NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

"Let's go, Honey~"

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go,

It's definitely impossible for them to leave.

Someone's nightlife only lasts a few hours, how could he possibly accompany Anise like a couple strolling down the street?

The girl naturally understood this principle; she was just taking advantage of the few seconds she had to chat and explain after getting off the bus to flirt with her man.

In her opinion, how could the commander, who could break in and out of the Lecher's encirclement seven times, not be able to handle a small Ark evil force?

As Anise had suspected...

Do not!

To be precise, the truth is far more exciting than Anis imagined!

Because there are so many people in residential areas, even with Phoenix's god-like perspective, it's still impossible to stop some bored people from suddenly turning back.

There's nothing wrong with that; the other party might not actually be an informant for organized crime.

But sometimes...

To take a shortcut, the two would deliberately go to some secluded paths to find places to climb over walls.

And those narrow paths are always designed to lead to the end of the road, so if someone turns in from either side, Phoenix and Anise can't just stand there waiting for them to pass.

Then,

Since he was standing anyway, and to avoid arousing suspicion from others, the lieutenant simply lowered his head without saying a word, pulled Anise into his arms, and kissed his subordinate's lips.

And what about the girl?

Being caught completely off guard and attacked in this way, one would instinctively try to fight back.

But Anis's subconscious mind quickly remembered that people's and Niki's constitutions couldn't be generalized. If she really acted like an ordinary girl, playfully punching the Commander's chest with her little fists...

If you lose control of your strength in the heat of the moment, not only will tonight's plan fall through, but the Commander won't be able to get out of bed for the next few nights either.

"Well……"

Anise's body wanted to resist, but her mind forcefully stopped it halfway through. This back-and-forth, this push-and-pull posture...

To be honest, from a passerby's perspective, aside from expressing envy, they really couldn't see a single flaw.

Therefore, at this moment, Anise, who felt both shy and sweet inside, finally understood.

Special and hidden storylines can only be triggered when you go on a mission alone with the Commander. No wonder Mihara's progress in winning over the Commander is far ahead of the others.

The secret has been found.

The remaining task is to figure out how to overtake on a curve.

"Walk."

"Hmm? Hmm..."

Sensing the warmth on her lips suddenly leave her, Anise immediately put aside her ulterior motives upon hearing the command, nodded firmly, and easily climbed over the low wall of less than three meters with the man.

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The first half of the stealth process needs no further explanation.

It would be a pipe dream for a group of civilians without rigorous military training to discover Lieutenant Phoenix in stealth mode.

However, when Anise successfully arrived at the outskirts of a department store with the Commander, near the entrance to an underground passage, the person who had previously maintained a policy of not killing anyone suddenly changed their stealth style.

—Not a single person was left.

The essence of stealth is to avoid being discovered.

So, silently killing everyone in the stronghold can also be seen as a form of stealth.

puff--

The incredibly sharp nanoblade pierced the cervical spine of the last desperate man wielding a rifle, severing his central nervous system before leaving him to fall to the ground with terrified eyes.

All of this was observed by Anise.

kill……

To be honest, the girl who had fought Lecher to the death countless times had never actually killed anyone in her life.

Even during her time as a low-level gang leader in the outer district, the most she ever did was cripple violent thugs who came looking for trouble.

Even though Anise was always on her man's side and no matter how much she favored him over reason, she couldn't hide the heartache in her eyes when the Commander carried out such a ruthless, decisive, and almost cold-blooded assassination.

She didn't feel too much remorse for the deceased. These smugglers, no matter what their initial intentions were, ultimately couldn't escape doing evil deeds. They died, and that was that; there was no need to regret it.

More than the deaths of these outlaws, Anise was concerned about the mental health of the Commander.

During the entire assassination, someone actually went to the rest room and sent the desperados who were taking their shifts to rest to their deaths as well.

This is not quite right.

"Commander..."

The girl tugged at the man's hand, her face filled with worry.

Unexpectedly, the person in question smiled gently and even took his wife's small hand in his own, comforting her:

"I'll take you somewhere."

After saying that, Phoenix didn't give the girl any time to question him. He took her hand, and after going through a maze of twists and turns in the secret passage, they finally managed to enter a very inconspicuous corner chamber.

One, two, three, four, five...

Behind the soundproof glass of the secret room, thirteen young women huddled together, their faces filled with terror as they looked out the window at the man whose face still bore traces of blood.

"See, those guys deserved to die."

The lieutenant pressed his right hand against the glass window, turned to look at his dumbfounded wife, and asked:

"The Ark captures women from the outer perimeter, turns them into Niki, and then resells them back to the outer perimeter."

Do you think they deserved to be killed?

Chapter 154 I'll Teach You

Fear, panic, numbness, sadness...

The moment Phoenix met the gazes of the thirteen girls behind the glass window, each with a different expression, the lieutenant's heart sank.

He did not see the anger he had expected in their eyes.

He also didn't see the fighting spirit he hoped for in their expressions.

If this were a past life, no matter how mentally unstable or panicked these girls he rescued from human traffickers were, the government would have tried to take care of them and provide them with a place to stay.

But this is a disgusting underground ark, and the girls who were abducted by human traffickers were all born in the outer perimeter.

The vast majority of people living inside the wall don't consider those outside the wall to be human beings, just as they don't consider Niki to be human.

In other words,

These girls, who were unexpectedly rescued by Phoenix, were destined not to receive the protection of the central government. If they did not learn to fight back with their own hands afterward, their fate would still end in tragedy when they returned to the outer edge of the city.

Looking at the helpless girls in the cell, and thinking of the foreseeable tragic fate of these young women, the lieutenant pondered for a moment before finally making up his mind:

"Anis, go and get thirteen guns and teach them the most basic firearms knowledge. At the very least, they need to learn how to fire a gun."

The man said this, then, after Anis responded, he turned and walked out of the cell, adding:

"I'll go to the other end of the underground passage to clean up the trash first. After you teach them, bring them over directly. We'll set off in ten minutes at the latest."

"Yes, Commander!"

At this point, how could someone as intelligent as Anise not understand her man's thoughts?

If these girls in the outer suburbs want to survive in this chaotic world, guns are their best option right now.

Not only that,

Knowing how to fire a gun isn't enough; if you truly want to live a dignified life independently in the outer regions...

They had to learn how to kill.

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"Look carefully, under normal circumstances, the safety of a rifle is located above the trigger, in a position that your index finger can easily touch. It is usually shaped like a lever, and it is uniformly opened downwards and closed upwards."

This design allows you to slide your index finger downwards to the trigger as quickly as possible after disengaging the safety, enabling rapid firing.

Inside the underground passage, Anise patiently taught thirteen girls about firearms.

Considering the limited time and the fact that most of these girls had zero knowledge of firearms, she, who had been on the battlefield, did not use too many professional terms. Instead, she taught the girls how to fire, how to reload, and how to use cover for shooting in the simplest and most straightforward way.