Elder brother's garrison

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Is the Prince of Wales just giving me the runaround?

Little White looked suspiciously at the Prince of Wales's face.

The Prince of Wales' expression was quite serious; he didn't seem to be lying or trying to deceive himself.

"What's wrong?" the Prince of Wales asked, smiling at Little White.

"Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing." Xiaobai quickly waved his hand and smiled at the Prince of Wales.

It may be strange, but in any case, the fact that the Prince of Wales gave up his suicidal thoughts is the best outcome.

Xiaobai breathed a sigh of relief, giving up on thinking about the topic any further, and looked towards the sea.

How about we change the subject? I feel like this topic is going to get really awkward if we keep talking about it.

The Prince of Wales seemed to sense that Xiao Bai was trying to end the conversation, and she slowly withdrew her hand from Xiao Bai's face.

On the sea, Admiral Akashi's ship girls were still engaged in fierce battle. Their slender figures, accompanied by heavy turrets, leaped across the flames and water like dancing, which was quite a sight to behold.

"Speaking of which, King George V seems to have said that the ship girls here were trained by you."

"Yes." The Prince of Wales nodded.

"Prince of Wales, do you also train them?"

"Have."

"So you're their teacher?" Xiaobai smiled at Wales. "How do you usually train them?"

"Beat them up."

“…Huh?” Xiaobai was taken aback.

The Prince of Wales, who had been gazing at the sea, turned to look at Little White, a slight smile playing on his full lips: "Want to take a look?"

"Look, what are you looking at?" Little White looked at the Prince of Wales in shock.

However, the Prince of Wales did not speak. She quickly suppressed her smile, straightened her collar, and slowly walked towards the sea.

Prince of Wales walked across the beach, stepped into the sea, and walked step by step toward Admiral Akashi's ship girl.

Admiral Akashi's ship girls seemed to be quite familiar with Prince of Wales. Many of them stopped fighting and bowed to him as he walked towards them.

"Hello, Instructor Wales!" The ship girls' voices were quite loud.

"You have ten seconds to prepare for the drill with me," the Prince of Wales said calmly as he walked toward the ship girls.

The Prince of Wales' voice wasn't loud, but the ship girls could still hear it clearly.

"Instructor Welsh? We're having an exercise now?" Several ship girls looked at Prince of Wales with some surprise. "We've already had this week's exercises, haven't we?"

"Six seconds left." The Prince of Wales released his ship equipment as he walked.

"Huh??" The ship girls looked at the Prince of Wales's aggressive appearance. Although they were still a little confused, their years of training with the three Princesses of Wales made them subconsciously organize themselves.

Within seconds, the scattered ship girls gathered together and lined up in front of the Prince of Wales.

"Instructor Wales, what are the training methods?"

"Single challenge."

"Number one, step forward!" One of Admiral Akashi's ship girls, who seemed to have considerable authority, immediately shouted this to the ship girls behind her.

“I meant a one-on-one duel,” the Prince of Wales said.

"Isn't this just a one-on-one fight?"

“What I mean is, I’ll take on all of you one-on-one,” the Prince of Wales said.

The ship girls present were stunned.

However, at that very moment, ten seconds had already passed.

One second the Prince of Wales was strolling leisurely, the next she seemed to have jet engines under her feet. In an instant, huge waves surged up behind her, and the Prince of Wales transformed into a red arrow, rushing towards Admiral Akashi's ship girl.

Although Admiral Akashi's ship girls were somewhat surprised, they seemed to have gotten used to Prince of Wales's unreasonable behavior. They quickly formed a formation, encircling Prince of Wales like a trap.

"Even with Instructor Welsh, it's impossible for him to defeat all of us at once!"

"Instructor Wales, even we grow!"

"Let me show you the results of our training! Sisters, let's go!"

—Yeah, flags like these are everywhere.

Just as Xiaobai, who was watching from the shore, had predicted, after a burst of autumn fireworks that seemed to look good from any angle, the ship girls who had been shouting "Revolution time has come!" and "Let's give the perverted instructor a taste of his own medicine!" in the previous scene were lying haphazardly on the sea in the next scene, all looking completely incapacitated.

The Prince of Wales stood unharmed on the water, gently brushing a stray hair behind his ear.

"Have you realized your shortcomings?" the Prince of Wales asked the ship girls who had collapsed on the sea.

The ship girls responded with wailing and howling, "Yes!"

"The exercise is over." The Prince of Wales smiled slightly, then turned and walked back towards the beach.

The ship girls, who had been rolling around on the water, covered in dust and dirt, raised their heads, looked at the Prince of Wales's back, and then exchanged glances.

"Have you noticed that Instructor Wales is acting a little differently today?"

"Getting stronger."

"No, it's that he's finally getting serious."

“…Instructor Welsh is so strong…” Several ship girls who had been shouting the revolutionary horn earlier had their faces flushed as they submerged their heads in the water, making gurgling sounds.

"Instructor Wales was just laughing."

The ship girls discussed among themselves, deeply reflected on their actions, and then watched with longing as the Prince of Wales retrieved its ship equipment and returned to Little White on the beach.

Little White watched as the Prince of Wales walked up to her and gave her an awkward smile.

"Just beat them up like that," the Prince of Wales said to Little White.

"...You're just going to beat them up like that? I thought you'd teach them some fighting techniques."

"There are no tricks to combat. No matter how well-trained a ship girl is, she can't escape the three actions of raising the cannon, aiming, and firing. The strength of a ship girl is actually just a matter of her proficiency and agility in these actions." Prince of Wales took Shiro's hand and walked into the courtyard of Akashi Naval Base instead of staying on the beach any longer. "The ship girls who know how to reflect on themselves after battle and learn from their strengths and make up for their weaknesses are the ones who improve the fastest."

Little White blushed slightly as she watched the Prince of Wales so naturally take her hand.

But then again, the Prince of Wales is really something.

Xiao Bai looked thoughtfully at the Prince of Wales' profile.

Although as a veteran of the newbie naval base, Xiaobai knew very well that the Prince of Wales' combat strength was considered quite high within the naval base, he was still slightly disillusioned with her when he saw her almost perish in the Abyssal Fleet.

However, through the exercise just now, the Prince of Wales demonstrated a fighting ability that was completely disproportionate to his previous suicide attempt.

The team of ship girls assembled by Admiral Akashi was not much weaker than a hundred Abyssal Fleet ships, but Prince of Wales wiped them all out without a scratch this time.

—Well, to be honest, when veteran ship girls get serious, there aren't many to mess with.

As soon as Xiaobai stepped into Admiral Akashi's courtyard, he smelled the aroma of vegetables.

It looks like Admiral Akashi is almost done cooking. I don't know which room he's in, but it smells really good.

“Akashi would actually be better suited to be a small shop owner instead of an admiral,” the Prince of Wales said.

"what?"

"She's a great cook and also quite good at business."

"Um……"

"Are you hungry?" the Prince of Wales asked Little White.

"Huh? Uh... it's alright." Xiaobai smiled.

Actually, once you have ship equipment, it's hard for newbies to feel hunger or fatigue, but they still crave things sometimes.

The Prince of Wales looked at Little White, thought for a while, and then slowly squatted down in front of Little White and lowered his head.

Then, under Xiaobai's gaze, the Prince of Wales reached up to his waist, picked him up, and placed him on the Prince of Wales's shoulder.

"Huh???" Little White was startled, but at this moment the Prince of Wales had already stood up from the ground. Little White was so frightened that he quickly squeezed his legs together and hugged the Prince of Wales' head tightly.

"Prince of Wales...this is..."

"Shoulder cart".

"Shoulder-carrying... no, I mean, why did you suddenly lift me up like that..."

"..." The Prince of Wales reached out and held Xiaobai's thigh while falling silent. "Don't kids your age like to shout about 'combining' and stuff like that?"

"...If I were ten years younger, I think I would like it more..." Xiaobai looked at the Prince of Wales awkwardly.

Xiao Bai felt that he was getting on in years and felt a little embarrassed to sit on the shoulder of the bicycle like this.

"Ah...you don't like it." The Prince of Wales murmured to himself with a hint of melancholy, and a small aura of loss began to swirl around him.

"I love it! I love it!" Little White quickly cheered for the Prince of Wales. "Thank you, Your Highness!"

The black aura surrounding the Prince of Wales then slowly dissipated.

Chapter 583 Speeding at 80 Miles Per Second, Feeling So High!

"That's roughly what happened." King George V lowered his head, his eyes slightly dim.

After listening to King George V's words, Hood fell silent for a while.

She turned her head and looked at Bismarck.

Bismarck looked serious, as if he was listening intently, but Hood knew that pressing on Bismarck's head meant he probably wasn't really listening.

Hood looked at Saratoga and the company.

Compared to their senior ship girls, Saratoga and Enterprise sat obediently on the other side, looking like they understood but shouldn't meddle in their elders' affairs.

Hood also wanted to see Washington.

However, after thinking about it, Washington's current situation was probably similar to Bismarck's, and he figured he couldn't be of much help, so he could only sigh.

"Speaking of which, didn't Lexington come with you?" King George V noticed Hood's predicament and asked him hopefully.

"The naval base has just finished its autumn activities, and there's a lot of work piled up. Lexington is currently sorting through the documents," Hood said with a smile to King George V.

"Ah...I see." King George V nodded. "Admiral Lu Lin is still young and indeed cannot handle those matters."

"In short, I will have a good talk with the Prince of Wales. As a comrade-in-arms, she will listen to some of what I have to say," Hood said to King George V.

"Thank you."

“Wales is also my friend, no need to thank me for that.” Hood shook his head.

Although Hu De was aware of the Prince of Wales's feelings for Admiral Lu Yun, he did not expect Lu Yun's death to be such a blow to the Prince of Wales.

—I really have to blame myself for this.

As Hu De thought about it, he couldn't help but feel guilty.

If I had noticed the Prince of Wales' condition sooner, he wouldn't have ended up like that.

“Hood, this has nothing to do with you.” King George V saw through Hood’s thoughts. “Don’t blame yourself.”

"Okay. I understand." Hood nodded.

The conversation stalled at this point.

After all, the previous conversation was about the serious topic of Wales' state of mind and lives, and there was really nothing left to say if they continued talking about it. Even someone as easygoing as Bismarck couldn't steer the conversation in a light and cheerful direction at this point.

"Speaking of which, Hood, did you eat anything when you arrived here? Why don't we grab something to eat?" King George V smiled at Hood. "Although it's not very good for me to say this, Admiral Akashi made us something to eat. If you don't mind, why don't we go and see her first?"

Hu De nodded, feeling a subtle sense of relief.

Everyone packed their things and stood up from their seats one by one.

"Speaking of which, it seems that Admiral Lu Lin went to chase after Wales just now. I hope nothing bad has happened to them."

"Impossible, Xiaobai is still an admiral."

"Wales would never bully Little White."

As they talked, they walked toward the door one by one.

Hu De finally stood up, but the worry on his brow remained.

She's under the most pressure here.

As a comrade-in-arms of Wales, Lu Yun's wedding ship, and Xiao Bai's elder, she was the perfect candidate to persuade the Prince of Wales to regain his confidence, and at the same time, she also bore the pressure of this mission.