Prologue

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To start off the story.

My name is Yamatomo Mazuhashi. Age 26 and rank Admiral. My hobbies are technically just reading out books and I have a weird liking to paperwork. Hence I was given a nickname "Workaholic" Though I understand what that means but basically is somewhat a normal thing. Well, my friends and colleagues, saw me unaffected by the negative outcome of doing paperwork. (In other words energy waste)

Though I like paperwork, the reason is that I'm just surprisingly shocked about what they write on paper.

Mostly reports and other miscellaneous stuff no big deal.

But it's rather a boring mess now. I've been in no position at all even though I was ranked first in the graduation. At graduation, I expected to have an open position for me but the higher-ups did not have any position to give me.

So I'm just stuck with my Big Sister who is ranked Fleet Admiral, a rank above me, be an assistant to her. In reality, I'm just taking care of her fleet and no big deal.

It lasted a full year until the higher-ups finally had a position open for me.

As they gave me the papers and read the contents I was a bit confused. I know, I am being given a position as a commander but the paper said "Azur Lane".

I never heard of a fleet name or organization before. Sure I heard the Russians 2nd Fleet, the Americans 7th fleet, hell even the JMSDF (Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force) 1st fleet

They also didn't give any deeper detail. As if they just butchered everything like "Be a commander of this organization and stuff whatever period".

Now I'm not mad, I'm just:

( IMAGE )

Though in curiosity, I'm the type of guy who likes to look over and discover new things. So I accepted this offer, as I sign my name and fill out the blanks I sent them my answer.

Time skip two days later

3rd person POV

Yamatomo's Computer: "YOU GOT MAIL".

As Yamatomo look into the received email.

"Thank you for accepting the offer Mr, Yamatomo Mazuhashi. Congratulations you are now the commander of "Azur Lane" As for this message, There would be a person waiting for you at the docks waiting for you to be transfered to Azur Lane. Her name is Mrs, Higaya Kohazume. As you meet her, introduce yourself and act friendly towards her. So pack your stuff and get ready to be transfered."

Luckily enough, Yamatomo already did that yesterday. His clothes, his belongings, and his stuff.

As he leaves his office he ran into his colleagues who are his best friends.

"Congrats bruv. You became a Commander now." A Britishman said.

"Took you long enough." A german said.

"Well it was a window of opportunity my dear friends well reason is that I have now escaped from my Big Sister's torture." (Yamatomo)

"Yeah right. So what fleet have you been assigned in? 4th German Fleet? 18th JMSDF? 9th Royal Canadian Navy?" (Britishman)

"I am assigned to a fleet called "Azur Lane". Well not technically a "Fleet" if I say but a WHOLE FUCKING ORGANIZATION."

"My expectation is that the higher-ups wanted me, a young navy commander prodigy, to have use and not a wasted talent so they gave me this position. As for Azur Lane, I expected I'd be commanding 16 or more ships. And because I'm the Fleet Admiral's little brother they surely expected me to command more than 30." (Yamatomo).

"Do you have the papers to show it?" Said the german.

"Here." He handed the transfer papers to both of them.

"Oh, looky here there is a logo here..."

Azur Lane Logo:

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"Damn this logo has more creativity than ours. I mean look at ours. Just a bland grey iron cross with dark blue surrounding lines and the word says marine at the bottom." The german said in a little irritated tone as he pointed to his German Navy logo.

( IMAGE )

"Well it's just a logo. You germans are good engineers that cannot be compared with. Also my opinion of this Logo looks like it came from a copy paste version of NASA's logo. But I cannot help what kind of "organization" this is. It sounds like an important position for YOU other than you big sister." (Britishman).

"Yeah, an organization not a fleet." (German).

"Well I am assigned to a commander position so maybe this organization manage to "hire" me in some way. Though to do that they have to meet me in person but they just sent me a butchered email. I mean look what it says." He then handed another paper for them to read

After seconds of reading

"They seem very desperate for my opinion. Though where is the deeper detail of this?" (Britishman)

"That's what I thought. None of it found. Hell I can't even search for a source in the internet in what this organization is. If it's a secret organization there's no such thing as "secret" if the logo and organization is exposed because of the internet. Hell you know what happened to the Russians 16th Fleet? Another example is the Americans experiment fleet? Those are classified as secret but weeks later they're exposed on the internet." (Yamatomo)

"Hey don't put salt on the Russian and American navy, they tried their best. And that's what we Europeans warn those two idiots. No matter what they do that is secretive some keyboard warrior in someone's basement will hack them and expose them into the internet. I don't know about the Zumwalt experiment but I think that is reasonable considering it was both secretive and un-secretive." (Britishman)

"Speaking of the Zumwalt experiment. I heard they are using a rail gun mark 4? As it return to our port it got damaged and the commander reported flying things that attacked them but no video evidence as all of the videos are staticy." (German)

"Well I'm not going any further of that incident because I am late. Lets meet again in the sea if I see you guys." Yamatomo said to them

"Yeah sure, bruv. Go on."

"Be safe out there idiot."

"Yeah sure m8s. See you guys around." As he waved them goodbye he goes to the docks

"Mrs, Higaya Kohazume. Mrs, Higaya Kohazume. Where are you." As he was looking around the docks he couldn't find her. They didn't tell her what she looks like but he only saw a boat that is docked and he knew this is his ride

Seconds later, he felt a tap on his shoulder

A beautiful female voice spoke "Are you Mr, Yamatomo Mazuhashi?" She said

As Yamatomo looked behind him and saw a woman. He commonly replied "Yes, I am."

"Great, my name is Higaya Kohazume. You can call me Higaya. I am here to pick you up." (Higaya)

"Well, lead the way Miss." Yamatomo gestured

She nodded in agreement and started to walk towards the boat and Yamatomo follows her

"Say, if you are sent by that "Azur Lane" Organization, do you have any idea is to why they haven't meet me in person? Why did they not put any deeper details. Also what is this organization all about?" Many questions that Bombarded Miss Higaya but her answer was

"There would be someone who will explain the full detail about it Sir. Just be patient please." (Higaya)

"OK." Yamatomo went silent

As they both boarded the ship and hours later they departed from the port and onwards to "Azur Lane"

Meanwhile

"Say, where is the person who will brief me in this situation?" Yamatomo asked

"Just enter that room over there sir. She will brief you on what you are in now." (Higaya)

As Yamatomo nodded in agreement he entered that said rome. As he entered it was dark here. Little light

"This is straight out of SCP O-5 meeting. One light that shines only the table and the chairs are empty. What kind of situation have I been roped into?" He thought

As he took a seat he saw a chair just opposite of the table. It was a rotating chair and its facing in the opposite direction

"Uhh... Hello, miss. My name is Yamato-" he was cut off

"I know you are, sir. I very much know you deeply." The person sitting there said

"Uhh, I expected that. Maybe they gave you my full detail?" (Yamatomo)

"No need. I think you might as well know me. It's been a while now Yamato-kun." And then the "dramatic" rotating of the chair faced to him. The person in question that revealed to him is

"Well fuck me, Why is the Empress of Japan here?" He thought

"Are you shocked?" She said with a smug face

Silence~~~

"Uhh... Who are you?"

"WHA?! IMPOSSIBLE! YAMATO-KUUUN! THERE'S NO WAY YOU WOULD NOT REMEMBER ME?"

Meet the empress of Japan. Kuki Ichishi. Nickname by Yamatomo is "Cookie". Reasons is that it is a fitting name for an annoying person like her but mostly because he picked up an American accent

"Yeah I have no idea who are you. But I know your Empress but we are not acquainted. You have the wrong person." "It have to be you Cookie? What kind of sin did I have committed? *Sigh* you can't tease a annoying tsundere that much. You can't beat them." As Yamatomo hold the bridge of his nose he sighed

He muttered "Why?"

"Hmph! You still know me. I'm your childhood friend." (Kuki)

"Fuck that cliche trope, Cookie. Do you know what kind of ass beating do I have to endure to get this high? Also why are you here?" (Yamatomo)

"I am not Cookie! It's Kuki! KU-KI! As for your question yes I picked you for this job." (Kuki)

"Did you trick me just to clean up your mess?" (Yamatomo)

"What? No! This is very true and 100% real." (Kuki)

"Also can we just open the curtains? It gives me headache." He then opens a few curtains and went back to his seat

She pouted "I tried hard to act cool." She said

"Lesson learn everything is not cool. Even if we tried to wrestle a bear a few years ago in Russia it was not fun but rather got a little drunk and got fined for it." (Yamatomo)

"Well anyways on to the point. You are here today is that you will have to command a "plethora" of ships in the Organization I have created." (Kuki)

"There's no way you created it. If you did it spells disaster in a nutshell." (Yamatomo)

Higaya then tapped his shoulder and whispered something

"In reality Sir, Yamatomo us that Germany, Italy, France, Britain/England, Russia, America, Japan, and China had created this organization for a purpose of an experiment."

"Ah, I see. Thank you."

"Now move on Cookie."

"Tch, Even if I explain the details you would literally not believe me in the slightest bit." (Kuki)

"No No No. Keep going. I'm already insane to listen." (Yamatomo)

"Well, suit yourself. Firstly have you ever reviewed WW2 yet?" Kuki asked

"I devoted myself in history class in all my life and my main topic IS World War 2. To the point that I know every single detail about them. Like how the Germans use tactics. Quality over Quantity. Operation Barbarossa. Stuff like that. Bismarck."

"Yeah right, you history nerd."

"I feel personally attacked" he lowly mumbled

"Shut up!"

"Moving on. You might not believe me but World War 2 ships somehow became..... Femininely..." She then looked at Yamatomo who smiling. Clearly saying keep going

"Well?"

"As in Femininely. I am dead serious. Even the ships that were sunk like HMS Hood, IJN Yamato, KMS Bismarck all that came back to life as female humanoids. Hell there are even fox girls."

Silence~~~

His mind right now:

( IMAGE )

"As you are telling me this. Are you serious? I am no scientist but what kind of crazy science experiment with the help of germans you guys made?"

"Also as you said ships that were sunk before. Even the ones that are not sunk even the scrapped ones?" (Yamatomo)

She nodded

"So let me get this straight. Wait no I have another question. Does that mean my favorite vacation spot, that is the sunk KMS Prinz Eugen is now gone?"

"Sir, Yamatomo. As we checked the area of the sunk Prinz Eugen, Yes. The sunken ship is now gone. We checked with other sunken ships and the IJN Yamato and the IJN Musashi is now gone in the ocean floor. As if they disappeared." Higaya said

Another silent

"Wha?"

"I know it's crazy and even I have no clue on what is going on, Sir." (Higaya)

Kuki continued

"I know it's crazy but we need someone to take care of them because they are still confused in their situation but sometimes they are serious."

"So a caretaker then? I expected to be a commander of a fleet. Not a caretaker of a fleet. Thats literally higher up than taking care of my Big Sis's fleet." (Yamatomo)

"Well they need a trusting caretaker and I know a perfect man to do so." (Kuki)

"Come on Cookie. Why me? A trusting man like me? I don't like to compare myself to those perfectly handsome nutjob commanders back at port base that literally pisses me off every time I pass them."

"I know because you are well known to live alone and be left alone. Weeb/Otaku. Has low social skills towards women except me."

"OK OK. My social skills are not shit and I can talk to women perfectly normal." (Yamatomo)

Kuki continue "Has a bit of an Aggressive behavior but I think that is normal in your family. Hell, I can't even go near to your sister. But those are downsides. I mean you have more positive traits than negative ones."

"You have a higher score in leadership, strategic mind, and have an IQ above 175. Has a strong gene and physique. You are 1st place 6 times in a row in your exams and semesters. Exceptionally strong. Very "charismatic", freakishly persuasive. And very talented in different fields that you work part-time as a replacement head chef in a Six-star restaurant. You are hard to defeat. Very good in swordsmanship and Yadda yadda yadda. You have cheats." (Kuki)

"Now thats over exaggerating. I mean most of it is true but some are false. Those are just luck based times. I was lucky enough to reach black belt in some martial arts training. I was lucky enough to persuade a higher-up. And many more to name it." (Yamatomo)

"Well that doesn't change the fact you ARE talented." She then muttered in a low voice "Why am I so useless in some fields other than doing small good jobs for the country?"

"Well going back to the main topic. As of now I like to fill out a few things before we arrived."

"And which is."

"As in "femininely" that means every ship is a female?"

"Well there are some girls who look like children. A perfect example is HMS Unicorn. But most of them are mature. Any questions."

"Since when did this organization formed."

"Last Year January."

"It's a year old? And I wanted to ask are there any "before" commanders."

This made her speechless

"That's a Yes right?"

"Y-Yeah."

"What's the stuttering?"

"Well I'll tell you the "before" commanders if we arrived. Just sit back and relax in this ship"

As they are done briefing. Yamatomo then goes to his assigned bedroom. Just a small one hour nap

One hour and a half later

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock* "Sir, Yamatomo? Sir, Yamatomo! Have you woke up yet?" Higaya's muffled voice can be heard behind the door

"Yeah! I'm just changing me clothes." Yamatomo answered

"Well, I am here to tell you that in 30 minutes we will arrive at the island. Please be ready."

"Yeah sure on it."

30 minutes later and another 10 minutes later

"We have arrived!" Kuki's energetic voice says as she raised both of her arms high in the air

As the bridge lowered the three got off the boat

As Yamatomo observed his surroundings

"Damn what the hell happened here? It seems this place is almost in ruins."

"Well, you said you wanted to know the commanders before you right?" (Kuki)

"Uhuh?"

"Well, I think you might as well look at this paper." She then handed him a piece of paper

"Criminal record?"

Attempted assault

Abuse

Aggressive behavior

Attempted r*pe

Attempted m*rder

"What the-"

Theft

Attempted s*xual assault

13+ criminal charges

"Uhm, Cookie is this the wrong paper you gave me?'

"Nope, This is their crimes. But those are "alleged" because there are now evidence YET. So we have no way on imprisoning them YET. Only Five commanders before you." (Kuki)

"So you sent 5 idiots to take care an island FULL OF FUCKING GIRLS. Even a fish have more common sense what Attempted r*pe is." (Yamatomo)

"And that's why your here, Yamato-kun." (Kuki)

"If I remember correctly. In the top 10 graduates. Me and 8 of my befriends are there, and the one who is ranked 10th is that annoying "noblewoman" that I seemingly forgot her name. Why didn't you pick her and not "another male" like me." (Yamatomo)

"Surely you are not those commanders right? It's impossible to have that evil mindset." (Kuki)

"Well yes, but actually no. I don't trust myself on this. Also did the girls here, well, hate males?"

"To the point they really want to kick them out in the middle of the ocean." (Kuki)

"God. I expected to be on a fleet escorting merchant ships and container ships against Somali pirates or maybe some dangerous organization on the level of a 2nd world military that needed to be "cleared". But no the commander is in danger and not the crew. Yeah got it. My motivation of being the same rank as my big sis is now gone now."

During Yamatomo and Kuki's conversation, not far from here. Onlookers are spotted by Higaya

"Tch, another male shikikan." Said a certain KMS ship

Back at Yamatomo

"Well it's not as bad being an "assistance" of your sister no?" (Kuki)

"Well yes?"

"Well then. As you accepted the offer. You can do whatever yiu want from here just dont do what the past commanders did. You can renovate this place if you want to, you can repair this place if you want to. Hell you can literally do anything. Expenses will be covered by the government. They don't care how much you spent. Just take care of them."

"OK. But my first request is I need a fucking battalion of builders and engineers to repair this place. I mean look at this place it is in damn near ruins." (Yamatomo

"No need to worry, Yamato-kun. There are little yellow chickens called Manjuu and they will repair this place in hours. We will have to send you building materials in order to do that" (Kuki)

"Are you seriously joking? And what is a Manjuu? Did I miss a page in Animal Planet?" (Yamatomo)

"A Manjuu looks like a fat chick and if you don't believe me look below you." (Kuki)

As Yamatomo looked down and see a Manjuu that is stationary beside his shoe, he proceeded to pick it up

"You are way fatter than Grandpa's chicken." *Squish* "A little bit Squishier too. I'll keep you for now at least."

In Kuki's mind "I can't believe he's already satisfied by a cute fat chicken." She then shook her head

As she was going into some details, three figures approaches them

"Seems they are here to greet us. Can you fill in on who they are?" (Yamatomo)

"The one with white hair and has a fast bald eagle on her shoulder is USS Enterprise. The one with fox ears and also have white hair is IJN Kaga, and lastly a silver haired maid called HMS Belfast. But I think Bel-aam is here to help your luggage."

"Well that will be a waste of time because I can carry these all to wherever the hell is my quarters are at." (Yamatomo)

"Suit yourself then." She then goes to the three ship girls. The three ship girls greeted

"Greetings, your highness/majesty. Nice to see you again." (Enty/Kaga/Bel)

"Nice to meet you three." Kuki also greeted

As they finished bowing all three of them somehow stared so much hatred that Yamatomo almost instinctively tense up because of some random danger he sense

But the glare stopped in seconds

Kaga then spoke

"I see that her highness brought a new Commander but pardon me if I sound rude but we don't want another male commander here. We request a female one." Kaga said with literally venomous words that struck Yamatomo

"I-I'm just gonna be at the edge admiring the view for a bit. You guys will talk this out." As he was about to escape he was grabbed by both Kuki and Higaya

"No No No. You are not evading this chance Mazu-kun." Kuki called him Mazu for now because if it's Yamato then Kaga might mistaken for the IJN Yamato

"This here is your new commander. A temporary one perhaps until we find a suitable female commander." What a load of bullshit. If she wants to find a suitable one then go to the Academy's archives and find that one 10th place graduate female commander

Though technically she lied because she trusted on him and surely does

"*Smirks* you hear that dog? Once the new commander arrives you will be gone." Kaga said

"Great, now I'm called a Dog now." "Yeah sure." He sarcastically said it. Not even threatened by her words

Somehow his attitude already pissed off Kaga who got taken away and now Enterprise is the one who will do the talking

As they finished talking the three left

"So what do you want first to explore?" Kuki suggested

"Dorms first. I don't like this place being in total ruins. It's just like my room last year that is full of junk and trash that I didn't even have time to clean it up until December. So I need to look at the Dorms first. Needs first before wants."

"OK."

As both of them go to the Dorms area of the island

"The Dorms are seperated by four major parts with several minor ones. And each of them corresponds to their type. The Sakura Empure Dorms area is Japan Architecture, Iron blood Dorms are Modern German Architecture, Royal Navy Dorms are Royal British Architecture, and Eagle Union are American Architecture. The minor ones, maybe you will find out quickly in first glance."

Somehow Yamatomo isn't on her side but rather he took a picture of the difference architectures here

"With a City Skylines player mindset I can make this place a Utopia for these girls." He thought

"Mazu-kun! Don't you just run off!"

"What? I'm just taking pictures."

"Moving on whats next?"

"Cafeteria."

As they move towards the Cafeteria. It was unsanitary to say at least. Very little food choices, only mushy soup and canned vegetables

"The same for the Dorms area. You already know it."

"Hmm.... This area seems kinda difficult. Not the rebuilding part but the food part. In this Organization has many factions that corresponds to different types of dishes with different cultures and traditions. I may as well train these yellowy cute and fat chickens to cook maybe. I may gonna plan to remove all these tables and some other stuff to the trash and buy new ones."

He then takes several pictures. Well 33 pictures taken

"Whats next?" Kuki asked

"Well I think these are the major needs, but I may ask, is there a storage area here? That is likely a need and important."

They yet again move to the storage section

There are six warehouses in total but damn these are about to collapse

As he usually did on the two visits he took a picture of the warehouses

Kuki then explained "Two of the warehouses are giant freezers that keep the meet fresh One is a greenery section where fruits and vegetables are stored and the last two are material storages."

"Right.... Yeah."

"Is there anything else? I am sick being your tour guild now."

"You'll gonna have to suck it up Empress Cookie that there are several more spots I need to make sure and take a picture with. I mean you know where you go so you are the only one who knows this maze." (Yamatomo)

"Tch, fine!"

Yamatomo smiled because it was his victory

Next is the oil storage area

*Tung* *Tung* *Tung*

"It seems empty."

"Well the girls can't go anywhere because they don't have any fuel left and because the previous commanders that refused to refill these silos know what they are doing."

"That is trapping them in this island."

"Exactly."

Takes pictures

After several more spots left

"*Pant* *Pant* *Pant* Are we done yet? My legs are gonna collapse." Kuki said

"Yeah." Said a still-not-tired Yamatomo "Just one more area and that is my room that I will be staying at."

As Kuki then finally celebrates that is over she then leads him to his office and his bedroom

He then puts his luggage there and looks around his brand new office

"What a bland room. Idiots don't know what sense of design is." Yamatomo muttered

"But I thought you don't care about design. As long as you are OK with everything." (Kuki)

"Well there are some stuff I like to be perfect. I mean, you have "broken into my home" a few years back just to see my Warships collection from the Napoleonic age to now. You see those collection are perfect and I'm satisfied and if any one of them happened to be broken. I'm going to massacre everyone that will make the Holocaust look like a fucking picnic." (Yamatomo)

"Gee don't be that aggressive Yamato-kun. It's just some to-" she was cut off

"NONONO! NO! NO!! THOSE ARE NOT TOYS! THOSE ARE A WORK OF ART THAT TAKES CAREFUL HOURS TO MAKE. I make sure that everything is perfect like the strings of the ship."

"You are scary on the outside but childish on the inside, Yamato-kun." She thought

"Well there are little things here to be renovated but that's it."

"So can I leave now?"

"Yeah sure whatever."

As Kuki was about to leave his office

"I also want to warn you that most of them are capable of killing you in an instant so please be careful." (Kuki)

"Their looks are not as intimidating as my big sis. Other than the fact guys like me will get a boner for it but for me I am trained." "Not really in a life or death situation but whatever"

"Yeah sure. Just don't lose an arm in a matter of months."

"I'd rather have a dislocated one."

As Kuki nodded and left, Yamatomo took a seat in his office

He then outs down the pictures he had taken

Needs

Dorms

Cafeteria

Gym

Docks

Wants

Storage area and facility

Oil Storage

Miscellaneous

"Ah, a Commander being an Architectural artist. I have taste. Surely the girls will not be disappointed." And thus his first hours of working has started

First off, renovating this place.

Building Materials eill arrive in 2 hours

Oil tankers will arrive in 3 hours

Miscellaneous will arrive tomorrow

"I hope everyone of you eill see me as a different commander."