Even in the world of Kancolle, I want to drive a robot!

"Understood." As Xia Bai shouted, the engine room opened and Reputation quickly jumped out of it, unfolding the ship equipment, and three twin-mounted 381mm main guns fired at the same time.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Faced with the sudden attack, Tester α was hit by heavy artillery fire at close range before he could figure out the situation.

After breaking away from the attack, RX-02 leaped forward, picked up Shokaku and Zuikaku on the ground, and slid backwards.

This Siren was unusual. Xia Bai saw it in the sky. Their attacks might not be effective. They should keep their distance first and then consider how to defeat it.

Through the observer, Xia Bai discovered that Zuikaku and Shokaku were in a bad situation, so he immediately put them down and said, "I'll leave Unicorn to you. Javelin, you go protect her."

Unicorn nodded, and jumped down from the cockpit with Javelin, kneeling in front of Shuanghe and stretching out his hands to heal them. Javelin unfolded his ship suit, took out his spear and carefully observed the surroundings.

Green spots of light covered the bodies of Shokaku and Zuikaku. The unicorn treated them while comforting them softly: "Don't worry, it will be fine soon. Please hold on."

"Are you... the royal unicorn? Don't treat me yet, my sister is seriously injured." Seeing the purple-haired ship girl in front of him, Zuikaku easily recognized her identity.

Delighted that the royal support arrived in time, he immediately sent Unicorn to treat Shokaku.

"It's okay. Although I can't compare to Long Feng, I can treat three people at the same time."

After hearing what the unicorn said, Zuikaku felt relieved. She was most worried about Shokaku at the moment. His injuries were too serious. However, since she could treat three people, Zuikaku did not insist and asked curiously, "How did you get here so quickly?"

Faced with Zuikaku's curiosity, the unicorn wiped the sweat from his face and replied: "Because Brother Xia Bai brought us here from the air." After that, he pointed to the battlefield not far away.

"Xia Bai...Brother?" Zuikaku looked up in the direction the unicorn pointed and found a blue and white mecha fighting fiercely with Tester Alpha.

Son of Prometheus? No wonder they arrived so quickly. Zuikaku had heard a little about the alliance between the Royal Family and them, but he didn't take it seriously. According to what Senior Akagi said, they were just a bunch of glamorous and hypocritical shipgirls huddling together for warmth with the poor abandoned ones.

But I didn't expect that they would save me at the critical moment. How embarrassing... Thinking so self-deprecatingly, Zuikaku wondered if he had seen that blue and white mecha somewhere before.

After pondering for a while, Zuikaku still couldn't figure out where he had seen the RX-02 before, so he gave up. Then he changed his mind and asked, "How many of you are here?"

According to her idea, since they were an alliance, there should be many Sons of Prometheus and the Royal Family coming together, but she didn't see the second mecha for a long time.

Hearing Zuikaku asking about the number of reinforcements, Unicorn seemed a little flustered and stammered, "Including Brother Xia Bai, there are only five of us, me, Javelin, Sirius, and Reputation..."

"The Royal Army is currently short of manpower. Most of them are going to sweep other Sirens in the Sith Sea, and the Royal Island has also been surrounded by Sirens..."

The more Unicorn spoke, the quieter his voice became, until Zuikaku could barely hear it anymore.

I thought the Royal Family would at least send the Three Glorious Sisters and the KGV battleship, but I didn't expect that only these few people would be here...

Wait, what did she just say?

Zuikaku, who discovered the blind spot, stared at the unicorn in surprise: "You said the royal family is short of manpower, and now they are surrounded by sirens?"

"Hmm..." The unicorn nodded, a blush on her face, they were a little short of people.

"You guys are already in trouble, yet you still come to support us? Isn't that right?" Zuikaku always felt that Ajax was not telling them the truth.

"We want to rescue you and take you back to the royal palace to resist the attack of the Sirens..."

"......"

After a long while, no one in Zuikaku could say a word. It was like they were asking each other for help and both sides couldn't wait any longer. What was Ajax doing?

Just when Zuikaku began to wonder if he was dreaming, Shokaku beside him suddenly spoke up: "I understand what you're thinking. Ahem... Mr. RX-02's combat power can indeed help you out."

Seeing that Shokaku was awake, Zuikaku excitedly jumped on him.

"Sister, I thought you..."

Touching Zuikaku's long brown hair, Shokaku said gently, "I'm sorry for making you worry." Then he changed the subject and said to Unicorn, "Your strategy was correct. You thought of supporting us when the Royal Family was besieged and used us as a rescue fleet... You are worthy of being Ajax. You can come up with such a bold plan."

"If everything went well, we should be ready to go to the Royal Palace by now... However, the appearance of Tester α was something neither you nor I expected."

Ever since he found out about the alliance between the Royals and the Sons of Prometheus, Shokaku had been thinking about what kind of benefit he could bring to the battle.

She worked with Sakura Empire's military advisor Amagi on the high mobility in the air and the ability to crush light Sirens, and came up with hundreds of tactics to coordinate with the ship girls.

Finally, the conclusion is that the Royal Family made a fortune... Especially RX-02, which, after intimidating the human high-level officials, obtained the enemy's combat intelligence before the first Battle of the Faluo Sea.

The intelligence indicated that RX-02 was unremarkable and nothing worth noting, but the battle at Port William gave Shokaku and the others reason to suspect that the gradual stabilization of the Sith Sea was related to him.

Tiancheng even boldly speculated that this guy had killed no less than a thousand small and medium-sized Sirens, and made the Sirens dare not patrol randomly.

This is indeed the case. Ever since RX-01 died in battle, Xia Bai would go looking for trouble with the Sirens whenever he was in a bad mood on Spland Island. Since he couldn't defeat the large Sirens, he would specifically look for small patrol teams.

He is the best at bullying the weak and fearing the strong, not to mention the time when he awakened the future. He took the CX-21 and frantically searched for Siren all over the sea.

Therefore, Amagi's guess about the number of sinkings is roughly accurate. This time, the Sakura Empire fleet came to the Sith Sea to find an opportunity to lure Xia Bai to the Sakura Empire. As the leader, RX-02 went, and the rest of the Sons of Prometheus would naturally follow.

The greedy foxes would not just sit and watch the benefits fall into the hands of the royal family. They also wanted to have a piece of the pie, and even wanted to eat it all alone.

However, they were unlucky and ran into a Siren patrol on the way. Zuikaku led the fleet to attack and ended up being surrounded.

Chapter 12 Defeat

It slid backwards to avoid the attack, and the jet behind it ignited instantly. RX-02 used inertia to make a spinning kick at Tester α.

The latter stretched out his delicate arms to block the kick, and the two cannons on his waist opened fire. The flying shells were cut off by Sirius on RX-02's legs with a greatsword before they hit him. Then Sirius rushed towards Tester α with an indomitable momentum, dragging the greatsword.

There are now three friendly aircraft carriers on the field, which gives her a great boost.

'clang--'

The greatsword was held by Tester Alpha. She looked at Sirius's face and said with a sneer: "Your power is too weak. Although the [Natural Algorithm System] did not anticipate your arrival, but——"

"How weak."

"Don't underestimate people!"

Sirius missed the first attack and did not continue to fight. He jumped back and lowered his head slightly. Six shells flew over his head and hit Tester Alpha.

She is not fighting alone.

Seeing that the reputation's bombardment was successful, Xia Bai picked up Sirius in the air, placed it on the shoulder of RX-02, and punched it.

Tester α, who was covered in dust after being bombarded, deployed a protective shield to block the oncoming fist: "It's good enough to have brought me to this point..."

Before she could finish, Renown reached out from RX-02's arm and stabbed at Tester α: "You talk too much." The stab pierced the protective shield. At the same time, the ship equipment behind Renown opened fire and blew the arrogant Siren away.

Sirius then launched an attack, and the main guns, secondary guns, and torpedoes were fired all at once, all hitting the test subject α as she fell into the water, causing a huge explosion.

"You are indeed very strong, but after being consumed by Sirius and me, you have been hit by five rounds of reputation bombardment head-on. You must be feeling bad now."

The ability of reputation is that after firing, the power of the next round of bombardment will be increased, and it can be stacked infinitely as long as the target is hit. Xia Bai doesn't believe that the test subject α will not suffer any damage after being bombarded for five consecutive rounds.

The smoke cleared, and Tester α stood up shakily. The manta ray-style ship suit behind him had large cracks, and his entire body was charred and covered in blood.

Seeing the miserable appearance of Tester Alpha, Xia Bai was more convinced that his combat plan was effective. The other party looked different from ordinary Sirens and was intelligent. It was very likely that his weapons would have no effect on her.

So they can only choose close combat. Although the RX-02 is fast, it is too big a target for the ship girl, so Sirius and Renown need to launch attacks continuously to prevent the opponent from firing.

RX-02's huge body provides an excellent platform, allowing them to constantly move and change positions on its body. Its attacks will also attract the attention of Tester α, causing the other party to ignore reputation and Sirius.

Alternating cover and continuous attack...this is the tactic Xia Bai came up with in a short period of time.

At first, he was afraid that Reputation and Sirius would not understand, but when it was put into practice, the whole process went smoothly as if they had been working together for a long time, which made him sigh at the combat IQ of these two people.

"Let's defeat her like this." Touching his chin, Xia Bai decided to make a final push and turned on the propulsion limit switch. Suddenly, there was a loud roar, and white gas sprayed out of the RX-02's heat dissipation port.

After the engine restrictions are lifted, the speed of the RX-02 will increase a lot, but it will put a lot of pressure on Xia Bai's spirit and it can't last too long.

He planned to end the battle quickly and after looking at the injuries of the Sakura Empire ship girls, he estimated that they would need to rest for some time after the battle. Now it was getting dark, and Elizabeth and the others should have been exchanging fire with the Sirens.

Worried about the Royal Family's situation, Xia Bai wanted to go back early, and warned the two ship girls through the communication broadcast: "Hold on!"

The next second, there was a bang.

The four-wing thrusters began to operate, and a wave of air was raised behind the RX-02. It arrived in front of Observer α with the force of thunder, with its arms raised high, and at the same time, the 150mm powerful penetrating beam at its waist was also set up.

Upon seeing this, Observer α's ship-mounted guns behind him began to gather light spots, and soon fired six blue beams, but missed.

"what!"

As the engine overloaded, RX-02 went against inertia and instantly came behind Test Subject α to avoid the beam, grabbed her and lifted her up.

"Didn't Sirius tell you? Don't underestimate people." As Xia Bai finished his words, Reputation and Sirius, who had been prepared long ago, continued to fire at Tester α in the hands of RX-02.

With an expression of disbelief, the tester could only watch himself being covered by artillery fire.

'Six, seven, eight...' Although RX-02's hand was smashed and the pain was transmitted to Xia Bai's mind, he was extremely happy at this moment, counting the artillery fire fired by the reputation.

The other party is an intelligent siren. Although not as scary as Tempalans, she should be about the same. If she is taken as an imaginary enemy, Xia Bai can already see the scene of Tempalans being hammered into the water by him, Warspite and New Jersey.

'ten.'

Counting the tenth round of cumulative artillery fire of reputation, Xia Bai controlled the remaining skeleton of RX-02's left hand to put down Tester α, and she still fell into the water.

"Won."

Lightly declaring victory, RX-02's green eyes flickered for a moment before turning and flying towards the unicorn.

Zuikaku was dumbfounded after watching the whole battle. The Observer α that easily defeated her was sunk like this? A Son of Prometheus, plus a reputation, and Sirius... Is Royal so strong now?

She wasn't bragging, but with Sirius's reputation, she wasn't sure of winning, but she could still keep the score at a draw.

It doesn't make sense? Confused, Zuikaku looked at Noshiro, who was dragged here by her for treatment. She also was easily defeated by Tester α. She wanted to ask him what he thought.

Hearing Zuikaku's question, Noshiro pondered for a moment, raised his head and answered seriously: "I think this should be related to the son of Prometheus, but he was in battle..." To be honest, Noshiro didn't feel that Xia Bai was very powerful. His attacks had never broken the defense of Tester α.

"Noshiro is right, it is related to Mr. RX-02." Shokaku, who also watched the whole show, took over Noshiro's words and explained.

"Facing Tester α, the three of us couldn't even defeat her, let alone the entire fleet. It's still a question whether we can escape unscathed. But Mr. RX-02 has seized the initiative from the beginning and pressed forward step by step."

"The tactics in it really opened my eyes. It is possible to achieve this with just Sirius and reputation."

After explaining, Shokaku looked at his face which was now a little charred and bloody in the water, frowned, and washed it with water.

The next second, her fair and pretty little face appeared again. She took out her rouge box and applied enchanting red makeup on the corners of her eyes again. Shokaku nodded with satisfaction, stood up, straightened his clothes, and stood there obediently.

This isn't the first time she and Xia Bai have 'met'... hehe~

Chapter 13 The nightmare comes

Coming to the Unicorn, as Reputation and Sirius jumped down, the blue light particles dissipated, Xia Bai took back the RX-02, and stretched out his right hand: "It was really dangerous just now, luckily I caught up... Hello, I am RX-02, Xia Bai, who belongs to the Son of Prometheus."

He took a quick step forward and held Xia Bai's hand. Shokaku's bloodless lips slightly opened, and a gentle smile bloomed on his face: "Hello, I am Shokaku, the flagship of the Fifth Air Squadron of the Sakura Empire. Please take care of me~"

Emphasizing the word "Crane", Xianghe's small hand in fingerless gloves gently scratched Xia Bai's palm and continued: "Just call me Xianghe, and I'll call you by your name too." As he spoke, he winked playfully.

Socially awkward? So outgoing... Thinking of this, Xia Bai smiled awkwardly, letting go of the other's soft hand, and didn't feel Xianghe's small movements.

Just now, RX-02 grabbed Tester α and let Sirius and Reputation open fire. Now Xia Bai's hands are still numb and have no feeling.

"Shokaku-chan...Shokaku, can you guys still attack? The Royal Island is still waiting for us to go back for support."

Seeing that Xia Bai didn't seem to recognize who he was, Shokaku's blue eyes dimmed without leaving a trace, and then became bright again, and said lightly: "Of course, I have asked Zuikaku to gather the scattered fleet, and we can set off after a little repair."

At the same time, he winked at Zuikaku who was looking confused behind him.

"Hurry up and gather the fleet. Don't bother me while I try to build closer ties."

Scratching his head in confusion, Zuikaku finally understood what his sister meant and prepared to take Noshiro with him to assemble the fleet.

Suddenly, there was a crazy laugh not far away.

“Hahahaha…this is so interesting and funny.”

Hearing the familiar voice, everyone present turned around suddenly and saw Tester α standing up with his hand covering his left eye, which was bleeding, with a purple light emanating from his body.

"!"

Sirius, who reacted the fastest, immediately took out his greatsword and rushed forward, and Xia Bai also quickly deployed the RX-02.

He would not be so stupid as to stand there and ask the other person why she was still alive and what she was laughing at. He would take her life while she was sick. Xia Bai had already remembered this principle in his heart.

He flew quickly to the side of test subject α in the RX-02 and threw a punch. The test subject covered his eyes with one hand and clenched his other fist to collide with RX-02.

The harsh and violent collision made several people in the back cover their ears.

"Hahaha... Now I'm going to return that sentence to you—"

"Don't underestimate people!"

As Xia Bai's face was filled with disbelief, Tester α smiled as he crushed RX-02's right arm and kicked it away while floating in the air.

The pain of his shattered right arm and the powerful force made Xia Bai unable to maintain the balance of RX-02, and he flew backwards and hit Sirius who was rushing over.

"Xia Bai!"

After seeing the terrible loss of RX-02, Reputation reacted and deployed its ship equipment to fire a salvo at Tester α, with shells whizzing in with tail flames.