In order to successfully become an apprentice, Illustrious let go of her integrity and started wearing women's clothes and putting on makeup. When she dressed up beautifully and wore a white off-shoulder dress, she stood in front of the mirror and saw her peerless beauty. Illustrious was stunned on the spot. "Is this me? So cute, so beautiful, so pretty. As expected of me! I look truly devastatingly beautiful."
Illustrious looked around and found no one, so she immediately kissed herself in the mirror. "I love it! This is the goddess of my dreams."
After kissing herself in the mirror and seeing the lipstick mark left on the mirror, Illustrious sobered up. Oh my god! What am I doing! Actually X-ing myself? She quickly wiped the mirror clean.
In the empty room, Illustrious, who was wearing women's clothes for the first time, was extremely excited. Although Illustrious was also in women's clothing when she was first born into this world, she quickly went to human society and bought three sets of men's clothes, so she didn't really experience the feeling of wearing women's clothing at that time.
The silky and smooth feeling transmitted by the white silk stockings, as well as the comfortable and soft touch of the white off-shoulder dress on her body, all made Illustrious feel a sense of novelty and excitement.
Dressed in women's clothing, Illustrious went to become an apprentice with great enthusiasm. When Shinano saw such a beautiful Illustrious, she immediately pounced on her and rubbed her face desperately. "This is how it should be, right? For a beauty as pretty as you, it would be a pity if you always wore men's clothes."
Illustrious lowered her head and blushed: "Actually, I'm just average! Compared to you, Master, I'm far behind. The gap is at least a hundred thousand miles."
Shinano flicked Illustrious's nose and laughed: "Smooth talker! I don't buy that!"
"Hehe! By the way, since I'm already dressed in women's clothing, what about my apprenticeship?" Illustrious asked.
"Of course I agree. From today on, you are my apprentice. You must respect and honor your master in the future, you know?" Shinano put her hands on her hips and said with great dignity.
"Okay, I understand. I will properly respect and honor you, Master." Illustrious said sincerely: "Master, I will cook for you later and give you something delicious."
"Yo! You can cook too! That's great. It seems I won't have to do it myself in the future." Shinano became happy.
After Illustrious finished cooking, Shinano took a bite, and immediately foamed at the mouth, her eyes rolled back, and she lost consciousness and fainted on the table.
Seeing Shinano suddenly faint, Illustrious shook Shinano's shoulders desperately and shouted: "Master! Are you okay! Why did you faint! Don't scare me!"
The flashback ended, and Illustrious couldn't help but feel relieved. Fortunately, she was sent to the hospital in time. At that time, Master was not in serious trouble. The doctor's conclusion was food poisoning and advised Illustrious not to let Shinano eat random things.
Since then, Shinano has not let Illustrious cook, because she didn't want to experience that death god cuisine again.
"You're dressed, hurry up and get off the bed! What are you dawdling for!" Seeing Illustrious dazed, Atago immediately got angry and urged her.
Looking at the furious Atago, Illustrious muttered in a low voice: "You're really not gentle at all. Isn't it just pushing Fiona down and doing that kind of thing? Is it worth getting so angry? It's not like I did it on purpose."
"What are you whispering about! Are you bad-mouthing me?" Seeing Illustrious whispering, Atago glared at her.
Glared at, Illustrious immediately became timid. She was definitely not henpecked; it was just that a good man doesn't fight with women, so she was just letting Atago have her way.
Finding the black high heels under the bed and putting them on, Illustrious came to the table and sat down. She took out a piece of letter paper and started writing.
"What are you doing!" Saratoga asked curiously.
"I'm leaving a letter for Fiona! It's not very good to leave without saying goodbye." Illustrious replied while writing.
Essex nodded and said: "That's true, but hurry up. If Fiona wakes up suddenly, we won't be able to run."
"Don't worry! With the strength I used just now, she won't wake up for at least three hours." Atago smiled and said.
"Wow! Captain, you hit so hard!" Saratoga said.
"Hmph! She deserved it. To think she wanted to steal a woman from me, it's already good enough that I didn't beat her up." Atago snorted and said.
After a while, Illustrious finally finished writing the letter. "Okay, I'm done."
The others had already packed their luggage and thrown it into their rigging space. Seeing that Illustrious had finished writing, Atago said indifferently: "Alright then, let's leave quickly!"
"Wait, I haven't packed my luggage yet." Illustrious raised her hand and said.
"It's all right there! I've already packed your luggage. You just need to put it into your rigging space." Atago pointed to the luggage not far away.
"It's already packed? That's great! Thank you, Atago, you've been a huge help." Illustrious hugged Atago and rubbed her face against her.
Atago pushed Illustrious away: "Alright, stop messing around. We don't have time. We need to leave here quickly."
"Okay! No problem!" With a wave of her right hand, she put the luggage into her rigging space.
Seeing Fiona lying naked on the bed, Illustrious was afraid she would catch a cold. She immediately went to Fiona's side and covered her with a quilt. After doing all this, Illustrious picked up her white hat, put it on, and followed Atago out of the room quickly.
After Atago and the others arrived at the reception of the Biyun Grand Hotel and checked out, they rushed to the harbor without stopping.
"Main body ship—Activate!"
Countless glowing blue cubes emerged from Illustrious, and these glowing blue cubes converged toward the harbor to form a glowing Aircraft Carrier.
The light vanished, and the Illustrious-class Aircraft Carrier appeared before Atago and the others. Illustrious said to Atago and the others, "Alright, everyone, hurry up and board the ship!"
The Ship Girls immediately boarded the Aircraft Carrier via the boarding ladder. Once everyone was on board, Illustrious immediately left Free Iris at a speed of thirty knots, rushing toward the Atlantic Military Police base.
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Three hours later, Fiona slowly woke up, touching the back of her neck and feeling a sharp pain. "It hurts! Wait, where are Illustrious and the others?"
Looking around, she realized there wasn't a soul in sight. Fiona said angrily, "Damn it! I let Illustrious escape. Illustrious, you heartless woman, you took advantage of me and now you're just abandoning me. I'm so furious!"
Fiona bit her handkerchief. She had really suffered a huge loss this time. She had given herself to Illustrious, but not only did Illustrious not take responsibility, she had instead run off with her girlfriend Atago.
Three hours had already passed; chasing them was impossible. Given the speed of the Ship Girls, they would have long since left the waters of Free Iris.
"Hmm! Why is there a letter? Could it be that Illustrious left it for me?" Fiona immediately took the letter and began to read it.
Seeing that the letter was addressed "To Fiona!", Fiona tore it open and started reading.
Dear Fiona:
Hello! By the time you wake up, I will have already left Free Iris. I am deeply sorry for what happened last night.
Normally, I should take responsibility for something like this, but I already have a girlfriend. I cannot betray my girlfriend, so I cannot agree to your request to make you my queen.
Although I cannot agree to become your queen, I promise that whenever Free Iris is in trouble, I will definitely come to help.
I look forward to seeing you again if fate allows.
Wishing you good health!
Sender: Illustrious.
After reading it, Fiona felt happy. Although she hadn't succeeded in keeping Illustrious, she had obtained Illustrious's promise to "come to help if there is trouble."
Fiona let out a sigh of relief; only now could she truly feel at ease. Before this, she had been on tenterhooks, fearing that Eugen would return once she recovered from her injuries. "I wonder where Illustrious is now. I actually miss her a bit. Sigh! What a pity. If only I had met her sooner, then the position of Illustrious's girlfriend would definitely have been mine."
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On the deck of the Aircraft Carrier, Illustrious was currently tied to an interrogation chair. A short distance in front of her was a chair, and sitting on it was Atago. Atago sat with her legs crossed, looking down at Illustrious from a position of superiority.
Having done something wrong, Illustrious lowered her head slightly, not daring to look at Atago.
A short distance to Illustrious's right were Saratoga and Essex, who were sitting on chairs, eating watermelon while watching Illustrious.
Saratoga took a bite of watermelon and said to Essex, "Do you think the Captain will forgive Illustrious for making such a big mistake?"
Essex swallowed the watermelon and then said indifferently, "If the person you liked cheated on you, would you forgive her?"
"No!" Saratoga said, squinting her eyes.
"You said you wouldn't, so there you go! Illustrious is definitely done for this time!" Essex said coldly.
Atago said to Illustrious in an icy tone, "Do you know what you did wrong!"
"I know I was wrong, Atago, please give me another chance! I won't dare to do it again." Illustrious pleaded.
"You know you were wrong? Alright, where did you go wrong?" Atago nodded and said.
"I was wrong to get drunk!" Illustrious thought for a moment, trying to minimize her fault.
This answer did not satisfy Atago at all, because Illustrious was trying to evade her mistake. Atago immediately took out a remote control and pressed the red button.
As soon as the red button was pressed, the interrogation chair immediately generated a violent electric current, causing Illustrious to writhe in pain.
Normally, ordinary electric current could not harm Illustrious, but at Atago's request, she had sealed her own legendary core for a duration of ten hours.
It could only be unsealed after ten hours had passed. Without the protection of Ship Qi, Illustrious was no different from an ordinary person, which was why she felt pain when shocked.
After the interrogation chair shocked Illustrious for three seconds, it finally stopped. Atago said coldly, "I'll give you one more chance. Where did you go wrong?"
Having been shocked, Illustrious finally honestly admitted her fault this time. "I was wrong for pushing Fiona down!"
"Hmm! You finally admitted it." Atago pressed, "Alright then, I'll ask you, did you get drunk on purpose last night, or was it unintentional?"
"Unintentional!" Illustrious answered immediately.
As soon as she said this, Illustrious was shocked by the interrogation chair again. After the shock, she said in confusion, "Why did you shock me? I answered honestly."
Atago was about to answer, but Saratoga cut in. "You're lying! You clearly didn't say that earlier when we were at the Biyun Grand Hotel. You said back then that you got drunk on purpose."
Essex raised her hand and said, "I can testify to that. At the time, Illustrious said her purpose in getting drunk was to push us down and do those kinds of things to us."
"Do you hear that! I didn't shock you wrong, did I? This is the consequence of not answering honestly." Atago said coldly.
"I'm wrongly accused! I'm even more wronged than Dou E!" Illustrious shouted.
"You still dare to claim you're wronged? Now that there are witnesses, plus I was there at the time, you still want to deny it! You really don't shed tears until you see the coffin. It seems you haven't been shocked enough, so I'll continue and shock you again." Atago pressed the button again, and Illustrious was shocked once more.
Even after being shocked again, Illustrious still stubbornly said, "I really am wrongly accused! Please listen to my explanation, will you? Stop shocking me!"
"You want to explain, do you? Fine! I'll let you explain. How were you wronged?" Atago said fiercely.
Illustrious immediately seized the opportunity to explain, "At the time, because Fiona wanted me to be her queen, I smeared my own reputation, all to get you to catch me. In reality, I truly didn't mean to get drunk last night. You have to believe me!"
Atago said indifferently, "Alright! You don't look like you're lying, so I'll take it as the truth!"
In truth, Atago knew that Illustrious hadn't meant to get drunk. After all, it was she who had used a wink to hint for Illustrious to smear her own reputation. The reason she kept shocking Illustrious was that she wanted to teach Illustrious a lesson, to let her know that cheating resulted in being shocked until she was half-dead.
Atago did not think that shocking Illustrious was wrong. If she didn't shock Illustrious until she was afraid, Illustrious would surely go out and be unfaithful, flirting with others again next time.
Only by learning the lesson from being shocked this time would Illustrious know she was wrong, and that way, she wouldn't go out looking for other women in the future.
In truth, by shocking Illustrious, Atago was also heartbroken. As the saying goes, it hurts you, but it pains me.
Every time she shocked Illustrious, Atago felt a pang of heartache. However, although it pained her, she had to do it. All of this was to protect the love between herself and Illustrious.
Atago thought to herself: Illustrious! Please just endure it! I'll shock you a few more times, and then I won't shock you anymore.
"What do you mean 'take it as the truth'? This is clearly the truth. Don't forget that it was you who told me to smear my own reputation at the time!" Illustrious retorted.
"Did I tell you to smear your own reputation? How come I don't know about such a thing? Could you be spouting nonsense again? It seems you haven't been shocked enough! Then I'll shock you one more time." Atago feigned ignorance and pressed the red button.
Being shocked once more, Illustrious clamped her legs together and couldn't help but tremble.
This time, Illustrious was unconvinced. It was clearly Atago who had told her to smear her own reputation, so why was she denying it now? Denying it was one thing, but to shock her again? Did she really think she had a good temper? "Enough! You definitely used a wink to hint for me to smear my own reputation at the time. I have witnesses; Saratoga and Essex must have seen you wink at me."
"Witnesses, you say? Fine! I'll make you accept defeat. Saratoga and Essex, did you see me wink at her at the time?"
Saratoga held the watermelon in her left hand and gave a military salute to Atago with her right hand, saying, "Report, Captain! I did not see you wink at Illustrious."
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