Elder brother's garrison

"Hmph, Lady Fubuki is quite powerful!"

"Wow!" Little White clapped her hands. "So amazing! So amazing!"

Fubuki rushed into Shiro's arms, rubbing her little head against Shiro's chest.

Hmm, she seems quite happy.

Xiaobai hugged Chuixue and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Admiral Pova is fully replenished!" Fubuki suddenly looked up and kissed Shiro on the corner of his mouth. "Feels just like before!"

Hmm...hmm...just like before, it's great that I have a flat chest...

Wait... same as before?

Xiaobai touched the spot on her lips where Fubuki had kissed her, and suddenly seemed to realize something. She grabbed Fubuki's hand and looked at her fingertips.

On her slender, delicate fingers, she wore a sparkling ring.

Xiaobai looked at Chuixue's face.

With big eyes, smooth skin, and an innocent and adorable appearance, she is very cute.

speechless.

Brother, I never thought you were this kind of person.

"I'm so sorry..." For some reason, Shiro suddenly hugged Fubuki and started crying on her flat chest. "I'm so sorry my little lolicon brother has caused you trouble..."

"Eh?"

Of course, Xiaobai later learned that Fubuki thought the ring was pretty and begged her brother for it, so her brother gave it to her as a toy, without any other meaning.

Fubuki is Shiro's first destroyer.

In an environment where most people's initial ship is a destroyer, Shiro's brother also has special feelings for Fubuki.

Although Fubuki herself is not a particularly rare ship, Shiro's brother still poured a lot of resources into Fubuki and her sisters. After numerous battles, in terms of destroyer-class combat power alone, Fubuki and her sisters have reached an unprecedented level.

The little girl right in front of Xiaobai may look like a naive elementary school student, but her deeds are known throughout the world's major training grounds.

As a destroyer that taunts an entire opposing fleet of artillery carriers, she emerges unscathed from a hail of bullets, each torpedo accurately hitting any enemy that dares to challenge her powerful evasion.

—Yes, ship girls who have practiced with her usually have a sense of despair about not being able to use their strength.

Shiro and Fubuki chatted for a long time.

She talked about Fubuki's helplessness when she reached a bottleneck in her strength, how she defeated some powerful Deep Sea Dean, and how her sisters were all adorable.

This little girl is like a broadcaster that never stops talking.

Later, three blue-haired girls wearing white and blue sailor uniforms arrived and dragged Fubuki away.

While saying that my sister had caused trouble for the admiral, I kept bowing and dragged Fubuki away.

At this moment, the next ship girl lined up and walked up.

Just like a meet-and-greet, Xiaobai greeted the eager ship girls one by one.

There aren't many ship girls in the naval base. Most of them have cushy jobs. The stronger ship girls have mostly gone on expeditions or to support other naval bases. A large number of them have also taken leave and gone to faraway places to relax.

Therefore, Xiaobai actually received only a few ship girls, no more than one hundred.

By the time all the ship girls had finished, it was almost midnight.

The welcome party concluded with a pleasant closing remark from Lexington.

...and the rumbling of hunger from Little White's stomach.

Chapter 17 Another Side of Someone

Xiao Bai hasn't actually eaten much yet.

Originally, the ship girls had given Shiro time to eat at the welcome party, but Shiro first interacted with Tirpitz and then chatted with Fubuki for a long time, leading the other ship girls to mistakenly believe that Shiro had finished eating, so they started lining up one by one.

— Xiaobai can't exactly say, "Wait a minute, I need to eat."

In short, after the ship girls had all reluctantly disbanded, Shiro was almost starving and collapsed.

Little White looked up at the sky.

The bright moon is already visible.

"Master." At this moment, Reputation, who had been standing behind Xiaobai, stepped forward. "Do you need Reputation's help?"

Xiao Bai clutched his stomach and gave a bitter laugh.

"Um... could you pack some noodles from over there for me? I'll eat them when I get home..."

Xiao Bai had previously seen Saratoga eating pasta, which looked very red and made Xiao Bai's mouth water.

"Reputation can cook some meals, Master, you can..."

"No need to bother, that's fine, it looks delicious." Xiaobai waved her hand, then casually asked, "Who made it?"

Reputation looked at the spaghetti on the table.

"It was my sister who did it," the Counterattack, standing behind Reputation, said.

"Wow, that's amazing." Xiaobai thought for a moment, and since Renown was a maid-type ship girl, she could indeed cook. "Could Renown pack some food for me?"

"...Reputation is understood."

The head maid gave a slight bow, then walked to the plate of spaghetti, pulled out a plate from under the table, deftly rolled the spaghetti into the plate, and then picked up a piece of disposable cardboard stacked on the side of the table to cover the small plate.

Reputation, carrying the cardboard box, walked back to Xiaobai and asked for permission to deliver the spaghetti to Xiaobai's residence.

However, Xiaobai rejected him.

Soon after, Lexington, who had been cleaning up the mess, also made time to come over.

"Lexington, can I go to the Admiral's office to take the book back later?" Xiaobai asked.

"Hmm." "Will Little White also study when he goes back to Bismarck's?" Lexington nodded, then added, "It's best to have a balance between work and rest when it comes to studying."

"It's okay, all high school students are like this, you're used to it." Xiaobai smiled gently at Lexington.

Lexington wanted to say something more, but seeing Xiaobai's seemingly familiar expression, she finally nodded.

“Okay. Take care and get some rest,” Lexington said.

Xiaobai nodded, then looked around for Tirpitz.

Tirpitz is gone.

Tirpitz should have already gone home.

...But it does fit her personality quite well.

With that thought in mind, Xiao Bai politely declined the offer to follow him with reputation, and after returning to the admiral's office with Lexington to retrieve the book, he walked back to his dormitory building alone.

Xiaobai brought back two or three books, and she still felt they were a bit heavy when she carried them.

This day was a little eventful.

Standing at the dormitory entrance, Xiaobai, carrying books and noodles, thought to herself.

Just yesterday I was a high school student, thinking about the homework my teacher assigned and the plot of the idol drama airing on TV during the daytime, and suddenly I was entrusted with an important position and forced to leave my hometown.

Xiao Bai put down what she was holding, took the key, and opened the door.

Carrying a bunch of things, Xiaobai went inside.

Tirpitz had indeed taken off his suit and was lying on the living room floor reading comics, his two snow-white legs dangling in the air.

“…Welcome back.” Tirpitz, completely unconcerned about his exposed skin, slowly said to Little White.

"kindness."

"What is that?"

"Book."

"Oh..." Tirpitz rolled over, seemingly losing interest in what was to come. "Good luck."

She murmured this obligatoryly, then turned her attention back to the comic book in her hands.

"Has Bismarck not returned yet?" Little White looked towards the living room; apart from Tirpitz, there was no one else there.

“My sister sometimes works very late,” Tirpitz said. “...I also sometimes stay up all night reading comics when I’m really into it.”

...Um, this should be different, right?

Seeing that Tirpitz was probably used to Bismarck coming home late, Xiaobai didn't say anything more and carried the book to his bedroom.

……

The sound of the door closing softly.

Tirpitz put down the comic book in his hand. His two dangling legs seemed to have lost their strength, and he collapsed to the floor.

After a while, she sat up and stretched.

After a long while, Tirpitz coldly looked out the window.

In those blood-red eyes, the black sky reflected the moon's hazy white light, as if splashed with fluorescent paint.

Tirpitz walked to the coat rack and took out a black military uniform.

Long boots, shorts, shawl, and a fitted leather jacket—all in serene black.

She took off the only white shirt she was wearing and then slowly put on the military uniform.

I walked silently to the entrance hall.

Open the door quietly.

She casually picked up a flower from a vase and glanced back at Xiaobai's bedroom.

...No response.

Xiaobai's door was still tightly closed.

Tirpitz stepped out of his house.

Closed the door.

……

—Tirpitz hadn’t left his home for two years.

That's not wrong.

After the admiral's death, Tirpitz remained in this house forever, forever in the place filled with memories of the life he shared with him.

She left all her girlish sentiments in this place.

—The ship girl who left home is the queen of the North Sea.

Chapter 18 Fire and Light

The seawater at night looked like water about to freeze into ice flowers.

Corroded into a deep black by the night, it soaks into the skin, feeling as comfortable as oil gently rolling into gears.

The ocean churned up a small wave.

A fleet of deep-sea destroyers emerged silently from the waves.

Half-human, half-fish. Their mechanical fish bodies were tightly interwoven with their girlish flesh. Just as real fish glide through the ocean, the deep-sea destroyers, like skilled ice skaters, crawled on the surface of the sea, moving forward at incredible speed in one direction.

Their girlish forms had their mouths open, and they were softly hissing.

—The lower-level deep sea creatures do not understand language and can only communicate some basic information with each other through brainwaves.

Deep-sea outpost troops.

A mass-produced deep-sea destroyer fleet.

Born from the deepest part of the ocean floor, a fleet of cannon fodder spreading outwards to transmit information.

Typically, a forward reconnaissance team is followed by a much more powerful deep-sea unit.

Deep-sea light cruiser, deep-sea heavy cruiser, deep-sea light aircraft carrier, deep-sea aircraft carrier, deep-sea battlecruiser, deep-sea battleship.

And a powerful deep-sea flagship.

With its massive size, high resilience, and immense offensive capabilities, it possesses all the skills and characteristics of ship girls, making it the closest to the Deep Sea Dean.