Chapter 18

"Wait, wait. I did hear you right? The base's Admiral bribes, and manipulates people?" Yamato asked.

"Yup, you heard me right that means you're not deaf! Yay!" New Jersey said, clapping her hands as Yamato groaned.

"Shut up, I want to know everything you know. How did you come across this information?" Yamato demanded.

New Jersey sigh then begins to explain, a year ago during the previous tournament. New Jersey was watching the matches until she needed to go to the restrooms because she drank too much corona beers like Dom Toretto from the Fast and Furious franchise. The black dragon went to the restrooms, but accidentally saw base 8's Admiral giving an envelope towards another Admiral as they shook hands.

"As for the manipulation part… I believed I heard stories from other bases about him manipulating the higher ups or other Admirals." New Jersey said. "I told our Admiral about this, but he just shrugs it off, and says "It's not my problem."

"We definitely need to be careful because if we are fighting against this kind of person. We don't know what he will do to win this year's tournament." Yamato said.

"Like blackmailing the Admiral? Wait… No, the Admiral can't be blackmailed since that trick didn't work on him many times before." New Jersey said.

"What do you mean by that? The Admiral like kills the person who tries to blackmail him?" Yamato asked.

"No, I heard stories from Enterprise that the Admiral was blackmailed many times, but failed due to the blackmail material used that came out as fake or false information." New Jersey said. "Basically, you can't cancel the Admiral like in Twitter. Man… Egoistic people just love to cancel anyone just to boost their own egos."

"[So, cancel culture also exist in this universe? Fucking hell, I thought I escaped that shit because it's so dumb, and nonsense at the same time.]" Yamato thought as she let out a sigh. "Anything else do I need to know about this base 8's Admiral?"

"He tried to seduce me into leaving the Admiral for him, but our Admiral absolutely humiliated him into annihilation." New Jersey said. "I believed it was some farewell party for a retiring Admiral, during that time. Copies of myself were extremely rare, even today. The base 8's Admiral didn't get a copy of myself, so he tried to steal one instead, but failed badly."

"Alright then, I will be careful around the base 8's Admiral since our Admiral is the only person in the world currently to have a single copy of me." Yamato said."[I think it's impossible to get another copy of myself since… I am from another world.]"

[Timeskip]

Sounds of Yamato's Anti-Air batteries filled up the skies as squadrons of aircrafts dive down with their bombs ready to be released, but they were destroyed before releasing them on Yamato as she dodged the falling debris, and other bombs from aircraft survived the Anti-Air batteries. The Empress is currently fighting against one of the Eagle Union's strongest carriers, Essex.

The Enterprise simping carrier launched more aircrafts to try to get Yamato, the Empress fired her main guns at the squadron of aircrafts completely annihilating them with HE shells. Some aircrafts managed to survive, but only got sliced by the Empress skillfully.

"Stop moving too much!!! I want to defeat you, Yamato! So, I could impress Enterprise, and the Admiral!!" Essex shouted.

"Sorry, honey, but I'm not getting defeated by a carrier that uses their aircrafts to fight cowardly, instead of fighting their enemy head on!" Yamato replied.

"Aircrafts are the future, old hag!!" Essex shouted.

Yamato felt a little offended after getting called "old". I mean, the Empress is already over 80 years old so she's technically an old woman. Yamato rushed Essex at full speed while swinging her katana to slice aircrafts heading to her, and her Anti-Air batteries shot down other aircrafts.

Essex launched more aircrafts again, and again until there was some kind of aircraft wall. The Empress launched her own aircrafts from the catapults of her ship; they were only scout planes, thanks to some upgrades by ROB. They are now capable of fighting against other aircrafts like the P1 Mustang, Spitfire, B109, and many more.

The scout planes cleared the way for Yamato to get past the plane wall, Essex readied herself for close quarters combat as Yamato started the engagement. Essex skillfully blocked punches from Yamato, but quickly overwhelmed the Empress, increasing, and adding more power to her punches. Essex got a nasty right hook punched on the right side of her face, and a kick on her left. Yamato followed her attack with her katana's bottom striking from the top of Essex's head.

Essex immediately fell down on the ocean's surface as Vestal immediately headed towards the unconscious carrier to do medical attention as Yamato sheathed her katana back before it disappeared into thin air. Yamato sighed.

"You should take it easy on the girls, Yamato. You're really strong." Vestal said, slapping Essex to wake her up.

"I can't show any weakness! Enemies might use it as an advantage against me." Yamato said.

"Even so, just don't take it too far or you will end up killing another shipgirl, and the Admiral does like his shipgirls dying." Vestal said.

"Fine." Yamato said.

[Timeskip]

Yamato was having some dinner with Shinano until Enterprise entered the cafeteria as she scans the inside of the building then she sees the Empress, the legendary "Grey Ghost" walks up to Yamato. The carrier slammed her hand on the table catching everyone's attention, especially Yamato.

"Listen here, fox. I'm going on a long commission that will take 19 hours to finish. I want you to wake up the Admiral tomorrow morning at 6:30. Got that?" Enterprise said, Yamato was about to speak, but… "Okay good."

Enterprise leaves the dumbfounded Empress.

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> Walks to beta Battleship

> Gives beta orders

> Doesn't let beta talk

> Leaves

#Sigmacarriergrindset

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"What the fuck, I didn't even asked why I need to wake up the Admiral." Yamato said, the Empress looked over to her sister. "Is this a normal thing or?"

"It's a normal thing whenever Enterprise can't do her early morning duties due to commissions or other things, she asks other shipgirls to do it for her." Shinano said. "I guess, you're lucky sister because many shipgirls here want to wake up the Admiral every morning like Enterprise. I got the chance a few months ago, and I won't forget that moment of my life ever again…Haaa~ 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥"

"Okay…" Yamato only said she went back to eat her dinner.