Two seconds later,
A block item appeared in his hand—the Azure Lane Gate.
"Whew~ I feel like I'm getting used to it, but I still can't let Laffey and the others worry, so I should use it as little as possible."
Having obtained this crucial item for crossing worlds,
Jack immediately rushed back to his office.
Before even entering the door, he excitedly called out to Laffey,
"—Our luck is truly too good, Laffey! The high-level Siren yesterday dropped the blueprint for the Azure Lane Gate, and I only just discovered it when I went to the Armory!"
Laffey scrutinized Jack from head to toe.
She looked like a small, doting wife checking if her husband was having an affair.
"Cough, cough, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Commander... is a dummy~ Hmph~"
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That's what she said, but Laffey still ran over and hugged Jack.
Jack's expression immediately softened.
It seemed the matter of his creation mode had been exposed. Well, it made sense; Laffey paid so much attention to him, there was no way she wouldn't notice.
"Sorry, Laffey, I made you worry."
Laffey just held him, not speaking.
Jack knew this little one was protesting.
So, he wisely said no more, just quietly stroking her hair.
After more than ten minutes,
Laffey came out of koala mode, looked up at Jack, and said, "Commander... are we going to bring everyone here now?"
"Correction, we are returning to the port."
"Oh..."
"Speaking of which, Laffey, how is our port doing? You know, when I communicated with you all before, we weren't at the same observation point, so I couldn't fully know the current state of the port."
Laffey thought for a moment and then said, "Before... when Commander was here, everyone was together... But later, Commander left... and everyone separated~"
"Separated... do you mean the original Azure Lane Alliance members are still together, while others like Eastern Radiance, Sakura Empire, Iron Blood, Northern Parliament, etc., have returned to their original ports?"
Laffey frowned.
After a long while, she managed to squeeze out a few words: "Laffey... doesn't know."
She felt guilty for her limited knowledge.
Jack patted her back, comforting her.
Unlike Genshin Impact, a game he had quit for half a year,
Azure Lane was a game Jack was still playing the day before he died in his previous life.
Therefore, calculating it, the Commander had only been away from the port for less than half a year, so the Shipgirls shouldn't have fallen apart too much.
"It's better to see it for ourselves than to talk more about it. There's no time like the present, let's depart today!"
Laffey nodded: "Mm! Laffey... misses Javelin and the others a bit too~"
...
More than ten minutes later,
Jack and Laffey arrived at a valley about several hundred kilometers away from the port.
This would be the place to put the Azure Lane Gate.
After all, it was connected to another world, so no amount of caution was too much.
Fortunately, Jack had brought over the teleportation waypoint module from the Genshin Impact world. After the Shipgirls became his Dependents, they could easily jump across the large map, so there was no need to worry about the distance being too far.
In front of a blue swirling light gate,
Jack and Laffey held hands.
"Through this gate, we'll return to the world of Azure Lane. Are you nervous, Laffey?"
"With Commander here... I'm not nervous~"
"Heh heh, me too. As soon as I think of Laffey by my side, I feel strength constantly surging from the bottom of my heart!"
"Flag... don't say things carelessly~"
"Oh? It's only been a few days, and you've already learned modern internet slang from comics... Don't worry, your Commander, I am very strong. As for crossing worlds, I've already experienced it countless times!"
Under the blue light of the Gate of Crossing,
Jack's face bloomed with a confident smile.
And then... and then he messed up.
Looking at the cherry blossom shrine with birds singing and flowers blooming all around, Laffey was nowhere to be seen in his hand.
Only that faint connection of the Dependents told Jack that Laffey was still safe at this moment.
"Where exactly is this..."
"Perhaps... it's a dream, Commander-sama~"
A tall woman in a kimono walked from under a cherry blossom tree. With silver hair, fox ears, and a fox tail, it was the aircraft carrier Shipgirl named Shinano.
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