I, Laffey, am a good ship girl!

The Prince of Wales raised his illusory hand and smiled slightly, "I can no longer even remember my name, where I belong, or the meaning of my birth."

"Just remember that I once said that I would protect you."

"Look, through that passage is our new world. You don't have to fight anymore, and you don't have to worry about being attacked. You can do whatever you want."

"At this point, are you going to make all my efforts go in vain?"

The black and red lines on the Prince of Wales' body are gradually fading; this is her soul network, proof of her awakening.

But now, that proof is crumbling, falling apart.

"Live well, together with my share and hers, and try your best to survive. If you are tired of fighting, find a place where you will never be exposed to disputes and hide."

The Prince of Wales looked at the counterattack and uttered the last words.

"Farewell, Fight Back..."

Just when everyone thought that the Prince of Wales's life would end like this, the light on her body suddenly flickered.

"This is......"

The tester's expression changed slightly, but the [Natural Algorithm System] was unable to draw any conclusions about the unexpected change.

As the tester was thinking, the Purifier's voice suddenly rang in her ears.

"Whoa, tester, be careful!"

Ok?

The tester's damaged body slowed her reaction down, and by the time she came to her senses, the shell flashing with blue lightning had already shattered half of her body.

what happened?

The tester looked at Lafite not far away, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

She couldn't understand it at all. Hadn't they already offered quite generous conditions? Why did the ship girl still attack her?

It is true that the Prince of Wales is an enemy, but ship girls are all emotional creatures. How could they remain indifferent when seeing the Prince of Wales’ counterattack and his bond with the Ark Royal?

If they were afraid of death, they would not be ship girls.

After killing the tester with a sneak attack, the only enemy left is the purifier.

"Really? Why don't you guys play by the rules?"

The Purifier screamed when he saw half of the tester's body fall into the sea.

"In this case, I can only attack you, right?"

It is her and the tester's mission to recover the Prince of Wales's Mind Cube. If there is no way to resolve it peacefully, then they can only fight.

but......

Noticing that half of her mind body had begun to collapse, and that the Prince of Wales, who could faintly see the mind cube that constituted the existence of the ship girl, was still accumulating strength, the Purifier blinked her big bright yellow eyes.

"Hey~, this is going to be fun."

......

Chapter 105: Rafi and the Purifier

Emotions, beliefs, pride, honor... The Prince of Wales, who had given up everything, had nothing left. The only reason why she was still standing here was her previous promise.

To protect you!

She couldn't leave her fate to the Sirens, she couldn't trust them, and she couldn't give up her life just because of a word from the Sirens.

However, what she said about the counterattack was not false.

She is really sinking!

The mind cube has collapsed, the broken hull may disintegrate at any time, and consciousness has become blurred.

All she could do was raise her cannon and point it at the Purifiers in the sky.

At least she remembered that the white-haired girl with a long ponytail in the sky was her enemy.

Gathering all his strength on the last shot, he aimed it at the Purifier that was entangled by the carrier-based aircraft in the sky.

"farewell!"

With power drawn entirely from the Mind Cube, lasers flashing with black arcs shot out from the Prince of Wales' main guns and pierced the sky.

The Purifier, the sea, the sky...it seemed as if everything was torn apart by this blow, as if the Prince of Wales had detonated his own mind cube at the last moment.

The entire mirror-like sea was penetrated by the Prince of Wales's attack.

Perhaps even the Prince of Wales himself did not expect that her attack would be so powerful.

The collapsed mind cube erased its own existence with one blow, directly shattering the entire mirror sea.

At the last moment, the Purifier dodged the Prince of Wales's completely inaccurate attack. Holding his head, he looked at the space around him that was shattered like a mirror and shouted, "Wow, even though it was just a small singularity, when the energy rebounds, the entire mirror sea will be blown up, right? The sea in the real world will probably be affected a little bit as well."

The impact is really a headache.”

"But, let the judges handle the troublesome matters. Priority task, priority task~"

The Purifier laughed and avoided the Royal Ark and Long Island's carrier-based aircraft, flying towards the Prince of Wales, whose body began to gradually collapse after firing the last shot.

On the body of the Prince of Wales, who had almost lost all consciousness, a black and red mind cube that was already full of cracks was floating in the air.

If the Purifiers take away the Mind Cube, the Prince of Wales will be truly dead.

and so--

"I won't let you succeed!"

Rafi's main guns and anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, blocking the Purifier halfway.

"Lafite-chan, I don't have time to play with you now~"

Avoiding Lafite's artillery fire, the Purifier unfolded his ship suit, and aimed four secondary guns and one main gun at Lafite on the sea at the same time.

"As long as you can beat Rafi!"

The clustered network that had previously blocked the tester's attack condensed again, blocking the purifier's attack.

Compared with the tester, the beam of light released by the purifier is more powerful and longer-lasting. Even Rafi has to concentrate to deal with it.

"Fight back, this is for you!"

Kneeling on the ground, Counterattack, who had lost the will to fight because of the death of the Prince of Wales, raised her head slightly. A mind cube emitting a blue halo was thrown by Lafite in front of her.

"After our ship girls awaken, their spirits are stronger than you think, so they won't die easily.

"The Prince of Wales became too powerful after his cognitive awakening. The Mind Cube could not withstand the power of the Prince of Wales after his growth, so it collapsed and cracked."

"In that case, we just need to add a plug-in to Prince Wales's Mind Cube to help him share the pressure brought by this power. Prince Wales might be able to come back to life."

In fact, Laffey didn't know whether the Mind Cube could help the current Prince of Wales. After all, in the game, the cognitive awakening of the ship girls required the Mind Unit rather than the Mind Cube. It was still unknown whether the Mind Unit and the Mind Cube were related.

But at this point, we can only try our best to save the situation, so that there is at least a glimmer of hope.

As for why Raffi has the Mind Cube, don't forget that when she was on a mission to build a sonar buoy, she sank a Siren battleship.

The loot dropped by the Siren ship girl was a mind cube.

I haven't had the chance to exchange this mind cube for resources, but now it comes in handy.

Holding the Mind Cube given by Raffi, Counterattack saw Raffi competing with the Purifier and nodded heavily.

Although the other party is a companion of the group of ship girls who sank the Royal Ark, now is not the time to worry about those things.

Holding the Mind Cube given by Lafite, it was like grabbing the last straw, and he fought back towards the Prince of Wales's ship.

The huge ship, which is more than two hundred meters long, is collapsing bit by bit, and the mind cube that constitutes the Prince of Wales's mind body is also breaking into pieces bit by bit.

Seeing the counterattack heading towards the Prince of Wales, the Purifier in the sky shouted in dissatisfaction: "Too naive, how can the use of the Mind Cube be so simple? It would be better to hand the Prince of Wales over to us, so that we may be able to keep her Mind Cube."

The Sirens certainly have ways to prevent the Prince of Wales' Mind Cube from further collapsing, but if the Prince of Wales' Mind Cube collapses completely, even the Sirens will be powerless to save the situation.

Unfortunately, there was Lafite blocking the Purifier's way. She was obviously just a tiny guy, but she couldn't gain any advantage at all.

"What the hell is wrong with you? You were so weak before, but now you're stronger than the Prince of Wales' kid, aren't you?"

Noticing the hull enveloped by the power emanating from Rafi, the Purifier couldn't help but wonder if Rafi's combat effectiveness could be even higher if the hull hadn't been damaged.

She had originally been fighting just for fun, but now she had to be serious.

"Although I don't like that feeling very much, but if I want to defeat you in a short time, I have to do that."

"...Subroutine, number/purifier, requesting access to the terminal network."

A stream of data flashed in the Purifier's golden pupils, and her eyes suddenly lost their luster, like an emotionless machine.

Consciousness was suddenly interrupted, and the Purifier's head drooped.

Then, in less than a second, a huge stream of data poured into the Purifier's brain, reactivating the Purifier's will.

"Application successful, mission executed, target cleared!"

In just this moment, the Purifier gave Lafite a completely different feeling.

If the previous Purifier could still give Rafi a feeling of being a "human", then what is in front of Rafi now is a pure fighting machine.

......

Chapter 106: Collapse of the Mirror Sea

Rumbling--

If this were the real world, the power of the ship girl would certainly not be able to collapse the entire space around her.

But this is the Mirror Sea, a special sea area opened up by the Siren using some kind of power, and it is not as solid as the real world.

Prince of Wales, her attack directly detonated the center of the mirror sea, destroyed the singularity mentioned by the Purifier, and caused the mirror sea, which had not been stable to begin

Gradually collapsed.

There were thunder and lightning in the sky, thick dark clouds gathered together, and big drops of rain fell down.

If a ship's carrier-based aircraft flew into the sky and looked down, it would find that the clouds in the entire mirror-like sea area were like the cloud map during a typhoon, covering the sea area within hundreds of kilometers.

At the very center of the cloud map is the wreckage of the Prince of Wales. Next to it are the figures of Laffey and the Purifier, who are fighting with naval guns for the Prince of Wales' Mind Cube.

The edge of the mirror sea has begun to collapse, and the sky, which was originally similar to the night in the real world, is now covered with cracks like a broken mirror.

The cracks that could swallow an entire warship were like bottomless abysses. The surging sea water and undercurrents made navigation extremely difficult.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The laser from the Purifier swept over Rafi's head and almost hit the Royal Ark and others a few kilometers away.

Although she wanted to go up and help Rafi, at this moment, her strength was completely exhausted.

After exiting the awakening state, although the Royal Ark still retained the training level equivalent to that of a legendary ship girl, she was unable to launch even a carrier-based aircraft. She became extremely tired, just like a ship girl who had fought for several days and nights and had used up all her ammunition and resources.

"Sister Rafi!"

Looking at Rafi who was fighting with the Purifier, Royal Ark showed an unwilling expression on his face. He had clearly merged the power of another self, but in the end he still couldn't help the people important to him.

"Royal Ark!"

At this moment, Rafi's voice suddenly rang in Royal Ark's mind.

"I'm sorry for making you worry. Please leave this sea area as soon as possible. This sea area is about to collapse."

"What about you, sister Rafi?"

Hearing Rafi's words, Royal Ark barely stood up and asked loudly.

"Don't worry about Rafi. Rafi will protect himself."

Rafi looked in front of him, at the Purifier who was attacking him expressionlessly, with a faint smile on his face.

"Rafi will definitely come back, you have to take care of yourselves."

After saying this, Rafi placed his hand on the hull of his ship and stroked it gently.

"Sorry, please hold on a little longer."

The huge ship was enveloped in azure light, and after firing its final salvo, it turned into a dazzling mass of light particles.

The next moment, a brand new ship outfit appeared on Lafite, and at the same time, a seaplane reconnaissance aircraft specially designed for destroyers also appeared.

The last round of artillery fire blocked the Purifier's vision, and after a dive over the water in a PBY-5A Catalina seaplane, the distance of less than a kilometer was quickly closed.

By the time the Purifier used its own cannons to disperse the surrounding smoke, Rafi had already appeared on the sea less than a hundred meters away from her.