Elder brother's garrison

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“One defeat is nothing, the important thing is to get over it,” Veneto said. “We can’t help them with that.”

"Yes." The ship girls all nodded.

Saving lives is much simpler than saving minds; the latter is their admiral's job, and Veneto can't help them with that.

“Speaking of eyes,” Bai Xue interjected, “that blonde lady had such beautiful eyes when she was talking to Sister Veneto.”

A blonde older sister?

Oh, you mean the team's flagship, right?

Veneto recalled that she hadn't asked the person's name, but she had overheard their conversation.

“Is it called Glory?” Veneto asked.

"Mmm." Bai Xue's small hands emerged from her sleeves, clasped together, and a faint smile graced her face, as if she were praying.

How glorious.

Let's hope she can live up to what Snow White said.

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Glory and his teammates silently raced towards the edge of the deep-sea territory.

There were no deep-sea vessels on the road, so they moved very fast, leaving white waves in their wake on the calm water.

"The exit is just ahead," Glorious reminded his teammates as he saw the black fog in the deep sea gradually thinning.

The teammates immediately perked up.

With a whoosh, the group broke through the fog.

The sunlight and warmth that instantly shone on their bodies made the ship girls feel alive.

"We're out, waaaaah..." The destroyer next to Glorious looked at the blue sea and the clear sky below and burst into tears.

Today's experience has dealt a heavy blow to the ship girls.

Although the admiral had always taught them to treat others gently, spending so much time in the first chapter and the feeling of being in a superior position for so long made them somewhat arrogant.

However, this attack truly made them realize their own weakness.

Their pride and their strength are as fragile as paper in the face of a true enemy.

It's just a pile of garbage that everyone can trample on.

Especially those amazing ship girls who saved her later, they didn't treat her like a human being at all.

If being attacked by the enemy is a setback, then encountering those ship girls is simply despair for Koei Tecmo and his allies.

The gap is too big.

They're not even from the same dimension.

This insurmountable gap meant that the ship girls didn't even have the idea of ​​trying to catch up.

"How terrifying, how terrifying..." the destroyers exclaimed.

The light cruiser comforted the destroyer, but the desolation in her eyes was clearly conveyed.

They were truly devastated by the battle, and some even didn't want to recall what happened.

Glory sighed.

She glanced at the light carrier girl beside her, who also looked at Glorious with a wry smile.

"Glory, now, we might never be able to fight again."

"Don't talk nonsense." Glory shook his head.

But she spoke without any confidence.

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The glorious teammates saw the bright sunshine, stepped onto the clear water, and felt the warmth of life in the air. Their hearts, which had been hanging in suspense, were finally at ease, and the pain and sorrow that had been suppressed for so long were released.

The fear of death, the despair of their own insignificant strength, and the shame of having once underestimated the Abyssal Fleet—all these emotions turned into tears, breaking through their psychological defenses.

Glory lowered his head, listening to the cries of his teammates beside him, and a strong sense of resentment welled up in his heart.

—After all, ship girls are girls.

"Let's go back first," Glory said. "I'll take care of reporting the situation; you all go and rest."

"Yes." The destroyers and light cruisers nodded.

The maid beside Glory, looking slightly tired, thanked him, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, Glory."

After this incident, the ship girls felt a great burden.

Physical wounds can be repaired by rapid repair devices, but emotional wounds cannot be healed in a short time. Frustration, inferiority, and fear are like chains that firmly bind the hearts of the ship girls. Right now, they don't want to care about anything, they just want to go back to their rooms and have a good night's sleep, trying to forget everything.

Glory looked at Qingmu beside him and nodded.

"You should get some rest too," Glory said.

The light carrier girl's performance wasn't as extreme as that of her destroyers and light cruisers, but a sense of powerlessness, weariness, and futility could be seen in her eyes.

Once a person truly gives up, their eyes will also become dull.

This change is very obvious.

There's nothing that Glorious can do about it.

The light carrier girl looked at Glorious and gave a wry smile, somewhat envious.

Glorious couldn't quite understand those envious looks.

"Let's tidy ourselves up and go back." After a while, once the ship girls' crying had subsided, Glorious gently suggested.

The ship girls' cries gradually subsided, and they sailed back towards the beach.

They gloriously saw the beach.

A few admirals are now standing scattered on the beach, gazing in their direction.

Glory lowered his head slightly, his expression bitter.

Her team used to treat the fourth node like their own backyard; they had never suffered a defeat so early before.

A sense of frustration burned within me.

"A ship girl is back!"

Upon seeing the group of six, the admirals on the beach spread the news like roosters crowing at dawn.

They gloriously arrived at the beach.

The surrounding admirals cast strange glances at him, making Koei's face burn.

His own admiral also rushed over.

"Glory?!" The admiral looked at him in surprise. "Have you run into trouble?"

The ship girls fell into an eerie silence.

The once lively destroyers now all lowered their heads and remained silent.

"I..." Glorious opened his mouth, but didn't know where to start, so he could only nod and say, "Yes."

The admiral straightened his expression.

He led the ship girls to a secluded corner of the beach.

Seeing that the glorious admiral and his group had something to say to each other, the other admirals wisely refrained from following.

"Glory, what happened?" The admiral told the ship girls to sit on the ground, and then he sat cross-legged in front of Glory.

Glorious glanced at his teammates, then quietly recounted the events to his admiral.

Regarding the ship girls like Veneto, Koei Tecmo, based on their previous agreement, only described them as very strong ship girls.

After hearing Glorious's words, his admiral stared in astonishment at the ship girls in front of him: "Abyssal fleet?"

"Yes." Glorious nodded.

His admiral's expression immediately turned serious: "This is a big problem."

He glanced anxiously at the admiral on the beach.

However, he still didn't move. He looked at the ship girl sitting in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief.

"You've suffered some setbacks, haven't you?" the admiral asked.

The ship girls nodded with somber expressions.

"I felt like my heart was on fire, and I wished I could disappear into the ground."

"You feel so weak and useless, and then your face gets burning hot."

"I feel that as a ship girl, I am far, far weaker than other ship girls."

"I asked the admiral."

The ship girls nodded and looked at the admiral.

"If you're concerned about how I know, it's because I have a similar manager to you all." The admiral looked at the ship girls. "Have you forgotten what happened a while ago when a white-haired ship girl pointed her finger at me and berated me in the admiral's guild?"

"Admiral Luo Yin..."

"Yeah, I wished I could disappear into the ground. I stayed in my room for days, afraid that people would see me and point fingers at me," Luo Yin said.

"Anyway, if you feel frustrated, ashamed, or pushed to your limits, just leave it alone." Luo Yin looked at his ship girl gently. "Go back to your room and sleep for a few days, relax and have some fun. You won't be going on any expeditions for the next few days."

"Admiral..."

"But I'm not saying you should give up on yourselves. Look at me, I'm still an admiral. I'll come back when I'm done playing around. It's hard to overcome psychological trauma, but the hardest thing is the desire to overcome it," Luo Yin said. "Whether it's fear, shame, inferiority, or anything else, I hope they can become your motivation to become stronger."

The ship girls sat on the beach without saying a word.

"That's all for now. I need to talk to the others about the Deep Sea Fleet later. Glorious, you stay here. The rest of you go back to the hotel." Luo Yin looked at Glorious.

The six ship girls stood up, and the five ship girls behind Glorious bid farewell to the admiral before leaving the beach with their heads down.

"Glory, we'll have to trouble you with them then," Luo Yin said to Glory.

"Yes." Glorious nodded.

“The inferiority complex about their own strength and the fear of facing the enemy cannot be eliminated in a day or two. As the admiral, I can only offer some nice words,” Luo Yin said. “Perhaps half of them will not be able to participate in the attack in the future, but I hope that the other half can regain their confidence. I will have to trouble you, who has been with them all along, with this.”

“…Glory understands.” Glory nodded.

"You really are the ship girl I trust the most." Luo Yin smiled.

Glory looked at Luo Yin with some surprise.

"I'm very sorry, as the admiral, there's nothing I can do to help."

"Admiral, you've already done so much. Didn't you just help us replace a batch of equipment yesterday? Without that equipment, we wouldn't even have made it to the rescue."

Luo Yin gave a wry smile and pondered for a moment.

“You don’t need to feel too inferior. The ship girls who saved you are from a different world than you,” Luo Yin said.

Glory looked up and stared at Luo Yin in astonishment.

She shouldn't have told Roginnetto about their strength.

Looking at the glorious expression, Luo Yin simply shook his head: "In the entire first chapter of the sea, I only know of one ship girl group that can truly convince you ship girls of their strength. They are ship girls from the fifth sea area and beyond, so it's normal that they are much stronger than you."

Glory looked at Luo Yin.

"Let's stop here for now." Luo Yin reached out and patted Guangrong on the shoulder. "You should go back and rest too."

After Luo Yin finished speaking, he turned around and hurriedly walked towards the place where the admirals had gathered earlier.

Glory sat there, recalling what Luo Yin had said.

Are those ship girls from the Fifth Sea Area onwards?

Those ship girls, were they all that strong before?

Glory raised his head and looked at the sky.

She didn't know how she felt.

She felt that her emotions were as complicated as a brine that had been fermenting for many years, a mixture of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty.