It is Kokang and Changchun

　Chapter 52 Cardinal

　North Carolina, USA

　One day in late June, the headlines of major newspapers in North Carolina were dominated by a battleship of the same name, the USS North Carolina, currently anchored in a permanent anchorage on the Cape Fear River.

　Generally speaking, this warship, which has been here as a museum for half a century, would not be able to make headlines even if there was news about it.

　But that is only the general case. For special cases, such as

　For example, if a ship turns into a girl, it is not within the scope of normal circumstances.

　Kenneth Braithwaite is the newest Secretary of the Navy, having assumed office in late May of last year. Although it's only been a little over a year, he feels that this past year has been far more significant than the eight or ten years of his predecessors.

　After all, he had witnessed the appearance of many ship girls in just a short time in office, which was enough for him to brag about for the rest of his life.

　He is now checking the information of the new ship girl just sent by his subordinates.

　"Hmm... the lead ship of the North Carolina class, the battleship North Carolina?"

　The girl in the profile photo has white hair that looks like bird feathers and red bangs on the left side.

　Kenneth Braithwaite continued reading the information, and the more he read, the more mysterious it seemed.

　[Miss North Carolina is currently the only shipgirl on our American fleet with non-human features. She has bird-like wings and tail feathers on her shoulder blades and tail vertebrae, and her wings can be controlled in size by her will.]

　"Oh, My God..." When Kenneth Braithwaite saw this, he couldn't help but think of the zoo navy of the island country across the ocean.

　"Never mind. Those Japanese ships on the other side are pretty much the same anyway. They have animal ears, tails, and horns. So what if they have non-human features?"

　Then he turned the page and continued reading.

　Furthermore, according to the official setting of Warship Girls, she possesses the ability to transform into three different forms: lolita, young lady, and mature lady. Experimentation has confirmed that the real-life Miss North Carolina also possesses this ability. And, just as in the game, the more mature her form becomes, the more energy she consumes. The time she has to mature into a mature lady is indeed limited, and once that time is up, she's forced to transform into a lolita, and her mindset is also affected by her physical appearance...

　[The research team added: After testing, it was found that, slightly different from the official setting of "Warship Girls", the real Miss North Carolina also has a fourth transformation form, which is the image of North Carolina in "Azur Lane". And transforming into North Carolina in "Azur Lane" does not seem to cause any energy loss...]

　At this moment, Kenneth Braithwaite is the expression on the old man’s cell phone on the subway.

　"This... there's this kind of operation that I don't even know how to describe? I..."

　Kenneth Braithwaite felt like his worldview had been refreshed.

　"Let's continue reading..."

　[What's even more interesting is that we also extracted some interesting entries from the "Warship Girls" Wikipedia: North Carolina is set as a god in the game, and is currently the only officially recognized god in the game, so she can change her appearance and form.

　Beyond these, there are also numerous artist-created creations: In the distant past, North Carolina, possessing extraordinary powers, was once revered as a god by primitive tribes. As civilization filled the world's chasms, the arrival of foreign fire shifted the balance of the continent—people harbored a fear of industry and technology, yet also yearned for a new world. Over how to treat outsiders, the tribes disagreed with North Carolina, who adhered to tradition and nature, leading to conflict and betrayal overnight. After committing an irreparable sin, North Carolina retreated to the mountains, but repeated disturbances from the outside world left her with nowhere to escape. This time, she emerged not as a god, but as a demon. Under the siege of the expedition, she finally lost her last hope. Had she not met Washington, she would have perished before merging with the ship. However, she was finally awakened and resolved to use her remaining life to make a difference. The deep-sea enemies that devastated the ocean environment must be eliminated from every perspective. North Carolina did not need to side with humanity; she simply tried to contribute to nature as best she could. The nightmares of the past still haunted her, and only by thinking in this way could she find temporary relief. It seemed that only fighting could answer the meaning of her existence.

　Of course, after our inquiries and investigations into the real Miss North Carolina, we are fortunate that these private designs did not become reality, otherwise we might really have to doubt the materiality of this world...]

　Kenneth Braithwaite finished reading the report with mixed feelings. He said, "This North Carolina... is quite interesting. Hearing so much about it is not as good as seeing it with your own eyes. Let's see if we can call North Carolina over."

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　What is North Carolina doing or experiencing at this moment?

　"Senior North Carolina, don't run away! Let the younger generation get a good look at you!"

　I saw a blue-haired lady with a mechanical rabbit ear headdress on her forehead, chasing North Carolina with light and big steps with a silly expression on her face.

　The frightened North Carolina desperately ran forward, saying, "Wa ...

　"Oh, it's because the shrunken North Carolina-senpai is so cute~ Don't worry, I'm not some British aircraft carrier, I won't do anything inappropriate to you-senpai! I'll just rub your bird feathers a few times~" New Jersey hurriedly clarified North Carolina's misunderstanding of her.

　Seeing that New Jersey was closing in on her, North Carolina cut her body into the shape of a ship B, hoping that her long legs would run faster than her short legs, even if it was just a little bit.

　New Jersey and North Carolina's pursuit attracted

　Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin, who were standing by to watch the show, were sweating profusely.

　Wisconsin ate a French fry and said to her eldest and third sisters, "Why did our Iowa-class ship have such a second-in-command? Is our second sister really a biological child of ours?"

　Missouri rolled her eyes and said, "Well, it's not bad for my second sister to be a comedian. At least she can complement me, a serious star..."

　"By the way, speaking of being a star... I think Missouri, you can bring Saratoga along. It seems that Senior Sara also has this wish." Iowa suggested to Missouri.

　"Saratoga?" Missouri's face was filled with reluctance when she heard the name. She said, "Forget it. Saratoga's magical girl style doesn't quite match mine, haha..."

　(Missouri's true inner OS: Saratoga, you mocked and played pranks on me last time when I wasn't a ship girl yet, and we're not done yet!)

　"Got you!" New Jersey said, and stretched his arms over North Carolina's shoulders, then hugged North Carolina to stop him.

　Even though Beika turned into a ship-B form, his long legs couldn't run much faster than Loli's short legs.

　"Senior, how can 28 knots outrun 33 knots? I really won't do anything to you!"

　"New Jersey! Where are your hands?! Do you think I'll believe anything you say?!"

　"Oh, this is to prevent you from going back on your word, Senior. As long as you return to your Kanr loli form, I will let go of your hand."

　New Jersey's hands were still holding North Carolina's heavy front armor.

　“Okay, okay, I’ll change, you let go…” North Carolina had no choice but to admit defeat.

　New Jersey kept her promise to North Carolina after she turned back into a loli. She just stroked North Carolina's bird-like hair, wings and tail, and did not make any moves that would cross the line.

　New Jersey stroked North Carolina's feathers, turned to look at his two younger sisters and one older sister in the distance, and called out, "Do you want to touch it too? It feels so good!"

　Chapter 53: European Warship Girls

　In a room at an Italian naval base, a petite, short-haired girl with white hair was sitting at a desk playing with her cell phone.

　On the wall above her desk was a poster of Kanba Veneto, and underneath it was written in Italian with a marker: "Ilmiosogno (My Dream)".

　A white-haired girl opened an app that used a certain aircraft destroyer as a poster girl to complete her daily tasks. When she logged in, she found that the dress-up shop seemed to have new items.

　When she opened the store to check the details, there was a skin that made the white-haired loli's relaxed face suddenly shrug.

　Loli tapped her finger with trembling hands to use the dress-up experience voucher to redeem the right to use this skin for two days.

　Then she changed the skin to the corresponding ship girl, checked the [Also set as secretary ship] in the lower right corner, and then returned to the homepage.

　The white-haired loli poked the secretary ship on the panel, and the secretary ship spoke and performed corresponding actions.

　"Littorio said my photography skills are terrible, so she forbade me to take pictures of her. Is that so bad... Commander, can I take a picture of you and try?"

　This sentence actually didn't mean anything to the white-haired loli, but the fact that the secretary ship was doing that action at the same time in the game was what completely broke the white-haired loli's defense.

　On the screen, the secretary's arms moved along with the swaying of her soft and fragrant body, and the size made it hard not to be eye-catching. Her two thighs opened and closed, showing the charming charm of European and American adult women.

　The white-haired girl's body was emitting a faint blue light, and her suit had turned into a swimsuit. She looked at herself in the swimsuit, then at the swimsuit animation of the secretary ship on her phone, and her face was already extremely dark.

　Finally, the white-haired loli couldn't hold it in any longer. She shouted loudly without any image: "Why?! In Kanba B, I am so big and mature? Why do I have to be a child with a flat chest in Kanba R? Why don't I appear in the form of Kanba B?! Even if I am the image of Kanba R, why didn't the artist draw me bigger back then?! "

　I believe everyone has seen it clearly. The white-haired loli who is currently shouting is Veneto.

　But now she is not a battleship but a helicopter cruiser.

　At this moment, there was a rapid knock on Veneto's door, and then two ladies leaned in to check on the situation inside the room. These two ladies were the heavy cruiser Zara and the heavy cruiser Pola.

　Zara asked her former flagship with concern: "Veneto? What's wrong with you? Are you okay? Are you in any trouble?"

　"I just passed by your room and heard you yelling. Your voice is too loud..." Pola frowned and looked at Veneto and complained.

　Veneto turned to look at Zarapolla. Hearing Zarapolla's concern, not only did his anger not subside, but he became even angrier.

　"You two...big tits and all, get out of here!"

　Yelling angrily, Veneto picked up the spoon from the coffee cup on the table and threw it at the Zara sisters.

　Zara and Bora were startled and tried to dodge the flying spoon, but because it happened suddenly they were unable to dodge in time, and the spoon hit Zara's heavy front armor squarely.

　We all know that when an object hits a soft and elastic object, it will get

　A significant reaction force, namely rebound.

　The small spoon was bounced back by Zara's front armor and hit Veneto's foot.

　"Lord Veneto, I'm sorry to bother you!" x2

　When Zara and Pola saw the small spoon bounce back and heard Veneto's scolding just now, they instantly understood everything. They quickly left the room, closed the door and said.

　After the Zara sisters left, Veneto lay on the bed with despair and dejected posture.

　She sent a message to her fellow shipgirl, confiding, "Hello, Saratoga..."

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　Kiel, Germany

　A British athlete is grumbling after the final of the Kiel Week Regatta.

　"Shit! I was wondering why the German team is so strong this year, turns out they hired some Kanmusu!"

　When the British athlete saw Eugen on the field, he felt that she looked familiar, but he just couldn't remember who she was. It was not until she took off her disguise after receiving the medal in the final that he recognized that the woman was actually Prince Eugen.

　"If you can't win, you're going to hire non-humans, right? Can you Germans only achieve victory under the leadership of non-humans? Doesn't this just show that you Germans are worthless? I'm reporting the German team for cheating!"

　This statement immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the German athletes present. They retorted: "So what if we invited them? The competition doesn't stipulate that ship girls can't participate. Miss Eugen is also a member of our German people, so why not? If you have the guts, go and report it! Or ask your ship girls to come and compete next year?"

　Upon hearing this, the British athletes sneered, "Pah, you're asking for trouble, aren't you? How can you Germans compare to the British Royal Navy? Wait till next year!"

　The French athletes watching the quarrel between the British and Germans held their foreheads in shame, thinking to themselves: They all have ship girls, when will France get one? Even if it's a destroyer, it would be fine.

　While the athletes were bickering, the two sister ships were docked side by side in their exclusive positions in Wilhelmshaven, more than 100 kilometers west of Kiel.

　In a large living cabin of one of the warships, a lazy pink-haired lady was drawing indescribable cartoons on her desk.

　"Well... no matter which side Bismarck is from, she is always so charming..." The pink-haired queen admired the book she drew and felt satisfied with herself.

　"Tirpitz, what are you doing?"

　"Eh!" A female voice came from not far behind Tirpitz, startling her. She immediately picked up the "Attention, Tanks!" next to her, covered the comic, and pretended to read.

　Tirpitz had been concentrating on drawing comics, so he didn't notice anyone entering his ship.

　"Bismarck...Sister, I'm reading."

　Bismarck took a few steps forward to take a look and said, "Are navy ships reading books about armored forces?"

　Tirpitz quickly defended himself, "Well...tanks have armor and artillery, and we have armor and artillery too. Tanks are also called Land Cruisers, so they're pretty much the same thing. So reading about tanks is also helpful for naval warfare, haha..."

　Bismarck did not listen to Tirpitz's explanation and directly picked up the copy of "Attention, Tanks!". The cartoon that was covered by the book reappeared in the light of day.

　Bismarck grabbed the comic and flipped through it, anger gradually appearing on his face.

　The cartoon showed Bismarck on battleship B and Bismarck on battleship R enjoying the pleasure of love. They looked so happy.

　"Confiscate!" Bismarck said righteously.

　"No, sister, this is all my love for you!" Tirpitz hugged Bismarck's thighs and pleaded emotionally.

　"Confiscate it! How can a German soldier indulge in such vulgar things all day long?!"

　Bismarck folded up the comic, put it in his pocket, and said to Tirpitz, "Also, from today on, I'm taking you out for military training. What's the point of staying in your own body all day?"

　"What?" Tirpitz was obviously not happy. She tried to retort, "We're not at war anymore, so why bother training? Besides, it's very expensive to send a battleship to sea. Wouldn't that just make the national economy even worse?"

　Bismarck said, "I'm not talking about our main bodies going out to sea. I'm talking about our human bodies. I believe that the characteristics of our shipgirls can also play a huge role on land battlefields. Look at that red country that exploited us in the past. Their navy was stronger in land warfare than their army. If humans are like this, what about shipgirls?"

　"Besides..." Bismarck grabbed Tirpitz by the back of his shirt and dragged him out of the room, saying, "We train our troops for a thousand days and deploy them for a single day. Can we wait until war comes before training? So stop talking nonsense and follow me."

　Tirpitz was dragged away by his own sister and was in tears...

　Since then, Port William has had two sisters who train every day, one is serious and active, the other is lazy and negative.

　Z23, who was in the library, was deeply moved by the training of Bismarck and Tirpitz outside. She thought to herself, "Well, if Big Sister Bismarck is working so hard, I can't slack off!"

　Then she buried her head in her book Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy.

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　At the British Royal Navy Headquarters, Chief of Naval Staff Jonathan Band received a call from the port of Gibraltar.

　Gibraltar Port: "General Band, we have good news."

　Jonathan Bender: "What's the good news?"

　Gibraltar Port: "The Royal Ark has a ship girl. She is currently resting and replenishing supplies with us and will soon depart for the mainland."

　"Great! This is the first aircraft carrier ship girl to appear in Europe! By the way, can you give us a brief description of the image characteristics of the Ark Royal ship girl?" Jonathan Band was very happy to hear that Britain had an aircraft carrier ship girl, and then asked.

　The person at the Gibraltar port paused and said, "A very tall and pretty lady. She has short black hair, with bangs covering one eye..."

　Jonathan Bender listened to the description on the phone and compared it with the information in his hand.