Akaki Chishio ni / The Bloodred Tide [Typeset]

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>Koki/皇紀 2604 (AD 1944)
>The first Carrier Fleet
>First Carrier Battle Group Deploys

>Prologue - p. 3
>Epilogue - p. 11
>Afterwords - p.42
>Come on, hurry up, go away
>Huhu, there's no "what if's" here, listening to two girl's gossip is just shameless!
>B-but, your highness...
>Quick, git, git!
>If something happens to you, there's no way I could face your highness...
>Your Highness....!

>Whew...finally drove out the annoyance.  To make you wait this long, I'm really sorry.
>N-nonononono!!! It hasn't been long at all?!  Not at all!  No problem!
>Really...don't be so uptight, relax.  We're the same age.
>Here, come over here!  Everything's ready!

>It's...
>really good...
>Is it?  That makes me happy.
>To be honest I'm a little addicted to black tea.  It's fortunate that I used it to welcome you!
>Whew....the Navy Officer said that before I became a shipgirl they would help grant me a wish.  I figured it'd be fine even if it were impossible, so I asked to spend a day talking with your highness Kako
>I couldn't believe they made it happen...being born in the imperial family really really really really is the best....
>huhu

>Miss Akane, you're also a very cute girl
>Eh?!  Y-you're too kind!
>I'm just a normal commoner...
>....Miss Akane
>is it alright if I ask you something?

>--About becoming a shipgirl >are you not scared?
>They say that if you become a shipgirl, it becomes impossible to come back.
>You'll lose all humanity.
>Even your memories vanish...
>I'm very scared.
>Your openness, your smile, they'll all be polished, like a weapon, polished so all your colors fade away until there's nothing left but steel and iron.  Just thinking about it...

>N-No problem!
>Kako-dono (could be something else, say "milady kako" if you want to play it safe), please don't worry!
>Such a happy day...there's no way I'll forget about it!

>The Man from the Navy said that I would become a super large shipgirl, and my lucks really good...I probably won't sink...!
>[--so strong]
>[Is there anyhting I could ever do]
>[to repay this kind of bravery?]
 >[Standard Carrier Akagi, January 8th, construction begins.  April 26th, Construction complete.  April 30th, assigned to the 1st Carrier Division, 1st Carrier Battle Group]
>[Koki 2604]
>[July 6th, 0600, the first Carrier Division participated in an operation to recover islands in the South Sea]
>[July 8th, 1024, enemy ships detected, combat initiated]
>[On the same day, 1457, 1st Carrier Division, Communications Lost.]
>[July 10, 0800, the 1st Carrier Division is listed as lost.]

>(紅潮如血) - The Crimson Wave, Scarlet as Blood

>You're saying we should use this formation to take the enemy port?
>Admiral, Kaga is a newly-built ship.  Currently she only mounts dive bombers, no fighters.
>Her support ships, also are just out of the docks.  .....it's as if you want to just send her to sink.
>Without adding at least a support carrier, it will be very difficult to reach our objectives.
>We can't give you what we don't have.  And we can't delay this operation.
>Moreover....even if you can't take the dock, just fighting is enough.
>...!  >A...are you saying

>They were built just to sink?!
>Kaga...and the other shipgirls?!
>....If I said yes, what will you do?
>You're just a low-level commander.  You have tactical value...
>but you are neither qualified nor authorized to comment or change our strategy and how we choose to use our weapons.
>Don't worry, this battle is not necessarily a suicide mission.
>You're a good soldier, the admirality and the navy hope that you can return safely.

>If you run into problems
>You will not be faulted if you alone return.
>[How can I live on like this?]
>You and I are both
>[Regicides (smaller words: the greatest crminals)]

>Destroyer Shirayuki, paging Flagship Kaga!
>Destroyer Fubuki has taken severe damage!  The enemy ship has closed in to 5000 (meters I assume)!!
>Maintain Formation!
>Do not let our dive bombers get taken down!
>Cover Kaga, and continue to attack the enemy ships!!  (Does Shirayuki even use triple guns?)

>[Ohhh]
>[My comrades]
>[are gone]
>[Why]
>[Why, even when I'm about to join them]
>[Why don't I feel a single bit of sorrow]
>[nor a single ounce of fear?]
>[Then]
>[If I have no heart]
>[they and I]
>[What is flowing from me]
>[what is it?]

>Enemy planes, coming from above!
>Kaga, evade, full speed to port!
>Guu >She can't move...!  As expected, Kako's...
>The Adjustment Reports have been modified....!! (someone might watn to check on this, 適應...etc. is definitely adjustment ability report , but I'm not sure about the modified part)
>It didn't attack?  And that plane...(type 99)
>What exactly--
>happened

>Guuu guuu

>This is...I can't believe...it's Akagi...
>Then they...those Abyssal's real identity...!
>[Miss Akane]
>[You...do you still remember me?]
>[--is that so]

>[So you always remembered.]

>W-what?!
>Oy, Kaga, what are you...?
>Nnnuurghh
>Guuu!
>mmm...That Kaga, what did she...
>Does she want to move the command post...?

>Oy....
>What's going on....
>What are you trying to do....
>Don't....

>DOOONNNNNN'TTTTT
>[Thank you, Miss Akane]
>[I, too, did not forget]
>[I also did not forget]
>[I forgot neither those whom I love, nor]

>Live on
>Shinwa
>[These tears that flow]
>Kakooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

>[The regret of failing to stop you at that time]
>[has always, like last, dirty snows of the dying winter]
>[soiled my heart, such that I may never clean it.]
>[From that day on, the thought has always been in my head]
>[that, in the end, that I should, that I would sink with you.]
>[Maybe I'm just running away]
>[Running away my fate]
>[Running away from my responsibilities]
>[and all the crimes that heap upon my shoulders every day I walk upon this earth]

>[But]
>[--Since you have told me to live on]
>[Then I will fight on, I will fight.]
>[With this nation]
>[with my own transgressions]
>[For others]
>[I will never shed]
>[a tear as large as yours.]

>[Seven Years later, Koki 2611 (AD 1951)]
>..........hmph.
>Ahh, it's quite the sigh
>It's like a floating fortress, this warship
>City?
>That kind of thing is just a giant coffin!

>In the past, all we needed were a few girl's lives, and that would be that
>[Tch!]
>Huge sacrifices of gold and silver!  Thousands of men with their lives on the line!  Now, in order to fight, we need tens of thousads of tons of steel and thousands of soldiers buried in them to fight!
>Our citizens' lives have deteriorated!  All because of that man, swindling his highness the emperor and forcing upon us an end to the Kanmusu system.
>Mmm...but, because of that, the Abyssal problem has also vanished.
>If we have to discard the use of shipgirls in order to save our nation...
>Using this kind of thing to fight a war will only end our nation faster!
>That little fucker, who fled from battle with his tail between his legs...
>How can we let a traitor like that control our navies!
>Just you wait, Kamio Shinwa...
>One day, punishment will come upon you!

>Kakka, everything is ready.  I will take you to the palace now.
>Mm, then let's go.
>[Koki 2611, the first Military Reform Bill was adopted.]
>[Koki 2612, the Emperor passed the bill to "Eternally Abandon Shipgirls."  The Empire and the other nations of the world abandoned the production of shipgirls.]
>[Koki 2632 , on August 15th, the Emperor died.]
>[On August 16th, the 8-16 incident occured.  Grand Admiral Kamio Shinwa and the Reformists within the Navy were overthrown by the Conservatives]
>On August 19th, Kamio Shinwa died.
>[Koki 2634 (AD 1974), the Empire once more began the construction shipgirls.  In response, the international community resumed shipgirl construction]
>[From there on, history leaves no records.]

Very Sloppily Translated Afterwords
>I will publish this today at 17 hours / 5 pm.  I am 相生/Aioi
>Did eveyrone enjoy this doujin?
>The original work was published on twitter as [insert elevnese], and  I was completely taken by surprise by the response.  Many people asked "Is there going to be a sequel" and that kind of questino, and so this doujin was completed.  To be honest, originally I felt that what I put on Twitter was enough to end it, and I didn't want to continue, but because I said there might be a sequel (which, of course, many people retweeted), I felt like I had a duty to draw this, and so for summer comiket I hurriedly picked up the pen.
>This story si largely compiled from my own impressions and ideas.  Perhaps it has some relation to the shipgirls most of us use, maybe it doesn't.  Although I feel that ships can be repaired when tehy're damaged and a good admiral eating with the ships is very cute, for I who was born in the age of Evangelion, I jsut want to see a more serious, a "harder", more serious shipgirl, and felt like this would be a more interesting story (tl note: need more people like this bloke)
>Although I know I'l lget a lot of "lel it's not like that", "4edgy8me" kind of complaint, if people feel like this type of shipgirl isn't bad, then I will be happy.
>If anyone wants to hear about any part of the setting not explicitly stated on the story, you can always use twitter or email to contact me and I will tell you privately.  >So come and be friends with me, if you're in the Yokohama server that'd be the best (someone on 2ch once said that my Kaga looked like she supported the Yokohama Fleet)
>Lastly, although this was a very rushed book, I felt like drawing this taught me many things.  To be honest, in this doujin I couldn't avoid drawing battle scenes, which I really didn't want ot draw.  It was a real headache, but I eventually got over it, and I feel like I am now capable of drawing even better things.  For that I am very grateful to my shipgirls.
>Thank you, Shipgirls!
>Thank you, Kaga!
>Lastly, to those of you who bought this doujinshi, to those who saw the original on twitter, to those that supported me, and [insert elevenese] who helped me sell it, I extend my greatest thanks.  I will immediately hand this over to the publisher.
>Thank you everyone, let us meet again!