Star Ship Girl Era: My Shipgirls Are Too Overpowered-Chapter 40: Finding A Lead To HIs Second ShipGirl

"The ecological-class option is something we have to get, and getting it as soon as possible would be a good idea," he said, and it came out as half confirmation, half realization.

Aurelian kept scrolling.

There were purple shipgirls listed deeper down too, but they were priced high enough that even with his growing reserve he would rather not waste points early when he could wait for the curve to drop, and he also saw signs of even higher rarity categories locked behind absurd numbers, the kind that made it clear the Destiny System was not going to hand him miracles for free just because he had already awakened a gold shipgirl once.

He stopped at the bottom of the visible list and let out a slow breath.

"I wish I could get every single one, but guess not," he said, not because he lacked points, but because he lacked chances, and chances were the real currency.

The Destiny System still limited how many times he could ask within a cycle, and he had no interest in burning those questions on something he couldn’t act on.

He started filtering the list the same way he filtered threats.

He removed anything with a long window first, because long windows meant higher cost and less urgency, and he removed anything that would require him to sprint into a situation he could not control within the next day or two.

The list narrowed.

A few items had low remaining days and lower costs, which meant the window was tight but the opportunity was close, and close opportunities were what he needed right now because his advancement gate was waiting.

After a few more seconds of selection, he ended up staring at three purple-level options that were all within a week, all priced low enough to reflect their expiration pressure, and all clearly different in what they would add to his fleet.

Purple Battlecruiser Shipgirl Clues (6 days): 30,000

Purple Cruiser Shipgirl Clues (6 days): 22,000

Purple Heavy Destroyer Shipgirl Clues (3 days): 20,000

Aurelian’s eyes settled on the third one.

The heavy destroyer clue looked cheapest on the surface, but the time window was only three days, which meant it was already discounted harder than the others, and if it was still priced near them despite that, then its original value was likely higher than it looked.

A shipgirl that valuable as a heavy destroyer meant one of two things.

Either the hull itself was special, or the talent set was unusually stacked, the kind that made it perform above its category.

’Three days is tight,’ he thought. ’But if I buy it and I can’t act fast enough, that would be a waste of points, and I would waste a chance.’

’But we need a second bond for advancement, and we need an attack and defense piece that can operate with you, and if this one is priced like it’s better than a cruiser despite being a destroyer, then it probably is.’

He stared at the three options a moment longer, then made the decision the way he made battle decisions, by accepting the risk instead of pretending there wasn’t one.

"Let’s take it," he said to himself.

Aurelian authorized the purchase.

Twenty thousand Destiny Points vanished without ceremony, and the Destiny System accepted it in silence, then began generating the answer as text slowly formed line by line, like it wanted him to feel the weight of waiting.

Aurelian watched it appear, eyes steady.

The answer described a trial release of a limited batch of new-model heavy destroyer hulls being offered through a major alliance-linked manufacturer at a Polaris-controlled starport market, with a specific unit number flagged as having an unusually high chance of awakening as a purple shipgirl and blue-tier shipgirl, and the final line made the point clear.

One ship in that batch was waiting for the right commander to wake her up.

Aurelian sat back slightly, letting the information settle.

It was good news, simply put.

He didn’t have to search blindly, he didn’t have to gamble on random construction cycles, and he didn’t have to waste time chasing rumors when the Destiny System had given him a clean target.

But it also meant he needed someone to secure the hull, because he was not going to abandon Cinderleaf while Omnics were still approaching, and he was not going to drag Astra away from the corridor defense just to go shopping.

’Looks like I will have to ask my parents for this," Aurelian thought. "’And it’s not like the ship is expensive.’

"Then there are the triplets too," he thought with a thought look.

Aurelian thought about it for a while before remembering something.

"And, there are high chances of my parents preparing me some options as a possibility," he murmured. "Guess we need to ask them to make sure before I spend all my Destiny points on ships, which might be similar to what are waiting for me with my parents."

He glanced at Astra as he spoke, "Can you open a secure channel and ask for them to buy me something, along with asking them if they have any ship girls that are for me or not?"

Astra’s eyes softened slightly, and for a second, the tone of her voice warmed.

"I can do that," she said.

Then he sent another short message through his own device as well, because there were other people tied to his future fleet besides his family.

The Morozova triplets.

They were still at the academy handling their own processes, building their own ships, and dealing with their own sudden fame.

If they were going to be part of his long-term structure, they needed to stay informed, even if they were not physically present here.

He didn’t ask them to buy anything, and he didn’t drag them into his systems, but he did send a simple update.

He told them he had found a time-sensitive lead on a purple heavy destroyer shipgirl through his own methods, and that he was coordinating acquisition through family channels while he remained on station at Cinderleaf.