Chapter 29: Atonement

"I've heard you say that. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Your new potion can make a subspecies ship girl? "Sosuke Takayanagi has lost the image of a general commanding a fleet in just ten minutes, and what appears here is only the final ugliness of a gambler who has been driven mad and driven to death. He reached for a blood-red potion and shook it. "Really?"

"I'm running out for time, and I'm not going to talk to you about academics. I have analyzed the essence of the life of the ship's mother, and about 70% of the potion has been developed. Originally, it was expected to change some people with strong willpower into ship girls who didn't need the hull, but at present, it is not possible to completely break away from the hull. Moreover, judging from animal experiments, the internal toxicity of the potion is too strong, and a drop diluted 81 times can also poison mice. So it can't be used. ”

Dr. Kitamura pointed to the small white mouse utensils already on the table, and the mouse's whole body was black, and the black pus that came out could not tell whether it was blood or oil. "When I get back to the port of Manila, I might be able to do it with a little more time. But not now, although I am ruthless, I will not inject my compatriots with a medicine that will kill 100% of people. ”

"Poison? I didn't see anything like this during the human experiment. ”

"That's nature, strengthen people, I'm a monster produced by fusing part of the effective serum extracted from the body of the ship girl into the human body. But this is completely different from the subspecies ship girl I want to develop.,After decades of research,,I finally understood one thing that Akagi was hiding.,It's all thanks to the deep sea of Tone I understand--the ship mother is a subspecies of the deep-sea perch.,So I analyzed the fragments of the deep-sea perch.,A high concentration of a substance was extracted from it.,And I also extracted a certain amount of it from the ship's mother.。 That's resentment, the ship mother is just a deep-sea habitat after stabilizing resentment, the relationship between benign tumors and malignant tumors. And this substance can easily kill the vast majority of living things. Dr. Kitamura was particularly pleased when he talked about these academic achievements, and he was eager to show the entire set of research data to Sosuke Takayanagi.

Sousuke Takayanagi has known this for a long time, but he will not study it in depth like Dr. Kitamura, he is not a scientist, and he subconsciously regards these as the divine power of the will of the deep sea, and he will not use scientific methods to analyze the essence.

"I see." Sousuke Takayanagi uncorked the bottle in front of Dr. Kitamura and poured the whole bottle on himself. Without the slightest hesitation, he had been using this new potion for himself from the beginning, learning about the potion, and just wanting to know how to use it.

Since it is essentially a mixture of resentment that is concentrated into a liquid concentration, this potion is most effective when poured directly on a person.

In an instant, Sosuke Takayanagi felt his five senses confused, and thousands of people's memory fragments ran into his brain at once. Dr. Kitamura relied on his privileges to expend more than 5,000 lives in the North Korean occupation zone in order to gain a high concentration of resentment. This is also the embodiment of its "toxicity", ordinary people are directly infected and assimilated in the face of the resentment generated by thousands of people when they are dying.

"General Takayanagi...... You...... You...... It's okay? Dr. Kitamura didn't dare to touch Sosuke Takayanagi, who was covered in potions, and when he first touched the dilution potion, he was so frightened by all kinds of visions that he almost peed his pants. But Sousuke Takayanagi still sat calmly on the chair, even though his clothes and chair began to dissolve because of the potion, the others were unharmed.

"Assimilation...... I can bear the resentment of a few thousand people. After all, I am a good human being chosen by the will of the deep sea. Ahahahaha...... This is the ship mother.,No.,Is it the power of the deep sea perch? Sousuke Takayanagi slowly stood up from the dissolved wooden chair, clutching a leg in his hand.

"But that's it. Assimilation. ”

The legs of the chair quickly dissolved, then took on a metallic hue in his hand, and eventually transformed into a katana.

Dr. Kitamura was stunned, and he had to admit that the knowledge he had was only the tip of the iceberg of the mystery of the ship's mother. In his memory, only Kaga and her sister had the ability to use the power of assimilation, and the other ship girls had lost this ability.

"Great! General Takayanagi, my research is correct. Thank you for verifying it for me. Dr. Kitamura danced excitedly and comically bowed to Sousuke Takayanagi, who was only 24 years old, as a septuagenarian.

But Sousuke Takayanagi also quickly let out a roar of pain, no hull is designed to go against the will of the deep sea, even if a core has been formed in Sosuke Takayanagi's body, it will eventually be distorted and collapsed due to rebuttals.

"It seems...... Not yet. There must be a contract hull. The human body can't bear ......" Sousuke Takayanagi fell to his knees, his words becoming confused, but he did not succumb to the collapse of his body, he still had something to accomplish.

"I ...... No...... So ......"

Dr. Kitamura was overwhelmed by the sudden change, and the matter in front of him was beyond the realm of his scientific cognition, "You hold on, I'll try to suppress the barrier powder of the ship's core." ”

“…… Not necessarily. Isn't there a ready-made hull? Sosuke Takayanagi's tone became strange, and his eyes turned red.

The lights flickered for a few seconds before returning to normal. But Sosuke Takayanagi, who was kneeling on the ground, had changed his appearance, and he got up from the ground with the face of Yamato, and the wrist of his right hand holding the knife was black, which was not much different from that of a human.

"It seems that your research direction is correct, but it needs to be improved before it can be officially put into use." Sousuke Takayanagi's voice became indistinguishable from Yamato's, and he "assimilated" into Yamato and owned the Yamato hull.

In Dr. Kitamura's eyes, Sosuke Takayanagi is not a monster, but a beautiful "craft", which proves that his research is correct. "If you accept your teachings, you will definitely improve the potion and put it into actual combat as soon as possible."

Dr. Kitamura turned and walked to the bookshelf containing the potion. "Time is pressing, we ......"

The blade pierced Dr. Kitamura's heart, stopping Dr. Kitamura's attempts to get the human potion. "There is no need to improve, such a tragedy...... One occurrence is enough. ”

"General Takayanagi......" Dr. Kitamura's eyes widened, and he tried to look back at the "Yamato" he had made with his potion, but he spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and died.

Pulling out his katana, Sosuke Takayanagi licked the blood from the blade and slowly walked to the glass case, admiring his transformation into Yamato's appearance.

"Ahh Yamato, now it's my turn to grant your wish. Clothes similar to Yamato's military uniform appeared on Sosuke Takayanagi, and he lifted the general-level military coat hanging in the door and walked out of the laboratory.

The command room was now in chaos, and some people were shouting for their lives and death with the Yamato; Some shouted that everyone would take the potion that would become a human enhancement and die with the deep-sea fleet. Of course, there are some people who don't want to die here. They completely ignored Yamato, who was the former captain of the ship, because their captain would not wake up anymore.

"No, all decisions are up to General Takayanagi!" One of Sousuke Takayanagi's subordinates tried to stop the pointless argument, but was immediately scolded for "not knowing how to be flexible." ”

"There wasn't that much time. Samurai who are willing to be loyal to the empire and His Majesty the Emperor. We immediately petitioned General Takayanagi to take the potion and launch the final battle against the Deep Sea Fleet! At the call of the deputy captain, at least twenty people raised their arms and shouted "fight to the death", preparing to leave the command room and go to the deck to call for the soldiers to assemble.

With a flash of the sword, the head of the deputy captain rolled down to the corner of the command room. Sousuke Takayanagi walked gracefully into the command room with a look similar to Yamato's, stepping on blood.

"How dare you mess around here without my orders?"

Everyone looked at the other "Yamato" in surprise, and their first reaction was that they thought they were hallucinating.

"All the crew, abandon the ship, and take the rest of the ships of the first warframe. That's an order! The blood-stained tip of the knife pointed directly at the officer who had been following the deputy captain to leave. They are all subordinates of Sosuke Takayanagi and Yamato, but the current Sousuke Takayanagi will not think about it.

Even though his appearance, body shape, clothing, and voice were similar to Yamato's, as soon as Sousuke Takayanagi's order came out, everyone understood that the person who came in was their admiral.

"Yes. But I really don't want to leave like this, so I ask General Takayanagi to agree and allow me to fight you to the ...... to the fullest."

With a slash, Sosuke Takayanagi interrupted the officer's generous words. "Repeat, everyone abandoned the ship and left. That's an order. Violators, die! ”

Everyone else in the command room obeyed in turn, and the two corpses on the ground had already told them what to do now. It wasn't until everyone left the command room that Sosuke Takayanagi put down his katana, walked to Yamato's side, hugged Yamato, who wouldn't wake up, and mourned silently.

"Yamato, my ideals have all been realized. You did everything I asked of you. Very good, you are like a cherry blossom on the battlefield. I am your witness, your most beautiful moments, which I remember in my heart and reproduce them. ”

Sosuke Takayanagi had too much to say to Yamato, but in the past, due to their respective identities, he had to hold it in his heart, and even before this battle, he brutally ordered Yamato to prepare for the battle. The Admiral ordered the ship's mother under the command of the team to meet the death in battle, which was the most cruel thing in the world for the ship's mother.

But Yamato still did it, completed the task with his life, bravely withstood the five salvos of the central Suhime in the Surigao Strait, and opened a lifeline for the fleet to protrude and encircle.

"So, this time it's my turn. The dreams you failed to realize, I will make them come true for you. Because, I love you too! ”

Although there are still many regrets, those are private desires that cannot be realized as Sousuke Takayanagi. Sousuke Takayanagi enjoyed the last moments of being alone with Yamato, listening to the heartbeat of the lover in his arms, and he was satisfied.