Elder brother's garrison

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"I will fight you immediately." The orange woman stared intently at Xiaobai. The pale white glow on her skin gradually began to flow, and orange light swirled around her like water. The orange scythe stuck in the sand not far behind her creaked slightly.

"Just as I thought." Xiaobai nodded. "Can I ask you a question?"

"You can only ask one question."

"Hmm. Then can you tell me, what percentage of the total sea area in Chapter Eight have my companions currently been in contact with?"

"Chapter Eight?"

"Chapter Eight refers to this sea area." Xiaobai raised his hand and pointed to the horizon.

"...just the tip of the iceberg," the orange-clad woman said calmly to Little White.

"I see." Xiaobai nodded, scratched her cheek, and sighed, "Alright... since you've put it that way, Miss Shenhai Shoukaku..."

The orange-clad woman's gaze sharpened as she stared at Xiaobai. The aura of the deep sea emanating from her intensified, and the orange scythe behind her hummed and began to gleam with orange light. The sea near the beach began to tremble and surge, as if waiting for Xiaobai to utter a single "no" before the orange-clad woman would activate her deep-sea ship equipment and launch a thunderous attack on Xiaobai.

Chapter 1904 Don't Call Me By the Wrong Name Again

but.

Just as the atmosphere grew tense, the concentration of the deep-sea aura increased, and a fierce battle was about to break out, in the next second, Xiaobai, who was in the eye of the storm, gently extended his palm to the orange-clad woman in front of him.

"Then that's settled, Ms. Shokaku." Shiro raised his hand and smiled slightly at the orange-clad woman in front of him.

"?" The woman in orange silently looked at the hand that Xiaobai was offering.

"This is a handshake. In human society, when two people extend their hands and shake hands, it's a gesture of friendship," Xiaobai explained.

"...So what do you mean?"

"Miss Shenhai Shoukaku's sincerity has touched me, so... whatever favor you need me to do next, as long as it doesn't go against my principles, I can help you." Xiaobai smiled at Dean Shenhai in front of her. "After all... you are Dean Shenhai of Chapter Eight. Who would refuse your help?"

"..."

The orange-clad woman gazed quietly at Little White. Her gaze gradually returned to calm, the deep-sea aura flowing around her subsided, and the light of the ever-humming orange scythe behind her began to dim.

The woman in orange looked down at Xiaobai's outstretched hand, then tentatively extended her own hand, and Xiaobai carefully grasped it.

Chapter 1905 The Dean of the Deep Sea's palms were cool and soft, each slender, snow-white finger seemed to have had its bones removed, and when held in the hand, they would gently bend and deform with the force applied, full of unbelievable extreme elasticity.

"The deal is done," the orange-clad woman said calmly. "From now on, I will no longer hinder your actions in Chapter Eight until the deal is finalized."

"I will also do my best to help Miss Deep Sea Shoukaku," Xiaobai said with a smile. "Now, can you tell me what you need my help with?"

"...I need a few days to do some preparatory work. I'll come back to you after I'm done and we'll talk then."

"Sure, how will we contact each other then?"

"Same as today."

“…Ms. Shokaku Fukami, your sense of humor is surprisingly wicked.”

"..." The orange-clad woman didn't care about what Xiaobai said. She closed her eyes and asked Xiaobai in return, "How long does your human handshake usually last?"

"Hmm? It'll only take a few seconds."

"Then let go of my hand." The orange-clad woman showed her hand, which was being held tightly by Xiaobai.

"Ah...sorry..." Xiaobai smiled sheepishly and quickly let go of the orange woman's hand.

The orange-clad woman lowered her hand expressionlessly. She turned her head and walked to the spot behind her where the orange scythe was stuck. With one hand, she pulled out the massive scythe, gently placed it sideways behind her, and then opened her eyes to glance at Little White beside her.

"You won't regret your choice today." The orange-clad woman said to Little White, then stepped towards the sea. "...I'm leaving now."

"Ah! Miss Shokaku, wait a moment!" Shiro quickly stepped forward and spread his arms to block the orange-clad woman.

"?"

"Um...you see, it's rare for you to come all this way, right? Would you like to sit a little longer? I still have a few questions for you."

"I told you before that you can only ask one question at the end."

“Back then we weren’t allies, right? Look, we’ve already made a deal, so let’s just consider it a chance to strengthen our bond.” Xiaobai smiled at the orange-clad woman and winked. “Just consider it a favor to me for sneaking over here alone late at night without telling anyone else.”

"..." The orange-clad woman silently watched Little White wink at her. She thought for a moment, then lowered her head slightly, stuck the giant scythe behind her into the ground, slowly walked back to the withered tree stump, sat down again, and looked directly at Little White. "Okay, ask away."

"First and foremost, the most important question..." Xiaobai leaned closer to the orange-haired woman, his face full of gossip and paparazzi-like expression, "Miss Shokaku, the waters around this beach have always been monitored by ship girls. How did you get here without alerting any of them?"

"The ship girls monitoring the sea area only observe the fluctuations of the deep-sea aura to deduce the appearance of the deep-sea army. Their perception of my lone existence is very low. In addition, I came by the underwater route, so they did not notice me."

"Underwater route...does that mean diving?"

"Yes."

"So you were sitting on the wooden stake to dry yourself off?"

"..."

"Ahem... Since you can avoid those patrolling ship girls and appear on the beach, why haven't you ever used this technique in previous battles?"

“I’m not willing to take the risk alone, and as I’ve said before, apart from the first deep-sea counterattack, the rest of the time was just me testing whether you were qualified to make a deal with me. There was no need to seriously fight with you.”

"I see."

"Any question?"

"Yes, there is one more."

"explain."

"..." Xiaobai raised his hand and scratched his hair, thought for a while, and then asked the orange woman seriously, "Actually, I'm very curious... Miss Shenhai Shoukaku, you and I were enemies who fought to the death on the sea before, why do you suddenly trust me so much? Is it just because I shot you with a laser cannon before?"

"..." The orange-clad woman's brows furrowed unusually, revealing a hint of displeasure, but she still patiently spoke, "No... if it were just because you possess power, I would absolutely never invite you to help me."

"That is……"

“Because on that day, I saw a purple-haired Deep Sea Dean beside you.” The orange-haired woman said calmly, turning her head slightly to look directly at Xiaobai. “And you should also be… a Deep Sea Dean.”

"..." Xiaobai was stunned.

"I'm not interested in why you, as the deans of the deep sea, would help humans. But now that I've confirmed your identities as fellow deep-sea creatures, it means you have the basic qualifications to be tested by me."

"You... trust your compatriots?" Xiaobai didn't refute the orange woman's words, but asked curiously.

“At least, they should be more trustworthy than ship girls.” The orange-clad woman paused slightly after explaining this, then stood up, walked back to her scythe, and gently tapped the scythe on the ground with her finger. Facing the sea, she said, “I have answered many of your questions. I should go now.”

"Oh...oh oh..." Xiaobai nodded slowly and blinked.

Never imagined.

This Deepsea Shoukaku actually identified its ship equipment as Deepsea equipment based on a single laser cannon shot from last time...

This is amazing.

If Shoukaku had even a tiny bit of understanding of human society, and knew the seriousness of being an admiral harboring the Dean of the Abyss Seas, and being the Dean of the Abyss Seas herself, and then directly used her own Abyss Sea equipment to threaten and coerce her into doing things for her, perhaps... perhaps... tonight wouldn't have been so complicated.

To silence her, Xiaobai would probably unleash the deep-sea will within her body without hesitation, pinning the deep-sea dean who was trying to expose her secrets to the ground and beating her mercilessly. Then, she'd steal her deep-sea dean metal and take her home as a trophy...

so far so good.

Ms. Shokaku did not choose that hopeless world line.

“I’ll come find you in a few days. You might need some help then.” The orange-clad woman stood at the edge of the beach, then suddenly turned to look at Xiaobai as if she had remembered something. “You can keep this a secret or not, but absolutely do not bring any ship girls with you. You can bring that purple-clad Deepsea Dean from before, or you can bring Pachina as well.”

"Oh, okay." Xiaobai nodded subconsciously, but then she suddenly froze, looking at the person in front of her in surprise. "Eh? Wait, Ms. Shenhai Shoukaku, what did you just say?"

Shokaku knew about Yamato, which was understandable, since Yamato had stood beside him and drawn attention when Shokaku bombarded her with his laser cannon. But Shiro clearly remembered that since arriving at Chapter 8, she had never mentioned Pachina to anyone else, and the Abyssal Deans had always stayed in the villa; apart from Yamato, none of them had ever come to the beach.

How did Deep Sea Crane know about the existence of Pachina?

Xiao Bai suddenly looked a little dumbfounded.

"Ms. Shokaku from the Deep Sea... how... how did you know about Pachina's existence?" Shiro asked the orange-clad woman, puzzled.

"...She really is by your side." The orange-clad woman looked at Xiaobai's expression, her eyes revealing an expression of knowing certainty.

"Uh... Miss Deep Sea Shoukaku, what exactly are you...?"

"If you ask me how I know... it's very simple, because you've been calling me Deep Sea Crane from the very beginning," the orange-clad woman said calmly to Xiaobai.

"...There must be a lot of people who know your name, right?" Xiaobai hesitated for a moment, then asked in confusion.

“There have been quite a few over the past few hundred years.” The orange-clad woman nodded, but quickly opened her eyes and glanced at Little White. “However… my name is not Deep Sea Soaring Crane, but Deep Sea Zuikaku.”

"what??"

“Decades ago, a Deep Sea Dean named Pachina traveled here. She was arrogant and hostile, which left a bad impression on me. So when we exchanged names, I didn’t tell her my real name.” Deep Sea Zuikaku glanced at Shiro a few times, then silently turned his head back. “You just called me Deep Sea Shoukaku so many times... Pachina must have been with you and told you my identity.”

"..."

"...Don't call me by the wrong name again next time."

After whispering his words, the Deep Sea Crane grabbed his sickle, stepped onto the water's surface, and with a gurgle, submerged to the bottom and disappeared.

As the deep-sea crane departed, a noisy sea breeze swept across the beach.

On a deserted beach.

Xiao Bai was left alone, her face flushed and her ears burning, bewildered in the wind.

Chapter 1906 Little White's Reward

The sea breeze was chilly at night, and the waves, carrying a chilling aura, crashed onto the shore wave after wave, lowering the temperature of the sand on the entire beach.

But as Xiaobai gazed alone at the sea, she felt a surge of shame rising on her face.

Xiao Bai covered his face and, like a wealthy man who had been electrocuted, twisted and swayed violently on the beach, venting his embarrassment.

Xiao Bai's current feeling is like when he was in school, he secretly looked at the substitute teacher's lesson plan, knew the answers to the key difficult questions that he was going to explain in class, and then confidently stood up to answer the questions according to the answers, hoping to get a little red flower as a reward. But after answering the questions, the teacher explained with a strange look, "Did you peek at my lesson plan? The answers in the lesson plan are just things I wrote down to fool the inspection."

"It...it was actually...Akame ga Suzuka! I...I had been calling her by the wrong name all this time!" Xiaobai covered her face, wishing she could dig a hole in the sand and disappear into it. "No wonder she reacted with such surprise when I first called her name...But why didn't she explain it to me at first and only told me when she was leaving...Was she trying to make a fool of herself...Ahhh...This...this is such a human suffering..."

Little White fell to the ground with a thud, clutching its head and rolling around on the sand.

The seawater continued to wash over the beach as usual.

Little White rolled and thrashed on the beach for a while, a good four or five minutes, before finally lying down on the sand, feeling weak all over, staring blankly at the sky.

"Sigh... Oh well..." Xiaobai sat up on the beach, brushed the sand off his clothes, and then looked at the calm moonlight and the sea, letting out a soft sigh. "Although it was a bit embarrassing, at least tonight was a good thing. It's not too late now, I should head back before sunrise..."

Xiaobai has thought about it carefully.

It's best not to tell the ship girls about the deal I made with Abyssal Zuikaku for now—it's not because I don't trust them and want to keep it a secret. I just feel that since Abyssal Zuikaku hopes I won't have any ship girls with me next time she comes to see me, if I tell them, they might worry too much about me sneaking in next time we meet. If something goes wrong, the consequences could be quite troublesome.

At least……

I'll wait until we meet again, and I'll find out the specifics of what kind of help Abyssal Zuikaku needs from me, before deciding whether to tell the ship girls.

With that thought in mind, Xiaobai straightened his clothes and headed back towards the valley, following the path he had come from.

On the beach, the ship girls of Haoding Naval Base, who were only focused on observing the sea, did not pay much attention to the sand beneath their feet. Therefore, it was quite easy for Xiaobai to avoid their gaze. Xiaobai successfully left the beach, returned to the valley, and hurried back to the villa of the newbie naval base. She secretly opened the half-closed door and slipped back inside.

Xiaobai was away from the villa for no more than an hour, so when she returned, the ship girls in the villa were still fast asleep and no one noticed that she had been gone. Xiaobai quietly slipped back into her bed, pulled back the covers, and crawled inside.

As soon as Xiaobai crawled back into bed, it felt as if its foot had stepped on something soft and fluffy. This fur was alive; it had been quietly huddled in Xiaobai's bed, but as soon as it felt Xiaobai's gentle step, it immediately stirred and, clinging to Xiaobai's leg, crawled out of the bed.

"Huh? Oscar?" Xiaobai looked at the cat's head popping out from under the covers in surprise.

Oscar scratched at Xiaobai's blanket with his black cat paws, looked up and stared into Xiaobai's eyes, his gaze as if to say, "You're back."

wrong.

Oscar is a ship-based creature, and the intelligence of ship-based creatures is not on the same level as that of ordinary pets. Oscar is probably asking Xiaobai this question right now.

"I'm back from my walk." Little White said in a low voice, smiling slightly at Oscar, and reached out to stroke Oscar's head. "I didn't expect to find you in my bed... Were you warming my bed just now? Thank you, I'm so sorry, did I step on you just now?"

Oscar lowered his head and licked his paws.

"Since you've already come into my bed, why don't you stay here tonight?" Little White smiled slightly at Oscar, lowered her head to rub against Oscar's soft fur, sniffed Oscar's scent, and then made a move to hug Oscar and lie down.

Oscar, who had been remarkably calm at first, suddenly sprang to life when he heard that Little White wanted to sleep with him. He kicked hard on Little White's thigh with his hind legs, and the cat transformed into a shadow in the darkness, leaping out of Little White's bed and landing quietly on the floor a short distance away. Then, he hopped over to Bismarck's bed, jumped onto Bismarck's chest like climbing Mount Everest, and then settled down comfortably with his paws tucked in. He rested his head comfortably on the raised area, closed his eyes, and peacefully dozed off.

"...Is Master's side really better after all..." Little White looked at Oscar sleeping peacefully on Bismarck's chest and couldn't help but pout. She lay back in bed, feeling a little dejected, and then looked at Missouri's bed next to her in a huff.

Missouri was fast asleep in her bed, lying on her side facing Little White, her breathing light and even.

Xiao Bai grabbed the blanket and moved closer to Missouri, then snuggled into Missouri's bed. Amidst the sweet fragrance of Missouri's blankets, she gently pulled out Missouri's slender, white arm and carefully held it in her arms like a treasure. Then she pulled Missouri's other arm and draped it over her shoulder.

A simple Missouri cradle is now complete.

Feeling the warmth from Missouri's arms, Xiaobai closed her eyes, snuggled closer to Missouri's embrace, and fell comfortably asleep.

Exhausted from several days of hard work, Xiaobai hugged Missouri's arm tightly, like hugging a pillow, and even lifted her thighs to gently hold her like a koala. Xiaobai quickly fell asleep again, and her breathing became calm.

Little White quieted down.

The villa returned to its former darkness and tranquility.