I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

As Yuhaka submerged into the water, he quickly caught up with the retreating fog fleet, who paid no attention to him.

It's not so much that they don't take Yhaka seriously, but rather that they "can't see" Yhaka. This makes Yhaka follow his prey like a black panther stealthily stalking its prey.

Soon, under Yuhaka's tracking, Yuhaka also saw a large number of fog ships not far away, but none of them could find Yuhaka's trace. Yuhaka then noticed a relatively large warship, much larger than the other ships.

Driven by curiosity, Yhaka used his void energy to become invisible and secretly climbed onto the larger warship. There, he saw a girl with a light blue haircut and a single ponytail doing something. Curious, Yhaka went over to see what she was doing, but unfortunately, upon seeing a bunch of incomprehensible data from the light blue-haired girl, he wore a bewildered expression.

At that moment, Yuhaka heard the other party say something like, "Seriously, are those ship girls really that cowardly? I've attacked several times and I haven't seen a single pursuer."

Upon hearing the words of the girl with long, light blue hair, Yuhaka couldn't help but feel a little angry. Then, Yuhaka thought of something.

If she can knock her guy unconscious and bring him back, then that counts as bringing a prisoner back, right? Z23 and the others will reward Yu-Yu with something delicious, right?

Thinking of all this, Yhaka couldn't help but wipe his mouth. Then, Yhaka drew the Baradion sword, transforming it into a giant hammer, and quietly approached the girl with long, light blue hair. He swung the hammer down on her head, but the scene Yhaka had imagined—the girl collapsing to the ground unconscious—didn't happen. Instead, she crouched down, clutching her head, and yelled:

"Ouch—!? Who?! Who hit me!?"

The long, light blue-haired girl, clutching her headache, looked around, but because Yuhaka was invisible, the other party couldn't see her either.

Yuhaka glanced at the giant hammer in her hand with a blank expression. She was also curious as to why her previous blow hadn't knocked the other person unconscious. So, with this question in mind, Yuhaka swung the hammer at the other person's head again.

Volume 1 [Lazy to Divide into Chapters]: Chapter 1544 [Youyou's Heart?]

As Yuhaka delivered a second blow to the head of the girl with the light blue hair with his large hammer, she only let out a scream and crouched down to defend herself without passing out.

Seeing this, Yuhaka had a completely bewildered expression. Then, Yuhaka puffed out his cheeks and started banging on the head of the light blue-haired girl, making a "thump thump thump—!" sound. The light blue-haired girl immediately let out a scream like a groundhog.

Finally, the girl with the long, light blue hair reacted and grabbed the hammer that Yuhaka was throwing at her, shouting at Yuhaka:

"enough!"

Accompanied by the shout of the girl with long, light blue hair, Yuhaka, who was addicted to smashing things, was startled by the girl's sudden action and even had to dispel his invisibility.

"Are you ever going to stop? I'm going to keep knocking you down!"

Before the girl with the long, light blue hair could finish speaking, Yuhaka punched her in the stomach, sending her flying.

After seeing the girl with long, light blue hair being sent flying by his punch, Yuhaka looked at his little fist with a puzzled expression. When he hit her in the stomach, Yuhaka clearly felt something hard, which made him wonder.

Just then, Yuhaka sensed the turret behind him move, so he slightly turned his body. The next second, a beam of light grazed past Yuhaka. Watching the beam pass by, Yuhaka looked at the light blue-haired girl he had knocked away, who was climbing up from the side of the ship in a very disheveled state.

At this moment, the long, light blue-haired girl glared angrily at Yuhaka, who was holding a large hammer in both hands, and said:

"You! You bastard!"

The long-haired, light blue girl, who had been repeatedly beaten by Yuhaka, was also furious, so angry that she didn't know what to say.

Moreover, given the other person's teary-eyed and furious expression, it's hard not to want to bully them.

Of course, a fog-type heavy cruiser isn't someone that can be bullied by just anyone.

After seeing the other person climb up, Yuhaka used a different perspective to observe them. Yuhaka then saw a strange spherical object slightly below the other person's stomach. Although Yuhaka didn't know what that thing was, he knew that there was a strange thing inside the guy whose head was so hard he couldn't be knocked out.

The girl with long, light blue hair sensed a sensitive gaze fixed on her stomach. Then, seeing Yuhaka's "malicious" look, she shuddered, clutching her stomach and saying to Yuhaka:

"Wait! You, you little rascal, what are you trying to do!?"

In response to the other person's question, Yuhaka tilted his head and looked at the other person, saying:

"What are you doing? Youyou wants to beat up the bad guys OwO~"

"Bad guy?!"

Upon hearing Yuhaka's answer, the long-haired girl with light blue hair was also dumbfounded. Clearly, she hadn't expected to be called a villain. Uh... after suddenly thinking about what the Sea Fog Fleet had seen and done here, it seemed that they really weren't much different from villains.

However, in the moment when the girl with the light blue hair was distracted, Yuhaka suddenly unleashed a speed that was unimaginable to her and launched a sneak attack on her.

"what?!"

After Yhaka unleashed his incredible speed, the girl with the long, light blue hair suddenly noticed him. She quickly activated her Klein Field to defend against Yhaka's sneak attack, but unfortunately, the Klein Field was no match for Yhaka's abilities.

When Yhaka saw the opponent open the Klein Field, electromagnetic arcs appeared from his palm. Then, Yhaka's palm sliced ​​open the Klein Field in front of him like cutting a cake. Before the opponent could react, he plunged his hand into the opponent's stomach. After touching the round object inside the opponent's body, Yhaka grabbed the object and pulled it out.

There was no blood splattering when Yuhaka pulled that thing out. The girl with the long, light blue hair turned into a pile of silver sand the moment the object was pulled out. Yuhaka looked puzzled when he saw this, but he didn't care and threw the thing that looked like some kind of core into his dimensional hole.

As soon as Yuhaka threw that thing into the dimensional hole, the surrounding Nagara-class light cruisers and the heavy cruiser beneath Yuhaka's feet instantly lost their light, and the ships seemed to lose power. Seeing this, Yuhaka's little head popped up with question marks, clearly not knowing what was going on.

However, Yuhaka probably knew that the ships of the Sea Fog Fleet couldn't move, which made Yuhaka curiously kick the turret of the heavy cruiser under his feet. After finding that the other side really didn't react, Yuhaka also showed an OwO~ expression. Obviously, Yuhaka had thought of a good idea.

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Located in the port area, Nagato and the others were waiting for Yuhaka's return. Soon, they were stunned when they saw a dark shadow on the horizon. Mikasa, who was standing nearby, took out her binoculars and looked at the shadow's location, and saw that it was a Takao-class heavy cruiser heading in their direction.

"Huh? Oh no! It's the Fog Fleet! And it's the Takao-class heavy cruisers! Prepare for defense!"

Hearing Mikasa's words, everyone was completely bewildered. Nagato, who was standing to the side, quickly recovered and looked at Mikasa with a serious expression, asking:

"Mikasa, how many enemies are there?!"

Upon hearing Nagato's question, Mikasa paused slightly, then, looking a little embarrassed, held up one finger and said:

"Uh... one, one ship."

"what?"

Nagato looked completely bewildered upon hearing Mikasa's words, clearly not expecting the enemy to come alone. Meanwhile, Z23, seemingly struck by a thought, took out her binoculars to take a look.

Volume 1 [Lazy Chapters]: Chapter 1545 [The Kaohsiung-class Heavy Cruiser Towed Back to Port]

As Z23 moved, it also noticed that something was off about the approaching Takao-class heavy cruiser. Specifically, the fog fleet usually came with fog, but now there was no trace of fog at all, which was strange.

What's even stranger is that Z23 also noticed that the eerie light patterns on the Fog ship's hull didn't light up. This was highly unusual. Although Z23 hadn't encountered many Fog fleets, he had never seen anything like this where the ship wasn't emitting any light.

"How strange, why is there only one Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser here?"

Everyone was puzzled as to why the Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser had come to their Sakura Empire's defense line alone, but soon they saw Yuhaka's large head emerge from the sea.

“OowoO Youyou is back~”

Seeing Yhaka swim back in his third form, everyone was dumbfounded. After all, they didn't expect Yhaka to drag a boat back with him.

After Yuhaka returned, everyone gathered around her as she crawled from the sea to the port. Z23, looking at the Takao-class heavy cruiser behind Yuhaka, couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Youyou, we just sent you to scout, why did you bring back Kaohsiung from the foggy area?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, Yhaka turned his large head towards Z23 and explained:

"Youyou went to check and saw some bad guys, so she went to fight them. After Youyou won, the boats stopped moving, and Youyou got this big boat back. Isn't Youyou smart? OowoO~"

After hearing Yuhaka's explanation, everyone present looked at each other with an expression of not knowing what to say, after all, they did not expect that Yuhaka would bring back a heavy cruiser from the Sea Fog.

They had tried to salvage the wreckage of enemy ships before, but once the enemy ships were destroyed, they would soon turn into piles of silver sand, which greatly hindered the Azur Lane ship girls' research on the enemy.

But now there was a physical ship in front of them, and it hadn't turned into silver sand, which surprised them.

"Well done, Youyou. By the way..."

Z23 looked at the Takao-class heavy cruiser behind Yuhaka and asked curiously:

"Did you destroy the mental model of this Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser, Youyou?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, Yuhaka tilted his large head, looked at Z23, thought for a moment, and then said to Z23:

"No, Youyou threw the bad guys into the hole! OowoO~"

After hearing Yuhaka's answer, Z23 knew that Yuhaka had thrown Kaohsiung from the Sea Fog into the dimensional hole. To be honest, Z23 didn't expect that the dimensional hole could actually hold people.

No, it's more like a robot than a human? Although it seems to be able to eat... Z23 doesn't know how to categorize it properly when thinking about all this.

"Is that so? Uh... Anyway, well done..."

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After Yhaka captured the Takao-class heavy cruiser, Z23 summoned Akashi and asked her to tow the Takao-class heavy cruiser over for research to see if anything could be found. If anything could be found, Azur Lane would also be able to gain some assistance.

As for the mental model of the Sea Fog Takao that Yuhaka threw into the dimensional hole... Z23 and the others plan to leave it for a while, at least until they have thoroughly disassembled and studied the Takao-class heavy cruiser before releasing it. After all, Z23 and the others don't know if the other party can remotely control their ship, and it would be a headache if it caused them any unnecessary trouble.

Meanwhile, Yuhaka has moved to a new house, located near the ship girls' dormitory. The ship girls have also built an embassy-like building nearby. Looking at the high-class mansion-like building in front of her, Yuhaka has an OoO~ expression on her face, clearly surprised by the palace-like building.

Elizabeth, standing to the side, puffed out her otherwise unremarkable chest with a proud expression and said:

"Well, how about it? I never expected to treat you badly, so this mansion is yours to live in, Knight."

Upon hearing Elizabeth's words, Yuhaka, with a =w=~ expression, snuggled up to Elizabeth and said:

"Thanks, silly Bai! =w=~"

Elizabeth, blushing deeply as she was being hugged by Yohaka, turned her head away with an embarrassed expression and said:

"Well... thank you, I won't stand on ceremony and accept it..."

Javelin, standing to the side, looked at the situation and didn't know what to say. Originally, the flagships planned to build a temporary residence for Yuhaka and the others, but now... Elizabeth waved her hand and gave Yuhaka a house in her own Azur Lane headquarters, so that Yuhaka and the others would have a building to live in.

Nagato also wanted to give Yuhaka a house, but unfortunately, Nagato's side didn't have any luxurious buildings like the Royal Family. The only decent one was a courtyard that looked nice. Of course, this doesn't mean that the Sakura Empire didn't have money, but rather that the Sakura Empire didn't spend money as extravagantly as the Royal Family. Most of the Sakura Empire's expenses were covered by their own organization, and they only spent a small portion of their funds at the headquarters port.

This made Nagato somewhat regretful, wondering why he hadn't built a Sakura Empire-style castle in the headquarters port area.

Well... compared to the gossip about the Royal Navy and Sakura Empire flagships, the people on the Sea Fog side were also completely bewildered. Hinata was also confused about the situation of Takao losing signal. After all, as long as Takao was sunk, as long as the enemy's core was still intact, she would be able to collect the enemy's location. Moreover, if the core was destroyed, she would also receive information that Takao had been destroyed.

But what's going on now? The fact that it wasn't destroyed and there was no signal from the other side makes Hinata suspect that Takao might have been thrown into another world.

P.S.: Monster Hunter Rise is so much fun! I feel energized, and even my typing speed has increased.

Volume 1 [Lazy Chapters]: Chapter 1546 [Sea Fog Type μ-Armor]

"That's strange... Where did Kaohsiung go?"

Hinata looked at the holographic panel in front of her with a puzzled expression. According to reports from other fleets, Takao had not gone to their territory, which made Hinata wonder where Takao had gone.

Using conceptual communication was also useless, since the distance was too far for Hyuga to contact Takao's location. The last place where Takao lost signal was at the border of the Azur Lane region, and there were also Takao's own fleets there. This made Hyuga try to hand over control of those fleets to himself.

During the subsequent investigation, Hyuga also discovered that the Nagara-class light cruisers there had no record of engaging in combat. This puzzled Hyuga, as Takao disappeared in one of those fleets. What kind of situation could cause the signal of a heavy cruiser with a mental model to disappear?

This made Hinata suspect that the Sirens were behind it all, since their technology was described as bizarre. Hinata tried to study their technology, but it was completely different from theirs.

This left Hyuga without a research direction, but it was precisely because of this relationship that Yuhaka and the others had a lot of time to study the heavy cruiser that Yuhaka brought back to the Sea Mist.

Through Akashi's research, she also developed some of the weaponry. For example, she developed the electromagnetic resonance warhead that she had previously invented. As long as it is equipped with missiles, torpedoes, and other projectile weapons, those warheads that can penetrate Klein's field of view can penetrate the armor of those fog fleets.

When they face the Sea Fog fleet, they won't have the same difficulty in breaking through the Klein Field shield of the Sea Fog as before.

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Inside the factory in Akashi, Yuhaka and the others were looking at the new ship equipment Akashi had produced. Gazing at the futuristic garments displayed on the shelves, Z23, standing nearby, looked at Akashi with a curious expression and said:

"Akashi, is this the brand-new ship equipment you were talking about?"

Upon hearing Z23's question, Akashi nodded confidently and said: