"Submarine! Submarine!" On a distant destroyer of the Laines Empire, a first officer put down his binoculars and shouted loudly, "Sound the battle alarm! Quick! Sound the battle alarm!"
He had not received any news of the ongoing battle ahead, so the entire destroyer was still at a secondary alert level, completely unprepared for combat.
"Message the flagship! Inform His Majesty we've been attacked by an unknown force! Suspect enemy submarine!" The first officer shouted while issuing a turning order: "Port rudder! Deviate from the course! Go around!"
They were still far from the transport ship hit by a torpedo and needed to hurry over to understand what had happened.
In fact, the first officer hadn't seen the submarine; he had only seen the towering water column from the torpedo explosion and judged that there was a submarine nearby firing torpedoes at them.
