User blog:Tadano Hitoshi/Ragtag Hustle Kancolle - Spring 2016 Event Edition

=''' All-Out War! Or Rather A Series of Unfortunate Events! '''=

(p/s: Commander-san Harassed by the Abyssal Princesses! Signed, Choukai)
''Hello, Choukai reporting. Usually our daily logs would be recorded by Commander-san himself, but as he seems to be very busy with matters outside the Naval base I have been appointed as his trustee regarding this. I don't know what and how he usually records our activities, but he says I can record it any way I like. So I will try my best!

Since the start of the new season (Spring) we have been very busy being involved with our current operation now underway.

We're seeing a high number of Abyssal Princesses deployed in the current operation. A total war, as the intelligence says... Well, that aside, it seems Commander-san is feeling very... grudgeful, for lack of a better wording, towards some of them... still, there's no sign of that one Abyssal Princess which forced him to admit defeat from last Summer. Looking at our new recruits for this season, I get the feeling she might be hiding under our noses... somehow.

Anyway! Let us move on to a summary of the current operation for us, shall we? We just finished the operation though not without some notable near-misses, lucky strikes and the ever so dreaded situation where our arsenal ran out of ammunition stores. Without further ado!''

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May 3 - Secure the Frontline Naval Superiority!
''As usual, Commander-san's plan stays the same from the past few operations - our fleet is still on clean-up jobs. While I don't have problems with that, I do feel that some day we need to move on from the clean-up operations and push our best against the enemy's - but after looking at what's waiting for us in every battle and what has been stocked up in our arsenal, I fear that might not be possible. I feel a bit bad for Nagato-san and company, but I feel she also realizes this.

On to the operation itself, there is nothing much to report. Atago nee-san leads the Surface Task Force for this first operation. Despite being Commander-san's first Heavy Cruiser, this is her actual first involvement in a major operation, and as the flagship at that. ... Naturally, she's very happy to be assigned to such a role after being here longer than any of us Heavy Cruisers, longer than even Ashigara-san.

Except two withdrawals, the operation ended successfully.

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May 3 - Land the Engineer Corps!
''It's just the second operation for this so-called "all-out war" and we're already facing a wall... So much that we had to lag behind a bit further due to the setbacks. I went out once for a sortie to the area involved with the operation, but Commander-san then decided to pull me and Ashigara-san back and sent back Mogami-san and Tone-san for the operations. ... Having attack seaplanes must be nice... anyway! That's not the point. We finished our operation here without much incident after falling back a bit.''

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May 3 - Construct a Front-line Air Base!
''After much difficulty trying to complete our second mission, we quickly moved on to the third - a transport mission. Thankfully, it is not as difficult as I've initially feared. At least not like the previous operations we've had before. Thanks to this, we managed to complete it in a very short period of time.

Kamikaze-san joins us as well as U-511 who we picked up somewhere along the way. From my understanding, Yuu-chan (as she requested to be called)'s unique equipment would have saved us a lot from our terrible luck with attempting to sink the Supply Depot Princess during our previous operation. Now that she is here, her equipment will prove valuable for the subsequent operations - which I am already not feeling good about...''

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May 3 - Take-off! Land-based Air Force!
''For this operation, we were soon joined by an additional front to assist us in the front line - land-based aircraft! Joining this in this operation was Bismarck-san, being her maiden operation, however as I witnessed from the second fleet I feel we're not doing much - particularly because Kongou-san, Kirishima-san, Chitose-san and Chiyoda-san were doing much of the heavy lifting. We soon traded places with the three torpedo cruisers in the fleet for devastating torpedo strikes.

Again, in this operation, we see ourselves facing Battleship Princess again - a dreaded, in various meanings of it, enemy in our books. ... For some reason, they (apparently there's not only one of them) are very, very fond of our Commander-san. Commander-san doesn't seem to reciprocate them, and thus they're always in our "Sink at all costs" list... not really. As long as it's enough to make them give up chase it'll be all right... I guess?

Recently a diagram detailing on how Heavy Cruiser Princess looks like has been released by the General Headquarters. I must say, the illustrations are cute! It's too bad she had to be an enemy, though. ... And these shoes... err, I shouldn't be talking about that. Either way, she seems to be really horrified to see many, many torpedoes heading towards her - again.''

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May 5 - Intermission - Retrieval of A Certain Air Defense Destroyer
''On this day, while gathering intelligence to formulate our next strategy, Commander-san announced another operation independent of our current involvement in this major operation - a search patrol. Our target: a certain air defense destroyer. This particular destroyer had been one of Commander's past regrets since he first became an Admiral for our fleet. Seeking to help Commander-san overcome his past regret, we began our operation in a frantic search for her...

"I am Teruzuki, the second ship of Akizuki-class Anti-air Destroyer! As with Akizuki-neesan, it is a great honor to be in your care!"

... And so we managed to find her among a fleet of Abyssals. Though, I can't help but have a funny feeling about this... starting from the point of her condition as reported when she was found by the fleet tasked for the mission. It's very strange to see a shipgirl not assigned to any naval base appearing in such a place, as if she was a stray cat. Though I will have to put aside these strange feelings and focus on the next mission I'll soon find myself in...

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[ to be continued in the next edit later tonight ]