"Mhm..."
Hearing that, Yixian gave a low response.
"Congratulations on your victorious return, Comrade Commander."
Seeing that Yorktown and Yixian had already said all the words of concern, Soviet Union also chose to directly congratulate Gwen.
"Mhm, I have all of you to thank for holding out until now."
Gwen smiled and nodded, responding to Soviet Union, who seemed rather aloof.
"Commander, I wonder when you plan to incorporate the other sisters?"
The question asked by Nagato, the little fox accompanying Soviet Union, was slightly sensitive, causing Enterprise, Soviet Union, and Yixian, who had gathered around, to all pause in their steps—
If Gwen had previously formed contracts with those severely injured shipgirls under the righteous pretext of saving their lives,
then incorporating the remaining shipgirls would present a bit of a problem—
During the long ages when the Commander had not appeared, the shipgirls could only rely on their own strength to fight the mysterious, powerful, and almost invincible Sirens.
This fact, while leading to a growing yearning for the Commander among the shipgirls, also forced them to make contact with human factions.
Over the long passage of time, the shipgirls of each faction had developed deep connections with their respective countries.
Even though many humans were hostile and slandered them, and many human politicians they came into contact with harbored ill intentions, trying to gain something from them, their kind nature and duty to protect still caused them to become, over the long years, almost a part of the countries represented by their respective factions.
Saving people earlier was fine, but directly incorporating all shipgirls at this moment could even be interpreted as directly annexing the cutting-edge armed forces of various nations.
This was not something shifted by the shipgirls' own wills.
Even if they joined Gwen's command