Elder brother's garrison

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Finally, they rushed onto the beach, and the three of them tumbled together in a very messy manner due to the powerful momentum, with sand flying everywhere.

We're back on the beach.

The ship girls' blank stares indicate that they haven't yet grasped the current situation.

The warm sand felt hard and itchy on my skin, and the sunlight shone directly into my eyes, making them extremely glaring.

The captain, who was in charge, grabbed a handful of sand from beneath him.

"Ah...we're back on the beach."

They weren't participating in a race, and the first one back on the beach certainly wasn't the winner. On the contrary, when they realized they were back on the beach, it meant they had failed the test.

They didn't even manage to make a single intimidating move in front of the examiners before fleeing back to the beach in a sorry state.

Why did you run away?

They didn't even know why they lacked the courage to raise their guns in retaliation.

They were simply following the most primal biological instincts of survival and fear that emanated from within their bodies.

Strangely, after the ship girls realized they had lost, they didn't feel any sense of loss. Instead, a subtle feeling of "finally safe" filled their hearts like a rapidly inflating airbag.

The ship girls breathed a sigh of relief.

The surrounding sounds seemed to finally break free from their murmur and begin to become noisy.

"Finally safe..." Just as the leading ship girl was sighing, she felt a gentle pat on the shoulder and turned around.

A blonde woman in a naval uniform was bending over, extending her hands towards herself, her fingers curled, and a playful smile on her sweet face.

"Gah~" Rodney called out to the ship girl in front of him.

Rodney's portrayal of Deepsea is truly subpar. His overly sweet appearance and soft voice fail to evoke any of the supposedly terrifying emotions, and his affected mannerisms, which resemble a teddy bear being bullied by children in a puppet show, make it impossible to associate him with the ferocious Deepsea amphibious ship.

Rodney was even lectured by his former students, who told him to be more serious.

However, Rodney's simple action triggered memories that had just faded from the victim's mind.

A fiery red fireball, massive ship rigging, relentless artillery fire, and the dangerous woman who created it all.

It slowly chases itself across the sea, like a demon.

The devil has come ashore...

"Waaaaah..." Large tears finally streamed uncontrollably from the eyes of the leading ship girl and her teammates, "Waaaaah..."

She and her teammates, who are still conscious, were both terrified and cried by Rodney's screams.

Regret, remorse, regret for what I did, deep regret.

What was I thinking when I decided to challenge a ship girl like this?

The three ship girls huddled together helplessly, cowering and not daring to even glance at Rodney: "We...we were wrong...please forgive us...we're sorry...we're so sorry!"

Rodney is still in the Gawoo pose.

"Huh? Am I really that scary?" Rodney blinked his big eyes.

It feels so strange.

Rodney straightened up and looked at the three ship girls sitting in front of him, hugging each other and crying.

"Don't cry anymore, be a good girl from now on." Rodney squatted down and patted the heads of the three ship girls in front of him.

However, when Rodney touched the ship girl's head, the ship girl cried even harder.

Rodney had no choice but to stand up and awkwardly accept the assessment report handed to him by the staff member next to him.

After marking the failing grade repeatedly, Rodney strolled away slowly with his hands behind his back.

"Sister!" Rodney found where Instructor Seven and Nelson were and waved to them with a bright smile.

Nelson put away his digital camera and patted Instructor Number Seven on the shoulder.

That was as if to say, "See, I was right."

It's already quite clear who won. When Rodney landed and approached the ship girls who were challenging them, and the ship girls were so frightened that they cried, it already indirectly told everyone.

This exam—no, this battle—is a resounding victory for Rodney.

Rodney walked up to Instructor Number Seven and grinned at her, "I'm back."

"Oh...oh...welcome back..."

"The child who did the bad thing has already been disciplined."

"Hmm...hmm." Instructor Number Seven nodded somewhat blankly.

What on earth did Rodney do to scare those ship girls like that?

Wait, how exactly did Rodney win...?

Those are six ship girls...

...No, on another note, is it true or false that Nelson said Rodney had a Yamato cannon?

Instructor Number Seven felt overwhelmed by the amount of information he had received.

"What's wrong, senior?" Rodney asked, noticing that Instructor Seven seemed hesitant to speak.

“…You…I…” Even though Rodney gave Instructor Number Seven a chance, Instructor Number Seven didn’t know what to say for a moment.

After thinking for a long time, Instructor Number Seven could only manage to say, "You... take good care of the Yamato cannon on your body; many people will definitely be envious."

Rodney and Nelson were surprised that Instructor Number Seven had said something like this after thinking for so long, and they smiled at each other.

“Haha, don’t worry,” Rodney said. “Because we’re going home soon.”

"Go home?" Instructor Number Seven was taken aback.

“Yeah, I should have gone home a long time ago.” Rodney nodded. “My sister and I agreed that after we saw off this last class of students and finished the final exams, I would resign and go home.”

"Going home" means...

“Of course, we’ll go back to our naval base.” Rodney flashed an angelic smile.

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Instructor Number Seven was stunned for a while before he realized what Rodney meant.

"Are you leaving?" Instructor Number Seven asked.

“Yes.” Rodney and Nelson nodded, it seemed that this decision was something they had already discussed.

"Do you feel the benefits here aren't good enough?"

"No, I'm very happy living here, and my seniors are very kind. I love it here." Rodney smiled and shook his head. "But we have to go home now."

Instructor No. 7 looked at Rodney, then at the challenger ship girl surrounded by staff behind Rodney.

Instructor Number Seven, who was always used to relying on Rodney, suddenly felt a void in his heart.

That makes sense. With ship girls as strong as Rodney and Nelson, no naval base would be willing to let them go out like that.

—So Rodney and the others didn't actually run away from home.

"Oh..." Instructor Number Seven lowered his head meekly and responded softly.

Originally, the ship girls who served as instructors at the ship girl training institution did not hold long-term positions. The instructors here all had their own naval bases and would eventually return. However, Instructor No. 7 had spent a lot of time with Rodney, and she had inadvertently come to regard Rodney as a girl who would always stay by her side.

"Then... have a safe trip..."

"Yes, thank you, senior." Rodney happily took Instructor Number Seven's hand. "Thank you for your help to me and my sister!"

The noisy beach gradually calmed down. After the training institution finished assessing all the ship girls, they left. The beach will soon reopen and return to being a normal public place.

The ship girls who passed the assessment thanked the instructors repeatedly with their graduation certificates and left the team, while the ship girls who failed had to return to school for a new round of training.

It's worth mentioning that the ship girls who challenged the training center in the morning were already quite skilled, so even though they received a failing grade from Rodney, they didn't stay in the training center but quietly left.

Of course, tuition fees will not be refunded.

This wasn't the first time the challenge had happened. Although Instructor No. 7 always panicked like a wild horse (which might be directly related to the fact that they always caused her trouble), for the staff and other instructors, the challenge was more like an occasional entertainment program.

So even though there was still a lot of discussion after the "challenge" incident ended, no one pursued the matter further.

Back at the training institution, several buses poured out of their metal shells and returned to where they belonged.

In an instant, the quiet area was filled with the chattering of the ship girls.

Rodney and Nelson did not rest. After saying a few words of farewell to Instructor Number Seven, they headed towards the principal's office.

Resigning is not something you can do without saying goodbye; you should always inform the principal.

Instructor Number Seven arrived at the lobby on the first floor of the teaching building and sighed.

To be honest, Instructor Number Seven felt rather selfish. After hearing that Rodney and Nelson had left, his first thought was that no one would be there to help him out in the future.

"He was such a good kid..." Instructor Number Seven murmured to himself as he sat in his chair.

Maybe I should just go back to the naval base myself.

Instructor Number Seven was thinking with a sense of self-abandonment.

However, after thinking for a while, Instructor No. 7 shook her head. Although her naval base was in a good environment and quite large, she didn't really like her admiral.

—Compared to men, Instructor No. 7 thinks the cute female admirals in comics are much better.

While thinking, Instructor No. 7 took out a comic book from his ship equipment.

This is a recently popular ship girl manga. Although it is filled with fanservice scenes that the author, who doesn't particularly like, has gone off the rails, the life of the ship girls depicted in it is exceptionally realistic, and many parts resonate with the author.

And so are the main characters.

Instructor Number Seven opened the comic book and looked at the white-haired loli admiral, disheveled and blushing, who was being tackled by a drunk ship girl on the first page of the comic book. The scene started with the car doors welded shut and the car speeding off.

If your own admiral is such a cute little girl, who would bother to travel so far to be an instructor?

He'll definitely be by the admiral's side every day.

Instructor No. 7 really likes this comic, and there's a reason why it became so popular.

"Ah, it's so beautiful." When Instructor Number Seven was feeling down, he liked to watch this kind of thing alone.

Time always flies when you're reading comics.

Soon, the surrounding noise gradually disappeared. The staff and ship girls who had returned from the beach did not linger in the square, but went back to where they were supposed to go.

Instructor Number Seven closed the comic book in his hand.

This wasn't the first time she'd seen it, but every time she did, she derives unparalleled joy from it.

"Speaking of which, there was an admiral on TV a while ago who looked exactly like this manga character," Instructor Seven muttered to himself. "Could he have actually jumped out of the manga?"

I've also watched that TV interview program, "Instructor No. 7," and I'm incredibly envious.

"Who knows, Rodney and the others might be this kid's ship girls." Instructor Seven said, chuckling awkwardly. "Impossible, there's no such thing as a coincidence in the world."

Instructor Number Seven stood up and stretched lightly.

Just then, Instructor No. 7, who had stood up, saw several ship girls standing at the entrance of the teaching building.

"Hmm? Here to register?" Instructor Number Seven lowered his hand and walked towards the door.

The training institution is currently at the end of a training period. The entire school is on the beach preparing for the exams, and after that, everyone goes home, so the school is on break.

There were six people standing at the entrance of the teaching building, staring curiously at the notice board.

"Sorry, it's a day off today." Instructor Number Seven looked around and saw that there were no staff members, so he went up by himself.

The ship girl standing at the door is really quite strange.

There were six people, the shortest of whom was dressed very conservatively, with large sunglasses, a big mask, and a baseball cap completely covering her face, making her look stuffy. The other ship girls, except for one with black hair, all had long white hair, making them look like a family.

Instructor Number Seven's gaze lingered on the person who was completely covered up for a moment.

—If I can't sense any ship girl aura, it's probably a human.

But this outfit looks suspicious...

The ship girls at the entrance lit up when they saw Instructor No. 7 come out.

The black-haired ship girl walked up and smiled kindly at Instructor Number Seven: "Excuse me, are you an instructor here?"

"That's me. Sorry, this place is closed today." Instructor Seven gave the ship girl in front of him an apologetic look.

"Oh, I know, it was already mentioned at the gate." The black-haired ship girl pointed to the notice board in front of the gate.