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"Uh... I didn't come here to play... Even if you hand me a menu, I..." The Vesta subconsciously took the menu from the ship girls, and was about to say that she had other things to do when her eyes fell on the prices of the drinks on the menu, and her eyes widened immediately, "What?! A glass of ice water costs forty yuan! Iced juice costs thirty yuan! Why is ice water more expensive than juice?!"
"Oh, Sister Goddess of the Hearth, feel free to order whatever you like! It's on me!"
"Huh? Is that alright?" The female Kitchen Goddess was instantly captivated by the words "treat" and lost her senses. However, just as she was about to agree, she saw Little White sitting next to her, snapped back to reality, and quickly shook her head. "No, no, no... forget it, forget it, even if you treat me to ice water, I won't be happy... listen to me."
The goddess of the hearth put down the menu, composed herself, and addressed the ship girls.
"I came here to find someone."
"Looking for someone?" The ship girls were all taken aback. "Which sister are you looking for?"
"Her name is Mutsu, you should know her, right?" the goddess of the hearth said to the ship girls.
"Ah... Mutsu-neechan..." The ship girls looked at each other, a hint of realization on their faces. They nodded obediently to the goddess of the hearth. "Yes, we know her! She's that battleship ship girl, right?"
In the fan-made ship girl community, where small and medium-sized ships are overwhelmingly numerous, a battleship ship girl like Mutsu is like the brightest star. Even if she just stays in a corner and does nothing, she will become the center of attention of all ship girls because of her noble status.
"That's right! It's her!" The Vesta nodded quickly, then glanced at Little White beside her, and pointed at Little White in front of all the ship girls, "My friend here wants to find her. Does any of you know where she is now?"
"Who is this...?" The ship girls turned their curious gazes toward Shiro.
"Ah, I recognize her! She's another medical ship girl who appeared at Sister Vessel's house a few days ago! She even helped the two sisters heal their heavily damaged Attack!" Several ship girls looked at Xiaobai's face and suddenly became excited.
"So it's the second female hearth goddess!" Upon hearing this, the ship girls cast admiring glances at them.
"Ha...haha..." Xiaobai laughed awkwardly. She really didn't know that her image had changed like this in the eyes of the ship girls in just a few days. "Um...do you know how to contact Ms. Mutsu? Um...she helped me before, and I want to apologize to her in person."
In the fan community of Kantai Collection (KanColle), the Goddess of the Hearth truly holds a god-like status. Now, because of Xiaobai's performance at the Goddess of the Hearth's house a few days ago, she seems to have been gilded as well, possessing a noble persona and image, and enjoying almost the same treatment as the Goddess of the Hearth.
and so.
When Shiro and Vestal were in the dilapidated writing bar, which was then called the Vestal Fan Club, and asked other people if they could meet their fan Mutsu, none of the ship girls present thought it was a bad thing for Mutsu.
Naturally, the ship girls didn't hide anything.
For a while.
Inside the bar, the ship girls rushed forward one after another, raising their little hands, knowing full well what was going on and eagerly anticipating the event.
"I know I know!"
"I know him! I know him!"
"I've seen it! I've seen it!"
"..."
The ship girls chatted excitedly, afraid of falling behind.
"Take your time, take your time!" The goddess of the hearth raised her hand, pushing back the excited group of ship girls. "We'll talk to them one by one, everyone gets a turn!"
Chapter 1729 Homebody Mutsu
It has to be said that the celebrity effect is really useful when gathering information.
Now, Shiro and the Kitchen Goddess are like internet celebrities with millions of followers posting for help on social media. In an instant, countless fans go all out, asking questions without reservation. Their search speed is like a ruthless human machine, digging up all the information about Mutsu and presenting it to the two of them.
However, the number of fans of the Goddess of the Hearth has not truly reached the million level yet; that was just an exaggeration.
In reality, at this point in time, there were only a little over a hundred ship girls in the entire bar. The information they provided to Shiro and Vestal was limited to what Mutsu had shown and said to the other ship girls when she came to the bar.
Amidst the scattered information shared by the ship girls, Shiro and Vestal pieced together a relatively complete picture of Mutsu.
Mutsu is a battleship girl who recently joined the Kyoto fan community of ship girls.
Because most ship girls in the ship girl community agree not to actively inquire about the names of other people's mercenary groups, and Mutsu herself has never revealed her origins, no one knows Mutsu's affiliation. However, ship girls occasionally sense a high level of training and the aura of a battle-hardened warrior emanating from Mutsu. Furthermore, given that Mutsu is a rare and powerful battleship, it's easy to guess that her background is extraordinary.
Mutsu is a friendly ship girl. After joining the Kyoto community of ship girls and arriving at this bar, Mutsu quickly became very popular. After getting to know everyone, Mutsu asked other ship girls to take her to see the Vestal, as she didn't know where the Vestal lived.
At first, the ship girls found Mutsu's request strange because Mutsu's ship equipment was not damaged and she did not need to go to the Vestal for treatment. So even though everyone did not have any ill feelings towards this battleship ship girl, the ship girls refused Mutsu with reasons such as doing so would cause trouble for the already busy Vestal sister, and it would be better to wait until next time she needed to take her.
Mutsu was neither upset nor disappointed by the rejection.
The ship girls thought that was the end of the matter.
But it happened the next day.
The ship girls who went to the Vestal Goddess's house for treatment were surprised to find that Mutsu, whose ship equipment was intact yesterday, appeared in the Vestal Goddess's courtyard with a smile on her face, bearing injuries she didn't know she had gotten from somewhere, and greeted the ship girls with a beaming smile.
From that day on, Mutsu became a frequent visitor to the house of the female hearth goddess.
Mutsu is always the first to arrive at the bar when it opens, following the first batch of ship girls to Vestal's house. She then shamelessly sits there all day. Vestal's clinic is closed, or after she leaves Vestal's house, she returns to the bar to watch the ship girls chat until the bar closes. Mutsu is always the last to leave.
As the ship girls talked, they all started to show strange expressions.
It was only then that they suddenly realized that Mutsu, the ship girl, really had quite a few strange traits. Moreover, Mutsu, who usually spent all her time at the bar, had disappeared for the entire day, and they had no idea where she had gone.
The report came to an end.
When the Vess and Shiro asked if any of the ship girls knew Mutsu's phone number or address, the ship girls present hesitated for a long time before one of them finally raised her hand and told Shiro and the Vess that she had happened to see Mutsu in a nearby residential area very late at night.
That's all the information I have.
For an ordinary person, hearing this wouldn't help them find Mutsu's residence, but for Xiaobai, this was crucial information. Xiaobai asked the ship girl who raised her hand, and learned from her about the neighborhood where Mutsu had been. Satisfied, she stood up, bowed deeply to thank the ship girls present, and left the bar with Vestal.
Although the ship girls in the bar were all fervent fans of Vestal, they seemed to know that they should only enter Vestal's clinic and not disturb her life. After Vestal and Shiro left the bar, the ship girls simply saw them off and watched them leave without following them.
Xiaobai and the Vessus arrived at the neighborhood that the ship girls had mentioned before.
In the residential areas of Kyoto, most of the buildings are high-rise buildings, often ten or twenty stories high, with beautiful and towering elevators. Xiaobai and the Kitchen Goddess stood at the entrance of the residential area, looking up at the high-rise buildings that were close together in the neighborhood.
"What should we do? Mutsu has never told anyone where she lives." The female hearth goddess turned her gaze away from the skyscrapers and looked at Shiro with some helplessness. "There are so many buildings here, each with so many floors, and so many rooms on each floor. If we search one by one, how long will it take us..."
"Haha...it shouldn't take long to find it." Xiao Bai couldn't help but laugh when he heard what the female stove god said.
"Do you have any idea?"
"Hmm...I guess so." Xiao Bai nodded, turned his head to look at the female hearth goddess who was staring at him curiously, and smiled slightly. "Female hearth goddess, please wait a moment."
Little White closed its eyes.
The female hearth goddess looked at Little White with curiosity.
next second.
Something happened that left the female Kitchen Goddess speechless.
The network of the admiral spread out from Xiaobai's body, expanding and expanding until it swelled up like a net, spreading in all directions and engulfing the neighborhood like a flood, turning into an ocean that surged endlessly.
The goddess of the hearth stared wide-eyed at Little White.
A few minutes later.
The rhythm of the admiral's network surging out of Xiao Bai's body suddenly stopped, then flowed back into Xiao Bai's body with a whooshing sound, and in the blink of an eye, it shrank back into Xiao Bai's body.
"Hmm, found it." Little White turned around with a smile, only to find the Goddess of the Hearth staring at him with her mouth agape in astonishment. "Goddess of the Hearth? What's wrong?"
"You..." The female kitchen god hesitated, wanting to say something to Xiaobai. She opened her mouth, looking at Xiaobai's innocent and pure expression, but didn't know what to say. In the end, she could only lower her head and sigh, "Sigh...no, it's nothing..."
"Miss Mutsu's location is roughly over there." Shiro tiptoed, pointed in a direction, and said to the goddess of the hearth, "Although I don't know which building or room Miss Mutsu is in yet, I know the general direction. I should be able to find her if I go there."
"Hmm..." The goddess of the hearth nodded with a strange expression.
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Xiao Bai and the female stoveman walked into the residential area, went to a building, took the elevator to the tenth floor, and finally arrived at the door of an apartment.
"Is this the place?" asked the goddess of the hearth.
"Hmm. Probably." Xiaobai nodded.
"Hmm... I didn't expect Mutsu to be living so well in Kyoto..." The female kitchen god stammered for a moment, looking at the clean corridor and the tidy security door, and muttered.
Compared to the dilapidated house in the small town where the goddess of the hearth lived, the building where Mutsu lived was clearly affluent, both in terms of its quality and location, which made the goddess of the hearth quite envious.
“Miss Mutsu probably doesn’t live in Kyoto permanently,” Shiro said.
"Eh? Isn't it?"
“Well, she’s a ship girl… and there aren’t any Abyssal Fleet ships for her to fight in Kyoto. And this house…” Xiaobai said, lifting the “Fu” character decoration on the door to reveal a “For Rent” notice underneath. “Ah… it’s rented after all.”
"Tch, so it was rented too." The Kitchen Goddess, upon hearing this, let out a relieved sound, as if everyone was a poor wretch.
"However, the rent here is also quite high. When I passed by downstairs just now, I saw that the rent for several rooms was in the five figures."
“…Five, five figures…” The female kitchen god was startled. She lowered her head and started counting on her fingers how many years she could live in this house with her 700,000 yuan savings. After calculating for a while, she stared at the iron gate in front of her with wide eyes, “Isn’t this still a tycoon?”
“Miss Mutsu shouldn’t be short of money, right…” Shiro smiled at the goddess of the hearth.
Judging from Xiaobai's interaction with Mutsu yesterday, Mutsu seems to be a very capable woman, both as a ship girl and as an individual in human society. At least from this perspective, she will not lack ways to make money.
Xiao Bai raised her hand and pressed the doorbell.
The ringing sound rang in the room for a few seconds.
Then, a series of light footsteps sounded behind the door.
There was a click.
The door lock opens.
"Come on~"
A soft response was heard, and the door was pushed open.
Wearing only a loose white shirt on her upper body, Mutsu, with her two smooth, snow-white legs raised, pushed open the door like a spring breeze. She leaned forward and pulled the doorknob, like a newlywed wife welcoming her husband who had worked hard all day, and called out to the two people outside the door with a smile.
The voice, so alluring and charming, made the female Kitchen Goddess tremble and instinctively put her arms around her shoulders.
"Miss Mutsu, it's been a day, how are you?" Shiro greeted Mutsu with a cheerful smile.
"Oh my, it really is you, little sister." Mutsu didn't seem surprised by the little white dog and the female stove god in front of the door. She kept her little finger on the doorknob, smiled at the little white dog, and then moved her gaze to the female stove god next to the little white dog. She then pressed her hand to her chest and bowed slightly to the female stove god. "And female stove god sister, welcome to your arrival, sister."
Chapter 1730 The Reason for Mutsu (4000 words)
Mutsu remained all smiles, her expression showing no surprise at the arrival of the goddess of the hearth and Shiro.
"...You don't seem surprised at all by our arrival." The goddess of the hearth looked at Mutsu, who bowed respectfully to her, and asked with a puzzled expression, "What? Was our visit something you expected?"
"Not at all, not at all." Mutsu shook his head with a smile. "Although I did think that the goddess of the hearth might be concerned about where I went today, I am still quite surprised that you, the goddess of the hearth, would suddenly come to visit me, since I have never told anyone else where I am staying in Kyoto."
"You have a great attitude."
"The reason I didn't lose my composure in front of you two is simply because I felt a very strong gaze when I was at home just now." Mutsu said, smiling as he looked at Shiro. "There was a familiar aura in that gaze, which just happened to be yours, the little sister I met yesterday, right?"
"Ah...it's me."
Xiaobai nodded quickly and gave Mutsu an embarrassed smile.
Upon arriving at the residential area, in order to quickly and accurately locate Mutsu's position among the buildings, Xiaobai briefly used the search function of his Admiral Network. Xiaobai had used this function a few times before when he was forced to. Simply put, Xiaobai's Admiral Network's search function is like a convenient radar specifically designed to detect ship girls and admirals with spiritual power.
The reason why Xiaobai rarely used this ability before is mainly because the search intensity and search range of the radar are directly proportional to the amount of mental effort Xiaobai puts in. If Xiaobai's admiral network is too "forceful", the concealment will not be able to be done well, and some sensitive ship girls within the search range will be aware of it. For strangers, this is a rather impolite behavior.
It's possible that while Xiaobai was conducting a large-scale search of this neighborhood, Mutsu, who was at home, reacted to Xiaobai's Admiral Network. Based on the aura emanating from Xiaobai's Admiral Network, and considering the events that had occurred with Xiaobai in the past few days, he deduced that Xiaobai and the Vesta Goddess had come to visit.
Perhaps... Mutsu is just the kind of ship girl with keen senses.
"Um, I'm sorry, because I really don't know your exact location, Miss Mutsu... so..." Shiro apologized to Mutsu.
"No need to apologize. In the end, it's my fault for leaving without saying goodbye to Sister Goddess of the Hearth and Little Sister." Mu'ao said nonchalantly. In front of Shiro and Sister Goddess of the Hearth, she gently pushed the door and smiled at them, "Well... since Sister Goddess of the Hearth and Little Sister are here, why don't you come in and sit for a while?"
"Ah... then I'll take my leave of you." Shiro said to Mutsu with a smile.
Shiro and the goddess of the hearth entered Mutsu's house.
Mutsu's house was also empty—but the emptiness in Mutsu's house was different from the emptiness of the female hearth goddess because of poverty. Mutsu's house gave people a sense of emptiness as if they had just moved in or were about to move out. Only the sound of the TV playing an evening drama came from the living room, and the sound echoed faintly in the empty room.
"Speaking of which, why did you suddenly leave without saying goodbye yesterday? And you haven't come to my clinic all day today. I thought something had happened to you..." The female Kitchen Goddess walked into the room and muttered to Mutsu, who was guarding the door like a lucky cat.
"Thank you for your concern, Sister Vestal. I'm fine." Mutsu was a little stunned after hearing the Vestal's words. She seemed surprised that the Vestal would care about her. After a moment, she smiled gently and bowed slightly to the Vestal before explaining, "The reason I left without saying goodbye yesterday was because after seeing how powerful you were, Sister Vestal. None of the ship girls present could withstand a single blow from you. I felt that the mission was successfully completed, and staying there would only hinder your operations. So I found an opportunity not to disturb you and left."
"Huh? What kind of strange statement is that? Are you a ninja?"
“She’s a ninja.” Mutsu raised his hand, pinched his cat paw, and scratched at the goddess of the hearth.
"..." The goddess of the hearth looked at Mutsu with a helpless expression, "So why didn't you go to my clinic today like you usually do..."
"Ah... about this." Mutsu slowly lowered his hand, quietly looked at the goddess of the hearth and Shiro for a while, and smiled at the two of them with a relaxed expression. "The reason I didn't go to the goddess of the hearth today... is because I had no reason to go."
"No reason?" The goddess of the hearth and Shiro were drawn to Mutsu's words. "What do you mean by 'no reason'?"
"Hmm...it's a long story." Mutsu didn't seem to be hiding anything. She raised a finger and tapped it on her chin, then smiled and pointed to the living room behind her. "Well, it's really impolite to have you two standing at the door like this. Why don't you come with me to the living room for a bit? I'll explain everything to you properly."
"Oh...that's fine too." The Kitchen Goddess and Little White nodded.
Mutsu led the goddess of the hearth and Shiro into the living room.
In Mutsu's living room, an LCD screen is embedded in the wall, playing an evening TV series. On the coffee table are several opened beer cans, as well as several opened bags of spicy strips and potato chips.