I can't say I'm satisfied with the ending, it's a little unsettling, but I guess there wasn't really any way to draw it up happily.

Seriously, is been years

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Kinda vague? Still, I do like these fanworks that put effort into worldbuilding

To be honest, this 3-shot was really hard to follow in some places

Wow, the author take time to complete her history, is almost nostalgic since KanColle is unpopular now

Soo Nagato left the "new mutsu", and decide to join the real mutsu (read: died)

I gotta say the Admirals have an interesting approach. Treating your shipgirls like that is just inviting a rebellion.

I'd rather interpret the ending as the old Mutsu rescuing Nagato from drowning.

Wow, that's horrible.

I think people are misunderstanding the ending. Since Nagato found out that shipgirls are turned into civilians/humans after sinking then this means the real Mutsu whom she fell in love with is the human Mutsu. Not the new Mutsu who she was training. So, in the end, she chose to sink to then be with the human Mutsu. Human Mutsu seems to have gathered fragments of her previous life, which is why in the end she jumps in to save Nagato and finally reunite with her after a few months of not seeing her.
They dont die, no one dies. Nagato and Mutsu are finally together again and new Mutsu will probably end up with a new Nagato they build.
So no, not a sad ending when you think about it. lol

Oh. This um.. hurts?

"Not a sad ending" you say, as it was explained in the story that there is a way to "dismantle" shipgirls into regular girls, but they lose all their memories in the process.
As the old Mutsu gets kidnapped and shot as a "demonstration".
As Nagato gets herself killed on the frontline so she can meet her love again in death.
Totally not sad. I cannot interpret Nagato's goal as anything but suicide in this case.