Talk:Hiyou/@comment-5380363-20160309163116

At long last, the day has come.

I... admittingly, can't quite remember when exactly that Hiyou first arrived at my Naval Base. Perhaps it was during the first few days after I arrived at the Naval Base. Perhaps it was when I first cleared 1-4. At any rate, one thing for certain is she had been with me since the very beginning of my career.

Hiyou was, initially, just another Light Carrier that I found convenient to use when I was still lacking the larger carriers like CarDiv1 and CarDiv5. She performed her duties well, if a bit on the thin side. However, she held her own quite well despite being no more than Lv20 by the time Winter 2015 came about - a mere 1 week after I started my post as an Admiral. In spite of her lackluster stats, her performance showed that even a relatively weak Light Carrier is more than capable of pulling her weight, when push comes to shove.

Hiyou provided her services as a Light Carrier through the trials and tribulations that is Spring 2015, Summer 2015 and Fall 2015, being a mainstay in the Surface Task Force even though a full Fleet Carrier like CarDiv1's Kaga could do both Hiyou's and Junyou's jobs. In fact, Hiyou spent the majority of her sorties in Spring 2015 leading the Support Expedition against Battleship Water Oni in E6. It wasn't until Summer 2015 that she was finally ready to fight in the Main Fleet.

She has never let me down since.

Hiyou spent most of the later part of the year on sorties with Junyou, Abukuma and the three Kuma-class Torpedo Cruisers raiding the Alfonsinoes. In fact, the composition was suggested as a troll joke by a fellow Admiral - the result was the formation of a surprisingly effective first-strike fleet that was capable of even snatching a Perfect S rank from the Boss node.

It was a little over one year, perhaps by one week, when she finally reached Lv99. It was during the middle of Winter 2016, along with Abukuma who in fact reached the milestone one day earlier. I had thought about Abukuma, and how she had been a hard-working girl through the entire year as well...

However, this ring will belong to no other.

Congratulations, Hiyou. This ring will shine no brighter than on your hand.

P.S., Perhaps, one day, we will be able to visit San Francisco together. But perhaps promising you like this might not be the best for our health, what with that ominous Death Flag waiting to be triggered if I went ahead and say it out loud...