Elder brother's garrison

"Ah? What's wrong?"

"That ring is a magical item that shields you from the aura of the deep sea. If you take it off, even we might not be able to protect you."

Xiao Bai explained to the Deep Sea Dragon.

“Although this is inland, it’s still a big city, and there are some ship girls stationed here.” Missouri explained to Abyssal Ryujo, “If an Abyssal Dean like you, who has no power to resist, falls into their hands, what will happen… even Missouri can’t guarantee it.”

Missouri explained, but only touched on the point.

But looking into Missouri's rather enigmatic eyes, Deep Sea Dragon suddenly recalled, for some reason, the extremely demonic examples Missouri had given him on the surface of the sea, about what would happen to him if he were captured.

"Alas!"

Deep Sea Dragon's face turned pale instantly. He instinctively withdrew his hand from his fingers, then raised his arm high, as if afraid the ring on his finger might break.

"You...you actually brought us to such a terrible place..."

"It's not so scary... Well, it's not good for me to say this, but as long as you hide your identity well, Deep Sea Dragon, this place should be a pretty good place for you."

Xiao Bai smiled at Shenhai Longxiang and gently tapped the table full of food with her fingers.

The food on the table was steaming hot.

Deep Sea Dragon subconsciously swallowed.

"...Let us go back."

Deep Sea Dragon looked at Little White and said cautiously.

"No."

Xiao Bai laughed.

"We would never betray our comrades!"

"Well... we can talk about that later." Xiaobai stood up. "Anyway, now that you're here, don't be so nervous. Just think of it as a vacation or something. Don't wander around. Missouri and I won't hurt you."

As Xiaobai finished speaking, he walked up to Shenhai Longxiang, took out a small, square, colorful box from his ship equipment space, and handed it to Shenhai Longxiang.

"What is this?" Deep Sea Dragon looked at the box that Xiaobai handed him with a wary expression.

"A gift for our first meeting," Xiaobai said with a smile.

"We don't want gifts from humans!"

"Just accept it, it's not expensive anyway." Xiaobai stuffed the small box into Shenhai Longxiang's arms. "Anyway, Shenhai Longxiang, you should rest well. The ship girls and I will leave first. We'll stay in the room next door. You can contact us anytime if you need anything."

After Xiaobai finished speaking, he turned around and left as if he had something to do.

"Ah, Little White, wait for me!" Saratoga turned around quickly and ran after Little White.

Changchun also tiptoed and quietly slipped out through the crack in the door.

Iowa patted Wisconsin's head, who was propping her chin up and looking at the Deep Sea Dragon, then picked up the half-asleep New Jersey and the three of them quietly left the room.

Deep Sea Dragon looked at Missouri, who was standing smiling in front of the bed.

"So, you stayed behind to monitor us?" Deep Sea Dragon asked.

"I wouldn't dare," Missouri laughed. "Missouri will just be leaving a little later to inform you of some necessary matters, Senior Longxiang."

"What necessary event?" Deep Sea Dragon Flying frowned.

“The human world is wonderful, but for Senior Ryujo now, it’s also a dangerous place in a sense.” Missouri said, walking to the table, turning her back to Ryujo, picking up a plate of steamed dumplings, and walking to Ryujo. “Senior Ryujo, please.”

"W-what are you doing?" Deep Sea Dragon looked at Missouri in confusion, but still obediently reached out and picked up a steamed dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth.

The steamed dumpling had just been stuffed into my mouth.

Deep Sea Dragon's face instantly turned green.

"Oh—cough cough cough cough, what did you feed me—ha—my mouth, my mouth is so cold—" Deep Sea Dragon patted his chest, mouth open, and tears streamed down his face uncontrollably.

"Missouri added some wasabi to the steamed dumplings when Ryujo wasn't looking," Misssouri said with a smile, holding the plate to Ryujo. "It's a condiment. If you put a little bit in the soy sauce, it really enhances the flavor and is perfect for dipping seafood."

"You! You—" Deep Sea Dragon Rising's face turned red with anger.

"Senior Longxiang, have you considered the possibility and consequences if Missouri had added a sleeping potion to the dumplings instead of wasabi—a drug that could make you fall into a deep sleep without any awareness?"

Missouri looked at the irritable Deep Sea Dragon and asked her with a smile.

"..." Deep Sea Dragon's angry expression froze.

Missouri smiled sweetly as she gazed at the Deep Sea Dragon.

Shenhai Longxiang's expression gradually returned to calm. She wiped away the tears that had been squeezed out by the wasabi, slowly sat back on the bed and thought for a while. Then she frowned and looked at Missouri.

"What do you mean?"

“The human world is a very complex place. There are kind people like Admiral Missouri, and there are beings even more brutal than those in the Deep Sea. These people usually seem no different from kind people, but they just lack real power and cannot vent the darkness in their hearts.” Missouri said to Deep Sea Ryujo. “If Senior Ryujo falls into the hands of those people, the consequences… will be very bad.”

"...Didn't you say that as long as we disguise our identities, everything will be fine...?"

“Even if you disguise your identity, Senior Longxiang, you are still a lovely girl with a delicate face, aren’t you?” Missouri smiled as she put the steamed dumplings back on the table. “There are a few bad people who just covet your looks and want to possess you, who want to touch your body with their hands and make you belong only to them… Although there aren’t many, there aren’t a few either.”

"..." Deep Sea Dragon helplessly hugged his own shoulders.

“Of course, Missouri is saying all this just to express that at least the Admiral of Missouri has no ill intentions towards you, Senior Ryuxiang. Staying by Missouri's side is much safer than you running away on your own, Senior Ryuxiang,” Missouri said with a smile.

"Hmph." Deep Sea Dragon turned its head away. "Anyway, you just want to get information out of me, right? Once you know what you want to know, you'll kill me to silence me—none of you humans have good intentions."

Deep Sea Dragon hugged its legs, its eyes staring forlornly out the window.

"Anyway, we're definitely not going to live much longer."

Deep Sea Dragon muttered softly.

Missouri looked at the Deep Sea Dragon, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.

"Speaking of which, Senior Ryujo, do you know what this little box the Admiral gave you is?" Missouri didn't answer Ryujo's question. She sat on the edge of the bed, picked up the little white box, and asked Ryujo with a smile.

"do not know."

“This is a high-tech product that everyone in human society today, from men to women, from the old to the young, has one.” Missouri gently tapped the box and opened it.

Deep Sea Dragon was drawn to Missouri's words, and she subconsciously looked at Missouri.

Inside the box Missouri opened, there lay a palm-sized cuboid. Behind the cuboid was silver steel and a logo of a half-eaten orange.

"this is?"

Deep Sea Dragon asked curiously.

“This is a smartphone,” Missouri explained to Deepsea Dragon with a smile. “It’s one of the latest models on the market, the brand is called Orange Eleven.”

"One of these strange things per human?"

“Yes, this thing is amazing. Not only can you communicate with people anytime, anywhere, but you can also watch videos, listen to music, play games, and read novels.” Missouri handed the phone to Deep Sea Dragon, then pointed to various parts of the phone, “This is the power button, these are the volume buttons… Senior Dragon, can you read human characters?”

"Hmph, who are you underestimating? Didn't we already say that we've learned human language, including literacy?" Deep Sea Dragon snorted.

“Missouri is impressed.” Missouri nodded. “Senior, try pressing and holding the power button.”

"?" Deep Sea Dragon tilted its head, but still listened to Missouri and pressed and held the power button.

A light flashed on the screen.

The snow-white light shone on the face of the Deep Sea Dragon.

"This is a phone card the Admiral prepared for you, senior. There are five hundred dollars in phone credit on the card." Missouri helped Deepsea Ryujo insert the phone card and then connected it to the internet.

"It feels like just an ordinary thing. I really don't understand why you humans would like this kind of thing..." Deep Sea Dragon said with a frown while fiddling with his phone. He was only halfway through his sentence when a strange music suddenly came from his phone as he opened a webpage.

"You jump, I jump!"

"No! Jack!"

……

Then came the sound of conversation.

Missouri peered at Deepsea Dragon's phone screen.

“Ah, it seems you’ve clicked on a movie website,” Missouri said. “Movies are… well, one of the genres that humans use to tell stories.”

“…Huh?” Deep Sea Ryujo didn’t hear Missouri’s words. She stared blankly at the movie scene on her phone screen, then looked up, somewhat dazed. “What did you say?”

“…” Missouri covered her mouth and chuckled, “In short, cell phones have many other uses, and you can explore them to your heart’s content.”

"...Are you trying to bribe us with this?" Deep Sea Dragon came back to her senses. She looked at Missouri's smiling face and frowned uncomfortably.

“Senior Ryujo, cell phones are an indispensable tool in human society.” Missouri smiled at Deep Sea Ryujo. “The Admiral bought you a cell phone simply because she hoped that you could adapt to human society more quickly and understand the beauty of human society through the window of the cell phone. At least on this point, the Admiral has no other intentions.”

“?” Deep Sea Dragon looked at Missouri in a daze.

"In other words, the Admiral didn't just bring you here because she wanted to know the information you, Senior Ryujo." Missouri stood up and smiled gently at Deep Sea Ryujo, "The Admiral—she also lusts after your body, Senior."

"???" Deep Sea Dragon's eyes widened.

But Missouri did not give Deepsea Dragon a chance to question him.

“It’s really late, Missouri should leave now.” Missouri bowed slightly to Deep Sea Dragon. “Good night, senior. Sweet dreams.”

Missouri left the room and closed the door.

A bewildered Deep Sea Dragon was left holding his phone, staring blankly at the closed door.

"……Eh?"

Deep Sea Dragon Strikes stared blankly at the tightly closed door.

Wait a minute.

Why does it feel like she just said something really scary?

Deep Sea Dragon blinked and looked down at the phone screen in his hand.

The phone screen was colorful, showing a movie where characters were engaged in a heart-wrenching farewell and a series of brilliant dialogues.

Deep Sea Dragon squinted as he watched the movie playing on his phone.

I watched for quite a while without realizing it.

After a while, Deep Sea Dragon looked out the open window and saw a bustling street with a constant flow of people.

Deep Sea Dragon approached the window and glanced outside.

My building isn't very tall, and although I don't know if there's a doorknob outside, it seems like I could safely jump out of the window and escape.

Deep Sea Dragon swallowed hard, recalling what Missouri had just told him.

Now how to do?

The deep-sea dragon was deep in thought.

Although Missouri told herself that it was dangerous outside and that her admiral wouldn't hurt her, she was, after all, a director of the Deep Sea Academy and couldn't afford to live under someone else's roof.

Coincidentally.

The movie featuring the Deepsea Dragon mobile phone happened to show a scene where the male and female protagonists were escaping for their lives.

Deep Sea Dragon silently stared at the screen for a while.

it is good.

We should probably run for our lives!

Although I don't know where the sea is, as long as I can get back to the sea, even if there's only a sliver of hope, it's all worth it.

Plus, with my fluent command of human language, at least the journey home shouldn't be too difficult...

Deep Sea Dragon cheers itself on.

Deep Sea Dragon held his phone in one hand, watching a movie on it, while holding onto the window, he stretched out one leg to look outside, and then plopped down on the middle of the windowsill.

Outside the window, the night was ablaze with lights and bustling activity, and no one noticed that half of a small body had already peeked out of the window under the cover of darkness.

Deep Sea Dragon looked out the window and nodded.

Ok.

The weather was okay, the scenery was okay, and the landing spot was okay!

You can escape!

As the Dean of the Deep Sea, I must have the ambition of the Dean of the Deep Sea. Faced with the enemy's imprisonment, I will ignore their sweet words and run when I should run!

Deep Sea Dragon thought to himself, and leaned half of his body out the window again.