Azur Lane: Episode of Belfast Volume 2 Chapter 1 Part 14

PART 14

By this time, the thief already managed to amass quite the collection of stolen candy and sweets.

But what it was never able to entirely forget was the sight of the pumpkin cake that was currently sitting in this dorm’s kitchen. It thought that if it could steal something that big, it was sure it would be an unforgettable Halloween today, possibly the best one of them all.

Right at the main entrance to the dormitory, she could see both Foxhound and Fortune looking all vigilant. But seeing that they were currently wearing some sort of strange rigging, the thief was not going to risk it all by getting close to them.

So the thief backed away reluctantly, and then while remaining hidden it circled the dormitory until it arrived at its back, ready to invade the building through the kitchen’s back door.

But while it was on its way towards the kitchen’s back door, the thief happened to gaze at the second floor’s window, and what awaited it there was yet another surprise.

All the windows on the second floor were guarded by women in similar-looking uniforms.

And what was even more surprising here was the fact that a vast majority of those guards were not the members of the Maid Corps. It could see from here that there were also shipgirls of the Nelson Class and Renown Class respectively. And all of them looked outside, as if closely observing the dormitory’s perimeter, as if they were on the lookout for something. Or someone.

In a hurry, the thief ran towards the building and clung tightly onto the wall, so that the guards on the lookout on the second floor would be unable to spot it from their vantage point.

It would seem that at some point in between its visits, the Royal Navy’s dormitory was transformed into a well-guarded fortress. However, even seeing that security has become much tighter than before, it would not be enough to stop the thief for trying to get his hands on that sweet pumpkin cake that awaited it in the kitchen.

On the contrary, seeing that they were all guarding it in such a way made the thief start feeling an incredible thrill, just like a thrill of the hunt.

Now, if the Royal Navy was going to such lengths in order to protect their precious pumpkin cake, then that also meant that the thief would need to do his absolute best in order to steal it from them.

Then, just as it was about to finally reach the doors leading to the kitchen by crawling its way alongside the wall……

「There~ you~ are~!」

Startled beyond all belief, the thief turned its back to where the voice was coming from, and there stood a silver-haired girl with her full-blown rigging deployed, her outfit fluttering on the wind and her guns locked firmly onto the thief.

「It really is just as Bel said before! Looks like I was worried sick for nothing, imagine that!」

But before Edinburgh was able to say anything more, the thief already started to run away, not even going to bother to listen.

「Wait! Stop right there!」

The maid’s guns followed the thief and before long, her rigging fired a few shots towards it, but each missing its mark.

Yes, none of the shells fired at the thief managed to hit it directly. However, since the shells were always falling near it, unfortunately some of the shrapnels from the shells managed to slash the bag on its head and graze the face that was underneath it.

But still, even though its situation might have looked perilous, the thief was actually calm and had no worries in his heart.

Because even if the fully rigged maid would decide to chase after it, it would never be able to catch us, seeing how the thief was way faster on its feet than the maid was.

As long as it was able to avoid the direct strike from the artillery fire, it would be able to run just fine, and the chase would end up in the exact same way as it did before.

Now, even though she had the advantage here, the thief also knew that it was not good to push its luck too much, even against someone seemingly inferior to itself.

So the thief started to make a dash towards the sea shore in order to wait there for a bit, albeit it was doing this reluctantly and at the expense of turning its mood really foul.

「……………」

But just then, its legs came to a full stop all of a sudden.

Because right in front of it, there was someone. But this time around, that someone was two shipgirls from the Maid Corps, their backs turned against the setting sun.

「Freeze! I’m afraid that you are not going to run any further!」

「But that being said, you have done well to come this far. Hats off to you, Thief-san.」

If the thief was not mistaken, then the shipgirls that were standing here all proudly were the County Class Heavy Cruisers, and one of them was Kent.

Both of the maids were in a state where their entire rigging was already deployed, with their gun barrels facing the thief and completely locked onto it.

It was then, right in the moment when the thief turned back and was just about to go back the way it came here……

「–––––– And where do you think you’re going, huh?」

The thief could not help it but to shudder upon hearing the voice that it heard coming from behind its back.

「I’m sorry, but unfortunately for you, there is nowhere else for you to run away to. You might as well give it up.」

While saying that, the thief’s eyes opened up wide in astonishment behind the cover of the bag on its head.

「–––––– Well, except to Hell, that is.」

What the thief was looking at was the Town Class Light Cruiser, looking at it sharply and not letting it out of her sight even for a moment.

And the sharpness in that gaze was all that the thief needed to know that the shipgirl in front of her was not kidding. There is probably no one in this Home Port who doesn’t know who that shipgirl is, especially with the size and shape of her main guns.

Its honed concentration makes it possible to pin down and completely eradicate every opponent she would set her sights on.

In light of the fact that she was sunk by Iron Blood’s Destroyers one by one in the Battle of the Barents Sea, she looked really carefree and even scatter-brained.

An operation commonly known as the Attack on the Barents Sea.

Being blocked by such a prominent person, the thief had no other choice but to stand in awe and be unable to move even an inch.

There is no way that it would be able to survive getting hit with a direct hit from a fully-blown barrage. The only hope she had left was to fire a small salvo of her own and make a run for it.

「–––––– Good, good! Everyone! Make sure that you manage to surround it properly!」

However, before the thief was able to escape, the silver-haired with glasses from earlier came right in front of her and blocked her escape route.

And then, yet another silver-haired woman with a small girl right at her side came behind its back, and just like that the thief was surrounded by the entirety of the Edinburgh Class ships in what seemed to be a blink of an eye.

Yes, the blink of an eye. That’s all it took. In that short amount of time, the thief managed to get surrounded from all possible directions, its escape routes completely cut off.

In the end, the silver-haired tall woman came up in front of the pack of its pursuers, standing upright and straight as she looked down at her. The silver-haired woman who came last or the thief stands up straight.

That particular woman was chasing after the candy thief many times across today, and every single time the thief has managed to shake her off and escape victorious. But that has come to an end now. And now, the silver-haired woman quietly spoke some words that were directed at the thief.

「Looks like I finally managed to catch up to you.」

* * *

The thief frantically looked around her surroundings and noticed that she was in a pathetically desperate situation.

Everyone present here could shoot it down right away. Standing in the middle of the main guns circle, it had nowhere to run away to.

「Now put your hands in the air and surrender quietly.」

Hearing Belfast’s words, the thief slowly raised its hands and crouched down on the spot.

Just when everyone thought that it finally decided to surrender, in the very next second,

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