Elder brother's garrison

"Hmm...although the ship's equipment has been repaired, this outfit..." The pursuer crossed his arms, stared at Henry's clothes from a distance with a strange expression, "Don't you have any fabric on your buttocks and thighs?"

"?" Henry looked up at the pursuers.

"Sister Flower Q, that's what the submarines' clothes are like," Fubuki said from the side. "Because they need to minimize drag underwater, the submarines' clothes are all like swimsuits! U47 and U81 are dressed similarly!"

"Thanks for the explanation, Fubuki... But my name is Chaser, not Flower Q Sister." Chaser lightly chopped Fubuki's forehead with a chop. "So, Fubuki, you know a lot about submarines... We must have played together quite a bit, right?"

"Hehe." Fubuki said with a laugh, covering her forehead.

"Anyway, Henry will need someone to guide him after he enters our garrison. Why don't you come and help him then?" the pursuer asked.

"Sure!" Fubuki nodded with a smile. She looked at Henry and said, "Henry! Hello, my name is Fubuki!"

"..." Henry blinked, clutching the energy bar in his arms, staring blankly at Fubuki.

……

As Xiaobai, who was controlling the ship's equipment, listened to the voices of the ship girls behind him, he felt a sense of relief.

It seems that our ship girl and Henry get along quite well...

Xiao Bai nodded, looking at the surrounding environment, and gradually approached the boundary line of the 8-2 sea area.

Once we cross this boundary line, we'll reach the central sea area of ​​Chapter 8, which is also the entrance to the deep-sea city. Then, the four of us will have Super Dahe escort us back to the Admiral's Guild, and the submarine incident in 8-2 will finally be resolved...

As Xiaobai was thinking, she couldn't help but turn around and look at the ship girls.

Just then, the land-based ship equipment also crossed the 8-2 boundary line and entered the central sea area.

then.

It was like stepping on some kind of warning line.

In Xiaobai's sight, Henry, who was dealing with the pursuers and Fubuki, suddenly turned pale.

"Hey, Henry? What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Fubuki and the pursuers noticed Henry's change.

However, before they could get close to Henry, the next moment, Henry suddenly began to clutch her body in pain, and her transparent helmet exploded with a bang.

Fubuki and the pursuer were blasted back several steps by a gust of air. They both cried out "Ouch!" and their bodies fell uncontrollably onto the roadbed floor not far away.

Xiaobai quickly ran towards Fubuki and the pursuers.

However, the changes in Henry had not yet stopped at this point.

Under Xiaobai's shocked gaze, the soft creature that had been floating above Henry's head suddenly expanded and grew larger inside Henry's transparent helmet, transforming into several octopus-like tentacles that wrapped around Henry's body. The next moment, Henry's body seemed to be twisted and began to rotate and shrink before being squeezed into a vortex-like wave and disappearing without a trace.

In the blink of an eye.

Henry just disappeared like that.

When Xiaobai arrived at Fubuki and the pursuers and began to check their condition, she looked at the spot where Henry had been. There, next to a whole box of energy bars, a large pile of energy bars lay scattered. The cardboard box was torn in many places. Apart from that, all traces of Henry had disappeared.

Only in the place where she had once been, there was a faint patch of damp seawater.

Elsewhere, even the transparent fragments scattered from her exploding helmet had vanished.

Xiao Bai looked at the small puddle of seawater where Henry had been standing and quickly helped Fubuki and the pursuer to their feet.

"Fubuki, the pursuers, how are you?"

Xiaobai asked.

The instant Henry "exploded" seemed to generate a very strong mental force impact in all directions. This impact was not highly lethal, but it seemed to have a significant effect on Fubuki and the pursuers.

For example, at this moment, Fubuki was nestled in Shiro's arms, her eyes swirling into whirlpools.

"Admiral... he's spinning... wow..."

The snow was blowing and I was in a daze.

Xiaobai looked at Chuixue, the concerned expression on her face disappearing, replaced by a helpless smile.

It's good that you weren't injured.

Xiaobai reached out and rubbed Chuixue's cheek.

Chapter 3630 Fubuki, who doesn't know its value

Fubuki's face was fair and flawless, as delicate as a newborn's, with a rosy glow.

When Xiaobai touched it, the texture between her fingers was incredibly delicate and smooth, like silk.

As expected of a destroyer, it is filled with the breath of new life from head to toe.

Even though Fubuki was just stunned by the shockwave emanating from Henry and was now lying dizzily in Shiro's arms, it did not affect the perfect texture of Fubuki's skin in the slightest.

Taking advantage of the rare opportunity, Xiaobai couldn't resist giving Fubuki a couple more rubs on her cute face while she was unable to resist.

"Waaah... Admiral..."

Still feeling dizzy, Fubuki felt Shiro's kneading and let out a series of unintelligible moans.

The pursuers, who had been lying nearby, also groggily sat up from the ground at that moment.

Perhaps due to the difference in ship type, or perhaps because she was standing further away, the pursuer was in much better condition than Fubuki. She was not knocked unconscious by the shockwave. Although she was also thrown to the floor like Fubuki, she just shook her head and slowly regained her senses.

"Ouch...my butt hurts so much..."

The pursuer frowned, rubbed his backside, and looked up.

The pursuer first looked at Xiaobai, who was squatting in front of her and rubbing Fubuki's face. After watching Xiaobai's actions for a while, she looked away and looked at where Henry had been.

Where Henry had stood was now empty, with only a pool of clear seawater remaining.

The pursuer's eyes widened in surprise.

"Admiral!?!" The pursuer, forgetting the pain in her backside, shouted with her mouth wide open, "Look, look! Henry, Henry, she's actually, she's disappeared!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Xiaobai finally released Chuixue's face. She looked at where Henry had been standing and sighed softly, "Alas... indeed, she has disappeared."

"She...she...how did she disappear?!" The pursuer scrambled to her feet and ran back to the puddle of water. She crouched down and carefully poked the puddle with her finger. "Could it have melted? This...um...this is just ordinary seawater...but how could such a big person just vanish...didn't she promise to come ashore with us? Wow...she didn't take any of these energy bars! Admiral, could she have secretly hidden them while we weren't looking?!"

After the pursuer finished speaking, he immediately began searching through Xiaobai's land-based ship equipment.

Xiao Bai looked at the busy figures of the pursuers and smiled helplessly.

"I don't think she ran away while we weren't looking..." Xiaobai murmured softly.

Just as Henry disappeared, although Fubuki and the Chaser were blown away by the sudden gust of air and couldn't see what happened, the gusts of air didn't interfere with Shiro, and Shiro still saw what happened to Henry.

Henry was just... clearly abducted by that octopus-like tentacles inside her helmet, then dragged into something like a super-Yamato-like teleportation vortex, and disappeared.

Xiao Bai even clearly remembered that before being wrapped up by the octopus tentacles, Henry clutched his head, his body shrunken, and his delicate features contorted in pain.

The way he disappeared, being abducted by an octopus, perfectly matches what Xiaobai learned from his interactions with Henry a couple of days ago.

So, she really didn't choose to run away on her own initiative.

Xiao Bai silently looked at the energy bars scattered on the floor and the small puddle of seawater, lost in thought.

What exactly is Henry? What is that octopus-like thing on her head? And how does that octopus work to suddenly kidnap Henry?

Ok……

I am completely confused.

It’s weird.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai sighed again.

really……

Bringing Henry home wasn't as simple as I'd imagined...

"Chasers, stop looking, Henry isn't on the land-based ship." Little White called softly to Chasers.

"Huh?" The pursuer threw the energy bar box he was carrying to the ground and looked at Little White in surprise. "Henry has already run away?"

"To be precise, she was kidnapped." Xiaobai thought for a moment and explained, "Just like the times we tried to capture her before."

"Then, should we go back to the sea area we just left to look for her?" The pursuer stood there, scratching her head and thinking for a while before tentatively asking.

"If I'm not mistaken, Hua, she probably won't show up again until tomorrow night." Xiaobai shook her head. "Forget it, let's go back."

"Um... well, alright then..." The pursuer hesitated, but looking at Fubuki lying in Shiro's arms, he nodded. "Fubuki seems to need to rest..."

The pursuer returned to Xiaobai's side, squatted down, and checked on Chuixue's condition.

Fubuki seemed to be awake, yet not quite. She was in a daze, her eyes still swirling in a spiral shape, muttering incoherently like "Admiral," "Changchun," and "Big Big Big."

"Admiral, what's wrong with Fubuki?" the pursuer asked curiously.

"The shockwave that just sent you flying was essentially a shockwave filled with mental energy." Xiaobai stroked Fubuki's long blue hair. "Fubuki suffered a mental shock, and her thoughts and mind are in chaos... In short, she's confused."

"Can it be restored?"

"It'll be ready in a moment."

"Oh... so it seems I'm pretty good!" The pursuer stood up with relief, jokingly putting her hands on her hips. "That air blast that just now made Fubuki look like this, but it didn't have any effect on me!"

“Fubuki’s mental strength isn’t as strong as yours, so she’s more affected,” Shiro smiled at the pursuers. “But overall, neither of you will be in any serious trouble.”

The pursuer nodded in relief, but the smile on her face faded slightly, replaced by a hint of caution and worry.

"But Admiral... about Henry... is she alright?"

"I don't know about that." Xiaobai shook her head. "I'll have to ask her when I see her again tomorrow."

Xiaobai helped Fubuki up and placed her in the arms of the pursuer.

As soon as Fubuki left Shiro's arms, she immediately started getting restless.

"It's not the Admiral, it's not the Admiral... Waaah... The Admiral's going to feed Fubuki dog food..." Fubuki, half-asleep, grabbed the pursuer's hair and pinched his cheeks. "Fubuki, don't eat children's hotpot! The bad guys are coming..."

The chaser had little experience with children, and seemed somewhat at a loss when Fubuki nestled in her arms.

"Fubuki, I'm chasing... Hey! Stop, don't pull my hair!"

"Clothes, clothes!"

"Why is your destroyer biting people?!"

"Hey, no, no, no! If you dare bite there, believe me, I'll throw you into the water!"

"..."

The pursuer was flustered and rambling, her neat white hair fluttering in the wind, reflecting her disheveled mood.

Xiaobai smiled as she watched the pursuer and Fubuki's intimate interaction. She took one last look at the seabed on the land-based ship, then turned her gaze away and began to steer the ship away from the 8-2 sea area towards the entrance of the deep-sea city.

……

When Xiaobai and the pursuers returned to the Admiral's Guild's office hall with Fubuki, Iowa came to greet them immediately upon hearing the news.

Standing at the entrance of the teleportation room, Iowa looked at Xiaobai and the disheveled pursuer with some surprise, and then at Fubuki, who was struggling in the pursuer's arms. She stood there for a few seconds, stunned.

Then, as if suddenly realizing something, Iowa came to the pursuer with a smile and extended her hands to her.

"Chaser sister, please let me take care of Fubuki."

"Oh, oh, oh, that's a huge help!" The pursuer breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pulled Fubuki into Iowa's arms. "Oh, by the way, Iowa, be careful. Fubuki may be a little dazed, but that little girl is anything but well-behaved. She's really been a handful for me the whole way here..."

The pursuer was interrupted halfway through his sentence.

Because the pursuers saw with their own eyes that Snowflake, who had just been wriggling in their arms, immediately became as docile as a newborn baby once she was in Iowa's arms.

Fubuki buried her face in Iowa's magnificent bosom, rubbing against him like a kitten.

The pursuers could vaguely see a relieved, peaceful, content, and happy smile on Fubuki's lips.

"The Admiral... the Admiral's scent... um..."

"Cotton candy, Fubuki wants cotton candy... such a big cotton candy..."

"Fukuru is going home..."

Fubuki nestled into Iowa's arms, her voice growing softer and softer.

Finally, Fubuki fell into a deep sleep, nestled comfortably in Iowa's arms, her body went limp, and she collapsed forward.

Iowa reached out and hugged Fubuki, then looked up at the pursuers.

"Chaser sister, what did you just say? What happened to Fubuki?"

"..." The pursuer pursed his lips, looking as uncomfortable as if he had swallowed a fly. "Fine... just pretend I didn't say anything."