Elder brother's garrison

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The goddess of the hearth stared intently at the ship girl's rigging with her wide eyes, vigorously pounding the rigging in front of her with her tools while smoothly replacing them in the toolbox behind her.

After hammering away at the ship's rigging, the goddess of the hearth skillfully swung the hammer behind her, pulled a wrench from her toolbox, stepped on the rigging in front of her, and began twisting it fiercely.

After the wrench comes the screwdriver, then the screwdriver comes the pliers, and after the pliers comes the file...

The goddess of the hearth constantly changed the tools in her hands, each brand-new tool producing sparks as she hammered or twisted the ship's rigging. Judging from her movements alone, an outsider would probably think that she was ruthlessly dismantling the ship's rigging. However, if someone stopped to observe closely, they would find that although the goddess of the hearth's movements appeared rough and exaggerated, and the ship's rigging under her hands seemed to be groaning as it constantly emitted metallic clanging sounds, with each movement, the somewhat twisted and bent ship's rigging was slowly returning to normal, like a wound healing.

Those who had been stationed here earlier to observe the goddess of the hearth would have been even more astonished.

Just hours before, this ship's rigging was merely "somewhat bent and twisted," but a charred "scrap metal" that was almost twisted together and would have been so badly damaged that no one would have found it strange even if it had been sent to a scrap yard.

The craftsmanship of the goddess of the hearth is simply magical, like turning back time!

"Ding-dong—"

Finally, amidst the last series of powerful blows, the goddess of the hearth, who had been wielding the small hammer with great vigor, stopped, panting. She put down the hammer, looked at the ship's rigging that was slightly red and hot from the blows, and carefully squatted down to observe it from all sides. Only then did she reveal a joyful smile and nod.

"Yes! It's perfectly fixed!" The voice of the goddess of the hearth was full of confidence and excitement.

As if to confirm the words of the goddess of the hearth, the moment she said "It's fixed," a slight breeze suddenly blew around the ship girl who had been kneeling on the ground with a weak expression. Her hair was blown up, and her dry and parched face began to regain its rosy color and vitality.

"I...I can feel the power..." The ship girl, kneeling on the ground, touched her cheek in surprise, then looked down at her palms. "I...I can finally feel the presence of my ship equipment...I..."

"Hmph, thanks to my superb restoration skills, you've returned to your peak condition! Don't doubt it, now you could even go straight into the sea and fight the deep sea, and you'd still be able to unleash your full power!" The goddess of the hearth said proudly, hands on her hips. "You and your companions have both been successfully repaired by me!"

"Sister... Sister Vessel..." The ship girl, kneeling on the ground, stared blankly at the Goddess of the Hearth, then her gaze shifted to her companion who had been healed just hours earlier. Suddenly, a large amount of clear tears welled up in her eyes, and she burst into tears of joy, "Thank... thank you, Sister Vessel... I... I... Waaah..."

Chapter 1685 Let your sister see inside!

Regaining her identity as a ship girl and gaining power felt incredibly reassuring and blissful.

For an instant.

The previous anxieties about her future, the regret for her heavily damaged advance, the fear of losing her ship girl status, and other negative emotions were instantly dispelled by the words of the goddess of the hearth announcing her recovery, turning into an uncontrollable emotion that rushed into the ship girl's heart.

The ship girl in front of the sofa couldn't control herself and covered her face, tears streaming down her face as she sobbed uncontrollably.

"Thank you... thank you, Goddess of the Hearth... thank you so much, Goddess of the Hearth... thank you so much, Goddess of the Hearth..."

"Waaaaah... Thank you so much... Thank you..."

For a moment, the ship girl's mind seemed to be filled with only the word "thank you." She could only cry and bow her head to thank the goddess of the hearth, and could do nothing else.

"Instead of thanking me, you should say, don't damage the Attack again next time." The Vesta gathered up the tools scattered on the ground one by one and said to the ship girls with a complicated look in her eyes, "My repair skills are impressive... but that's not a reason for you to risk your lives."

"Yes...yes...waaaaah..." The ship girl covered her face and nodded, "I...I will never damage the Attack again, I will never damage the Attack again, waaaaah..."

Hearing a satisfactory answer, the goddess of the hearth finally smiled slightly. She patted the ship equipment toolbox behind her, put away her ship equipment, coughed lightly, and pointed to Little White behind her.

"Alright... but don't just thank me. Half the credit goes to her for healing you and your companion so easily."

"Thank you! And thank you, little sister!" Upon hearing the words of the Vestal Goddess, the ship girl quickly turned to Little White, bowing repeatedly in gratitude. "I...I don't know how to thank you, little sister, I..."

"No need to be so polite..." Xiaobai quickly took a step back, waved her hand at the ship girl, and smiled, "The one who was able to heal you so successfully was Miss Vestal, and it was thanks to Miss Vestal's magical abilities and superb skills. I only did a little bit of insignificant assistance..."

“But…” The ship girl sniffed and raised her head slightly.

Although that's what Xiaobai said, none of the ship girls present thought the same way.

Although in the end it was Vestal who repaired the ship girls, and Shiro only helped Vestal see the internal condition of the damaged ship girls' equipment, before the repair, Vestal clearly told everyone present about Shiro's importance—Shiro was Vestal's eyes, and how important eyes are to a person goes without saying.

"Alright, alright! Stop crying! Now that your ship equipment is repaired, there's no need to stay here any longer!" Vestal stepped forward to stop the ship girl who wanted to say something more, and pulled her up from the ground. "There are many ship girls waiting for me outside the door. Now that you two are repaired, don't waste any more time, go back quickly! Remember, don't damage your Attack again in the future!"

"Ah...yes, yes!" The ship girl was pulled up by the goddess of the hearth and stood there stunned for a few seconds, but she quickly regained her composure after her companions came over to support her.

The two ship girls bowed repeatedly to Xiaobai and the Vestal Goddess with gratitude, their lips pursed, their expressions filled with overwhelming emotion and a sense of indebtedness.

"Well... thank you, Sister Goddess of the Hearth! Thank you, little sister!"

"Okay, remember to call the next ship girl in after you leave," the Vesta said to the two ship girls.

"Yes!" The two ship girls looked at the Goddess of the Hearth with deep emotion in their eyes. They supported each other as they left the living room and followed the familiar corridor to the Goddess of the Hearth's closed door.

I've come here again.

The two ship girls exchanged a glance, their hearts filled with mixed emotions.

When they first entered this place, they were two people with tattered ship equipment, no strength, and weak bodies, almost losing their identity as ship girls. But when they returned here now, their injuries had been completely healed...

It really is like a dream...

Surrounded by a dreamlike feeling, the ship girls swallowed hard and began to worry that they were dreaming. They trembled as they pressed their hands toward the door of the Vestal Goddess.

crunch.

The door to the Kitchen Goddess's house was pushed open.

Outside the door, the sky was slightly misty but vast, with a golden sunset on the horizon.

Outside the house, the ship girls waiting in the yard stared at the gate with wide, round eyes, like statues waiting for their husbands. When they saw the two ship girls walk out of the house, the ship girls in the yard took a deep breath, their mouths curled up in surprise, and their eyes lit up at the same time.

"Finally! Finally!"

"It's almost evening... Finally, someone's coming out!!"

Congratulations on your recovery! Congratulations!

"congratulations!"

"The Goddess of the Hearth is the best in the world!"

……

In the courtyard, cheers erupted from the ship girls, who had been suppressing their emotions for hours. The cheers were more enthusiastic and louder than ever before.

The two ship girls inside stared blankly at the ship girls outside the door who were congratulating them. Their mouths were slightly open, and tears began to flow uncontrollably from their eyes.

"Ah...yes, it's true..."

"We've really been cured..."

The ship girls gritted their teeth, ran out of their homes, raised their arms high towards the yard full of ship girls, and joined in the cheering ship girls.

"We! We're cured!!!"

"The Goddess of the Hearth is the best! The Goddess of the Hearth! She's the best in the world!!!"

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The sounds outside the courtyard were loud and enthusiastic.

Inside the living room, the female hearth goddess hummed a little tune happily as she sat on the sofa, stroking her ship equipment tools, waiting for the next ship girl to enter the living room.

"Ah... Miss Stove Goddess, you seem very happy?" Xiao Bai looked at the Stove Goddess and smiled at her.

"Hehe, I've been a free medic for the ship girls for so long, but I've never been this excited as I am today!" The Vess nodded heavily to Little White. "This is the first time I've seen the inside of a ship's rigging! So this is what the inside of a ship girl's rigging looks like... It's exactly what I imagined! But... with this ability, I feel like I can fix any kind of ship rigging in a flash!"

"Hmm..." Xiaobai blinked, looking at the excited Vestal who was hugging the ship equipment tools, and thought for a while, "So, Miss Vestal, you are currently in a state similar to getting a brand new skill in the game, breaking through your bottleneck, and not having had enough fun yet?"

"Hmm...you seem like a pretty well-behaved person, but how come your examples are so insightful?" The female Kitchen Goddess was stumped by Xiaobai. She looked at Xiaobai helplessly and pouted, "What...you actually like playing games?"

"I'm fine... it's just that the people I live with are all into video games..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly.

"Hmph...I see." The goddess of the hearth coughed lightly twice and put down her tools. "In general, I still want to thank you for your help this time...I will try my best to make up for it if I have the chance in the future...Thank you."

"It's just a small favor, Miss Stove Goddess, please don't mind." Xiaobai waved her hand.

"It wasn't a small favor... After all, if it were just me alone, it wouldn't have been possible to heal them so easily and quickly, and statistically speaking, at least one of them would have failed to be healed..." The female hearth goddess sighed and said to Little White, "In other words, you saved one of them."

"Eh... so that's how it's calculated..." Xiaobai shrank her neck. "Uh... speaking of which, when did those two ship girl sisters arrive?"

"Them... um... they came this morning." The female hearth sighed. "Sigh... speaking of which, even I was shocked... two patients suffering from the aftereffects of the Great Destruction Attack, who usually don't come for several years, came all at once today. If I didn't have your help and had to treat them slowly according to my own treatment plan, it would have taken me almost a week to treat them, including my usual time after get off work."

"Ah...is this their first time here?"

"Yes. It seems they'd heard about me a long time ago. But they didn't believe it before, so even after their ship was badly damaged, they didn't think of coming to me. Instead, they secretly launched an attack without telling their mercenary group. Only after their ship was completely destroyed and they were helpless did they think of trying their luck here." The Goddess of the Hearth said, lightly tapping her lips with her finger. "Hmm... if that's the case, this probably isn't the first time they've launched an attack with their ship badly damaged, right?"

"Huh? Not the first time?"

“Among the mercenary ship girls in resource-poor groups, this might be more common than I imagined…” The Vesta frowned, and finally shook her head helplessly. “Never mind, at least they have learned their lesson this time, and they and their mercenary groups certainly won’t dare to launch a heavily damaged attack again now.”

"……"noob.

As the female Kitchen Goddess finished speaking, she turned her gaze to the doorway outside the living room and muttered something under her breath, seemingly impatient.

"Hmm... why isn't the next ship girl here yet?"

Under the watchful eye of the goddess of the hearth, finally, a ship girl carefully walked into the living room from the outside, supporting herself against the wall.

"Sister Vestal Goddess—um, I'm next..." The ship girl seemed a little nervous, as it appeared to be her first time entering the Vestal Goddess's house alone.

"Great timing!" Before the ship girl could finish speaking, the female veil rushed over enthusiastically, grabbed the ship girl's hand, and pressed her down onto the sofa. Then, she asked the ship girl excitedly, "What's the status of your ship equipment?"

"Uh...I was attacked while fighting a deep-sea heavy cruiser..."

"Alright, alright, I got it! Quickly release the ship's equipment!" The Vesta impatiently pulled a gleaming, large file from her toolbox. "Let me see your ship's equipment, I'll give you a couple of file strokes!"

"Uh?"

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and take it out!"

"Eh..." The ship girl looked at the Vestal Goddess's burning and impatient gaze, feeling as if the Vestal Goddess's gaze was so blatant that it wanted to pierce through her body and drill directly into the depths of her body. Her face was burning hot, and for some reason she suddenly had a strange feeling, like being approached by a creepy uncle asking if she wanted to look at goldfish. She subconsciously hugged her shoulders and swallowed.

Why does it feel like... after not seeing her for an afternoon, the atmosphere around the Kitchen Goddess has suddenly changed a bit...?

Chapter 1686 Inviting the Next Victim

After connecting with Xiaobai through the Admiral Network, the Vesta's mindset seems to have changed somewhat.

Before connecting with Xiaobai's admiral network, Vesta wasn't particularly interested in repairing the ship equipment of the ship girls near her home. She treated the ship girls who came to visit her out of a sense of duty and instinct as a medical professional.

However, after connecting with Xiaobai through the admiral's network and obtaining the new skill "X-ray vision" through Xiaobai, the excitement and passion in Vestal's heart were instantly ignited by the novelty of obtaining the new skill, as it was the first time in her life that she had seen the internal structure of the ship's equipment with her own eyes.

When seeing off the two heavily damaged ship girls and welcoming the next wounded ship girl, Vestal showed far more attentiveness and enthusiasm than ever before.

"What? You were engaged in battle with a deep-sea heavy cruiser and were heavily damaged by its shelling? That's really bad! Quickly release your ship equipment so I can take a closer look!" The Vesta paced excitedly, urging the young ship girl sitting on the sofa with her arms tightly wrapped around her shoulders.

"Uh...okay...okay." Although the young ship girl was startled by the overly enthusiastic attitude of the Vestal Goddess, it wasn't her first time seeking medical treatment here, and she had great faith in the Vestal Goddess's medical skills. The young ship girl only hesitated for a moment before releasing her ship equipment to the Vestal Goddess.

A slightly damaged and charred light cruiser appeared before the Vesta.

"Sister Vestal, the main injury to my ship rigging is in the lower half, it's... Eh?!!" The young ship girl released her ship rigging, preparing to briefly describe her injury to Vestal so that Vestal could help her heal, but before she could finish speaking, she suddenly felt a cool sensation on her ship rigging.

The female hearth goddess approached the young ship girl from behind, pressing close to the somewhat tattered ship rigging. Her two cool, snow-white hands stroked and caressed the dark outer shell of the rigging.

"Hehehe... So this is what a light cruiser's rigging looks like... So this is what it looks like after being hit by a heavy cruiser's guns... This gap is so cute... Slurp!" The Vesta was drooling, practically pressing her face against the rigging. She chuckled and muttered to herself, her hands moving without slowing down, rubbing the rigging's outer shell tightly against her skin.

The ship equipment and the ship girl's body are connected to each other to some extent. The sensation of the goddess of the hearth touching the ship equipment will naturally be reflected in the body of the young ship girl to a certain extent.

The young ship girl let out a soft groan, gasped, and her snow-white cheeks flushed rapidly. She quickly squeezed her legs together, pressed her hands against the middle of her thighs, and her whole body stiffened and tensed up.

"Sister...Sister Kitchen Goddess?? What is this...?"

"I'm checking your ship equipment. Your ship equipment was attacked by a deep-sea heavy cruiser! It's so badly damaged. As a repair ship, of course I have to take responsibility to treat you!" The Vesta suddenly raised her head and looked at the young ship girl with a compassionate and selfless gaze.

The words of the goddess of the hearth are moving.

That is, if she can hide the drool dripping from the corner of her mouth.

"Uh... Sister, Vestal Goddess... Eh?!" The young ship girl twitched occasionally as she felt Vestal Goddess's merciless caresses. Her entire body was so sensitive that she couldn't even speak a coherent sentence. "But... but Sister Vestal Goddess... you, when I came last time, didn't you tell me that even being bombarded by battleships would only be a minor, minor injury for you...?"

"Battleship shelling is minor damage! But you were attacked by a heavy cruiser!"

"Huh?? The damage caused by battleships is actually greater than that of heavy cruisers... Huh?!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't move around, I'm checking your deck! It's hurting my eyes." The female Vesta said, her nimble little hands stroking and rubbing the young ship girl's rigging, her fingernails gently scratching along the gaps between the parts, causing the young ship girl to twist and turn on the sofa, resisting the strange sensations shared from the rigging.

"Sister...Sister Kitchen Goddess...when you treated me before, didn't you just...use a hammer to pound it and it would be fine? Why is it suddenly like this today..."

"During my long career in the repair shop, I discovered that there are limits to treating superficial wounds. The faster you treat a ship girl's equipment, the more likely she is to injure herself in the next sortie, unless you exceed that limit..."

"The goddess of the hearth? What are you talking about??"

"What I mean is, I not only want to treat the external wounds, but I also want to thoroughly understand the internal structure of the ship girls' equipment! I want to completely understand the internal structure of your equipment, fully comprehend the reason for your equipment being damaged, and then..." The Vess shouted as she stroking the ship girls' equipment with her hands, her eyes blazing with intense flames.

"Sister Vessel Goddess... I, I can't take it anymore... Please... please treat me the way you used to..." A blush quickly spread across the young ship girl's cheeks, her eyes soon becoming watery and misty. She covered her mouth, trying her best to prevent any strange sounds from escaping, and twitched slightly with each touch of the Vessel Goddess's caresses. "I... I might..."

"How can a ship girl say she's no good! You're my most promising patient! Just bear with it, just bear with it, once I've had my fill of seeing you... cough cough, once I've understood your pathology, then it'll be fine!" The voice of the female ship girl entered the young ship girl's ears without any restraint. "Hmm... this is the deck, this is the turret, oh ho ho... is this the ammunition depot? If that's the case, then the location of the power plant must be... hey! Take this!"

The goddess of the hearth swiftly reached into the young ship girl's rigging, bypassing several obstacles.

The young ship girl's eyes widened suddenly, her slightly trembling body stiffened abruptly, and her two misty eyes closed.

"Female...female Kitchen Goddess, ahh ...

A delicate and pitiful cry, uttered with all its might, instantly traveled from the living room into the hallway, and from the hallway's main entrance into the courtyard.

The ship girls who were having a lively discussion in the courtyard suddenly paused and fell silent.