Elder brother's garrison

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Pachina didn't want to return to the dark sea; having witnessed the wonders of the human world, Pachina no longer belonged there.

"Waaaaah... Why are you so cruel..."

On Pachina's raised arm, the three charred fingers on his hand were particularly shocking.

Uh.

Xiao Bai felt as if several arrows had pierced his chest.

—Although I don’t know much about the situation, I feel like I’ve somehow wronged Pachina.

Wait a minute, but thinking about it carefully, it's probably because you were planning to force yourself on me that this happened.

Xiao Bai insisted that he was innocent.

Yamato's electrotherapy was actually released by the ship's own self-defense; Shiro didn't really want it to happen.

But when Xiaobai looked at Pachina, who was crying helplessly and pitifully with her clothes disheveled in front of her, she really couldn't bear it.

Even though Pachina made a thousand mistakes, when she cried, Xiaobai felt it was all his fault.

Xiao Bai went up and handed over a stack of tissues.

"Um... anyway, please don't cry..." Xiaobai said, "I know your wish, and keeping you by my side isn't out of the question..."

Xiao Bai looked at Pachina's three charred fingers and his expression became a little tense.

Looking at it this closely, the finger seems to be badly injured; the skin is torn and the flesh is gaping open.

"I'm so sorry that I hurt you..."

"Don't cry, I apologize..."

"Shall I bandage you up, please..."

Veneto is right. Although Xiaobai is a girl, she understands what girls think in their heads, but she doesn't know what girls think in their hearts.

I really don't know what to do when I encounter a newbie like this at Pachina.

Then, at that moment, the door to the room was opened.

Si Xue and Veneto Roma walked in wearing bathrobes, looking quite satisfied.

"Admiral, after careful consideration, we still feel it's not good to leave you to take care of the Empire and monitor the Deep Sea all by yourself, so we came back earlier." Veneto found Little White and said in his direction, "Admiral, is there anything about the Deep Sea...?"

Veneto stopped halfway through his sentence.

The snowflakes that had been chattering away with their sisters stopped.

Rome also came to a stop.

Several pairs of eyes were fixed on Xiaobai and Pachina, who was kneeling on the ground in front of Xiaobai, her clothes disheveled and crying.

"Hmm? Has...someone come back?" Sukhbaatar finally woke up. She felt the Empire lying next to her, opened her eyes, stretched, yawned, and slowly sat up in bed. "Hmm—it's been so noisy since earlier. Is the Deep Sea rebelling?"

Sukhbaatar looked toward the source of the sound.

Then she froze.

An eerie silence fell over the room.

Only Pachina's cries continued to echo like the mournful cry of a cuckoo.

Veneto closed the door.

“Admiral…” Veneto said solemnly to Xiaobai.

"what?"

"Well... how should I put it? After all, ship girls are quite attractive and have more distinctive personalities, so even if you're a girl, it's not something to be ashamed of to be curious about the bodies of other girls..."

"Eh?"

"I appreciate that you were able to suppress your desires and refrain from harming the ship girls by attacking the Abyssal Fleet. However, as a ship girl, although it's not my place to say this, I feel that the Admiral should still consider things from a humanitarian perspective..."

"what?"

"Even if she is from the Deep Sea, once she becomes a prisoner, we must respect her wishes. It's wrong to keep hurting and humiliating her..."

"What?"

"Well... in short, it's best to get a girl's permission when you're being intimate with her..."

"No! Wait, that's a misunderstanding! It's Pachina, she..."

"If you really can't help yourself, please don't harm my sister. At the very least, please spare the Empire."

"Eh?! You?!?! So Rome is enough?!?!?!"

"If all else fails, come at me!"

"It's a misunderstanding! It's a misunderstanding!"

Xiao Bai stared wide-eyed, waving his hands, and explained with a look of despair.

So it turns out, I was misunderstood!

He stood before a disheveled Abyssal ship who looked like she had been bullied, and kept comforting her. But after Veneto and the others came in to see, they looked at her like a beastly admiral who had abused an innocent Abyssal.

Xiao Bai was heartbroken.

"I didn't do anything!" Xiaobai explained helplessly.

"Admiral!" Fubuki called out to Shiro with tears in her eyes and her fists clenched.

"Fubuki, you believe me, right!" Shiro placed her hopes on Fubuki.

Fubuki is Xiaobai's favorite ship girl, and Xiaobai feels that Fubuki can understand her.

"Admiral... Fubuki, is it not okay?" Fubuki clutched her chest, looking at Shiro with a sorrowful expression. "Even though Fubuki was here first..."

Why does even the snow have to turn white?!

Chapter 262, Fourth Node, Begins! [Third Update]

Things didn't turn out the worst possible way.

After Xiaobai's painstaking explanation, the Venetos finally understood what had happened.

Veneto knelt on the ground, bowing her head in embarrassment as she apologized to Xiaobai: "I'm very sorry, Admiral. As your ship girl, I doubted you. Veneto is unqualified as a ship girl."

"Ah, it's alright, it's alright. I'm glad you understand." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaobai is a staunchly straightforward woman; she would never do anything to hurt a girl.

"It's best if you can understand, after all, what happened just now was indeed a bit difficult to explain." Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked towards her bed.

Bai Xue was carefully applying an anti-inflammatory ointment to Pachina's fingers, and then she used a roll of gauze to bandage Pachina's injured fingers.

"Don't get the wound wet until it heals, and don't eat seafood or spicy food," Bai Xue said with a smile to Pachina.

Snow White is such a good girl.

Xiaobai was moved.

“But speaking of which, shouldn’t you explain how the deep sea can be allowed to act like this?” Veneto looked at Sukhbaatar, who was paddling in the water.

"So it turns out it was my fault?" Sukhbaatar's eyes widened.

“No, I also bear some responsibility for letting the Admiral return alone,” Veneto admitted his mistake first. “But I think you need to explain!”

“I…I…” Sukhbaatar looked at Veneto, “I need to sleep too!”

"Alright, alright, Veneto, this has nothing to do with you or Lord Su," Xiaobai quickly explained. "It's a problem between Pachina and me."

Pachina turned its gaze over when it heard Xiaobai say that.

"So, Admiral, what are you planning to do with her?" Veneto asked.

Xiaobai relayed what Pachina had said to Veneto, and Veneto understood Pachina's current situation.

This deep-sea dean seems to have taken a liking to our admiral for some reason, and now he's sprung out of the sea to find his family.

And she has no plans to go back.

Pachina is the Deep Sea Dean, deeply hidden within the Deep Sea Home. She is mostly missing and rarely comes out to fight humans, so Veneto doesn't harbor much hatred towards her.

If such a deep-sea character is captivated by the charm of his own admiral and wants to become a double agent, Veneto thinks it's not necessarily a bad thing.

After all, the naval base already has one deep-sea traitor, so wouldn't it be good to have another double agent?

Xiao Bai glanced at Pachina.

She sighed.

"Anyway, let's leave it at that for now. We definitely can't let her go back," Xiaobai said.

Pachina has her own memories, and her mental energy has been merged with one-third of her own. Xiaobai wouldn't be so heartless as to let Veneto execute her directly.

Letting them go is absolutely out of the question; it's a matter of principle.

So that's the only way I can keep Pachina with me.

I wonder if Pachina, having been hurt once, will still obediently follow me.

Xiao Bai looked towards Pachina.

Pachina kept her head down, her white hair obscuring her eyes.

“Hmm, I see.” Veneto crossed his arms and pondered. “In any case, I’m not comfortable leaving Sukhbaatar to watch over Pachina alone.”

“Hey!” Sukhbaatar protested.

Veneto ignored Sukhbaatar: "Since you, Admiral, are already prepared to sleep in the same bed as the Empire, then let Pachina sleep in this room."

"what?"

“I think I’m a bit more reliable than Sukhbaatar,” Veneto said expressionlessly.

"Okay, sure." Xiaobai nodded.

Veneto breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Bai's occasional thick skin has its advantages. For example, at this time, Xiao Bai doesn't resist being alone in a room with Pachina at all.

If it weren't for Yamato's electrotherapy, Shiro's innocence might have been in jeopardy.

Sukhbaatar then tried to protest that he had been looked down upon by Veneto, but his protest was ineffective, and Pachina was ultimately kept in the room by Xiaobai and Veneto.

She slept in Little White's bed.

Xiao Bai, on the other hand, slept in the same bed as the Empire.

After reluctantly saying goodbye to Shiro, the four Fubuki sisters left the room and returned to the next room.

Before I knew it, I had spent another night playing with the ship girls.

Xiaobai is tired too.

Pachina huddled silently in Xiaobai's blanket.

Seeing that Pachina had finally calmed down, Xiaobai nestled safely into Empire's arms.

After using the Admiral Network to "nourish" the Empire a few more times before going to sleep, Xiaobai yawned and slowly fell asleep.

-

Then, it was late at night.

When Xiaobai was awakened by the rustling sound, the room was pitch black, with only faint moonlight shining through the gaps in the curtains, barely brightening the otherwise invisible environment.

Xiaobai came to her senses quickly because she had already realized it.

Her first glance went toward Veneto's bed.

Veneto sat on the bed with his head down, sleeping quietly, looking as if he had been watching for a long time and finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Xiao Bai smiled helplessly.

It was somewhat expected that Veneto would sleep like this.

Then Xiaobai propped himself up on his elbows and looked towards his bed.

He could vaguely see the silhouette of a thin girl riding on his back, moving towards the other side of him.

The cool, refreshing scent revealed that its owner was indeed Pachina.