Murdering Akitsu Maru and the Female Admiral [untypeset]

Murdering Akitsu Maru and the Female Admiral Translation
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>--I always knew this day would come.
>Where's Akitsu Maru?  Bring her out.
>You know already, right?
>That fiend is a murderer.
>We won't be responsible for what happens to you should you try to protect her. Bring her here.
>Now. (it's actually "bring her out" again.)
>--Yes.
>That's right.
>Of course I knew.

>Amphibious Landing Ship Akitsu Maru of the Army's Hei-class.
>You were once dearest mother's (the term used is one of great respect, as in "honored mother", but that flows poorly in English) secretary, correct?  It's a pleasure to finally meet you.  Let's get along.
>"Let's get along," huh...but, Admiral-dono
>Someone in your position need not be so polite.
>--there's no smile in those eyes
>You've heard of my identity, I'm sure?  I am the last previous 's daughter.
>The Capitol's singularity (奇點); promoted at such a young age, an oddity among oddities--it's truly unheard of.
>Singularity
>what an interesting figure of speech.
>That's the world's judgement on me.  ...and what of dearest mother?

>A monster.
>...I already knew. That person would say that.
>How honest.
>I like honest people.
 >What about you, is your evaluation the same?
>...hm?
>Before I see your orders, it's hard to say.

>Then let's go.
>Yessir. I will make sortie preparations presently.
>An oddity among oddities who had never commanded shipgirls before...you're all a little uneasy, I'm sure.
>Well, we'll be relying on you.
 >...Oh by the way, Akitsu Maru
 >What is it?

>From today on I will be taking command of this whole naval district.
>All of dearest mother's possessions are now mine. Of course, this includes you.
>Pardon me for saying this, admiral-dono, but...
>...you...
>what do you mean?
 >...It means
>that what you did with dearest mother every night will continue.

>I'm surprised.
>That I, Akitsu Maru
 >would be asked to sleep with a young girl such as yourself
>To sleep with...what does that mean?
>Oh, pardon me, I meant sleeping together.  In the far east the nights can be quite cold.  (note: the sleep with / sleep together distinction means more in chinese, since "待寝", to sleep, can be mispelled easily and pronounced nearly identically as "侍寝", which means to have sex.)
>Saying such a flimsy lie...this ship
>I, too, am not good with the cold weather. So
>I'll be in your care.
>Among all the adults I've met until now I have yet to see a worse liar.
>...so young
>she really is...

>like a demon (literally Oni)
>Admiral, what did you just say?!
>You didn't hear me?  I'm sorry, let me repeat myself.
>With current tactics our current firepower is insufficient.  That's why I've decided to send out three small torpedo squadrons to the front while the battleships and carriers attack from the back.
 >Then aren't the destroyers just acting as human shileds?
>And?  Is there a problem?
>We will rotate them off the front the moment they receive medium damage, and the remaining two squads will cover.
>In this time the higher-powered battleships can focus on wiping out the enemy.  Isn't that perfectly reasonable?
 >I can't deal with this kind of order!  And neither can I agree with a tactic that involves using my allies as meat shields while I huddle in the back firing away.
>Who do you think I am--

>A weapon, and a valuable one.
>One that I am unwilling to risk losing.
>By avoiding extended engagements and limiting damage to medium damage, this kind of tactic makes repair easy and maximizes results.
>It's certainly a reasonable strategy. But
>You deliberately only said half of it, huh?
>She has no intentions of getting along with we as shipgirls.
>Well, at the end of it
>as long as I can die on land, how I die isn't important.

>October 12th
>After two and a half months of Akitsu Maru joining the fleet, I asked the army for the reason she was given to us.  It was said that she killed someone in the past, and it was necessary to transfer her.  Although this is quite a ridiculous reason that's discomforted teh other shipgirls, personally she is quite adamant that this is a baseless rumor.  As of now there has been no evidence to prove she has any connection to the events outside of base.  I only pray that there will no longer be any similar murders.
>October 20th.  It seems like there were three victims.  The Military Police (note: the words used are Kempeitai, but the jurisdiction is unclear.  While Akitsu Maru is an army ship she serves in the Navy, which should be under the jurisdiction of the Tokkeitai.  However, if the crimes are committed on land it's possible that jursidiction remains with the larger kempeitai.) are coming.  I will pretend I know nothing.

>October 31st
>I have come to realize that I am incapable of stopping her.
>This is all because of my inability. Is this the fate of being an admiral.
>Why did somebody such as dearest mother find herself incapable of stopping a single shipgirl?
>I need to know.
>This is why I've come to the far east.

>Good morning, Admiral-dono.
 >Ugh
>Good morning...Akitsu Maru.
>Looking at your face, it seems like your body's a little under the weather.  I think you ought to eat breakfast here in bed.  I'll bring it over.
>...Alright.
>Normally Admiral-dono seems to prefer western meals, but when the body is unwell japanese-stype meals seem better-suited.  Is that alright?
>Yes, that's fine.
 >Very well, please wait.

>--blood, it's the stench of blood.

>[The fifth, the sixth]
>(on the newspaper: Far East News, the Murders return)
 >[The seventh, the eighth]
>[The ninth]
 >[--The tenth]

>You're
>already awake, right?

>I wonder,
>Have you figured it out?

>Admiral-dono
>Are you not going to ask
>"Why does your body smell so strongly of blood?"
 >Akitsu Maru--!

>...ah, you are quite like your mother. A little naive, but also a little humorous.
>I am a weapon.
>If you're serious, at least don't resort to little tricks (hidden weapons).

>Can you see it?
>This is the Lantern I use to summon.
 >If you put a man's soul in it
>T...they're people's memories....

>We shipgirls, all we know and all we will ever know is construction, battle, dismantlement.
>But a human life is different.  Fortune, Despair, Fear...all sorts and all kinds of memories glow.
>I won't say I envy it...this is the fate of us born into bodies of iron.  So please, at least let me experience it, just a little.
>Humans, and their radiant multicolored lives...

>...Admiral-dono
>You, who doesn't even fear the abyssals...why are you shivering like a frightened ktiten?
>--The battlefield
>--Aaaaah,
>you are also a "human," after all
>...the battlefield has definitely overrided what I learned previously.  Even if they're just slabs of iron, they get hurt, they cry, they scream, and all they wish for is to fight for humanity.

>Even if the only fate waiting for them is scrapping or sinking, no matter how predictable and emotionless the ending
>Humanity, is it worth the price?  Are we really worth all this?
>Why

>...are you going out tonight as well?
>ahem
>I really don't understand
 >Why you motehr and daughter never thought to stop a serial killer such as myself. I
>Don't preach to me saying you have no right or anything inane of the sort.  Humans are not creatures who choose base on whether they have the right to.
>Please don't.

>Because I am the admiral of this naval district.  Destroying and annhilating the abyssals is my job.
>As long as you do your part of the work, the rest is not important.
>...really, I can't see the Admiral-dono as a normal human being.
 >It's like
>you're like a demon (onif some sort.

>Please let the Admiral-dono go.
>That one knows nothing about this situation.  That is what you would want, correct?
>What is a broken weapon babbling about?
>Take her down!
 >Admiral, the Naval district is under your jursidiction.
>Please personally end this affair.

>Come.
>Come.  Come.
>Come.
>--how cruel, letting an ignorant child doing something cruel like this.
>If you want it I'm willing to commit sudoku on my own.
>Have some mercy, Military Police-dono (again, kempeitai is the word given)
>Come
>This cannot do.  Even if it's a child, this is the individual chosen by central as the head of this district--the district that gave birth to something like you.
>--no matter what, this crime cannot be forgiven.
>Oni-san, I'm here, please follow my clapping
>[chinese translator's note: this is a children's game similar to marco polo, in which one child (acting as the oni) blindfolds himself while another child claps next to him.  The oni uses the sounds of clapping to orient himself and move.

>Come, Oni
>[that's right, I've been waiting for this momeny]
>Oni--
>Akitsu Maru
>Was dearest mother's soul beautiful?
>--Who's the oni?