Elder brother's garrison

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Startled by Akagi's sudden attack, Mia closed her eyes tightly.

"Akagi, don't scare Mia," Lexington said helplessly to Akagi.

“Mia isn’t scared at all, is she?” Akagi said to Lexington with a smile, still holding Mia. “Look.”

Although Mia, who was being held in Akagi's arms, was still a little stiff and dared not open her eyes wide, she did not make any move to break free.

Xiaobai expressed his understanding. Akagi smelled sweet and her body was warm and soft, with a mysterious maternal aura like that of a young mother. Being hugged by her was very comfortable. Even Xiaobai, who had experienced hugs from various ship girls, had to admit that Akagi's hug was among the top three most comfortable in the newbie naval base.

No wonder even the shy Mia couldn't resist Akagi's temptation.

“Lexington and Saratoga are such good friends, even Mia wouldn’t dare to interfere, right?” Akagi said to Mia.

Mia lowered her head, her face flushed, and remained silent.

"Then come to my place, how about it?" Akagi said. "I live alone, and I get quite lonely. Mia, would you like to consider it?"

"Akagi, that's enough." Lexington was a little unhappy as she watched Akagi start poaching her right in front of her. She pouted slightly and said to Akagi, "Mia is my partner."

“I also want to fly with Mia,” Akagi said to Lexington with a sly smile. “Mia, how about becoming my carrier-based aircraft and trying it out with me?”

"..." Mia didn't say anything.

"Just try it once. Lexington won't mind, right?"

"..." Mia's face turned red. She took a deep breath, then closed her eyes tightly and shook her head rapidly.

Then, Mia broke free from Akagi's embrace and rushed behind Lexington without caring about anything else, never daring to look in Akagi's direction again.

Looking at Lexington's victorious expression and Mia behind her, Akagi could only shrug helplessly.

“My Mia won’t be so easily lured away,” Lexington said to Akagi with a smile.

“I won’t give up easily either.” Akagi and Lexington smiled at each other.

Xiaobai held her teacup and watched Akagi and Lexington smile at each other. For some reason, she felt as if several bolts of lightning were crackling and popping between the two of them.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore." After exchanging smiles for a short while, Akagi and Lexington looked away at the same time. Akagi took out a small piece of paper from her clothes and handed it to Lexington. "I'm back from the expedition. I'll transfer the resources to the resource warehouse in a bit."

"Thank you for your hard work." Lexington took Akagi's small note and glanced at it.

"Speaking of which, I just saw a bunch of ship girls I've never seen before walking towards the dormitory building with Renown. Are those junior staff going back to the naval base?"

“Yes,” Lexington nodded. “Speaking of which, we still need to think about those ship girls later.”

"What's the matter?"

“The naval base doesn’t have enough empty rooms,” Lexington said.

"Ah, an empty house." Little White, who was sitting to the side, also realized.

There was indeed this problem when we were allocating the houses.

The Beginner's Naval Base did have some empty rooms, though not many. But now that Shiro has taken over the Akashi Naval Base, all the empty rooms there are suddenly in short supply.

“The empty houses are indeed not enough,” Lexington said to Akagi. “Hmm… that’s right, it’s time to expand the naval base.”

"Expansion?!" Little White couldn't help but become interested after hearing Lexington's words.

“Yes, expansion.” Lexington felt Xiaobai’s gaze and smiled at her. “The newbie naval base wasn’t this big at the beginning. In the beginning, the newbie naval base only had me and Jiajia. Back then, the naval base was only the size of a small courtyard.”

"A small courtyard?"

“Yeah. About the size of the house we stayed in when we went on our fall deep-sea missions,” Lexington said.

Xiao Bai nodded knowingly.

That size is probably similar to Yuzu-neechan's and the previous Akashi Naval Base.

At first, Xiaobai thought that the newbie naval base was special enough to become so big, but it turns out that no matter what kind of naval base it is, it is upgraded step by step.

"When was the last expansion?" Lexington asked Akagi.

"Hmm... about four or five years ago."

"Ah...that was a long time ago." Lexington chuckled, then squatted down under the table in front of him, searched for a while, and finally pulled out a stack of folders.

Lexington blew the dust off the folder, opened it, and placed it in front of Xiaobai.

Xiaobai looked over and saw that it was covered with dense drawings, which was exactly the top view of the newbie garrison.

"Luckily, it wasn't lost." Lexington finished speaking, then traced a line on the edge of the rookie naval base. "Little White, where do you think the new dormitory building would be best?"

"Uh...it would be best to live near the old dormitory building?" Xiaobai replied subconsciously.

“Hmm…” Lexington looked at the overhead view and thought for a while, “Then there won’t be enough open space.”

"It's okay, we can build it somewhere else..."

"Let's develop the land behind it too."

"Huh??? Is this okay?"

"Sure, we can talk to the relevant authorities. After all, we're admirals, and with the right amount of money, we do have some special privileges."

“Lexington, since we’re going to build a dormitory building, let’s expand the cafeteria as well,” Akagi suggested.

"Huh? Why?"

"Actually, I had a feeling before that the cafeteria was a bit small."

“Qi (two) San Si Jiu um…” Lexington looked at Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai was taken aback, then quickly nodded, indicating that she would listen to whatever they said.

“Well, that’s fine…” Lexington rubbed his chin and said, “If we’re going to expand the cafeteria, well, let’s also build some recreational facilities while we’re at it.”

"Entertainment facilities?"

"There are quite a few sisters at the naval base who have plenty of free time all day, such as going to the gym or going to the movie theater. We need to find them something to do."

"Hmm...that makes sense."

Lexington and Akagi echoed each other, then looked at Xiaobai in unison.

Xiao Bai was taken aback again, then nodded quickly: "I agree to whatever you say!"

"Little White is the best." Lexington and Akagi smiled warmly at Little White.

Chapter 596 Akashi's Repayment

Finally, Little White left all the work related to expanding the naval base to Lexington.

After all, as a new admiral, Xiaobai's knowledge was still limited. These areas clearly involved civil engineering knowledge, so Xiaobai thought it best not to get involved too much. More importantly, seeing how interested Lexington and Akagi were, Xiaobai figured they had probably been looking forward to expanding the naval base for a long time, so it would be better for them to take the lead in planning it themselves.

After that, with Shiro's permission, Lexington and Akagi sat around the sofa in the admiral's office, holding an overview map of the naval base and began to discuss things in a friendly manner.

"How many stories will the new dormitory building have?"

"Should we build a six-story building, the same as before?"

"Hmm...it is indeed neater this way, but I feel it might still not be enough."

"Is it not enough?"

"Xiao Bai has only been an admiral for half a year, and he has already brought back nearly twenty ships, including deep-sea ships and ship girls. At this rate, the new dormitory building will probably be full again in a few years."

"Two buildings seem a bit too many, and the second building probably won't be occupied for a while, so it won't be very convenient to manage and clean it..."

"How about adding a few floors to the old dormitory building? Then connect it to the new dormitory building and create an observation deck."

"Yeah, I think it's pretty good."

"By the way, after living in a human city for a few years, I feel that the facilities here at the naval base are indeed a bit too outdated."

"Appreciate further details."

"Entertainment facilities are very important. It's not enough to rely solely on the ship girls' self-entertainment. For example, have you seen any movies about Lexington that have been released in recent years?"

"...I haven't seen it."

"Movie theaters are necessary."

"Can't you just open an account and get a membership to watch movies online?"

"It's different; movie theaters have their own unique charm."

"Um……"

"And there's a gym."

Do ship girls need to work out too?

"It's not for fitness, but mainly to give the ship girls a place to express themselves. Look how pitiful Fubuki and the others are, running laps in the naval base every day."

"..."

"Following this logic, we should also set up shopping malls, jewelry stores, and ideally, amusement parks. Have you ever been to an artificial city?"

"I've been there."

"Then let's think about the facilities there. We can build a bunch of them, except for the Admiral's Guild."

"Well, you can consider it."

"However, this will cost a lot of money. Does the naval base have enough savings?"

"Money is not a problem."

"Little rich woman."

"That's all public funds from the garrison headquarters."

Lexington and Akagi exchanged a glance and simultaneously revealed mysterious smiles.

Sitting at his desk, Xiaobai looked at Lexington and Akagi, marveling at their sharp and decisive actions, but couldn't help but smile wryly.

Are Lexington and Akagi turning their naval bases into tourist destinations? They're even making amusement parks out of it.

Xiao Bai picked up the teacup beside him and gulped down several mouthfuls.

As the world's number one naval base, the newbie naval base indeed possesses a considerable amount of funds. Even the admiral himself, when he first saw the deposit slip of the newbie naval base handed over by Lexington, was taken aback by the endless string of zeros.

From a purely financial perspective, Akagi's ideas weren't entirely impossible to achieve.

Thinking this, Xiaobai put down her teacup.

—An amusement park.

Well, if we could take Tirpitz, who spends all her time in front of the computer, out and help her escape her unhealthy, sedentary lifestyle, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

As soon as Xiaobai put down his teacup, Mia, who was standing next to him, poured him another cup of tea.

"Thank you," Xiaobai said to Mia.

Mia nodded, a blush spreading across her fair face like wisps of smoke.

The door to the admiral's office was pushed open at that moment.

A bright green little head peeked into the house; it was Akashi, who had just led the ship girls to find a house.

Akashi seems to have already assigned rooms to the ship girls; she's holding a bare keychain with hardly any keys left.

"I'm back." Akashi gave Shiro a subtle smile as he sat at the desk, then slipped into the admiral's office and slowly walked up to Shiro. "Um... cough, admiral, here's your keychain back."

"Yes, I received it." Shiro reached out and took the keychain from Akashi, then smiled at Akashi. "Have all the ship girls chosen their rooms yet?"

“I’ve made my choice.” Akashi nodded.

“There are quite a few of you who are temporarily crammed together,” Xiaobai said, putting the keychain back under the table. “In this regard, I’m afraid I’ll have to make do with you for now, but it’s okay. After a while, the naval base will be expanded, and then we can give each ship girl her own room.”

After Xiaobai finished speaking, he pointed to Akagi and Lexington, who were discussing the expansion of the naval base on the sofa.

It seems that in the short time that just happened, Akagi and Lexington had already started discussing where to build the swimming pool.

“…Hmm.” Akashi looked in the direction Shiro was pointing at Lexington and the other person, then turned back to Shiro and nodded.

"Thank you, Admiral," Akashi said to Shiro.

"You're welcome. It's my job to house the ship girls," Xiaobai said.

"No, that's not it..." Akashi clasped her hands together and lowered her head shyly. "We were talking about how you took me and my ship girl in, Admiral."

"Ah... that." Xiaobai smiled, "I also want to thank Akashi for agreeing to join my naval base, after all, Akashi, you are an amazing ship girl."

"In any case, I am very grateful to the Admiral." Akashi bowed slightly to Shiro.

A few days earlier, after Akashi was caught by Shiro in the paint equipment box, Akashi expressed to Shiro her frustration that she was indeed not suitable to be an admiral.