The response in the chamber came fast, fast enough that even Seris lost some of her usual stillness, which didn't happen often.
The awakening spread through the ship more cleanly than it had with the thirteenth hull, smoother from the start, the bond forming more strongly and more stably right away.
Aurelian felt it before he fully saw it, the presence taking shape with a reaction which was much stronger than he had when he had contracted with other ship girls of the same rank.
When the light finally settled, the second shipgirl stood in front of him.
She was quieter than the first, taller, too, with long dark hair that carried a faint steel-blue sheen under the chamber lighting, and her presence made the room quiet down much more than before.
Although it was not a bad thing, it is something that makes you think deeper as to what kind of ship girl she is to command such an expected scene.
