"Impossible!
Absolutely impossible!"
Hearing Sims's doubts, Bumblebee, who had identified Yorktown the instant she heard her voice, loudly retorted:
"Even if I mistook Honolulu, I'd never mistake my sister!"
As the Carrier Aircraft Yorktown deployed swept across the battlefield, turning the world of warships into a hack-and-slash mowing game, Gwen's treatment hit a bottleneck—
Within Gwen's Ray of Redemption, the injuries on St. Louis and Zhenhai rapidly healed at an unbelievable rate.
Yet just as Gwen thought he could finish the treatment, bones that had clearly been restored suddenly cracked apart once more, turning St. Louis and Zhenhai's newly rosy faces pale again.
The sudden pain also jolted the two women, whose consciousness had previously been drifting, awake—
"Mm..."
St. Louis frowned deeply and opened her eyes. Instead of the tear-streaked faces of Honolulu and Helena, she saw an unfamiliar man before her, leaving her momentarily confused about what had happened.
Zhenhai, on the other hand, kept her composure despite frowning from the intense pain coursing through her body. Her habits as a strategist would not allow otherwise.
Feeling the warm power flowing from the hand wrapped around her waist, Zhenhai immediately understood that the comfort she had felt earlier, even greater than soaking in a hot spring, had not been a dying illusion.
And the source of that power was this unfamiliar man before her, his brow slightly furrowed.
A human with strange powers, yet not a shipgirl...
Though she lacked conclusive evidence, Zhenhai quickly thought of something. Following a certain intuition, her pale Sakura lips parted:
"Are you... the Commander?"
"Yes. This isn't the time for introductions. For now, just think of me as the Commander mentioned in the records."
Hearing that, Gwen raised his head slightly, met Zhenhai's gaze, and nodded.
While treating the two of them,