With the sirens finally being left in the dust, or rather, the wake
The Bismarck was finally able to find a port in the Norwegian territories, where it could offload the substantial amount of refugees it accumulated.
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As such, the interior was crowded with refugees trying to get out.
As well as busy crew, who were certainly not accustomed to living on a ship with a thousand extra mouths to feed.
Unfortunately, the dock only had two gangways to get across so there were huge lines coming out from the decks of the ship.
"One at a time!"
"Get out! Stay in a line!"
A few babies were crying,
Whatever terrible insanity dealing with refugees entailed, not being attacked was always a win.
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Speaking of being attacked, that seemed to be the only constant in this messed-up world, it had been an absolutely WILD ride since they appeared here.
First they were dumped off in the arctic circle,
And almost immediately they come under attack by ALIENS.
Then they made it to the Port in Hamburg to realize that Germany doesn't exist anymore, replaced with some ridiculous new version of it.
They almost got killed when they tried to retake their own ship.
Then aliens attacked, again,
and now they have escaped from the aliens, AGAIN, and with no sign of going home to see their families, loved ones, and friends. Which at this point, homesickness was so rampant on the ship, that they wanted it all to be over and to just go home already.
Probably the only thing keeping the crew from committing mass suicide was the rapidly-depleting stocks of beer.
To them, this wasn't some cartoon some teenagers could watch, this was life and death.
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For Daniel, in particular, he just wanted to go home,
He never signed up to be Isekai'd to another world, not to mention a video game inside of his friend's phone.
But now he had unintentionally created a friend out of a half-Battleship half-girl person who lost almost all of her memories of being a battleship, and he was trying to save her life because she was doomed to die.
(at least he'd consider her his friend, he had absolutely no idea how she thought of him)
Yep, truly a wild ride indeed.
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Daniel squeezed through the hallways, trying to find a room where he and Bismarck could talk.
"Move! Uh... excuse me! I need to get through!" Daniel practically shouted,
The hallways on this ship weren't big, but when there were three people standing basically shoulder to shoulder in the same hallway, it became really small, really fast.
Clothes smelled like oil and seawater, and they were thrown everywhere, some left to drip-dry, strung by clotheslines on the ceiling.
Makeshift Hammocks were strung from bulkheads, walls, doorknobs, you name it.
There was basically no privacy, refugees had basically no access to a ship's head (bathroom), and unfortunately, people got desperate.
The unsanitary conditions were apparent with a single whiff of the air.
Any cleaning personnel were going to have their work cut out for them once this whole fiasco is done.
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Daniel & Bismarck continued to weave through the halls of people, until they found the mess decks, that were choked two or three times beyond capacity.
"To us! And another day in this living hel-!" A sailor shouted, quickly pouring down a whole glass of beer, before throwing the glass onto the ground, shattering it into a thousand pieces before he could even finish his sentence.
*KRrrrISHHHH!
Beer was the number one coping mechanism of the sailors on this ship, especially because as the refugees got off, their food stocks were getting replenished, and with the hundreds of tons of food being loaded on the ship, also came with lots, and lots of beer, so there was plenty to go around.
The mentality was in the gutter, so sailors that weren't being openly monitored by superiors were likely trying to finish their bucket lists, it was impossible to return home, as the effects of the Isekai were still going very strong.
How lawless had this place become??
*BANG!
That's when an officer discharged his gun into the ceiling, then Daniel started truly knowing how lawless this place was,
It was like a crowded tavern on a ship full of people and sailors with nothing to lose.
"Ugh. Let's get out of here." Daniel said,
"Wait a second.." Bismarck said.
"Wait for what??" Daniel said.
"Eugen" she said, before marching off.
"Oh, Prinz Eugen, what does she look like?" Daniel said,
And then Daniel looked eyes found a grey-haired girl, that was challenging sailors to beer drinking competitions, practically chugging gallons of beer, and successfully drinking most under the (makeshift) table.
"Is that Prinz Eugen??" Daniel said,
But Bismarck was already off to go get to Eugen, leaving Daniel's side for about a few seconds.
"Bismarck, where did you g-"
However, a few seconds was all she needed to get pulled over by some random brawny sailors or something along those lines, who immediately pulled her over, and started a conversation
Daniel watched as the conversation got out of hand, and soon, it got physical,
Even though Bismarck was a battleship, her wisdom cube was cracked so she couldn't openly fight them, and they shoved her against the wall,
"Oh Schi##e." Daniel said to himself
Daniel didn't need to hear what they were saying to know that this meant serious trouble,
All he knew was that some extremely drunk guys saw an unattended (and very attractive) girl, and things were probably gonna get messy if he didn't step in.
Daniel immediately stormed over
"I swear *hic* it will only be very quic-" one of them said to Bismarck
That's precisely when Daniel gave him a head message from behind.
*CRACK!
"AHH-!" he shouted,
The two others immediately saw who punched him,
Upon seeing Daniel's peaked cap that he had on however, they didn't bother to ask anymore questions, and they bolted.
Immediately running away as fast as they could, but they were so drunk, they tripped over their own feet,
They probably thought a superior officer had busted them.
Daniel immediately grabbed Bismarck by the arm, and yanking her closer.
"Do not separate, if you do, only God knows what will happen if you are caught alon-." Daniel said,
Bismarck's face blushing extremely red at this moment,
"What is happening to your face?" Daniel said
"I uh... nothing." Bismarck stuttered,
That's weird, Daniel never saw her drink any, so why was her speech slurred?
No girl ever acted like this before.
"Where were you even going???" Daniel said,
"Um... Prinz Eugen was right there, so I was wondering what she was doing.." She said.
"Prinz Eugen, you mean that one grey haired girl with two pigtails?" Daniel questioned
"Yes, that's her, where is she?" Bismarck said,
Daniel pointed towards "Prinz Eugen" drinking from a huge glass of beer, not even stopping for a second before it was gone.
Many others who previously challenged her to a drinking competition lay sprawled out near where she was sitting, drunk to the point where they probably couldn't move.
Your liver HAD to be artificial to absorb that much alcohol without fainting.
"Of course she is drinking her lights out." Bismarck grunted.
And that's when Eugen saw Bismarck
"Oohhhhhh! Bismarck, I was *hic!* wondering where you were! Ahahahahaha! Looks like I found you!" She said, obviously intoxicated
Bismarck snatched her by the arm, and practically dragged her out of there.
"Hey! Stop grabbing me there! I can move myself!" Prinz said.
Well, she tried to move herself, but her legs were basically frozen, so Bismarck kept dragging her across the ground, to hollers and laughs from the other sailors.
However, just as she was doing that...
"Mein Gott, I could've sworn I heard a gunshot down here!" Someone said,
*SLAM!
Instantly, the whole place grew unnervingly quiet.
Especially when the party crasher was none other than the ship's XO
The place was bone silent
"WHAT THE #ELL IS HAPPENING DOWN HERE?!?"
"EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!" Someone shouted.
And then, the rest has history
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Something told Daniel that Bismarck used used to dragging her around.
"Uh... do you normally do this?" Daniel said, huffing from all the long running.
"By God, Wherever there's beer." Bismarck grimaced to herself.
"So I guess that's a yes" Daniel said quietly
"Oh~ who's this?" Prinz Eugen said, barely raising her hand to point at Daniel,
"None of your business, Eugen, we're going to have a talk."
"Oooohhhhh, I see, did Biscuit finally get a boyfriend???" Prinz Eugen said.
The second the word "Biscuit" came out of her mouth, Bismarck slapped her right across the face.
Daniel couldn't help but laugh, even if it was just a little
"Alright! Alright, I get it now!" Eugen said,
"Get what?" Daniel said,
"You're married! Hahahaha!" Eugen said.
— three slaps and a long time later —
(They found a less popular area of the ship that had just previously been occupied by refugees)
"Eugen? How did you get here, how did you find us, and how are you alive?" Bismarck said.
*hic!*
"I just saw someone hauling beer aboard and decided to try and see what it was all about." Eugen said.
"How many cans of beer did you drink???" Daniel said,
"Oh, just one, just one I swear, maybe two."
Bismarck scoffed
"Actually, her blood-alcohol level indicates that she has had upwards of 150 beer bottles" Daniel's cube said.
"150! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Daniel shouted.
"How can that's thing *hic* tell?" Prinz said, still knocked out on the bed.
A small red stone fell out from her gray jacket,
A very glowy red stone,
"Heeeeey, what do we have here?" Daniel said,
"Oh, that thing? It's something I *hic* found, it ended up on my bridge all of a sudden, I had a heart attack! Hahaha!" She said, starting to laugh again.
"bridge?!? Your rigging is still intact?!"
"Why yes it *hic* is, didn't I already tell you earlier I was trying to find you?" Prinz said
"Looks like her luck is still intact..." Bismarck thought to herself.
"Well, more red wisdom cube fragments probably gonna end up getting us somewhere-" Daniel said.
Just as he picked up Eugen's red wisdom cube fragment, it immediately stuck together with Bismarck's fragment that she had on her earlier, combining into something slightly larger.
(3:55 -4:12)
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The pieces are falling into place.
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How was this chapter 1-10?