Musashi sat in the hot tub with Tenryuu and Shimakaze as Wo swam happily around in between the three of them in the hot tubs center. Letting out a sigh Musashi looked upwards, the mist of the hot tub making the lights above them seem foggy. "This Musashi is surprised that there are so few of us."
Tenryuu opened her eyes and lifted her head from the edge of the hot tub, looking to Musashi. "This base only became operational a few days ago, it was just me and Shimakaze until now and we literally just had out first expedition today before you had come."
Musashi nodded at Tenryuu's explanation and looked to Wo, who still swam about happily in the hot tub, despite it being bad manners. "What about that little one? It looks like a Wo-class aircraft carrier, only smaller."
Tenryuu nodded. "She is, kind of."
This caught Musashi's attention causing her to glance to Tenryuu with a look of interest.
"She followed the admiral here when he found her on the open sea. She wasn't with anyone and followed him into the base. The fairies even put her in the base system registries, though she's apparently level 0."
"This Musashi did not think such a thing was possible. Why is it not put in a cell or the like?"
"Good question!" Shimakaze nearly yelled as she pulled herself out of the hot tub and threw a towel around herself. "I'm outa here, see you tomorrow."
Musashi and Tenryuu watched Shimakaze leave before the both of them shrugged. "She does not like the little one?" Musashi asked cautiously.
Tenryuu shook her head. "Despite the admirals idea of seeing what happens she keeps adamant that Wo is some kind of assassin, or sneak, or something of the like."
"I see. And what do you think of the little one?"
Tenryuu looked at Musashi for a moment before pushing away from the wall and picking up Wo with both hands, and flinging her into the air, catching her as she fell back down laughing. "She's so cute!"
Musashi nodded. "You do not believe she could be an enemy in disguise? She is an abyssal ship regardless of size after all."
"The admiral has basically said we'll wait to see what happens, and that she has to be watched at all times. Besides, she's too cute to be dangerous!"
"This Musashi understands. Do you watch the little one then?"
"Around the base yeah, I have been. Now that we've been on a successful expedition though, we may finally get some sorties, so Admiral Yin will watch her then." Tenryuu said as she let go of Wo, allowing her to go back to swimming around the hot tub happily.
Musashi nodded and watched as Wo swam around the hot tub, eventually swimming over to her and latching onto her shoulder, awkwardly attempting to climb up her with a smile. "Um, what do I do?" Musashi asked, unsure of how to react to Wo climbing up her shoulder.
Tenryuu chuckled. "Just say hello to her, she probably wants to know if you're friendly or not."
Hearing this Musashi looked to Wo who merely looked back at her with a look of innocence. "Um, this Musashi greets you?"
Wo looked at her for many moments before waving her hands up in the air happily ,using the tentacles on her headgear to keep herself steady on Musashi's shoulder. "Wo!"
"Err; the little one is clinging tighter to my shoulder, is this normal?"
Tenryuu nodded with a smile. "Yep, see, she's hugging you, she likes you!"
Musashi looked down at Wo as she began rubbing her cheek against Musashi's shoulders, letting out soft coo's as she did. "This Musashi is not sure how to react to this."
"Then don't." Tenryuu said simply as she waded through the hot tub and over to Musashi. With a simple motion she lifted Wo off of Musashi's shoulder, Wo suddenly confuse about being in the air, and placed her down at the edge of the hot tub before pulling herself out. "It's time we head to sleep Wo." Tenryuu said as she grabbed a long dark blue towel and wrapped it around her body before taking two slam pink towels and wrapping them around Wo's body and head gear, making her look similar to a pink frosted cupcake.
Wo looked at Tenryuu then down at the towel around her waist before throwing her arms up in the air happily. "Wo"
Picking up Wo and propping her up on her shoulder, Tenryuu turned to Musashi with a smile. "We'll be heading to bed now. Do you know where your room is, Musashi?"
Musashi nodded." This Musashi knows where it is, it was seen on the way down the halls earlier."
"Alright, I'll see you in the morning then." Tenryuu said as she and Wo left the hot tub leaving Musashi to herself.
Musashi let herself sink deeper into the water and let out a pleasant sigh of relief. "This is nice. I think I'll enjoy being in this fleet."
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Yin stepped out of his bedroom and into his office, sitting down quickly and pulling out the base tablet and giving it the once over. He had been happy that they had gotten such a reliable battleship in Musashi, but now that he was taking a glance at the data he began to realize that there might be a problem. Musashi, while extremely powerful and reliable, had an absolutely massive amount of resource intake of both ammunition and fuel, and if she became badly damaged it would be greatly expensive in steel to repair her. "With the bases current resource holding capacity, hmm, I'll need to have the storage areas enlarged so we can have a larger amount of excess resources. But that means upgrading the base as a whole. Hmmm" Yin wondered aloud to himself. "We have enough resources for a couple of repairs, or one on Musashi, but out resource regeneration is too low at the moment. Looks like we'll need to do an expedition, or sortie to take out that mass of I-class destroyers."
Standing up from his desk and placing the base's tablet in the holder on his belt Yin walked around his desk and out of his office, quickly heading towards the cafeteria where the ship girls were likely having breakfast. At that thought Yin's stomach grumbled loudly, breakfast was something he would happily indulge in, and there was no point in sending the girls out until they were done.
As he opened the door to the cafeteria Yin expected to be greeted with the sight of the girls eating, and instead was greeted with Wo to the face. Pulling Wo off of his face as carefully as he could, and then being greeted by Wo who leapt from his grip and latching onto his shoulder with a hug, he then saw Tenryuu running over.
"Sorry admiral, Wo and the Rensouhou's got a little rough and sent Wo flying toward the door. I guess you timing was perfect, huh?"
"Yeah I guess so." Yin replied with a chuckle as Tenryuu took Wo off of his shoulder as they walked over to the table were Musashi and Shimakaze were happily digging into the food before them. Sitting down Yin could see a plate of food already out for him and happily dug into it. "Mmm. This is pretty good Tenryuu!"
Tenryuu looked away from Yin and put down her chopsticks. "Err, Musashi made breakfast, not me actually."
Yin looked at Tenryuu for a moment before turning his gaze to Musashi with a smile. "Sorry about that, I should've asked first. Musashi, this is really good!"
Musashi nodded as she cleared her throat. "This Musashi thought she would do something to help everyone, it is minor though."
Yin let out a light chuckle as he finished his food and placed down his chopsticks. "Well, it's really good. And there is of course more you can do."
Hearing Yin say this everyone perked up a bit, especially Shimakaze. "Then are we going to-?"
Yin nodded. "Yep. The three of you are to sortie. The objective is to take out that nest of I-class destroyers that Tenryuu and Shimakaze encountered yesterday. Clear them out and bring back anything of worth."
Shimakaze nearly leapt from her seat and ran towards and out the door. "Battle here we come!"
Musashi looked at the door as it slowly swung shut. "Is she normally this way?"
"She's been wanting to sortie since the admiral got here" Tenryuu replied as she stood up from her seat. "Shall we?"
Musashi nodded and followed Tenryuu toward the cafeteria's exit.
"Good luck, and be safe" Yin said under his breath as the two girls left the room following far behind Shimakaze, leaving Wo and Yin alone.