The lost battleship of the southern trench

Chapter 38

Time skip 3 days, location 2,500 kilometers west of Hawaii

Now a fleet could be seen as a very odd looking fleet. Two helicopter destroyers, the JS Kaga, and JS Izumo could be seen escorted by six guided missile destroyers, the JS Kongo, JS Kirishima, JS Myoko, JS Chokai, JS Maya, and JS Haguro. The two helicopter destroyers were traveling in a battle line, with JS Kaga in the front, followed by JS Izumo. The six destroyers formed a hexagon around the two Helicopter destroyers, with three to either side. Multiple auras could be seen around the ships, blue auras surrounded four ships, the helicopter destroyers and two guided missile destroyers, while the remaining four had red auras surrounding them. The scary thing was they were visibly going much faster than you'd expect.

Though something else could be seen, a Ra-class was on the deck of JS Izumo, though it seemed to be fine even as it was out of the water. Several other monster Abyssals could also be seen on the deck, a large mixture of X-class, and Po-class, though no monster plain Abyssals were there. Though the fleet was small, not as large as Southern's or even Easterns. Though it was decently sized.

Blue could be seen on the top of JS Kaga, near the mast of the ship. She actually wasn't the one in control, that was Northern Trench Princess, as she was used to controlling something so large, Blue wasn't used to it. Currently she was looking out in the direction of Hawaii. They were only a day away from

Hawaii, and she was a bit antsy. Their journey so far had been quite quiet, as it seemed that the ocean was... empty. No hostile Abyssals for kilometers, or if there were, they didn't find it necessary to show themselves.

Blue now turned to look behind her and saw Kaga, not in her fiery fox form, currently in the form only Blue could see. Blue sighed and asked "hey, what are you going to do once we get to Hawaii?"

"Hmm, What do you mean?" Kaga asked, as she now stepped beside Blue.

"I mean, Yamato might not be able to see you like this. But she can when you use my aura"

Kaga inhaled deeply "I don't know, really. I'm... happy I can see her, but..."

"I'm guessing you're sad you can't talk to her?"

"Yeah, I am..."

Now Blue chuckled "what do you think her reaction will be? Shocked? Confused? I know she'll be happy, but what do you think?"

Now Kaga chuckled "oh, I wished the barrier wouldn't block me. Yammy-" she stopped for a moment before shaking her head "ugh, of course it stops me"

"Now I'm curious" Blue said. "when was it that you thought Southern was Yamato?

Kaga sighed "my first inkling is when you saw her riggings, but after Southern fought Patchwork, I knew it was her. It was... not fun seeing her, yet not being able to even interact with her on my own"

"I see" now Blue let out a heavy sigh "after all of this is done, after we sink Charybdis. If we sink Charybdis. What do you think we'll do?"

"If we haven't united by then, I'd say we'd probably be trying to do that. But... I know either way we'd stay with Southern, help her with whatever she's doing, but also try and defeat the Sirens"

"Hmm, interesting"

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Time skip 1 day, location just outside of Pearl Harbor

Now the small fleet of modern warships could be seen sailing slowly into Pearl Harbor single file, with the Ra-class now in the water at the front, followed by the helicopter destroyers then by the missile destroyers.