Elder brother's garrison

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"...Oh...then, Bai Ying, why did you give me this knife?" Xiao Bai asked again.

"Because I had no money, I used that stuff as payment for food and lodging."

"Oh, I see." Xiaobai nodded knowingly, then after a moment, she hummed in surprise, "Huh? Room and board?"

"What, not enough?"

"Ah, no, no, it's more than enough... Oh wait, Bai Ying, you don't need to pay for room and board... After all, it's only..."

"We still have to pay, since we'll be staying here for a long time."

"……ah??"

"Didn't I say that?" Bai Ying looked at Xiao Bai's puzzled expression.

"I'm definitely going to patronize you," Bai Ying said.

"……"noob.

Ok.

You didn't say that.

Xiao Bai thought to himself.

Chapter 1022 Inviting the Madam into the Room

After delivering a dashing declaration of getting something for free, Bai Ying turned around, pushed open the door, and left the room.

Xiaobai was left alone, standing blankly in the room.

"……Well."

Xiao Bai tightened his grip on the military knife in his arms.

I looked at the empty room door.

"……Um……"

Xiaobai sat down in the chair.

Xiao Bai placed the military knife on the table, untied the tightly sealed cloth, and stared at the gleaming blade in deep thought for a while.

Oh wow.

So Bai Ying was just trying to get something for free.

Is she going to become a customer at the rookie naval base?

Xiao Bai stared at the notch on the tip of the knife for a long time before finally figuring it out.

Xiao Bai took a deep breath and suddenly felt like she was living in a dream.

In summary, firstly, even if Xiao Bai wasn't in this line of work, he knew very well that the military knife Bai Ying gave him was definitely not a valuable treasure. Putting aside the fact that the whole knife was given to Xiao Bai, the fact that Xiao Bai had already taken a bite out of her before, and that he had supported Bai Ying for decades and provided her with food for more than ten years, was all earned by Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai doesn't mind having multiple diners like Sukhbaatar in the naval base whose "existence is their greatest purpose." Moreover, in exchange for a priceless sword at the meager cost of feeding a legally born loli with a large appetite for a lifetime, Xiao Bai is making a huge profit.

--only……

Xiao Bai stared at the military knife on the table, his expression complicated as he looked at the nick on the tip of the blade.

—Does Bai Ying mean to join her naval base as a ship girl?

I've added another item to my collection?

Xiao Bai sat in the chair, thinking hard, trying to figure out what was wrong with his behavior.

How come this senior, who seemed so nice, suddenly became my ship girl after only a short time together? And what's worse, I don't even know her ship name?

Did he salvage the boat himself again?

Xiao Bai asked himself this question in his heart.

Then a response was received.

—I think so.

"Ah..." Xiaobai covered her face awkwardly and let out a deep breath.

Actually, this kind of development seems fine for Xiaobai personally, since Xiaobai doesn't really object to adding another item to the encyclopedia... Besides, Bai Ying does have some connection with the broken era, and it seems there are some things she hasn't explicitly told him...

If someone like that stays by your side, Xiaobai feels quite at ease.

Having confirmed in his heart that this development was a good thing, Xiaobai shook his head, clearing his mind of any extraneous thoughts, and then focused his gaze on the military knife on the table.

"Bai Ying said... she just gave me such a precious knife like that..." Xiao Bai frowned, reaching out to grasp the knife again. "...Judging from her expression, this knife seemed very valuable... Even though I was the one who destroyed it before... how could she give it to me so readily..."

Xiao Bai gripped the military knife, muttering to himself, as if each word he spoke reduced his doubts considerably.

"It's weird..."

"It's best to put this knife away properly..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself, held the knife horizontally again, and then reached out and touched the blade.

"Huh?" Xiaobai suddenly exclaimed in surprise after her fingertips touched the blade.

A few minutes ago, before Xiaobai started chewing on the knife, he had touched the blade of the knife. At that time, the knife felt extremely sharp to Xiaobai. Even just touching the side of the blade, Xiaobai's fingers felt a faint stinging sensation, like touching the tip of the blade.

It is precisely because of this that Xiaobai thinks this knife is a treasure.

After all, these days, things that can give a novice a slight stinging sensation are very rare. Even the missiles that came down from Changchun didn't have that kind of penetrating power.

However, this time, just a few minutes later, when Xiaobai touched the blade of the knife again, he was surprised to find that the slight stinging sensation from before had disappeared.

At first, Xiaobai thought she was touching the wrong spot, so she subconsciously moved her fingertips and gently rubbed them against the sharpest part of the blade.

Then, instead of being pricked, Xiaobai even felt a smooth texture on the blade.

It's as if you're not touching the tip of a knife, but the smooth surface of a steel ball.

"Oh no? This knife... is it broken... wasn't it just sharpened a moment ago..." Xiao Bai's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly held the blade up to his eyes.

The blade came into Xiaobai's field of vision.

A dazzling silver light flowed like a river across the seamless, snow-white blade. The tip of the blade, facing the sunlight, even emitted a faint, sharp, cross-shaped shimmer, making it almost too dazzling to look directly at.

It appears that the knife has not become dull.

Xiao Bai withdrew his gaze and subconsciously brandished his military knife.

“——Buzz——”

The sharp whistling sound still persists.

It seems that even with a small chip at the tip, the knife's sharpness remains completely unaffected.

Xiao Bai put down the military knife and then looked at his fingertips.

Xiao Bai's fingertips were still snow-white and delicate, and her nails shimmered like pink seashells, without any scratches from the sharp blade.

“…That’s strange.” Xiaobai rubbed his fingers together, his eyes filled with doubt.

Was the sharpness I felt when I first touched this knife just an illusion?

Forget it.

do not care.

After much deliberation, Xiaobai, still clueless, remembered Bai Ying and the other ship girls who had just left, and gave up trying to figure it out.

Xiao Bai grabbed the military knife and started wrapping pieces of cloth around it repeatedly.

"Never mind that... I need to get to Akagi quickly... I have to go out later..."

"And we also need to talk to Chicheng and the others about Bai Ying's situation..."

"Ah... if that's the case, should we still take Bai Ying outside...?"

"..."

Xiao Bai muttered to himself as he wrapped the military knife around his arm, but then his movements suddenly slowed down.

In just a few words, Xiaobai had basically wrapped up a complete military knife, with only a broken tip showing through the simple cloth.

“…Hmm…” Xiaobai stared at the tip of the knife and pondered for a while.

"...This knife...has already been given to me...right..."

"Then...then how do we deal with this knife...is it...anything goes..."

Xiao Bai murmured to himself, his eyes fixed on the military knife.

then.

It stuck out its tongue.

I gently licked my upper lip.

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When Xiaobai left the room, outside the door, Kaga and Fukami Yamato were helping Bai Ying move.

"Seriously... I just finished cleaning the room and now you're telling me I have to move to another room? What's going on... Are you kidding me? You can't treat a ship like this... Is the Deep Sea Dean not a ship anymore...?"

Deep Sea Yamato muttered softly as she carried some newly purchased furniture out of the room she had cleaned earlier, and then muttered softly as she walked into the room next to Shiro's.

The room next to Xiaobai is clean and doesn't need to be cleaned regularly; it's one of the rooms commonly used by the ship girls in the naval base.

Kaga also carried the furniture and followed Akami Yamato. She saw Shiro come out of the room and quickly ran to Shiro.

"Admiral," Kaga greeted him with a serious expression.

"Um, hello Kaga... Um, what are you guys doing?"

"I told Akagi about what you were doing with the new ship, Admiral. After Akagi found out, she asked us to change the cabins on the new ship to family rooms," Kaga said.

"……"noob.

It seems that Xiao Bai no longer needs to worry about how to explain to Chi Cheng the situation of Bai Ying becoming a freeloader.

Akagi has already moved Bai Ying from the side room to the ship girl room...

"Admiral." Kaga, carrying furniture, stepped forward and walked to Shiro's side, asking in a low voice, "Did things go smoothly?"

"What's going on?"

"Did you get that woman yet?"

"...Kaga...the way you're saying it makes me sound like a bad guy..."

"Ah...is that so?" Kaga asked curiously.

"Hmm..." Xiaobai nodded.

"Did it succeed?"

"...I guess it was a success..."

"Oh, I got it."

Kaga nodded, saluted Shiro on the spot, and silently admired him with a look of "as expected of the admiral" before continuing to carry the furniture and hopping into Shiro's room.

Shiro watched as Kaga's body disappeared into the room beside him.

I'm a little tired.

There is also helplessness.

Kaga had clearly misunderstood her and Bai Ying before...

but……

This feeling of having clearly misunderstood, yet ending up with a result that leaves you completely unable to refute...

I'm so angry!

Today, a large ship sank, and nearly 500 Lin Siqi and Sifa were unable to provide any protection or defense...

woo woo woo woo……

My heart is so tired.

Chapter 1023 Yamato's Rejection

Bai Ying's new room is a family room in the newbie garrison. Although this room is much cleaner than the previous one, and there is no thick layer of dust like snow, it still needs some basic cleaning.

At this moment, the deep-sea builder is giving the new house a basic cleaning service.