My Anime Girlfriends

“That’s a natural reaction. In your eyes, we are indeed…! But right now, all I’m thinking about is getting you safely back to your hometown! Although I can’t guarantee we can escape… Heaven must be thinking the same thing. Are you willing to believe us?” Sagara said slowly.

After Sagara finished speaking, Kaname glanced at Dong Tian, ​​who was closing his eyes to gather his strength. He seemed to have made up his mind and slowly walked towards Sagara.

"Don't come any closer!" Sagara suddenly shouted, then quickly grabbed the light machine gun hanging on his body and rushed to a thick tree, aiming the gun at the enemy hiding behind it.

Wearing a black control suit and soaking wet, with disheveled long golden hair, his pale face covered in mud and blood, he held a .38 caliber pistol in his hand, pointing it at the suddenly appearing Sagara.

"Cruz!"

"Hey...you're so late?" Cruz forced a smile, then collapsed weakly to the ground in the next instant.

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"Sergeant Mao, you should go back to the hangar and wait for orders!" Kalinion said to Mao.

"Please, two hours... no, please give me even one hour. Before that, I will find Sosuke, Cruz, and Ten!" Mao, dressed in a black pilot suit, pleaded as he followed behind Kalinion.

"Are you planning to expose a $50 billion submarine and 250 crew members to danger for an hour?"

"They are my subordinates! I must take responsibility!"

"It's raining outside. In this kind of weather, ECS stealth mode won't work, and there's no viable way to search!"

“I know it’s reckless to do this, but…!” Mao looked at Kalinion but didn’t finish his sentence.

“This area belongs to the dispatchers!” Kalinion said, standing in front of the iron gate.

"You're always like this, how do you manage to be so calm and insightful!" Mao asked angrily.

“Because I have to become this way!” Kalinion said calmly.

After passing through several more doors, Kalyn entered the command room. Theresa Testarossa, who was sitting in the captain's seat, had just given the stealth order. Without even looking at Kalyn, she said, "She asked us how much longer we're going to stay here, right?"

"We can't afford to linger for even a minute. Three enemy patrol boats, laden with torpedoes, are approaching, and this is shallow water with nowhere to hide. If we don't get at least 50 kilometers away immediately..."

“I’ve been thinking about these situations all this time!” Tessa said, clutching her braid that hung over her left shoulder and pressing it to her mouth, scratching her nose with the tip of the braid while staring intently at the screen in front of her.

"But I also want to rescue Sagara and the others!"

"Yes, and Sergeant Webber might still be alive!"

“If I decide to spend a few minutes before dawn surfacing and lingering on the shore… what rescue operation can you suggest?” Tessa asked, looking at the nautical chart projected onto her personal screen.

Is this even possible?

“Ordinary submarines probably won’t work!” Tessa said with a smile.

"...I'm very concerned about Webber's M9 being defeated, and if I'm right, maybe now is the time to use that."

"Um...you mean that?"

“It’s Arbalest!” Kalinion said with certainty, and as he said this, he seemed to sense a ferocious beast tied up somewhere inside the ship letting out a joyful roar.

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After walking for more than three hours on rugged roads, Dong Tian and his three companions crossed all the uphill sections and arrived at the foot of a giant tree that was over a thousand years old. The downhill road led to a plain, where they could see the lights of military vehicles speeding along the paths between the fields. Ahead was the collective farm, and further away was a large expanse of paddy fields.

“If we can get through here, we should be able to reach the coast!” Sagara said, looking down.

“If we could walk through here openly in a place with such good visibility…!” Kaname said, squinting.

"Yes, the chances of being discovered by the enemy are very high!" Dong Tian said, leaning against a big tree.

"What should we do then!" Xiao Yao asked.

Sagara also turned his gaze to Dong Tian and said, "It's still quite a distance from here to the coast, so it's impossible for the four of us to escape together!"

"Huh?" Xiao Yao exclaimed in confusion.

"So, Cruz, Ten, and I stayed here to cause chaos and try to draw the enemy's attention to buy as much time as possible, while Chidori took the opportunity to escape to the west alone!"

"...What did you say?" Xiao Yao questioned.

"Run west! Take this communicator and head towards the coast. If friendly forces come to meet you, you should be able to contact them using this channel."

"But, if we do that, wouldn't you guys...?"

“Don’t worry about us. Our job is to protect you. Rather than all four of us being captured, it’s better for one of us to live! Let’s go!” Dong Tian said slowly.

Xiao Yao turned her gaze to Dong Tian, ​​hoping he would say something, but Dong Tian said calmly, "I agree with Sosuke's plan! Chidori, you escape alone!"

"I don't want to!" Xiao Yao shouted.

"Chidori...!"

"I said I don't want to! Sagara, Toten, you guys are really idiots! You don't think it's okay for you to die whenever you want, do you? Do you think it's cool to do that? You completely disregarded my feelings and just died there, indulging in your own self-satisfaction. Even if I were saved by you military fanatics and gloomy idiots, I wouldn't be happy at all, do you understand? Heh heh...!" Kaname said, slightly out of breath after finishing her rant.

Xiangliang and Dongtian were stunned. Seeing their expressions, Xiaoyao continued, "It seems you still don't understand. Why don't you think of a way to save everyone? Don't give up so easily, okay?"

"That's it, there's no other way!" Sagara retorted.

"Just think about it, like starting a forest fire and then escaping in the chaos... There's bound to be a way!"

"Chidori, listen up! We're all experts. We've predicted everything and chosen the best course of action!" Dong Tian said with difficulty, leaning against the tree, because his strength was being depleted too quickly.

"How many times do you have to say it? I said no...!" Xiao Yao's words were interrupted midway as a strand of her hair left her body and slowly fell into the soil. Only Dong Tian, ​​leaning against the tree, could do this, his hand still in the posture of throwing a knife.

Xiao Yao looked at him slowly and asked, "If I don't leave... will you kill me?"

“Yes, rather than being captured by the enemy and locked in those strange machines to be turned into a cripple, it’s better for you to die here,” Dong Tian said coldly. In fact, Dong Tian’s heart was not at peace. Since his ‘birth,’ Xiao Yao was the first woman who had given him a strange feeling, and he couldn’t help but say what he had just said.

Hearing him say that, Xiao Yao smiled and walked up to him, gently touching his face and saying, "Let's go back together, Dong... Jun!"

Chapter 138 The Beast Awakens

Just as Dong Tian and Xiao Yao were gazing at each other 'affectionately', Cruz interrupted them with a cough. When the two realized what was happening, they were met with Cruz's ambiguous gaze.

"Cruz...are you awake?" Dong Tian asked, looking at Cruz.

"Yes, of course they're awake...you guys were talking so loudly!"

"That's so mean! Why are you peeking at me like that!" Xiao Yao complained.

"That's because, in that situation, all you can do is watch quietly, right...? Sosuke!"

Sagara, who had been watching the two in their ambiguous relationship, nodded and said, "Definitely!"

Upon hearing Sagara's answer, Cruz couldn't help but laugh and said, "You lost, Sousuke, heaven! Your plan has been refuted, but... I actually support Kaname's plan more. The idea of ​​a forest fire is good, and the rain has just stopped."

Upon hearing Cruz's words, Sagara immediately said, "Doing this will only reveal our location to the enemy, which is too dangerous!"

"But maybe our planes will fly over here and spot us from the air!" Xiao Yao said, pointing to the sky.

“This is enemy airspace, how could there be friendly forces circling nearby!” Sagara said.

"...Then what about higher up in the sky? I've seen movies starring Harrison Ford, where spy satellites can monitor the ground from space. Doesn't your organization have anything like that?"

“Wait! Satellite!” Cruz shouted.

"What's wrong!"

Cruz glanced at his watch and said, "Before we left, they showed me satellite photos of that base. The time should have been yesterday... 15:30 PM... and it's 2:48 AM now!"

"A reconnaissance satellite!" Sagara exclaimed.

"Yao, you're amazing!" Cruz praised with a smile.

"What... huh?" Xiaoyao asked in confusion.

Seeing Xiao Yao's expression, Dong Tian leaned against the tree and smiled, saying, "The reconnaissance satellite passes over the same area of ​​the Earth approximately every 12 hours. That means it will pass directly overhead in about 40 minutes, just like that... Xiao Yao!"

Kaname and Sagara were slightly taken aback when they saw Dong Tian's genuine smile. Cruz even exaggeratedly said, "I actually saw Tian smiling! This time everything will definitely be alright!"

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After making a plan, Dong Tian and Xiang Liang went to carry out their arson operation, leaving Xiao Yao behind to take care of the most seriously injured Cruz. Originally, Dong Tian was supposed to stay as well, but he refused, probably to show Xiao Yao that he didn't need to worry!

At 3:28 AM, Dong Tian lit the spilled engine oil on fire. The flames formed the letters 'A678ALIVE' on the farm's open ground. 'A' represents the abbreviation of Kaname's code name 'Angel', '6' represents Cruz's code name 'uruz6', '7' represents Sosuke's code name 'uruz7', and '8' represents Dong Tian's code name 'uruz8'. In other words, he wanted to inform his companions, Kaname, Cruz, Sosuke Sagara, and Dong Tian, ​​that they were still alive.

The two then made sure not to leave any footprints as they returned to where Cruz and the others were waiting.

"Did it work?" Xiao asked, tightly wrapped in Dong Tian's bulletproof jacket and pressing her hands against her chest.

“I don’t know. I hope our comrades can detect the message we’ve sent, but the odds of winning are already slim… Cruz, cheer up!” Sagara replied, but before he could finish speaking, he saw Cruz lying on the ground covered in footprints.

"What happened to Cruz? Is he alright?" Dong Tian, ​​who arrived later, asked in confusion when he saw Cruz lying on the ground.

"It should be fine, people like this tend to live long lives!" Xiao Yao said with a gloomy face.

Seeing her expression, Dong Tian couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"

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Xiaoyao sat on the grass, swinging her legs. Because of her revealing clothes, her white top was clearly visible from the front. Dong Tian and Xiang Liang were sitting on either side of her. Xiaoyao asked softly, "I want to ask you...!"

"kindness…!"

"If...if we can return safely, what will happen to the Amaga and Sagara families?"

Sagara answered first: "I will only go and carry out the next mission!"

"Are you going somewhere else? You won't be coming back to school?"

"Probably! Being a student at that school would interfere with other missions! I just disappeared from your sight." Sagara said, looking ahead.

"Really?...What about that day?"

"I need to go back to China first!" Dong Tian said, looking ahead.

"Oh my god, you're not going back to school after you go back?" Xiao Yao asked softly, afraid that he would answer "yes".

"I don't know!" Dong Tian said calmly. As soon as he finished speaking, he and Xiang Liang seemed to see something, immediately tackled Xiao Yao to the ground, and then hid in a pit.

Then came a burst of gunfire, bullets whizzing past their heads. Although they returned fire with their guns, the feeling of powerlessness intensified as the bullets dwindled. The dirt kicked up by the bullets stung their exposed skin, causing a slight pain.

After killing an enemy with the last bullet in his gun, Dong Tian grabbed Xiao Yao's hand and said, "Sorry, I can't go back with you."

Upon hearing this, Kaname immediately gripped his hand and one of Sagara's hands tightly, smiling as she said, "I won't regret it. I'm so glad I met Amaga and Sagara!"

After she finished speaking, Dong Tian smiled again and said to Sagara and Cruz, "Cover me!"

Hearing this, Sagara and Cruz immediately fired their guns. Taking advantage of the enemy's dodge, Dong Tian, ​​amidst Xiao Yao's cry, darted out like a cheetah, using the trees and darkness to quickly approach the enemy. Although the enemy tried to stop him, Dong Tian was simply too fast. By the time they saw him and prepared to fire, he had already hidden behind another tree. As he drew closer, someone finally fell to his throwing knife. Then, with another gun in hand, Dong Tian instantly drew the attention of most of the enemy, not only because of his speed but also because of his unpredictable movements and unerring marksmanship.

Just as Dong Tian and Xiang Liang ran out of bullets again, a capsule containing a parachute was ejected 100 meters above them. The detonation pins sparked in the dark night sky, and a white AS emerged. The machine seemed to be trying to maintain its balance in the air, raising its arms high as it came crashing down.

After the machine landed, it remained motionless for a long time. Dong Tian and Xiang Liang had already guessed that no one was piloting it. However, Dong Tian was pinned behind a tree by a dozen semi-automatic rifles and could not move. Xiang Liang quickly seized the opportunity, ran to the machine, and climbed into the cockpit as nimbly as a monkey. After entering his name, rank, and identification number, a beast was officially awakened.