I, Laffey, am a good ship girl!

"but."

Wichita folded his arms across his chest, looking at the bustling harbor in front of him, and said seriously.

"As long as you are willing to be our companion, you are welcome at any time."

"Even if I once blasted you to pieces with a cannonball?"

Counterattack made a pistol-pointing gesture toward Wichita.

"Well, it's okay!"

Wichita nodded, a forced smile on her face.

"I'm not as skilled as you, so there's nothing to say. But next time, I won't lose to you again!"

"Tsk."

He turned his head away and changed the subject.

"Who is the person in charge of contacting you this time? The one in front?"

"Reputation-class battlecruiser - Renown, I remember she was the glorious frigate."

Wichita said that the front she belonged to was separated from the front of Guanghui by several seas, so it was normal that they were not familiar with each other.

"Reputation...?"

In the history of Royal Ship Girls, there have been two Renown-class battlecruisers, one is Renown and the other is Counterattack.

Wichita quickly realized this.

"Isn't that your sister?"

Although in reality, the age of a ship girl is calculated according to the time of her birth.

The strong is strong, the weak is weak.

However, among the same type of ship girls, there are also cases where legendary ship girls hug the newly born ship girls and call them sisters.

For example, there is Prince Eugen of the Amami Gendarmerie.

As the third ship of the Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, she was a powerful ship girl born in the dark ages. When Wichita had just entered the front line to participate in the battle after three battles, the opponent was already a powerful legendary ship girl.

But such a powerful ship girl rescued her sister Admiral Hipper during an attack.

Thus, the powerful legendary ship girl Prince Eugen had a sister who had just been born.

However, any discerning person could see that, as the elder sister, Admiral Hipper did not act like an elder sister at all. Instead, she was always teased and bullied by her younger sister, Prince Eugen.

After all, if sisters were born in the same port, it would be easy for them to become close.

But if it is a ship girl from outside, she would have her own life already. Even if we meet, at most we would say hello and there would be no desire to have further contact.

Wichita glanced at Counterattack and saw a look of surprise on her face.

"Really?"

Counterattack carried the box containing the Mind Cube behind him and asked with his head tilted.

"Should I go over and call you Sister now?"

"Well, forget it."

In name they should be sisters, but in reality they are strangers.

Wichita felt that with her counterattacking personality, she wouldn't feel much more of a sense of belonging to the identity of a ship girl just because she suddenly had a sister.

To put it bluntly, Counter-Strike is not the real "Reputation-class battlecruiser - Counter-Strike", she is just a "fake" with a similar appearance to Counter-Strike.

They once belonged to the Sirens, and when they were enslaved by them, the ship girl did not come to save them.

Now that they are free, they naturally won’t have much sense of belonging to the ship girls.

When Counterattack and Wichita saw Reputation, Reputation naturally saw the two of them as well.

This classical royal knight took the initiative to greet him.

"Wang-class battlecruiser - Renown, on behalf of the Donghuang War Zone, Tianhai Ship Girl Division, welcomes you."

He didn't act overly politely just because the girl he fought back was his nominal sister.

Then he turned to look at Wichita who was beside Counterattack.

"Thank you for your hard work, Senior Wichita. We have prepared afternoon tea for you at the branch."

"Ah, don't call me that. We were born around the same time."

Wichita waved her hand. She was a legendary ship girl, sure, but her reputation was also only one step away from being legendary.

The two were born not too far apart in time.

"Miss Guanghui originally planned to come and greet you in person, but some unexpected events occurred, so I had to come here."

Whether it is Wichita or Counterattack, both of them are legendary ship girls with a training level of over ninety.

According to the etiquette of the Royal Navy, the arrival of two legendary ship girls must be received by ship girls of the same level.

It’s just that things have their priorities, and for the legendary ship girls, the legendary battle in a week is extremely important.

If you are not careful, twelve legendary ship girls will sink.

No war zone can bear

Such a loss.

"It doesn't matter. I'm the one who needs help. I know about this kind of thing."

He counterattacked in a normal tone.

If the ship girls can rescue the Prince of Wales, what does it matter if they let her work for them?

On the contrary, if the ship girls can't do it, there is no point for her to stay here.

In fact, the one that Counterattack wants to find most is the destroyer girl who saved the Prince of Wales at the critical moment. I remember her name was Laffey.

They crossed the line that they had never been able to cross, and even defeated the "Purifier" who even the Prince of Wales could not do anything to in a frontal battle.

Although he didn't know why, Counterattack felt that if it were the other party, he might be able to find a way to save the Prince of Wales.

Unfortunately, the other party has not woken up yet in order to rescue the ship girl trapped in the mirror sea.

She could wait, but the Prince of Wales could not.

In the counterattack box, the Prince of Wales's mind cube stayed quietly inside.

If you look closely, you will find that cracks have begun to appear in the two mind cubes that have been fused together.

It could be today, it could be tomorrow.

No one knows how long the Prince of Wales's mind cube can last.

Therefore, the only way to fight back is to try every possible means and come to Donghuang’s largest ship girl research center to seek help.

Without letting Counterattack wait too long, knowing how eager Counterattack was, after obtaining permission to enter the inland sea, Reputation took Counterattack to the Tianhai Kanmusu Technology Development and Research Center.

Several people approached the port of the research center directly from the seaside.

However, when they saw the outline of the research center, the figures of several ship girls also appeared in front of them.

Holding the ferocious naval gun, Z36 fired at the shooting target in the research center.

The little swan followed beside, trying hard to overcome his body's center of gravity and train together.

Gridley secretly hid in the corner and took a series of pictures.

On the beach, Rafi is holding a spoon.

The Purifier, who had temporarily woken up but had not yet fully repaired his body, opened his mouth.

"Ah~"

Seeing the Purifier about to eat the ice cream, Rafi retracted his hand holding the spoon and ate the ice cream in one bite.

Standing on the cruise ship and seeing this scene, Counterattack turned around and looked at Wichita: "Are you sure we are here at the Donghuang Ship Girl Headquarters, not the Siren's branch base?"

"Ah this..."

......

Chapter 48 Awakening

How could Wichita not recognize the siren on the beach.

In the mirror sea, he single-handedly suppressed a group of ship girls.

If it weren't for the powerful destroyer who defeated her in the end, all of them, the ship girls, would have died in that sea.

No, wait.

Wichita pointed at the destroyer next to the Purifier.

"Counterattack, look, doesn't that ship girl look a bit like Senior Laffey?"

"Am I hallucinating or are you hallucinating?"

Wichita and Counterattack looked at each other in bewilderment. They clearly remembered that when they left Ningchuan, Lafite's ship was still in the dock.

It's not that there are no ship girls with exactly the same model in the world. Even the seventh ship of the Benson-class destroyer, Laffey, a rare purple elite ship girl, there is no saying that there is only one such ship girl in the world.

Especially for the ordinary white-skinned ship girls, every year in the Commander Academy when new recruits are recruited, several identical ones will appear.

However, this exact similarity refers to the model, not the appearance.

There are a thousand and one Harems in the hearts of a thousand people.

A thousand commanders also have a thousand and one images of ship girls in their minds.

They may dress somewhat similarly, but are they the same person wearing the same clothes?

Every ship girl is unique!

Wichita and Counterattack will never make such a mistake.

But, it really seems like it!

"Is there a possibility, I mean possible, not necessarily correct, that the ship girl is actually Senior Laffey?"

Wichita and Counterattack looked at Rafi on the beach at the same time, and were surprised to find that Rafi was also looking at them.

Rafi's voice echoed in the soul network between the two of them.

"Long time no see, Wichita, fight back."

......

On the beach, Lafite discovered it long before the cruise ship entered the inland sea.

When she had spoken to Royal Ark on the phone before, she had asked about the counterattack and learned that she had already left Ningchuan for Tianhai a few days ago.

Calculating the time, it’s time now.

No one knows about Lafite's situation except Lafite.

With the Prince of Wales' condition worsening, it is only natural that Counterattack would seek help from the ship girls.

All we can say is that the Prince of Wales didn’t deserve to die.

Not only did he come to Tianhai, but he also met Rafi, whose mental body just happened to drift to Tianhai.

Although it may not necessarily help, at least there is a little more hope.

At worst, instead of fighting back like a headless fly, Lafite at least knew how to help the Prince of Wales.

"It's really you!"

He was not sure at first, but when Lafite's soul network was connected and he got ashore and actually saw Lafite, Counterattack was immediately certain that the other party was the destroyer girl he knew.

Holding a glass of iced coffee in his hand and wearing a pink cotton jacket, he looked at her with half-asleep eyes, as if he had expected her arrival.

But what about the siren next to it?

"Don't worry."

As if sensing her worry, Rafi patted the Purifier's head.

"She has reformed now!"

Siren, is there such a thing as reforming oneself?