Elder brother's garrison

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After a short while, the ship girl slowly shook her head.

"Sigh..." The ship girl sighed softly.

"Huh? What's wrong? Rome?"

"...I am not Rome."

"Huh? Then why did you react so strongly to Rome..." Nia was stunned.

"I am the Empire." The ship girl yawned. "The Empire of the Vittorio Veneto-class... Are you my commander? Hello, it's nice to meet you. I'm very capable, please don't worry. Okay, I'm going back to sleep now. Let's talk again when I wake up. Goodnight..."

Done.

The ship girl named Empire shrank back into her cloak, curled up into a ball, and quietly fell asleep.

Nia stood at the hatch with her eyes wide open, staring blankly at the ship girl inside.

"Eh...not Rome, is it the Empire? Oh...eh?"

"So it wasn't Rome after all..."

"But the Empire is fine too... the Empire..."

Nia stood in front of the hatch, muttering to herself. Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she looked at the ship girl inside the hatch with a surprised expression.

"Wait a minute! Shouldn't the Empire be built with one aircraft carrier? How could a battleship formula result in an aircraft carrier?"

Chapter 2621 The First Special Ship Girl?

Just as the Empire gave Nia a brief self-introduction, the admirals watching from all around also pricked up their ears and listened intently.

Upon hearing that the ship girl lying in the construction machine was not a battleship but an aircraft carrier, the admirals present widened their eyes and stared in shock at the construction device with its hatch wide open.

"...Wait, didn't this ship girl just say her name was Empire? Shouldn't Empire be a planned ship?"

"While it's rare for a planned ship to become a ship girl, it's not unprecedented. The problem now is that this little girl is using the battleship formula—as everyone knows, the battleship formula can build almost anything, except for aircraft carriers!"

"Oh my god... this is just too outrageous..."

"The idea of ​​using battleship formulas to create aircraft carrier girls seems really strange, doesn't it..."

"I must be dreaming. How can battleship formulas produce aircraft carrier girls!"

The surrounding admirals were in a heated exchange.

The admirals present were all high-ranking admirals in Chapter 8, each with experience in training hundreds of ship girls. They were battle-hardened and experienced, but precisely because of this, when faced with events beyond their common sense, these admirals with their strong qualifications were often the most difficult to accept.

If battleship formulas could create aircraft carrier ship girls, the sun would rise in the west tomorrow!

fake!

Must be fake!

I don't believe it! I refuse to believe it even if you kill me!

"No, that's not right—I remember now, there's a possibility! Even the battleship formula can create aircraft carrier girls!" Just as the admirals were doing their best to resist reality, suddenly, one of the onlookers opened his eyes and shouted loudly as if he had remembered something terrible.

"You copied it? That scared me!"

"Dude, that sudden yell almost got me killed..."

"What other possibility is there in creating an aircraft carrier girl using battleship formulas?"

The other admirals, after overreacting, also turned their attention to this area.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, the admiral who had just shouted swallowed hard. He glanced at the hatch of the construction device with a burning, envious look, and then slowly said, "Logically speaking, the battleship construction formula perfectly blocks the production of aircraft carrier girls. No matter what happens, it's impossible to build an aircraft carrier girl... But there are always exceptions! Don't forget, we are currently in Chapter 8, and Chapter 8 is currently in the midst of the Holy Construction Day!"

After a brief moment of confusion, the surrounding admirals seemed to realize something and their expressions changed drastically as they listened to the admiral's explanation.

"You, you mean..."

"That's right! The construction ship girl for Holy Day! One of the three special ship girls, the construction ship girl doesn't care what construction formula you use. As long as you're lucky, you can build her no matter what construction formula you use!" The admiral patted his chest in anguish and stomped his foot hard. "This little girl probably just pulled out one of the three special ship girls, the construction ship girl!"

"Special ship girl!"

"Fuck!"

"Fuck!"

"Fuck!"

"..."

As the words "special ship girl" spread among the onlookers, gasps of amazement echoed throughout the construction site.

Yup!

If a ship girl is a special construction ship girl, then she can indeed ignore the constraints of the construction formula!

So, this aircraft carrier named Empire is one of the three special ship girls, the construction ship girl?

Oh my god...

If I remember correctly, this girl only built it twice, right?

What kind of incredible luck is it to build a special ship girl on just two tries...?

Under the admirals' shocked gazes, Nia's silhouette began to be enveloped in a dazzling golden light.

"Uh..." Nia felt the piercing gaze coming from behind her and shrank her shoulders uncomfortably.

"So this is Nia's Empire..." Little White walked up from behind Nia, stroking his chin as he curiously examined the Empire's posture inside the cabin. "Hmm... how should I put it? Although it looks completely different from my family's Empire, this habit of sleeping is so comforting that it feels incredibly familiar."

“Little White…” Nia turned her head to look at Little White, “What, what should we do?”

"Huh? What do you mean, what should we do?"

"Everyone around me seems to be saying I created a special ship girl..." Nia nervously clasped her hands together, stammering as she asked Xiaobai, "Will... will there be any problems...? Is the Empire really a special ship girl...?"

Instead of the joy of creating a special ship girl, Nia's expression was full of worry.

"Well... the Admiral's Guild should have employees specifically responsible for identifying special ship girls, right?" Xiaobai thought for a moment, smiled slightly at Nia, and then patted her shoulder. "Don't look so serious, Nia. Creating a special ship girl is a very happy thing."

“But… but… special ship girls… I never wanted any of that… shouldn’t these powerful ship girls be built by Shiro herself… How could someone like me steal Shiro’s ship girls…” Nia looked at the Empire inside the cabin, feeling a sudden pang of guilt that made it hard to breathe. Her pretty face lost all color under the immense pressure, and even her lips trembled. “This, what should I do…”

Building an empire was a good thing for Nia.

But if the Empire were a special ship girl, it would be a pure nightmare for Nia.

Because from the very beginning, Nia believed in her heart that the three special ship girls of the Holy Day should all be considered newbies.

Powerful ship girls deserve the world's most powerful admirals!

But Xiaobai is the admiral who is most worthy of being a special ship girl in Nia's heart!

Nia felt her rhythm instantly disrupted by the fact that she had inadvertently stolen one of the three special ship girls. She felt lost and helpless, and a sense of guilt and remorse arose in her heart, as if she had stolen something from Xiaobai. As a result, she lost her composure in the face of the overwhelming negative energy and dared not face the reality in front of her.

"Nia... what are you saying?" Xiaobai looked at Nia's pitiful, frightened appearance and couldn't help but smile wryly. "Special ship girls are never pre-booked."

"Little, Little White..."

As the admiral who created the special ship girl, Nia should have been the most excited person there, but she actually needed comfort from her companions, which left the other admirals speechless.

While everyone's attention was focused on them, Veneto and Littorio quietly slipped away to the construction device.

Veneto and Littorio crouched down and came to the hatch. The two of them peered at the huddled Empire with astonished eyes, as if they were peeking at a newborn baby from under a cradle.

“Is this our sister…” Veneto looked at the Empire’s appearance, then tilted her head with a slight puzzlement, “Hmm… she doesn’t look much like me.”

“I thought it would be Rome, but it’s the Empire instead…” Littorio’s gaze lingered on the Empire, then he gently lifted his chin and smiled sassily, “Whichever of these two sisters appears is good for me, but a little surprise like this once in a while is nice to have in the middle of a boring day of campaigning.”

Seemingly because she heard Veneto and Littorio's voices, the sleeping Empire's eyebrows twitched slightly. Then, she rubbed her cloak against her body and laboriously opened her eyes.

"Hmm... Ugh..." Empire rubbed his eyes and looked at Littorio and Veneto in front of the hatch, "...It's so noisy..."

"Ugh—I never expected that the first thing my little sister, whom I've been waiting for so long, would say to me after finally appearing in the world is that she thinks I'm noisy... I'm so devastated..." Veneto said, his mouth agape, his head hanging down in utter dejection.

"Has the sleepy little girl finally woken up?" Littorio patted the dejected Veneto on the shoulder, then smiled and addressed the Empire, "Little girl, guess who we are?"

Upon hearing Littorio's words, Empire, who was rubbing her eyes, paused slightly. She lowered her arm and stared at Littorio and Veneto for a while, forcing her sleepy and dazed eyes open.

After seeing the two ship girls' appearances, Empire blinked, a hint of surprise appearing on her lazy face.

"...You are Veneto and Littorio?"

"Looks like he's not so stupid that he can't even remember his own name," Littorio said with a satisfied smile.

"...Hmm...So the older sisters are here too." Empire blinked, then pulled her cloak tighter, slowly climbed out of the construction device, and greeted the two ship girls in front of her weakly, "Yay...Veneto, Littorio, I'm here."

"I've imagined many scenarios for your appearance, but I never expected that you, Empire, would appear before us as a special ship girl," Littorio exclaimed.

"Special ship girls?" Empire tilted his head, looking curious.

Just as Littorio was about to explain the special ship girls to the Empire, suddenly, a series of chaotic footsteps came from the bottom of the stairs of the construction building.

Luo Yingying, holding up her skirt, hurriedly ran upstairs under the protection of a group of ship girl employees from the Admiral's Guild.

"I just received news that an admiral has created a special ship girl in the construction room on this floor, right?!" As soon as Luo Yingying arrived at the construction room, she immediately asked loudly to the entire building, her eyes shining as she searched among the admirals on the stairs.

The nameplate on Luo Yingying's chest that read "Lobby Manager of the Admiral's Guild" gleamed.

It seems that in just a few minutes, the commander has already relayed the news of the riots at the construction site.

Upon seeing Luo Yingying's entrance, the admirals present quickly made way for her.

As Luo Yingying cleared the way for the admirals, she immediately spotted Xiaobai and Nia standing at the end of the line.

"Admiral...Luo Lian!" Luo Yingying's face lit up with a look of delighted relief when she saw Xiaobai. She quickly ran towards Xiaobai, calling out as she ran, "As soon as I heard the news that a special ship girl had appeared on the construction floor, I wondered if it was your doing. That's why I rushed over here with my people as soon as I received the news—and sure enough, it was you! You really didn't disappoint us!"

Chapter 2622 Characteristics of Special Ship Girls

Xiao Bai once asked Luo Yingying to help him hide his identity.

Therefore, in public, Luo Yingying would definitely not call out Xiaobai's real name, but instead directly used the title of the commander of Luo Lian Garrison that Xiaobai had mentioned before, which was also a kind of improvisation.

Seeing Luo Yingying walking towards him with excited steps, Xiaobai didn't know what to say for a moment, and could only smile helplessly.

"Admiral Luo Lian, where is your special ship girl now? Our Admiral Guild has a rule that after a special ship girl appears on the Holy Day, her information needs to be registered by a professional ship girl appraiser." Luo Yingying stopped in front of Xiaobai, speaking respectfully and cautiously, while her eyes couldn't help but drift towards the surrounding area.

"Miss Yingying, I'm sorry, I wasn't the one who created the special ship girls." Xiaobai sighed and said to Luo Yingying with a wry smile.

"Huh? Not you?"

"Yes."

"But isn't everyone looking this way at you...?"

"They're not looking at me, they're looking at Nia." Xiaobai nudged Nia slightly forward and then said to Luo Yingying, "Nia is the one who created the special ship girls."

"So it was Admiral Nia who built it?!" Luo Yingying's eyes widened in surprise. "It was you?!"

“No, I’m so sorry…” Nia lowered her eyes, her face full of guilt.

"No, no, no, I didn't mean to blame you—I'm truly sorry if I made you think that way..." Luo Yingying then realized she had been a bit abrupt. She quickly waved her hand and said apologetically to Nia, "I was just a little surprised... Um... Hello, Admiral Nia, I'm the head of the Admiral's Guild. Is this a special ship girl you created? Where is your ship girl now? If it's convenient, could you please let us help you with the registration process for the special ship girl? This is a rule of our Admiral's Guild..."

"Miss Yingying, are you also a ship girl appraiser?" Xiaobai couldn't help but ask as she listened to Luo Yingying's words.

“Yes, Admiral Luo Lian, you know this too?” Luo Yingying nodded and looked at Xiaobai.

"Could this be another hobby...?"

"Please rest assured, Admiral Luo Lian and Admiral Nia, my ship girl identification skills are among the best in the entire Admiral Guild!" Luo Yingying patted her chest and said very seriously.

"As expected of you..." Xiaobai said admiringly to Luo Yingying, then turned to Nia, "Nia, quickly call the Empire over so Miss Yingying can take a look."

"Hmm..." Nia clenched her hands nervously and nodded cautiously.

The Empire has been awakened and is now standing in front of the construction device, exchanging feelings with Veneto and Littorio.

When the Empire was about to make its appearance, Littorio carried the distraught Veneto in one arm and, with the other, escorted the adorable Empire step by step to the audience.

"Commander, this is our first meeting. You wanted to see me?" The Empire stopped beside Nia and looked at her.

"Excuse me, is this the special ship girl?" Luo Yingying's eyes lit up as soon as she saw the Empire approaching.

"What special ship girl?" Empire's attention was drawn to Luo Yingying. Looking at Luo Yingying's expression, she quickly showed confusion and bewilderment. "Sister Littorio too, why do you all call me a special ship girl? I'm just Empire, just a Veneto-class Empire."

"Special ship girl" is just a special term.

As Luo Yingying explained, she waved to someone behind her.

Following Luo Yingying, a large group of ship girl employees carried instruments taller than a person to the front of the group, quickly creating a sea of ​​instruments with densely packed wires in the open space in front of them. Then, the ship girl employees stepped forward and, without saying a word, pulled Empire, who was about to explain, to the seat of the first instrument. They then attached probes to Empire's forehead, hands, shoulders, wrists, knees, feet, and other places.

“Miss Empire, please rest assured, this is an absolutely safe device,” Luo Yingying explained to Empire with a smile.

“…I see.” Empire sat in her chair, raising her hand to look at the probe attached to her snow-white wrist. She blinked, then turned to Luo Yingying and explained, “I understand. You seem to care a lot about so-called special ship girls, but unfortunately, I am not the special ship girl you are talking about. Although I am very strong, I am just an ordinary ship girl.”

"Miss Empire, you're so modest. I heard you're a ship girl who emerged from the battleship's construction process. The only ship girl who can receive such treatment is a special ship girl, right?" Luo Yingying said with a smile. "Miss Empire, please wait a moment. This instrument will monitor your ship equipment data, and then..."