"You never realize what you miss until it's gone." That one line is something that goes through my head everyday, a broken record that always reminds me of where I failed. Times change, and so do the people alongside it. But time also has the tendency to take them away as well...my case worse than most. The Sirens came, and they weren't playing around anymore. They tore apart each and every base, until there was only a handful of us left to do anything. We all were hit hard, but I lost everyone, they still had each other. My name is Prinz Eugen, and I found a way to bring back what I lost.

A derelict and broken ship. Cast to death for a complete misunderstanding. Her old allies, hoping to locate her corpse to at least give her a proper burial. The deep Brine she has been corroding in for years, in the dark depths of the ocean. The Trench, the entrance of the Abyss...it calls her name, it welcomes her into its grasp. "Welcome to your throne, o great queen of the Abyss"

... "Huh?" "I'm...alive?" ... "Where...where is everyone?" Where...

The more things change, The more they stay the same..... .....What am I? "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato Notes: My first ever story that may or may not follow the lore of Azur Lane. Disclaimer: Azur Lane belongs to Yongshi and Manjuu. Any pictures I use do not belong to me and credit goes to their respective artists.

"You say you cannot love," she told her once, gazing into her eyes as an equal. "And so I will love for you. I will love you enough for the both of us." A cursed child arose from the corpses of her parents. She was nothing but a doll with a sword, a twisted soul on her way to hell. When had her sword ever not been bloodied? And yet, someone found a way to love her. That someone who tainted her soul and blackened her heart alongside her. That someone who had her heart, whose heart belonged to her in turn. And, by God, love she did, mused the cursed child. Perhaps it was love that killed her, as well? What a shameful way to go. "Did a part of you truly love me, in the end?" Her question has not yet been answered. Welcome to a world born from a series of novels revolving around a two-faced heroine. An assassin hailing from a different world, Eiko Harue is thrown into the midst of it all and wakes from her slumber as the villainess. Burrowed in the past, moving forward with thoughts filled with her, is Eiko truly free of Aurora? Will she ever be free? "...And with this sword in my hand, and the blood in my veins, I will have my retribution. I will be free of you, Aurora." After all... "...wherever you are, Eiko, I will follow." (originally titled Blood-lusting Villainess.)

After the destruction of the Orochi, Akagi saw herself as a failure to the Empire, not just for failing to defeat Azur Lane many times, but also going against Nagato's order to stop creating the Orochi. She left without a second thought, leaving the now unified Azur Lane to mull over where she went to, and why she took the core of the Orochi. Many months later, as Azur Lane was fighting Sirens, a mercenary for hire was doing the same, having been hired by them to assist in their endeavors...