Elder brother's garrison

Sudden.

There was a crisp clang.

It seemed that the cloth hadn't been properly stretched along the way, causing it to loosen a bit. At this moment, Xiaobai felt the cloth in her hand suddenly loosen, and then a gleaming knife fell out of the cloth and smashed straight onto the table.

The crisp sound instantly filled the entire room.

The knife on the table is narrow and thin, entirely silver-white, with no extra decorations. It simply sits in the sunlight, reflecting the cold, white light of its sharpened edge.

"Ah...this...is a knife?" Xiao Bai was initially flustered because she had accidentally opened Bai Ying's things, but after seeing the knife, she was about to put the cloth back on when she froze.

Xiao Bai clutched the loose strip of cloth, stared blankly at the military knife on the table for a while.

Is this a knife?

What is Bai Ying doing carrying a knife?

Xiao Bai frowned, put the strip of cloth in his hand to the other side, and carefully examined the military knife.

At this moment, Xiaobai's curiosity suddenly swelled.

Talk about it.

Mu Yu seemed to have mentioned that he had lost his knife...

Uh... could it be...?

Is this the one?

Xiao Bai lowered his head, observing the entire body of the military knife.

Xiao Bai hadn't seen Mu Yu's knife often. The few times he had seen it, it was always in the form of the knife not being drawn from its sheath. As for what the blade looked like, Xiao Bai didn't know.

"Um... Sister Bai Ying seems to live in that city too... Could it be... that she found Mu Yu's lost military knife? She said she had something to do, could she be here to return the weapon?"

Xiao Bai observed the blade for a while, but couldn't find anything on it. "Uh... logically speaking, if it's a military product, there should be markings on the blade... where are they...?"

As Xiaobai murmured to himself, he reached out and slowly gripped the hilt of the knife.

Xiao Bai gripped the military knife and raised his arm.

The gleaming blade tip traced an arc in mid-air.

"Om——"

The sharp tip of the blade easily sliced ​​through the air, and the blade trembled slightly, as if whispering.

Chapter 1019: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

"Do not move."

"Close your eyes."

"Wow————"

In the steamy bathroom, naked Kaga stood behind Bai Ying, holding a basin of warm water, and slowly poured it over Bai Ying's head, which was covered in white foam.

The water flowed down Bai Ying's skin, washing away all the dust from her body.

After rinsing herself, Bai Ying quickly shook her head and then stood up from the stool.

Kaga reached out and pressed Bai Ying's head back into her seat.

"The Admiral said he'd help you take a bath." Kaga impersonally pressed Bai Ying back onto the stool, then showed her a bar of soap, lathering it in his hands as he said with utmost seriousness, "Please cooperate."

"..." Bai Ying turned to look at Kaga, her face expressionless, but her two feet on the tiles showed that she was preparing to run away.

After Kaga finished lathering the soap, he stretched out his hands, which were covered in white foam, and slowly approached Bai Ying.

Bai Ying stared at Kaga's outstretched hands, a hint of wariness flashing in her eyes. She tried to stand up again, but Kaga was faster than her. In a flash of white light, Kaga's foamy hands pressed down on Bai Ying's shoulders, pinning her firmly to the bench.

Kaga's other hand, holding a bar of soap, reached towards Bai Ying's chest.

"Snapped!"

Bai Ying precisely grabbed Kaga's wrist, her expression very serious, exerting all her strength in an attempt to prevent Kaga from touching her body.

Kaga's wrist and Bai Ying's wrist were locked in a stalemate in mid-air, trembling as they pushed and pulled back, neither able to gain the upper hand for the time being.

"...Such strength...Are you a ship girl?"

"..."

"Give up. You can't clean your body without soap." Kaga's expression was unusually solemn. "You can't go into the pool to bathe without cleaning your body, and you can't say you've bathed without going into the pool!"

"..."

"On this one step, I, Kaga, will never back down!"

"..." Bai Ying did not react, but her hands, which were locked in a stalemate with Kaga, did not budge an inch.

Bai Ying's actions at this moment resembled a desperate all-out resistance against a lolicon who was trying to molest her, as she fought against Kaga with all her might.

Gradually, Kaga seemed to finally see a hint of resistance in Bai Ying's eyes.

Normally, any woman with decent emotional intelligence would realize that Bai Ying simply didn't want a stranger to touch her private parts.

Most normal women would choose to let the child wash the clothes themselves at this point, or reason with them and appeal to their emotions, using gentle hands to soften the child's cold heart and conquer the child's resistance with feminine softness.

However, at this moment, the hot-headed Kaga was only aroused by Bai Ying's behavior.

A flame called fighting spirit ignited in Kaga's eyes.

"I, Kaga, accept your challenge!"

Fueled by his fighting spirit, Kaga approached Bai Ying's body inch by inch.

Inch by inch...

"Bah."

"Hey, hey, hey——"

Bai Ying's faint scream echoed in the empty bathtub.

……

"Crash--"

Two slender, snow-white bodies slid gently into the warm pool.

As the girls' bodies entered, the overflowing water gushed out of the pool and rippled onto the ground.

Bai Ying, feeling completely drained, leaned against the edge of the pool, panting as she glanced furtively at Kaga sitting beside her.

With a white towel on her head, Kaga solemnly closed her eyes after entering the pool, wholeheartedly enjoying the warmth of the water. Even though Bai Ying was sitting right next to her, she didn't open her eyes to look at Bai Ying at all.

Bai Ying silently looked at Kaga, then sighed softly and submerged herself in the water.

Kaga opened his eyes and glanced at the temperature display.

"...The temperature is a bit low...how about we raise it to fifty degrees?" Kaga looked at the LCD screen above the pool with some dissatisfaction.

"Splash!" Bai Ying jumped out of the pool and quickly shook her head at Kaga.

“…Okay, then I won’t add it.” Kaga understood what Bai Ying was implying. “Don’t you like places that are too hot?”

"Ah."

"Oh."

The two people's incredibly simple conversation began, and it ended.

Kaga and Bai Ying sat in the pool, one taller than the other, quietly watching the thermometer above the water.

Gradually, the swaying water surface calmed down.

The sound of dripping water echoed in the quiet bathtub.

Bai Ying let out a breath.

"How are you feeling?" Kaga suddenly turned around and asked Bai Ying.

"..." Bai Ying nodded wearily, taking it as a sign that she was alright.

"That's good."

"..."

"Since you're a ship girl, how did you become an admiral?" Kaga asked again.

Bai Ying blinked.

"Since you're a ship girl, how did you become an admiral?" Kaga asked again with a serious expression.

Bai Ying blinked again.

"Since you're a ship girl, then you are..."

"Back then, there weren't so many restrictions on being an admiral." Having deeply understood that the silent tactics were useless in front of a hothead, Bai Ying had no choice but to interrupt Kaga's third question.

"Oh." Kaga remained silent.

Bai Ying frowned and glanced at the silent Kaga.

"...Admiral...we can't use this trick anymore." Kaga suddenly murmured in a low voice, sounding somewhat disappointed.

Bai Ying's furrowed brows slowly relaxed.

"What kind of person is your admiral?" Bai Ying leaned against the edge of the pool and asked Kaga.

Kaga opened his eyes and looked solemnly at Bai Ying.

"It is something that Kaga cannot do with ease, great admiral."

"?" A hint of confusion flashed in Bai Ying's eyes.

"After Admiral Lu Yun passed away, Akagi, who was married to him, was in a very bad state because she was too lonely. I tried many methods, but none of them worked. I thought Akagi would be like this for the rest of her life, but after the admiral came, he only slept with Akagi for one night and solved her problem."

"?????"

"That's really amazing." Kaga clenched his fists and murmured, looking up as if he had witnessed a miracle.

At this point, Kaga seemed to remember something. She lowered her hand and looked at Bai Ying beside her with some curiosity: "What about your admiral?"

"...I...have no admiral...and am not a ship girl."

"And what about the people who built you?"

"..." Bai Ying glanced at Kaga, then stared at the wall in front of her.

Bai Ying's gaze was somewhat vacant. She stared at the wall, but her eyes seemed to have traveled through thousands of mountains and rivers, through the passage of time, back to a very, very long time ago.

Suddenly, at that moment, Bai Ying's relaxed body trembled, and she jumped up from the pool with a splash.

Bai Ying stared wide-eyed, looking straight in one direction.

"What's wrong?" Kaga asked Bai Ying.

Bai Ying didn't speak, but her expression became somewhat serious.

—Someone used a knife.

No, we have to get there quickly!

Bai Ying jumped out of the pool at lightning speed and ran towards the bathroom door.

She had just run out of the pool when she heard another splash. Just as she was leaving the pool and heading towards the door, Bai Ying suddenly felt a soft touch on her back. Two snow-white arms appeared in her vision, and then, Bai Ying was pulled into Kaga's arms with a serious expression.

"Huh??" Bai Ying stared wide-eyed at Kaga behind her.

"If you don't soak for a full twenty minutes, it doesn't count as a bath!" Kaga said, pulling Bai Ying back into the pool while holding her in his arms.

"!!!"

Wow————

Splash splash splash splash splash splash...

Waves and spray.

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.

inside the room.

After raising the military knife in his hand, Xiaobai looked at the smooth and elegant blade and couldn't help but exclaim in astonishment.

"Oh...it seems to have some weight to it..."