Elder brother's garrison

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it's a pity.

If I could launch flying torpedoes... that would be so cool.

With that thought in mind, Fubuki watched the missile launcher in Changchun for a while.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

On the azure sea.

The girls dressed in ship uniforms sped across the water, soaring like seagulls.

Although they encountered the terrifying Abyssal Commander this morning, which severely damaged all the ship equipment of the ship girls who came to seek the exercise, fortunately, the kind ladies of the First Naval Base found them in time and rescued them from the clutches of the Abyssal Commander. They also selflessly gave them six quick repair devices, allowing them to regain their peak combat power as soon as they woke up, so that they could come to the exercise without stopping.

The ship girls from the First Naval Base are such kind people.

Moved by the experience, the ship girls, surrounded by the newbie naval base ship girls, stepped onto the sea surface used for the exercise. After the bugle call of 3, 2, 1, the exercise began.

—Then they quickly regretted it.

The sound of rushing water echoed across the sea used for the exercise, as the ship girls sped along, splashing through the white waves, led by their captain.

The six ship girls' delicate faces were now pale with fright, like a flock of lambs encountering waves.

Above the sky, a dense barrage of artillery fire filled the vast expanse, roaring and hurtling towards them.

Amidst the thunderous roar, shells grazed the ship girls' bodies and slammed into the sea, exploding into sprays of water.

"Ughhhhhhhh!!!"

"Hey, hey, hey, are those five heavy cruisers and one battleship?!"

"Why are heavy cruiser shells so terrifying? Waaaaahh ...

The ship girls, whose faces were already ashen, were so frightened that they took several more steps to avoid the fierce barrage of cannon fire behind them.

The six ship girls, all of large ship types, never imagined that one day they would tremble in fear under the barrage of cannon fire from heavy cruisers.

The whistling shells slammed into the water beside my ears, the sonic boom seeming to tear my eardrums and the air itself. This was clearly a ferocious bombardment from a battleship…

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Why are you running away, you bastards! If you're ship girls, let's have a real, hand-to-hand brawl! Let's have a cannon-to-gun battle!"

"If you're going to be battleships, then fire your cannons at each other, you bastards! Today, I, Washington, will teach you greenhorns what real artillery fire is all about!"

"So-called artillery bombardment! The moment you deployed your double column formation!! You'd already lost!!!"

"The trapezoidal formation is the best in the world!! Single columns are all weaklings!! Anyone who chickens out is a coward!!"

"Panel washing is the romance of battleships! Whoever has the thickest gun barrel is the best! The best attack is the strongest defense! Evasion is not in the dictionary of the world's number one! Our motto is: High damage while being incredibly tanky!! Is the bombardment over and we've won?! Wrong! Mid-range defense is just the beginning of the battle!!"

"Little cherry trees! Today, let me, your senior, teach you what true equality and freedom are!!"

"Hehehehehe————"

The rumbling sound of water parting echoed behind the fleeing ship girls.

With a burning fighting spirit, Washington laughed wildly as she chased after her target. Behind her, five heavy cruiser girls were also firing their ammunition at her with endless "Ora Ora!"

A frenzied, mad dog-like aura emanated from Washington and spread behind her, like a blood-red mist, enveloping the six ship girls together and solidifying them on the sea surface into a rampaging armored vehicle.

On land near the exercise area, the ship girls who happened to be passing by heard Washington's booming laughter and, out of curiosity, gathered one by one toward the exercise area.

After meeting Xiaobai and going through the proper greetings, many ship girls became interested in the chase on the sea.

After all, it's quite rare to see a battleship with five heavy cruisers chasing a squad of six large-class ship girls all over the sea.

"What's going on at sea?"

"It looks like an exercise. It's Washington and those five heavy cruisers who have been training all along!"

"Wow, Washington usually seems so bold, but I never expected her to be so cool in a fight! Who's that guy up against?"

"Huh? I don't know him..."

While marveling at Washington's incredibly fierce fighting style, the ship girls also developed a great deal of curiosity about the ship girls on the other side.

"Those are ship girls coming over for an exercise. They've bullied Yamato, and Washington is standing up for the admiral." At this moment, a quiet, bystander destroyer explained to the ship girls who arrived later.

"Wow."

"They're bullying Yamato-neechan! Washington-neechan! Hit them!!"

"Only we, the admirals, can bully others! No one is allowed to bully us, the admirals!"

"The last guy who bullied our admiral! We caught him and locked him up in the naval base, and he hasn't been released yet!"

In an instant, the ship girls were united in their hatred of the enemy. One by one, they brought out their own small stools and sat on the shore. Some were eating sunflower seeds, some were selling melons, some were opening a betting pool, and everyone on the right side filled up their betting pools. They began to cheer and encourage each other on the sea.

Chapter 922 A True Admiral Dares to Take a Missile Head-on

As the (one-sided) battle on the sea surface during the exercise intensified, more and more ship girls were drawn to the scene by the sounds of the exercise.

Just as Xiaobai was greeting the ship girls one by one, she suddenly noticed something.

I don't know when it started, but the once spacious pier began to expand towards the beach in the Zhangjie Sea area, and it became a bit crowded.

Looking back, all I could see were colorful ship girls idling around the naval base.

"Generally speaking, the main purpose of exercises is to provide the ship girls participating in the exercises with an opportunity and occasion to improve themselves through combat while exchanging ideas with each other in the naval base. So if the goal is simply to improve the level of ship equipment, it is best to have six light carrier ship girls who have removed their carrier-based aircraft engage in close combat with them." Amid Washington's loud laughter, Lexington explained to Shiro in this way.

"Why is it the lighter mother?"

"This is what a top-tier punching bag looks like."

"...Oh, so you just go up there and get beaten up?"

"Well, while this won't do much to improve the ship girls' combat awareness, it will certainly boost their equipment training level." Lexington smiled at Xiaobai. "But these ship girls' training levels seem to be maxed out. So, in order to truly benefit these ship girls, I sent Washington and a few heavy cruiser ship girls who have been training with her recently."

"Oh……"

"Washington's fighting style is quite impactful for ship girls who only focus on leveling up their ship equipment. We are, after all, the First Naval Base, and we can't let them leave empty-handed. Hopefully, after this exercise, they will also realize their shortcomings," Lexington said with a smile.

"Oh, I see." Xiaobai looked at Lexington and laughed.

—Unexpectedly, Lexington came up with such a perfect reason in order to openly help Yamato Abyss get revenge, so that even Xiaobai couldn't find any fault with it.

As expected of Lexington.

With that thought in mind, Xiaobai turned her gaze back to the sea.

On the sea, after a long chase, the heavy cruiser ship girls led by Washington showed no signs of fatigue. In fact, they seemed to be getting more and more aggressive, relentlessly bombarding the ship girls in front of them.

The ship girls in front were initially overwhelmed by the momentum of Washington's ship girls and subconsciously chose to avoid their sharp edge, letting Washington pursue them.

As Washington said at the beginning, if you back down, you lose.

"Carrier-based aircraft! Aren't the carrier-based aircraft interfering yet?!" While dodging, the ship girls called out to their carrier comrades at the rear of the formation.

"I... I didn't have time to fire... They fired blanks..." The aircraft carrier girl was so anxious that her face turned red.

"We're being caught! They've opened fire again!"

"Keep the formation intact! Revolve and evade!"

Under the bombardment of the heavy cruiser ship girls led by Washington, the ship girls drifted on the sea like a small boat.

Watching the ship girls form a double line to evade Washington's shelling, Lexington on land sighed softly.

These ship girls are still too inexperienced. Continuing to forcefully maintain a double-line formation at this point would be a fatal mistake.

Lexington looked at the little white girl beside her, and was about to make a phone call when a commotion suddenly broke out from the group of ship girls behind her.

Lexington and Xiaobai turned around and saw that the dense crowd behind them suddenly parted to make way for the Prince of Wales, dressed in red, accompanied by the Duke of York, as he slowly walked towards Xiaobai.

"Wales?" Lexington looked at the Prince of Wales walking towards him with some surprise.

"Good morning." Wales walked up to Lexington, nodded to her, and then looked at Little White, his cold gaze softening slightly. "Good morning."

"Good morning, Your Highness." Little White greeted the Prince of Wales with a smile.

"A drill?"

"Hmm! There are other naval bases sending out training teams."

"Has anyone gone up?"

"Washington and her friends!"

"..." The Prince of Wales glanced at the turbulent sea and smiled slightly, "Can you see clearly?"

"what?"

"Can you see the battle clearly?"

“I can see clearly…” Xiaobai wasn’t quite sure what the Prince of Wales was going to ask, so she answered accordingly. However, before she could finish speaking, the Prince of Wales squatted down between Xiaobai’s buttocks and hugged her thighs.

Then, Xiaobai felt her height increase as the Prince of Wales stood up, until the Prince of Wales let Xiaobai sit on her shoulders and held her head. Only then did Xiaobai feel as if she was sitting in a VIP special position, and her field of vision suddenly opened up.

Almost forgot, the Prince of Wales seems to have a particular obsession with being lifted high in the air...

"Eh???" Xiaobai instinctively hugged the Prince of Wales's head in shock.

The surrounding ship girls were also surprised to see Xiaobai being lifted high.

"Can you see it clearly?" the Prince of Wales asked.

"Uh... I can see it clearly now..."

"That's good." The Prince of Wales felt the light weight of the little white creature on his shoulder and smiled gently.

Lexington looked at the Prince of Wales with a smile.

"What's wrong?" the Prince of Wales asked Lexington.

"So, Wales, you're the type who likes children?"

“There’s nothing wrong with ship girls getting close to the admiral,” Prince of Wales said. “...Besides, I like children.”

Lexington put his hands behind his back and looked at the Prince of Wales with an expression as if he had discovered a new world.

Standing at a height half a body taller than the other ship girls, Shiro watched the exercise on the sea.

Although Washington kept shouting fierce slogans and led her team to relentlessly pursue the group of ship girls like mad dogs, appearing to be ready to fight to the death, she was actually very measured in her actions.

Finding an opportunity during the chase, they pinned down their slightly delayed target and delivered a devastating crouching blow, wiping out the group of ship girls from head to toe with practice ammunition. After confirming their victory, the Washington team stopped attacking and did not launch any further attacks.

The ship girls, lying on the water's surface covered in colorful paint from being beaten, looked bitter. After being chased for several hours and running until their legs were weak, they were helped back to shore by the heavy cruiser ship girls.

After feeling the solid ground beneath their feet, the paint-covered ship girls immediately sat back down, exchanging complicated glances.

...The world's number one is indeed the world's number one...

They deployed a squadron of heavy cruisers and still managed to beat themselves up like this...

Although I didn't expect to win at first... I was still hoping for a fierce battle with both sides going back and forth... but in the end... only you were left...

What a difference.

The ship girls gazed at the now completely dark dock, and at the group of ship girls with bright, piercing eyes, feeling utterly miserable.

"We lost." The captain ship girl was completely convinced of Washington's defeat.

"Hahahahaha..." Washington squatted down next to the captain ship girl, completely unconcerned about her being covered in paint, and patted her back repeatedly with his palm. "It's normal for a captain to care about the safety of her team members, but it's wrong to be a coward."

"...Yes...I will reflect on my actions..."

"While recklessness might not allow you to unleash 80% of your full potential, cowardice will definitely prevent you from reaching even 50%. As a cannon, how can you be so cowardly? Just go for it!"

The captain ship girl nodded, looking at Washington with gratitude: "I understand!"

Sitting on the Prince of Wales's shoulders, Xiaobai looked at the ship girls who had clearly been beaten up but still had to thank Washington, and suddenly felt a bit complicated.

Hmm... Xiao Bai thought it was a little embarrassing to just beat him up like that.

"Um, would you like to stay for a meal or something?" Xiaobai asked.

The captain ship girl heard Xiaobai's voice and subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound. She was stunned for a moment when she saw Xiaobai sitting on Prince of Wales's shoulders.

Actually, the ship girls were quite surprised when they first saw this naval base admiral.

After all, the newbie naval base was heavily demonized in the outside world. Before entering the newbie naval base to face the world's number one admiral, these ship girls were all prepared to see a muscular giant who could kill a bull with one punch and had seven stars embroidered on his chest.

Unexpectedly, the admiral of this naval base... is such a kind and lovely girl.

As expected, the legends were all lies.

The claims of catching a nuclear bomb in one's face or dismantling a ship with bare hands are just malicious speculations from outsiders about a newbie naval base...

Thinking about how this naval base had taken such good care of her, the captain ship girl was suddenly moved.