Chapter 24 Concealment
"All the waters around Toga Island are cleared by the enemy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeใ infoโ
After Sato Gonjun read out the summary of the battle situation, the crew in the command room burst into excited shouts, although it was a summary report in the form of the end of the battle, but the people around him still felt a sense of pride when they heard it.
Led by the Ninth Sentai Force, the advance team captured the northernmost target island of the New Hebrides. Their ninth team contributed to this sea battle as the main force, not to mention military medals, and there were also more topics to talk about among colleagues.
"Remember that the word 'Victory' in the Chinese language of the King of Britain means victory."
Kii's broken English made Sato Gonjun not know whether to laugh out loud, "Don't just name foreign Chinese, Admiral Kii." And say 'Victory'. โ
Another victory, Kii became more and more confident in his performance on the battlefield. Not even needing reinforcements, the 9th and 8th teams sank all the enemies entrenched at the gateway to the New Hebrides.
That night, the 9th and 8th teams slowly sailed through the waters around Toga Island, and they had to continue to control the waters they had in hand until they received the next order.
The information she received from Sosuke Takayanagi was locked up without anyone to be seen by Kii and hidden in her personal safe on the ship, and the information contained made her still unable to believe it.
But it is not an outrageous joke that she can be bizarrely resurrected and become a ship girl, and her old friends will become deep-sea habitats. It is precisely because of this that the deep-sea fleet has never hit her, Kii guessed so.
Kii is reluctant to reveal his identity during his lifetime, adding unnecessary trouble to his own family and causing panic among others. Just knowing that she came back from the dead was enough for many greedy people to study her mysteries.
Now there's another piece of heavy information - the battleship Suhime or individual Suhime is an old friend who died with her that day. Kii didn't know how Sosuke Takayanagi got this kind of unbelievable information, but Kii thought about it alone and thought it was very possible.
Even the first-class battleship Niang Kongo was hit by a few shells in the Third Battle of Solomon, but it didn't affect her hull. And she Ki has never been hit by the deep-sea fleet once, and the domestic media advertises that she is "the invincible battleship of the Empire", but under this glory, Kii himself does not believe it.
After lying on the bed and thinking about it for a long time, Kii got up and turned on a lamp and took out a bunch of keys from his coat. Fearing that Gonjun Sato would see her, she decided to burn the pages that mentioned her and her old friend. Her trust in Gonjun Sato does not mean that she is willing to know everything, especially secrets that seriously affect her image.
Kii stood on a chair and pushed the painting on the wall upward, and the device on the painting activated, revealing the hidden safe. When Kii learned that there was a secret compartment in his captain's room, he also thought it was a useless decoration. When it was really useful, Kii sighed at the thoughtfulness of the builders.
With the wisdom of Sato Gonjun, he would definitely not have imagined that she would hide the most important documents and items here, Kii thought.
Opening the safe, Kii finds the file bag that Sosuke Takayanagi gave her, and quickly restores the secret compartment. Kii opened the file bag for the second time, and she had only secretly looked at it once before, and she was too scared to look at it in detail.
In addition to all the photos related to the deep-sea fleet taken by the submarine ship mother so far, the most important thing is a few pages of information summary written by Sosuke Takayanagi himself.
He not only described the current forces of the deep-sea fleet and the respective combat power estimates of several Suhime, but also mentioned that some of the Suhime led by the battleship Suhime were old friends of Kii from the third page. The reason for this was not given, and he also attached a snapshot of the attack on Trukpo. Although the photo is very blurry, the scene of the duel between the two in the middle can be seen clearly, one is Nagato, and the other is the battleship Suhime.
Sosuke Takayanagi's intelligence told Kii that the base-type suhime in the deep-sea suhime has two forms, one in the form of a humanoid and one in the hull, and the latter is equivalent to merging with the hull, just like a deep-sea destroyer. The humanoid form has hands and feet, and is very similar to a human except for physical features.
Kii will not admit that the battleship Suhime who drew a sword to face Nagato in the photo is used by the Mito Ryu sword handed down by the Mito Hyozaburo family. Both the posture and the angle of the knife can coincide with the person in Kii's memory.
Death is not the end, she Kii is resurrected, and the other four people are also resurrected, resurrected in the deep sea as non-human creatures. They are now enemies.
In addition to being shocked, Kii just wanted to cover up the whole thing, although no one would believe it when he said it, but Kii was not at ease. She found matches in the drawer of her desk, learned how civil servants handled documents, found an iron can, and first spread a layer of sand in it.
Picking out all the photos and captions in the document related to her and her old friends, Kii lit a piece of paper and began her destruction operation.
A few pieces of paper, a few photos, made Kii sleep until he got up in the middle of the night to destroy it. In the end, although she often complains that her current life is too stressful, she is a hundred unwilling to really affect the time. In the past, the figure of the three Kibayashi was only ashamed to remember when Kii was first resurrected, but now in a lofty position, she can't wait to forget. She is now a successful person, and she is already two different people from the three Kilin who can't do anything.
Kii still hadn't figured out how to deal with her old friends, who had become non-human creatures, she just prayed not to meet them, and then resigned herself to fate.
In the iron can, the pages are about to burn out, and Kii pokes the unburned pages in the iron can with a damaged pen, and his mind is still thinking about Sosuke Takayanagi's information.
Because she didn't close the ventilation window properly, a gust of wind suddenly blew in, and Kii was smoked by the paper ashes that were blowing.
"Ahem! It's bad luck. โ
Pulling a clean piece of paper from his desk, Kii wiped his cheek, and it was dark......
When she looked back, the unburned pages had been blown to the edge of the curtain, and the flammable polyester cloth was immediately set on fire. Kii was taken aback, threw away the paper in his hand, and quickly brought a broom in the corner of the wall to put out the flames.
In a hurry, Ji Yi didn't control his strength, only slapped twice, the fire didn't get smaller, and the broom was smashed by her first. She looked around and remembered that it was easier and faster to use sand to put out fires. Lifting the bucket of sand in the captain's room, Kii collapsed all of them on the fire.
Kii's idea was correct, but she had no fire training, and the sea breeze was blowing outside, so the sand only pressed one side of the fire, and the flames immediately lit most of the curtains with the help of the wind.
"What to do, what to do, what to do......"
As a rule, accidents on board are also handled by the damage management team, but it would be a shame for her to set fire to her room by herself. Kiichi pulled off the curtain cloth and stepped forward to extinguish the fire with his boots.
Under Kii's "violent" method of extinguishing the fire, the curtain cloth was burned to only a corner, and a large pool of black ash was spread on the floor, and the fire was extinguished by Kii, but there was a pungent plastic smell in her cabin.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Kii ordered to control the hatch to unlock.
"Admiral Kiyi, what did you burn?"
Walking in was Sato Gonjun, wearing pajamas like Kii, but with an extra military jacket on him.
With a red face, Kii looked at the terrible "fire scene" at his feet, and could only say that he accidentally threw the match on the curtain after lighting it.
Kii's lame level of lying, Sato Gonjun is not the first time to see it, a little speechless stepped forward to check the specific situation, he hurriedly opened all the ventilation windows in the cabin, and by the way, threw the unburned curtain cloth out of the window.
"You go to bed first, there are spare beds in the conference cabin. In the second half of the night, turn on the heating yourself and don't catch a cold. "Kii's cabin smells pungent and normal people can't stand it.
At this time, Kii realized that some of the information that Sosuke Takayanagi had given her on the table had not been put back in its place, and it was all spread out on the desk. "No, just a small accident. I'll take care of it. โ
When Sato Gonjun entered the door, he saw the "important information" spread out on the table, although he had already secretly read it in advance. In front of the embarrassed Kii, Gonjun Sato sorted out the scattered pages and photos on the desk and put them back in the file bag.
"You don't have to hide it from me, and you don't think of me as a gentleman. From the first day you joined the Ninth Team, I've been sending someone to find out who you are. With the acquiescence of Sousuke Takayanagi, I can create an intelligence unit in Yokosuka, and it will be easy to send someone to investigate your information. Of course, Nagato has arranged all aspects, and I haven't found any substantive information, so it's up to you to expose it step by step. โ
Kiyi's mind was blank, she didn't expect that Sato Gonjun had already known the secret of her identity. was gently pushed to the door by Sato Gonjun before she reacted.
"This ...... It was a matter of face for the Combined Fleet, and I agreed to Nagato's request that he concealed at the time, and the fact that my old friend had become a non-human creature, there was no evidence to prove it. There is a possibility that Sosuke Takayanagi's information is fake, and the part about me is true, and everything else may be fake......"
Before Kii wanted to continue, Gonjun Sato made a stop gesture to make Kii stop his panicked concealment. Sato Gonjun doesn't believe in the existence of human souls 100%, and he happens to be made a subordinate by the will of the deep sea, but looking at Kii's tough rebuttal, it is basically certain that it is also true.
For Sato Gongun, one of the most important messages conveyed by Sosuke Takayanagi's intelligence is that he has the same existence as Sato Gonjun has a direct communication with the will of the deep sea. As for where the commanders of the deep-sea fleet, such as the battleship Suhime and the Moordi Water Ghost, came from, he didn't want to care about it, as long as they opened fire on the members of the Ninth Sentai Team, Kii would choose to be their enemy in pain. Although it was painful for Kii, Sato's ultimate goal was to witness where the world was heading, and not to interfere with Kii's key choices throughout the war, so that he could see the "answer" promised to him by the will of the deep sea.
"Well, don't waste any more time. Rest well, you are the backbone of the team, you can't get tired. I'll take care of that here. Make sure everything is back to the way it was tomorrow morning. โ