"Speaking of which, Taihou! Who is your Admiral?" Illustrious asked.
Taihou recalled for a moment, then said, "Her? She is the most outstanding person in the world. Compared to her, you are simply nothing."
"I don't believe it, unless you tell me her name, so I can see if I really can't compare to her." Illustrious said, unconvinced.
Taihou clasped her hands together, looking lovesick. "Listen well, she is the Deputy Governor of the North Ocean, Ye! How about that? Are you scared?"
Upon hearing the name Ye, Illustrious felt as if struck by lightning. "So Ye is your Admiral! Then I cannot return you to her."
"Hmm! Why does your tone sound like you know my Admiral?" Taihou tilted her head and asked.
"Of course I know her! That bastard is my enemy." Illustrious said angrily.
"You have a grudge against the Admiral? But in my opinion, it must be your fault. You should know that the Admiral is a partner of justice." As Ye's Ship Girl, Taihou immediately took Ye's side.
"Justice, my foot! If she were truly righteous, why did she order me to steal the Four Great Town Treasures back then?" Illustrious immediately retorted.
Taihou grabbed Illustrious's hand and said, "So you were the one who helped the Admiral retrieve the Four Great Town Treasures back then! I really must thank you properly!"
"Give me an honest answer, what exactly does Ye want to use the Four Great Town Treasures for?" The Four Great Town Treasures were all heavenly radiance ship devices possessing the Power of Laws, far more powerful than ordinary heavenly radiance ship devices. With the Four Great Town Treasures in her hands, Ye must be planning to do something shameful and evil.
"Heavenly secrets cannot be leaked!" Taihou said mysteriously.
"Tch! Whatever! Time will surely give me the answer, and I have the strength to stop your conspiracies and tricks." Illustrious said with cold eyes.
"Pfft! A little Gold-Plated Ship Girl like you actually wants to stop my Admiral? You're killing me with laughter." Taihou pointed at Illustrious and burst into laughter.
Illustrious retorted, "So what? As a Four-Star Legendary Ship Girl, you were still captured by me. What is there to be proud of?"
"..." This sentence directly choked Taihou, leaving her unable to muster any anger. Being captured by Illustrious, a Gold-Plated Ship Girl, and imprisoned in this Naval Base, she was considered the most shameful Legendary Ship Girl.
Leaning into Taihou's ear, Illustrious whispered, "It seems you are still thinking about your Admiral! But don't forget, as long as I don't take off your slave ring, you will never be able to leave me."
"If you dare to go against my wishes, I will melt you down and turn you into a kitchen knife."
Taihou said coldly, "Don't get too cocky. Even if you have my body, so what? My heart will always belong to the Admiral."
Illustrious shook her head and said, "No, no, no! You might have misunderstood me. What I crave is your body, not your heart."
Taihou was dumbfounded; she hadn't expected Illustrious to be even hungrier than she was.
Taking a step, after walking some distance, Illustrious turned her head and said, "Let's go! Didn't you say you wanted to see the vast starry sky in the night?"
Looking at Illustrious in front, Taihou took a deep breath. She couldn't give up now; she knew that as long as Illustrious fell for the next two traps, she could leave Illustrious's side immediately.
While walking side-by-side with Illustrious, Taihou thought to herself, "Illustrious! Although you dodged the first trap, I have set ten landmines in the second trap. As long as you step on even one, you will definitely have no chance of survival."
In Taihou's mind, she had already envisioned Illustrious stepping on a landmine.
First, Illustrious would step on a landmine and be blown away, then her body would fall onto a second landmine, and then the second landmine would blow Illustrious away again, repeating this for ten times, until Illustrious was blown into a bloody mess.
The delusion ended. Taihou saw that Illustrious was only a few steps away from the range of the landmines. To avoid being caught in the blast, Taihou moved two steps away from Illustrious.
Seeing Taihou step back two steps, Illustrious didn't care. In her view, Taihou must have realized she couldn't escape, so she started to become afraid of walking side-by-side with her.
Rubbing her chin, Illustrious smiled faintly. It seems scaring Taihou was quite effective, wasn't it? Look, she wasn't as insolent as before.
Illustrious continued walking, and then Taihou saw that Illustrious was only one step away from entering the landmine range. Not wanting to see the bloody scene, Taihou immediately closed her eyes.
However, after closing her eyes for over ten seconds, the imagined explosion did not ring out. Taihou immediately opened her eyes, wanting to see what was going on.
After opening her eyes, Taihou saw that Illustrious had indeed stepped into the landmine range, but Illustrious walked a few more steps and successfully left the landmine range.
Taihou frowned, then immediately went to the landmine range to check. Seeing that the ground was very damp, she remembered it had rained a little in the morning. Could it be that they didn't explode because of this?
After investigating again and finding no other reason for them not to explode, Taihou had to accept that the landmines didn't explode because of the light rain.
Seeing that the trap she had worked so hard to set was ineffective, Taihou couldn't help but be furious, cursing inwardly, "Didn't that guy Akashi say the landmines were very advanced? How can they not even withstand a little water! Damn it! The next time I see that profiteer, I must make her taste the feeling of being worse off than dead."
"Why did you stop again? Are you still going to watch or not? If not, I'm going back." Seeing Taihou falling behind again, Illustrious immediately shouted.
"Sorry! I just remembered some things, so I stopped. I'll catch up right away." Taihou immediately followed Illustrious. Now was not the time to be sad about a failure. Besides, although she had failed this time, she still had the third trap, so she couldn't let Illustrious leave just yet.
It had been extremely difficult to get a date with Illustrious today. One had to know that Illustrious had many Ship Girls, making it very inconvenient to do bad things.
If she didn't do things cleanly and was discovered by Illustrious's master that she was the one who killed Illustrious, she definitely wouldn't have a life to leave this Naval Base!
Illustrious and Taihou began to continue moving forward, but they hadn't walked a few steps before a huge explosion occurred behind them. The explosions happened one after another, the scene like setting off firecrackers.
Hearing the explosions behind them, Illustrious and Taihou hurriedly turned around to look at the dazzling and fascinating explosions.
Seeing this chain of explosions, Illustrious couldn't help but turn pale. "My god! How were so many landmines buried there?"
Seeing Illustrious looking over, in order not to expose that it was her doing, Taihou started to cast blame. "First there was the strong sulfuric acid pit, and now it's landmines. This is bad, Illustrious. This series of traps must be from someone wanting to harm you!"
"What! There's actually such a thing? Then who on earth did it?" Illustrious asked, puzzled.
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