The tense atmosphere remained for minutes.
Out of the group, the destroyers took the situation the hardest. They haven't done a good job in hiding their pressure, even the Pro like Kagerou and Shiranui showed sign of nervousness.
"Nobody move out of this room without my permission"
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"I've a proposal" The PM proposed.
"Oh? What might it be?" Kotono responded.
"I'll stay here with you but I want you to allow Ryuujiro and Kito to take care of my business outside." The mentioned name were confused by this.
Kotono weighted her option, this situation must come to an end, and the final decision depended on her. Should she accept or not?
She didn't have much information on the Prime Minister to begin with, so she was unable to predict what this handicap had in mind. But either way, she trusted that she still held the upper hand.
"I accept"
"You two get going, and you there special force and ship girls, you're dismissed. There's no point in you remaining here."
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While Fog Yamato got curious; Ryuuhou, who happened to stay close to the military longer than the Fog, sensed something not positive at all.
'What's this feeling? I'm sure he can't pulling any stunt, seeing that he's a bit better than vegetative state. But my gut warns me something different.'
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However, one ship girl persisted despite everyone already left.
"Why don't you follow them, Yamato?"
The battleship girl locked eyes firmly with the PM.
"No matter what ever happen, I'll stay with you till the end, Sir!"
Before Kaede could say anything-
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP Clap Clap clap…
"Such Honorable words from Honorable ship" Kotono praised.
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"Before we begin your business, I would like to give words to my friends outside"
'I hope you don't regret your decision, Yamato.'
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Kotono gave a hand sign saying her approval.
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Kaede connected with Ryuujiro and Kita from his own multipurpose life support device, but he also connected with military radio channels too.
The PM was beginig to give his last secret order, Ryuuhou's instinct kicked in, she raised her pistol 'Shit! He's planning it all along'
Bang! Bang!?
Kaede paused.
Ryuuhou surprised to find out that her temporary boss promptly fired to the PM with the same caliber as hers, while the reason was unknown to her. However, the displease look she had told her that Kotono got some idea about what this man was doing.
The only ship girl in the room braced herself in front of the PM, the 9 mm. bullets did nothing to her.
"I won't allow you!"
Kotono dashed toward her ship girl counterpart 'It seems that I have to stain my hand directly again'
Yamato got pieced through by a straight hand thrusted of Fog Super-battleship, which intended to take her and him at the same time. While Kotono's left hand ran almost through her back, Yamato resisted the urge to scream, she pushed her entire body against the momentum.
She succeeded. The bloody hand stop inch away from his forehead.
Kotono gnashed in irritation, she locked her angry eyes with the brave battleship girls while trying to push her way through.
It was an opportunity for Ryuuhou to finish him off as the only obstacle was occupied, but she moved too late.
"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
At this moment, the Prime Minister of the Central Government, who calmly gave his last order, was murdered by his friend's secretary ship.
"What's he thinking?" The assistant secretary of Ministry of Defense questioned the PM's old friend during getting into the transport copter, the passengers included followed ship girls.
"I don't know what he thinks, but I really get a bad feeling about this" Kita worried.
"Sir! Where is the Prime Minister?" The Pilot asked.
"He's still inside the house, we will wait for him-" Kita commanded.
Suddenly, Ryuujiro's cell phone and his rang.
Then, they heard gunshot; they knew their superior was in danger.
"What's happening in there? Don't do something STUPID!" Kita shouted to his call.
There was a short pause before one of the most dreadful words was heard: "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" It was the suicide code order, the PM just ordered them to attack his position with everything they got, the pilots and entire military officer at the scene also received this order via radio channel.
The gunshot at the end concluded everything well. Kita clenched his hard very hard that the cell phone got a crack.
"You heard his order?! DO IT NOW!"
The attacks copters grudgingly opened full-commence-fire on their deceased PM house.
Shouzou pushed Gunzou on the ground when the glass and window suddenly shattered apart by a hail storm of 7.62 x 51 mm. minigun rounds and 30 mm. anti-tank bullets.
The high-fire-rate of Miniguns and the devastated power of the Chain guns combined were smashing whatever structures the house had.
Among the flying debris presented the strong Klein filed covered the enemy of mankind.
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"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
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Even thought it wasn't loud enough when compared to the guns' blazing outside, but it still stung to anyone ears inside more than anything.
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Chihaya's bloodline had ended vividly by the gruesome corpses of Captain and his son.
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For Ryuuhou, whatever strength she had before was already released to the most grief cry of hers. Her Captaine was DEAD!, and it wasn't a peaceful death for sure. Her legs lost the will to stand, she was on four with 2 hands landed near her beloved commander's bloody remain. She cried…cried..and CRIED. Her Heart was burned, many emotion erupted inside her limited space mind, on the verge of going mad seemed to be the closest thing to describe.
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On the other hand, Kotono's inner-world had gone entirely frozen. Her processing unit stopped to perceive anything as forced shut down. She didn't even notice her subordinates' worry about her frozen condition, the crying Ryuuhou over Shouzou dead meat body, and the continuous killing weapons flying toward her either bullets or folding-fin aerial rockets.
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With the amount of weaponry that the human had thrown to the PM house, intended to obliterate any being in there, a single mental model wouldn't escape unscratch at least. But with all of the above-heavy cruiser-level mental models here, they had none of the casualty.
The attack helicopters were out of the ammo after a long-period of salvo, when there was no counter attack from another side, Kotono's group was presumed dead.
The Fog flag ship came to her sense when the injured ship girl successful removed herself from the former's hand hand-blade attack. She breathed raggedly while standing.
"I order you all to stand by at Tokyo bay on your vessel, wait for my further order there" Kotono's tone was cold, but everyone notice a strong negative thing forming inside their leader.
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"What about me?"
The emotional wounded flagship looked piss.
"Just get the hell out of here, you don't belong to me, Sendai-san" The abyssal light cruiser got shivered from her piercing stare.
"Aha..ha..I'll take my leave, OK?" Sendai fled suddenly.
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The copters departed to designated destination after finish unleashing lethal weapon, the fog Light Suppression vessels and Assault & Suppression vessels also already left. Three live entities remained: Kotono, Yamato, and Ryuuhou.
Kotono looked at Yamato's shape. She spoke.
"For your bravery, I will give you a chance. Perform Seppuku yourself."
Yamato froze, did this mercy really come true for her, or another trick before stabbed her when she was distracted?
"What are you staring at me for? I really MEAN it."
"Normal sword can't cut through my armor-skin…"
Well…That was correct.
The flagship walked, she stopped before the many decorated Japanese swords on the wall. She picked up nameless Wakizashi and Uchigatana, reinforced and coated those blades with her nano-material to the point that they were strong like Adamantium before tossing the Wakizashi to the ship girl. She kept herself with Uchigatana.
"Now, nothing can stop you from performing your honorable suicide, I will finish you off at the right moment."
"Why don't you kill her already?" A dangerous aura came from the deceased's secretary ship.
"Have some respect, Ryuuhou-san. She deserve this." The flag ship raised her voice.
"What the fuck! Shouzou-san and Gunzou-san die because of her meddling! Don't you angry!?"
"Don't I? Well, I'm very angry that MY FAMILY dies, alright! But think….think carefully, who is the responsible person for their death actually, it's the PM himself! Well, it's very regretful that the PM isn't counted, seeing that he's dead. But there are more people for you to vent your anger on, aren't there?"
It was like Kotono said, those two…Those Two….
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At this point, Kotono smirked as she accomplished her objective.
The Predator-look on Ryuuhou face told that she definitely marked those two on her HIT list. Ryuuhou started walking out of the ruined house, but Kotono interrupted her.
"Hey! I give it back" She threw the borrowed 92-FS back. Ryuuhou collected it without saying anything before continued her way.
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'And the left matter is-'
BOOOOOOOM!
The PM Ruined house a moment ago turned into piles of small concrete pieces, brick powder, and bare misshaped steel rods. Kotono stood still scratch-less. Thick smoke came out of Yamato's deployed main & secondary rigging-artillery told that she gave it all, she pointed her sword at her foe.
"I see…..Your choice isn't granted, prepare to die you worthless scrap!" Kotono intentionally exceeded her power limit; white war-tattoo presented over her entire body indicated that she would give it her all in crushing Yamato despite the current over-power position. The atmosphere suddenly got pressured by unknown force; the air had been shaking heavily, the killing intent was very strong that the pride of IJN voluntary stepped back.
Ever since her activation, the Supreme Flagship had never desired to kill this much before. It seemed that the death of Gunzou affected her with great impact on her processor, and the unfortunate disposal of his body from Yamato's last attempt was likely the perfect additional fuel to the wild fire. She didn't fully hold a personal grudge against the poor ship girl on the same level as Ryuuhou, but it still presented. Right now, she wanted to vent her anger, the victim was surely The Hotel Yamato.
Kotono was walking slowy to Yamato while keeping her cold glare toward the about-to-die ship girl with unsheathed recently coated Uchigatana.
Even though Yamato knew what fate awaited her, she didn't fear death this time.
She thought about her suicide mission, Operation Tengo, which she died in vein. If not, she could still be afloat as Museum Ship, or be scrapped later she had no idea, but at least she got hope. Her sinking was unnecessary/worthless from the shitty stubbornness of the IJN at the time. They ordered her to die like a silly bitch knowing in that one-way trip to hell!
Enough with the retrospect, Yamato choose to fight the invincible foe this time out of her own volition. Before she sank a second time, she protected the PM to complete his objective. It didn't matter to her that he died thought.
The rain was beginning to fall, it got heavier and heavier by seconds passed. But it was nothing compare to the sword fight between two girls. They charged like it was the best to die today.
The thunderclaps, as furious as it was, couldn't cover the clash-sound between the strongest-indestructible alloys on Earth. Each clash made an ear-banging sound that could be fatal to human ear if they continued receiving this sound for long time.
Yamato frustrated at the sight, Kotono was pushing her to the limit. No matter how hard she struck, how fast she swung, all Kotono had done was parrying every attack with greater swing.
She had to admit that her opponent was much stronger than her and superior in the way of sword even without the usage of Klein Field. Her death was already counted down the moment this fight broke out. Normally, she was able to continue this struggle all day but the injury she received before wouldn't allow it. She was losing strength quickly, and Kotono noticed it.
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At last, she succumbed to the fatigue lying on a mess floor.
"Say Hi to Gunzou for me"
There was no hope for her anymore, she would be finished in a few seconds. Yamato closed her eyes, waited for her final moment.
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"I change my mind. As you are my counterpart, this is a good opportunities to test something myself firsthand."
To Yamato's horror, nano-material began to dissolve from Kotono's body, it was piling up on the fallen ship girl. She would surely be coated with the silver sand soon if it wouldn't stop.
'NO—NOOOOOOOOO!'
'Why did my original cut off the link? This never happens before'
'Don't you want to know my host's activities?'
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'You have your reason perhaps?'
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'Well, I forwarded her destination to you so you should had known where to meet up~'
Kita changed vehicle from Puma to black Sedan, the newest model of Honda Accord, in one of his safe-house. Nobody knew what he was thinking; suddenly separate himself with the Secretary of Defense like that.
Kita asked to be dropped off the copter himself, he had his reason but someone would eventually said that he was paranoid.
Yes. He feared it wasn't safe to travel together, so he separated with Kamikage. In case something happen, the other would survive.
His car slowly moved from his safe house on a more open area for Copter landing to small alleys web among the back of many tall buildings.
At the exit to the mainroad, someone suddenly walked out to block the way. The passenger couldn't see well in this heavy rain, they told the driver to increase the speed of wipers while he honked for that person to step aside.
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They had clearer image of who that person was by the car head light.
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That person entire body was wet from the heavy rain: boots, thinghighs, short-skirt, customized coat, holsters, and 2 pistols in both hand…..!
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The only passenger who was aware of this person was Kita.
"RUN OVER HER NOW!"
The accelerator pad was stomped, but the car didn't move an inch! Green klein field halted the car from advancing completely.
Even though her heavy streak of tear was invisible in the rain, but one could told that she just had a hardcore cry previously, her usual red-eye was more reddish than normal.
"FALL BACK! FALL BACK!"
Kita feared but not panicked. If he couldn't advance, then he must reverse.
The driver shifted the gear to reverse instantly, a split second later he stomped the accelerator pad so hard that its' stick could break.
"You're SLOW!" She roared.
Ryuuhou started running after the retreated car. She FIRED, FIRED, and FIRED! She didn't give a shit about accuracy anymore. All she willingly focused on was to put as much deadly bullets in that shitty car as possible.
Normally, fire without aim wasn't effective way to shoot as it would miss most of the time. But it was unable to apply for this berserk shooting barrage as the distance was point-blank, so every bullet counted.
After the first barrage, Ryuuhou abandoned the empty pair pistols and drew a full new pair. A few leads from her new rounds finally punchered through the engine under the front hood, caused it to malfunction and break down.
She jumped on the front hood with 2 new Beretta pistols at hands.
Bang! X 30
The first victim was a driver, whose body suddenly jerked numerous times by half a dozen of 9mm. parabellum.
She unleashed another salvo from a higher point, this time she made lots of hole on the car's roof in various place. Entire passengers along with the driver were expected to have some leads loaded in them. Every time she fired, a scream would follow.
Surprisingly, Kita was one of the Luckiest Bastard in the Whole World! He swung the door open and dove out of the car, bloodless.
Ryuuhou smirked, this was her perfect chance to revenge her dead captain. She quickly set both iron-sight on the old man…..
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Click! Click!
Her smirk turned sore, she was enjoying the shoot out that she didn't have a check on her weapon. Both slides of her handgun hung at the position which indicated Out-of-Ammo state without slid back to feed on the next round.
Ryuuhou's pause was Kita's opportunity to flee.
"JESUS!" She angrily discarded the useless metal pieces. She wouldn't let him escape, she swore.
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However, Kita got obstructed before Ryuuhou caught up. He crashed into a woman, the strange thing was they hadn't fallen forward, only Kita got bounced back to sit on the wet floor.
The woman wore the exotic white dress which stood out from the surrounding; she had brown eyes, brown long hair, her face looked familiar…..
"YOU-"
A thunder roar sound interrupted his voice, and his left leg was struck by a bullet, seemed like that loud sound just a millisecond ago was artificial roar coming from the Kimber Ultra Aegis II in her right hand.
"…Yamato? (Fog)" Ryuuhou questioned.
That woman was mostly Fog Yamato judging from her face and aura appearance with an altered hair & eyes colour (as it used to be black and purple) and older age. She estimated to age more a few years to be early twenties but still could be younger than Ryuuhou for a bit, around 21 might be.
The man endured the pain well, he showed it on his face but he never uttered a single word.
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"He's all yours~"
BANG!
Blood splashed on the floor immediately after she spoke.
THUD
Ding..Ding..
The old man's lifeless body fell on the floor in messy pose followed by the fired case.
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"Finish him so soon? I just hope you will at least say any last word."
"It's pointless to talk to someone who's going to die. I'm satisfied as long as I can personally kill him, I'm more worry that you will change your mind and steal my kill otherwise."
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The two true fogs silently stared at each other, evaluated what the other was thinking.
"It's time to move. Let's find some place to decide our future, this ugly corpse sickened me"
"Our future? Sorry, did I hear it wrong? You are the Supreme Flagship of your god damn fleet, you have your own role to play while I'm being blackmail by you" Ryuuhou fired knowing too well that it couldn't hurt the other woman.
"And now that Shouzou-san is dead. What I should do? Tell me!." Ryuuhou huffed.
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"But on the other hand, You have no authority over me anymore, you evil bitch!"
Yamato laughed.
"Let me correct you one thing. I'm no longer the Supreme Flagship, my curiosity get me discharge from that position which I don't know why. But I wonder whoever is the freshly Flagship will have her question by now that my position is transferred to her." The ex-flagship darkly giggled.
"I'm the same as you, Ryuuhou-san, I just perform that experiment on myself." Yamato told her, but Ryuuhou wasn't able to decide whether she was grateful or depress about the result.
"Like I presume from your appearance, now I will excuse myself, Yamato-san. I have another job to finish. We won't see each other again." Ryuuhou turned to leave.
"What do you think you're going to do after your another job? After Ryuujiro is dead then what?"
'Good question, what should I do after that?...But hearing this fact from her upset me'
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"It's none of your business" She faced the sky blank-eye, she was mostly lost the will to live once her captain passed away, her pure rage disappeared when she started to think of her despair future without Shouzou. The grude against Ryuujiro vanished like it never had been.
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Yamato walked past her.
"Good luck then" Ryuuhou stared at the back of her former black mailer.
Yamato sent message to Musashi about Mission Failed in Tokyo, she was too ashamed to told her directly that Gunzou and especially Shouzou die like a minced meat.
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A few second later, Ryuuhou heard the commotion from some distance away.
"What's the meaning of this?! Oh my God, OH MY GODDD!" Musashi screamed like no language.
Iwo Jima, Japan
Musashi was in an extreme panic.
'I can't stand still, I must do something..something..something..something that bring him back, but how? How? How? How? How? How? How? How? HOWWWWWW!?'
'Dead body? That's right! I need his dead body, then..then..what? Take him to the doctor even though he's dead? No! That's not right? Perform necromanc- Idiot! Necromancy is stupid, what's wrong with you Musashi?'
'I can't believe it! What have you done, Onee-chan?' Her world crumbled, Shouzou's death killed her spirit truly.
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"I WANT his Corpse" She barely audibly requested. She tried to get over his death.
"Regrettably, that's not an option. There's nothing I could have done except buried him there. His remain need to be done quickly before his dead body got uglier."
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"And what happened to you? You aren't dead but your Supreme Authority is transfer to me, I just realize it" Even she loved Shouzou to the point that she already broke down emotionally, her will was strong enough to reason with her duty as Deputy-Supreme-Flagship.
Yamato flinched, she never thought of this possibility before.
"I merged with my counterpart. That's mostly the reason"
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"You Cold Blood Onee-chan! You still think of doing that experiment after Gunzou-san died? And if I remember correctly, you said it has a risk to do with mental model fog?"
"No matter what I do, he won't come back. Who cares about the risk? This may be my only chance in a life time to meet her. I think it worth a try" Yamato couldn't hide her bitterness, sadness, and despair when Gunzou was mentioned. Musashi perceived it well.
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"So you performed it out of grieve from losing him I'm sure. Well, at least you're not that Heartless" She bitterly mocked Yamato.
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"Up until now, you still haven't given me any apology"
"I regretted my decision; I want you to know that. But I'm sure my apology won't CUT IT"
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Musashi insanely laughed.
"You're right, I can never ever forgive you for this…No, I think I may forgive you but I need you to do something for me"
"What is it?"
"Give my regards to Shouzou-san…..in HELL"
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Missile pods on Battleship Musashi opened, 200+ warheads launched out of the ships, but that wasn't the end.
"Musashi to all Ships! Fire all of your missile and handover their control to me at Once!"
Every member of the Eastern Fog Fleet fired. However, the high-tier ship with mental model got curious about this wrathful order, and they have no idea why Musashi suddenly gain the Title of Supreme Flagship, did Yamato disappear?
She locked a target.
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These Ambassadors of Death's destination was that ONLY place…TOKYO.
After the grand launch, long blond hair girl with additional side tail and red eyes, forced her connection with the New Supreme Flagship.
"Musashi! Stop this nonsense. Self-destruct your fleet weapon now, we can't harm the human inland. You're the flagship doesn't mean you can do as you- Wait! What happen with Yamato? She should be the one in charge not you!"
"Who the hell are you!?"
"I'm the Admiralty Code"
Yamato suddenly kneeled, which crushed the concrete underneath to pieces, her bang cover her eyes.
It was still raining, but the rain noise failed to camouflage the mad laugh of the fallen flagship.
"What's so funny?" Ryuuhou felt cautious, everything that the other woman did isn't making sense to her, and she hesitated to leave the scene now. She decided, she must be aware of the actual situation before she went away from Yamato.
"Bad news Ryuuhou-san, Tokyo will be turned to dust any minute now" Yamato smiled.
"What the hec- SHITTT!"
The freaking moment when the Light Suppression vessel realized that there were more than a thousand Tanatonium warheads felling down on their head with supersonic speed from Mesosphere!
"There are more, Ryuuhou-san. I received information from my angry sister for another set of incoming missiles. I don't know why she bothers to let me know, mockery? Who knows? But I'm certain that she truly wants me completely disappear from Earth, that's for sure." She sadly laughed.
"Why did you tell me?" Ryuuhou stared, she wasn't sure with her feeling right now, she should be grateful for the warning or on the other way around (?).
"If we want to survive, we need to work together."
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"Are you serious?!"
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Ryuuhou shortened her distant with the fallen flagship until she was face-to-face.
"Tell me your plan, but don't expect me to corporate right away" Ryuuhou required
"Oh~ I'm surprise, you still have a will to live"
"Silence! I will decide where & when I want to die….but not now."
Tokyo bay, Japan
"What the fuck happened here! I don't understand anymore. Arrggg! I'm getting headrace!" Zuikaku shouted.
The Suppression vessel group who remained at Tokyo bay from the order from Yamato had this question; the level of the hardcore language was up to each mental model.
Just when they fired their entire stock of deadly warheads, just for Musashi to lock them to rain down on their head after, it was really Holy Shit Chaotic!
"Emergency Submerge!…Emergency Submerge!" Shoukaku shouted loudly, the other ship agreed without persisted that she just took the role of flagship, they would happily bickering about who would be the flagship aside from missing Yamato after this.
Iwo Jima, Japan
The declaration of AC (Admiralty Code) stunned Musashi.
"In the name of Admiralty Code, I ordered you to dispose of your attack to the mainland"
Musashi tried to resist the command, but she slowly lost to the absolute command.
'NO! I WILL NOT LOSE! MY REVENGE CAN'T BE UNFULFILLED!'
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There was a saying that anger often made you gone berserk.
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Musashi encrypted the command over the deadly weapons with her own secret code, then she willingly sacrificed her sane process in order to make it impossible to retrieve the hidden unlock code from her. She no longer normal, she had gone mad.
Gaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
'Musashi, you stupid child!'
Somewhere on Earth with heavy snow, the blonde hair girl around 14-15 years old with red eyes, wearing white Japanese sailor school uniform, cried for her failure that one of her subordinate just broke the Taboo. Partially, she sympathize the poor Musashi for doing something crazy as to destroy her mind.
'I pray for the every single soul of Tokyo residents who is going to perish today '
She steeled herself with a fresh lollipop.
"Admiralty Code to all ships, Nagato is now your new assigned Supreme Flagship. GET RID OF MUSASHI IMMEDIATELY!"
The Fog Supreme Flagship was reduced to a mere berserk beast in just a short moment. She moved on four legs to her vessel with a speed of Cheetah to her vessel outside. Every mental model along the way confused at the crazy behavior of their superior.
However, everyone was stunned when the absolute command from the AC reached them. Of course! They had questions! But let rouged Musashi go on rampage wasn't the good idea.
At the habour, Nagato, Hyuuga, Ise, Kongou, Fusou, and some other ships that happened to be around Iwo Jima surround the Black Super-battleship.
'What the F*** is happening to our fleet' was all they could think of.
Back to Yamato & Ryuuhou in Tokyo
The tight spot they were in forced them to ignore their conflict temporary.
"Listen carefully, we have to calculate the projectile that will likely fall on us or near us within estimate range only. At least, our limited warhead will be enough to intercept the critical shots"
The white dress battleship suggested.
"Then, what do we do with the near-miss shot?" Ryuuhou doubted.
"Let our Klein Field handle it, but we need to activate one person at the time. We change activation for each cool-down period so that our Klein Field could hold to the end…Hopefully~"
Yamato's optimistic tone and cheerful slightly irritated Ryuuhou.
"Are you aware of the situation we're facing? You sounded like having fun." She asked.
"You don't have to emphasize, I know, Ryuuhou-san. But…." The white empress smiled wider.
"But?"
"It's not every day that I'm pushed with this ridiculous challenge. No shipgirl can match my strength at all. It's kind of very very trilling to me."
Yamato began calculating the falling trajectory of visible warheads from the sky.
"Fire!"
A few seconds later, a same kind of warhead emerged from Tokyo bay where Yamato-Supper-Battleship docked under water. It was homing to intercept the incoming target above.
Meanwhile, Ryuuhou did the same though with different mood.
'I'M NOT THRILLED WITH YOU, DAMMIT!'