Side Note: This continues from Jintsuu's POV from the previous chapter.

Now that I think about it, I should've saved him from the start before he sacrificed himself to defeat Enterprise. However, with the disastrous events that happen before I met him, he wanted to end it all. He didn't want to suffer from Enterprise or anyone who wishes to kill him in their own hands. But at long last, the battle was over. Everything fell silent after I shut my eyes. Everything was back to normal or so as I thought to be.

Timeskip (2 days later)

???: Ah, you're finally awake.

I opened my eyes and got up slowly. I looked around the room I was in and then looked at my hands. It had bandages wrapped most of the fingers.

???: Easy there, fellow Crimson Axis friend. You have been knocked for quite a while.

Jintsuu: That voice, it sounds familiar...

I looked at the figure who was leaning on the doorway. I recognized the figure. From the hair, the eyes, and a small mole that was on the side of the breasts. I did not like the way she's looking at me with her eyes.

Jintsuu: Prinz Eugen, why are you here? You're supposed to be dead, same as that priority ship, Roon.

Prinz Eugen: What are you talking about kommerade?

Jintsuu: You were killed, in an attempt to bite me and Takao's head off back at the Iron-

My head was starting to hurt in a matter of seconds. It felt like pins and needles were impaled inside of my head from an unknown presence. Prinz Eugen rushed towards me and tried to calm me down.

Prinz Eugen: Oi, everything alright?

I couldn't respond to her because the pain inside of my head is getting worse than before. I shut my eyes and attempted to bear through this agony.

Jintsuu: *grunts*

Prinz Eugen: Speak to me, kommerade!

The pain suddenly stopped after I heard Prinz Eugen's voice the second time. I slowly opened my eyes and took some deep breaths to calm myself down.

Prinz Eugen: What's wrong?

Jintsuu: I remember... I was... at Midway...

Prinz Eugen: Injured after your Kommandant self destructed. It's a good thing we found you.

I stared at Prinz Eugen coldly. I despise the fact she always placed her index finger where her mouth is.

Jintsuu: I'll tell you one more time, you were supposed to be dead.

Prinz Eugen: Bismarck revived me the day after the battle you partook. She told me to watch you until you recover after we transported you back here.

Jintsuu: And where's Bismarck?

Prinz Eugen: Back at the Iron Blood HQ.

Jintsuu: But who were those people? Those Commanders...

Prinz Eugen: Oh those guys? Funny that you mentioned it, they were just doing their job, taking out yanderes.

Jintsuu: So you know them.

Prinz Eugen: Yep, Kusanagi Tekaru, KingPEKKA, and John Collins.

Jintsuu: And I don't suppose shipgirls can handle more than one job?

Prinz Eugen: I'm uncertain of that. Why did you ask though?

Jintsuu: *sighs* I ran into Littorio at Midway, a battleship from a new faction. But she was formidable, so I had no choice but to destroy her.

Prinz Eugen: A new faction?

Jintsuu: I couldn't tell where's she from since her riggings are different than mine or yours.

Prinz Eugen: Me neither. By the way, I heard that your friend needs to talk to you about something.

It's about time I got something from Takao after the Midway fight.

Jintsuu: You can bring her here, Prinz Eugen.

Prinz Eugen: Alright, just stay here until I get her.

I looked at the wedding ring Arthur gave me before he died. I didn't understand why he should've thrown it away in the first place and move on as nothing happened. But then again, people would kill him for being a virgin, especially males who oathed about 69 shipgirls. Whatever the reason is, he did what he could to end this disaster. I imagine the pain he went through just to risk himself and being threatened by Enterprise, 17 shipgirls, the Iron Blood Faction, and other unknown forces. But I kept thinking about things that he could've done differently instead of what he did up until now. Then I heard Prinz Eugen calling my name.

Prinz Eugen: Oi, Jintsuu.

Jintsuu: What is it?

Prinz Eugen: Your friend's here, by the way.

Takao came into the room. I can tell that something isn't right.

Jintsuu: Takao, I heard you have something to tell -

Takao: I need you to go with me right now.

Jintsuu: Why rushing all a sudden?

Takao: Right now!

Jintsuu: Can you relax for a second and tell me what's going on.

Takao: I'll explain later, just come with me!

Jintsuu: Hold on, let me get ready!

I rushed to get out of the hospital bed, put on my shoes before Takao grabbed my hand, and headed outside.

Timeskip

Takao took me to a teahouse where I met up with Amagi, Kaga, Taihou, Shoukaku, and Atago. I remembered that Zuikaku, Akagi, Souryuu, and Hiryuu aren't with us anymore because of Enterprise.

Kaga: About time. I was on my 4th cup of tea before you got here.

Jintsuu: I'm seriously confused about what's going on. Wait, who are you again?

???: You don't know who I am!?

Takao: Right, I forgot to mention that she just happens to drop by. She's Taihou. Have a seat, Jintsuu.

I sat down on a chair next to Atago, who was drinking sake. I was facing Taihou and was sweating a little bit.

Jintsuu: So, Taihou, I guess you're here for the screentime?

Taihou: N-no! Taihou wants to know what happened to the Commander!

Kaga: He is dead.

Amagi: *sighs* Kaga...

Taihou: Commander's dead? Taihou finds that impossible.

Kaga: He's dead, Taihou. He sacrificed himself and took down Enterprise to save all of us. He's not coming back...

Atago: *hic* I missed him so much... I will kill anyone who harmed him!

Amagi: Atago, calm down. You've been drinking too much sake. And besides, we took care of that already.

Atago: I only drank two bottles... *hic* I want to crush people with my thighs~ *giggles*

I looked at Takao after hearing the nonsense.

Jintsuu: *sighs* Is this the reason you brought me here?

Takao: No, Jintsuu. There is something I need to tell you and everyone about.

Kaga: Could've told us from the start. But anyway, what is it?

The idle chattering dialed down a lot before Takao can speak about the news.

Takao: We're dealing with a threat right now.

Shoukaku: A threat?

Takao: Yes, Shoukaku

I sighed in disbelief. I slowly put my right hand in my face, covering my eyes.

Jintsuu: Seriously? And I thought that this was over after Arth- er I mean the Commander sacrificed himself.

Takao: That's what we thought so far, but they knew this would happen.

Kaga: What are you implying?

Takao took a deep breath and sighed.

Takao: From the start: you, Atago, Shoukaku, Amagi, Taihou, Akagi, Zuikaku, Souryuu, and Hiryuu wanted him to yourselves. And then what happened after that?

Atago: *hic* We agreed to take turns to be with him, except for Taihou.

Takao: Right, I tried to warn him from the start about you girls so that he wouldn't get targeted for execution.

Jintsuu: And I was handling Belfast, Neptune, Monarch, Warspite, Rodney, Unicorn, Hood, Duke of York, and Prince of Wales.

Kaga: He received the wedding ring Jintsuu's wearing right now, and all of us liked him back then. We didn't mean to scare him...

Jintsuu: And you did, Kaga. You and Akagi escaped this world just to kill off some people. Atago covering him with her melons, Shoukaku stalking and giggling when he wasn't looking at her, Hiryuu being overprotective, Souryuu with her clinginess, Zuikaku killing Takao so that she can have him to herself, and Amagi is Amagi.

Amagi: His intentions towards us made him think he's not into us.

Jintsuu: It's because all of you went insane. After you agreed with taking turns with him and oathed him with no logic whatsoever, he was ambushed by the Iron Blood faction and started the Midway fight we took part in. And not only that, we're going to be dead now that we took out Enterprise, The UnderTaker, and the other three commanders.

Taihou: Wait for a second, three Commanders?

I uncovered my face and put my hands on my sides.

Jintsuu: Yandere killers, but Shoukaku took them down and killed them. They were just doing their job.

Taihou: By who, fox?

Jintsuu: Could've been anyone from the Iron Blood Faction. All I know is that Prinz Eugen knows them well. I didn't ask anything else besides Littorio, who is a commander and a battleship.

Amagi: But if she's a battleship, how come she can be a Commander?

Takao: Anyone could be a Commander as long they're up to the task. However, none of us have the will to do it anyway since you have to have powerful stats.

Jintsuu: I defeated her with my torpedoes, and they were critical hits. She sank after I fired two of them.

Takao: It damaged her severely. Nanaki told me that one of the Commanders is still alive and that Commander is Littorio.

Jintsuu: Seriously?!

Takao: You may not remember it since the explosion impact pushed you away violently. He told me this after the Midway fight.

Flashback(In Takao's POV)

*BOOM*

I heard the sound of an explosion all a sudden after finishing Georgia off with the Iron Blood shipgirls.

Takao: Did we... win?

Nanaki: Oi, Takao!

I stopped contemplating about our victory and heard Nanaki calling me.

Takao: What is it, Nanaki?

Nanaki: It's about the other Commanders.

Takao: What about them?

Nanaki: One of them is alive.

Takao: There were three though. In the helicopter and Shoukaku took them down.

Nanaki: There was one more, but I found this.

He handed me a black headband that had four sharp spikes on top of it.

Nanaki: It was floating when I found it.

Takao: Is that?

Nanaki: It's Littorio's headband. I didn't notice it until now, but she's a Commander too.

Takao: Didn't Jintsuu destroyed her? I saw her taking her down with her torpedos.

Nanaki: She did, and Littorio sank. But that's what I thought until I went back to the site.

Bismarck: What do you mean?

Nanaki: Someone recovered her from the ocean depths, meaning that Jintsuu damaged her severely, causing her to sink. Speaking of which, where is she anyway?

Takao: She was over there, where the explosion took place.

I pointed to the clouds after the explosion cleared out.

Nanaki: Bismarck, find Jintsuu as quickly as you can. We need to find the others and regroup the others. Tell your comrades the same thing too.

Bismarck: Ja. (Yes.)

Bismarck left to find Jintsuu near the explosion site. I looked at Nanaki like he was about to say something.

Nanaki: By the way, Takao, tell Jintsuu that Littorio is still alive if you have the chance.

Flashback ends (In Jintsuu's POV)

Takao placed the headband on the table. I realized that she was alive and might plan revenge on me.

Jintsuu: For real!?

Takao: Yes, Jintsuu, she's still alive.

Jintsuu: Son of a biscuit, she should've been dead!

Takao: Not only that, she's the key that will take us down. With that aside, we might as well lay low for now until this chaos blows over.

Amagi: That's something we can agree on, Takao.

Jintsuu: So we're just doing nothing?

Takao: For now, Jintsuu. Okay, listen up, if we're leaving anywhere, we're going to travel at night time so that we don't draw any suspicion from anyone here. But right now: don't do anything suspicious; live like we usually do before the Commander's arrival, never invite anyone or let anyone in here unless we know them, and don't rain hellfire on anyone. If all else fails and this place gets attacked, we fight for our lives, no matter what it is.

Taihou: I can't claim anyone as mine?! It's boring without someone to play!

Jintsuu: You've been here the whole time, and you only showed up a few times. Besides, why would anyone want to spend time with a tier 1 aircraft carrier anyway?

Taihou: Hey! I didn't get any screentime!

Jintsuu: Not my fault you're the most known yandere besides Roon and Akagi. Honestly, no one gives zero turds about you.

Takao: Jintsuu, that's enough.

I took a deep sigh.

Jintsuu: Fine.

Takao: I'll brew some more tea if anyone wants a cup, want some Jintsuu?

Jintsuu: Sure thing Takao.

Takao: What about you, Kaga?

I suddenly heard something ringing coming from the table. I saw Kaga picking it up and stared at for a second.

Kaga: Sorry, I have to deal with something right now.

Jintsuu: Who's it from?

Kaga: Tosa...

Shoukaku: Let me go with you, Kaga-senpai!

Kaga: Sorry Shoukaku, it's very personal.

Shoukaku: I see.

Jintsuu: I see, take care then.

Kaga: I will.

Kaga started to walk away quickly and left the teahouse.

Kaga's POV

I went to the courtyard to answer the call coming from my phone.

Kaga: What is it, Tosa?

???: I'm not Tosa, Platnium.

Kaga: Nearl, is that you?

Nearl: Yes, Platnium.

Kaga: Nearl, I told you not to call me Platinum when I'm in a different area. I'm trying to keep my other occupation a secret.

Nearl: Sorry to call you at the wrong time, but we need you right now.

Kaga: I can't. I have to lay low because we are dealing with a threat right now.

Nearl: Phantom Legion, right?

Kaga: Wait, how do you know about that?

Nearl: They know about it: the deaths of KingPEKKA, John Collins, Kusanagi Tekaru, The UnderTaker, Enterprise, Roon, the Commander's arrival, Midway Fight, everything.

I looked around to see if anyone was watching me. It was just me by myself.

Kaga: They knew the things I did?

Nearl: Yep, the next thing they do is to destroy you and everyone you know.

Kaga: But why would they want to destroy me?

Nearl: Let's put it this way, they're bringing justice to anyone that defies them. And not only that, a new reality will be made after we get destroyed.

Kaga: That's what they want?

Nearl: I'm afraid so. But are you up for the task?

I responded to Nearl with confidence.

Kaga: I'm up for it.

Nearl: Alright, I'll see you in about a few hours. Your gear's with me, so don't worry about changing from where you are.

I hang up the phone, slowly removed the kitsune mask off of my short hair, and stared at the sunset.

In an unknown location (Third person POV)

???: King PEKKA, Kusanagi Takeru, and John Collins. They're dead and won't be coming back.

???: And Littorio?

???: She's severely damaged. All four of them went to Midway to take down the targets you asked for. They failed, unfortunately.

???: I see. Anything from the Eagle Union?

???: Eliminated, but two survived.

???: And their names?

???: Enterprise and Cleveland. However, in their current state, it's hard to keep them in control.

???: What do you mean?

???: They're going insane after we recovered them. Must be coming Helena's death.

???: That's good. Take them to the Sakura Empire and unleash hellfire on them. 

???: Understood.

Enterprise and Cleveland: We always come back... Heheh-hehehe!