Elder brother's garrison

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Several figures were at the entrance of the metal room.

Akagi Zuikaku sat with her legs drawn up, leaning against the door of the metal room. Beside her, besides the super-Yamato, was the blue Pachina, who nonchalantly released its land-based ship rigging, lazily stretching and sprawling on it. The massive rigging blocked the passageway in the middle.

"Pachina, Super Yamato." Xiaobai greeted the Deep Sea Deans, then looked towards the entrance with a smile, "...and Deep Sea Zuikaku."

"You're awake." The deep-sea Zuikaku, sitting in front of the door, looked at the person who came in, his numb expression flickering slightly, and nodded slightly.

"Hmm... Deep Sea Zuikaku, what's wrong with you...?"

"Monitoring," replied the Deep Sea Zuikaku calmly, maintaining his seated posture.

"Surveillance?"

“I asked her to do it,” Yamato Akami said from behind. “After all, someone has to keep an eye on Frederick the Great here. Zuikaku Akami said she could help monitor him, so I asked her to do it.”

“Oh…then what are Super Daiwa and Pachina…” Xiaobai looked at Super Daiwa.

When Chaoda first met Xiaobai, her face was full of surprise. When she saw Xiaobai looking over, she quickly stood up and said seriously, "Admiral, I'm helping."

"Oh~ So Pachina is one too?"

"Me? Hehe, I'm just bored, so I came to chat with some people." Pachina lay on the ship's rigging, propping his chin up, looking down at everyone with a mischievous smile. His white legs swung behind him, and the blue nail polish on his snow-white toes glittered. "After all, this city is much more boring than I imagined, isn't it? It's so dark."

Pachina was smiling when his gaze fell on Savoy behind Xiaobai, and his expression froze slightly.

"Tsk." Pachina turned her head and muttered under her breath, "I'm having really bad luck today."

"Pachina, that's really hurtful!" Savoy covered her mouth, feigning a pitiful expression. "After all, we'll be comrades from now on, you know?"

"Companion?" Pachina frowned deeply upon hearing this word, her face darkening as she looked at Xiaobai. "You took her into the naval base?"

"Uh... well..." Xiaobai looked embarrassed.

“…Hmph.” Pachina looked at Xiaobai’s expression and knew what had happened without asking. She snorted and turned around on the ship’s equipment, no longer looking at the others. “Land-based deep-sea equipment isn’t anything rare. Do you have to buy every single one you see? At least check the quality before you sell. At this rate, inflation is about to start.”

It seems that Ms. Pachina is unhappy about Xiaobai taking Savoy as a concubine.

I can only say it's understandable.

Xiaobai could only give an awkward smile.

“Zuikaku, Shiro wants to see Frederick the Great,” Yamato said to Zuikaku.

“…Hmm.” Fukami Zuikaku nodded, slowly stood up, and opened the door behind him.

"Thanks!" Yamato Fukami stepped forward and opened the door.

With a wheezing sound.

The door opens.

Xiao Bai peeked inside and saw that the room was dimly lit, cramped, and surprisingly similar in decor to the place where he had been lying before.

“While you were unconscious, Xiaobai, we would check on Frederick every now and then.” Yamato said as he walked into the room, then beckoned to Xiaobai, “Xiaobai, come in.”

Xiao Bai nodded and went into the room.

The deep-sea deans behind him, except for pachina who was sulking on the ship's equipment, all rushed in with Xiaobai.

The room was very small, only a dozen square meters in size. There was no furniture in the room except for a single bed with simple white bedding. A tall, voluptuous body lay quietly on the bed, as if it had blended into the darkness of the room.

Little White stepped toward the bed, getting closer.

As Xiaobai approached, the face of the person on the bed gradually became clearer; it was none other than Frederick the Great, whom they hadn't seen for a week.

Frederick the Great, draped in a long robe, stood calmly with his eyes gently closed, seemingly oblivious to the changes happening around him.

Xiao Bai looked at Frederick the Great's face for a while, and then, as if he had discovered something, he raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Hmm? Shiro, what's wrong?" Yamato asked curiously, noticing the change in Shiro's expression.

"Ah...where did this bed come from?" Xiaobai nodded and pointed with a smile to the bed under Frederick the Great.

"Oh~ this, it's the one that Super Yamato brought from the naval base." Deep Sea Yamato gave him a knowing look. "It's the one our naval base gives to the ship girls!"

"So these bedding and clothes are also..."

“They’re all from the naval base.” Yamato Fukami nodded. “After all, if Frederick the Great wakes up, we can’t let her think we’re mistreating prisoners, right?”

"really."

Xiaobai nodded as she gently sat on the edge of the bed. She raised her hand and brushed the hair from Frederick the Great's face, then touched his cheek, maintaining a serene smile as her gaze lingered on his face.

"Um... Xiaobai?" The Deep Sea Deans behind him looked at Xiaobai with curiosity. "What are you doing?"

"Ok?"

Why are you staring at Frederick?

"Of course, it's because I came here to see her in the first place."

"Well, that makes sense, but that staring look you're giving me..."

"It's just my imagination." Xiaobai laughed, looked at the crowd in front of her, and said slowly, "Um, could I be alone with Frederick for a while? I don't have much time, just about ten minutes."

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned.

Yamato and the others wanted to ask Shiro what he was going to do, but seeing Shiro's secretive expression, they realized they wouldn't get the answer. They looked at each other, nodded, and left the room.

"Xiaobai, shall we head out now?"

"You should spend time alone with her—"

"Admiral, be careful!"

As they spoke, they slowly closed the door.

As the door closed, the already dim light became even darker.

Xiao Bai withdrew his hand from Frederick the Great's neck, placed his hands on his lap, and quietly watched Frederick the Great.

The room was very quiet.

"..."

"..."

"……

"...Speaking of which, this is the first time I've ever seen you sleeping." Little White suddenly spoke from the darkness, "Well...but strictly speaking, I haven't really seen you sleeping, have I, Frederick?"

As Xiaobai's voice faded away.

at the same time.

Frederick the Great slowly opened his eyes on the bed.

In the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes emitted a faint glow.

Little White looked at those scarlet eyes and smiled at them.

"Your feigning sleep skills are probably on par with mine when I was eight years old."

Chapter 2190: Let me explain to everyone what it means to keep one's word.

After Xiaobai finished speaking, the room fell into a deathly silence.

In the darkness, only a pair of red eyes, emitting an eerie glow, remained quietly open, staring intently at Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai didn't meet Frederick the Great's gaze. Instead, he got up from the bedside, reached into the ship's equipment space, and pulled out a portable desk lamp.

There was a snap.

The table lamp was turned on, and the incandescent bulb illuminated the dark room.

Xiao Bai held up the desk lamp and approached the wall, bending down to examine the cracks on it.

The walls of the room where Frederick the Great was housed—or rather, where he was imprisoned—were riddled with cracks. Water seeped from the corners, making it seem as if a gentle poke could pierce the metal wall.

This is a common problem with buildings in deep-sea cities.

Buildings that have stood for too long and have been neglected will naturally appear dilapidated.

There were no tables or chairs in the room; the only furniture was the bed where Frederick the Great had been. Xiaobai had no choice but to place the lit lamp on the floor.

The downward shift of the light source made the already brightened house even dimmer, but the glaring light became softer and more comfortable than before.

"...How did you find out?"

Just as the lamp was placed, Frederick the Great's voice came from behind Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai turned around and saw Frederick the Great on the bed looking in his direction, his red eyes filled with calm.

Frederick the Great's voice initially sounded hoarse, as if his vocal cords were stuck together, but it gradually became clearer with a soft cough.

"Hmm?" Xiaobai walked back to the bedside. "What did you find? Did you find that Frederick was pretending to be asleep?"

"Yes," Frederick the Great replied.

"Well..." Xiaobai drawled, smiling as she held up a finger and said, "Judging from your appearance, Frederick, you really did a great job. Whether it was the frequency of your breathing during sleep, your body's reaction to external stimuli, or even the slightest movement of your eyeballs, you controlled it all so realistically that it was impossible to find any flaws."

"Why then?"

“I can tell from your mental state,” Xiaobai said to Frederick the Great, his hands behind his back.

Upon hearing Xiaobai's words, a hint of confusion flashed across Frederick the Great's eyes.

"Mental strength?"

"Yes."

"I know that my mental energy will give me away, so whenever someone comes in here, I hide my mental energy and don't let any of it out."

"That's why." Xiaobai smiled slightly. "When I entered the room, I used my mental energy to search it, but strangely, even after searching the entire room, I couldn't sense any trace of mental energy from you, Frederick."

"Is not it good?"

"Of course it's bad. You know, you're the Dean of the Deep Sea, the one with the strongest mental power in the entire Deep Sea City. Even in a coma, your mental power shouldn't be so weak. Plus, when I went to the Black Tower to find you before, you often displayed a statue-like state in front of me, without revealing a trace of mental power, just like today. That's why I suddenly thought of the possibility that you've actually woken up and are just pretending to be asleep to deceive us. Thinking of this, I tried it out. Just now, when I was stroking your cheek, I let a trace of my mental power, which contained my aura, seep into your body. Guess what happened? My mental power wasn't blocked at all from beginning to end. This only happens to ordinary people without mental power, or to my closest relatives. Obviously, you're neither of those. That's why I'm convinced that you've been awake for a long time and have been suppressing your mental power."

"..."

After hearing Xiaobai's explanation, Frederick the Great fell silent.

Frederick the Great never imagined that her exposure would be due to his own over-the-top intervention.

Frederick the Great frowned, seemingly learning a lesson from this experience.

Just then, a rustling sound rang out in front of her.

Frederick the Great turned his head and saw Little White take out a transparent plastic bag from his ship's equipment space and hand it to him.

The plastic bag Xiaobai handed over contained a square brown object. The object looked somewhat soft, and even though Xiaobai's fingers didn't grip it tightly, there was a noticeable indentation on the brown object through the transparent plastic.

"This is?"

"This is called bread, it's food for us humans." Little White waved his hand and smiled at Frederick the Great, "Frederick, you haven't eaten anything since you woke up, have you? This is your portion."

"..."

Frederick the Great silently looked at the bread Xiaobai offered, seemingly reluctant to accept it. But seeing Xiaobai's ever-present smile, after hesitating for a moment, she slowly reached out and took it.

swipe-

The sound of fabric rubbing against each other came from the bed.

Frederick the Great slowly propped herself up and sat up in bed. She looked down at the bread in her hand and the plastic wrapping around it. Although this was something she had never seen before, she still tore open the plastic wrapping on a whim, took out the bread, and took a small bite.

Frederick the Great chewed without expression.

Xiao Bai stared at Frederick the Great's face for a while, then took out another piece of bread from its ship equipment space and quickly ate it.

Beings like Frederick the Great and Little White don't actually need to eat as long as their ship equipment still has energy.

However, Frederick the Great's ship equipment had been damaged in the last battle, and during the time she was conscious, she did not absorb deep-sea energy to repair it (if she had, Yamato and the others would have definitely noticed). Therefore, the deep-sea ship equipment remained damaged, and it could not supply enough energy to her body. She needed to eat extra to replenish some biological energy. In other words, Frederick the Great had been starving for a week. If Xiaobai had appeared a few days later, Frederick the Great might have starved herself to death in bed.

As for Xiaobai, she doesn't have any need for energy; she simply finds happiness in eating.

After finishing the bread, the room returned to silence.

Xiao Bai neatly folded the non-degradable plastic packaging and put it back into the ship's equipment space.

"Is it delicious?" Xiaobai asked.

"Hmm." Frederick the Great said expressionlessly.

"anything else?"

"Need not."