Elder brother's garrison

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The scorching air, mixed with the smoke of gunpowder, carried a refreshing and sweet scent, as if one were being reborn.

"Admiral... just now... did you... stop the blade?" Montana asked Little White after regaining his senses.

"Yes."

"...You didn't cut it off?"

"What are you saying?" Xiaobai looked at Montana's expression, which was both relieved to have escaped death and full of confusion, and gave a helpless laugh. "You're my ship girl, not my enemy. I'm here to practice with you today, not to take your life. Of course I would stop the Deepsea Killer in front of you in that situation..."

If Xiaobai hadn't stopped, given the situation, Montana would have undoubtedly faced death.

Even if Montana is an invincible salvage ship girl, she is no different in front of the deep-sea killers who treat all beings equally.

"Montana, this is just a drill, why do you look like you've just escaped a disaster?" Little White joked with Montana, who was still somewhat lost in thought, while holding the Deep Sea Killer. He continued, "Could it be that you're not satisfied with your loss? We can play a few more rounds then."

Xiaobai's joke made her and Montana feel much more comfortable with each other.

Upon hearing this, Montana looked at Xiaobai with a mixture of admiration and helplessness.

"No... I'm not unconvinced... I'm just a little shocked... I lost, Admiral." Montana raised his hands over his shoulders and smiled bitterly at Little White. "I accept my defeat wholeheartedly, but the fact that you stopped the blade so suddenly at my nose really startled me... Admiral, your swordsmanship is unexpectedly good."

"Although I'm not good at using ship equipment, I'm quite confident in my physical abilities," Xiaobai said to Montana. "I've been exercising since elementary school. Things like the horizontal bar, volleyball, and jump rope are my specialties. I've even won several awards for my class in sports meets."

At this point, Xiaobai picked up the Deep Sea Killer in his hand and waved it in mid-air.

While waving, Little White also smiled at Montana.

"Controlling the limbs is much simpler than controlling the ship's equipment!"

"……"Montana.

Montana watched silently as Little White enthusiastically brandished his blade at the air.

makes sense……

Although the admiral can't control the ship's equipment, she never seems to have mentioned that her physical fitness and athletic ability are that bad...

Rather, it's more accurate to say that during the few times Montana saw Little White, she was always running around alone in Chapter Eight and on the sea, climbing walls, boarding boats, climbing roofs, and even removing tiles. She even dared to dive alone into the depths of Chapter Eight's waters. With such a strong adventurous spirit, her athletic ability couldn't be bad. At least among human girls her age, she's definitely among the best.

Montana tapped his forehead with his knuckles, looked at Xiaobai's profile, and let out a long sigh.

“Admiral, I surrender. Please put that knife away,” Montana said.

"Huh? What's wrong?" Xiaobai stopped what he was doing, gripping the knife hilt, and turned to look at Montana.

"...It's a little scary."

Montana looked at the Deep Sea Killer in Little White's hand, paused for a moment with a complicated expression, and then slowly spoke.

This is a blade capable of piercing through and severely damaging defenses.

In other words, this is one of the few weapons in the world that can truly threaten the lives of ship girls.

Humans may have become accustomed to living with weapons that can harm them, but this is the first time for ship girls.

For ship girls who live carefree lives in human society and have never worried about their own safety, deep-sea killers, which can threaten their lives, are extremely terrifying.

To give an example using concepts that humans can understand.

At this moment, what Xiaobai is holding is not a knife, but a grenade with the pin pulled in the eyes of other humans. It is normal for Montana to be very concerned about its existence.

“This knife is very well-behaved, although it can sometimes do some naughty things…” As Xiaobai listened to Montana’s words, she turned her head, gently pinched the blade of the Deep Sea Killer with her fingers, and gently squeezed the Deep Sea Killer into a circle in front of Montana. “Look, it’s fine even when I do this to it.”

It's strange to say.

The Deep Sea Killer, a blade possessing a certain degree of intelligence and consciousness, and being incredibly sharp and far harder than steel, was like a plastic product in Xiao Bai's hands. No matter how Xiao Bai bent and manipulated it, the Deep Sea Killer did not utter a single word of resistance.

Even as the Deep Sea Killer was being bent and manipulated by Xiaobai, it kept buzzing, much like the purring sound of a cat that is "being petted and enjoying it".

This scene, of course, caused a minor shock to Montana.

Watching the incredibly harmonious scene between Xiaobai and the Deep Sea Killer, Meng Da subconsciously stared at the spot where Xiaobai's fingers met the Deep Sea Killer's blade.

As Montana watched the Deep Sea Killer's sharp blade press against Xiao Bai's palm and fingers, even though it had dented Xiao Bai's skin a little bit, it didn't seem to cause any damage at all. Montana remained silent for a long time.

Chapter 3094 Meeting the Parents Under the Umbrella

Montana thought... even if her admiral had extraordinary bones and a constitution beyond ordinary people, his skin shouldn't be tougher than her heavily damaged protective armor, right...?

Montana hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Okay, okay, if you're still uncomfortable, I'll put it away."

Xiao Bai fiddled with the Deep Sea Killer for a while, but seeing that Montana still didn't relax, he sighed helplessly and stuffed the buzzing Deep Sea Killer back into the mouth of the crystal beast head.

The crystal beast head, carrying the deep-sea killer, circled twice before disappearing into the icy blue flames with a whoosh.

Montana's expression relaxed considerably after the Deepsea Killer disappeared.

"Montana, now that the exercise is over, let's get back to shore."

Xiao Bai smiled, raised his thumb, and pointed to the beach behind him.

When the exercise between Shiro and Montana began, there were only a few scattered ship girls on the beach. But now that the exercise between Shiro and Montana has ended, the beach has become crowded with people.

Montana glanced at the beach, breathed a sigh of relief, smiled slightly at Little White, and nodded gently.

"Montana, are you going to use that nanomechanical ability to build a ship to send us back?" Little White asked with a smile.

“Good idea…but I’m sorry, Admiral, it’s not possible right now.” Montana shook his head.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"My ship's equipment is badly damaged."

"Huh? I don't think I managed to cut your ship equipment just now?"

"...Just now, when facing the admiral's attack, my ship equipment automatically activated its damage protection to protect me." Montana shrugged at Xiaobai and continued, "Although the damage protection didn't really work and was cut open by the admiral, the energy shield of the damage protection still drained my ship equipment's energy, putting my ship equipment directly into a damaged state."

"Oh... I see." Xiaobai nodded and smiled knowingly. "Well, there's nothing we can do then. Let's walk back. There are quick repair devices on the shore; that should be enough for you."

"Hmm..." Montana lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked up at Little White, "Admiral, can I ask you for a favor?"

"what is the matter?"

Can I see your hands?

"...My hands?" Xiaobai was taken aback. She subconsciously offered the backs of both hands. "That's fine... but what's so interesting about my hands?"

Montana lowered his head and held Little White's hand in his palm.

Xiao Bai's hands were snow-white, slender, delicate, and translucent. Her ten fingers were long and well-proportioned, with pointed, pink tips, and her nails were as clear as ten pink crystals.

Montana gently rubbed Xiaobai's fingers with his fingers, pressed the back of Xiaobai's hand with his thumb, and lightly scraped Xiaobai's palm with his fingertips, feeling the touch from Xiaobai's palm.

"How was it?" Xiaobai asked.

“…Hmm.” Montana held Xiaobai’s hand, felt it for a while, and nodded. “It’s a very normal girl’s hand.”

Do you expect something wrong with my hands?

"That knife just now clearly couldn't have hurt these hands."

"Ah...you mean that?" Xiaobai smiled and said, "That's only because it didn't want to hurt me, it has nothing to do with my hand itself."

"...How can this knife autonomously distinguish between its master and enemy to adjust its sharpness and sturdiness? What's the working principle behind it?"

"There's no need to be so clear about the ship's equipment," Xiaobai said with a smile.

Montana truly lives up to her reputation as a future ship girl; she wants to understand the scientific principles behind everything.

Unfortunately, Xiaobai is not good at explaining scientific principles, so she could only say that she couldn't help her in this regard.

Little White and Montana returned to the beach one after the other.

On the beach, ship girls who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere were eating popcorn, chatting animatedly as they watched, thoroughly enjoying themselves.

A petite, all-green ship girl was even pushing a cart selling various snacks.

Upon seeing Xiaobai and his companion return to the beach, the ship girls waved their arms excitedly and called out to Xiaobai.

"Admiral—over here, over here!"

"Admiral, you're back from Chapter Eight!"

"That battle was amazing! The laser cannon is as powerful as ever!"

The ship girls were very generous with their praise and cheers for Shiro.

Amid the cheers, the ship girls' gazes lingered on Montana behind Shiro.

Although the people present didn't know who this ship girl was for the time being, they all smiled warmly and rushed to comfort her.

"Oh! You're new here, aren't you!"

"You did a great job just now! Wow, that's impressive!"

"Don't be discouraged, don't be discouraged. It's perfectly normal for our naval base's ship girls to be no match for the admiral—"

"It's more accurate to say that you managed to hold out against the Admiral for so long, forcing him to unleash his three most powerful weapons, and even making him pull out the Deep Sea Killer! That's quite impressive! Even Bismarck might not have been able to do as well!"

"Although the admiral has been holding back a bit of the B-25 carrier-based aircraft!"

The ship girls patted Montana on the shoulder enthusiastically, comforting her that losing to the admiral was nothing to be ashamed of, and that she shouldn't be discouraged, as there was still a long road ahead.

Montana was momentarily speechless at the enthusiastic ship girls. She pursed her lips, looked at the smiling ship girls around her, and paused for a while before finally opening her mouth.

"...Don't you guys think the Admiral is a bit too strong?"

"I'm used to it!"

"Can the admiral of the world's number one naval base be treated the same as everyone else?!"

The ship girls exchanged glances and replied with smiles.

The ship girls' answers were surprisingly convincing.

Montana has come to accept reality.

Seeing Montana getting along well with the ship girls around her, Xiaobai smiled with satisfaction.

……

Half an hour later.

Inside the newbie garrison, in the admiral's office building, in the admiral's office.

Xiao Bai nervously clasped his hands together, standing in front of the secretary's desk, looking at Lexington sitting on it.

"Anshan, Jeanbart, Montana, Project 24, Jinan..."

Lexington held five lists of ship girls to be hired, sat in her chair and looked at them over and over again, before finally slowly placing the lists on the table.

"A total of three special ship girls, and two ship girls closely related to the special ship girls... five new companions in total, right?" Lexington asked with a smile to Xiaobai, "Are these all the new companions you've obtained or built during this time, Xiaobai?"

"Ah...yes, yes!" Xiaobai nodded quickly.

"Aren't there any other companions?"

"Richelieu...does Richelieu count?"

“Oh… I’ve heard you mention Richelieu from Xiaobai. Thanks to Jean Bart, she’s already joined our naval base.” Lexington bent down and took out a copy of Richelieu’s application form that she had already copied from her desk. Lexington patted the application form, gently blew off the dust, and said with a smile, “I had her information ready a long time ago. So, there are six new ship girls, right?”

"Yes……"

"You were quite restrained on this trip, Xiaobai," Lexington said with a smile. "You were out for so long and only managed to bring back six ship girl companions."

"Uh..." Xiao Bai blushed and scratched his cheek awkwardly.

For a moment, Xiaobai didn't know whether Lexington's words were a compliment or a joke.

Is Lexington angry right now?

Little White cautiously looked at Lexington's cheek.

Lexington remained as gentle as ever, with a warm smile, dignified demeanor, and a soft temperament.

I can't tell them apart, I really can't tell them apart.

“That… Lexington.”

"Ok?"

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..." Xiaobai lowered her head, her hands clasped together in a tangled mess. "Um... I didn't come to see you right away..."

"..."

Lexington didn't reply, but instead kept her head down, organizing the job application forms in her hands. She tidied them up and placed them in the errand service area next to her.