Somewhere in Nagoya, Japan
"Yuubari-san, you've been driving half way through the capital. Let me take over the drive."
"If you say so. Then, we will change at the next petrol station"
Mutsuki and Kisaragi sat quietly in the back seats; it was reasonable, Mutsuki viewed the view outside with interest but she was unable to talk, while Kisaragi was unable to see anything so she didn't have things to talk about.
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How did they regroup?
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Well..
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The story was as below;
Finally, Ashigara managed to shift up her speed motorbike to catch up with Yuubari's sport coupe. It was such a pure luck that both driver and rider had the same escape route in mind. When Ashigara got a clue to shift up gear at the end, she could still speed up and had a glimpse of Celica's rear again.
The nation was still standing even though it faced with the trade almost lock-down from the fleet of Fog, almost because the invention of Ship girls, a few small trade routes between Japan and mainland China could be burst open.
Even the economy was poor, main facilities or government channel was still present. Petrol station and radio station were one of them.
Thanks to the money in the stolen wallet, she was able to refuel this big eater. She underestimated this demonic engine too much, she drove on high speed all the way without thinking about fuel consumption rate, and it scared her when she looked at the fuel gauge.
The type of oil wasn't her concern; she told the station attendant that she just fled from Kure naval base from the attacked (the news repeated itself very often on the government radio channel) and had no idea which types of oil it consumed due to she forgot to ask her friend (?), the car owner. The station attendant opened the front hood, he concluded after inspection that the engine ran by benzene oil but he didn't know the octane level.
She ordered high octane without thinking too much; this money wasn't hers, she could spend it with many things, she thought over-octane was better than under-octane.
Upon refueling, she was startled when a certain heavy cruiser, who followed her all the way here, patted her shoulder.
The senior had asked for tagging along with the junior; she breathed heavily as the riding pose for that Honda bike put a lot of strain and pain on her broken ribs, it was better to discard the bike and joined with the car. Yuubari quicky rearranged the seating inside her Celica for the new member.
All the equipments and most weapons were kept inside the back storage compartment, the cruisers kept 2 Minebea P9 for themselves ready at their waist, using skirt's upper rim as holster. From conversation, the cruisers had general idea how to operate some human firearms but the same wasn't certain to be applied to the destroyers. Well, another reason was that the weapons attracted lot of attention. Many people in the petrol station were looking at them warily at the guns they loaded on the back of the car.
Ashigara was able to conceal her pistol but Yuubari wasn't due to her shorter shirt, she didn't care though.
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At first, they thought of going to the nearest naval base. Fortunately, they had heard about the attacks on the designated base and other bases from unknown force, which the government decided to call them Abyssal Fleet for the time being.
The cruisers changed their destination to the capital, Tokyo.
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They wish the capital was still intact as they listened cautiously from the radio, the list of cities that were under attacked, hoping Tokyo won't be mentioned on it.
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Tokyo, Japan
Ashigara's prayer wasn't granted.
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Lastly, the capital suffered from Abyssal night attack.
"Hold your Line! Don't let them advance any further!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The former pride of Japanese Navy, the battleship Nagato in the form of ship girl, fired her main guns at the incoming abyss.
80% of her salvo hit their marks with another 20% scored critical hit; the abyssal monsters got blast with the powerful naval gun of Big 7, their internal mechanism gushed out of their corpses, it was a very disgusting sight.
Her fellow battleships also made their stand and fired their own armaments at the abyssal force, the lively street of Tokyo turned into a bloody battlefield, debris was sent flying regularly by the powerful cannon from both sides.
Both party were boiled blood already, they deployed their full rigging to shoot in a direct confront attack. Even they could hardly move, they didn't care in the slightest.
Except for one ninja-like abyssal individual who didn't get sway by the surrounding encouragement, she dressed with a sleeveless shirt, shoe, stockings, arm gloves, fingerless gauntlet, all in black, only her scarf on the neck was white, they made her overall pale skin stood out. She had free-fall white short hair with additional little twin tails on both side of her head, her slit-golden eyes were stern but her mouth was hidden under the scarf which made her unreadable to anyone.
She concealed in a deep corner of a building, waiting for the chance to assassinate the ship girls in order to devour their flesh.
But she changed her mind; the army of abyssal monster couldn't win base on superior number as their strength were just equally to mere destroyers. They could deal damage to the battleship girl but the different in stats were too obvious!
She looked around for easier target, either ship girl or human flesh was fine to satisfy her hunger. Suddenly, the name place on the sight board caught her attention.
"Well, I should give it a survey."
Destination changed, and that place was…
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Prime Minister's official resident, Tokyo, Japan
The handicap Prime Minister was inside with other members: Kamikage Ryuujirou, Kita Ryoukan, guarded by Yamato, Aoba, Myoukou, Tatsuta, Kagerou, Shiranui, Hagikaze, Arashi, Maikaze, Yukikaze(!), Ushio, Akebono and some special force units (equipped mainly with MP5 family weapons). The ship girls didn't apply their rigging because their role was to escort and protect the VIP only, acted as distraction in worst case.
Outside, many tanks and military heavy weapons stationed were firing at the endless wave of black monster, it surprisingly effective in holding the assault force to advance.
"The copter will be here in a few minutes, there shouldn't be a problem" Kita confirmed
"I believe they're different than the Fog Fleet, the fog hasn't invading into the land since they appeared" Kamikaze grimaced before continued. "As if the Fog issue isn't a headache enough, these abyssal first appeared days ago at Kure, then they just attacked many coastal cities out of the blue."
"We have to keep calm. At least, our weapons and ship girls seem to affect them more than the fog" PM Kaede tried to cheer the assistant secretary up.
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"Whose SHITTY idea is this? Assigning that Beaver to be an escort, we already DOOM! The PM, the young man, the old man, they are assured to Die!" Akebono bad mouthed Yukikaze.
"A..Akebono-chan! You must not say that!" Ushio shocked.
"Hey! Don't talk ill about my SISTER!" Kagerou disagreed.
"It's the truth! Did any of her previous escort missions go smoothly? NO!.!.! Her flagship always ended up DEAD while she didn't even have a scratch! Her SHINIGAMI nickname wasn't gained for Nothing! Is that right, Yamato?" Akebono didn't back down.
Yukikaze stunned, her face went very pale quickly.
Most ship girls wanted to comfort Yukikaze, but they weren't able to find the right world.
Lastly, Yamato herself was her life saver.
"You're exaggerating things, Akebono-san. Yukikaze-san was just lucky, nothing more nothing less. Also, before new type of enemy, we should unite to fight them, is that right everyone?"
"YES, SIR" All the destroyers (except pissed Akebono) cheered, the cruisers watched them smilingly (with Aoba secretly took a picture).
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The shoot out died down, every barrel caliber were heat to the point that it could be used to cook a BBQ, the sea of monsters' flesh and blood were in front of them.
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Meanwhile…..
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"This place looks very bloody." Someone muttered.
The abyssal ninja muttered, she finally reached this place after the shoot out died down. Upon rough survey, she spotted many inland armor-vehicle and heavy-machine-gun stands.
"They looked tasty, but can I kill all of them in silence?" 'Those troublesome weapons are real pain in the ass'
The pale ninja readied her kunai.
Tokyo bay, Japan
SUPPRESS!
The main Assault & Suppression vessels; Kaga, Akagi, Shoukaku, and Zuikaku stomped their feet on the flight deck, activated graviton blast around them.
The unknown monster force who approached the Fog Fleet got damaged and stunned effect from the blast, the unfortunate one was actually sunk.
"What the hell are they? They looked very creepy when compare to the ship girl!" Kaga hissed.
"Something's wrong here, why I see some of them attack the human?" Zuikaku wondered as she could see from afar.
Ryuuhou didn't like her current situation one bit. She and Chihaya's men (on board) was positioned next to the super battleship in the center of the fleet, it should be the safest place yet she was agitated by the presence of the black fleet (?).
Night time was the best for stealth mission. Especially this night, the abyssal raid gave unintentional advantage to the fleet of fog as they distracted human force to focus solely on them.
Thanks to the echoes sound of gun firing and explosion, it made the sound of her fleet crushing through bridge after bridge sounded Normal (?) in this chaos.
They parked their vessel near the Takeshiba train station, every one already got off to the ground.
"Now….my plan is a mess again" Yamato shook her head.
"So, What's next, High Flagship? Even this black army attacked us along the way, they don't seem to belong to human side either judging from this surrounding battle." Kaga asked.
"If I may suggest, High Flagship, most of us should stand by here while the rest following you" Shoukaku suggested.
Yamato considered the white hair girl's suggestion for a quick moment.
"Sounds good….anybody got a Normal 9 mm. Pistol?" Yamato needed a change in the plan. If the monster didn't belong to either side, she should reach for the VIP first in order to show good intention and advantage in some bargain.
"I have, sir" Only Houshou, Ryuujou, Amagi, and Hirryuu answered.
"Let see what we have here." Yamato suddenly dragged Shouzou and Gunzou with her.
"Hey, Yamato! What did you drag me for?" Gunzou resisted, but he utterly lost to his girl friend's strength.
"Seeing this chaos, you and your father should take up some gun for self-defense"
"That's good idea, Yamato-chan. Can you return me my 8-inch Python, 9 mm. is too mainstream in my opinion?" Shouzou was half-joking and half-expect when he reminded about his favourtie revolver.
"It's not good to be so picky in this situation, Father. I left it on the island; even if you have them, I doubt your .357 Magnum could do better than standard 9 mm. Well~I can order Shoukaku or Kaga to lend you their Revolver if you want; so what's your choice? .500 S&W Magnum or .600 Nitro Express?" Yamato mocked.
Shouzou quickly shut up upon hearing the mention of the monstrous Revolver.
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CZ 75 SP-01 Full size pistol - Amagi
Recent developed from One of the famous and reliable models, CZ 75, which got copied by many countries worldwide; it was heavier than normal 9 mm. pistol, but its' accuracy and feeding system is 5 stars, not to mention its' magazine was able to maximize up to 18 rounds, a greater quantity than most pistol of the same caliber.
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Luger P08 9x19 mm. Parabellum - Houshou
One of the most classic and rare collectible nowadays. Its' structure work put all the mass-product to shame; every piece was fitting by Hand, switch spare part between them was impossible, Every single one of them was an individual art which always stood out, separated each of them from each other. However, that wasn't the point here! In real fight, it was a second choice, better than bare hand. 8-round per box was to be considered carefully.
Oh! Please just forgot the hand-fitting part, these problem had completely gone since Hyuuga's fitting standard was accurate like a mass-product machine. These copies could change their spare part throught their lots as long as they were the same model.
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Kimber Ultra Aegis II 9 mm. - Ryuujou
A conceal weapon with familiar M1911 design, it must had been downgraded from .45 ACP to 9mm. luger due to the .45 inch was too large and unsuitable for concealed pistol.
Overall, its' looked great. No one usually comment about M1911 model as its' long service guarantee its' own performance, this applied to the later modified one too.
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SIG P229 Scorpion Threaded Barrel - Hirryuu
One of the Elite new gen. 9 mm. with suitable 15-round magazine, the strong point was a shorter/faster trigger for high speed shooting. SIG trade mark (In this case, Duplicated SIG) was a guarantee of premium work. It was one of the best choice from the three guns above.
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"I recommend you the CZ, Gunzou." Yamato offered Gunzou the CZ pistol.
Gunzou grabbed it without saying anything; this was his first time grabbing the gun.
"Then this LUGER is mine~" Shouzou patted the Luger as it was valuable as Gold.
"Suit yourself" Yamato went with the concealed Kimber at the rear trim of her skirt.
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Half of the fleet remained at the bay, while the rest followed their leader into the mess.
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They kept advancing until they saw….
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In the PM house area, one humanoid abyss attempted to stab a soider through his head from above…
Yamato and Ryuuhou recognized that person as….
"SENDAI-SAN?!" Only Ryuuhou shouted. While the Sendai she saw looked different from the Sendai she knew, but that pale girl must definitely be Sendai.
That moment of distraction caused Sendai to miss his head, she cut off his ear.
"ARR!"
The spotlight was on, and it flashed to Sendai. At the same time, Yamato's group was also spotted because she was in that direction as well.
"FIRE!"
The earlier abyssal already put a great strain on their nerves; yet new unknown party showing up with one of them hurt their comrade, they were in no position for reasoning right now.
Mounted M2 Browning and the like machine guns fired in Sendai direction, rained down heavy .50 caliber, Fog klein field was deployed as expected, but someone took advantage of this protection.
"Sendai-san! What're you doing, hugging me like that?!" Astonished Ryuuhou exclaimed as Sendai suddenly hugged her from behind (also grabbed her breasts!).
"Hey sis, so you know that my name is Sendai." Sendai said happily.
"Sendai-san, what're you doing here? This place is very far from Yokosuka, isn't it?" Yamato repeated question. This Sendai was different than last time, was this the same Sendai? She didn't know.
"Hmm..Hm.. So, I came from Yokosuka, how far it is from here.." Sendai wondered alone.
The sounds of heavy fired did nothing to disturb the fog fleet, their attention focused on Sendai whose attitude was beginning to get on Yamato's nerve.
She knocked her on the head.
"OW! What's that for?"
"Answer my question, what're you doing here?! And what happened to you, you're very pale?" Yamato REPEATED with false smile.
Sendai sweat dropped.
"I can't remember anything, I woke up at the ocean bottom and very hungry. I walked underwater day & night until I reached this city which those monster fishes were attacking the city. I almost had my first bite if not for your interruption!" Sendai retorted.
"More importantly, you know me too?" Sendai eyes sparkled.
"Of course! We've met before, but your appearance change quite dramatically from that time" Yamato was curious with what happened to Sendai.
"Hey Yamato! This isn't the time to enjoy talking. Your fleet is awaiting your order!" Gunzou cut the talking.
To the Fleet Flagship surprise, not a single one of them had return fire so far. Shouzou, Gunzou, and Ryuuhou held their fire because they didn't want to hurt human comrade, while fog inferiors were in no hurry to counter as the incoming attack just took a little dusty amount of their combined klein field power.
"Your order, sir?" Akagi checked her UMP submachine gun.
"Ki…..Render them immobilize, KILL IF NEED" The flagship declared.
"Yes, sir!"
"Go..Go..Go..!" Shokaku sprinted forward.
BTOOM!
The heavy sound of her nearly 1-inch caliber fire was the kick start of the bloody-campaign.
The large caliber broke through the bullet prove plate of one of the mounted M2; the guuner's right shoulder was bloodily destroyed, he was knocked away by the sheer immense bullet energy.
She bolted out from her first foe, ejected the big-fired-case and reloaded, she then looked for the new one.
Taihou walked calmly due to her rifle was very long, she carefully aimed her 20mm. heavy rifle and fired. The targeted soldier missed his right leg instantly caused him to fall down from the sudden unbalance and received kinetic energy. He screamed like no tomorrow, Taihou left him. Her second prey suffered a missing left leg, she accidentally killed her third prey as the bullet marked the torso, splitting him in half.
However, the 2 injured weren't left for long before 2 leads took their life away by head-shot.
Taihou glanced at the killer; smoke was coming out of Ryuuhou's right pistol barrel, she wore depressed face.
"That's very cruel, coming from a former same side" Taihou remarked.
"I put them out of misery as painless as I can. You, who left them to die of blood lost, is much worse" Ryuuhou grimaced.
Taihou chuckled softly without saying anything more.
Ryuuhou ignored the (darkly) chuckle, she slowly advanced with dual wielding 92 FS pistols.
A soldier emerged from a corner of armoured jeep, he fired his assault rifle upon spotting the green shirt girl.
The bullets pinged off her while she returned with 5-round consecutive firing on his breasts plate.
"Lay down there for now if you want to live" Ryuuhou told him, who gritted his teeth in pain from the stopped leads on his vest.
After the leading group; Shouzou, Gunzou, and Yamato were sandwich-protected by the left over Fog with Kaga and Akagi as escort.
Akagi burst fired her UMP 45 to cleared the way while Kaga, who was still sticking with her .500 S&W magnum, fired 1 shot 1 kill to any obstacle. Kaga finally realized her fault, her big revolver was decent enough for this man slaying job, the T-Rex killer wasn't needed at ALL!
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The shattering glass sound gained attention of the entire PM house's resident, someone broke in before she rolled and landed on one knee. Ship girls and special forves were alerted by this, they gathered in front of the 3 VIP to protect them.
Before them, a familiar figure in alternate costume was starting to stand up straight from her one-kneeled position, she surveyed her surrounding at the same time.
"Taigei-San?" Ship girls promptly exclaimed.
"Oh? I haven't expected to meet you girls in this place." Ryuuhou surprised
"Taigei….as Chihaya Shouzou's secretary ship, Taigei?" Kita spoken was more of a statement than a question. He quietly readied his HK USP compact (two-tone) as he realized Ryuuhou carried many pistols with her. While his handgun's caliber was unknown, it sure was at least 9x19 mm. level.
"Why are you here? The last update I got is that you went missing along with my friend." Kita calmly enquired.
Ryuuhou locked eyes with Kita, but someone interrupted before she actually said anything.
"Hello! Sorry to intrude."
Yamato, who was escorted by Akagi and Kaga, walked past the broken glass, followed by the Chihaya men and the others (included abyssal Sendai).
"Yamato?" Kita remembered the girl.
"YES?" Two voices had responsed….
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Kotono Yamato gazed to find the source of another voice, the ship girl Yamato did the same.
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Finally, they found each other.
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"Are you Yamato?" They asked each other.
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"So this is my other half, acceptable." The well built figure of Hotel Yamato pleased the Fog Yamato.
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"Ahem! What's the meaning of this, Chiha….The Abyss!" Kita redirected attention to the captain, but he got a glimpse of one out-of-place entity.
The human side alerted once they heard about Abyss, Sendai sensed hostile toward her so she hid behind Ryuuhou again for protection.
"Abyss? Nobody calls me as such. I have (just got) a name too!" Sendai protested.
"More importantly Captain Chihaya, would you kind enough to explain everything to us since your missing? And who are those strange girls around you?" The PM decided to intervene, seeing as the humanoid abyss could strike a conversation instead of acting like a beasts, he thought everything had a connecting point somehow.
"The thing is-"
"Let me be the one to explain, Shouzou-san. I've many things to discuss after all" Kotono Yamato cut him.
"But I expect Ship girl's information in return too. Is that alright, Mr. Prime Minister?" She made use of the situation to pry information she wanted from a reliable source.
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"Alright, you go first." The PM said. His curiousity got ahead of him.
"Remember your word, or else you would have an unfortunate future, Mr. Prime Minister."
Kaede met Yamato's eyes, her voice wasn't that threatening, but her eyes wasn't joking about harming him.
'Let see what's the truth you held'
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As it turned out; ship girl blue print had only one masterpiece with how to construct ship girl details, which ship would come out from the construction was up to the used resource and luck (?). Same recipes didn't mean the same ship or same class would appear, just the possibility that she might appear (?). The government got the blue print from mysterious person with code name 'Raitei', this person attached the blue print with his mail to the PM house stated that it was the only effective weapon against Fog fleet.
The PM at the time thought that someone might prank him, but he approved the project anyway as human was still lack the power to fight the Fog, and the blue print seemed interesting enough.
The result was as anyone could see, many ship girls in many bases.
Kita and Kamikage were shocked by the fact that the Fog vessel had human avatar, especially the Ringleader who had been blending in human society for 3 years! Kaede still wore poker face, it wasn't like Kaede took the news better than his two colleagues, but his face couldn't show emotion due to handicap (His shock was on his colleagues' level as well).
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However, one person had gained nothing from these information, Sendai.
'OK! The information is new to me, but I've no Freaking idea of my origin except the name Sendai!'
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"Chihaya, you fool! You houses 2 of our enemy, and you didn't notice a thing!?" Kita growled.
"Hey..hey! It's not my fault. They looked completely human" Shouzou countered.
Kita listened with rage, he took out his two-tone pistol and aimed at Fog Yamato. The High Flagship just mockingly smiled.
"Calm down, you can't hurt her with that toy. Trust me"
"Just when did you defected from us? Captain" Kita hissed.
"KITA, I'm her hostage, honestly! She wrecked havoc in my base with just 6 mental model, just so you know!"
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!"
Bang!..
So much to the house representative member's shock and human side's surprise, the Golden Saber .45 ACP bullet was stopped mid-air inch away of the top 1 marine student, the white-hexagon wave-armour appeared.
"Are you crazy, Kita-san? You've no idea who you're fighting with, yet you start the fight." The barrier owner mocked the shooter.
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"This proof is fair enough." Kita admitted grudgingly.
"I told you!" Shouzou retorted.
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Before the conversation could go into some direction, the rotor sound of escape transport was heard.
Outside, H225 Super Puma transport helicopter with 2 Cobra and 2 Apache escorted copters had arrived.
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Kita quickly murmured something near Kamikage, the listener wilden eyes before nodded firmly a second later.
"The Prime Minister has some business to attend to, so Kita-san here will be his representative to listen to your requirement." Kamikaze made a gesture for the PM to followed. Kaede, while not so sure what his friend and secretary planned but he trusted them nonetheless.
When the PM started moving his automatic wheel chair, the fake marine time student halted him.
"Wait…"
All attention returned to the Flagship once more, she walked slowly to Ryuuhou.
The next sentence of hers brought back the heavy atmosphere back.
"Do you all think my business of coming here is inferior?"
As to add more tension to her action, she grabbed a pistol from one of Ryuuhou's chest holsters, then calmly hip aimed at the PM.
Special forces suddenly pointed their assault weapons by instinct to Kotono while ship gilrs readied themselves to spring to PM's protection, they were taunted into her mind game.
'Seriously! What's going inside your wick mind!?" Gunzou and Shouzou shouted inside their mind.
However, the pistol's owner narrowed her eyes at the picker, she noticed that Yamato intentionally borrowed her pistol without touching the concealed Kimber.
'Let's see what you're up to, Yamato'
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'You're welcome, Ryuuhou-san' Even Ryuuhou didn't get the tease, Yamato did it anyhow.