Elder brother's garrison

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"Ah...yes, yes! I'm sorry!"

"Get up! Dodge a hundred more times! Until you can dodge my shelling, or until you're prepared to become a burden and take all the shelling for your teammates!"

“Yes, yes!!!”

Hood looked at Bismarck on the sea, who showed no mercy to the ship girls, and sighed helplessly.

Why is no one looking for me? I could have taught them so gently.

“Those people are masochists.” Just then, South Dakota’s voice came from beside Hood.

Hood turned his head and saw South Dakota, dressed in light clothing, squatting on the beach with his face in his hands, looking at the sea with a bored and carefree expression.

It seems that South Dakota isn't doing very well in human society. When I saw her a few days ago, she seemed to be having a rather difficult time.

After reuniting with Xiaobai, she borrowed a month's salary from Washington, which was her salary as a battleship, and that's how she started to live a better life.

Hood thought to himself as he looked at the little sandals on South Dakota's feet.

"Don't stare at my feet... it's embarrassing." In Hood's view, the ten little toes in the South Dakota sandals twitched, and then she gently covered them with her hands.

Hood looked at South Dakota and smiled for a moment: "What does 'masochist' mean?"

"Senior Hood, you don't even know what a masochist is?" South Dakota looked at Hood with a surprised expression.

"Hmm, I don't know."

"You don't use the internet?"

"...I watch TV dramas."

“Wow, there it is! Someone who lived ten years ago!” South Dakota looked at Hood in astonishment.

Hood smiled awkwardly, thought for a moment, then moved closer to South Dakota, squatted down, and smiled at her face to face: "I don't usually use the internet. Missouri did install internet at my house and bought me a laptop, but I only use it to watch TV series."

“Oh, it seems you still have a long way to go, Hood.” South Dakota looked at Hood with the expression of someone who had been there all along. “The internet is unfathomably deep—a masochist is someone who, if you slap her, will happily offer her the other cheek.”

"...You like getting beaten up?"

"More or less," South Dakota nodded.

Hu De looked thoughtfully at the sea.

On the high seas, the ship girls from Akashi Naval Base who had previously surrounded Bismarck were looking at her with longing. The ship girl, in particular, who had been told by Bismarck to endure a hundred shellings, was breathing heavily, extremely excited, her face flushed like a pampered pet, showing no sign of resentment at being punished.

Hu De first understood.

Hood then realized that he might be getting old and falling behind the times.

"But it's actually quite nice that no one's coming to find me," South Dakota muttered, cupping his face in his hands. "Perfect for slacking off, slacking off is the best."

"I see." Hood thought for a while, then gently sat down on the beach and cupped his face to look out at the sea.

—It's so good that Xiaobai isn't a masochist.

Hud thought to himself.

Just then, a sound came from the door behind the naval base.

Hood and South Dakota turned to look towards the gate, where they saw Admiral Akashi carrying a bunch of bags and packages as he walked out.

"Akashi? Do you need any help?" Hood asked Admiral Akashi, who was inside the door.

"Ah? Oh, no need, no need!" The large bags and bundles on Admiral Akashi's back looked quite heavy, almost bigger than the short Admiral Akashi himself. However, after hearing Hood's voice, Admiral Akashi quickly shook his head at Hood and then smiled apologetically, saying, "I can manage by myself."

"I don't have anything to do right now, so let me do it..."

"Really, no need, really no need." Akashi quickly clutched her bag, as if she didn't want Hood to see what was inside. "Oh, right, I'll be leaving the naval base for a while, so I probably won't be back until quite late..."

"Akashi, are you going out?"

"Hmm." Admiral Akashi smiled at Hood. "I'm entrusting my ship girl to you."

“No problem,” Hood nodded to Akashi in agreement.

Akashi secretly wiped away a bead of sweat, then dragged his bags toward another gate of the naval base.

Then, just as she reached the door and breathed a sigh of relief, Xiaobai's voice suddenly rang out from the doorway.

"Huh? Admiral Akashi, are you going out?"

“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!” Akashi, who had just relaxed, was startled by Shiro’s voice and almost screamed.

Akashi looked toward the source of the sound and saw Shiro, Saratoga, and Enterprise standing in front of the door, staring at him with curious expressions.

"Admiral, sir, what brings you here?" Akashi asked Shiro.

"I've been helping out at the Duke of York's place for the past few days. Now that I've finished, I came here to take a look around." Shiro smiled at Akashi. "Admiral Akashi, what are you carrying on your back?"

"N-nothing...it's nothing." Admiral Akashi forced a smile at Shiro, then coughed lightly. "Um, Admiral, could you do me a small favor?"

"Hmm? Sure." Xiaobai agreed to Akashi without even asking about Xiaomang's details.

"I'll be leaving the naval base for a short time. Could you please keep an eye on things for me during that time, like if any deep-sea monsters appear...?"

"Oh, that's no problem."

"Thank you so much, boss!" Akashi bowed deeply to Shiro with gratitude, then gripped his backpack tightly. "Then I'll take my leave now... Bye-bye, boss."

"Bye-bye... But Admiral Akashi, isn't your bag heavy?"

"It's alright, I still have plenty of strength." Akashi smiled slightly at Shiro, then took small steps and ran out the door in a flash.

Shiro, Saratoga, and Enterprise watched as Akashi's graceful figure disappeared onto the beach.

“I smell a conspiracy,” Saratoga said to Little White.

"A conspiracy?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Admiral Akashi is a good person, he should be."

“Hmm…” Saratoga thought for a moment and agreed with Little White’s statement.

After that, Shiro led Enterprise and Saratoga into Akashi Naval Base, and following the path that Prince of Wales had given Shiro, they found the ship girls who were conducting exercises.

The ship girls, led by Hood, welcomed Xiaobai's sudden appearance with open arms.

For Shiro herself, taking on the task of looking after Akashi's house was no problem for her.

With Sa and the company involved in maritime patrols, no deep-sea amphibious vessel can escape their search network. Besides, Linning is a relatively safe city. Even if deep-sea amphibious vessels were to come out, their strength would definitely not be as great as the Prince of Wales's encounter with a hundred deep-sea amphibious vessels. Even if Xiaobai were to go alone, he could handle it with ease.

Safety is as solid as a rock.

Chapter 587 Bismarck and Hood Reach an Agreement

Akashi Naval Base is located on a beach in Im-nyeon City. It takes two to three hours to drive there from the city center.

So in a sense, life at Akashi Naval Base was relatively peaceful, even quiet, without the disturbance of the Abyssal Fleet.

However, for some reason, the Akashi Naval Base was unusually lively today.

With a "whoosh," several silver-white taxis stopped on the beach where the Akashi Naval Base was located. The doors opened, and a young man dressed in a white admiral's uniform got out of the car first.

Following him off the bus were several ship girls with brightly colored hair.

As soon as the ship girls got off the vehicle, they began to look around curiously.

"Is that Akashi Naval Base up ahead?" A tall ship girl asked her admiral, holding a newspaper in her hand.

“It should be that there is only one naval base per city.” The male admiral nodded, his gaze gradually turning toward the Akashi Naval Base on the beach.

Under the sunlight, the not-so-large Akashi Naval Base gleamed with a dark light beneath the sparkling sea.

"That's the naval base where we're going to conduct our exercise!" the male admiral shouted to the ship girls behind him. "Do you remember our objective?"

"Get into the top 500!"

The male admiral smiled and nodded, quite satisfied with his ship girl.

He promptly paid the driver, who had been waiting in the car for a while, and then led the ship girls straight towards the naval base on the beach.

He led the ship girls to the gate of Akashi Naval Base.

The gates of the Akashi Naval Base were open, but the male admiral did not go in directly. Instead, he stood at the gate and looked inside through the open doors.

"Is anyone here?" the male admiral shouted into the Akashi Naval Base.

Actually, there was no need for this shout.

If there are light carriers, aircraft carriers, or other ship girls with air superiority capabilities in the naval base, male admirals don't even need to say a word; their presence should be exposed to the admirals of the naval base the moment they step onto the beach.

However, considering that ship girls with air superiority capabilities are relatively rare, it would be awkward if there weren't any, so the male admirals still shouted out a message out of obligation.

The male admiral waited a short while before a series of hurried footsteps echoed in the courtyard of the Akashi Naval Base.

"There's someone here." Soon, with a soft, sweet reply, a girl with long, flowing white hair walked out from the other side of the courtyard gate and walked over with a curious expression.

The male admiral glanced at the girl first.

Then I took another look.

Finally, he widened his eyes and took one last look.

"Huh??" The male admiral took several steps back in surprise after seeing who it was.

"Excuse me, who are you?" the white-haired girl asked the male admiral with some curiosity.

“Uh… I’m from Naval Base 9527, which contacted your base before to arrange the exercise.” The male admiral stared blankly at the white-haired girl and said.

"Our naval base..." The white-haired girl thought for a moment, then nodded, "Is it the naval base that contacted Akashi Naval Base to arrange the exercise?"

"um, yes."

"Oh, I see." The white-haired girl finally smiled, then took a few steps into the courtyard and waved to the male admiral with a welcoming look. "Please come in."

After saying that, the white-haired girl ran alone into the depths of the courtyard and disappeared from everyone's sight in no time.

The male admiral still stared blankly at the gate of Akashi Naval Base.

"...Admiral?" The ship girls behind the male admiral, seeing his stunned expression, couldn't help but curiously remind him.

"Ah, I'm fine." The male admiral shook his head, then his brows furrowed deeply.

—That white-haired girl looks very familiar to the male admiral.

Just two or three months ago, the country produced a documentary about an admiral and a ship girl. The main characters were a gunnery ship girl named Missouri and an anonymous female admiral.

The anonymous female admiral has also been the subject of numerous online parodies and memes due to her stunning looks and her penchant for yuri (boys' love) relationships with her ship girls.

However, this trend seemed to come and go quickly. After two or three months, the videos about this admiral gradually became outdated and were eventually forgotten by people.

Even though the story about that admiral on the internet has faded, male admirals, being admirals themselves, are not so easily forgotten, because as admirals, they remember the white-haired admiral's appearance.

Isn't that the girl from earlier?

Holy crap, she was actually the admiral of the Akashi Naval Base?!

Who is Missouri?

These are top-tier battleship girls! They're rising stars among ship girls, and they're destined to be top-tier battleships!

The male admiral turned around and looked at his ship girls, and couldn't help but swallow hard.

—In a one-on-one fight, none of the ship girls in our own naval base seem to be able to defeat a ship girl of that era like Missouri.

The male admiral pondered and pondered, but something just didn't feel right.

How could a super-sized ship like the Missouri be in the governor's mansion of such an obscure small town?

That's not scientific. If there were a ship girl like that, the Akashi Naval Base would have been airborne long ago.

—But what did that girl look like...? Hmm...? Maybe I was seeing things?

The male admiral thought for a while and felt that this might be the only possibility.

He rubbed his forehead, wanting to check online, but being on the beach, it wasn't convenient. The male admiral could only brace himself and lead the ship girls into the Akashi Naval Base.

As soon as the male admiral entered the Akashi Naval Base, the white-haired little girl from before emerged from where she had disappeared, accompanied by several imposing ship girls.

"Greetings, Admiral of Naval Base 9527." The blonde ship girl standing next to the white-haired little girl, wearing red-rimmed glasses, greeted the male admiral with a serene expression.

"Just call me Su Lei." The male admiral nodded to the blonde ship girl, then shifted his gaze to the white-haired girl. "May I ask your name?"

"My name is Lu Lin."

"Greetings, Admiral Lu Lin."

"Hello." The white-haired girl nodded to Su Lei.

"Um, have I disturbed you by coming to visit?" Su Lei asked the person in front of him cautiously.