Elder brother's garrison

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“Never mind, never mind.” Jean Bart said dejectedly, “Yes, yes… that’s exactly what you said.”

The overheated ship's equipment at Jean Bart's feet was hissing and emitting heat.

“I see.” Missouri crossed one arm over his chest and smiled, tapping his chin with the other. “It seems… Senior Jeanbart gained new abilities during this transformation.”

“Whether it’s brand new or not… at a time like this, there’s no need to give me an excuse.” Jean Bart pouted and looked to the side. “This is my original ability. I just haven’t told anyone about it… it’s that simple.”

"Is Jeanbart's ability to learn from the ship equipment capabilities of other predecessors?"

"That's pretty much it."

“This is truly… a very surprising ability.” Missouri’s eyes lit up with interest upon hearing this. “So, Senior Jeanbart has already learned the abilities of all the seniors present? If Missouri fights Senior Jeanbart, wouldn’t that be the same as fighting all the seniors present?”

"It's not that simple. There are many limitations to having the ability to replicate."

"There are actually restrictions?"

“Of course… To copy abilities, first, I must enter an observer state… ah, the kind where no one can notice me.” Jean Bart said to Missouri, “In the observer state, I must also observe the target’s posture when using the ability at close range, and observe the target for a long enough time. Only in this way can I copy her ability… Now that you all have the Admiral’s mental power in your bodies, my observer physique cannot be triggered, so copying abilities will obviously not work on you at all. And most importantly, I can’t copy every ability. For example, the torpedo launching ability of a destroyer, or the carrier-based aircraft ability of an aircraft carrier girl. Even if I learn it, I will not be able to use it at all due to the hard condition of the type of ship equipment I own.”

Missouri listened with great interest to Jean Bart's explanation, her calm and relaxed demeanor as if her injuries and tattered clothes did not exist.

"Jean Barth was much more candid than before when explaining the skills," Missouri said with a smile after listening. "Jean Barth... you're not going to hide anything this time, are you?"

"You're such a suspicious person... I hate the feeling of not being trusted!"

"I'm very sorry. After the sparring session, Missouri will treat you to a meal," Missouri said with a smile.

"Hmph, that's more like it!"

“Well, now that Senior Jean Bart has so frankly revealed his secret… it’s about time this sparring exercise officially began.” Missouri hugged the piece of cloth to her chest with one hand, and gently touched the tattered ship rigging behind her with the other. She smiled at Jean Bart, “Senior, speaking of which, the original intention of this sparring was to allow the only two missile battleship shipgirls in the current naval base to demonstrate their capabilities. In our previous encounters, it seems that we didn’t use missile battleship tactics… Missouri feels that it’s time for this battle to return to its original purpose.”

"Huh? No way, you're still fighting in this state?" Jean Bart's eyes widened upon hearing Missouri's words, her gaze sweeping over Missouri's body from head to toe. "Your ship equipment is clearly badly damaged. Forget about continuing to fight, I doubt you can even fire a single cannon right now!"

“Don’t worry about such a small matter, senior,” Missouri said with a smile. “Missouri will use her fighting spirit to overcome it.”

"Hey! I had no idea you were such a sentimental ship girl!"

"Senior, this is not sentimentality."

As Jean Bart complained, Missouri's eyes slowly lit up. The tattered ship equipment behind her creaked and groaned. With a tremor, two ship cannons and a missile launcher, shrouded in a hazy white light, sprouted from the ground like bamboo shoots.

Compared to the Missouri's numerous injuries and its tattered hull, the ship's guns and missile launchers that emerged from the ground were perfectly intact, as if they had just come from the factory, pure white, without a single scratch.

Jean Bart's eyes widened the moment she saw Missouri pull out his weapon, and her heart skipped a beat.

Even though the ship girl in front of him was heavily damaged and covered in wounds, on the verge of losing consciousness and passing out, the aura emanating from her gave Jean Bart a very ominous feeling...

"senior."

"This is... a miracle."

In the dim light, Missouri stroked the tattered ship's rigging with one hand and spoke to Jean Bart.

Amidst the tattered ship's rigging, brand-new naval cannons emerged, aimed at Jean Bart.

Jean Bart's pupils contracted, and she subconsciously raised her hand to wave at the ship's rigging on her body.

The scorching hot ship equipment flew back to Jean Bart with a whoosh, and the moment Jean Bart's palm touched the ship equipment, he felt an extreme heat in his palm.

"hiss----"

Jean Bart instinctively closed his eyes in pain, grimacing and taking a deep breath.

So hot!

Admiral Nia's Veneto's barrage skill, although powerful, will cause the ship's equipment to enter a cooldown period of several minutes after use, during which the ship's equipment will be as hot as a red-hot iron!

If this ability cannot effectively defeat the enemy, then the user will lose the ability to fight within minutes after using this ability, and will be defeated as a result!

This is truly... a double-edged sword ability!

Jean Bart was amazed, but quickly calmed himself down.

Ok!

This sparring match wasn't really formal. I had just chatted with Missouri for a few minutes, and my ship equipment's cooldown time was almost up. Although the ship equipment was still so hot that it felt like I was putting my hand into a pot of boiling oil... it didn't affect my basic use of the weapon!

That stinky Missouri!

She's the one who ruined my peaceful life from then on!

After this battle, the admiral will definitely value my abilities and keep ordering me around day and night!

To get revenge for my missed vacation, I must teach Missouri a lesson in this battle!

"You damn Missouri! Take this!!"

Jeanbart shouted, pointing his finger at Missouri.

At the same time, the guided-missile ship behind Jeanbart was equipped with missiles, and two missiles were launched from the missile launchers amidst a cloud of smoke, hurtling towards Missouri.

Boom!

Missouri did not dodge, allowing the missiles to hit her.

The missiles exploded on Missouri, sending up bursts of sparks, but were blocked by a thick, invisible energy shield.

This is... a major breach of protection!

Missouri actually used massive damage protection for defense!

Of course, while heavily damaged protection is invincible in terms of defensive capabilities, the impact of the attack on the ship girls will still be transmitted.

Amidst a cloud of dust, Missouri was knocked back two steps. She nodded slightly, a faint smile appearing on her face.

"Senior is really... going all out. Those two missiles really hurt."

Missouri looked up, and she raised her hand without moving.

Two whooshing sounds were heard.

Missouri's missile launcher fired, and two missiles soared into the sky, then crossed paths and flew straight toward Jeanbart.

Jean Bart quickly dodged.

However, these two missiles seemed to have eyes. No matter how Jean Bart dodged, the missiles would change their trajectory according to Jean Bart's movements, slowly approaching him at a speed that was always one step ahead of him.

"Eek ee-ee-ee-ee-ee--What the hell is this?!"

boom! ! !

Finally, amidst Jean Bart's screams, Missouri's missile caught up with him and exploded in a burst of intense sparks.

Jean Bart's ship equipment shattered instantly, and he collapsed onto the water, entering a heavily damaged state.

In the very center of the exercise field, Missouri withdrew his hand, and the shattered ship equipment behind him finally gave way, turning into fragments and sinking into the water.

"Thank you for your guidance, senior."

Missouri smiled and said to Jean Bart, who was lying face down on the water.

……

The competition is over.

The duel ended in a draw because both ship girls were heavily damaged, making it impossible to determine a winner.

On the shore, the crowd watched as Missouri helped Jeanbart ashore, and for a moment they were speechless.

The crowd looked at each other, their eyes filled with complex emotions.

Originally... because this sparring battle was between the only two missile warriors in the newbie naval base, the ship girls present were actually watching the battle with the intention of just watching the drama unfold.

After all, this is the world's first-ever exchange between missile strategists, and everyone certainly has high expectations for how exciting it will be.

However, after watching the entire battle, aside from the part where Baal showcased his abilities, the ship girls were extremely disappointed with the remaining battle segments, and their evaluations were surprisingly consistent.

That is, battles between missile battleships are really boring.

The two men were standing so far apart, yet with just two quick missile strikes, they traversed that vast distance to hit their target, and the battle was over. During the missile engagement phase, there was no exciting maneuvering or kiting (because it was pointless), no impressive artillery maneuvering (because it was pointless), and no back-and-forth strategy or anticipation (because it was pointless)...

Hmm—how should I put it?

Missiles are powerful... but they're really not romantic at all.

Even the ship girls felt that it was more visually appealing when these two used a turn-based approach to fire cannons and unleash skills, like battleships, at the beginning of the game.

The 2808th person found me!!!

"Senior, your express repair is here."

After Missouri and Jeanbart went ashore, they found an open space and sat down. Missouri climbed into a pile of quick-repair devices, took one out, and handed it to Jeanbart with a big smile.

"It's your quick repair." Jean Bart looked at Missouri's tattered clothes that barely covered her body, the large patches of skin exposed and covered with charred marks beneath the clothes, and a few glimpses of white skin that were faintly visible as Missouri moved. He said with a hint of helplessness, "No matter how you look at it, your injuries are more serious than mine, right? You should use it quickly, you're really showing too much skin now."

“That’s true, then Missouri will not stand on ceremony.” Missouri smiled and sat back down in front of Jean Bart. She held up the green hat-like quick-repair device and placed it on her head like a crown.

The quick repair service came into play very quickly.

Missouri's body was enveloped in a healthy green light.

Immediately afterwards, Missouri's charred body was cleaned as if by dry cleaning, restoring her to a pristine white state, and her clothes were quickly repaired to their original condition.

Jean Bart looked at Missouri, sighed, climbed to the side, grabbed the quick repair device, and put it on himself.

The same green light shone.

Jean Bart used the rapid repair device after Missouri, but perhaps due to the different degrees of damage to their ship equipment, the repairs of the two ship equipment were completed at the same time.

Snapped!

Snapped!

Two crisp sounds.

The quick-repair device attached to Jeanbart and Missouri's heads shattered in two.

"Speaking of which, how come you were able to launch such a powerful attack even when you were heavily damaged?" Jean Bart couldn't help but ask Missouri.

“This is Missouri’s ability.” Missouri smiled and looked at Jean Bart. “Because there aren’t many opportunities to use it on a regular basis, you may not have heard other seniors mention it.”

"It's an attack that can ignore battle damage, and it clearly hurts much more than my missiles..." Jean Bart pouted, "Doesn't that mean I can act like a scoundrel while heavily damaged... Are you some kind of favorite daughter of the ship girl world?"

“How could that be?” Missouri said with a smile. “Missouri should have lost this battle.”

"Well?"

“Missouri was able to see the senior because of the admiral’s influence, as a bystander,” Missouri said to Jean Bart with a smile. “Furthermore, since the senior’s ability is to copy the abilities of other seniors, the senior’s future strength is limitless. Given time, if the senior were to copy a large number of powerful special abilities that can cope with various environments, then Missouri would have no chance of winning against the senior… If either of these two conditions were different from today, Missouri would not have been able to achieve a draw with the senior.”

“I love to hear that!” Jean Bart looked up immediately and said happily upon hearing Missouri’s words.

“So…senior, you’ll have to work even harder in the future.” Missouri smiled and put her hand down, saying to Jean Bart.

“Then… um? Wait a minute?” Jean Bart looked at Missouri, who was all smiles. “You… you… you’re not waiting for me here, are you!”

“How could that be?” Missouri replied with a smile.

Jeanbart was about to speak.

Clatter. Clatter.

The sound of the ship girls' footsteps came from behind Jean Bart.

"Jean-Barcelona! Missouri! Your battle is over!"

The ship girls immediately surrounded the two of them, and everyone happily gathered around.

"Jean Barthes! How exactly did you manage to use Veneto's abilities from Admiral Nia's family?"

"Have you awakened her abilities?"

"Jean Barre! Those comments were so cool!"

"Is this a skill you gained after the modification?"

"I feel like if it weren't for Missouri, any of the other people on our side would have lost to you!"

"And Missouri too! Missouri did a great job just now!"

"Using heavily damaged protection combined with damage output to exploit others is such a malicious tactic, haha—"

"..."

The ship girls enthusiastically surrounded Jean Bart and Missouri.

Missouri calmly responded to the ship girls' teasing, while Jean Bart seemed to be struggling a lot. Surrounded by the ship girls, she was sweating profusely and forced a guilty and embarrassed smile.

Outside the crowd.