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Red Kite

When she opened her eyes, the blue sky greeted her eyes.

The sky is cloudless, that’s what you’re talking about, right? Her brain was running slowly, and with the awakening of her nerves, the pain began to spread from her limbs to her mind.

it hurts. she thought so.

The recovery of her sense of smell allowed her to smell a strong smell of blood, including some weird smell of gunpowder.

Where am I?

Thinking so, she tried to raise her right hand.

All that was left on her arms were broken sleeves and bloodstains. These bloodstains were even a little warm on her arms, and slowly slid down to her shoulders and chest.

Is this my blood? She moved her lips slightly, but finally chose to put down her arms.

Just raising your hands like this is really tiring.

Not far away was the sound of steel gnashing, and she turned her head quietly. Her hair and blood coagulated together, making it difficult for her to move.

“Kala Kala——”

This is the sound of metal rubbing, it sounds like the sound of heavy main guns rotating on a battleship.

She guessed right.

In the next second, the roar of the shells even shook the dust, making her eardrums feel as painful as being torn apart.

The main gun seems to be not far away from me. Could it be that I’m lying on the deck of the battleship?

Asking herself like this, she didn’t choose to stand up after all, but just lay there sluggishly, listening to the continuous rotation and firing of the main cannon that was quite close to her.

It’s really noisy. Why is it so noisy? How could it make such a terrible noise when it was just throwing metal chunks?

Unable to bear the pain of tinnitus, she stood up with all her strength. Fortunately, there was something behind her to support her. She didn’t fall down after shaking, but leaned on something on her back.

Probably something like a steel bar pierced into my body? But now I don’t feel pain, maybe I’m hopeless, this is the so-called backlight.

Thinking of this, she slowly raised her eyes while standing there, but saw an unusual scenery.

A woman with a white high ponytail in a strange dress. The steel around her, like a giant whale, opened its mouth wide towards her. A cannon barrel with a terrifying diameter protruded from its mouth, pointing directly at herself.

Who is this woman? Has a long purple horn on its head? Is it a ghost?

The giant whale beside the woman was gathering energy. She saw that the gun barrel with an abnormal diameter started to glow red, and the air around it even began to twist.

This is probably the main gun that made me crawl back from Hades, right? The sound of turning and launching is really very unpleasant.

“It’s really despicable to have a ship girl mixed in with the human crowd.” The proud woman said so, and the gun barrel beside her became even redder.

At this moment, an anxious female voice came to her ears: “Get out of the way!”

The cannon came out of the chamber, a large cannonball wrapped in purple flames, this strange and dangerous cannonball flew towards her at almost zero distance.

Vaguely, she heard someone gritted her teeth and cursed “Damn”, and then heard the sound of the wind.

Suddenly her body became icy cold, and the shells that were originally aimed at her stopped in front of her as if in slow motion.

Want to beat her up.

Such thoughts came from her heart, and at the same time, a huge energy surged out from behind, filling her crumbling body.

to avoid. she thought so.

With just a little effort on her feet, she straddled a few meters away and easily dodged the flying shells.

“what?!”

The woman lost her composure and raised her voice, but when she, who had been on the battlefield, was startled, another giant whale cannon beside her had already started to readjust its position and aim at the opponent.

She couldn’t be separated, she knew, so taking advantage of being full of strength now, she raised her left hand and let her arm slam into the opponent’s neck fiercely.

Although it successfully hit the opponent’s neck, the long sharp thorns on the opponent’s chest also stabbed her.

I can’t take care of so much anymore, as she thought so, more forward force suddenly surged from her back.

Amid the woman’s exclamation, she clamped the other’s neck with her left hand, catching the sudden driving force behind her, and this woman who came with bad intentions was ruthlessly thrown to the ground by her.

Even she herself didn’t realize how strong this force was. The moment she smashed the woman into the ground, the ground shattered, and the sand and dust flew into the air along with the blood.

Just like a dream, she was extremely angry and smashed a woman who was a head taller than herself into the floor.

“…Is my strength so great?” This strange experience made her unaware for a moment that she had been targeted by a giant whale with a red cannon barrel in its mouth.

The woman lying under her stared at her with a nasty smile.”Go to hell, idiot.”

“Boom—”

The deafening explosion sounded in her ears, and the high temperature rolled up blood and dust, making her mistakenly think for a moment that she could touch the sun with her hand.

It’s so hot.

Thinking of this, she lost strength all over her body, and fell backwards without warning.

The line of sight was quickly enveloped by black mist, which blocked the high-temperature shells wrapped in flames, and at this moment, a soft body enveloped her.

who is it?

Her head was firmly but gently pressed into a soft place. The girly aroma mixed with the smell of rust penetrated into her nostrils, making her a little stunned.

“Boom——”

The shock wave generated by the close-range explosion swept everything away. The black mist that had originally surrounded her was instantly evaporated, and she felt as if the world had been turned upside down.

——I remembered, I, I was still in school, and because I was late, the teacher arranged to go to the woods to sweep fallen leaves, but I met, I met…

Encountered an attack from the deep sea.

Memories and pain poured into her brain like a tide, unable to quickly process these complicated information, she could only stare blankly at the girl who tightly wrapped herself in her arms.

The long flaxen hair fluttered in the flames, and the girl’s coat was burning under the high temperature, like a night elf who bravely fought against the Balrog, and that heroic figure made everything a foil for the girl.

This is the ship’s wife.

When her brain gave this information, she almost instinctively stood firm and stretched out her hands to hug the girl who was protecting her.

With the impact of the explosion, she easily hid the girl who had used her body to cover herself behind her, and then took advantage of the situation to press her behind the cover, and she also fell down on the ground.

The explosion that shook the entire area ended, and the woman who fired the cannon disappeared into the flames.

The girl who was the ship’s wife realized that she was not injured. She immediately opened her eyes and wanted to support her body, but she touched the tip of the nose of the person she rescued, and her eyes met.

The two of them who survived the catastrophe were both gasping for breath, blending each other’s breaths, and they kept hiding behind the bunker in an ambiguous posture.

No one broke the scene. It wasn’t until the girl’s headgear slipped from her long hair that it fell onto her hands. She straightened up as if awakened from a dream, and opened the distance between the two of them.

“Yes, I’m sorry!” She backed away like a frightened little animal.

Just when she got up and backed up, a small metal plate fell from her clothes onto the girl. The girl picked up the half-burned breast plate and got the name of this daredevil.

“Red kite.”