I Became a Captain of the British Empire

Singapore (3)

“Why are you here?!”

“That’s what I’m talking about!”

Suddenly, reflexively, the foot jumped out.

Rose panicked and backed away. Before long, I trip over my feet and stumble. It’s a shame the temple caught me before I fell.

She opened her breathless eyes and looked at me, then continued with a trembling voice.

“I… over there that… Are you Admiral Lewis?”

“Your title has become polite while I haven’t seen you. Cecilia Rose.”

A story from several months ago. But Portsmouth’s bad relationship is still vivid in my mind. So, can’t forget

Rose clasped her hands and raised the corner of her mouth. Breaking out in a cold sweat, he hurriedly continued his words.

“At that time, there were a lot of rude people. It’s no coincidence that we meet in a place like this!”

“Yes, what a poor coincidence!”

Quickly, he turned his head and asked Kirk.

“Kirk, how much longer do we have to wait for our task force destroyer to arrive?”

Kirk blinked blankly at the sudden question. After a while, he answers in a hesitant way.

“Maybe it will come in three days.”

“good. contact the adjutant I will prepare only one depth charge.”

“Deepthroat?”

“I’m going to tie someone up and throw them into the sea.”

“Are you crazy?!”

Rose frightened as if biting into crab foam.

However, he didn’t care and calmly grabbed her and dragged her away.

Rose grabs her wrist and struggles violently.

“Now, wait a minute! for a moment!”

“Listen, Cecilia Rose. I’m going to pay you back a little for the trouble I got into because of you.”

“Leave this!”

“It wouldn’t be enough to tie them up right now and throw them off the coast of Singapore, but that’s too boring.”

“No, what is that… Kyaaak!”

Kirk and the temple, bewildered, run between us.

“Admiral! Wake up!”

“Hey, Chairman? Are you okay?”

“Are you okay?! oh my head… .”

Rose stumbles into the street.

I silently nodded my head towards her who sighed with a frown on her face.

“However, I have urgent business to do for the national interest, so I don’t have time to pay attention to the likes of you. So, it would be good for both of us to disappear right before my eyes. Do you understand what I mean?”

There is no time right now. I really want to tie it to a depth charge and drown it in the waters off Kuantan.

Anyway, even the time to care was a luxury, so I turned my steps.

It’s a face you never want to see again.

“for a moment! Wait!”

After wiping off a cold sweat, Rose limps toward me. The urgency is such that I am startled.

Throwing away even the help of her subordinates, she vomited out her unjust feelings.

“What the hell did I do wrong?!”

“You’ll think of it while diving while tied to depth charges.”

“No, not like that! Could it be because you stabbed me for liking pears?”

He tilts his head as if it’s absurd.

“But you’re not crazy, that’s it!”

“Shut up!”

Do you cross the line because you say see you? Shall we turn it into a real nuclear-powered submarine? never to be injured forever.

“Anyway, I don’t want to see your face, so don’t come to me.”

“No! This is a life-and-death matter!”

What? Now I hold on to my sleeves and stretch them. Do you really have no self-respect?

“please! Please listen at least once!”

… Seeing the desperate expression, it really seems like that.

As I looked around, I felt a strange stare on me, so I shook my head and pulled her away.

“… Let’s go in and talk.”

“I’ll do anything! What do you need? Socialite connections? Member’s contact information? Or cheap supplies? I’ll give you anything, so just listen!”

“No, I understand, so let go of this hand!”

It took a little effort to calm her down.

* * *

A pub in downtown Singapore.

I grabbed a quiet room and sat down with Rose.

A total of five people, including her clumsy subordinates, orderly Kirk, and Lieutenant Colonel Rich, who came belatedly to hear the commotion, were seated.

He sat down in the middle and quietly crossed his arms and opened his mouth.

“So, let’s sort it out.”

Rose with a nervous look. Swallowing dry saliva, I focus on my words. It’s a very pitiful sight. Although I do not feel the slightest sympathy.

“After the Patunan we met that day, we received a subsidiary and became independent. That’s why I entered the East India Company… He is struggling without winning a contract he deserves. This one?”

Rose’s auburn hair swayed slightly. she frowned. He bit his lip and nodded his head as if he was resentful.

“It has been two months since we arrived. I have to go around the Cape of Good Hope because of the damn frogs… .”

“What does that have to do with me anyway?”

When I stopped speaking firmly, she cleared her throat as if embarrassed.

Rose turned her eyes around. He spoke again in a nervous voice.

“I know it’s tedious to say this again. However, if I ask you again… .”

“Dismissed.”

“yes? No, do you know what to say?”

“Ask me to marry you, ask for a contract, such a pathetic request.”

It’s written all over your face, but you wouldn’t know. Where did the laid-back look of the first day we met go, and the tired eyes? The situation is so urgent that he can’t even manage his facial expression properly.Make sure to read from noble mtl dot com

Perhaps as an independent subsidiary… It should be written as, in effect, a sentence of exile. Looking at the company situation, it seems that it is not very good.

That’s what someone f*cked up and it looks good! Crunchy.

Just as the corner of her mouth was about to rise, Rose hurriedly raised her hand.

“This side is ready to give you what you want!”

“For example?”

He winces, shrugs, and gets lost in thought. yet… .

“Me, how am I?”

“Dismissed.”

“Ever since then, the opponent he faced was quite famous!”

Yeah, that’s why it got caught on me too. sh*t.

Of course, looking at it objectively, he is a popular face. It was hard to find such a beautiful figure even in my memory, tired of the gaze of modern people.

but… .

“By the way, can’t you mount a 15-inch naval gun? Come on, it’s trash.”

“Hey!”

If it’s not a giant gun, it’s meaningless.

Rose clenched her teeth with a shocked face. Then, the new employee next to her also looks around, not knowing why. The adjutant also looks at the orderly next to me blindly, perhaps not understanding the situation.

Kirk raised his snake eyes with a tired expression on his face.

“Admiral, why don’t you exercise some restraint outside?”

“What man. Did you rent this room?”

“No, not that, but… .”

“What’s wrong with me saying I’ll keep my beliefs?”

“It’s because it’s so sad.”

Kirk shook his head pitifully. Lieutenant Colonel Ritchie looks at the two of us, still puzzled.

Damn, the car is over there. why do i cry

Anyway, Rose comes to her senses and clears her throat. Still looking at this side with desperate eyes. Looking at it, it doesn’t look like it’s going to back down like this.

can’t do it Come to think of it, did you say it was a connection?

Come to think of it, she is definitely from a fairly prominent family in the social world. If so, how did the relationship in the Far East not come into contact?

Just in case, with a sense of frustration, I asked her.

“Then, do you know anyone with the Japanese Navy?”

It is said that he built up a network while supplying various things to the Navy, so maybe the line will reach overseas. It seems that I can get along quite well in the social world.

“Ask me something like that… ?”

Rose frowned and asked back.

He just shrugged his shoulders with a blank face.

Was it an overjudgment? Well, there can be no such thing in this far-off Far East… .

“Of course I know! How many years have you been a socialite?”

there was.

* * *

Caroline Islands, Truckport.

Japan’s 1st Air Squadron Flagship “Akagi”.

A gentle breeze blows through the window. Clouds floating high.

On that white hill, the sun restlessly looked at them as if it were enveloping the sea.

A steel castle proudly advancing over the cool sea.

On the high deck of the bridge, officers clad in black uniforms gathered at the window.

“Reconnaissance team, launching!”

On the wide deck like a playground, a formation of biplanes roared their engines in unison. The deck of the aircraft carrier Akagi was sending reconnaissance planes towards it.

Type 13 carrier-based attack aircraft flying one after another.

The officers shouted in unison as they saw the squadron rising lightly like fallen leaves.

“Emission success!”

“Commander! Electric takeoff complete. We will start the operation from now on.”

The distraught captain lowered his binoculars and turned his head toward the inside of the bridge.

At the end of his gaze, the admiral looked out with a face as cold as a wooden stone. Soon, he quietly opens his mouth.

“Well, nothing will happen. Everyone shuts themselves in Pearl Harbor and won’t come out.”

Rear Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who leads the squadron of Japan’s finest aircraft carriers, said that and indifferently turned his head.

A very vague answer.

Everyone at the scene had no choice but to fall into silence. The captain, who came to his senses belatedly, uttered a panicked voice.

“Admiral. Still, denying the necessity of the operation is a bit… .”

“Oh, never mind. It’s not that I hate this situation.”

The admiral waved his hand and smiled as if he had never done that.

The newly appointed commander was always like this. Still, the captain replied with a smile as he didn’t hate humanity.

For a commander who has just been appointed, this is the highest level.

“Isn’t it good that you don’t shed blood unnecessarily? Isn’t it?”

“That’s right, but it’s really disappointing to think that you’re avoiding a showdown.”

“The best strategy is to win without fighting, Captain.”

The admiral raised the corners of his mouth as if he was having fun and then looked back at the horizon. Numerous escort traps move as if enveloping them.

How to defend aircraft carriers against air raids, heard from military attachés in Europe. It is already standardized as a standard tactic in the Atlantic Ocean. The Imperial Navy is just testing it today.

“The destroyers keep falling behind, Admiral.”

“Slow down. At high speed, it is still difficult to maintain formation.”

Feeling the acceleration of the floor slowing down a little, Admiral Yamamoto crossed his arms and looked out the window all the time.

No matter what’s going on on the other side of the world, Truckport’s great fleet is still going strong. Dozens of battleships, and aircraft carriers like lofty fortresses.

As if symbolizing the Empire of the Rising Sun, the steel forts calmly waited.

Staring at the Pacific Fleet, another crouching giant.

“Admiral, this is a transmission from the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Fleet.”

Suddenly, the staff member opened the door and entered.

The admiral, who reached out his hand indifferently, nodded and said to him.

“Give it to me.”

Go through the papers slowly. Soon after, the captain sneaked up to me and asked.

“What’s wrong with Admiral Yonai?”

“Well, I’ll have to check.”

The admiral read the papers slowly.

There was only a brief text written there.

It’s so easy that anyone can recognize it at once.

“… Yes, is it like that?”

each-

The corners of the mouth go up.

Seeing the admiral with a cold smile, the captain felt uneasy. Eventually, Yamamoto quietly raised his head.

“How long do you have until you return to Yokosuka?”

“yes? That is… It will be around next Wednesday, when the second round will return.”

“I need to go back a little faster. It looks like an unexpected guest has arrived.”

After resolutely folding the professional paper into his arms, he quietly looked up at the ceiling and whispered. The sound of aircraft engines was echoing overhead.

“Admiral Lewis… A pioneer in aircraft carrier operation, I would like to meet you.”

Embracing his pounding heart, the admiral immediately opened his cold eyes. A noise like a swarm of bees crossed his ears.

“How long will you be awake?”

Looking at the fishy smile right next to him, the captain couldn’t say anything.