Inside the Black Tower space station.
Although it was impossible to transmit information to Bai Yu, whose consciousness was in another universe, Black Tower could still use its own simulated universe framework to present the port area view from Bai Yu's perspective in real-time, thanks to the ship girl contract and the connection between Bai Yu's consciousness and her own body.
Naturally, they saw those amazing ship girls.
"Interesting species."
The doll lady held her arms with one hand, tapping her chin with the other, her gaze fixed on the ship girls who were fighting the Sirens on the sea.
"Although their combat methods are primitive and their weapon power is hardly satisfactory, their existence is very special."
"Aren't they human?" Esda, who could only see the surface, didn't understand why Black Tower would make such an evaluation. In her eyes, weren't they just soldiers wearing strange equipment who could fight on the sea?
"Of course they are not human." Black Tower glanced at the data on another light screen that had already made a preliminary analysis of the ship girls. "You think the cannons on them are some kind of equipment? No, no, no, those things can be considered part of their bodies."
"To put it figuratively, you can understand it as a group of warships that have turned into human forms."
"Moreover, their evolutionary potential is likely to be very high. For example, ...from surface warships within the atmosphere to star destroyers?"
"That's amazing. Carbon-based flesh and mechanical structures integrated into one life form. This universe is not without them, but I've never seen anything like this before. Just classifying these species biologically would be enough to make the learned people of Boshizun scratch their heads."
"Damn! I have to figure out a way to get Xiao Bai to get me a sample to study."
Such an evil scientist-like statement, seemingly ready to conduct human experiments, did not cause any repulsion. Esda, who was familiar with Black Tower, knew very well that even if Black Tower wanted to study research subjects with intellect and self-awareness, it would try its best to take care of their emotions.
On the other side, Su Shang, who was still a little dazed, finally understood. Like a curious kid, she looked at the ship girls galloping on the sea, exclaiming: "Starships… ah, can warships turn into girls?"
"The personification of military equipment is not a rare thing either." Fu Xuan lifted her eyelids slightly, signaling Su Shang not to make a fuss. "Don't forget, the Xianzhou's Golden Men are essentially human-shaped armor."
Thinking of the Xianzhou's city gate tower and the Ten King's Palace's soul-reaping Golden Men envoys, Su Shang nodded with realization: "That's right!"
…Division Line…
On the vast ocean, Purifier, like an excited child, was laughing loudly as she continued to lead a large number of mass-produced units to bombard the headquarters port of Azur Lane.
The endless artillery fire, stirring up water columns and flames, almost completely obscured the view. Such a sudden attack, while causing great trouble to the port area in the first instance, quickly reversed the situation as more and more ship girls reacted and joined the battle.
After all, this was the headquarters mother port, where a large number of hero ship girls gathered. If the Sirens had launched a full-scale attack, it would be one thing, but now, only a big-eyed cutie with a bunch of mass-produced minions came to cause trouble…
——In the end, she was bound to be hammered into a hot weapon herself.
As a large number of carrier-based aircraft broke through the dust in the sky and flew to their airspace to drop bombs, a series of main gun salvos followed.
The falling bombs and main gun shells, whizzing through the air in a parabola, emitted a shrill, ear-piercing shriek as they rubbed against the air, instantly sending a large number of Sirens units that had gotten too close to the port to the bottom of the sea.
"You dare to attack here! You're too bold!"
Bismarck, wearing a military uniform, stood at the forefront, one hand holding high the black Iron Blood cross flag, the other hand slightly lowering the brim of her military cap, her eyes sharp, as if they could pierce through the smoke and flames obscuring the view.
"Everyone, follow me closely! Over there, don't run around with Eugen!"
"Prepare to charge! Tear apart the enemy's formation! No one can stop the Iron Blood's advance!"
With a loud shout, Bismarck raised her long arm, pointing the Iron Blood cross flag towards the front.
"Be careful, Bismarck!" Wales joined Bismarck at her side. "The situation is not right. The results of the reconnaissance by Akagi and Kaga show that this time there is only Purifier leading the attack, and no other high-level Sirens have been seen."
"Ahahahahahaha! Who said I was the only one here!"
The laughter, whether it was arrogance or recklessness, rang out. Bismarck and Wales looked up simultaneously, seeing Purifier jumping down from the sky.
"Observation Sister has already gone~~ in~~side~~ oh~~!"
Wales and Bismarck's faces turned pale, and they both thought of a possibility at the same time.
"“Belfast!""
There was no doubt that the Sirens must have learned about Belfast's contract with the Commander and had deliberately launched this operation.
Let Purifier stir up trouble here to attract attention, and then have Observer sneak in to grab the person?
Seeing the two of them react in horror, Purifier's golden eyes widened, her laughter becoming even more joyous.
"Are you scared? Now, maybe Befa-san has already been—— Oh, puffffffffff!!!!!!!"
Boom——!
Completely, unable to react to what was happening.
Wales and Bismarck initially felt only a strange sensation behind them, then in the blink of an eye, the deafening roar stole their hearing.
When everything calmed down, the scene became bizarre.
The big-eyed cutie lowered her head, staring blankly at the empty space below. "A-le?"
Wales and Bismarck fell silent, looking at the empty space below the big-eyed cutie's neck, where her body should have been, but now only her head was left suspended in mid-air.
"Oops? Where's my body?"
With a question, the big-eyed cutie's head plunged into the water with a plop, starting to choke and cough.
"Gulp——! Cough, cough, cough! I'm choking! I'm choking! Someone, quickly pick my head up!"
In the distance.
About a few nautical miles away, on a nameless reef.
Observer, who had finally dispersed the mosquito coils in her eyes, was staring at the…headless body of Purifier that she was holding in her arms, with a face as green as iron.
This idiot was still waving her hands around, trying to feel for her neck. After touching her head, she tried to pull it off and put it on top of her own empty neck…!
"You idiot! This is my head! Stop pulling!"