Elder brother's garrison

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The old office hall used to feel empty and deserted because it was almost unrenovated, but when people returned after a few months, they found that it had completely changed.

Compared to the previously empty space, the hall now has many newly built areas. The decoration between these areas is a simple yet high-end European style, with carefully selected furniture neatly arranged. Murals, carpets, and various objects fill all the visual gaps. The floor-to-ceiling windows in the distance remain the same, but now there is a long curtain that can be opened and closed, giving people a wonderful feeling of warmth and home.

"Wow... so the Admiral has been working in a place like this all along!" As soon as Roma entered, her pouting lips immediately deflated. She looked around in surprise, "Wow wow wow wow... this environment is just too good!"

“Indeed, the renovation is very well done. It used to be quite ordinary, but now it looks much more luxurious.” Xiaobai looked around and smiled at everyone. “Well, that’s perfect. I’m going to the office area in the lobby to look at some work documents. You guys can just relax and have some fun here. Just treat it like a naval base and don’t be too reserved.”

"Oh, thank you, Admiral!"

The company raised its arms high, pulling the other ship girls along as they happily called out.

From now on, the office hall in Chapter Eight will also be considered Xiaobai's second home.

Xiao Bai arrived at the office area and found his desk. He saw that the original desks had been replaced with styles that better matched the decor, and work documents and office supplies were neatly arranged there.

Xiao Bai picked up the documents on the table, flipped through them, sat down, and started copying them down quickly with a pen.

While Shiro was handling her work, the ship girls strolled around Shiro's office as if on an adventure.

The office hall itself covers an area of ​​over a thousand square meters. After a series of renovations and zoning, it now includes many accommodation areas, dining areas, exhibition areas, and entertainment areas. The entertainment area is further subdivided into a dance hall, game room, internet cafe, small swimming pool, small basketball court, badminton court, and so on. Rather than an office hall, it has now become more like a playground for the ship girls.

As Xiaobai sat at her desk processing documents, she could always hear the ship girls laughing and joking outside.

Xiao Bai put down his pen and thought for a while.

Ok.

It's time to find an opportunity to ask Miss Yingying to add some soundproofing to the office area.

Add the accommodation area as well.

Maybe I'll need it someday.

Chapter 3478 Rose Bush

In fact, with Xiaobai's concentration and the ability to multitask that she has honed over the years in the office, let alone the ordinary playful noises of the ship girls, even if her office were moved to a construction site where people don't leave until 6 pm, Xiaobai could ensure that her work efficiency would not be affected in the slightest.

It's just...

This is, after all, the office of the chairman. Even if I am not affected by environmental factors, it would be a bit unreasonable if it didn't even have a decent soundproofing function.

After all, this place may not necessarily be used as an office in the future.

Not just for yourself, but for others too...

Xiao Bai rested his chin on one hand, listening to the sounds outside with a smile, while imagining the future, and writing furiously on the documents on the table with the other hand.

"Admiral... are you there?"

As Xiao Bai was looking at the documents Luo Yingying handed over, he had just finished writing a few pages of a guild overview report to be submitted to the Admiral's Headquarters when, with a creak, the office door was gently pushed open a crack.

Changchun cautiously peeked out from behind.

"Oh, Changchun, you're here." Xiaobai looked up and smiled in Changchun's direction, her ballpoint pen still moving in her hand, as if her head and body had their own thoughts. "What's up? Come in quickly."

"Um... Admiral, won't the noise outside disturb your work?" Changchun glanced behind her, then gently pushed the office door open a little wider before stepping inside. She closed the door tightly behind her and carefully stood at a distance against the wall, asking Xiaobai with concern, "Well, if the Admiral wants to work in peace, I'll go and move Sister Roma and the others to another room..."

Xiao Bai was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then smiled slightly.

"So that's what it was about... Thank you, Changchun, but it's alright, you see."

After saying that, Xiaobai picked up a document that he had just finished writing and showed it to Changchun.

The documents in Xiaobai's hands were written neatly and meticulously, showing no signs of being affected.

Changchun looked at Xiaobai's documents from afar, and then breathed a sigh of relief, gently patting her chest and smiling at Xiaobai.

"I can rest assured that!"

"Oh, by the way, how are things going between Rome and Littorio?" Xiaobai put down the documents and called out to Changchun, who was about to leave.

“Miss Littorio?” Changchun took her hand off the doorknob, thought for a moment, and said to Xiaobai, “The ones having the most fun outside are Enterprise and Roma. Miss Littorio was just wandering around the office hall with her doll, but Veneto stayed by her side the whole time. She talked to Littorio about a lot of things, introduced the information about the naval base for a long time, and even said that she would give her the main gun that she had maintained for many years, so that if anyone bullies her in the future, she can directly use Veneto’s main gun to fight back.”

"Veneto really said that?" Xiaobai stopped writing.

"Absolutely true." Changchun nodded.

"..." Xiaobai put down her pen, looked at the wall beside her, and her expression was somewhat sentimental.

Xiaobai now knows Veneto quite well. This Veneto... although she looks cute, she always appears mature and dignified in the newbie garrison. She rarely shows excessive concern for others. Even with Rome and the Empire, who are her sisters, Veneto's affection for them is very subtle.

Xiao Bai really didn't expect that Veneto, who was like this, would actually tell Littorio that he would give her his 381-class main gun.

The main gun is the lifeblood of a battleship girl.

Some battleship girls cherish their main guns so much that they even wear pajamas every night and hug the main guns like pillows, sleeping with their legs between them.

Although Veneto is not an extreme battleship girl, she usually takes good care of her main guns and performs gun barrel maintenance every now and then.

It seems that Veneto is quite satisfied with his new sister, Littorio.

Is this the mutual appreciation between two "small-sized" battleship girls?

Thinking of this, Xiao Bai found Veneto quite adorable and suddenly chuckled.

"Admiral?" Changchun chuckled as he watched Xiaobai from a distance, then asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing... Changchun, come here." Xiaobai smiled and shook her head, then waved to Changchun.

"Oh..." Changchun walked up and stopped in front of Xiaobai's desk. "Does the Admiral need help?"

“Go tell the people outside that they should treat this place as part of the naval base from now on,” Xiaobai said. “Let them play around as they please, don’t mind me… um… speaking of which, we’ll need this place sooner or later anyway, so for convenience, you and Chaoda can pick a small room in the corner and convert it into a teleportation anchor room.”

"Ah! I understand!" Changchun's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing Xiaobai's words. "Then I'll go find Chaoda and my sister right now!"

"Thank you for your hard work," Xiaobai said.

"This level of difficulty is not hard at all. I'm happy to be able to help the Admiral!" Changchun waved happily, turned around, said goodbye to Xiaobai, and ran away from the office.

The office door opened and closed repeatedly.

Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief. She continued to focus her attention on the relevant documents of the Admiral's Guild in her hands and buried herself in processing them.

Speaking of the Admiral's Guild's documents... Although I have been away from the Admiral's Guild for nearly three months, during these three months, Luo Yingying really did arrange everything in the Admiral's Guild in an orderly manner, just as the ship girls said, and it operated without any problems.

As expected of Miss Yingying.

With her outstanding work ability, she could easily become the leader of a guild in a certain chapter, right?

Sigh, it's really beneath her to be my subordinate.

We have no choice but to give her a raise.

As Xiaobai pondered this, she put aside the few documents she had quickly processed.

The rustling sound in the office continued for a while, and then the office door was gently pushed open a crack.

Xiaobai thought Changchun had returned. She was smiling and looking up to greet him when she saw a delicate little girl standing at the office door, holding a cat doll and wearing a black and white shawl dress.

"Littorio?" Xiaobai asked in surprise.

“Hmm.” Littorio looked at Little White, who nodded, then hugged the doll in her arms and continued to look around at her surroundings.

"……"noob.

Littorio walked into the office, circled around in front of Xiaobai, and looked at the office decor, bookshelves, and desk.

"Um... Littorio? Is there something you need from me...?" Xiaobai asked curiously, seeing that Littorio didn't seem to be going to talk to her.

After hearing what Xiaobai said, Littorio turned his attention back to Xiaobai.

“I’m fine,” Littorio said.

"Huh? So you're here because..."

“Didn’t the Admiral just tell Miss Changchun to tell the others that we should treat this place as our own home?” Littorio said to Xiaobai. “Just as the Admiral said, I’m observing my home. I’ve looked around the outside, and now this office is the only place I haven’t looked at yet.”

"Ah... I see..."

"Doesn't the Admiral welcome me?" Littorio tilted her head, her thick, wine-red hair rustling as she moved.

"No, you're welcome, you're welcome." Xiaobai smiled. "You can watch it if you want."

"..." Littorio looked at Little White, tightened her grip on the doll, and a hint of approval appeared in her emerald green eyes. "Admiral, you are a man of your word."

"Thank you for the compliment." Xiao Bai smiled. "Speaking of which, you've now basically toured the entire office lobby, right? How did it feel?"

“This is a very nice place, and the desserts in the dining area are quite good,” Littorio said. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the coffee machine I was looking for.”

"Ah...then I'll ask Miss Yingying to get a coffee machine next time, and put it over there in the dining area," Xiaobai said.

“Admiral, true ladies don’t know how to use a coffee machine themselves,” Littorio said.

"Um... then, should I hire someone?"

“Admiral, perhaps we could put a vending machine over there. I heard from Veneto that there seems to be a simple canned coffee in this world,” Littorio said. “That way, drinking coffee would be quicker and more convenient, and it wouldn’t bother anyone else.”

"...You're not picky at all."

“Not causing trouble for others is also one of the principles of a lady,” Littorio said proudly, holding his cat plush toy.

"I think I understand why Veneto likes you so much now." Xiaobai looked at Littorio and smiled. "Speaking of which, what about Veneto? I heard she wanted to give you her main gun, did you accept?"

“Of course not,” Littorio replied.

"Oh?"

"A lady never steals what another loves."

"...Wait, I thought it should be 'gentleman'..."

“They’re pretty much the same, aren’t they?” Littorio said. “As for why Veneto didn’t come in with me, it’s because she just saw Rome and the Empire heading to the gym, and she told me she wanted to go check it out, so I ended up alone.”

"I see." Xiaobai nodded.

Littorio nodded, then walked over to Little White with the doll in her arms, standing right next to her without any hesitation, and glanced down at the documents on the table.

Littorio had a fresh floral scent. Although it wasn't as dreamy as Akagi's scent, when she got close, Xiaobai immediately felt like a gentle breeze blowing through a rose bush.

Chapter 3479 Veneto is still alone in the end.

"Are you interested in this?" Xiaobai smiled and asked when she saw Littorio staring at the documents on the table.

“If the Admiral needs any help, I can lend a hand,” Littorio said, turning his gaze back to Xiaobai.

"Hmm? So you also handle official business?"

"Not at all."

"Then what you just said..."

“A true lady will not refuse a request for help, nor will she shy away from unknown knowledge and experience,” Littorio said, shaking his head in a delicate voice.

"……"noob.

Xiao Bai always felt that the "lady" that Littorio mentioned seemed to differ somewhat from the widely recognized image of a lady in the world.

but……

Xiao Bai couldn't help but smile when he saw Littorio's matter-of-fact expression.

Well, it seems that this kind of lady-like demeanor isn't so bad after all.

pretty good.

“Thanks, Littorio, but I can manage this,” Little White said.

"Are there this many files here every day?" Littorio didn't answer Xiaobai, but continued to ask him.

"Um... there are relatively few today," Xiaobai replied, glancing at the documents on the table.

“The work of an admiral is anything but ladylike.” Upon hearing this, Littorio lowered his head slightly, an indescribable sense of loss appearing in his emerald green eyes. “If I were to be an admiral, dealing with so much work every day to support another large group of carefree girls, I would not be willing.”

"Thank you... You're so understanding," Xiaobai said to Littorio. "But actually, this isn't the Admiral's job, it's the Guild Master's job."

"Is the admiral's job easier than this?"

"Seventy-three split?"

"Then I'd be even less inclined to become an admiral."

"Haha, it's nothing, it's nothing." Xiaobai laughed. She thought for a moment, then took out a box of strawberries from her ship equipment space and handed it to Littorio. "Since you just sympathized with me, you can have these strawberries."

Littorio held the doll under his arm and took the strawberry box from Xiaobai with both hands.

Littorio glanced down at the square box of strawberries in her hand. There were only nine strawberries inside, but each one was round, plump, and bright red, as big as an egg or a ruby.

Littorio looked up at Little White.