"Laffey, Laffey, you heard, right? Commander canceled the individual date reward."
"Hmm?"
"Indeed! You also think the individual date thing was absurd before, right? With so many Shipgirls in the port, how could Commander possibly handle dating them one by one! Commander is really something, if he can't handle it, he should just tell everyone. Actually, group activities are... also not unacceptable..."
"Oh."
"Speaking of groups, Laffey, you didn't seem to be there that day. You wouldn't believe how exciting it was. There were all sorts of lewd sounds from those usually serious older sisters that you couldn't hear. Just listening to it was very stimulating, and Commander, he went on for two days and two nights straight~"
"Hoo~ Hoo ZZZzzz"
"Yukikaze, Laffey's already asleep. No matter how much you pull her and talk, she won't hear you."
"Huh? Huh!––"
Yukikaze looked in surprise at Laffey, who was sleeping on Ayanami's shoulder, feeling like she had punched cotton.
Darn it! So, did Laffey even hear anything that Yukikaze-sama said all this time?!
Noshiro, as a cruiser "sister" specially assigned to look after the destroyers, gently stroked Yukikaze's hair.
"So what exactly are you so persistently clinging to Laffey for?"
"Ah, uh... I, I'm not clinging! Haha, how could Yukikaze-sama possibly have something to trouble Laffey with? Impossible~"
"Yukikaze... feels guilty..."
Ayanami commented emotionlessly.
"Who's guilty?! Ayanami, don't talk nonsense! Yukikaze-sama doesn't need anyone to sneak in with her to dare peek into Commander's bedroom!"
Noshiro rubbed her forehead speechlessly.
"Idiot Yukikaze, you already said it."
"Huh? Huh!––"
A few minutes later.
Yukikaze squatted in the corner, drawing circles.
"Waaah waah~ Anyway, Yukikaze-sama is just a coward. I want to go peep at Commander playing with the Eagle Union sisters, but I don't have the guts. Yuudachi isn't here either, so I only have the courage to go with Laffey. Waaah waah~"
To use Commander's favoritism towards Laffey to avoid punishment if discovered, truly clever, Yukikaze-sama.
From a rational perspective, Noshiro would not recommend her companions eavesdropping on Commander.
But from a personal emotional perspective, she was also very curious about the combat power of the Eagle Union Shipgirls.
It was understandable when Commander was fighting in the small world; enemy intelligence couldn't be scouted.
Now that Commander had temporarily canceled the small world welfare, the topic of 'grabbing the stick' was back on the agenda.
There's an old Eastern Radiance saying: 'Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.'
It would be good to check out the situation under the guise of the destroyers' mischief, so as to provide some competitive reference for Musashi-sama and their Sakura Empire girl group plan.
"Ayanami, what do you think? The big adventure tonight, do you want to go?"
"Night, big adventure, and Eagle Union Shipgirls, hmm... it feels somewhat familiar..."
Ayanami rarely showed a thoughtful expression.
"Familiar?"
Yukikaze also recalled something, becoming uncharacteristically serious.
"Ah, Ayanami, that thing you're talking about, although it's a history from the original world, it does have some similarities with us."
"Hmm, not a good memory."
"???"
Noshiro looked at the two lolis who had suddenly started chatting, confused.
What's with this situation where only she was excluded? Why did she, such a large cruiser, feel like the younger sister?!
Wait! According to construction time, their ages are indeed much older than mine.
In that case, the battle before my birth... that must have been that incident, the one considered a great humiliation in Eagle Union history.
"You two seniors, your thought process is jumping way too much! Also, weren't we going to peep? How did it turn into a night raid!"
Yukikaze covered her mouth, stifling a giggle: "Noshiro, you said the words 'peep' out loud~"
Noshiro's face flushed: "What! You said it first, senior, why are you making fun of me! Seriously, why do I suddenly feel like I've become the comedic relief!"
"Aren't you?"
Ayanami posed a soul-searching question.
"Hehehe, Noshiro has become our Sakura Empire's comedian. Yukikaze-sama thinks highly of you~"
Yukikaze-sama added fuel to the fire.
Noshiro, heavily damaged!
But she wasn't heavily damaged for too long; Noshiro quickly regained her spirits.
No other reason, the God of Sleep, Laffey, woke up.
Then everyone took out their private stashes of snacks to help Laffey delay her desire to fall asleep again, explaining what they needed to do three times before Laffey finally understood.
"Laffey... is a good girl...."
"Yukikaze-sama's three days of snacks!"
"Hmm... Commander will be unhappy~"
"Plus Ayanami's and Noshiro's! Seven days!"
Laffey: (〃'▽'〃) Waku waku~
"Hmm~ Laffey misses Helena and them a bit too. Let's drop by and see them tonight~"
The unprincipled initial Secretary Ship Laffey was thus bought over by the Sakura Empire's little sisters.
As for Yukikaze-sama, who had inexplicably lost a week's worth of snacks, she didn't regret this small investment.
Because Noshiro told her that as long as she contributed the intelligence to Musashi and the others, she could even get several times the reward.
Kukuku~ Yukikaze-sama, great success!! Noshiro is sometimes quite capable too~
...
To the side.
Looking at Yukikaze, who was lost in fantasy and giggling foolishly, Ayanami with her emotionless face who seemed unenthusiastic, and Laffey who was even less enthusiastic and looked like she was about to fall asleep any second...
Noshiro felt a weight on her shoulders.
She had every reason to doubt whether such a team could truly carry out a successful night peep, no, espionage mission?
Just thinking about it yielded no answers. Soon, night fell.
Lights ignited in various places within the port.
Most of the small yellow chickenss also packed up their stalls and returned to their coops, washed up, and went to sleep; this was their nine-to-five routine.
The bustling port suddenly became quiet.
In the night.
A four-person team, one tall and three short, moved through the shadows.
They followed a small path from the Shipgirl dormitory to the Commander's villa next door.
One of the shorter ones was about to start climbing the wall when the tall one quickly stopped her.
"Yukikaze, wait!"
"Huh? What is it, Noshiro? Aren't we going to climb up and peep? Commander's room is on the third floor, you know."
"I know, that's why I told you to wait."
Noshiro felt her little heart pounding.
For a good student like her, peeping was still too exciting.
"These are special equipment we got from Musashi and the others: optical camouflage and climbing gear. With these, our chances of being discovered by Commander and them will be even smaller."
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