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Cleveland slapped Hood’s cheek with a brutal backhand. That left a red mark. “Explain yourself you idiot! Before I behead you like Edinburgh! My patience is slowly running out with you! So spit it out!”

“Pahaha. You truly think you are saving the innocent! If you only knew the truth! All of them deserve to die! That’s it!” Hood smirked. She was smiling and that was pissing Cleveland off immensely. She already wanted to break her jaw but she needed to know this.

“If you don’t start talking I will-” ”You will what? Kill me? Pahaha, you so far suck at it.” Hood interrupted Cleveland. She was not particularly wrong given that Cleveland hasn’t damaged her enough to make her immobile so far. Cleveland just gnarred.

“Don’t tempt me!” Cleveland snarled. She hated this and slashed Hood’s body with her scythe. It wasn’t a deep cut but enough to stop her from smirking. “Humanity are the most pure people in existence! We Kansen were created to protect and save them! They can do no crime so they are completely innocent!”

“SHUT UP! YOU KNOW NOTHING!” Hood screamed as she spat Cleveland in the face. “They are the worst violent scum that evolution has ever fabricated on this planet! All of them deserve to suffer and die for what they did to me!”

Cleveland wiped the spit of her cheeks and dodged a headbutt from Hood. She slammed her into the ground and shot her with her guns. Hood was sent away and landed on the ground where she jumped right back up when she got the chance. She turned to her enemy and glared at Cleveland with narrow focussed eyes in rage. It was as if the damage she had taken, unlike earlier, didn’t bother her at all all of a sudden.

Cleveland found that amusing and kept her focus.

“You think they are worth saving but I will tell you the difference! They created us to kill for them and oh we did so! We all killed so many and it never bothered us or them! When they gave us bodies they worshiped us as saviors instead of killers but they still used us as killers at the start! I bet you got that in your data logs, Siren! Amongst all that our original purpose was always to kill the force that was against us!”

Cleveland didn’t have access to that so she didn’t bother looking and neither was she at explaining this to her enemy. She just would leave Hood in the dark. “That has nothing to do with the fact that they deserve the death penalty according to you! Even if some are doing something bad, not all of them are! Get your act together! Azur Lane protects the ones that can’t fight for themselves! We were the ones saving people for ages!”

“And that’s where you are so dead wrong!” Hood spoke with unholy levels of malice in her voice. “I was made to be the biggest! I am the greatest! I AM THE BIGGEST SHIP ON THE SEA! THEY SHOULD BOW DOWN TO ME! THEY SHOULD WORSHIP ME!”

Cleveland took a step back. She wasn’t expecting this reaction from the, by now, pretty agitated Battlecruiser. She looked like she was going mad.

Hood giggled strangely as she gripped her face with one hand where she straightened her hair back in a feeble attempt to look in control again. “I was created as the one they could look up to, to be larger, faster and stronger than anything! And by god I was! The mere mention of my name brought people joy and let my enemies cover in fear! They all ran in terror from me when I fought them and the country loved me! No one dared to wage war when I was used and when I did the enemy always died the fastest! Oh how I loved slaughtering those girls at Mers-el-Kèbir! It were just orders after all but it was inevitably bound to happen at the end of the day!”

Cleveland remained at her distance. She saw Hood begin to shake and was not feeling like this was going in a good direction.

“But then that BITCH came! That newcomer on her first damm mission!” She was shivering where she stood now as her hands were gripping her hair hard enough so she actually ripped out some of her golden locks.  “One…..One shot was all it took for her to sink me! Me! The strongest and largest ship ever built! She humiliated me that day for all of history!” She exhaled strongly. “And even though I got reborn as this you know what I became? Hahaha! I became a laughing stock! People made fun of me for dying to a rookie on her first mission! An idiot for dying to an absolute baby in naval warfare! All of my achievements, my terror and my legacy erased and replaced by a joke in a single moment!”

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