I, Laffey, am a good ship girl!

"Does Senior Lafei have any countermeasures?"

Guanghui looked over. Ever since she entered this mirror sea and Lafei and War-weary were transferred away, she had been under tremendous pressure.

Although he didn't say it, Guanghui found himself feeling relieved after seeing Lafite wake up.

"some."

Rafi nodded.

"In that case." Guanghui looked at Lafei and winked playfully: "We will leave everything to you, sister Lafei."

"How stupid!"

In the mirror image, Jean Bart frowned and snorted, "You're actually betting on a seriously injured and dying ship girl."

"Haha, we are not qualified to say that."

Controlling her own carrier-based aircraft, Akagi showed a charming smile on her face.

"Before they showed up, weren't we the ones who tried our best to protect the child?"

"Long-winded!"

Unlike the latecomers like Glory, Jean Bart, Akagi and the others placed their hopes on Laffey, a seriously injured and dying ship girl, from the very beginning.

But the situation then was completely different from now.

At that time, they protected Raffi because they only had to face Counterattack META, which was also in a not-so-perfect state. Now, they have to face the Siren Arbiter, who even Counterattack META and Reputation META cannot defeat together.

"It's crazy!"

As the mirror ship girl, Kewei couldn't understand it at all. Were all the ship girls around her bewitched by the ship girl named Laffite? Why would they protect a ship girl who was only one step away from sinking?

Those foreign ship girls are fine, but why are their mirror images...

"Hey, aren't you going to say something?"

Kewei looked at Helena. She was one of the few who still had some brains among the group of crazy ship girls.

"Why are you protecting that guy?"

"Because she's strong."

“Very strong!?”

Kewei turned his head and looked at Lafite. Looking at Lafite's height of less than 1.4 meters, he could not associate the word "strong" with Lafite at all.

"Yes, very strong."

Helena nodded seriously.

"If we want to win, if we want to survive, the only way is to rely on her."

Defeat reputation META

.

Disarm the Counterattack META when on the verge of death.

If they want to survive, the only way is to protect Laffey and let the recovered Laffey join forces with the two META ship girls.

But to what extent can Lafite recover in ten minutes?

Helena didn't think about that.

Because she knew they had no other choice.

As for escaping.

They can't even leave this sea area, so how can they escape?

"It looks like there's a conclusion."

The communication between the ship girls was transmitted through the soul network. King George V of England and the Duke of York, who had just arrived in this sea area, were also connected to the network of the ship girls.

"Protect the ship girl named Laffey?"

King George V of England had no interest in Lafite at first, but when he thought that the Prince of Wales was the first to respond to Lafite's request, he couldn't help but feel a little curious.

"Wales, is that Laffite the ship girl you met outside?"

"Ah."

The Prince of Wales had no feelings for this nominal sister, and she believed that she felt the same way. She was just using her as a "window" to peek into the outside world that they longed for.

The Prince of Wales knew this kind of thing very well because she had been in the same situation before.

But all that is in the past.

"Hey, how long are you going to talk? Don't forget that you are still in a cage."

The Prince of Wales and King George V of England have both dealt with their opponents, even if they have been badly damaged. Of course, dealing with a Siren ship girl who has only reached level 100 is no problem at all.

The Duke of York, on the other hand, looked a little embarrassed under the siege of three Siren ship girls. In a fit of rage, she wanted to completely release her power.

"Don't worry, York, it's not time yet."

Turning to support the Duke of York, King George V of England stopped the Duke of York's actions.

After all, the mind cube plug-ins installed by the Siren are not officially finished products. If they are used continuously beyond the limit of power, the life of the plug-in will be quickly consumed.

King George V of England noticed that most of the mirror-image ship girls surrounding Laffey had their mind cube plug-ins reaching their limits.

Are they really going to use up their last bit of strength here?

King George V of England pursed his lips. After losing the plug-in of the Mind Cube, their training level would suddenly drop back to the normal level 100.

Level 100 and level 101 are completely different concepts.

Two level 101 battleship girls can at least draw a tie against Prince of Wales.

But two level 100 ship girls can't do it.

This is the gap.

There is no time to consider the thoughts of the mirror images. Every minute and every second now is precious.

Damage control is not a panacea.

The damage control on the Royal Ark plus the damage control on Lafite himself, even if all of them were used up, would only be enough to restore Lafite's injuries from a near-death sinking state to a state of ordinary severe damage in ten minutes.

So, can Lafite, which is in a bad state, change this situation that is tilting towards one side?

Neither Lafite nor the meta-ized Lafite can do it.

The strength of the META-ized Lafite is only comparable to Reputation·META and Counterattack·META. It was only by relying on its ruthlessness that it was able to achieve the feat of almost exchanging one for two.

Not to mention Lafite before it was meta-ized.

She can't beat either Reputation · META or Counterattack · META.

So, when she said that buying ten minutes could solve the problem, was that a lie?

No.

She just felt that she should be able to do it now.

She had a near-death experience and saw another Rafi hidden in her heart.

Rafi has come to his senses.

The META ship girls say that metafication is the ending of ship girls and the end of their road.

So is the end point of KanColle only to become META?

no.

Meta-ization is just a residue, just the embers left after the fire has burned out.

Just like the organization of META ship girls.

Just as described by the META ship girls themselves.

This is the result, this is the future, because there is no way to burn anymore, so it turns into embers.

What the METAs want.

Maybe just burning again in the embers.

At the end of Rafi's dying dream, Rafi saw flames.

Metafication may be the ending of Kancolle.

But at least it wasn't her current ending.

So, what makes her different from the other META ship girls is that she has not yet reached the end.

She can still burn!

She can also reach the past that the META ship girl can no longer return to.

The META ship girls are already descending the mountain.

But she's still going up the mountain!

just now.

She's about to top!

......

Time is passing by every second. Even if we can delay it for ten minutes at least, with the body after the battle with Rafi, Reputation·META is finally reaching its limit.

With only Counterattack META left, it was only a matter of time before she was defeated by Empress.

Regret?

A little.

But this is their fate as ship girls.

Born in struggle and die in struggle.

It’s a pity that they can never go back to the past in their memories.

No matter how you pursue it, no matter what the cost.

The self in memory will never reappear.

In the end, it became the ugly appearance it is now.

My body was getting heavier, but I agreed to hold on for ten minutes.

This is a promise!

I have forgotten a lot of things, including the vows I once believed in.

But what was promised must be completed.

"It seems that's the end of it."

Empress's tone was neither sad nor happy. From former companions to current enemies, the ship girls and the sirens were ultimately just two divergent lines.

After the sinking of Reputation·META, only Counterattack·META was left.

"Let's finish it."

A giant shark-like ship was roaming behind Enpress, black lasers gathered in the mouth of the giant shark, and Counterattack META chose to stand in front of her sister.

Let’s solve it together!

Empres thought about it and felt like he had forgotten something.

Oh, the ten minutes are almost up.

The ship girl named Laffey seemed to ask the two META ship girls in front of her to help her delay for ten minutes.

and then?

What can a mere destroyer girl do?

do what!?

wrong.

The successive battles left the sea covered with the wreckage of Siren warships.

For highly trained warship girls, ordinary Siren warships are no different from cannon fodder. Even if supplies are dropped after sinking a Siren warship, no one has time to collect them.