I, Little Griseo, Touring the Myriad Worlds Chapter 778

Although the ship girls had not fully realized how important humanity was to the world as a whole.

To put it more precisely... they did not understand what difference there was, in the Sirens' eyes, between a world with humans and one without them. Nor did they understand what kind of distinction existed between the two!

But!

They were ship girls.

In their bones, their DNA, their memories, and the depths of their souls... they all yearned for a commander.

Having a human commander and having no human commander were two entirely different things.

They were like ships, lost far from home, with no harbor and nowhere to return to!

They actually longed so desperately to have a commander of their own.

However...

That was no longer possible.

It could never be done!

That was simply how this world was.

The many, many worlds Shinano had observed before were the same.

From the moment the ship girls were born from the sea.

Human civilization had already vanished.

Only someone like Little Griseo, who came from beyond the world, or who had crossed over from a parallel world for some reason.

Only someone like that might be able to breathe new life into a lifeless world.

Only then would there be even the slightest possibility... of a ship girl commander appearing.

Other than that!

Could there really be any other possibility?

Thus.

From their initial anticipation, to their later numbness, and finally to their current hopelessness.

Many ship girls, even if they did not say so aloud... felt deeply disappointed inside.

Even though they had not realized it.

Having a commander was the key to saving the world.

It was also the situation the Sirens had yearned and longed for!

But ship girls without commanders were like rootless duckweed, drifting aimlessly