Outlying islands are guarded by the town.

"Is Xiao-chan alright?"

"Well, I've forgotten what happened that night like the other comatose shipmates, but there's nothing else wrong with it......," said Atago as if he wanted to stop talking.

Kaohsiung looked at her suspiciously: "What's wrong?" ”

"Like...... What did that intruder look like that night knowing me? ”

"Huh?" Taken aback by Atago's sudden statement, Takao stopped in surprise: "When did Atago meet that intruder?" ”

"No......" Xiu frowned slightly, and the heavy patrol girl herself was quite confused, nodded her chin and said in a distressed tone: "It should ...... It's just my delusion."

In the end, Atago decided to forget about this "illusion", after all, since it was built on this outlying island, she had rarely come into contact with the area and people outside of the castle, and if it was like the previous intruder, Atago would definitely be impressed, not completely confused as she is now.

Thinking so, Atago smiled at the worried Kaohsiung: "It's okay~ eh, hehe"

―――――― Split ――――――

"Akagi...... Akagi ...... Akagi? ”

"Ah, yes!"

Suddenly came back to his senses, and what he saw was Kaga's undisguised caring gaze.

"Are you really okay? Seems to have been wandering since I came back that day......"

"It's okay with that little injury, and didn't you go into the ditch?"

Kaga, who knew that the ditch could repair all the damage of the ship's mother, was also slightly relieved, but since that day he scooped up Taiho from under the deep sea and returned to the town guard mansion, Akagi seems to have this kind of distraction at any time, and even if he asks her, he can only get a vague response like now.

Although she understands that Akagi has a problem, Kaga, who is unwilling to persecute her, can only be anxious in the bottom of her heart, it seems. This is how it will continue......

At the same time, the operational command center of the town guard mansion.

Standing straight ahead, Nagato, who was in charge of the secretary ship, was reporting to the supreme commander of the town, the Admiral.

"According to your instructions, the analysis of the capabilities and structure of those specially built ships has been completed by the third hour and 34 minutes, can I explain it to you now?"

There was no answer, and Nagato only nodded in response.

"Yes" flipped through the document in his hand. Nagato began to report on the results of the intruder's departure, that is, Rilan, who had left behind the part of the ship's suit, considering the effect of the load on the speed.

"Through the elves (those little things that Lilan saw that night that were less than 10cm in height, their presence seems to be quite common to this world?) We can be sure that the special ship equipment on the surface of the rune can not be analyzed, and the internal structure is more than 90% similar to the ship structure used by the current ship mother, but it is ...... There are differences in the choice of ship outfits"

The tone paused: "In order to find the wreckage of the navigation components used by the invaders, and the navigation components that Tianjin Feng is using now-"

Suddenly, the Admiral interrupted Nagato's words: "Is the Tianjin wind still making trouble?" ”

“…… Yes, Tianjin Feng is still looking for that infiltrator"

"Forget it, let her go. Go ahead."

"Yes" After agreeing, Nagato continued to explain: "Including the navigation components that Tianjin Feng is currently using and repaired by that intruder, they are all ultra-high-speed ships that can only be used by destroyer-level ships, and if conditions permit, the maximum speed can even exceed 45 knots."

"But the strange thing is that the shelling component is completely battleship-level, and it is impossible for a destroyer-class ship to be equipped with such a heavy and huge ship."

After a short silence.

“…… What about the two swords? ”

"Yes" in a serious tone. This time, Nagato no longer described it in simple words, but put the document in his hand on the desk in front of the Admiral.

"Except for runes that can't be parsed like any other ship. In addition to the ability to extend and shrink the combined deformation, the internal structure is completely set up according to the cold weapons of the old era, but because the degree of reinforcement has reached a certain strength, it can tear apart the external armor of the ship, but the lethality to us is still quite limited."

"The problem is, he just used such a cold weapon to successfully break through from the inside of this town guard mansion...... About this ship's suit. Can you use it? ”

The tone was sluggish, but Nagato still replied truthfully: "Basically, most of the ship girls can be, but the probability of wanting to form a combat style like that invader is less than 0.1%, and this close-range combat method requires more nerve reflexes and combat experience than speed and strength...... I beg your pardon for Nagato's bluntness. Lord Admiral, this kind of combat is completely impossible to achieve in the hands of the ship's mother."

――That level of combat mode is beyond the "normal" category, right?

Thinking back to the shells he found at the scene of the battle afterwards, Nagato couldn't understand what kind of ability he was able to split a shell fired at supersonic speed in half along the diameter with such accuracy to the micron level......

The ship is strong, but more through the "vulnerability" of the human race, more powerful strength, defense, and speed, and the words of the invader......

With the part of the information provided by Tianjin Feng afterwards, it is completely incomparable to the ship mother in terms of strength and defense, but the degree of his manipulation of his own power has reached a terrifying level.

The power of the same 1 value will exert an effect of 0.8~1.2 in the hands of ordinary people, and the ship girl with a value of 10 is 80~120, but in the hands of Lilan, the power of this 1 value can fully exert the effect of 200 or even 300...... It's like when dealing with a deep-sea ship, using a small ice condensation spell to break a deep-sea habitat ship, and in the same situation, if an ordinary person goes into battle, I am afraid that he can only use hundreds or thousands of times more magic power to use a large spell to break the deep-sea habitat ship, or be directly bombarded into slag by the deep-sea habitat ship.

Inevitably, an irrepressible thought came to Nagato's mind: Is that intruder really just a human being like Tianjin Feng said?

"Nagato"

"Yes!"

"Since I can't find it, let's put this matter aside for the time being...... We have more important things to do."

Nagato was stunned when he heard this: "What does Lord Admiral mean?" ”

“…… An order has been issued from the Governor's Palace, and within three days, we are required to complete the clearance of the northern seas."

"Northern Seas?" Nagato's eyes were stunned.

Leaning back in the recliner, the Admiral said what Nagato was thinking.

"That's right, it's her"

- Northern Qihime (To be continued.) )