User blog:Tadano Hitoshi/Ragtag Hustle Kancolle Edition - Operation Ringlord and Everyday Hustle 4

Operation Ringlord
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NAME: [ CLASSIFIED ]

RANK: ADMIRAL

DATE: [ CLASSIFIED ]

TIME: [ CLASSIFIED ]

LOCATION: [ CLASSIFIED ]

OPERATION CODENAME: RINGLORD

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''[DATE REDACTED], [TIME REDACTED]hrs. I undertook the mission to retrieve the ring without anyone else but me knowing about it, and ordered Haruna, Akagi and Kaga along with three more veterans in my fleet (in my case, Sendai, Kiso and Maya) to sortie to Orel while covering it up with the excuse of clearing our daily missions.''

''I retrieved the ring by myself before making our return trip to the base. That ring in my inventory shall stay within my black box until I can finally make up my mind... which is, whenever that happens.''

''I am not too fond of the entire ring fiasco, however I can't say I'm too fond of those who opposed the mission altogether... nor can I say I'm too fond of those who outright calls it a 'Limiter Release Device' either.''

''If it was just something symbolic, I would have not cared much. However it seems the ring does hold a hidden power that, according to the headquarters and the other Admirals I know of, 'will unlock the true potentials of the ring-bearer.'''

''Considering what we've gone through since summer, there's no way I can just shrug off an artifact of such power. I wish there's a way I can bestow everyone the ability to unleash their own potentials with the power of the ring. I cannot just choose one while denying the rest. It seems there is a way if I wish to do that, but that'll need me to deal with headquarters with Akashi as their representative.''

For the time being I prefer not to.

''Besides, I believe the ones in my fleet already knows what the ring means if they ever catch wind of it. If they ever find out the ring is in my possession, I fear more than just chaos will befall this base. It might even be a civil war.''

Log Entry 2
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''Day by day. Four of them. Should I call them the Four Devas, I wonder? In each of them there's like a storm brewing within themselves. I could describe their circumstances as akin to female animals in heat, but that would not be a very graceful term for a definition.''



''Haruna isn't one who likes to be ignored. I can sense  when I decide to leave her be while she's on secretary duty. She's also getting more forward with wanting some... skinship from me lately, ever since we ended our Sav Islands campaign.''

''Akagi and Kaga seems to be coming on to me as a pair. Akagi is much more subtle about it compared to Kaga, though. Come to think of it, Kaga is always the odd one of the two despite how deadpan she is.''

''Sendai has been catching up, not wanting to be left behind these three. It's been tough trying to evade from her nightly advances, and ever since that one day, she's been very clever in sniffing me out.''

''Then there are also some other ones who're coming onto me as well. It's getting harder to play it safe nowadays.''

''That one day with Maya after I told her off for reading magazines in the middle of an incoming enemy airstrike. She's been holding it in for long, if I recall what Kiso said about her. For how long? After I checked back my roster, I just realized she was in the fleet much more longer before Haruna, first of my battleships, reported for duty. It seems I can no longer deny this fleet the skinship they need. Well, I've slowly been letting go of the 'no-touch' policy, but I didn't think it'd be that severe. Guess that was one thing I've been neglecting for far too long.''

''Kiso seems to be more conscious on the fact that she's a woman lately, something she used not to mind much. But seeing how she is, I'm thinking she would still choose to be my lead, at times she'll just rest an arm on my shoulders, and bring me close. ... She knows how to play her cards a little bit too well with me, being the second most senior ship in my fleet, but I have faith in her.''

''Mutsu and Atago are upset that I haven't been paying attention to them lately. Especially the latter.''

''Observing Shigure and Yuudachi, they're getting more eager for secretary tasks. Puberty does a lot of things to them, I guess, but I didn't know it can come with the upgrades I gave them for the summer operations. Yuudachi, though... even with that, she still wants me to play with her. Shigure's the most forward of the two however.''

''Tone, well... she's been trying to get some reactions from me by flipping her skirt in front of me. I'm pretty sure she thinks it's some sort of play, but Chikuma seems to be too reluctant to tell her that - or rather, she doesn't seem to care at all. ... I have a faint feeling I'm about to get double of this when I get her to her second upgrade someday as well. A possibly even more daring approach, I reckon.''

''Souryuu asking for a date on top of my initial offer for her second upgrade took the base by storm, especially the Four Devas. It took me quite some time to have Souryuu convince everyone she was just kidding and she didn't mean anything special with it, in order to calm the base down. I get the feeling the Second Carrier Division had something up in their sleeves... but I don't think it's anything to be wary about, I suppose. They're more of a cheery pair compared to the First Carrier Division girls, but I also need to keep in mind that they can really do something when they put their minds into it. Hiryuu seems to be one I should watch out for as well, since she can get even more serious than Souryuu.''

''I've been accompanying Ashigara for mixers, but nowadays she doesn't seem to actually go to one by much, and would rather have me around as she goes out. She keeps telling me she's going to one these days, but I don't see it. It's always me and her outside. ... The base isn't going to be happy if they know she uses mixers as a pretext to having me around when she decides to have an outing.''

''Choukai seems to be happy I'm giving her more attention ever since I gave her second upgrade. Well, I suppose that is natural enough considering she has been here before Maya did, but at that time preparations for the summer operations kind of overrode almost every plan I had for the fleet and I was considering her as well. Now taking over Haruna's role for night operations, she's an excellent performer. ... What do I think of the autumn nights? Nights in general to me are all the same. Well, as a person who lived near the Equator, I never put too much thought into it. Maybe I'll understand what do nights for each of the four seasons feel like some day.''

''Yamato ... Ah, yes. She's been inviting me for fine dining a lot. I kept trying to decline, but it seems she knows it's hard for me to resist food. Just... I want her to do away with the fine dining. Maybe I should hold back on my food cravings for a bit and tell her that I'm resigning to cup noodles if she keeps inviting me to fine dining with her.''

''... All in all, with these said, it's time for a list. Of what I'd call "danger tier levels."''

''Tier 1 - Haruna. She is gentle but she isn't easy to shake off. It's like running into a spider web. Hard to brush it away once you get some on you.''

''Tier 2 - Sendai. She's been on my tail even before we started the summer operations, and she isn't cutting me any slack. One wrong move and I might end up beneath her for some reason.''

'' Tier 3 - Maya. There's that incident where Haruna stopped her cold in her tracks. If I was a woman and she was a man and Haruna didn't come to the picture, something would definitely have happened on that day. ''

'' Tier 4 - Mutsu and Atago. They are very eager ladies. They just chose to go about it in a way ladies who have caught sight of their 'prey' would. ''

'' Tier 5 - As well as showing a little bit of maturity, I feel the puberty hormones are also rubbing off on Yuudachi and Shigure as well. The former doesn't have any idea yet on why she's so eager to have me as company more often, but the latter is very aware of why on her own. ''

''Tier 6 - Akagi and Kaga. Though it's easy for them to get distracted by food, I dread the day they decide to be very serious. In which they're not of this tier anymore.''

''Tier 7 - Kiso. I don't know whether she wants to be girly or not. Then again there are women who naturally act like ladykillers that even men become girly girls in their presence... No, no. I'm not falling for that.''

''Tier 8 - Ashigara. I'm thinking outings with me as company are starting to replace her plans for mixers...''

''Tier 9 - Choukai and Yamato. Well, let's see if I can crush the flags they're trying to build here.''

''Tier 10 - Souryuu and Hiryuu. Least concern. I don't know, they might take me by surprise some day.''

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''Why I'm being so cautious with this, you ask? Unlike them, I cannot guarantee that I will be with them forever. At one point I will have to go away to a very far place. Either that or the headquarters decide that one day they can finally retire the entire system they've created to combat the Abyssals in the first place.''

The end of the road can be very heartbreaking for many.

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