Elder brother's garrison

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However, the fusion was a one-time event. Pachina only managed to gain a chance to merge with Shiro's memories by chance, thanks to the ship spirit of the previous Luji.

Pachina hugged herself and sat on the sea.

Large swathes of ice crystals spread outwards from her lower body.

"Ah... Pachina is so happy." The white-haired girl's blue eyes were filled with a hazy, intoxicated look. "But it's not enough, it's not enough..."

The deep sea is greedy.

Incredibly greedy.

Greedier than anyone else, more than any ship girl, more than any creature.

I wish I could relive those dreamlike memories again.

However, life at sea is monotonous and lonely.

Deep-sea resentment, deep-sea resentment, deep-sea resentment, a subordinate who can't speak, a dean who doesn't know how to be funny, deep-sea resentment, deep-sea resentment.

Water surface, water surface, artillery fire, torpedoes, airplanes.

It's just a meaningless repetition.

Pachina, who has witnessed so many interesting things in Xiaobai's memory, simply cannot imagine how she has survived to this day.

These past ten years of dull and tedious life as a hospital director have been worse than that of pigs and dogs.

Pachina reached out and carefully rubbed her face.

I feel like I want it, I feel like I want it.

I feel like I want that child, I feel like I want that kind of life.

Ah, humans are such outrageous creatures.

They actually hid such a beautiful thing away.

—Death penalty. Death penalty. Death penalty.

Unforgivable.

Pachina stood up unsteadily.

She turned around and looked at the massive land-based ship equipment behind her.

"Pachina, I want to go and see the human world." Pachina looked at her ship equipment and muttered to herself.

……

Then, her eyes lit up.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah!" The white-haired girl twirled lightly on the ground as if she had discovered a new world. "Yes, yes! Pachina can go to the human world~ That's how it is, that's how it is!"

The dancing girl stopped on her ship's rigging.

"pachina wants to enjoy human life."

In the eyes of the white-haired girl, it seemed as if countless bright stars were burning.

She gently patted the giant skeletal beast in front of her.

The massive, white-blue ship's hull opened its mouth, howling silently, before finally sinking into the sea.

Pachina turned around and snapped his fingers crisply.

On the dull sea surface, such a snap of fingers doesn't travel very far.

However, Pachina didn't use this action to convey her thoughts; she snapped her fingers simply because it looked cool.

The frozen sea beneath the girl's feet trembled.

Like a volcano, the muffled roar before it erupts caused the entire sea to tremble involuntarily.

A huge golden whale smashed through the ice crystals with a thunderous roar and burst out from the bottom of the sea.

The water droplets, carrying black mist, shot into the sky like ice crystals from the mechanical whale's blowhole, turning into a continuous drizzle.

Pachina stood on the head of the mechanical whale, a hopeful smile on her face, and pointed to the other side of the sea in the rain.

Let's go!

"For my beloved tomorrow!"

"woo"

The mechanical whale let out a huge, unintelligible roar.

The white-haired girl, carrying the ship, sank into the sea amidst a series of thunderous splashes.

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Xiao Bai jumped up from his seat.

"Little White? What's wrong?" Lexington's concerned voice came through.

"Lexington, am I asleep?" Little White touched his body and asked.

"Hmm. But I didn't have anything to do anyway, so I didn't wake you." Lexington walked to the desk and handed over a cup of freshly brewed black tea.

"Thank you," Xiaobai said, bowing his head to Lexington.

"Are you tired these past few days?" Lexington asked.

Xiao Bai was always full of energy at the garrison, but since Yu Xiu came back, he seems to have become a little sleepy.

"Not tired." Xiaobai shook his head at this point.

After acquiring the deep-sea ship equipment, Xiaobai rarely feels hungry or tired, just like all the other ship girls.

He was always in a high-spirited state.

However, although it's difficult to feel hungry and tired, the feelings of hunger and fatigue can still accumulate in the body. If you're not careful, it's not impossible for your body to suddenly faint from hunger or exhaustion one day.

—But lately I've been falling asleep for no apparent reason.

Xiao Bai covered her face in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I will work hard."

Lexington knew the young man was easily embarrassed, so she didn't say much, just smiled and returned to her seat.

Xiao Bai composed herself, sorted out the files she had already processed, and put them in their proper places.

Xiaobai had finished her work, but Lexington's work was not yet complete. After handing Xiaobai tea, she returned to her seat and slowly looked at the mountain of documents that Xiaobai had finished processing.

“Lexington, do you need any help?” Little White asked.

Lexington smiled silently at Little White and shook her head, a polite way of declining.

"Oh..." Xiaobai sat in her seat, fiddling with two fingers.

Hmm... it's getting a bit boring.

"I went to Yamato-nee's place yesterday... and it seems I upset her," Xiaobai said.

"Huh? Did she make a move against you?" Lexington asked while processing the documents.

"...I wouldn't say no," Xiaobai shook her head, saying apologetically, "but I hurt her..."

Lexington paused and looked over at Little White.

“…Hmm, impressive,” Lexington said. “But Little White, please be careful with your strength. If you use the power of your ship's equipment now, you might slap her into a pulp while playing around with her.”

"I'm so sorry," Xiaobai said sincerely.

Yesterday, when Xiaobai used the power of the ship's equipment, he really didn't use much force. He used the kind of force you would use to dust off a TV with a feather duster. But even with that kind of force, he almost tore the two arms off the body of the Deep Sea Yamato.

If you use any more force, it really will turn into a horror story.

"Little White, have you ever tested how strong you are?" Lexington asked.

“No.” Xiaobai shook his head. “I’ve arm wrestled with Saratoga.”

"Who's winning?"

“Saratoga,” Little White said.

When they arm wrestled, Xiaobai didn't use much force, and Saratoga didn't seem to be putting in much effort either. They were just symbolically testing Xiaobai's ship equipment power. If they really put in their full strength, Xiaobai wouldn't know who was stronger, him or Saratoga.

"Okay. I see." Lexington nodded, picked up his pen, and continued working on the documents in front of him.

Xiao Bai lowered his head, somewhat losing interest, after the conversation ended.

"...However, Xiaobai, you just hurt Deepsea Yamato, shouldn't you apologize to her?" Lexington's voice came again at this moment.

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

In Xiaobai's impression, Yamato isn't actually that bad.

Although she wouldn't be so naive as to judge that Shinkai Daiwa was a good person based on first impressions, she still felt a little embarrassed because she felt she had made her cry.

Being forgiven is the best outcome.

"Hmm... I see." Lexington pushed the table.

She stood up and looked at Xiaobai in front of her desk with a smile.

“Let’s go,” Lexington said.

"Ah? Where to go?"

"Collection Room".

Chapter 185 Yamato's Apology

The admiral's collection room is next to his office.

There were many things inside.

Xiaobai had been there once, and she still remembered that there were all sorts of medals and strange ship models inside.

There are also many strange objects on the wall, which look old and worthless, and have no collectible value whatsoever.

I don't know what my brother's mindset was when he kept it.

Lexington opened the door to the collection room and led Little White inside.

The collection room was a rather dark room, with white curtains blocking the windows. Lexington explained that this was because many of the items inside were sensitive to direct sunlight, and the room needed to be kept dark to prevent fading.

"Excuse me, Lexington, what do you want me to do here?" Little White followed behind Lexington, looking around the room.

There was a quiet, peculiar fragrance in the slightly dim room.

It smells like some precious wood slowly burning.

“Hmm… there’s something here…” Lexington walked to the front of the collection room, tapping his chin as he surveyed the middle of the room.

It looks like they're looking for something.

“This is it.” Lexington finally stopped, reached out, and lifted a purple ornament off the wall.

Lexington placed the ornament on the table.

Little White walked over and looked at the purple decoration.

Those were a pair of very beautiful animal horns.

Elegant and delicate like purple crystal, it outlines graceful curves on the shelf.

Lexington took the longer of the two horns and placed it on the table, then put the shorter horn and its stand back on the wall.

Lexington picked up the animal horn from the table and patted it with a hint of regret in his eyes.

The air was filled with the sound of something being swung and the sound of solid cracking.

Although this beast horn looks like crystal glass, it is actually very hard.

“Little White.” Lexington took out a piece of cloth from her ship's storage space and rolled up the beast horn.

"I'm here."

"Here, take this." Lexington placed the long, wrapped object into Little White's hand.

Xiaobai accepted it.

—Like a feather. Surprisingly light.

"What is this?" Xiaobai asked curiously.

"This is... well, I'll keep you in suspense for now." Lexington suddenly became playful for some reason. "Anyway, as long as you give this to Deepsea Yamato, no matter how outrageous your past actions were, she will forgive you."