Elder brother's garrison

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"...Actually, I chatted with Shiro early this morning." Akagi hesitated for a moment before speaking to Bismarck.

Bismarck put down the smooth plate.

"In short, there's really nothing to pack," Akagi said, fiddling with her fingers. "I can go back anytime."

“Oh…” Bismarck nodded, thought for a moment, “We can chat at noon, but we should get some sleep in the early hours of the morning.”

Akagi smiled awkwardly: "Yeah, I'll be more careful next time."

"What did you talk about?" Bismarck asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just asked how everyone at the naval base is doing," Akagi said.

“Everything is fine,” Bismarck said. “Fubuki misses you.”

Akagi's eyes dimmed: "Yes, I've failed as an elder."

“...But even if you’re ready, you won’t be able to go back anytime soon.” Bismarck said, looking at Akagi with her eyes closed.

"what?"

"I'm not just looking for you this time."

"Eh?"

“Yamato.” Bismarck extended her hand.

Yamato Fukami quickly pulled out a large folder and handed it to Bismarck.

Bismarck flipped through the pages, glancing around at them. "Next up is Washington."

Bismarck closed the folder and looked at Akagi: "So we'll have to wait a while longer to get back to the naval base. You'll have to come with us to find the remaining ship girls."

“…Ah…” Akagi stared blankly at Bismarck, “So, you didn’t actually come here specifically to see me?”

“…No?” Bismarck tilted her head. “But you’re the only married ship here, and things have been a bit strange lately, so I came to you first.”

"Huh? Isn't it because I haven't returned to the naval base that you're here to ask me for my answer?"

"no."

"Aren't you here to hold me accountable for setting a bad example by leaving the naval base, which then led other ship girls to leave as well, almost causing the naval base to fall apart?"

Bismarck looked at Akagi strangely: "You helped Lexington a lot when you left."

"what?"

“Many ship girls don’t actually have a relationship with Lu Yun that’s close enough to risk their lives together. Under that kind of atmosphere, they should definitely go out for a walk to relieve the pressure. However, no one has dared to take the lead. Lexington has told me more than once that if it weren’t for Akagi setting an example and reducing the psychological pressure on the ship girls in the naval base, the naval base would really be in trouble,” Bismarck said.

"Huh?" Akagi propped himself up on the floor with both hands, staring blankly at Bismarck.

Bismarck finally remembered that he hadn't told Akagi the purpose of his visit.

“We’re here because the Autumn Event is coming up soon, and the Naval Base needs your strength, so we hope you’ll return to the Naval Base,” Bismarck said to Akagi. “You’ve been on leave for two years; it’s time to go back and meet those Abyssal Fleet ships.”

Akagi blinked, her expression quite peculiar.

"Then... I..."

"what happened to you?"

“…It’s nothing.” Akagi lowered his head.

Akagi's shoulders slowly began to tremble.

Like a kettle that's been sealed shut, Akagi is now struggling to suppress an emotion.

“…Ugh…Ugh…Pfft.” Then, he couldn’t hold back anymore.

"Hahahaha, hahahahaha. Hahahahahaha!" Akagi collapsed to the ground, clutching her stomach. She rolled around, laughing incessantly.

Such a big person, yet rolling around on the ground like a little girl.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha!" Akagi laughed, tears welling up in her eyes.

Bismarck and Yamato were startled by Akagi's appearance.

"Akagi?"

"It's okay, it's okay! Don't worry about me, let me laugh for a while, hahaha..." Akagi replied, bowing her head and blushing.

The sisters at the naval base are so kind.

“Akagi, you look like an idiot right now,” Bismarck said mercilessly.

"Hmm! Hmm! Hmm!" Akagi, lying on the ground, nodded and looked at Bismarck.

She looked at her hand adorned with the ring, her eyes sparkling with joy and delight.

"It's not that I look like someone, it's that I'm an idiot!"

It's almost the end of the month, so please give us any leftover razor blades or small gifts. (Kneeling)

If you don't give it to me soon, it will expire! (Kowtowing in gratitude)

Chapter 365 Luo Lian's Admiral Network

Xiao Bai rubbed his eyes and sat up in bed.

She stretched and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

Xiaobai woke up several hours later than usual, it seems that waking up once in the early morning does affect her sleep quality.

Akagi, who was holding her, was no longer there; she seemed to have already gotten up.

Xiaobai got off the bed.

But there was no other way. The painful groans that Akagi made when she had nightmares in the middle of the night made it impossible for Shiro to fall asleep peacefully. For Akagi's physical and mental health, Shiro could only sacrifice his precious sleep time, which is used to grow, to comfort Akagi.

Xiao Bai walked to the bedroom door and looked at the door frame.

Akagi's house is rented, so there are some traces of previous residents, such as height markings on the door frame to show children how they are growing.

Xiao Bai stood over and compared himself to the sign, only to find that he couldn't reach it at all.

"It's okay, I'm still very young, I'll grow taller," Xiaobai comforted herself as she walked into the living room.

As soon as Xiaobai entered the living room, he saw Akagi, dressed in an office lady outfit, fastening buttons to seven or eight large bags of aluminum cans.

The sound was much, much muffled than when I was cleaning up the cans yesterday.

Those cans should all be unopened canned beer.

"Akagi?" Xiaobai exclaimed curiously.

Akagi raised her head and smiled at Shiro: "Good morning, Shiro."

Akagi's gentle smile reminded Shiro of the feeling of being hugged by her when she slept.

"Good morning." Xiaobai smiled back. "Chicheng, what are you doing?"

"Organize these and then throw them away."

"Oh." Xiaobai looked at the pile of aluminum cans in front of Akagi. "Those are still unopened. Are we just going to throw them away like that?"

"No, thank you." Akagi blushed and smiled shyly.

"That's a bit of a waste."

"I kept a few bottles for cooking, and the rest... well, let them go to waste." Akagi knew this was unfair to the farmers, but no one would drink the beer anyway. Akagi herself didn't like drinking, and Shiro certainly couldn't drink it. Letting it mold at home was the same as throwing it in the trash.

Do you use beer in cooking?

"Adding a little beer when mixing the batter for chicken wings, drumsticks, and fried foods makes them taste even crisper," Akagi explained, tying a tight knot in the plastic bag in her hand.

"Where are Bismarck and Yamato?"

"The two of them just went out. Yamato wanted to check out the internet cafes nearby, so Bismarck went with her."

"Oh……"

"I'll be back soon."

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded, watching Akagi pull up the seven or eight heavy plastic bags in his hand. "Akagi, let me help you carry some."

"It's very heavy."

"It's okay." Xiaobai shook her head and took the two plastic bags from Chicheng's hands.

The plastic bags that Akagi made each contained more than twenty unopened aluminum cans, weighing about the same as a case of beer. How could an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl possibly carry two bags of such heavy things?

Akagi looked at Shiro's delicate arms, which had no muscles at all, and smiled kindly.

However, I was already very touched that Xiaobai thought of helping me carry the Akagi, so I naturally wouldn't refuse. But I guess Xiaobai won't be able to carry it for long.

Xiaobai took the plastic bag from Chicheng's hand without his arms trembling at all.

"Hmm, I can carry it." Xiao Bai raised his hands like an Olympic weightlifter and swung them up and down quickly, making the beer cans in the bag rattle and sway.

Akagi stared in shock at the seemingly frail and helpless little girl in front of her.

Her skin was as white as snow, her hair as white as silk, and her delicate features and golden eyes made her look like a doll on a TV show.

However, this character, who is supposed to be a delicate and beautiful girl who "can't lift anything heavier than chopsticks," is carrying two bags of beer weighing more than 30 kilograms in total, without showing any signs of strain on her face, as if she were just pinching two feathers.

"Huh? Can you carry it? Is there no problem?" Akagi asked nervously.

If Xiaobai tries to carry these two bags of beer by force, he'll easily strain his arms.

"It's okay." Xiaobai smiled.

Akagi reached out and touched Shiro's arm.

Sure enough, just as Xiaobai said, her arms were not tense at all, and it seemed that the two bags of beer were not heavy for her at all.

Even a woman with great strength would have to use some strength in her arms to lift these two things, right?

"..." Akagi looked at Shiro with an expression that said, "Why are you so amazing?"

“I have ship equipment too,” Shiro said to Akagi. “My strength is about the same as Saratoga’s.”

"Ship equipment?" Akagi was stunned. "Little Shiro, you have ship equipment too?"

"Yes." Xiaobai put down the plastic bag in her hand, picked up the clothes she had taken off on the sofa last night, and changed in front of Chicheng.

"How do humans get ship equipment... Are you a ship girl?" Akagi asked in shock.

Lu Yun has never mentioned that his sister is a ship girl.

"I am human," Xiaobai said. "My ship equipment was stolen from the Deepsea Aquatic Ship."

Just then, Xiaobai quickly changed her clothes, and to make it easier to explain, she immediately released her ship equipment.

A chill emanated from behind Xiaobai, spreading in all directions. A massive ship, gleaming with a faint colored light, landed with a thud on the ground behind Xiaobai.

The plastic bag in Akagi's hand fell to the ground with a clatter. She took several steps back, staring at Shiro's ship equipment in disbelief: "...This is...land-based ship equipment?"

"Ah."

"Is that a deep-sea ship rig...?" Akagi looked closely at the ship rig behind Shiro, then frowned. "No, it doesn't have a deep-sea aura... but this form..."

Akagi was referring to the iconic crystal animal bones on the ship's equipment and the cold blue flames burning within them.

Although this blue flame is described as fire, it is actually quite cold. After studying Shiro's ship equipment, Yubari also said that this flame is actually a low-temperature aggregate, just like the cold air on the ship equipment. It should be one of the inherent properties of the ship equipment.

It's worth mentioning here that the ship equipment of the Deepsea Yamato also has its own attributes. The electric flower that suddenly appeared and repelled Pachina when Pachina tried to molest Xiaobai in the first sea area was the power attribute of the Deepsea Yamato's ship equipment.

Xiaobai put the ship's equipment back.

The chill in the room gradually dissipated as the ship's equipment disappeared.

"In short, I got the ship equipment through all sorts of strange reasons, and then through all sorts of strange reasons, the ship equipment became like this," Xiaobai said embarrassedly.

"Oh..." Akagi nodded. "Shiro, who knows about this ship equipment?"

"Many people probably know about the ship girls in the naval base, and also the Pacific Governor who sent me to be an admiral."

“Hmm.” Akagi’s expression turned serious. “Then you must never let anyone know that you possess this ship equipment.”

"Okay." Xiaobai nodded.

Akagi's reaction was exactly the same as Muyu's.

Akagi seemed to want to quickly forget about Shiro's ship equipment. She shook her head and then adjusted her expression back to a smile: "Well, then Shiro, you can help me carry two bags."

There was nowhere to throw all those beer cans at home, and the hallway couldn't hold them all either, so Xiaobai and Chicheng had to go downstairs to the garden and throw them into the big trash can.

As soon as Chicheng and Xiaobai came downstairs, Luo Lian walked towards them and said, "Good morning, Xiaobai!"