Elder brother's garrison

"Oh, right, Veneto." Before entering the teleportation vortex, Little White seemed to remember something and tilted her head to Veneto, saying, "Did I tell you before?"

“What did you say?” Veneto asked Whitey, who was standing very close to her.

"Did I tell you why I'm taking you to Chapter Eight today?" Xiaobai asked.

"...Have we run into trouble?" Veneto thought for a moment.

"No," Xiaobai smiled.

"What's that for?"

"Well..." Xiaobai kept it a secret for a moment, glancing back at the Rome and Empire following behind her, "You'll know once we get there."

"Oh? Oh..." Veneto looked at Little White with a puzzled expression, nodding as if he understood but not quite.

It is enormous and expands the teleportation vortex.

"Yamato-neechan, let's head back to Chapter Eight now." Shiro said earnestly to Deep Sea Yamato. "Yamato-neechan, I'll try to persuade Lexington to let me take you to Chapter Eight, so please wait a little longer at the Naval Base!"

"Goodbye, Shiro!" Yamato looked at the Veneto sisters with great envy and waved his handkerchief at Shiro and his group.

After bidding farewell to Deep Sea Yamato, Xiaobai and his group disappeared one after another into the teleportation vortex.

The teleportation vortex shrank smaller and smaller until it finally disappeared completely.

Yamato looked at the empty garden, lowered his head, and sighed deeply.

……

The other end of the teleportation vortex connects to Chapter Eight.

When the Empire and Rome stepped out of the vortex, before they could even observe their surroundings, the biting cold air made their hair stand on end.

"Huh... how come this is... a cold storage room?"

Rome rubbed his shoulders, looking around in surprise at the food piled up everywhere.

"Haha, Rome, your reaction is the same as most people's," Xiaobai said to Rome with a smile. "When I brought Richelieu here, she also asked me why I set up the teleportation point in the food warehouse."

"Richelieu?"

Upon hearing the name Richelieu, Veneto and Roma were both taken aback, looking at Little White with curiosity.

"Admiral, you brought Richelieu to Chapter 8 as well?"

"Well, yes."

“Didn’t Lexington order Richelieu to stay in the naval base indefinitely?” Veneto thought for a moment and asked Xiaobai with concern, “Unlike our naval base, which is heavily guarded at all times, what if she manages to escape after you brought her here, Admiral…”

"It's alright, there's no need to worry about Richelieu running away anymore." Xiaobai smiled and held up a finger. "Riccieu won't leave now, even if you beg her to."

"Huh? What do you say?"

"She is now one of our companions."

“…Hmm?” Veneto paused, “Admiral, you mean…”

“That’s right, that’s exactly what I mean.” Xiaobai nodded.

"Has the Admiral connected with her?"

"Yes, we connected after confirming the relationship."

“Even the Admiral’s network is connected, so it seems to be true… Admiral, how did you do that?” Veneto subconsciously covered his lips. “While I’ve never doubted your charm, Admiral, Richelieu doesn’t seem like the type you could easily recruit…”

“Well… there’s some history to it… but don’t worry, Richelieu’s submission is definitely not feigned. As for her current situation…” Xiaobai paused for a moment, then nodded and smiled at Veneto, “This matter can’t be explained in a short time. It’s rather cold in here. Let’s talk about it after we go out.”

"Alright."

Seeing how confident Xiaobai was, Veneto put aside her worries.

During the two years that Richelieu was imprisoned at the newbie naval base, Veneto and Richelieu had almost no interaction. However, they did pass each other by on several occasions in their daily lives. Veneto had learned a fair share about this "bad ship girl" who had once obeyed Osmanthus, done many bad things, and even kidnapped her own admiral, from other people's words, and thus learned some of her hardships.

Richelieu is a pretty good ship girl. Her strength and appearance are both top-notch. Most importantly, she has a good temper and a serious personality. She has the potential to achieve great things.

Veneto did not truly hate Richelieu; he only felt a slight sense of antagonism towards her.

However, since Xiaobai now says that Richelieu is a new ship girl in the naval base, then we're all family from now on, and Veneto feels there's no need for any barriers. While the sin of kidnapping the admiral is indeed grave, since Richelieu has already paid the price (meaning she paid for it with her body), Veneto doesn't mind maintaining a good relationship with her.

After all, she's a marriage ship... She's the admiral's first marriage ship, so as a marriage ship, she should fully support the admiral's ideas.

“It seems I need to find an opportunity to have a good talk with Richelieu,” Veneto said to Little White.

“Richelieu will definitely be willing to chat with you,” Xiaobai said to Veneto with a smile.

As Xiaobai and his group left the food warehouse, Nia's ship girls came and went on the playground outside the warehouse.

Before Xiaobai could introduce the distant scenery to Veneto and his group, a familiar voice suddenly rang out from beside them.

"Huh? Admiral Lu Lin, did you go back to the naval base again? No wonder I couldn't find you when I went to your quarters earlier."

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and not far away, a tall figure with silver curly hair and a full, firm chest appeared, accompanied by a clear and soft voice. It was Veneto from Nia’s family.

Chapter 2743 Such a cute exorcist!

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the silver-haired ship girl walked towards Xiaobai step by step with a gentle and friendly smile on her face.

Just after the silver-haired ship girl appeared, Veneto, who was standing next to Xiaobai, felt her heart skip a beat for some reason. Then, her eyes couldn't help but drift towards the silver-haired ship girl in front of her, and she subconsciously began to examine her carefully.

First, Veneto can confirm that the silver-haired ship girl who appeared in front of Xiaobai does not belong to the newbie naval base.

Although this silver-haired ship girl greeted Xiaobai with a warm and friendly smile from the moment she appeared, as if she were welcoming a close friend, Veneto did not sense the scent of his admiral's network from her. On the contrary, the fluctuations of the admiral's network emanating from this silver-haired ship girl were a different version, far weaker than Xiaobai's and completely different from Xiaobai's scent.

She must be a ship girl from another naval base...

Based on her admiral's ship-collecting habits, could this silver-haired ship girl be someone the admiral lured here from another naval base using her invincible personal charm?

After a brief glance, Veneto turned his eye to look at Little White and came to some conclusions.

Our admiral really hasn't forgotten his old trick of salvaging ships, no matter where he is...

We've only been in Chapter 8 for a short while, and they've already snatched this curvaceous... um... woman from another garrison.

Veneto carefully examined the silver-haired ship girl who appeared before her, her gaze scanning the silver-haired ship girl's body from head to toe with great seriousness.

The ship girl who appeared before everyone resembled a human girl between eighteen and twenty years old in appearance, but her figure was more like that of a tall model in her mid-twenties. Veneto looked her up and down and found that the ship girl's face was exceptionally beautiful and charming. Her long, slightly wavy silver hair flowed like a waterfall of mercury behind her with each step. Beneath her delicate and upright shoulders, two rather prominent and unsightly full breasts, even though they were tightly covered by a layer of clothing, still trembled with each step with exquisite curves due to their great mass and near-perfect shape.

Veneto's gaze lingered on the ship girl's chest for a long time.

After a few seconds, Veneto looked away, subconsciously frowned, and rubbed his forehead.

—It makes me dizzy.

—And for some reason, Veneto felt uneasy. Watching the ship girl approach, Veneto felt an urge to immediately summon her ship equipment and fire at her. Realizing this, Veneto lowered her head, swallowed hard, and looked at her hands in confusion.

It’s weird.

This urge to punch someone, lingering in his chest... was something Veneto had never felt before outside of Rome.

Am I jealous of the other person's figure?

No, impossible, absolutely impossible.

This shallow idea had barely appeared in Veneto's mind when it was profoundly rejected by him.

joke.

How could Veneto possibly be jealous of a ship girl she'd never even met?

Although the ship girl in front of us is indeed quite good-looking, she is ultimately just a very pretty older sister ship girl.

As everyone knows, the newbie naval base is never short of older female characters. Veneto is a veteran ship girl who has been fighting in the newbie naval base for so many years. She has seen all kinds of older female ship girls, such as those with pretty faces, those with great figures, and those who are both beautiful and have great figures. Veneto said that this is not the first time she has seen them. But even if those ship girls appear in front of her in groups, she has never felt such an impulsive emotion as she did today.

Strange thing...

Is there some huge difference between this ship girl and the other ship girls that I haven't realized but that is objectively obvious?

Just as Veneto was filled with doubt, the silver-haired ship girl finally appeared in front of Shiro.

"Ah, I've finally found you, Admiral Lu Lin." The silver-haired ship girl breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Xiaobai with a sense of relief. "I had almost searched the entire temporary naval base, but I couldn't find a trace of you, Admiral Lu Lin. I was just getting anxious when I suddenly thought that you might have gone to your own naval base and that's why you came here to check. Sure enough, you're right here!"

"Ah...yes." Xiaobai glanced back at the cold storage door behind her and smiled sheepishly. "I just went back to the naval base to pick up a few ship girls."

"A few ship girls? Is it these?" The silver-haired ship girl looked curiously at Veneto, and the Rome and Empire behind Veneto.

The silver-haired ship girl's gaze first fell on Rome, who was second only to Yamato in height among the crowd, and on the Empire standing shoulder to shoulder with Rome. When her gaze fell on these two ship girls, her expression showed some confusion and bewilderment. However, soon, when the silver-haired ship girl's gaze fell on Veneto next to Shiro, the confusion on her face vanished, and she showed an expression of surprise and affection.

"Oh my, what an adorable destroyer sister." The silver-haired ship girl smiled and stepped forward, bending down to pat Veneto's head. As she patted her, she introduced herself in a friendly manner, "Hello, destroyer sister, nice to meet you. What's your name?"

Veneto looked at the silver-haired ship girl in front of him, and her pale hands that almost covered his head.

"She's not a destroyer, she's a battleship," Xiaobai reminded her from the side. "And like you, she's a Veneto-class ship girl. You two... share the same name."

Xiao Bai's words were so understated.

It's like talking about a very ordinary little thing.

But as soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, the silver-haired ship girl's hand, which was reaching for Veneto, seemed to be paused, hanging high above Veneto's head.

Even Veneto, who had initially looked somewhat displeased, froze on the spot upon hearing this, staring wide-eyed at the silver-haired ship girl leaning over in front of her.

"Admiral Lu...Admiral Lu Lin? What did you say?"

"Admiral, is she my ship with the same name?"

The silver-haired ship girl and Veneto turned their heads almost simultaneously to ask Xiaobai a question.

"Hey??"

Besides the two Venetos, Roma, who was standing behind Iniesta, also widened his eyes instantly and let out a shocked exclamation.

Chapter 2744 Communication Methods Between Ship Girls

Time came half an hour later.

In the reception room of Nia's temporary garrison.

"Rome, Empire! It's been so long!" Nia's face lit up with a happy smile, as if she were seeing her dearest friends, siblings, and brothers. She excitedly shook hands with the Empire and Rome from Xiaobai's family and jumped up and down on the spot. "It's been almost two years! I've missed you so much! How are you doing over there!"

"Admiral Nia! Hehe, long time no see! The Empire and I are doing great!" Rome shook hands with Nia in a very cooperative manner, jumping up and down as he spoke to her, "I didn't expect that the Admiral brought us to Chapter Eight to meet a friend. It turns out that you were talking about Admiral Nia!"

"Yes, yes, I've been waiting for Xiaobai for ages here in Chapter 8!"

"Admiral Nia, sob sob! The last time I saw you you were still an admiral in the first chapter, I can't believe you've already reached the eighth chapter so quickly!"

"This is all thanks to Xiaobai... I heard from Xiaobai that you worked especially hard in the garrison, Rome, is that true?"

"It's alright. It's just that the big sister set training goals for me, and I obediently followed them. This level of effort doesn't count as hard work. You could do it too!"

"Haha... How's the Empire doing lately? Is it still as sleepy as before?"

"Sigh, the Empire is such a lazybones. She can sleep for 20 hours out of 24, but now sleeping is just a personal hobby for her and has nothing to do with her health. Oh right, speaking of which, the Empire recently underwent ship equipment modification!"

"Wow! Really? Congratulations! Rome, you've also upgraded your ship equipment, right?"

"...Uh...I shouldn't have brought this up. Let's skip this topic..."

"Hey?"

"..."

Nia huddled together with the Empire and Rome, and the three of them chatted non-stop like long-lost best friends—although it was mostly Rome talking to Nia, while the Empire just listened quietly from the side.

Xiao Bai sat alone in a chair, smiling as he looked at Nia with a satisfied expression.

At the other end of the reception room.

In Nia's empire, Rome, Littorio, was chatting with Nia's Veneto.

"So when you went to find Admiral Lu Lin, you just happened to run into her bringing her Veneto-class ship girls?" Littorio gazed thoughtfully at the Empire and Rome ships from Xiaobai's family, a look of great interest appearing on his face. "I've always heard Atago and Takao talk about these two ship girls. So this is what Admiral Lu Lin's Empire and Rome ships look like... They're quite different from our two girls."

"Uh... well, I mean..." Veneto from Nia's family lowered her head, swallowing hard as she did so, not daring to look up.

"Hmm? Veneto, you look scared. What happened?" Littorio finally noticed Veneto's state and asked her with some confusion.

“Uh… well, it’s a long story…” Veneto from Nia’s family raised her head and glanced fearfully behind her.

Not far from the Veneto-class ship girl directly opposite Nia's house, a delicate ship girl with white hair and red eyes was sitting in a chair. She was resting her chin on one hand, and her beautiful, agate-like eyes were devoid of emotion as she stared straight at Veneto's spine.

Although this exquisite ship girl with white hair and red eyes remained silent, a simple conclusion could be drawn from her sharp and imposing aura.

That is, she is in an exceptionally bad mood right now.

If gazes could be transformed into sharp swords, then Veneto of the Nia family would surely have been pierced by a thousand arrows by now.

"Ugh...it hurts so much..." Nia's Veneto didn't dare look at the white-haired little ship girl behind her. The moment their eyes met, she quickly turned around, revealing a pitiful expression as if she was about to cry. "Waaah...how did I get involved with her..."

"Is this Veneto from Admiral Lu Lin's family?" Littorio asked curiously, looking at the fierce-looking white-haired, red-eyed ship girl.