Elder brother's garrison

Emiya the Great Hero: ...

Emiya, the mighty warrior, died from being crushed by the ship girls and his sister...

Chapter 590 A-Chou

Bismarck's eyes were quite calm, not fierce.

In reality, as a reliable ship girl who always wears the same expression, she rarely glares at anyone.

However, it must be said that Bismarck's eyes were intelligent. Even though Bismarck herself did not say anything, Admiral Su Lei could read Bismarck's thoughts from her shining eyes.

Want to play one more round?

Bismarck's eyes spoke with such sincerity.

Shocked by the results of the exercise, Su Lei felt as if his head was stuck. He gasped for breath and stared blankly at Bismarck.

Beneath Bismarck, Admiral Su Lei's six ship girls, who had been beaten unconscious, lay neatly on the sand. Each of them looked like a virtuous woman who had been robbed by bandits, with furrowed brows and pale faces, none of them looking quite good.

Then, feeling the reality, Su Lei's legs went weak, and he plopped down on the sand, looking at Bismarck with a tearful expression, then turning to look at Xiaobai with a tearful expression as well.

"Admiral Su Lei? What's wrong?" Xiao Bai saw Admiral Su Lei sitting on the beach, so she quickly took several steps forward and reached out to help him up.

However, Su Lei didn't dare touch Xiao Bai now. He kicked the ground several times before standing up from the sand: "No, I'm fine, I'm fine!"

"Oh..." Xiaobai watched as Su Lei stood up on his own before retracting his hand that had been hanging in mid-air.

I have this feeling that Admiral Su Lei, who was quite friendly just now, suddenly seems a little afraid of me.

Xiao Bai looked thoughtfully at the ship girls on the ground before explaining to Su Lei, "Admiral Su Lei, your ship girls only suffered a physical impact, so they're temporarily unconscious. The equipment we use in the exercise isn't very lethal, so don't worry, your ship girls won't get hurt."

Admiral Su Lei nodded rapidly, not daring to glance even once in Bismarck's direction.

Little White looked at Bismarck with curiosity.

Bismarck gazed tenderly at Little White for a moment.

Xiaobai looked away from Bismarck's face with a puzzled expression.

Bismarck's gaze returned to its calm and serious expression, his eyes shooting towards Admiral Su Lei like a whirlwind, as if asking, "Want to play again? Want to play again? Want to play again?"

However, how could Admiral Su Lei dare to try again?

Every ship girl is the apple of the admiral's eye. Letting you get beaten once is your own mistake in judging the enemy's strength, it's your own fault, but to get beaten twice is absolutely impossible.

If Admiral Su Lei were to endure that kind of fierce and brutal fighting style too often, he would have every reason to suspect that his ship girls would develop some terrible psychological trauma as a result.

After Bismarck hinted at his intentions for a long time without receiving a response from Admiral Su Lei, Bismarck finally gave up on eye contact.

She thought for a moment, then opened her mouth to Admiral Su Lei: "I want to do it again..."

However, before she could finish speaking, a pair of hands reached out from behind Bismarck and covered her mouth tightly.

"Are you the devil?!" Hood's voice rang in Bismarck's ears.

"Hmm?" Xiaobai and Su Lei, who shuddered, looked at Bismarck.

"Don't worry about her, she's probably just grumbling." Hood, who had covered Bismarck's mouth from behind, said to Little White with a smile, and then pulled Bismarck away from Little White without saying another word.

Little White watched as Bismarck and Hood walked to a wall far, far away and pinned them against it, then ignored what was happening there.

"Admiral Su Lei, I won the exercise!" Xiao Bai smiled at Admiral Su Lei, whose face was pale.

After Bismarck left, Admiral Su Lei seemed to be in better spirits. Looking at Xiao Bai's smiling face, he felt a subtle sense of security welling up inside him.

"Hmm, hmm..." Admiral Su Lei pursed his lips, looking at Xiaobai with a hint of sadness, "I lost."

"I hope that your ship girls can make great progress in the exercises, Admiral Su Lei," Xiaobai said to Admiral Su Lei in a very serious manner.

Admiral Su Lei gave a wry smile.

What progress? The gap is just too big; we can't gain any experience at all.

Admiral Su Lei's ship girls were instantly defeated in the first encounter. Apart from feeling the terrifying power of an unparalleled expert and realizing that they were indeed just weaklings, they gained nothing else.

I never expected that such an inconspicuous naval base would be so powerful. Its strength is in no way inferior to the ship girls of those super big shots that I have been fortunate enough to see before.

"I was blind to your greatness." Admiral Su Lei bowed to Xiao Bai, thinking to himself, "The strength of Akashi Naval Base is so formidable that I humbly admit defeat."

"Haha..." Xiaobai smiled subtly, looking at Admiral Su Lei's sincere expression, Xiaobai found himself unable to say the words "Actually, I'm not the admiral of Akashi Naval Base".

After that, Xiaobai's ship girls carried Admiral Su Lei's ship girls to an empty room in the Akashi Naval Base to rest. Admiral Su Lei squatted in front of the room for several hours with a depressed and confused look on his face before the ship girls inside the room gradually woke up.

The ship girls' memories seemed to still be stuck on the thunderous battlefield, and almost everyone was startled awake when they sat up in bed.

"Ah! Admiral!" The ship girls woke up and rushed out of the house.

The door opened, and there was Admiral Su Lei holding a fruit plate, casually stuffing slices of apple into his mouth.

"Are you all alright?" Su Lei greeted the ship girls while chewing.

"Admiral..." The ship girls, seeing Su Lei's somewhat disappointed expression, all lowered their heads in shame. "Admiral, we're sorry..."

"The strength of Akashi Naval Base is beyond our reach; we are simply not on the same level as them." Surprisingly, Su Lei took the ship girls' apology in stride. It seemed that Su Lei, who had been thinking alone for several hours, was still somewhat moved. He smiled at the ship girls, then stood up and gave them a helpless smile.

"Admiral Su Lei?" Xiao Bai seemed to have also noticed the ship girl's awakening and rushed over from the other side of the door. "Are all your ship girls alright?"

"No problem." Admiral Su Lei bowed slightly to Xiao Bai. "Thank you, Admiral Lu Lin, for lending me the room."

"It was empty to begin with." Xiao Bai simply smiled at this. "Would Admiral Su Lei like to stay for a meal?"

"No, we need to leave quickly."

"Oh right... it seems Admiral Su Lei, you're going somewhere else too."

"Yes." Su Lei nodded.

Behind Xiaobai, Bismarck and the other ship girls slowly gathered around.

Xiaobai looked at Su Lei, thought awkwardly for a while, and then slowly said to Su Lei, "Um, Admiral Su Lei, actually the admiral of Akashi Naval Base is not...."

“I understand. You must be a high-ranking admiral who lives in seclusion.” Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, Su Lei looked at Xiaobai with a knowing expression. “Your strength is so great that no admiral I have ever seen can compare to you. Logically speaking, an admiral with ship girls of this caliber should not be so unknown. I understand.”

"Huh? Uh... um... what do you know?"

“I’ll keep it a secret for you, right?” Su Lei nodded to Xiaobai. “Akashi Naval Base is a weak naval base. I’ll tell everyone that.”

"Uh... that..."

"However, even so, I still have a question. I wonder if you could answer it?"

"..." Xiaobai remained silent.

"Is there really no ship girl named Missouri in your naval base?" Su Lei asked with a serious expression.

“I have it,” Xiaobai sighed.

Su Lei smiled with emotion.

"Senior, there's no need to insist. We are from different worlds, and I will eventually become a passerby in your life." Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, Su Lei bowed to her without hesitation. "Mountains may not move, but water will! I, Su, will take my leave first."

"Eh?!"

Then, Su Lei, looking as if he had suddenly gained enlightenment, led a group of ship girls who also seemed to have gained enlightenment. After bowing to Xiaobai and the Akashi Naval Base, he left without looking back.

After watching Su Lei and the ship girls disappear on the beach, Xiaobai and the other ship girls fell silent.

"Does he have a serious misunderstanding about us?" Bismarck asked Little White while pointing to the beach.

"They used to call him Admiral Lu Lin, but now they're all calling him 'Your Excellency' or 'Senior'," Hu De said helplessly, rubbing his forehead. "Even their tone has changed. I guess the misunderstanding has deepened."

"In short, it seems that the admiral who came to the Akashi Naval Base for the exercise was driven away by us."

In the silence, one of the ship girls said something.

"Uh." Xiaobai felt as if he had been shot in the back.

"After all, the 9527 Naval Base should have made an appointment with the Akashi Naval Base before the exercise, and coordinating the exercise is not an easy task."

"Ugh!" Xiaobai clutched her chest.

"What are we going to do if they just leave like this?" the ship girls whispered among themselves. "Who knows, Admiral Akashi might actually be looking forward to the exercise."

Xiao Bai covered his knees in embarrassment.

"Well, um... how about we go find Admiral Akashi?" Xiaobai asked Hu De awkwardly.

Hude seemed to have been hit by several arrows as well. She was bent over, clutching her chest, and smiled awkwardly at Xiaobai.

"Why don't we go find Admiral Akashi and explain the situation in advance?" Hu De said to Xiao Bai.

"Hu De, do you know where Admiral Akashi is?"

"Oh, this... it should be quite easy to find, right..." Hood gave an awkward smile.

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Meanwhile, while Shiro was discussing plans with her ship girl at the Akashi Naval Base, several miles away in a high-rise building...

Inside a small, dark house, Akashi, with green hair, looked up at the stack of boxes in front of him and took a deep breath.

"Ah...ah...ha...achoo!"

Chapter 591 You didn't expect that, did you!

For some reason, the robust Akashi suddenly sneezed violently.

As the sneeze was completed, Akashi's small brush trembled, and in an instant, all sorts of fuels splashed from the brush onto the box in front of her.

"Ah..." Akashi looked awkwardly at the box in front of her, now drenched in various colors, after sneezing, and couldn't help but show a rather regretful expression. "What a pity..."

Akashi reached out and wiped the box with her fingers, finally letting out a helpless sigh.

“This has to be scrapped…” Akashi said, taking down the box that was almost bigger than her body and stacking it on the other side.

After Akashi moved the box in front of him, the view behind the box was revealed.

Dozens or even hundreds of chests, each a stone high, were neatly stacked behind them. On the other side, several rows of gold chests still smelled of paint, filling the entire room with a faint odor.

Akashi walked to the back of the house, picked up a box that hadn't been painted yet, and gently placed it on the shelf in front of him.

Strangely enough, given Akashi's frail and small stature, she should have been quite weak, yet when she lifted a box almost as big as herself with both hands, she didn't seem to struggle at all; on the contrary, it was effortless.

Akashi gently moved the box on the stand to a more comfortable position before reaching out to wipe away the non-existent fine sweat from her forehead.

"Life is tough, meow..." Akashi said as she picked up a small brush, dipped it in the paint bucket next to her, and started working on the box in front of her.

"Hmph hmph hmph hmph~" Akashi hummed softly, a slight smile playing on her lips, "Labor is the most honorable~ Labor is the most glorious~"

Soon, the box in front of Akashi was quickly painted a bright gold color.

“Done~” Akashi examined the box in front of her for a while, then took it down and placed it among the rows of neatly stacked gold boxes behind her.

"Having a side job isn't easy... Being an admiral isn't easy either..." Akashi muttered to herself, looking at the box she had worked so hard to make until it was gleaming gold. "I kind of miss the old days..."

Akashi stopped there, put her hands on her hips, lowered her head, thought for a while, then quickly shook her head and slapped her cheeks hard.

"Get to work, get to work!" Akashi went to the back of the house, brought out another box, and stacked it on the shelf.

Then, Akashi, who had just put down the heavy box, took out a small brush and started brushing the box in front of her.

—Many people should have noticed this by now.

Well, that's right.

Akashi is not human.

If we define it from a species perspective, Akashi is a ship girl.

A 100% pure ship girl.

However, Akashi doesn't possess the formidable combat power of a typical ship girl, nor is she capable of handling an Abyssal Fleet on her own. Even the power provided to her by other ship girls is less than a tenth of that of a normal ship girl.

All of this is because of Akashi's ship type.

Akashi's ship type is different from ordinary ships. She is not a battleship, an aircraft carrier, a destroyer, or a light cruiser, but a work ship.

The work ship is a purely auxiliary ship with almost no combat capability, but it possesses the special power to repair the ship equipment of ship girls.

The power hidden within her ship's equipment is not fire and destruction, but repair and creation.

—In short, what Akashi is doing now is quite in line with her abilities as a ship girl.

A dozen minutes later, Akashi finished painting the box in front of him and then slowly carried it to the back of the house.

No one knows who actually created Akashi. In many people's eyes, she seemed to appear out of thin air. By the time the admirals realized what had happened, Akashi had already been with them for a long time.

No one knows where she came from, when she came, where she is going, or what she is going to do; not even Akashi herself knows.