Elder brother's garrison

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Hiding in his land-based ship equipment, he scratched his cheek with a forced smile, looking extremely embarrassed.

This scene.

This left Roma and Veneto, who had just arrived at the scene, somewhat bewildered.

"Huh??" Roma, standing behind Veneto, stared blankly at the seemingly less tense training ground. "Boss, what's going on here?"

“…I don’t know, but it should be nothing serious.” Veneto shook her head and took a few steps toward Yubari.

Yubari, who was operating the testing equipment, heard Veneto's footsteps. She turned her head to look at Veneto, and her eyes lit up.

"Hey, isn't this Veneto!" Yubari waved at Veneto, smiling with delight. "I heard you're already the Admiral's married ship, you're something else!"

“…Thank you for the ship modification last time.” Veneto waved to Yubari, then stood in front of her and pointed to Roma beside her. “This is Roma, my sister.”

"A god-sister?" Yubari asked, staring at the rich female symbol of Rome.

"...Just say you want to die."

"Ahem, just kidding, just kidding." Yubari chuckled twice. "You're Little Rome, right? I've heard about you. How about I check your ship equipment for you, big sister?"

Upon hearing Yubari's voice, Roma instinctively clutched his chest and took two steps back.

"Big sister... who is this perverted big sister?"

“She’s a ship girl who’s very knowledgeable about ship equipment. She was in charge of my modifications back then… Anyway, it would be beneficial to have her take a look at your ship equipment later. It will help with your future modification direction. Just agree to her request for now,” Veneto said to Roma.

"Uh..." Roma looked hesitant, but still nodded to Yubari and bowed. "Well... thank you for your trouble..."

"Yubari, what's going on?" Veneto pointed to the sea behind Yubari. "Did the admiral have a conflict with the new recruits?"

"Huh? No, not at all." Yubari followed Veneto's finger and pointed to the messy sea behind them, and couldn't help but laugh. "The admiral finally agreed to let me test her ship equipment. In order to test the admiral's combat power, I called all those new recruits over to be the admiral's sparring partners."

"Oh, I see... Have the results come out yet?"

"Uh...no." Yubari looked embarrassed and shrugged. "Well...the Admiral wiped out the sparring partners with a single shot...which meant I didn't collect enough data..."

Veneto's lips couldn't help but curl into a smile.

“...Those new recruits are too weak. If you want to test the admiral’s combat strength, you need to find someone at least on Bismarck’s level.”

"Well said, then what about Bismarck?"

“She’s probably already gone to steal aluminum.” Veneto gestured with his chin towards Iowa and Missouri, who were standing not far away. “Aren’t those two going to be sparring partners?”

"No, no, I still need to conduct separate ship equipment tests on the two of them later. I can't let them fight the Admiral." Yubari sighed deeply with a bitter face. "The Admiral finally agreed to let me test them for half an hour, and now I can't get any data. What am I going to do..."

“Hmm…” Veneto lowered her head in unison with Yubari, and they stroked their chins in thought for a while.

"At least we need to find a sparring partner who can take a beating..."

Veneto thought for a while.

Veneto tilted his head and glanced at Rome beside him.

Veneto glanced at Yubari.

Yubari and Veneto exchanged a glance.

Yubari and Veneto tilted their heads together and glanced at Rome next to Veneto.

"??? Why are you all looking at me??" Rome suddenly felt a chill.

Chapter 1245 Little White's Weakness

"Roma, how long have I been training you?" Veneto faced the suddenly alert Rome with an unexpectedly gentle expression. She stood on tiptoe and patted Rome's shoulder, not answering his question, but asking him instead.

"Huh? Uh... it's been... almost half a year?" Roma was taken aback. Although he didn't know why Veneto was asking him this question, Roma's habit of answering his sister's questions as always made him respond subconsciously.

"I remember when I first met you, you were just a rookie ship girl fresh out of the construction facility, unable to even sink a Deepsea Abyssal Ship in the first chapter without taking damage... Time flies," Veneto remarked. "How many can you take on now?"

"Uh... Anyway, taking on one without taking damage, a hundred should be no problem, right..." Rome thought seriously, then hesitantly gave a conservative number.

“You have indeed grown a lot.” Veneto patted Roma on the shoulder again. “In just half a year, you have grown from a rookie ship girl to this level. Even I have to acknowledge your efforts. You truly deserve to be my proudest little sister.”

"...Big Sister..." Roma's eyes welled up with emotion, and she quickly shook her head, "No, no, it's all thanks to your excellent training, Big Sister! I was just strictly following your instructions during training!"

Veneto smiled gently.

I'm glad you said that.

"Big Sister!!!" Roma heard Veneto's words and was moved to see that the usually tough Veneto was finally showing concern for her. She opened her arms wide and pretended to hug Veneto.

However, with a snap...

Just as Roma was about to pounce on Veneto, Veneto swiftly pushed his small hand in front of Roma's forehead, stopping Roma's lunging body.

"In conclusion, since you trust my instructions so much, Rome, you shouldn't refuse the training I'm going to arrange for you, right?" Veneto said to Rome.

"Huh? What?"

"Thinking about it carefully, Rome, you're probably at a bottleneck in your skills. Constantly fighting those easy targets like Abyssal Fleets isn't going to give you any more experience. You've practiced with me so many times, you should have a pretty good grasp of the routines by now. It's time to get you a top-tier sparring partner." Veneto pressed Rome's head, pulling her cheek towards Xiaobai, "Look, that admiral over there is me..."

"No, no, no, no!!! That's the Admiral! Big Sister, no! How can I possibly beat the Admiral? Did you see that super cool laser just now, Big Sister? It was so big!! One shot and a tsunami was created! How can I withstand that…" Upon hearing Veneto's words, Roma was instantly terrified and broke out in a cold sweat. She shook her head rapidly, expressing her helplessness with all her might.

“I didn’t expect you to be able to beat the admiral anyway.” Veneto sighed. “Fighting and losing to an enemy you absolutely cannot defeat can sometimes leave a lifelong psychological scar, thus affecting your progress. But the good thing is that she is just the admiral. She is family. If she is family, even if you are beaten to a pulp, you won’t feel that much psychological pressure. And being able to fight against such an opponent should be very beneficial for you when you are in a bottleneck period.”

"Huh? But, but..."

“Rome, I remember you haven’t activated your skills yet, right?” Veneto gently stroked Rome’s face twice. “As a ship girl, you have accumulated enough experience and power to help you activate your skills. The reason you haven’t activated your skills yet is simply because you lack an opportunity to feel the power. This is the first time, and very likely the last time, that the admiral will fight against his own ship girl. You must seize your opportunity.”

“Uh…” Roma stared blankly at Veneto. What Veneto said about the opportunity to activate the skill really resonated with Roma. Her initial resistance had largely dissipated. “So, so that’s how it is…”

"Ah."

“But…fighting someone you absolutely can’t win against…it’s just…” Roma looked at Veneto with a troubled expression, “It’s like throwing your life away…”

"Rome."

"what?"

"I've said so much, but that's just to help you understand the reason for the training." Veneto's hand, which was pinching Roma's cheek, began to tighten, squeezing Roma's face until it started to pout. "I've never said that you have the right to refuse my training... If you dare not go... you know the consequences, right?"

Veneto's face was full of threat.

"Eeeeeee--I, I'll go, okay?! I'll go, I'll go!!!" Rome immediately backed down.

"Remember to go all out. If you dare to throw the game and intentionally lose, the training volume will be doubled. If you can't withstand one shot from the Admiral, the training volume will be doubled. If you dare to hurt the Admiral, the training volume will be increased by a hundred times."

"What kind of devilish rules are these! This is too much... Waaah!" Rome covered her face, cried, and jumped into the water, heading towards Little White not far away.

Veneto stood there, watching Roma wave as he ran towards Iniesta.

"You've really mastered both the soft and the hard approach, playing both the good cop and the bad cop. You're something else, Veneto." Yubari, squatting among various instruments, chuckled twice at Veneto.

“I’m telling the truth.” Veneto crossed his arms. “Instead of that, why don’t you contact the admiral on the sea?”

“While you were persuading Rome, I’ve already contacted the Admiral, and he said it’s no problem.” Yubari gave Veneto an OK sign.

"...You're really quick."

"That's how it is in our line of work, if you're a little slow, you'll miss your chance."

"Veneto-senpai? You've arrived." Just then, Missouri and Iowa, who had noticed people coming to Yubari because of Roma's departure from the sea, finally arrived from the beach. Missouri closed his umbrella, and together with Iowa, they bowed politely to Veneto. "Missouri just saw Roma-senpai heading towards the Admiral..."

Veneto glanced briefly at Iowa, who was standing next to Missouri.

Although Iowa still maintained the same calm and dignified demeanor as in Chapter Six, her face was noticeably flushed after returning from the beach, as if she had just seen her dream lover.

Veneto raised an eyebrow.

I immediately had a better idea of ​​what was going on.

“Because Rome is going to have a drill with the admiral later,” Veneto said.

“Ah…I see.” Missouri nodded. “Rome is really amazing. If it were Missouri, after seeing the Admiral’s artillery barrage, he would have lost all interest in the exercise with the Admiral, let alone the way Rome charged towards the Admiral with such vigor.”

As for Missouri's claims, whether true or false, Veneto simply ignored them.

"Speaking of which, should we retrieve those ship girls we practiced with the admiral before?" Veneto pointed to the ship girls floating on the sea.

“Not for now. After all, they all have heavy damage protection. The admiral only gave me half an hour. If I waste it, I won’t have any more.” Yubari’s hands never stopped scanning the measuring instruments. “After all, they are newcomers… Veneto, you know what I mean. This is to let them experience the warm atmosphere of the naval base early on.”

“…” Veneto shrugged.

"Here, want some cookies?" Yubari pulled a bag of sugar cookies from her pocket and proudly handed it to Veneto. "The Admiral just bought these for me. How about it? Aren't you envious? Want one? I'll give you one if you beg me."

"These biscuits were sold to the admiral."

"..."

While Yubari remained awkwardly silent.

Finally, a rumbling sound came from the sea.

Everyone looked towards the sea.

In the direction of Xiaobai, Rome had already greeted Xiaobai and released its ship equipment while maintaining a certain distance.

Although Rome may be unwilling, Rome is Rome after all. No matter how unwilling she is, and no matter that her opponent is an invincible admiral, she will always enter battle mode as quickly as possible when the battle begins.

Rome quickly raised its ship's rigging and fired several probing shots at Little White.

Xiao Bai didn't move. When the Roman cannons approached Xiao Bai's ship equipment, it was as if they had hit a virtual air wall, producing a series of dull booms and exploding into clusters of black and red fire in mid-air.

Behind the flames, Xiaobai, who was completely unharmed, raised her arm. The flames on the land-based ship rig behind her intensified, and an extremely large main cannon slowly extended from the rig. Then, with a series of hissing sounds that could be heard even on the shore, a rainbow-colored beam of light shot towards Rome like a laser. The blazing energy beam, as if it had been activated, instantly engulfed the sea surface where Rome was located, creating a huge wave on the water.

This was also the first time Veneto had seen Little White in combat.

"This is... an extremely unscientific offensive and defensive force..." Veneto muttered under his breath.

"Right, right, right, right!" Yubari heard Veneto's voice and excitedly turned to look at her. "So Veneto, you think so too, right?! Invincible defense that can withstand the main gun fire of a battleship without even moving, and a super energy cannon that can melt almost everything by releasing the energy within her body in a luxurious way! Such a perfect combination of offense and defense, such a perfect system cycle! This is simply a humanoid cheat code that is a whole generation ahead of ship girls!"

"Were all those new ship girls instantly killed by the admiral's single shot?" Veneto asked.

Chapter 1246 The Non-existent Weakness

"That's what I mean." Yubari shrugged, a helpless smile on her face. "The situation was that the admiral suggested that everyone go together, and then those ship girls really went together. When the exercise started, those ship girls relied on their high training level and took the initiative to bombard the admiral. Then the admiral defended against them all, and then hit them with a laser cannon. They were all wiped out."

“I see.” Veneto nodded.

"Sigh... I didn't expect even Rome couldn't withstand the Admiral's cannon fire..." Yubari pulled her hand back and sighed helplessly, "So we still have to wait for Bismarck and the others..."

“?” Veneto looked at Yubari. “Wait a minute.”

"Ok?"

"When did you come to the conclusion that Rome had already lost?"

"Huh? Rome was already shot by the Admiral..." Yubari was stunned. She subconsciously glanced at the water and then her eyebrows twitched.

On the sea.

Xiao Bai's rainbow energy cannon continued to ravage the sea where Rome had originally been. Rome's figure had already been swallowed up in the first instant. Given the power of Xiao Bai's main cannon, Rome should have been utterly defeated long ago.

However, it was only after Veneto's reminder that Yubari suddenly realized this.

Surprisingly, no fragments of Roman ship equipment appeared on the sea surface after Xiaobai's energy cannon swept across it.

A minute passed.

Xiaobai's energy cannon went into cooldown, and the land-based ship equipment behind her crashed onto the sea with a rumble, emitting bursts of scorching white mist.

Just as Xiaobai's energy cannon ended.

A lush green shadow finally emerged from the scalding seawater like an eel, clutching its rear end and howling. It then hurriedly re-released its ship equipment in mid-air.

Xiao Bai saw Rome again and was clearly startled.

She instinctively wanted to raise her main gun, but unfortunately, the land-based ship equipment had entered a round of attack cooldown and could not immediately start the next round of shelling.

Like a woman who had just taken a hot bath while still dressed, Rome immediately aimed its main guns at Xiaobai's ship rigging. With three loud booms, several hot shells fell towards Xiaobai like meteors, then made a weak thud against the air wall next to Xiaobai's ship rigging.

"Huh? This Rome is..." Yubari's eyes lit up when he saw that Rome, apart from looking a bit embarrassing, was completely unaffected by the White Cannon.

“Rome was at least beaten by me… cough cough, she’s someone I’ve trained for half a year. In terms of dodging high-damage skills and sensing danger, she’s even more sensitive than I am. The moment the admiral fired, Rome sensed the danger and immediately put away her ship equipment and dived underwater to avoid the damage—the admiral is still very young and lacks combat experience. She thought she had hit Rome, so she didn’t exert any force underwater.” Veneto explained to Yubari.

"Great!" Yubari clapped her hands excitedly, her eyes glued to Shiro's ship rigging. "Roma really did dodge the first shot! I can finally start recording the Admiral's data!!"

“Don’t just focus on the admiral, Rome isn’t just there to be your sparring partner for nothing,” Veneto reminded him.

"I know, I know... Your sister's modifications are correct, right? Yes, yes, I'll start researching them!"

"Mmm." Veneto nodded, feeling more comfortable.

Veneto watched as Yubari constantly turned his body around on various measuring instruments, then wrote incessantly in his notebook, before secretly raising his head to glance at Iowa standing opposite him.

really.