Chapter 6: First Achievement
The Group of Himes stared dumbly at the laughing light cruiser: curious about what was so funny? Facing 5-Hime type was no laughing matter even for battleship girl. What in the world happened inside that head of hers? Did she scare to the point to lose her mind completely? Only God knew.
The laugh died down, YUUBARI just stood there: intimidated Himes with a creepy smile. Armor carrier Hime began to discuss with her ally.
"Hey, I find it strange that she come to face us alone. Is this some kind of trap?"
"I agree. Maybe, there should be her submarine friends down in the water." Voiced the Battleship Hime.
"Don't bother. We can just destroy them like usual." Aircraft carrier Hime said before she ordered her xenomorph familiar to turn into 2 gigantic black claymore.
"That's the right Point!" Seaplane tender Hime added.
" But I think we can't careless about her, I get the bad feeling for just meeting her eyes" Destroyer Hime added her comment.
"ARE YOU DONE YET?!"
YUUBARI, who waited for her humanoid enemy to make a move, got bore after they did nothing but talking among themselves. Her fighting heat was starting to decrease, and she didn't like it.
"Oh!...Our little cruiser want to die so much that she ask us for it-" Armor carrier Hime was cut off her sentence by machine gun bullets from YUUBARI.
The bullets had no effect on target; they were reflected off Himes' body harmlessly, not a single bruise or scratch presented.
"Shii- Useless piece of Shit!" YUUBARI tossed all her rigging equipments away piece by piece.
The Hime group kept watching YUUBARI with great curiosity; not only that this light cruiser looked strange, she wasn't threatened by their bloody aura at all (?)
YUUBARI cracked her knuckles. "I'll enjoy killing you all with bare hands"
Hime group got chill down their spine by the sheer bloody insanity emitting from the fake experiment cruiser.
Kisaragi supported Mutsuki to stand on her feet, while the attacker, Re-class aviation battleship, changed her target to attack other comrades in her squad.
Mutsuki glanced at the bloody wound around the missing arm blankly. Her blood flown out at an alarming rate, soon she would die of blood lost.
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Well...half-dead might be the correct term; she could be repaired back to life as long as her dead body was still afloat. Compare to Kisaragi case, her sister got sunk, if not for the devilish contract she could say good bye to this world of living for good.
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Nontheless, death wasn't something so pleasant that any ship girl was willing to experience.
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"M..my..my arm. MY ARM IS GONE!" Mutsuki trembled.
Kisaragi noticed her sister mental break down, she hugged her tightly.
"MY ARMMMMM!.!.!" She was screaming.
"Calm down, Mutsuki-chan!" Kisaragi hugged tighter to comfort her mind broken sister.
"ARHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" Mutsuki resisted to break free from Kisaragi.
Having die once taught Kisaragi a lot of things; war wasn't some playground for schooler like girl her age, it was a battle-to-death zone of the adult. No wonder her sister freaked out like that, she herself would acted the same if not for her first death experience. Or maybe the devil gene inside her play an important part in emotional changing, she didn't know.
While she held her struggling Mutsuki, she surveyed the current situation of her comrade.
Uzuki and Mochizuki had been struggling against the Re-class after it bit Mutsuki's arm off; it was futile as of the fact in difference in power: 2 destroyers VS aviation battleship. They likely would be down any time soon.
Another destroyer, Yayoi, was unable to give her friend any support as the abyssal ship was fast: risk the danger of friendly fire.
Kisaragi couldn't relied on Flagship, YUUBARI, either. She must be enjoying herself to the fullest right now, she bet her soul on it from the vast amount of continuous demonic power burst.
With the failed command chain from Flagship's absence and Sub-flagship's incompetence, Kisaragi decided she was going to act in substitution of her sister.
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"Onee-chan, Look at me"
That effectively attracted attention from Mutsuki, the voice was calm and COLD.
When she looked at her younger sister in the eyes, her heart almost stopped bumping, resulting in her pause of struggling.
Kisaragi golden evil eyes were shining brightly; it made Mutsuki froze up in fear on a higher level of fear than abyssal Hime or Oni
"Yayoi-chan! Please take care of Mutsuki-chan for a bit. I will engage that Re-class battleship."
Kisaragi passed Mutsuki to Yayoi which the latter tried to deny.
"Hey! What are you sayin-"
Yayoi's reaction was the same as her sub-flagship, too froze up to counter argue the ship phantom.
After she surely entrusted her sister to Yayoi, she dashed out like a bullet fired out of cannon barrel. Yayoi almost lost her balance from the sheer sonic-boom shockwave.
CRASH!
"Ow!" Kisaragi yelped.
Kisaragi crashed down right on the Re-class, Mochizuki and Uzuki was stunned by crazy stunt she performed. No Destroyer simply collided with the Battleship on purpose, didn't it?
'I use too much force, I need to focus more.' She concluded that her demonic power had gone overdrive.
With the abyssal battleship was still in a little giddy stated, so her fires were too far off the target: Kisaragi.
It should be a perfect time to counter-attack, to inflict as much damage as possible to this abomination. But the current situation wouldn't do them any good.
The said abomination was stronger and smarter than she expected; its' armour was too thick that Kisaragi's cannon did a little damage, and it used its' enormous tail to ward off some bullets while releasing torpedoes to her enemy.
'Damn it! Firing from this range won't do anything. Should I fight her in melee range?' Kisaragi wasn't sure, she had power but she lacked experience and confident.
'At least, that is something only I can do.' She sighed.
"Uzuki-chan! I'll keep her busy, please request urgent back up in the meantime."
"Wait right ther-" Kisaragi didn't wait for the complain, she ran full speed to engage the angry Re.
Mochizuki, Uzuki, Yayoi, and Mutsuki were speechless from the scene they witnessed; Kisaragi was brawling with the Re-class, a simple Destroyer could match with one of the strongest Abyssal: fist to fist!
"Is..is..is that really Kisaragi-chan?" Mutsuki regained her focus; she weakly blurted even she was bleeding.
"This must be unreal! I won't believe this!" Uzuki shouted.
Seeing Uzuki freaked out and completely forgot what she was entrusted to do, Yayoi requested support instead.
"To all Division, this is Yayoi from Thirtieth Destroyer Division, we request reinforcement immediately, I repeat we request reinforcement immediately."
Surely, it was broadcast through the entire fleet, but every division was busy fighting for their live at the moment. Well, except for the Second Destroyer Division.
"Ne-ne~ Murasame-chan, can we go help them?" HARUSAME proposed.
"There's nothing to do here anymore, so I suggest we should help them." YUUDACHI supported.
Murasame gulped, looking around her.
Various kind of Abyssal vessel; destroyer, light cruiser, heavy cruiser, battleship, standard carrier, and even submarine were sinking into the bloodshed ocean surface. This work was done by her own division alone!
Well, YUUDACHI and HARUSAME had done almost of it, Murasame and Samidare just finished off some abyssal destroyers.
She should be proud that her sisters were strong, still this level of power display was too Bloody strong. Not to mention minor change of their eyes and aura; the split pupil and dreadful aura were surreal. She feared them, absolutely.
"Murasame-chan, are you with us?" HARUSAME waved her hand in front of her.
"Y..Yes, I got carried away, sorry"
"Then, shall we get going?" YUUDACHI tilted her face.
"Alright, we're going!"
"Yayoi! This is Murasame from Second Destroyer Division, we will assist you so send me your coordinate and Hang in there!"
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Murasame led the division to the given coordinate.
"Jesus!"
Murasame gasped from the event she saw.
Re-class battleship was dead wide-eye from the butchery she received; her body, from her chest downward, was minced. Stood among the minced meat was bruised Kisaragi in soaked bloody rag uniform, panting heavily with bloody giant anchor in her right hand (where did she get it is unknown), her rigging scattered everywhere.
Kisaragi began to grin, this was her first great accomplishment after awaken as demon, Re-class corpse really was a great trophy to confirm her that she got stronger.
She notice the arrival of reinforcement, she greeted them.
"You're late. I'm almost died back then"
Murasame didn't response, she took notice of the same minor change as her sisters.
'What the hell happened in our fleet?' Now, she feared Kisaragi too.
Unknown to Murasame, YUUDACHI and HARUSAME thumbed up for the devil destroyer good job.