Elder brother's garrison

boom.

Boom boom boom————

Sparks flew everywhere, and fine rain filled the sky.

Perhaps she was born with a knack for fighting. Even though she was enraged by a physiological helplessness, Wisconsin did not lose her composure. Her pressure on Missouri did not lessen in the slightest due to her rage.

With Wisconsin having already figured out Missouri's retreat route, Wisconsin's pursuit was deadly, with every shot aimed at Missouri propelling her into a retreating rout. However, even under constant pressure from Wisconsin, Missouri displayed the resilience of a battle-hardened ship girl. Despite the seemingly perilous situation, Missouri maintained a relaxed expression, employing various techniques to narrowly evade Wisconsin's attacks, as if dancing on a knife's edge.

"Damn it!" Wisconsin gritted his teeth, watching Missouri manage to dodge his shelling no matter what, and muttered his complaints under his breath.

Even if Wisconsin is unwilling, it has to admit one thing.

That means Missouri does indeed possess top-tier ship girl strength, and if I continue fighting her, it will definitely turn into a war of attrition, lasting until dawn.

Fighting until dawn...

Then let's see who gets careless and tired first, and can't hold on any longer?

That's hardly a cool battle...

The admiral is still watching from the beach... Naturally, the ship girls want to show the admiral their best side; how could they possibly show him such a boring side...

"...Tsk."

Wisconsin's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed, and she exhaled several breaths. In her emerald pupils, a sharp spirit began to slowly gather on the black sea surface.

A pair of emerald eyes shone brightly, shining like a rising lighthouse in the darkness.

at the same time.

Missouri, who was hiding and moving in the distance, seemed to sense something. She turned her head and looked at Wisconsin. Even without using her ship girl-level eyesight, she could clearly see two points of emerald light shining in the darkness.

They looked like two burning green gems, trailing long flames in mid-air.

Gorgeous and charming.

"Oh my..." A hint of surprised pleasure appeared on Missouri's relaxed expression.

next second.

A dull feeling, as if bound by invisible chains, entered her body from the muzzle of Missouri's cannons.

Missouri paused in her tracks.

"boom!!!"

A much louder gunshot rang out from the other side of the night.

Above, a shell trailing a long plume of flame slid down from mid-air like a meteor and crashed heavily into Missouri's body.

Despite the slow shelling, Missouri felt a strange sensation, as if the shells were being pulled and dragged toward her by something invisible.

Oh dear.

—That kid from Wisconsin… he was born with a skill…?

Missouri looked at the two emerald lights swaying in the distance with a hint of surprise, and a peaceful smile appeared on her face.

boom----

The Wisconsin artillery fire hit Missouri squarely in the body.

It's like cracking open a tightly sealed eggshell.

White steel scraps flew into the air.

Missouri's body, like a kite torn apart by a gale, was helplessly thrown into the air by the shelling of Wisconsin.

The creaking sound of metal tearing echoed across the sea in an instant.

In the distance, as the emerald lights in Wisconsin's eyes went out after a perfect hit on Missouri.

"Phew—" Wisconsin let out a sigh of relief with a complicated expression.

She does indeed possess skills.

Perhaps it was truly due to exceptional talent, or perhaps the legend of the Iowa-class was too intense; the moment Wisconsin left the construction device, he felt the power of the legend with unparalleled realism.

As a rookie ship girl, she effortlessly mastered the ultimate and most anti-scientific miracle for ship girls at birth—ship girl skills.

Wisconsin's ability is to weaken high-speed enemies while simultaneously enhancing its own strength.

Whether in a one-on-one duel or a group battle, this is a top-tier skill.

This is why Wisconsin dared to challenge top-tier ship girls with a level 30 training level.

Wisconsin straightened up and glanced somewhat worriedly in the direction of Missouri.

"Because the admiral helped me improve my training level... I didn't want to use something so unfair..." Wisconsin sighed, "But... there's nothing I can do about it..."

"Hopefully they didn't hit too hard..."

Wisconsin muttered to himself, but his expression didn't seem to reflect the joy of winning the exercise.

—A faint hint of loneliness appeared in Wisconsin's eyes.

"...Tsk."

Missouri...?

"It was supposed to be my sister... how come she's so weak?"

Wisconsin withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, and tossed her long hair behind her ear in frustration.

...Zzzzz...

A faint sound came from the distant sea.

Wisconsin, who was flipping her hair, twitched her ears slightly and suddenly stopped. She looked up and gazed in the direction of Missouri.

The bright light made Wisconsin squint.

—The sun has risen.

sun?

wrong.

Wisconsin stared wide-eyed at the sunlight, carefully looking in that direction.

Missouri, who should have been blasted into a heavily damaged state by his own shot long ago, was now flying in mid-air, but instead he was aiming his fiery red turret at him.

—Are you kidding me?

—The ship's equipment should have been completely destroyed long ago; how could it still be firing shells?

Ok?

Wait a minute.

Has my older sister been flying for a little too long?

At this moment.

In the morning sun, in Wisconsin's gaze, Missouri's emerald eyes, just like Wisconsin's earlier, now shone brightly, trailing long tails like green shooting stars.

boom! ! !

On the horizon, a loud hoofbeat rang out from the Missouri fortress.

Rumble rumble rumble ———

In an instant, flames filled Wisconsin's field of vision.

In the morning sun, it seemed as if a burning phoenix was flapping its wings and swooping towards him.

The phoenix raises its head.

Its wide wings fanned up the scorching sea breeze.

Wisconsin's face turned pale, and she immediately retreated with all her might.

bang

The burning phoenix flapped its wings and plunged into the sea right before Wisconsin's eyes, vanishing into nothingness.

Not even a ripple was disturbed.

Wisconsin stared blankly at the calm sea before her, then suddenly realized something and quickly looked up.

A shell that had been aimed at its own retreat direction long ago.

It was hanging high above his head at that moment.

He aimed it at his own face.

It hurtled down.

The world turned fiery red.

Then Wisconsin couldn't hear anything anymore.

The sound of steel turning into fragments echoed once more on the sea surface.

……

A few minutes later.

Missouri, its ship equipment reduced to dust and looking somewhat disheveled, dragged its intact turrets to Wisconsin.

Wisconsin lay on the water's surface, her massive ship rigging reduced to shreds beside her.

"Oops..."

Missouri smiled and slowly walked to Wisconsin's side.

Missouri put away her ship equipment, squatted down, and picked up the white fragments around Wisconsin as if picking up eggshells scattered around her as if picking up baby birds chirping. She muttered to herself.

"That shot just now reminded Missouri of the first time she met Bismarck."

"I really miss it."

Missouri held the ship's rigging fragments in her hand, a pure and innocent smile on her face.

"Back then... if Missouri had already met the Admiral... would Missouri have ultimately won...?"

"……uh-huh."

"—Missouri actually has skills too."

"Missouri's turrets can never be destroyed. Even if Missouri's entire ship equipment is shattered into pieces, Missouri's turrets can still launch a powerful attack that surpasses its peak strength... It's a strange skill. Actually, Missouri initially hated this skill. Missouri wanted the aura of her predecessor Tirpitz more."

"...But now that I think about it, this skill is pretty good, isn't it?"

"Compared to stable and solid strength, this kind of random miracle that leads to victory once triggered... is really suitable for the Missouri Miracle."

Missouri muttered to herself, then suddenly laughed.

"Ever since the timeline came to human society..."

"Missouri just... loves miracles the most."

"Perhaps it is precisely because of her pursuit of miracles that Missouri possesses this strange ability..."

"As expected... miracles are wonderful things that respond to sincere calls."

As Missouri finished speaking, she slowly lowered her head and looked at Wisconsin, which was floating on the water.

"Wisconsin? You like miracles too?"

"..."

Wisconsin?

"..."

"Oh dear..." Missouri let out a belated, bitter laugh.

"Has she already fainted...?"

"Hopefully Missouri didn't go too far..."

Happy New Year! I hope all my dear readers will have all their wishes fulfilled and everything goes well in the coming year. May you all become even wealthier and happier people.

Then they'll tip me with even more gifts.

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