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11 November - A Day for Pocky Games


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11 November - A Day for Pocky Games Part 2
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Admiral: "Good grief. Why is it that everytime there's something like this you lot almost caused our naval base to go into DEFCON 1?"

Kiso: "Probably because there's so many of us, but there's like only one of you."

Admiral: "And that is a problem?"

Kiso: "I'd say so. Remember, even though we're beings called shipgirls, there's a reason we're called shipgirls. Fundamentally, we're all simply girls if you separate the 'ship' part from us. And you're a human male. In our eyes you're a boy. Put boys and girls together and it's not hard to figure out the math, don't you think?"

Admiral: "Even I can figure that out. But I don't come here so that I can be all chummy with you girls. I don't want to follow the footsteps of the pigs who command you people with their lower bodies."

Kiso: "And you're saying it's all fine for you to disregard our feelings as human girls towards you, a human boy?"

Admiral: "No! I do acknowledge it's not good for me to keep pretending I am not seeing the signals you lot keep sending me. ... To be honest, I'm very lost on how I should respond at all. Let me be frank, Kiso: I am not one to be told to choose. Either we stick together here as one organization or I quit my post so that nobody shall shed any unnecessary blood in my name, and everything will go like we never met to begin with."

Kiso: "That's very... harsh of you. Not just on us, but on yourself as well."

Admiral: "Harsh on you maybe, but I'm quite used to forgetting people."

Hearing this, Kiso grabs the Admiral by the collar.

Kiso: "Are you saying that the time we spent from the first day we established this naval base, was all for nothing!?"

Taken by surprise with this, the Admiral went silent for a bit, but then found his voice to answer Kiso again.

Admiral: "... No."

Kiso: "Is 'forgetting people' your method of consoling yourself then? Hearing you say that almost nonchalantly is starting to get on my nerves, you know. You make it sound like everything we've done, everyone we've met, and everything else up till now is nothing to you, that you can just say that. Truth is, you're just going to be hurting inside like we do if you decide to suddenly part ways with us, don't you!?"

Again, Admiral went silent for a bit, but after a while he took a deep breath. And let out a heavy sigh.

Admiral: "Haaa..."

Kiso: "... Your face is telling me that I hit bull's-eye on that. Come on, tell me your true feelings."

As Kiso says that, she slowly lets go of the Admiral. The Admiral turns his head downwards, and raises his hand, covering his face.

Admiral: "... I can't deny that. As expected from someone who used to be my first mate on my first day. You know me very well. Even though I had to continue the summer-time operations without you."

The Admiral pauses for a bit.

Admiral: "As much as how I'd like to tell myself that. That it's just another phase in my life. That I can forget about you lot and move on. It sounds so simple. But it isn't. After all, I'm just a simple human. There's no way I can simply do that like Death does it."

Kiso: "Death...? Is that a name of a person? You don't mean Death as in death itself... or do you?"

Admiral: "The Death I speak of... is what you think it is. The Azrael, the Fourth Horseman, the Pale Rider, the Grim Reaper, the Shinigami... what have you. At one time in my life, I wished that he'd take me away from this world. He appeared to me, but he refused me. He said to me, 'Your time is not now. You have a lot to live for. You also have a lot to live, and let live. Let your journey towards the end of your time enlighten you before I meet you as the Death that you seek.' "

Kiso: "...."

Admiral: "Forgetting about people is something only he can do with such ease. Especially when those are people who he sends away to the afterlife time and time again. He is an existence that has lived through aeons and has seen the beginning and ending of centuries over and over again. Of course that would be very simple for such a being."

[ to be continued in a later edit ]