments to their place so that the summoning ritual could be made.

The usage of her planes also somehow increased Kaga's appetite, and the night after Kaga launched her planes, she almost singlehandedly demolished the dinner. Due to some reasons, Issei's mother didn't suspect even a thing, thinking that it might be just a phase.

So, back at the classroom, Kaga had finished her introduction, her expression seemed calm and deadpan as ever. The majority of the boys were still casting evil glares at Issei when the teacher told Kaga, "So, Yamamoto-san, you can take any empty seat you like."

Blinking, Kaga scanned the whole class, looking at her classmates before she raised her hand and pointed her finger at the empty desk which somehow was conveniently beside Issei's. "I'd like to sit there," Kaga said. "I'd like to sit beside Issei-kun."

Some of her classmates were murmuring.

"Isn't that Saitama-kun's seat?"

"I heard he crashed into a tree yesterday. He got a full-body cast at the hospital."

"Poor guy. Well, at least we won't be worrying about his desk being empty. You do know what they say about empty desks, right?"

"Oh, is this one of your horror stories again?"

"Hey, this one is real! Don't you know that one time, the toilet-"

Issei sighed, ignoring the conversation between his classmates that somehow had mutated into something about the school's bathrooms. He seemed to be thinking about something when Kaga went to the empty desk beside his before she took her seat.

Meanwhile, Yamato was giving Issei a worried look.

"Issei…"

Kantai DxD

Kantai Collection and High School DxD Crossover

Chapter 04: Selfish Dream

Koneko Toujou was feeling a little nervous since the morning. When she arrived at school at the morning, she detected a scent which reminded her of Yamato, the mysterious girl who showed up at school a few days ago. She could tell that the girl was anything but a human.

What made her nervous was that while the scent seemed familiar, it wasn't the same as the one that came from Yamato. This time, this scent was a little stronger, and it reminded her of seawater.

After that, she saw her, a different girl who walked alongside Issei Hyoudou. Yamato also walked beside him. This new girl was shorter than Yamato, and she wore her dark brown hair in side ponytail. Seeing her expression reminded Koneko of herself; stoic and composed.

"Whoa, who's that beauty?!"

"I never saw her before. Dang, she's pretty."

"I-is Hyoudou walking with her? And with Yamato-chan too?!"

"Damn you Hyoudou!"

"That bastard's double-wielding! Dammit, God is dead! Dead, I tell ya!"

Koneko still remembered the reactions of other students who saw this new girl, who apparently was a new student at Kuoh Academy, and she decided to momentarily forget about those for the time being. Judging from the unique scent that she detected from her, Koneko could tell that she might not be a human, just like Yamato. She remembered the time when she was eavesdropping both Issei and Yamato, recalling some details regarding Yamato's true nature and some other things.

She still didn't understand most of the things she heard, but she knew that something was going on. Normally, she would just let it be, considering that supernatural existence was a natural occurrence around the area, particularly at Kuoh Academy. She was of supernatural existence herself, so she shouldn't be surprised if she discovered something inhuman among the crowd.

And yet there was something that had been bothering her. It was something that she was unable to explain with words.

Because of that, she went to tell the president of the Occult Research Club, Rias Gremory regarding this matter.

"So, that explains why you seemed restless these last few days…" Rias Gremory said, looking at Koneko who was sitting on the sofa opposite the one she was sitting on. The white-haired, petite girl was drinking a cup of tea. She had told her about her discovery.

A busty, black-haired girl, Akeno Himejima, the vice-president of the club, was pouring tea into cups when she said, "My, so it's not because of Koneko-chan being in heat, after all…" The black-haired beauty smiled teasingly at the younger girl.

"Hbuu!" And the poor girl ended up spitting the tea she was drinking, and being the one who was in front of her when she did the rather spectacular spit-take, Rias found herself dripping with tea.

Letting out an annoyed sigh, she glanced at Akeno. "What did I tell you about saying things like that, Akeno?" She didn't seem to be bothered in her current state of wetness as she threw the black-haired girl a disapproving look. Koneko, who was coughing after doing a spit-take seemed to have the decency to be embarrassed after splashing the tea she was drinking right on to Rias' face.

The only boy in the clubhouse, Yuuto Kiba went to Rias' side before he handed her a fresh, clean towel so that she could wipe herself dry with it.

"Ah, thank you, Yuuto."

"You're welcome, Buchou."

While Rias was using the towel to wipe herself dry, Koneko set down her teacup.

"So… you somehow encountered two unknown supernatural entities showing up at school these last few days?" Rias began.

"Not encountered…" Koneko said before she took a rice cracker on the place that was on the table. "Detected." After taking a bite, she continued, "I detected them by chance, and they smelled strange."

Rias understood what Koneko was trying to tell her. Due to her 'special circumstances', Koneko was able to discern the nature of supernatural beings by their scents. And this time, she somehow detected something that was unknown to her.

"So…" Akeno said as she read the documents in her hands. "Yamato Hyoudou and Kaga Yamamoto…" She was reading the information of these two new students. "Yamato Hyoudou came to this school a few days ago, and Kaga Yamamoto came two days later, which is today." She eyed the petite girl. "Are you saying that these two are some kind of entities that are unknown to us?"

Koneko nodded. "Yes." She never smelled such scents before, not from the supernatural entities that she already knew beforehand. "And I eavesdropped their conversation a few days ago. I was unable to learn what they were talking about, but I did hear Yamato Hyoudou's words about her being a non-human," after a pause, she added, "And I also saw her summoning some kind of small creatures."

"Hmm…" Rias brought her hand to her chin, mulling over the new information she received from the younger girl. "Koneko, will you continue observing these two? Use your familiar if necessary. Also, since Issei Hyoudou is also with him, will you observe him too?"

Rias clasped her hands together as she looked at Koneko.

"If we are right, then he may have it in him…" The red-haired girl said. "The Sacred Gear…"

Koneko nodded.

"Understood."

"Admiral, is something bothering you?" Yamato asked Issei as she walked alongside the boy on their way home. Kaga was also with them. After school, they decided to go straight home to check the progress of the reconnaissance planes to see if they managed to find the signals of the ship fragments.

"Huh?" Issei blinked before he looked at the ponytailed girl beside him. "Oh, uh… n-no, it's nothing," Issei said.

Yamato could tell that Issei was definitely troubled.

"Admiral…" Kaga spoke from his side. "You look troubled."

"I'm fine," Issei insisted.

Yamato and Kaga looked at each other. Both shipgirls were befuddled by Issei's change of behavior. When they thought about it, he started getting fidgety some times after Kaga's materialization.

"Well, if you say so…" Yamato said, smiling warmly at Issei. That beautiful smile of hers was definitely a sight to behold for Issei.

So, as they walked the street, there was a girl walking opposite their direction. She seemed to be holding a paper bag which contained a lot of meat buns, and the girl was eating one while walking towards their direction.

And Kaga almost bumped into her.

"Ah, sorry!" The girl apologized after swallowing the chunk of meat bun she had bitten.

"It's okay…" Kaga said. After bowing, the girl walked away. When Kaga was about to continue walking, she saw something on the ground.

It was a cellphone, which was pink in color. She bent down and picked it up. She figured out that this cellphone might belong to the girl she almost bumped into earlier. Without wasting any second, she turned on her heel and walked over to the girl's direction.

"Wait," Kaga called out for that girl, and the girl stopped. "You dropped this."

She held out the cellphone to the girl. When she stood before her, she managed to take a good look at her. They were about the same height, from what she could tell. She was attired in light pink dress, and she was also wearing a pair of white sandals. The girl's hair was long, and like hers, the girl's hair was also dark brown in color, almost black.

"Ah…" The girl looked at the pink cellphone that Kaga showed her before she smiled, taking the cellphone from the other girl. "Thank you. Sorry for the trouble."

"It's okay…" Kaga said. The girl took the phone from her before Kaga realized that there was an anchor-shaped phone strap attached on the cellphone.

Then Kaga looked at the girl. She was wearing a black choker with a miniature anchor on it.

"Hmm… do I know you?" The girl suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Kaga blinked a few times.

"Well, probably it's just me…" The girl mused. "Oh well, thanks for giving this back. My dad was the one who bought this, you know?" The girl giggled.

"Oh, that sounds… nice," Kaga said. Then she realized that both Yamato and Issei were waiting for her. "Ah, I should go now. Have a good day." And so, she left the girl and joined both Yamato and Issei.

The girl remained there, staring at the cellphone that was returned to her after she dropped it. Absentmindedly, she took out another meat bun from the paper bag that she held before she took a bite.

"It's been a long time," she spoke. "Finally, after Midway, we meet again, Kaga…"

The girl turned around and walked down the street, presumably towards the direction of her house.

Issei had been lying to both Yamato and Kaga. He was indeed very troubled about something. It was after the encounter with the corrupted form of Kaga at the warehouse some days ago.

From what he had learned, an Abyssal is born due to accumulated grudges and hatred within a ship after being sunken. Due to the outcome of the war, Issei figured out that most, if not all warships might end up materializing themselves as Abyssals due to them being sunken during the war. Kaga got it worse due to her being sunken in one of the most humiliating defeats for Imperial Japanese Navy, the Battle of Midway. Yamato managed to get off easy due to her fame and reputation as national icon, as well as due to the fact that she had been living with Issei for ten years in her fragment form.

Yamato had explained that once an Abyssal is born, she becomes the manifestation of the shipgirl's grudges. It could be said that he was lucky that he managed to purify Kaga's corrupted form by calming her down, but there was no guarantee that it could work to other corrupted shipgirls.

Issei recalled the time when he saw the visions of Kaga, alone and broken, at the bottom of the sea. He could tell that she was scared, being left alone in the cold sea, right after being sunken during the most humiliating defeat in the history of naval warfare. If that was what Kaga experienced when she was sunken, what about the other ships? Were they scared too?

He had read about the Battle of Midway before. Four aircraft carriers and one heavy cruiser were sunk. Including Kaga, other warships such as Akagi, Hiryuu, Soryuu and Mikuma were lost during the battle. If Kaga suffered due to her defeat, did the same happen to them too? Did they spend all these years accumulating grudges in their watery graves deep within the Pacific Ocean, far from the motherland where they were born?

Issei still could remember what he had heard at that time, when Kaga said how scared she was at that time. He seemed to have trouble getting rid of those images of hers, lying motionlessly on the seabed, cold and alone. Did the others also suffer the same thing too?

He had been wondering about such thing for quite a while, and it hurt his head. So, he figured out that he might need some fresh air outside.

"I'm going out now," Issei said after putting on his jacket to protect himself from the night air.

"Shall I accompany you, Admiral?" Kaga asked.

Issei smiled and shook his head. "Nah, no worries, Kaga-chan. I'm going out to get some fresh air, that's all."

"Very well…" Kaga nodded. "Please be safe."

So, Issei went out of the house, putting his hands into the pockets of his jacket as he walked down the street. As he walked, he started thinking about his dream about making a harem of shipgirls.

"Is this alright?"

After his encounter with the corrupted Kaga, he began to rethink about his dream. All the shipgirls might have suffered in one way or another thanks to the war, and here he thought that it would be okay to collect them all like collectible trading cards. While the shipgirls aren't humans, they are still people with feelings and emotions.

"It's definitely awesome to have a harem, but… is it alright to go around, collecting them like some collectible items?"

He had realized how selfish his dream was after his encounter with Kaga. He wanted to collect shipgirls who happened to be the personifications of the warships that were sunken during the wars many years ago.

"Kaga-chan was so scared… she even became a monster because of it. Is it alright if I seek out the others, if they're as scared as Kaga-chan when they were sunken?"

Issei stopped walking when he arrived at the park. It was already late at night, so there was no one around him. He brought his hand to his chest, touching the talisman that was hanging on his neck.

"Grandpa… what should I do? I don't know what to do, I…"

Slowly, Issei walked over to a jungle gym in the middle of the park and leaned himself against it. He shuddered slightly as the back of his neck touched the cold surface of the metal bar of the jungle gym.

Then, he sighed.

"Urgh… what is wrong with me? I never felt this confused before…"

Issei wanted to scream in frustration over the things that had been bothering him for the last few days.

Then, a voice spoke to him.

"Well, you definitely look troubled."

"Huh?"

He looked up, and saw someone sitting on top of the jungle gym. It was a girl, clad in light pink dress. Because it was nighttime, he couldn't tell whether her long, silky hair was black or dark brown, but there was one thing he was certain; she was definitely pretty. In one hand, she was holding a paper bag which seemed to contain some croissants, and the way she was sitting on the jungle gym somehow exposed her panties.

"W-white…" Issei gasped out in amazement. He had seen pantyshots before, but it was his first time seeing one so close. It was definitely a sight to be admired for a pervert like him.

"Hmm?" The girl noticed that Issei saw her undergarment, and she immediately closed her legs in order to cover her panties. "Pervert," she blushed a little, but somehow, she was smiling. "Alright, I'm going to jump down. Cushion my fall, 'kay?"

"Wha-"

"Geronimo!"

Whap!

The girl jumped onto him, and without thinking, Issei used his body in order to cushion her fall. Her body made full contact with his, and he was able to feel her breasts being pressed against his torso.

"Whoa… the real Oppai! W-wait, s-she's not wearing bra!"

"Oh," lying on top of Issei, the girl looked down to see her impromptu cushion before she smiled. "Thanks. You're a real help. As a reward, have a croissant." She handed Issei a croissant.

Taking the crescent-shaped pastry from the strange girl, Issei stared at her as the girl got up from him before she continued eating her croissants. He also got up and absentmindedly took a bite on the croissant that was given by the girl.

"Umm… uh…" Issei tried to say something to the girl, but was unable to find any right words.

Noticing the boy's discomfort, the girl finished her croissants quickly (Issei had no idea how she managed to demolish all those croissants in mere seconds) before she spoke, "What brings you to the park in the middle of a night?"

"W-well…" Issei said. "I guess I'm out to take some fresh air."

"Ah, I see…" she mused. "But, I can see that you're definitely troubled." She folded her arms under her breasts as she looked at the boy. "Care to share about the things that have been troubling you with a stranger who ate croissants in the middle of the night?"

Issei looked at the strange girl. She smiled at him kindly.

"Uh, w-well… you see, I actually have this dream, I mean, an ambition of sorts…" Issei began. "Then, something happened, and I began to see that my dream is, well…" Issei scratched the back of his head. "Kinda selfish."

"Selfish?" The girl raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, selfish. I think my dream kinda involves taking advantage of people who are suffering…" Issei said as he looked down. "If anything, I want to help them to stop their suffering, but… it feels like I'm taking advantage of them."

Stroking her chin, the girl spoke, "So, you want to achieve your dream, but you don't want to hurt those people while trying to achieve your dream," she tilted her head cutely. "What's your dream?"

Grinning, Issei made a dramatic pose. "I'm gonna be the Harem King!" Then he nervously laughed as he lowered his hands. "Uh… yeah."

The girl blinked, a few times, in fact.

"Well… that's definitely quite a big dream, I'd say," she said. "And those people are girls who you want to put into your harem, but you think that putting them into your harem without considering their feelings is kinda selfish of you. Is that right?"

"Y-yeah, it kinda feels that way…" Issei nodded sheepishly. "T-these people… they suffered a lot. And if I treat them like some kind of collectible trading cards, they're gonna hurt more." He brought his hands to his head. "I saw her… I saw her there, all alone. I… I don't wanna hurt them…"

"I see…" The girl mused. "Well, I can understand what you mean…" She brought her hands up to take Issei's, holding them. Issei could feel how soft those hands were. "Still, there has to be some way for you to realize your dream without hurting anyone." She smiled warmly at the boy. "In fact, I think I know how to do that."

"Y-you do?" Issei said. "W-what is it?"

"You told me that those people suffered a lot, so… why don't you try to ease their burden?" The girl suggested. "Help them. Find a way to make sure that they will suffer no more. Relieve them of their own suffering." Then, she winked. "Just change the priority. Make 'helping them' the highest on your list of priorities, and 'make a harem' the second highest."

"Highest priority?" Issei blinked.

The girl's expression became serious. "Do you want to help them? Do you want to save them from their suffering? Will you pull them out of the abyss of despair?"

Issei was stunned upon hearing those questions. But he composed himself and answered those questions. "Yes…" he nodded. "I don't want them to suffer."

Her expression softened. "There you go. Just make it your highest priority."

"B-but… what about my dream?" Issei asked.

"Believe me, it'll come naturally…" The girl shrugged.

"Uh…" Issei didn't understand what she meant. "Well, if you say so…" Since the girl had reassured him that in one way or another, that dream would eventually be realized, there would be no need for him to worry anymore. "A-and… thanks."

"You're welcome." The girl responded.

"So, umm… I'm Issei. Issei Hyoudou." The boy grinned before he held out his hand. "What's your name?"

Smiling gently, the girl spoke her name. "My name is Akagi Abe," the girl tilted her head. "I guess you can call me Akagi, then."

TO BE CONTINUED

Author's Note: Hello, it's me again, Prince Arjuna. So, this is the fourth chapter of Kantai DxD. At first, I thought about giving this chapter a different title, Fallen Angel Raynare, but then, a few changes have been made, and it's titled Selfish Dream instead. Oh well, I guess it should be alright for the time being. So, another character is introduced in this chapter, which is Akagi. More about her will be revealed in the next chapter, like where she came from? Or why her surname is Abe? Is she related to a certain Abe in DxD?

And here I am, looking away while feigning innocence and whistling.

Also, about Kaga's surname, I took it from the name of the Marshal Admiral of Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII, Isoroku Yamamoto.

So, I hope you'll like this chapter. It's a little shorter than the previous chapters, but I guess this chapter will do for now. Special thanks for lojzek92, the beta-reader of this chapter. It is so nice working alongside you, my friend.

Please look forward for the next chapter, Chapter 05: Aircraft Carrier Akagi. Stay tuned!

Prince Arjuna (2015)