"Actually, even here, once the five of you appeared, the relevant mechanisms were triggered—see over there? The safety locks on the sentry cannons have already been released."
At Jiang Lianqiu's reminder, the five of them finally noticed that sentry cannons and all kinds of weapons had been deployed both openly and covertly all around the plaza.
At that moment, those autonomous weapons, requiring no human operation, were all aiming at them.
"Eek!"
Victory instinctively ducked behind her older sister, Radiance.
"W-We won't get blasted into the sky, will we?"
She did not dare gamble on whether, as a Ship Girl, she could withstand this kind of alien artillery.
The barrels were thicker than her waist. One shot would probably do more than leave her heavily damaged; she would be lucky to leave behind even a few scraps on the spot.
"No. Once your identities are officially registered, it'll be fine."
Belfast reassured them gently.
After the identity registration was completed, the four Ship Girls and Observer were permitted to use short-range teleportation within the Starport.
This teleportation was fixed-point only. It could only travel between locations equipped with the corresponding devices. Freely setting coordinates and tearing open space at will was absolutely forbidden—given the Starport's unique nature and complex environment, teleportation outside designated routes was extremely dangerous. One careless mistake could leave someone stuck somewhere fatal.
Teleporting from the open-air interstellar plaza into the Starport, the Ship Girls had been marveling one moment at the miraculous technology that could instantly bring them from one place to another. The next, they found themselves standing on another platform.
Still rather bewildered, the group followed Jiang Lianqiu and Belfast down from the platform and left what was likely a massive indoor dispatch center. Their eyes were constantly drawn in every direction along