Elder brother's garrison

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At least Veneto's embrace can't be as intoxicating and satisfying as Missouri or Lexington, but at least Veneto has the comfort and softness of a hard seat on a train.

As for terms like steel plate, file, washboard, flat plain, desperate airport, and the largest and widest plain in human history, those are all utter slander.

This is indeed the truth.

However, as mentioned at the beginning, the opportunity for ship girls to master skills is sometimes so unpredictable; when the feeling comes, it's completely unreasonable.

After being brutally knocked unconscious by Xiaobai, Roma lay in Veneto's arms, and in that soft, broad bosom, he actually found the opportunity to activate his skill. The most amazing thing was that it worked exceptionally well, allowing Roma to seize the rare opportunity and activate his skill.

It's really gratifying, gratifying and congratulatory.

In the quiet training ground.

With trembling hands, Veneto reached under Roma's armpits and, in front of everyone, dragged the unconscious Roma to his feet.

"The skill has been activated...?" Veneto's voice was utterly calm.

Veneto let out a soft breath.

"Alright. Speaking of which, Rome, you just finished an exercise with the Admiral, and you're still covered in grime from the Admiral's bombing. This is a rare opportunity, let me help you wash up."

"...Big...Big Sister...?" Roma was dragged up from the ground by Veneto. She groggily raised her head, her consciousness beginning to clear. "Huh? Big Sister, what are you doing here—Waaaaaaahh ...

Before she could finish speaking in Roman, she suddenly felt a tremendous force coming from under her armpits. Then, with a dizzying sensation, she was pulled off the ground by centrifugal force and spun around like a windmill on the ground.

A swift gust of wind suddenly spread outwards from Rome and Veneto in all directions.

The strong winds instantly roused Rome from its semi-conscious state.

"Waaaaaahh ...

"Ahhh, stop it! I...I'm so dizzy, boss!"

"I'm going to throw up!! I really, really want to throw up—"

"Ugh ugh ugh ugh"

As Veneto spun rapidly, Rome quickly transformed into a dark green millstone right before everyone's eyes, and screams from Rome echoed from within the "millstone."

"Rome!! You give me that!!!" Veneto's voice, filled with murderous intent and clenched teeth, rang out from the windmill. Then, Veneto stomped his foot hard on the ground, shouting as he swung the fully-spinned Rome towards the sea, and hurled it away with a vengeance. "Go and wake up in the sea!!!"

The strength of the ship girls is incredible.

In an instant, Rome's figure shot out like a green bullet from Veneto's two-handed sword towards the sea. Amidst increasingly distant shouts, it transformed into a tiny green dot in everyone's eyes, completely merging with the sunlight before gently disappearing into the horizon.

"Ha...ha..." Veneto, who had just fired the Roman-style human cannon, held the throwing gesture, bent over, and gasped for breath.

"Uh... Veneto..." Little White stared blankly at Veneto's retreating figure. She was stunned for a long time before she could speak, "You...you..."

“…” Veneto straightened her back silently, stretched out her arm and rubbed her face, then revealed a peaceful and serene smile, turned to look at Xiaobai, “Admiral, that’s great.”

"Huh? What's so great?"

"It seems your exercise, Admiral, did indeed work on Rome, helping them unlock their skills." Veneto crossed his arms and bowed slightly to Xiaobai. "Please allow me to express my heartfelt gratitude to you, Admiral."

"……???"noob.

"Huh? No matter how you look at it, you're the one who helped your sister activate the skill, right?" Yubari tilted his head and spoke up, watching from the side.

"Hahaha, how could that be? It was clearly the admiral's exercise that had an effect."

"Huh? But Rome was just 'duang, duang, duang' at you while saying she had activated her skill, and even Lexington..." At this moment, Yubari's personality as a science-oriented straight woman was brought to the extreme.

Veneto raised his head and stared coldly at Yubari with his blood-red eyes.

"..." Even a seasoned science-oriented woman felt as if she had returned to the bottom of the food chain on the grasslands, sensing something was wrong through her most primal survival instinct. "Uh... but, maybe I remembered it wrong... I remembered it wrong."

“That’s right, maybe you’re mistaken, Yubari.” Lexington looked at Yubari with a smile.

“…Lexington, what you just said…”

“I didn’t say anything,” Lexington replied with a smile.

"Huh?" Yubari was taken aback.

“I didn’t say anything,” Lexington replied with a smile.

Yubari turned his head blankly and looked at Missouri and Iowa on the other side.

“Senior Lexington didn’t say anything just now,” Missouri said to Yubari with a smile.

"Perhaps Yubari-neechan is hallucinating?" Iowa said with a smile, pointing at Yubari with her finger. "You should get more rest."

"???" Yubari looked up at the sky in a daze, entering a state of existential doubt.

"Well, all the sisters have returned to the naval base, and the Empire's shops are getting busy again, so I'll go back to the shops to help out with the Empire." Veneto looked at Little White with satisfaction and smiled at her. "I also received the note the Admiral left at the shop. The Admiral is busy settling things at home these days and probably doesn't have time. How about I bring the Empire to visit you in a few days?"

"Oh? Oh, sure, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

"Admiral, then I won't disturb you any longer." Veneto turned his head and made as if to walk back to the square.

"Hey? Veneto!" Little White quickly called out to Veneto, "Where's Rome? Rome is still out at sea!"

"Rome? It's alright." Veneto smiled at Little White. "She just activated her skill, so let her practice a bit more. Let her swim a few million laps on the sea before sending her home."

"Uh... what's with this outrageous number..."

Veneto didn't give Xiaobai a chance to ask any more questions. After calmly finishing her sentence, she walked away with heavy steps, as if she were angry.

Seeing this, Xiaobai was too intimidated to put his arm around Veneto.

Xiao Bai and the others watched as Veneto slowly left alone.

Furthermore, surprisingly, and quite tacitly, no mention was made of Rome's skills, or the circumstances under which Rome unlocked those skills.

In the silence against the backdrop of the sound of waves, Yubari was the first to raise his hand.

"Um, Admiral."

"Yubari? What's wrong?"

"Admiral, now that the ship equipment testing is complete and Veneto and the others' matter is over, am I all set?" Yubari asked Shiro.

"Yes, of course!" Shiro nodded quickly. "Thank you for your hard work, Yubari! Um, if you don't mind, would you like to come to my house...?"

"Ah, although I really want to go, I have to go now." Yubari smiled at Shiro and waved.

"Huh??" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Leaving means..."

Yubari turned around, lifted a rather large testing instrument from the ground, and while putting it into his ship's equipment space, he turned to Shiro and said.

"Leaving means exactly what it says, going back to Kyoto, going back to Kyoto."

"Eh... I thought you'd stay at the naval base for a few more days..." Shiro murmured, looking at Yubari's retreating figure with a hint of disappointment.

“Hmm… I’d like to too, but I’ve been waiting for you all at the naval base for a long time…” Yubari said apologetically. “Although I could stay a few more days, I dropped everything and rushed over here after hearing about Iowa, so there are still many half-finished experiments and staff waiting for me in Kyoto…”

Chapter 1261 Another building to be built

"Ah...that's it."

After hearing Yubari's explanation, Shiro lowered her head. "Then there's nothing we can do..."

As an admiral, seeing her ship girls so busy that they couldn't stay in the naval base for long was a bit of a mixed feeling for Xiaobai. However, she had seen Yubari's work in Kyoto before and knew that Yubari had indeed put a lot of effort and time into ship equipment research.

Although I was reluctant to part with it.

However, Shiro wouldn't force Yubari to stay a few more days.

Under Shiro's watchful gaze, Yubari retrieved all the testing instruments on the ground into her ship's equipment space. She patted her bottom, turned around, glanced at Shiro who looked somewhat disappointed, thought for a moment, then sighed and took out a key from her clothes.

"Admiral."

"Ok?"

"Here you go." Yubari tossed the key to Shiro.

Shiro instinctively reached out and caught the key that Yubari threw to him.

"this is……"

“The key to my lab. Do you remember where my lab is, Admiral?” Yubari put one hand on her hip, grinned at Shiro, and said with a smile, “Although I will occasionally return to the naval base in the future, if you miss me, Admiral, remember to come and see me next time you pass through Kyoto.”

"Ah...this one is from Yubari..."

"Shh." Yubari made a shushing gesture. "We have strict rules. This key can't be lent out. I only gave it to you secretly because you're the admiral."

"Sneakily..." Xiaobai held the key and looked awkwardly at the other ship girls around her.

Lexington, Iowa, and Missouri were all unusually in sync at that moment, casting their gazes toward the distant sea and pretending not to see anything.

"Uh... well, I'll keep this safe... thank you!"

Xiaobai held the Yubari key in her palm.

It's strange to say.

Although Shiro felt a little disappointed when Yubari said she was leaving.

However, after Yubari handed the key to his laboratory to Shiro, Shiro's mood seemed to be soothed, and he inexplicably calmed down.

"Well, I didn't have any heavy luggage with me. Well then, Admiral, I'll take my leave." Yubari checked the coastline, then stretched, squinted one eye, and said to Shiro, "Admiral, you must be busy too, right? We're all on the same side, no need to see me off."

"Alright, see you in Yubari!"

"Bye-bye, see you next time." Yubari laughed twice, waving as he took two steps toward the naval base gate. "Don't forget, when you go to Kyoto, you have to come visit me in my lab. Ever since you assisted me last time, I haven't found a second deputy as capable as you!"

"Yes, I will!" Shiro waved to Yubari.

Yubari waved vigorously at Shiro and ran towards the gate of the naval base.

Soon, Yubari disappeared from Shiro's sight.

"It felt like it was so lively just a moment ago, but it's quieted down so quickly," Lexington said to Shiro after Yubari left.

“Yeah…” Xiaobai gave a wry smile.

"Since Iowa and Missouri are both here, let's go back to the office building."

"Hmm." Xiaobai nodded, but then paused. "Oh right, before we go back..."

"What's wrong with Xiaobai?"

"There are still a lot of people here in the training ground." Xiaobai Yisan Ershiba stretched out her hand and pointed to a corner of the training ground, where rows of ship girls were neatly placed on the cement ground as a backdrop.

These ship girls were all new recruits who were taken over from Duan Shuiliu's side. Before Xiaobai and Rome's first exercise, they were defeated by Xiaobai with a single shot.

"Them..." Lexington glanced at the filled-up area in the distance and couldn't help but smile. "If it were just a dozen or so little girls, I wouldn't mind making a few more trips to help you settle them in, Xiaobai... But there are quite a few of them now. How about we go back to the office building first, and then I'll contact the sisters at the naval base to help settle them in?"

"Okay, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

While leaving a bunch of unconscious ship girls in an empty training ground is a bit awkward, the newbie naval base is safe, and in terms of efficiency, going back to the office building to arrange for the ship girls to come and help is definitely more efficient than me and Lexington carrying them back and forth to the office building.

Xiao Bai and Lexington, along with Iowa and Missouri who had finished their tests, left the training ground and returned to their offices in the shaved head office building.

Back to the office.

Lexington first made a phone call to several enthusiastic ship girls in the naval base from her secretary ship position, asking them to help take away the defeated opponents of Shiro from the training field one by one. Then she took out Yubari's test form and entered it into the file of the ship girl Iowa.

"Iowa, here are your work certificate and documents at the naval base. Remember to take them safe." After registering, Lexington handed Iowa a thick volume of parchment documents.

“Thank you, Sister Lexington.” Iowa accepted the documents from Lexington with both hands. “I will cherish the documents the naval base gave me.”

“That would be best.” Lexington nodded.

"That's great. Now Iowa should have official proof. No matter where you go, you can show your ID to prove yourself if someone questions your identity."

Xiao Bai put his hands together and smiled at Iahua.

"Thank you, Admiral." Iowa obediently held her documents and bowed slightly to Xiaobai.

"Well, now that your registration is finished, and I still have work to do here, Missouri, could you take Iowa home first?" Xiaobai asked Missouri.

“About this,” Iowa suddenly extended her hand, “Admiral, if you don’t mind, may I stay in the office and wait for you to finish get off work?”

"Ah? Why?"

"Hmm... As a ship girl, I naturally want to know more about the Admiral." Iowa held up the parchment folder, stuck out her pink tongue at Shiro, and looked at Shiro pitifully. "Or is it that you think Iowa isn't pretty enough and might cause you trouble, Admiral?"

"Uh, no... Iowa, you're very pretty..."

"Thank you, Admiral. I'll sit obediently on the sofa then!" As soon as Io Hua finished speaking, he turned around and ran to the sofa, sitting properly in one corner, looking at Xiao Bai with a smile on his face.

It seems like they absolutely refuse to move.

"...Okay. And you, Missouri?"

"Missouri? Hmm... Actually, after fighting alongside Iowa for so long, my calves are a bit sore..." Missouri bent over, rubbing her calves covered in flesh-colored stockings, then looked up at Xiaobai with an apologetic smile, "Admiral, is there a place in the room where Missouri can rest for a bit?"