I, Laffey, am a good ship girl!

Laffey's current training level is 100, and Prince of Wales is probably also at level 100. The level suppression that is always advantageous has no effect on Prince of Wales. Both of them are at the top of the ship girls.

As long as they keep their distance, the Prince of Wales's artillery fire will not pose a threat to Lafite, and Lafite will not be able to threaten the Prince of Wales.

Unless, the distance between the two sides can be shortened.

The Prince of Wales suddenly realized that the distance between her and Lafite was less than two kilometers. At this distance, she only needed to shoot, and Lafite would not be able to dodge her shooting.

How could a ship girl's speed be faster than a battleship's shells?

It is the most accurate corrector in itself. As long as the distance is close enough, there is no such thing as a high-level ship girl firing a blank shell.

The reason why Lafite has not been hit by a shell until now is simply because she intercepted and detonated the shell from the Prince of Wales before it fell on her.

The Prince of Wales regards Lafite as his only threat, so why not Lafite?

The Prince of Wales still has the option of delaying time, but the only option left for Lafite is to defeat the Prince of Wales.

Lafite's actions are undoubtedly a provocation to the Prince of Wales.

"It's just a destroyer, don't be so arrogant!"

The main gun, which had already cooled down, was reloaded. Although the Prince of Wales was angry, she did not lose her mind. She knew very well that if she fired directly, Laffey would definitely dodge or block it.

Therefore, the secondary guns must fire first, and when the explosion blocks Laffi's sight, the main guns can fire in unison.

However, before the Prince of Wales could put his idea into action, the deadlock between them and the ship girls was broken.

No matter how many ordinary Sirens are sunk, they can be replenished. What can really decide the outcome of the war are the three mirror-image ship girls, namely the flagship Prince of Wales, Counterattack and Ark Royal.

Similarly, if any one of Laffite, Long Island or Wichita loses, the situation will collapse.

And luck seems to be on the side of the ship girls.

......

Chapter 94: False Shadow

"I won the bet."

There were several burn marks on his plump white legs. He cooperated with the Royal Ark and operated his carrier-based aircraft to severely damage the mirror image of the Royal Ark on the opposite side. Nagashima shrugged his head and complained: "Ah, I'm so tired. Next time, I'll find someone else to do this kind of work."

If her special ability had not been triggered again, their battle with the Mirror Royal Ark would probably have continued to be a stalemate.

Changdao's special ability [Quick Takeoff] allows him to replenish new carrier-based aircraft immediately by consuming resources after all carrier-based aircraft are destroyed.

However, this ability is not without limits.

Even with Nagashima's level of training, he could only activate this ability 100% when all the carrier-based aircraft were destroyed for the first time in a day.

Once it is launched once, the probability of launching it a second or third time will drop drastically.

Just now, Nagashima used his fighter jets to forcibly exchange some of the torpedo planes of the Mirror Royal Ark, just like exchanging pieces.

The bombers supporting Wichita launched a suicide attack in the counterattack without regard for the losses.

Nagashima used a strategy that would hurt both sides. Even though the Mirror Royal Ark and Mirror Counterattack were both legendary ship girls, they were inevitably injured.

Especially the Mirror Royal Ark, which was forced to go to the battlefield before recovering from the injuries it suffered in the previous battle with Rafi.

She only had a dozen or so carrier-based aircraft left to control, while Nagatoshima's carrier-based aircraft, after their capabilities were triggered, were still fully staffed at sixty.

Although the number of carrier-based aircraft on a light aircraft carrier is nearly one-third less than that of a regular aircraft carrier, sixty carrier-based aircraft operated by a legendary ship girl like Nagashima are enough to affect the direction of this battle.

As long as the Mirror Royal Ark is sunk, Nagashima will be able to fully support Wichita. No matter how strong the counterattack is, it will not be able to face two legendary ship girls at the same time.

"Are you going to...lose...?"

Looking at the rain falling from the sky in the Black Sea, countless carrier-based aircraft are competing overhead.

The Siren's, the KanColle's, and hers.

Even the ship girl who carries the soul of the battleship is still extremely small compared to a real battleship. Even an ordinary carrier-based aircraft is countless times larger than the ship girl herself.

The growth of a ship girl is the growth of her mind cube, and it is the process of her emotional sublimation.

Legend has it that the ship girl can transform her ship's equipment into the hull, transforming it into a real steel battleship.

However, this does not mean that the ship girl has changed from a girl to a battleship.

On the contrary, the legendary ship girls are the ones that are closest to humans.

No longer bound by form or appearance, after the ship equipment is transformed into the ship body, the lone ship girl is just like millions of ordinary humans.

A legendary ship girl is deliberately hiding something, and you can't even use some special means to tell the difference between her and an ordinary human being.

She will show both happy and unhappy things. If she is a legendary ship girl without a commander, when she meets someone she likes, she will secretly pay attention to the other person, confess her feelings boldly, and find ways to attract the other person's attention.

It doesn't have to be a commander, maybe an ordinary human being, male or female, it doesn't matter, the ship girl doesn't care about these things.

After becoming a legendary ship girl, they can also slightly change their appearance. Although the change can only be a little bit, there is no problem in concealing their identity as a ship girl and growing old with the person they love.

Except for not being able to have children, KanColle can fulfill all your wishes.

Of course, it is also possible to do like Long Island, just find a city to live in, open a small shop with little popularity, and enjoy it even if you lose money every day.

His room, shop and game hall are just a straight line, making him a senior who is hard to find in the eyes of the other ship girls.

Retaining the identity of a ship girl is also a good choice. Teaching new ship girls and new commanders is a great pleasure for senior ship girls with high levels of training.

However, the Mirror Royal Ark had not experienced any of this.

They have been fighting continuously since their birth. Even if their bodies are destroyed, the Mind Cube will be taken away by the Siren behind them and resurrected, and then they will start a new round of reincarnation.

Destroyed and revived time and time again, I don’t know where Siren got the record from, the Mirror Royal Ark has grown step by step from an extremely weak and broken ship girl to its current state.

Even if it is a sirens, it is impossible to create something out of nothing, otherwise what would be born would be a group of puppets with only fixed emotions and thoughts.

The Mirror Royal Ark knew very well that her mind cube had reached its limit. Every battle and every injury brought her closer to the final limit.

The last battle made her forget her own name.

What is left of a shipgirl who has forgotten even her own name? What is left here is nothing but a pile of empty residue.

However, she still remembered why she stepped onto this battlefield and what she was fighting for.

So, when the bombers from Long Island and Ark Royal dropped their bombs in the sky, the Mirror Ark Royal abandoned its defense and used its last strength to release the last carrier-based aircraft.

"Go, for our glory!"

I didn't know why I said this. My body sank into the cold sea and my mind cube collapsed bit by bit.

This time, not even the Siren could revive her.

The endless cycle will come to an end here.

However, perhaps it is the mechanism of the Mind Cube itself, or perhaps it is a prank by a Siren.

When the body of the Mirror Royal Ark began to disintegrate, fragmented memories flooded into the mind at this moment.

At this moment, everything from birth to growth, including the part that was intentionally tampered with by the Siren, came back to his mind.

What on earth did she do?!

He killed his fellow shipgirls and became a pawn of the Siren, whom he should have hated. He died and revived again and again, and in the end he even forgot his own nature.

How could she hurt herself?

Your favorite expelled sister?

Through the cold sea water, the girl seemed to see a carrier-based aircraft burning with black flames crossing the sky and flying towards the "other self" on the sea.

No!

Please stop!

That's enough!

The cracked body was unable to utter a single word. The moment the Mirror Royal Ark raised her hand toward the sea, her entire arm turned into countless illusory points of light, disintegrating and shattering like foam.

She is an illusory shadow, a bubble that does not exist in anyone's heart. No one knows when or where she was born, nor does anyone know what she wants. She has no family background and no words to speak.

Just a false dream.

Just a false shadow.

......

Chapter 95: Cognitive Awakening

"The Royal Ark!?"

The shell that was about to be fired at Laffey stopped in the barrel. The Prince of Wales, who was holding the main gun, stared blankly at the Royal Ark which was severely damaged by Long Island's carrier-based aircraft in the distance.

Having lost all of its carrier-based aircraft, the Ark Royal was only one step away from sinking.

She should have stopped the Royal Ark from going into battle from the very beginning, or let her stay far behind her.

How could Ark Royal win against a legendary ship girl and a quasi-legendary ship girl when its injuries haven’t recovered yet?

She had forgotten when she started fighting alongside the Royal Ark, but it must have been a long, long time.

The Prince of Wales vaguely remembered that the Ark Royal at that time was not as taciturn as it is now. It was always talking nonsense and looking forward to the ship girls outside to come to it.

She has never fought seriously, and even when facing a ship girl who is not as good as her, she will not give it her all.

However, the ship girls from outside did not know this, so they sank her as the "enemy" again and again.

Continuous destruction and rebirth, until Siren was unable to complete the intelligence of the Royal Ark, and her mind cube became incomplete.

She began to fight seriously, sinking the ship girl, or being sunk by the ship girl.

But few people know that she would occasionally think about what she had done and see the blood of her compatriots on her hands.

After repeating the cycle again and again, in the end, it becomes this incomplete human figure that looks like it was pieced together from pieces of debris.

As a fellow royal ship girl, the Prince of Wales was angry and hateful, and even fired at the Siren who created them regardless of the consequences.

I want to ask them, if they are just pawns who want to kill the ship girls, then why do they have to preserve their emotions as ship girls, why do they have to endure such endless pain.

In response to her, the Sirens laughed as if they were teasing ants.

"Want freedom? Then work hard to become stronger! When you become stronger than us and defeat us, you will be free."

The Siren is so powerful that it makes people despair. Even for a team composed of legendary ship girls, it is still unknown whether they can win against the Siren.

From the beginning, they had no choice.

But there was one thing for sure: she would never watch her companions sink in front of her again.

"Click——"

The main gun that was about to fire at Laffite stopped and aimed at Long Island in the distance.

Even if she couldn't hit a highly maneuverable destroyer, a light aircraft carrier like Nagashima, which was at the bottom in terms of maneuverability and speed among all the ship girls, would never be able to avoid her bombardment.

Now is not the beginning. Everyone thinks she is being held up by a destroyer and the attention is no longer on her.

Now is the best time!

"Main gun reload, elevation angle 33 degrees, fire..."

"What!?"

One shell missed Wales but struck her main gun, which she was raising. At the same time, other shells fired by Laffey landed on the sea around Prince of Wales, creating large splashes of water.

Even the Prince of Wales could not hit a target several kilometers away with his vision blocked, the main gun elevation offset, and the need to maintain balance.

Then, at this critical moment, Lafite finally rushed to the Prince of Wales.

"I won't let you pass!"

Without firing any shells, knowing full well that his attack would not work, Rafi leaned forward, raised his head, and twisted his waist.

Raise the left leg more than 130 degrees, and kick out from bottom to top!

“Boom——————!!!”

A kick with a force of a thousand tons landed on the Prince of Wales' arm. What does it matter if the armor is thick? The bodies of the ship girls are the strongest. They are the strongest weapons.

"Well……"

A distressed sound came out of her mouth. The Prince of Wales's urgent defense failed to completely block Rafi's attack. The right half of her ball became flat under the pressure of her arm, and she almost couldn't breathe.

However, there is still a big gap in power between the battleship and the destroyer. Even though the battleship was at a disadvantage when being urged, after reacting, the Prince of Wales exerted force and swept the Laffey away.

After doing all this, the Prince of Wales did not show any joy on his face, only deep despair.

"don't want!!!"