Elder brother's garrison

“We’ve been training ourselves all this time,” Takao said to the tall ship girl. “I’ve been treating you all as my hypothetical enemies!”

"You..." The tall ship girl trembled as she moved back a little.

Kaohsiung and Atago smiled beautifully.

"You, you don't come any closer!" The tall ship girl quickly squeezed her legs together.

However, that was the end of her actions.

Just as she was paying too much attention to Takao and Atago, the tall ship girl suddenly felt a breeze blow beside her. She subconsciously looked down and saw that Cleveland had somehow crawled under her. Her eyes were red and her five fingers were spread straight out.

Then, a flash of light appeared, and the tall ship girl, who was kneeling on the sea a second ago, was suddenly flying into the air for some unknown reason.

Her body swirled in mid-air, the wind blowing mercilessly against her naked form.

—It's chilly.

This was the only feeling in the tall ship girl's heart.

Then, with a snap, the tall ship girl fell back into the water.

Cleveland stood behind the tall ship girl, gave a soft hum, and released her hand. The triangular piece of black cloth bloomed from her hand like a flower and fell onto the sea.

Upon witnessing this scene, the tall ship girls' companions all clenched their legs in extreme fear, looking as if they had seen a ghost.

However, it was no use saying anything now. After dealing with the tall ship girls, Cleveland and Takao Atago had no intention of stopping. They rushed towards the group of ship girls at lightning speed. In a flash of white light, the ship girls screamed and flew into the sky, followed by various colored and patterned pieces of cloth falling back onto the sea.

For a time, the scene was quite spectacular.

"What kind of skill is that?" Fubuki stood on tiptoe, watching Cleveland, who was unleashing her full power in the ship girl group.

"Sister, don't look!" Bai Xue quickly covered Chui Xue's eyes. "You'll become a bad child!"

"Hmm?" Fubuki asked curiously as Shirayuki covered her face.

Several minutes passed.

The ship girls, who were originally kneeling obediently on the ground, were now lying haphazardly on the sea surface after being tormented by Cleveland. They looked like dolls, their eyes lifeless, as if they had been broken.

Cleveland and Kaohsiung Atago walked back with a satisfied look on their faces.

"Did you vent your anger?" Bismarck asked Cleveland.

Cleveland nodded to Bismarck and bowed to him; "Thank you."

Takao and Atago quickly bowed to Bismarck, saying, "Thank you very much!"

For Cleveland and Atago, the fact that their admiral was being ostracized was a knot in their hearts that had been there for a very long time, and they felt uncomfortable if it wasn't untied for a day.

At this moment, Bismarck led them to fight violence with violence, retaliating in an even more vicious way. In the end, Cleveland even used the panty-peeling technique that he had spent so long learning to finish off the enemy, and the feeling of exhilaration was incomparably satisfying.

“I thought you guys would be more extreme,” Bismarck said.

"That's enough." Cleveland smiled, then turned to look at the tall ship girl and her companions lying on the water, and sighed helplessly.

"Okay, let's go back then." Bismarck didn't say much more. After the ship girls made some preparations, they headed back to the shore, satisfied.

Missouri was the last to leave. She went to the ship girls lying on the sea, untied them all, and then left after saying thank you for your cooperation.

The ship girls lying on the sea surface stared blankly at the sky above the sea.

They still feel somewhat bewildered by everything that happened to them, as if it were a dream.

However, the seawater was too cold and the sunlight was too dazzling, all of which told these ship girls that what they were experiencing was not a dream, but a real reality.

They were harassed by a group of ship girls, surrounded by a ship girl, and then robbed. Their dignity as girls and as ship girls was brutally trampled and harassed.

—With zero fuel, all equipment stripped, almost everyone was badly damaged, barely clothed, and even their underwear gone. On their way back, they would have to face the stares of an entire coastline of admirals.

It seems that doing bad things will indeed bring retribution.

“…Waaaaah…” For some reason, a ship girl burst into tears.

Like a chain reaction, the ship girl's cries quickly infected the other ship girls, and they all started crying at the same time.

"Woooooooo..."

"Woooooooo..."

The ship girls' cries came in waves, one after another.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

On the beach, the sun had been hanging high overhead for a long time.

Little White, hiding under a parasol, handed a freshly bought iced cola to Tirpitz, who was sitting in a chair: "Tirpitz, cola."

"Hmm." Tirpitz reached out and took the cola from Xiaobai, gulping it down in a few mouthfuls. Then she picked up a bag of potato chips, tore open the wrapper, and started crunching away, oblivious to everyone else.

Little White watched Tirpitz eating snacks, smiled, and walked behind Tirpitz, gently placing her hands on Tirpitz's shoulders.

Tirpitz.

"Well."

"You need to move around more these days, don't stay in your room all the time," Little White said to Tirpitz. "You'll get fat."

“Ship girls don’t get fat,” Tirpitz said to Shiro.

"That makes sense... but I still feel like it's better to move around more."

Tirpitz looked up at Little White and thought for a moment: "If you exercise, you'll lose weight, and your breasts will get smaller."

"...The ship, the ship won't get thinner." Xiaobai said these words in a trembling voice.

“Oh.” Tirpitz continued crunching on his potato chips. “...You have a chance too. Have confidence in yourself.”

"..."

"Want to touch it?" Tirpitz grabbed Whitey's hand that was on his shoulder and then placed it on his chest.

Tirpitz doesn't exercise much and likes to eat high-calorie foods. If she were a human girl, her figure would have been several sizes bigger by now. However, as a ship girl, Tirpitz's figure is still perfectly maintained at a plump level, and her skin is firm, smooth, and very elastic to the touch.

After being guided by Tirpitz to touch her breasts, Xiaobai subconsciously clenched her hands. In an instant, a sense of satisfaction quickly filled Xiaobai's heart. She looked at her hands, and even through the clothes, Tirpitz's soft flesh seemed to overflow from between her fingers.

—The ship girls are really amazing.

For some reason, Xiaobai felt a sense of frustration welling up inside her, and she subconsciously pinched her a few more times.

“…Pervert.” Tirpitz said, staring at Little White.

Chapter 707 Unaware that Xiao Bai is the Top Scholar

Tirpitz's voice was somewhat weak, carrying his characteristic languidness, and even a hint that Xiaobai couldn't understand it.

Xiao Bai quickly pulled his hands away from Tirpitz, raised both hands as if surrendering, looked at Tirpitz somewhat awkwardly, and gave an embarrassed laugh.

"I let you touch it, not pinch it," Tirpitz said, pouting. "Indecent assault on a ship girl, call the police."

"I'm sorry..." Xiaobai apologized sincerely.

Tirpitz felt so good that Xiaobai's movements were all subconscious; she really didn't intend to pinch it at first.

Fortunately, Tirpitz didn't seem to dwell on the matter, and she quickly shifted her attention back to the potato chips and cola in her arms.

After this little incident, Xiaobai gave up on urging Tirpitz to give up his reclusive lifestyle.

"Little White." At that moment, Nia's voice rang out beside Little White.

Xiao Bai turned around and saw Nia holding three bottles of chilled orange juice she had bought from the store behind her, smiling at her: "Drink juice."

"Ah, thank you, Nia." Xiaobai accepted the juice.

Nia smiled, picked up the other two bottles of juice, and took two steps to the other side.

"Miss Luo Lian, would you like some juice?"

Luo Lian sat cross-legged on the beach, writing and drawing in a notebook and with a pencil.

"Thank you." Luo Lian's eyes didn't leave the notebook. She raised her hand, took Nia's juice, and continued to concentrate on the notebook.

Since the ship girls left, Luo Lian, who had nothing to do on the beach, started fiddling with the notebook in her hand. Several hours have passed, and Luo Lian hasn't moved much.

Nia had been a little curious about this notebook, and since Luo Lian didn't seem to want to hide anything from it, Nia could simply walk behind Luo Lian and look down to see what was written in the notebook.

Luo Lian's notebook was filled with neatly drawn sketches. The edges of the sketches were covered with various professional terms that were understandable when viewed individually, but incomprehensible when combined, as well as rows of data. It looked like some kind of design drawing. It seemed a little familiar, but Nia was still a bit confused.

"Miss Luo Lian... what are you drawing?"

"Blueprints."

"Ah... what kind of design drawings are they?" Nia asked Luo Lian cautiously.

“Construction device”.

“…Oh.” Nia nodded. No wonder the design looked familiar. But then she paused, “Eh? The design for the construction device is classified, isn’t it?”

"Ah."

"Miss Luo Lian, what happened to you...?"

“You can tell once you take it apart,” Luo Lian said matter-of-factly.

"..." Nia felt that something was wrong with the answer, but she didn't know where to begin criticizing it.

Disassembling the construction device at will shouldn't be allowed, but Luo Lian remained completely calm, her tone as if she were talking about having curry for dinner, showing no real sense of what she was doing.

Nia sighed softly. Sure enough, she, an ordinary person, couldn't understand what capable people did. She decided to play dumb.

"Miss Luo Lian is amazing," Nia exclaimed softly. "Even with such a tense situation, she can still calm down and study such a complex thing..."

"Hmm?" Luo Lian was drawn to Nia's words. She paused for a moment, then closed her notebook and turned her gaze to Nia. "Is the situation urgent?"

"That's right, didn't our ship girls go on an expedition?"

"With your ship girls' training level, you can easily handle the deep-sea ships here. Moreover, all ship girls have damage protection. Even if six or seven ship girls have damage protection, they can help each other and walk back before the damage protection expires. So there's no need to worry about safety at all," Luo Lian said.

"Ah, I'm not worried about that..." Nia shook her head, glanced at Xiaobai who was with Tirpitz, and then said to Luo Lian with some frustration, "Aren't there other ship girl teams targeting me..."

Luo Lian looked at Nia, unscrewed the bottle in her hand, and waited for her to continue while drinking.

"What if something goes wrong..." Nia said with some hesitation.

"You really enjoy worrying about these things," Luo Lian said to Nia while sipping her juice.

"Huh?" Nia was taken aback, and her expression quickly turned awkward.

It's not a matter of worrying or not worrying. In Nia's view, she is the one who attracts attention and is also the one who gets ostracized. Xiaobai and Luolian are just people who help her. If something unexpected happens during this expedition, wouldn't she be the one dragging down the two people in front of her?

Nia felt considerable pressure about this.

"Although it's a bit inappropriate for me to say this, you don't need to worry at all." Luo Lian sighed. Looking at Nia's expression, she had pretty much figured out what Nia was thinking. "Our ship girls can't possibly get into trouble."

"..."

"Xiaobai is really amazing. It's good enough that she doesn't bully others. Of course, I'm just someone who's trying to ride her coattails and gain experience," Luo Lian said to Nia while drinking her juice.

Nia nodded, somewhat hesitantly.

"The juice was delicious, thank you." Luo Lian handed the empty bottle to Nia.

Nia took the empty bottle and nodded to Luo Lian.

Luo Lian shook her head helplessly, then patted her bottom and stood up from the sand.

Luo Lian realized that Nia probably didn't know that Xiao Bai was the admiral of the world's number one naval base. Perhaps in Nia's eyes, Xiao Bai was just an admiral with super strength, but she didn't know exactly how strong he was.

During the autumn deep-sea event, Luo Lian witnessed the strength of the rookie naval base firsthand. Because she had seen it and knew just how monstrous Bismarck was, she wasn't worried at all.

This is a matter of perspective. After all, Nia is just a junior admiral who has never even participated in any events. She has no idea how powerful ship girls can be, which is why she is so worried about this and that.

However, in the end, Nia didn't fully understand Xiaobai's strength. If she knew that Xiaobai was the world's number one admiral, and that the group of slackers in the second chapter didn't even have one percent of her strength, Nia would probably realize how unnecessary her worries were.

Luo Lian glanced at Xiao Bai, who was chatting idly with Tirpitz.

Xiaobai isn't the type to deliberately hide her identity from Nia. The reason she hasn't told her is probably because she doesn't really take her status as the world's number one admiral seriously.

Or perhaps Nia never asked.

“Nia,” Luo Lian said.

"Um, Miss Luo Lian, is there something you need?" Nia looked at Luo Lian with some nervousness.

Luo Lian glanced at Nia, then at Xiao Bai. After thinking for a while, she decided it was better for Xiao Bai to say it himself: "It's alright."

“…” Nia looked at Luo Lian with some curiosity.

"You will definitely be a good wife in the future."