Elder brother's garrison

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The ship girls were stunned after hearing Xiaobai's words, then frowned and said to Xiaobai with great resistance.

However, at this moment, one of the ship girls looked at Xiaobai's face strangely, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise to her companions around her.

"Wait, this person...this person...looks like that medical ship!"

"A hospital ship?!"

The ship girls were startled and stared at Xiaobai's face for a while before revealing expressions of astonishment.

"Huh? It seems that's really true..."

"I remember the commander sent someone to invite this hospital ship... how come she..."

Xiaobai waited quietly in place, watching the ship girls surrounding her stir for a while.

Just over half a minute after the commotion started, the door to an office not far from Xiaobai was pushed open.

A young girl pushed open the door and stood in the middle of the corridor with her hands on her hips, looking directly at Xiaobai.

When the ship girls around Xiaobai saw this girl, they quickly made way for her.

"Captain!"

"Captain!"

"Captain!"

The ship girls greeted the young girl respectfully.

"Hey, Captain?" Xiaobai looked at the girl who came out of the room with some surprise.

The so-called "commander" mentioned by this ship girl is actually a young girl who looks to be about the same age as herself?

Xiaobai had previously heard Mutsu say that the leader of the Obsidian Mercenary Group was a very old man...

What happened?

Just as Xiaobai was in a daze...

The young girl who came out of the room had already walked up to Xiaobai.

"Commander, be careful, she is..."

The ship girls around Xiaobai all tried to persuade their leader.

"What kind of damage can a hospital ship do? Step back." The young girl nonchalantly dismissed the approaching ship girls, then stood in front of Xiaobai, her eyes meeting his. "Hey... you're the one who wanted to see me?"

"Uh……"

Xiao Bai blinked and nodded.

Judging from the aura emanating from this girl, she is indeed not a ship girl, but a pure human being.

"Hmm..." The young girl frowned. She silently moved closer to Xiaobai, sniffed it, and said, "Hmph, it smells like milk."

"……"noob.

The young girl walked to the window by the stairs, glanced at Mutsu who was fighting the Obsidian ship girls downstairs, then looked away and looked at Shiro again.

"Is that ship girl downstairs one of your accomplices?"

"..."

Xiao Bai simply smiled slightly at the young girl without replying.

"Hmph, you dare to trespass into our Obsidian Mercenaries' territory? You've got some nerve," the young girl said to Xiaobai, arms crossed.

Chapter 1714 Deep Hatred

"Aren't you worried about those ship girls fighting down there?" Xiaobai asked the young girl.

"What's there to worry about? Fights without using ship equipment are just minor skirmishes." The young girl scoffed. "Besides, if anyone should be worried, it's not me, it's you, right?"

"?"

“We outnumber you. No matter how good your ship girl is, she’ll eventually be worn out by my men in a tug-of-war, right?” the young girl said to Xiaobai, glancing at the windowsill. “Hmm… I think it’ll only take another twenty minutes or so before your ship girl companion loses.”

Xiao Bai stared at the young girl with considerable surprise.

It seems this girl is more than just young... she has some discernment.

Xiao Bai was thinking about it.

The young girl had already left the windowsill with her arms crossed and was walking back to the room she had just come out of. Halfway there, she turned back and waved to Xiaobai.

"The ship girl outside is trying to buy you time to talk to me, right? Okay, then come in. Twenty minutes is enough for us to have a good chat."

The young girl glanced at the ship girls beside Xiaobai as she finished speaking, then went into the room.

The ship girls surrounding Xiaobai silently put away their ship equipment and followed the young girl into the room, leaving Xiaobai alone in the corridor once again.

Xiao Bai scratched his cheek and went into the young girl's room.

The room where the young girl lived was originally an office in this factory. It contained a large desk, as well as sofas and chairs. Just as Xiaobai entered the office, the young girl was sitting alone on the sofa with her arms crossed, waiting for Xiaobai. There was an empty seat in front of her, reserved for Xiaobai. A dozen or so ship girls stood guard around her, like the most loyal guards, silent, but their sharp eyes scrutinizing Xiaobai as he entered.

Judging solely from their imposing presence, the dozen or so ship girls surrounding the young girl were far more powerful than those on the open ground. Even after Xiaobai used his Admiral Network to investigate, he could clearly sense that their ship equipment levels were significantly higher than those of the other mercenary group's ship girls.

The ship equipment level... is roughly at the upper-middle level of the ship girls in Chapter 6.

"Are they the most powerful ship girls in your mercenary group?" Xiaobai asked the young girl as she sat down in the empty seat she had given him.

"You have a good eye." The young girl's lips curled up. "That's right, they are the most outstanding and trustworthy ship girl squad in our mercenary group. But don't worry, they listen to me. As long as you don't do anything out of line, they won't hurt you."

"I see." Xiaobai nodded.

"Tell me. Why did you suddenly come to our mercenary group's base?" the young girl asked Xiaobai.

"You don't need to ask me this question, do you..." Xiaobai smiled at the young girl, "Didn't your mercenary group contact me first? My coming here myself should have saved you a lot of trouble, right?"

"Hmm...it seems you're quite sensible." The young girl nodded, looking at Xiaobai's face. She then lowered her hands and said seriously to Xiaobai, "In that case, you should understand why our mercenary group is looking for you, right?"

"I know," Xiaobai nodded.

Xiao Bai and the young girl stared at each other for a moment, the atmosphere was quiet for a second, and then they both took a deep breath.

"You want me to join your mercenaries..."

"When are you going to pay back the money you cheated out of our mercenary group?!"

Xiaobai and the young girl spoke at the same time.

Then look at the other person and stop talking.

"……Eh?"

"……Eh?"

Xiao Bai and the young girl blinked at each other, their faces filled with astonishment.

"Wait, didn't you come to me to ask me to join your mercenary group?" Xiaobai pointed at himself, looking confused.

"Huh? Why would I ask you to join our mercenary group?" The young girl looked even more confused, tilting her head with an expression that showed she couldn't understand Xiaobai. "More than those strange things, when are you going to pay back the money you swindled from our mercenary group?!"

"Money?" Xiaobai was even more confused. "What money?"

"Hey! Are you still pretending not to know?!" Upon hearing this, the young girl slammed her hand on the table in front of her, stood up abruptly, and glared angrily at Xiaobai. "What other money could it be? Of course, it's the money you swindled from my parents twenty years ago!"

"Huh? Twenty years ago?" Xiaobai asked, confused.

"Fine! Since you insist on pretending not to know, then I'll tell you word by word!" The young girl sat back down, staring intently at Xiaobai's face, and said to Xiaobai, "Twenty years ago, when our Obsidian Mercenary Group was far from being as well-established as it is now, my father, who was still in charge of the mercenary group's leadership, accepted an invitation from a mysterious person from Kyoto in order to find ship girl combat power to serve as the backbone of the group around the world."

"A mysterious...person?" Xiaobai tilted his head.

"That mysterious man told my dad that if he gave him one million, he would introduce a high-quality and powerful ship girl to our mercenary group!" the young girl said to Xiaobai. "The ship girl's name is Vesta!"

"Huh? The goddess of the hearth?!" Little White's eyes widened upon hearing this.

"That's right! Back then, our mercenary group was facing a bottleneck in its development and desperately needed excellent ship girl combat power. In order to break through this bottleneck, my father believed that mysterious person. To raise one million, he even used the mercenary group's fund! But... but in the end! He was deceived by that mysterious person!" The young girl became more and more angry as she spoke. She clenched her fists and shouted at Xiaobai, "I thought that once I raised one million, I could get a powerful ship girl to join the mercenary group, but... but after my father finally raised enough money and gave it to that mysterious person, that mysterious person only gave my father a ship girl's contact address and then ignored him! Then my father contacted that ship girl and kept inviting her to join our naval base, but... but seven or eight years passed in the blink of an eye, and that ship girl completely ignored my father's invitations! Finally, in order to urge that ship girl, my father went to find that mysterious person again... but in the end! That mysterious person simply vanished! It was only then that my father realized he had been deceived and tricked!"

"Huh? Is that so?!" Xiaobai exclaimed in surprise.

"Later, forget about acquiring powerful ship girl combat power. Do you know how many overtime hours my dad worked, how many years he toiled for nothing, and how much effort he poured into getting the mercenary group back on track to make up for that million-dollar deficit and repair that fatal funding gap?!" The young girl said angrily, pointing her finger at Xiaobai's nose. "It's all because of you! You cheated our mercenary group out of money!"

"No...this has nothing to do with me..."

"It's related! Because my dad worked too hard in the past few years, his health couldn't take it anymore, and he was hospitalized. He couldn't continue his work as the leader, so he had to pass the position to me. In the hospital, I asked my dad several times before he finally told me that the mysterious person who swindled him out of one million was a high-ranking official at the Ship Equipment Research Center! That ship girl was also from the Ship Equipment Research Center; the two of them conspired to cheat my dad!" The young girl slammed her hand on the table. "Now that I've inherited the leadership position, the first thing I'll do is come to Kyoto to settle accounts with you! I'm not as cowardly as my dad! Since you dared to cheat our mercenary group out of money, you'll have to pay the price!"

"The head of the ship equipment research center...? The goddess of the hearth? Introduced to a mercenary group? To scam money?"

As Xiaobai muttered the young girl's words, she was lost in thought when suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her.

The confusing fragments were pieced together in Xiaobai's mind to form a jigsaw puzzle.

Ah!

Is it...

The female hearth goddess was...

A sudden realization spread through Xiaobai's mind like a lotus blossoming, and in just a few seconds, Xiaobai understood the whole story.

No wonder!

No wonder the goddess of the hearth was detained and ostracized for so long!

"Judging from your expression, you've finally remembered?" the young girl asked Xiaobai, looking at his expression.

"Ah... I understand." Xiaobai nodded, but still had some doubts. "However... young captain, before explaining this, I'd like to ask... since you believe that Lady Vestal colluded with the people in the Ship Equipment Research Center to cheat you out of your money, then why did you arrest me?"

"Aren't you on good terms with the Goddess of the Hearth? She's even been staying at your house these past few days! Anyone who's friends with a liar is definitely a liar themselves! Catching the Goddess of the Hearth would require getting past the troublesome obstacle of the Ship Equipment Research Center, but you're the one to go with!" the young girl said smugly to Xiaobai.

"Uh..." Xiaobai grinned, then smiled helplessly. "Well... Miss Commander, please let me explain. This matter isn't as simple as you think... I'm very sorry for what happened to you and your father..."

“Some things can’t be resolved with just an apology.” Upon hearing Xiaobai’s words, the young girl’s face instantly darkened. She stared at Xiaobai’s face, her expression grave. “Do you know how much our mercenary group and my family have paid because of that million…”

"Uh..." Xiaobai closed his mouth. For a moment, the melodramatic plots he had seen in the TV dramas that Hu De liked to watch, such as broken families, selling blood to pay off debts, and being chased by debt collectors, floated into Xiaobai's mind. "Could it be..."

"That's right! Because of a lack of money, he didn't receive many decent birthday gifts throughout his childhood!"

The young girl gritted her teeth and shouted angrily at Xiaobai.

"After my dad finally weathered the economic crisis and painstakingly built up the crumbling mercenary group, I was finally free from poverty and could enjoy a life of luxury like a rich girl in school... But then, before I could even enjoy it for a few years, my dad was hospitalized due to illnesses accumulated from years of hard work, handing over the position of mercenary group leader to me, who was still in high school! This forced me to leave school early and work day and night like a corporate slave! Damn it! My school life... my happy and loving school life, I'm only seventeen this year!! You still want my school life?!!"

Chapter 1715 I comfort you, you comfort me

As the young girl spoke, her emotions gradually became agitated.

For a while.

“At least I was a model student at the school level,” “Teachers all praised me for my good studies,” “Every class voted for me when raising the national flag on Mondays,” “The girls would fight to pull me to the toilet,” “A girl only has a few years of puberty, and you’ve wasted them all! I’ll never let you get away with this!” These kinds of words came out of her mouth in quick succession, and the young girl’s actions also began to become aggressive.

"Commander, Commander, please calm down!"

"Commander, there are outsiders here! Don't let them laugh at us!"

"Commander, drink more hot water!"

"Commander, we understand you!"

The ship girls around the young girl quickly surrounded her, pressing down on her flailing limbs and calling out anxiously as they pushed her back into the chair.

"Liar! You're all eternally youthful ship girls, but I'm human! I only have a few beautiful years in my life, and I only have one youth. You ship girls would never understand what it feels like to waste it all on a desk! You bastards!" The young girl shouted angrily, glaring at the little white figure in front of her. "You ship girls would never understand my pain, my despair, and my regrets... Eh?"

The young girl had a gritted-teeth expression on her face, but she suddenly froze when she saw Xiaobai across the table.

because.

At this moment, Xiaobai covered his mouth, looking at the young girl as if he had found a kindred spirit. His big, golden eyes blinked and streamed tears, and his whole body trembled.

"Waaaaah... It's so tragic... It's really too tragic..." Xiaobai covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face, sobbing uncontrollably as if she resonated with the young girl's words, "You... you're just... so tragic, waaaaah..."

The young girl was stunned.

The ship girls around the young girl were also dumbfounded.

In the vast office, only Xiaobai's sincere sobs could be heard.

"...Huh?" The young girl stared blankly at Xiaobai, seeing his tear-streaked face, and was momentarily at a loss. "You, how did you suddenly..."

Snapped!

Just as the young girl was stunned, suddenly, Xiao Bai jumped up from his seat and darted in front of her like a little spring, grabbing her hand in the palm of his hand.

"Commander!?"

"Commander, watch out!"

"Protect the leader!"