Shut up! I'm not a destroyer!

"Admiral, get behind me."

Vittorio's expression became serious.

She raised her arm and pulled her white-haired admiral behind her.

"Could it be that thing? That will-o'-the-wisp or something?"

Veneto's hair stood on end.

"Huh? That thing that was shot before the reputation?"

Speaking of the latest legend of the Admiral Academy, apart from this guy Veneto, the only one should be the will-o'-the-wisp that Veneto encountered before.

That is the content of Chapter 82 of this book.

The result seems to be that his reputation was destroyed in one fell swoop.

"I won't lose to that guy!"

Vittorio became interested.

Although the Sasebo Naval Base does not strongly encourage competition between ship girls, but for the competition for the position of admiral, it cannot be encouraged or not.

Vittorio doesn't think she is bad. She is a battleship girl and was once one of the leaders of a country. Whatever Reputation can do, she can do too.

And she's going to do better.

It's not that reputation alone makes her a good wife to her own admiral.

"This is not the time to talk about this..."

Veneto looked around.

As the sky gradually darkened, the originally mottled sunlight changed color, becoming increasingly red.

The surroundings gradually darkened.

Because of the trees, Veneto could not see the sun, but this change indicated that the sun was beginning to set and night was about to fall.

The darkness in the woods grew thicker, and soon all the shadows became indistinct.

The white-haired Lolita began to feel as if something was watching her through the darkness.

It seemed as if there were pairs of eyes in the darkness, quietly watching her.

"babble!"

Veneto hid behind his own ship.

At this point, being taller than her had changed from something that hurt her to a sense of security.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Vittorio took Veneto's hand which was around her waist.

"I'd be surprised if I wasn't afraid, that thing came out."

Veneto shook off Vittorio's hand and pointed at the light floating in the shadows of the trees.

Sure enough, the unknown thing that had once scared Veneto and his friends appeared again.

It wasn't unexpected.

But now the feeling of horror is even greater.

Before, there were three friends and a ship girl accompanying Veneto, but now there is only Veneto and his own ship girl.

It is true that the fewer people there are, the less courageous they are.

"what?"

The meaning of Vittorio's "eh" and his own admiral's "e" are completely different.

As a witness to the leader being hung at a gas station, Vittorio has seen everything.

Curiosity occupied her mind.

She looked in the direction that Veneto's little short hand was pointing, and saw a handful of white flames dancing in the woods.

"Will-o'-the-wisp? I'm afraid it's not man-made... But it's hard to say in a dense forest. There might be rotting animals or something."

Compared to Reputation's behavior of just running away without caring about anything, Vittorio thought that if he could explore the cause behind this thing...

Would it be considered better than reputation?

And Vittorio, who originally just wanted to show off, was also aroused by his curiosity at this time.

"I don't know. There are many legends on this island. Maybe it's one of them."

Veneto disagreed.

"Then let's go take a look?"

Vittorio took Veneto's hand.

"You are so brave... I can't do that."

Veneto moved back, reluctantly.

NO.247 Acting as Yourself

"Oh, don't be afraid!"

"That's easy for you to say!"

"Just fire a shot if you want. Look, I've summoned my ship equipment."

“But I can’t control this.”

……

At this time, an admiral and a ship girl were walking hand in hand in the dense forest.

Of course, he was joking at the same time.

Mainly, Vittorio wanted to ease Veneto's tension.

Unlike Vittorio who was fearless from the beginning, Veneto was not a ship girl from the beginning.

As a human being, we are not born with a bunch of fierce ship equipment to protect us.

Veneto didn't want to come either, not at all.

Of course, the ship girl has no way to influence the admiral's thoughts.

Vittorio did not force her admiral to go into the woods with her.

But unfortunately, Veneto himself didn't dare to stay where he was.

Yes, standing under the street light makes me feel safe.

At least it wasn't pitch black around her, and if something rushed out from the dark place, it would give her some buffer time to react.

But of course, I feel safer with Vittorio.

For a rookie ship girl with no ability to protect herself, it would be safer for her to be around the big guys.

If the big guys can't protect her, then being under the streetlight will make no difference.

Although it may seem a bit unfair to ordinary people to say this...but we should look at things from a dialectical perspective.

"That thing isn't moving. Last time I saw it, it was floating towards us."

Veneto saw from afar the blue ghost fire floating in the air, motionless.

"Shhh."

Vittorio put his index finger to his lips.

Veneto shut his mouth obediently.

Don't do anything that will hold you back at this time.

In movies and TV series she usually watched, she hated those female characters who made a lot of noise, made trouble when running away, and did all kinds of things that were a drag on the team.

Now it's her turn to play this role, and she certainly doesn't want to be as annoying as those guys in movies and TV shows.

After Vittorio withdrew his fingers, he quietly moved forward.

I don’t know how she did it, her little feet didn’t make much noise when they stepped on the fallen leaves.

Veneto couldn't do that. She hesitated for a moment and stood on the tree roots that emerged from the ground.

Fortunately, there was a fallen tree nearby, and she could step on the tree to move forward.

“Coo, coo, coo…coo, coo…”

Suddenly, a strange sound was heard in the quiet woods.

The voice is three parts desolate, three parts sad, three parts lonely, and one part of indescribable complex emotion.

Veneto's colleague was startled, but he also felt that the noise sounded familiar.

“Gugu…Gugu…”

Just as the sound repeated, Veneto felt his feet go empty, and he fell off the tree, his foot stomping into the fallen leaves.

The sounds of breaking branches and crushing dry leaves were unusually clear in the woods that had become quiet at some point.

Veneto stood there frozen, one leg on the tree trunk, one leg on the ground.

Fortunately, her body is soft now, so her legs won't stretch even if she spreads them apart.

There was no time to care whether it hurt or not, and no time to feel embarrassed.

She looked in the direction of the will-o'-the-wisp.

If there was any place where the strange noise could come from, it seemed to be only from that side.

Veneto guessed that the reason why the surroundings were so quiet was because of that thing.

But at this moment, the surroundings had really become completely quiet, with no movement at all.

Of course, the will-o'-the-wisp fire that was originally swaying in the air also disappeared.

"Cuckoo."

Suddenly, an extremely clear and strange sound rang out, right next to my ear.

Veneto shuddered with fear and turned around to look.

In the darkness created by the dense leaves of the trees, a handful of blue flames suddenly appeared.

"when……"

Veneto withdrew his legs from the tree trunk and took two steps back.

"Where did this monster come from? Take my shot!"

"boom!"

Just when Veneto was at a loss, Vittorio, without making any noise, took out the ship-mounted gun and fired a shot.

A solid shot hit the location of the will-o'-the-wisp, raising a cloud of thick smoke.

The will-o'-the-wisp seemed to have been extinguished by the artillery fire.

But the next second, a dark shadow broke through the smoke and rushed out.

"Cuckoo!"

A strange sound came from the direction of the shadow.

"What a weird thing!"

The lights on the Vittorio ship were brightly lit, and the searchlights shone on the strange shadow.

Even Vittorio was startled by what appeared under the light.

There stood a thing with a bird's head and a girl's body.

Her red bird eyes flashed with bloodlust and anger.

Looking down along the black feathers, the neck is excessive.

Further down is the girl's body with clearly defined muscles, and it seems that every inch of her body is filled with explosive power.