The Self-loathing Admiral

Chapter 2

Hachiman, wearing a black admiral clothes and a navy hat, sighs as he drags himself across the hallway, "I should go apologize to Belfast... Though she's serving her royal highness right now..."

He stops in front of a door with the label "ADMIRAL HACHIMAN HIKIGAYA" to the side, "Today should be..." He opens the door, only to sigh as he sees a very tall female with waist-long black hair, wearing a white top with a black belt below her chest, mini shirt with knee-high tights and a long overcoat that has a red and black theme with gold trimmings looking outside.

He sees her fox ears twitch then she turns around to look at him with her fiery red eyes that got a bit of red makeup to highlight her eyes even more, "Ahhh~ Admiral, you're finally here!" She smiles at him with her 9 fox tails swishing.

"Akagi." He nods at her before closing the door, "What is the agenda for today?" He gruffly says while walking to her.

Akagi pouts, "Awww~ who put you in such a grumpy mood? I will burn them alive!" She opens her palm then poofs a ball of fire on top of her palm while sadistically smiling.

Hachiman facepalms, "No one. Now, my agenda." He sits down at his desk while surveying the room, "You didn't mess with anything, right?" He sees the usual five-seater couches and table in the middle of the room, the 9 display cabinets that have different items and an insignia for each one to signify a nation, a large shelf that contains huge amount of books, and his favorite, a dispenser that was made especially for him on top of a table.

She gasps while dispelling the flame and putting her hand on her left breast, "How dare you accuse Akagi of messing with your precious max coffee dispenser."

He raises an eyebrow while looking at the paper in front of him, "December five. Twenty-twenty-three," He emotionlessly says before putting a paper away from the pile.

She blinks before sheepishly smiling, "Ah... You still remember."

"It happened three months ago. The whole room was flooded with max coffee."

"It was Akashi that did it! I told you that Akagi is innocent!"

"After promising her to give her gems."

Akagi sticks her tongue out at him, prompting him to sigh, "Luckily all of the memento weren't damaged since the display case were closed." He glances at the display cases that holds various items, from medals to trophies to strange objects that shouldn't be there, "...Would really suck if they got damaged," He somberly says.

She slowly sticks her tongue back in then quietly whispers, "Has it already been a year...?" She looks out of the big window behind him.

He glances at her, "Almost. Eleven months after the Sirens came and all of you rose up from your slumber. Three months that wiped out most of humanity out, leaving only few hundred mills left while cubes started raining down everywhere in the meantime, leading to every ship to become humanoid with all of your memory intact and current ones."

"Then for some reason, all of you needed somebody that had the highest compatibility or some bullshit like that to be your admiral, so that you could unlock your potential. Somehow, I got picked and the rest is history."

Awkward silence descends on them, prompting Hachiman to go through the papers while Akagi stares outside with a solemn expression.

"...Had another nightmare?" She quietly asks while turning around to look at him.

He sighs then leans into his chair, "It was about the time the Sirens first came." He looks up to the ceiling with clouded eyes.

"...Hachiman... You need to move on from her."

He sidelong glares at her, "You know I can't. Would have thought a year of us fighting together taught you that," He says in a harsh and annoyed tone.

She doesn't say anything, prompting him to fully turn around and sees her looking at him with sadness, making him flinch then look down.

"...You know what she means to me. I... I can't."

She opens her mouth but stops as she hears the door swing open, revealing a petite and small female with neck-length light purple hair, wearing a simple short white dress and a blue, white, red skirt, smiling as she enters, though she freezes as she sees Akagi.

"Oh~ a small Royal Navy Destroyer dares to interrupt my time with the Admiral..." Akagi opens her palm to ignite a red fire as she glares at the new occupant.

Hachiman sighs then facepalms, "Oi. Stop it with your fire bullshit." He gives a side glare at her, though that only makes her pout.

"But, Admiral~ she is interrupting our alone time..."

"Akagi."

She pouts even more, though she extinguishes her flame with a wave, "Fine~ but I will only do it because the Admiral is a nice and caring person~"

He hangs his head then lets out a long sigh before turning his attention to the new female, who is quivering in front of the door, "Javelin. Report."

Javelin snaps out of her stupor then tries to smile at him, though it only comes out as shaky, "Ah yes, apologies for disturbing you Admiral but Akashi has requested you to come to her lab. Preferably now."

"Did she tell you anything else?"

She shakes her head, "No... Excuse me but I need to go catch up with Ayanami right now so bye Admiral!" She quickly says before running away.

Hachiman slowly gets up with a sigh, "...You just had to put on your yandere act." He gives a sidelong glare at her.

Akagi smiles, "Why of course~ if I don't, then all of them would swarm you every day." She pokes him at the cheek, "Or do you want me to stop?"

He shakes his head as he walks to the door, "I would rather not drown on land, thank you." He glances at her, "Though we both know I would get blown up first by a stray round."

She frowns at him, "That won't happen. I made an oath on that day to protect you, Hachiman."

"Hah. That was when we first met. When you acted crazy as hell and decided to stick to an absolute wreck of a human. Then the Council noticed you then me and made me into an Admiral since you got stronger as hell by being near me." He exits the room, with her slowly trailing behind him.

"...Do you resent me, Admiral? If Akagi hadn't stuck to you..."

"...I would be lying if I said I don't but this beats me wallowing in my depression like rotting trash. At least now I can take the fight to those fucking Sirens and kill them all."

"...Please don't burn yourself," She quietly mutters, prompting him to snort.

"It's either I burn or them."

*Authors Note*

In case this chapter doesn't tell you enough, but Akagi (the game one. Not that first garbage anime that almost gave me a stroke when I watched how they butchered Akagi.) is my fav waifu... Actually the vast majority of my waifus are from Sakura faction... Meh, fluff is heaven. Anyway, I just want to say that I don't really like to use the Japanese kun, san, chan, since... Well, I keep on getting confused which to use and some minor stuff. This is not to say I dislike Japanese language but just my own inability to incorporate it into my fics.