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- Maizuru Naval District Anthology, Volume 15, Chapter 8
- Title: Echoes * The Japanese title contains Hibiki's name
- Author: Zizioxo (https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7302209)
- Original Dump: https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/162594005/#162602039
- Page 81
- Panel 1
- Narration: Cold, freezing cold skies.
- That had to be what fate had in store for me, the only survivor of my comrades who sank around me.
- That's how I saw my role as observer of the end.
- Panel 3
- SFX: Squeak
- Plunk
- Swish
- Panel 4
- SFX: Ring-ring
- Panel 5
- SFX: [Cicada]
- Verniy: Whoops.
- ---
- Page 82
- Panel 1
- Verniy: Zdravsvoi Gangut.
- [Good day, Gangut.]
- It's already polden, you know.
- [It's already midday, you know.]
- Panel 2
- Verniy: What would you like to eat-
- SFX: Burning...
- Ding-ding
- Panel 3
- Gangut: Dobryj nochi...
- Verniy...
- [Good night... Verniy...]
- SFX: Drip-drop, Drip-drop
- Verniy: She looks like she's about to sink.
- Panel 4
- Gangut: I'm sorry, motherland. Looks like this is as far as I can go.
- My body's reached its limit in this foreign land.
- (This place
- is too hot.)
- SFX: [Shining and halo sounds and such]
- Panel 5
- Gangut: Let me die first...
- (Kuh...)
- Verniy: You
- You haven't even been to sea yet, Gangut
- [Working steadily.]
- Panel 6
- Gangut: (Ah...)
- SFX: Burning
- Flap-flap
- Fan: Base
- ---
- Page 83
- Panel 1
- Verniy: (Ah.)
- Your antenna's back.
- Panel 2
- First of the Gangut-class Battleships
- Gangut
- Gangut: You saw me in a pretty sorry state.
- Spasiba, Verniy.
- Panel 3
- Verniy: No worries.
- Summer is fierce here on base.
- Panel 4
- [Cicada]
- Panel 5
- Gangut: Whew, thank goodness you're here for me.
- It's reassuring to have a comrade around.
- Even if she's little.
- SFX: Rub-rub-rub
- Panel 6
- Gangut: Sorry for bothering you, you must be busy.
- (Pant, Pant)
- Verniy: It's ok.
- I chose to help.
- Panel 7
- Verniy: The Commander asked me to show you around anyway.
- (I'm not little.)
- Is there anywhere you'd like to see?
- ---
- Page 84
- Panel 1
- Gangut: Take me there, Verniy.
- [March-march]
- Panel 2
- SFX: Flinch
- Freeeze
- Panel 3
- Gangut: Seconds!!
- (Khorosho)
- SFX: Swoosh
- Panel 4
- Shimushu: Sortieing-shu!!
- Gangut: Let's go here this time, Verniy!
- Panel 5
- Verniy: Hahaha, make way, weaklings!
- Panel 6
- SFX: Whrrrrrrrrrrr
- Swooooooosh
- ---
- Page 85
- Panel 1
- Gangut: Hey, Verniy-
- Akatsuki: Hibiki!
- Panel 2
- Akatsuki: Sheesh, the Commander's calling for you, you know.
- Panel 4
- Akatsuki: ...ah.
- I'm -
- My name is Akatsuki, from the Sixth Destroyer Division with Hibiki...
- SFX: Bow
- Akatsuki: Thanks for, uh... taking care of Hibiki.
- Hibiki: I'm taking care of her.
- Panel 5
- Gangut: "Hibiki"...?
- Ahh.
- Verniy's original name?
- Panel 6
- Gangut: So she was with "DesDiv 6"?
- Come to think of it, this's her birthplace.
- Panel 8
- Gangut: Her original comrades...?
- Hmm.
- ---
- Page 86
- Panel 1
- SFX: Poooour
- Panel 2
- SFX: Pitter-patter
- Panel 3
- Shigure: Ah, a yuudachi.
- Yuudachi: Poi~
- * Yuudachi: a summer shower
- Panel 4
- SFX: Pitter-patter
- Panel 5
- Gangut: Hey, Hibiki...
- Verniy: Wha-
- Panel 6
- Verniy: Why'd you suddenly...
- You've been calling me Verniy the whole time, haven't you?
- Panel 7
- Gangut: But here,
- you're Hibiki, aren't you?
- ---
- Page 87
- Panel 1
- Verniy: Why bring that up...?
- Gangut: When I heard you being called Hibiki,
- Panel 2
- Gangut: it made me a bit lonely.
- Like I'd lost a comrade.
- It's selfish of me to say.
- But I thought
- it might've been the same for you.
- Panel 3
- Gangut: So I'll call you by your name here from now on.
- Panel 4
- Verniy: My...
- Panel 5
- Verniy: My real name is Hibiki.
- But,
- "Verniy", faithfulness, is also my name... my precious name.
- What I'm called doesn't change who I am.
- Panel 6
- Verniy: I won't forget the things I experienced when I lived as Verniy.
- ---
- Page 88
- Panel 1
- Verniy: Verniy
- is fine.
- Panel 2
- Verniy: if the loneliness of being in a foreign land is too much,
- Panel 3
- Verniy: Calling me that should remind you of home.
- (It's been a long time since I've been called Verniy...)
- Gangut: (Was that why?)
- Panel 4
- Gangut: Nostalgia... huh?
- Panel 5
- Gangut: Alright!
- Let's have some kasha together, Verniy!
- Panel 6
- Gangut: And some vodka too!
- (Uraaaaa!)
- Verniy: I can't do that.
- Ask for Jun'you.
- Panel 7
- Narration: The two of them later fought over how to make borscht and kasha.
- Verniy: This isn't the kasha I know.
- It's totally different.
- (Pout Pout)
- Gangut: Nah, this is how they do it at home.
- I'm right.
- Kasha:
- Milk, butter, etc. boiled into something like rice porridge.
- END
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