The atmosphere between the two was extremely tense, as if they were on the verge of battle. Ayanami released her powerful aura, which was so strong that the people in the crowd felt it was a bit difficult to breathe.
Faced with the powerful aura Ayanami released, Königsberg snorted in disdain. An aura even more powerful than Ayanami's erupted from her body and pressed down on Ayanami.
As a Five-Star Epic Ship Girl, the aura Königsberg unleashed was indeed formidable. This aura felt like a majestic heavenly peak, directly pressing down on Ayanami until she was a bit breathless.
Is this the strength of a Five-Star Epic Ship Girl? It's truly as terrifying as they say! She had originally thought that since her strength was that of a Gold-Plated Ship Girl, she could at least resist a little no matter what, but she hadn't expected that Königsberg's mere release of aura would leave her in such a pathetic state.
Then how can I still protect the Admiral! At this moment, Ayanami hated her own weakness and her inability to use her own strength to defend her Admiral's dignity.
Just as Ayanami was about to be overwhelmed by Königsberg's powerful aura, Dido first pulled Ayanami behind her. An aura no weaker than a Five-Star Epic Ship Girl's erupted from her body and pressed toward Königsberg.
Dido's aura and Königsberg's aura collided like two meteorites, crashing together with a boom and producing a massive shockwave.
"Königsberg, it seems the previous battle didn't make you realize your mistakes. If you're so capable, then have the guts to fight me! What kind of hero bullies the weak?" Dido puffed out her chest and said loudly.
Weak?! Hearing Dido's words, it was like a bolt from the blue for Ayanami. Weak... weak... weak... So I'm actually a weakling!
Dido seemed not to notice Ayanami's mood and continued to speak to herself, "Bullying a weakling like this, doesn't your conscience hurt? Does bullying a weakling allow your lowly self-esteem to find a trace of pride? Bullying a weakling like this is truly more than I can bear to watch."
"I'm telling you! In my life, I hate people who bully the weak the most! Today, I shall act on behalf of heaven and teach you a lesson."
"Weakling" this, "weakling" that—Dido kept saying "weakling" over and over; she was practically on a roll.
Dido felt her speech was very high-spirited, very majestic, and very captivating. How about it, Ayanami-chan? Don't you think I'm cool? Have you started to admire me? Have you fallen for me? Have you fallen in love with me? Ayanami-chan must be looking at me with a shy face right now.
Dido turned her head to look at Ayanami, only to find it wasn't what she expected. Ayanami had her head lowered, her face dark, as if she had gone mad, her mouth constantly repeating one phrase: "Kill you, kill you, kill you..." Seeing Ayanami in such an unstable state, Dido swallowed hard, wondering if she had done something wrong.
"What 'hero' or not? I'm not a man. I say, Dido, you're not trying to meddle in others' business again, are you?" After hearing Dido's long string of words, Königsberg said with an angry face.
"Hmph! I'm definitely meddling in this!" Dido said with a firm face.
"Fine! Since you want to interfere, then I'll let it go. Ayanami, for Dido's sake, I'll spare you this time. Rest assured! You've kept your miserable life." Königsberg withdrew her aura and said with a dark expression.
"Eh? Weren't you going to fight me? Why aren't you coming anymore?" Dido said, feeling a bit disappointed.
Hearing Dido's words, Königsberg gnashed her teeth in anger. If it weren't for that deathly energy, I would have beaten you to death long ago.
Seeing that Königsberg had no intention of fighting another round, Dido turned her gaze to Ayanami and said happily, "How about it, Ayanami-chan! Did you see my cool appearance just now? Have you fallen in love with me? Come! Throw yourself into my embrace to your heart's content and pour out your joy!"
"Dido! I hate you. Don't come near me, I say." Ayanami moved a meter away from Dido and said expressionlessly.
These words instantly turned Dido to stone. No! She was hated by Ayanami-chan? Why?! She hadn't done anything to upset Ayanami-chan! Dido was completely baffled.
While Dido was lost in self-reflection, Illustrious was still struggling with thin beads of sweat on her forehead, working hard to move the patterns on the ruins' door to their proper positions.
The person who designed this door was truly a genius! They incorporated a large number of arrays into it. Things like the Two-Polarity Taiji Array, the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Array, and the Mandarin Duck Array were all child's play; there were even more arrays she had never heard of, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of opening the door.
The most critical part was that when moving the patterns, there couldn't be the slightest pause, nor could there be a single wrong step; otherwise, there would be a penalty time, increasing the speed of the cracking process.
Finally, hard work paid off. When Illustrious moved the last pattern, the center of the door suddenly emitted a blue light. The light spread along the lines of the patterns, filling them like water entering a river.
With a click, after an hour had passed, Illustrious finally cracked and opened the ruins' door, which was filled with a large number of arrays and mechanisms.
"Heavens! Look, the ruins' door is open! I didn't expect Illustrious to actually open it. She even cracked and opened such a complex array-mechanism ruins' door. She's truly amazing!"
"Exactly! I thought she wouldn't be able to open it. After all, if it were that easy, there wouldn't be so few Mechanics Masters in this world."
"But the point is, she opened it! I heard someone say earlier that if Illustrious opened it, they would eat this door."
The crowd all nodded, thinking that the person who said those words was truly being slapped in the face! Now, hurry up and eat the door for us.
Everyone looked at Königsberg because she was the one who had said those words.
Seeing so many people looking at her, Königsberg immediately said angrily, "What are you looking at? Believe it or not, I'll gouge all your eyes out!"
Hearing such cruel words from Königsberg, the crowd didn't dare say much more. After all, a Five-Star Epic Ship Girl's strength was right there; they couldn't do anything to her.
Seeing the crowd pointing at her but not daring to speak out, Königsberg became even more arrogant.
"That's right, having strength means being this arrogant and doing whatever one wants. If you're so capable, then you try breaking through to become a Five-Star Epic Ship Girl as well." Königsberg shouted at the people with a face full of disdain.
Ignoring these people, Königsberg stared at Illustrious and murmured in a low voice, "It would have been fine if you hadn't cracked this mechanism door, but now that you have, just wait until you enter the ruins. I'll see how I'll kill you then."
Königsberg had already added Illustrious and Ayanami to her must-kill list. Once they entered the ruins, Königsberg would definitely make them fly together to the afterlife.
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