Azur Lane: Episode of Belfast Volume 2 Chapter 3 Part 4

This time around she tried jumping from her back.

Bel-chan laid down on her back and looked up at the sky.

The snow that had been falling since last night, which had covered the sky with gray clouds, had now turned into nothing but powdery snow.

Maybe it was the result of the snow, but it hit the tip of Bell-chan’s nose.

「But I must say, it’s so very quiet here right now……」

After that Bel-chan was lying on her back and dazing off for a while,

「Looks like that we are the first ones who managed to get here!」

All of a sudden, a loud voice could be heard somewhere from the lodge, and Bel-chan jumped up in panic upon hearing that voice.

「No, Comet! That’s not it at all! Look! Look carefully just over there! There are footprints here and there in the snow! Someone already beat us to it!」

「Fuehh…… Wait for me, guys…… Comet-chan and Crescent-chan, you are way too fast for me……」

Hearing the voices of the three people that could be heard in close succession, Bel-chan realized right away with whom she would be dealing with here.

「……Are they the three C-Class destroyers, by any chance?」

When Bel-chan looked up the small hill that was nearby, she could indeed see the three C Class Destroyers that were having fun over there while making a whole lot of noise. All three of them were wearing long and fluffy winter coats, but aside from that they were wearing their usual attires underneath them, such as short-sleeved shirts and skirts.

Looking at the three of them being dressed just like that, Bel-chan wondered if they were not actually cold, especially in this type of weather.

「Alright then! Without any further ado, let’s have ourselves some proper snowball fight, shall we!?」

Having said that, Comet, while wearing a thick and warm glove on her hand, bent down and picked up a huge portion of the fresh snow that was right under her feet, and then she quickly began to form a huge ball-shaped object with it using both of her hands to speed up the process.

「Ahh, umm, but…… didn’t you say that we were going to make a snowman just now, Comet-chan……?」

While Cygnet looked somewhat flustered by the fact that her Comet first said one thing and then she started to do something completely different right away, Crescent, who was listening to the two of them having their exchange only raised her eyebrows first in surprise, and then being visibly angry.

「You both! You are wrong, both of you! I remember something completely different! You were saying that we were going to start building an igloo!」

Bell-chan, who was listening to the conversation of the three of them at the bottom of the hill, murmured to herself at that moment:

「As always, the things that those three want to do are oh so splendidly disjointed.」

At that moment, Comet swung a snowball that she had made herself in a hurry.

「Are you joking!? We need to have the snowball fight right now! If we were to have a snowball fight later on when we have already built something, we would run the risk of accidentally destroying it! That is why there is no better time than the present!」

「Wait just a moment, Comet-chan, please listen to me ––––––」

「Alright! Ready or not, here I go!」

Seeing Comet being all ready for a snowball battle, Crescent, who was about to say something, decided to temporarily retreat and fled the scene in a hurry.

The only one left on the battlefield was Cygnet at the current moment.

It seemed that she still couldn’t quite comprehend the situation that was going on here, and she couldn’t keep up with organizing her own thoughts and deciding what to do herself.

「Huh!? Hmm, what…… So, in the end, what are we going to do now?」

「Hey, Cygnet! You are wide open! Now brace yourself!」

「Huh…? Umm, what the…… KYAH!?」

And just like that, Comet managed to hit Cygnet straight to the head with a large snowball at a fairly close range. With a soft popping sound, the snowball-covered Cygnet started to wobble on her feet as her eyes filled with tears.

「Uuuhhh…… Comet-chan, that was so terrible of you! Why did you even do that……!?」

But seeing that Cygnet’s crying face was not really sad and miserable but rather a sight of seething anger, Comet started to run away without a second thought.

「Ahahaha! Next time, you’d better watch yourself some more Cygnet…… WHOA!? A demon! Cygnet has become a raging demon!」

「Huh? Wait just a moment! What did you mean by that!? Comet, get back here……!! Hold on! Why are you even running from me……!?」

The three of them then started to throw snowballs at each other while screaming at the top of their lungs while going down from the top of the hill.

Even from Bel-chan’s point of view, there was something funny about all three of them acting in such a way.

「But…… The road……」

The road she had just walked on had been completely messed up by the footprints of the three girls that were running all around it just now, and for some reason Bel-chan felt an overwhelming sense of a loss looming over her.

The humanoid-shape hollow in the snow she just made will soon be gone by someone stepping over it over and over again as well.

「…… But if I go to a less crowded place, I might be able to leave something permanent after my visit.」

Bel-chan was completely captivated by the joy of making footprints in fresh snow by now.

「…… Aaahh, great. So good. So precious……」

All of a sudden, Bel-chan heard a voice coming from behind a rock in the nearby forest.

The rock was big enough to hide the whole person’s body behind it no problem. Wondering who that someone who was hiding there was, Bel-chan circled around the rock.

「Aaahh, oh Cygnet-chan…… You seem to be unable to keep up with the other two, but you are still trying your very best at it! …… Aaahh! I want to pet you! I want to pet you so bad! I want to stroke your head and hug you and…..!」

Bel-chan was vaguely able to spot a person behind that rock, and at the same time as she was approaching the one hiding there was seemingly oblivious to her presence.

A person who hides behind a rock only mutters all those strange things to themselves, oblivious to their surroundings.

That person was none other than Ark Royal, an Ark Royal-Class Aircraft Carrier belonging to the Royal Navy.

「Precious, so precious…… Ooohh, you are so precious, Cygnet-chan! Ah! But Comeeeeet-chan! If you are going to run around so excitedly like that, you might end up flashing someone your underwear by accident! Ohhh, and that smile! I just can’t seem to get enough of it!」

Without even having time to put on her winter clothes, she must have rushed outside as soon as she saw some Destroyers leaving the dormitory.

And even though her entire body was shivering from the immense cold of the outside, she was rubbing her arms on her shoulders as her eyes were fixated on the Destroyers of the C-Class at all times.

「I can’t believe I get to see the precious little Destroyers playing in such a silvery world! Fufufu, they’re like angels playing amongst the clouds…… T-This is pure bliss……」 they’re the tallest…」

And while Ark Royal was still like that,

「What are you doing?」

Bel-chan asked her that while standing right behind her.

At that moment, Ark Royal jerked her shoulders and turned her back against her rock.

「W-W-W-W-Who’s there!? Huh…… Oh? B-Bel-chan!?」

For some reason, Ark Royal seemed to be really upset.

For the time being, she seemed to be aware that Bel-chan knew that she was spying on other Destroyers.

And precisely because of that…… Ark Royal started to make various excuses on the spot.

「N-No! That’s not it, Bel-chan! This isn’t what it looks like! Umm, you see…… I was just doing some preliminary survey of the athletic performance of the C-Class Destroyers for the sake of the tests that will be run on Royal Navy’s ships in the future! It’s good to have concrete and detailed materials, but I promise you that I was not doing anything bad or suspicious! I would never do such a thing! When I saw them going outside, I didn’t think they would rush out in such a hurry! So I just followed them without thinking and……」

Honestly, she pretty much exposed herself in the second half of that convoluted explanation.

But for someone who was supposedly acting before she even managed to realize what she was doing –––––– Thinking that, Bel-chan looked at Ark Royal’s footprints, which were going all the way towards the other end of the small forest.

Bell-chan suddenly remembers that Belfast had told her that there was a way down the hill behind the dormitory.

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