Kaisha understood what Hexi meant and trusted the result predicted by the Gene Matching system, but she still tested it herself.
She first selected Angel Kaila, an Angel who was slightly older, over ten thousand years old and still serving in the Angel Legion.
The match result was 89.2%.
Kaisha changed the match target. This time, she chose Angel Leng—90.6%.
Angel Yan—91.2%, Angel Zhui—92.3%, Angel Yunxi—92.6%, Angel Qingqing...
Kaisha looked at the data for the final Angel she had selected for matching: Angel Zhixin—95.1%.
Sitting on her throne and looking at the string of results, Kaisha sighed.
In the Dark Plane communication channel, Hexi, who had heard Kaisha sigh, curled her lips.
"Old woman, I was right, wasn't I?"
"You were right, Hexi!"
Hexi gave a couple of smug hums, like a little girl delighted to have proven herself right.
"So, do you still insist on making me marry this Su Luo?"
Faced with Hexi's question, Kaisha pondered in silence as she looked over the data that had just been generated.
Hexi, however, kept pressing Kaisha relentlessly.
After a moment, Kaisha spoke through the Dark Plane channel.
"Hexi, I think you could try getting to know this little fellow. Maybe you'll end up liking him?"
With that, Kaisha cut off the communication. No matter how Hexi tried to contact her again, Kaisha refused to answer.
No wonder Hexi liked to tease people now and then. It really was fun.
Thinking back on her conversation with Hexi, Kaisha contacted Angel Yan again, whom she had ordered to remain behind and observe Su Luo.
Angel Yan quickly accepted the call. Kaisha did not waste words and spoke directly.
"Yan, pay closer attention to Su Luo. Protect him as much as possible without letting them discover you! If we can confirm that he has no ties to other factions... Yan, he may be the future of the Angels!"
Angel Yan's expression turned solemn as she listened to Kaisha.
"Yes, Queen Keisha!"
Kaisha said nothing more. Nor did she remind Yan to observe whether Su Luo was qualified to be a male god or anything of the sort. What Kaisha needed now was to consider the future direction of Angel Civilization.
Besides, if they were talking about who should be the first to assess Su Luo as a male god, Yan was not even near the top based on the Gene Matching system's results! First place belonged to the youngest yet most gifted Right Wing Angel in the Merlot Heavenly Court, Hexi's little apprentice, Angel Zhixin!
If she really sent Yan rushing to snatch a male god, Hexi might not agree for the sake of her own little apprentice!
But that was also where the crux of the issue lay. If Yan was not allowed to unite with Su Luo, the male god with whom she had a 91.2% genetic match, and instead was still made to unite with Galaxy Power, the male god whose compatibility with Yan did not even reach eighty, just as Kaisha had originally planned...
Before, there had been no choice. She could only pick the tallest among the short ones. But now that a truly tall one had appeared, should she still choose among the short ones?
If she chose the tallest among those short ones, she could foresee what the Angels' future would look like. But if she did not choose the tallest among them, then the Angels' future would...
Kaisha shook her head. She needed to think. She needed to think this through slowly!
Unlike Kaisha, who wanted time to think things through, Su Luo and Akashi needed to act swiftly!
The two of them had already entered the burning village.
Although the fire consuming the village was fierce, fortunately the houses were not built too close together. That meant Su Luo and Akashi could still enter the village. Thanks to several small, adorable Manjuu Akashi had casually sent out to search along the way, she and Su Luo quickly found the people still alive in the village.
Passing straight through several houses where they had confirmed there were no survivors, Akashi led Su Luo to a modestly sized house. The house before them was also engulfed in raging flames, but Akashi did not focus on it. Instead, she looked toward something resembling a cellar some distance away.
Su Luo noticed it as well. After all, the Manjuu Akashi had released were all gathered around the cellar entrance.
Su Luo was not surprised by the Manjuu's actions. After all... these Manjuu could even fly fighter planes, and they were responsible for building the homes in the port. Finding people was child's play for them.
Judging from the marks around the cellar entrance, it had most likely been covered with dry grass or something similar before this.
But now, as the fire raged, nothing was left concealing the cellar entrance. Perhaps if those ugly bastards had not left after discovering him and Akashi, the people hiding in this cellar would likely have met the same fate...
The Manjuu used their round little bodies to swiftly extinguish the flames still burning near the cellar entrance, then quickly cleared out a clean patch of ground around it.
Just as Su Luo was about to step forward, Akashi grabbed him and shook her head, signaling for her Commander not to hurry.
Then Akashi stepped onto the cellar entrance and peered inside, confirming that it was fairly deep.
But that was no problem. As a repair ship, she had a crane among her ship rigging!
Turning her head, Akashi looked at the Manjuu standing by and casually pointed at one.
"You, meow! Come here!"
As she spoke, Akashi manifested the crane from her ship rigging for lifting heavy objects, then motioned for the chosen Manjuu to jump onto the hook beneath the chain.
"Go down and see how many people are below. Make sure there's no danger, meow!"
The chosen Manjuu nodded seriously, then hopped onto the hook on Akashi's ship rigging used for lifting heavy objects. Akashi slowly lowered it down bit by bit.
Watching from the side, Su Luo felt slightly unnecessary. Shaking his head, he did not move away from Akashi. He remained where he was, keeping watch over their surroundings while turning part of his attention inward.
Earlier, when that game-making machine activated the armament system, he had felt as though something had been added to his body. He was not sure exactly what it was, but he had already experienced some of its effects!
Boundless energy and an incredibly strong body! Su Luo had not felt this sensation of being filled with power in a long time... If he remembered correctly... ever since arriving at the port, his body had only grown weaker by the day. Although ship girls without their ship rigging deployed had combat strength roughly equal to ordinary people... there were simply too many of them!
Su Luo had looked forward to being in this kind of physical condition for a long time. Right now, he felt like he could take on ten of them!
Ahem. Thinking about the number of married ship girls he had, Su Luo put away that trace of wishful thinking. Taking on ten would not work. He still needed to train!
With that thought, Su Luo grew even more curious about this so-called armament the game-making machine had added to him. Glancing at Akashi, who was already rescuing people, Su Luo decided that after they finished saving everyone, he would have a proper discussion with Akashi about this armament. Perhaps this was exactly what he had wanted Akashi to help him make today.
Thanks to the ship rigging and the Manjuu's help, the people hiding in the cellar were rescued.
There was only one person—a girl who looked frail and was probably a little over ten years old.
When Akashi rescued her, the girl was frightened. Seeing that, Su Luo signaled to Akashi, and the two spent quite a while comforting her. In the end, after Akashi released another clean Manjuu and tucked it into the girl's arms as a pillow, the girl, whose attention was drawn to the wonderfully soft Manjuu in her embrace, finally relaxed somewhat.
She probably believed that Su Luo and Akashi were good people now and was no longer so resistant toward them.
(The Commander alone in the port, being drained dry by over seven hundred ship girls... tsk...)
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