11 Oct 2020

Today I got a windfall! Boy, there'll be some nice articles written about thi~s.
After Sara teased me with a look at how the admiral started his life in this little valley, I've wanted to dig a little more into his life to see what kind of stories I could write.
That's where Shigure comes in! Sneaky little destroyer snatched the admiral's keys, and she found a journal in one of his locked drawers. She scanned in a few pages while he wasn't looking. Not only clever but fast!
She turned it over to me only after negotiating for an hour straight. Strong-willed, this one.

Let's look inside, shall we?
...eh? It's all in English? That makes sense since he's a foreigner, after all.
And these kanji all over the place? Was he trying to learn to read? And this character seems wrong... it looks like the one for "wind", but there's a cross in the middle instead... peculiar.

So the first page is hectic... ah, here's apparently the first entry the admiral wrote in here! I'll copy it here~:

It seems that I arrived right as the workers are touching up everything before finishing. I'm told that it would take about 2 more days, so I'll just stay in a local hotel to wait it out. Might be time for sightseeing!

I've been looking forward to this opportunity! Can't wait to start :p

Oh, here's another good one! This one is a few weeks later, apparently.

This work... it's really strange. Why would they even bother to choose a misfit like me to lead a secret branch of their navy? After all, I'm just on loan from the United States to train some Japanese personnel... I don't think this is exactly what the guys back home had in mind, but this will do. After all, I am training some Japanese officers on how to run this base, but I am learning on the job, too, it seems...
Or do they plan on not returning me? After all, I'm rather irreplaceable in my current situation. I really don't like how this might play out...

I'm not one to complain, though. This job is quite fulfilling. I'm working with competent people to help defend home waters and coordinate attacks on enemy forces. Trying to fend for peace, but this has been going on for years on end now. Not sure if this experimental branch can do much.
I have been using that noggin of mine quite a bit now. More than I would think for this kind of oddball position. Especially with the possibility of an enemy air raid at any moment... it's enough to keep me up at night. Especially since there's no good place to run. This base is at the end of a small, secluded valley, after all. Surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the sea on the third. It really is isolated from the rest of the naval district... I guess it's only logical if they want us to be hidden. I don't have any decent anti-air coverage at the moment, but I hope I can cover that soon. I asked Akashi to craft something up, and by the looks of it, it's coming along well. Albeit slowly... I might have to ask Maya to hold down the fort in the case of a raid.

Goodness gracious, why am I recording something like this. This will only make me worry about this in the future wwwwww.

There's more pages, but I'm not going to put them here. You'll have to read next week's newspaper to learn all about it!