Elder brother's garrison

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Lexington, Bismarck, Akagi, Hood, and Renown—these senior ship girls, some with family members and some with friends—sat around the table. Their gazes felt like real rays of light, giving the ship girls an invisible sense of oppression, as if they were being pricked by needles.

The ship girls at the entrance stared blankly at Xiaobai at first, then at Lexington beside her, their faces slowly turning pale. Finally, as they looked at Lexington with a kind smile, their faces gradually turned ashen.

It’s over.

It's all over.

They groaned inwardly, quickly turning their hands behind their backs and, as if burying their heads in the sand, secretly stuffing the items they had brought back from the comic convention into their ship equipment.

Even after I finished all that, my heart was still pounding.

Saratoga opened his eyes and stared at Lexington, who was looking at him kindly, for a moment.

"elder sister……"

“Saratoga, Tirpitz, welcome back.” Lexington smiled brightly.

“…Admiral!”

"Saratoga, you're back."

"How could this happen at home..."

"Ah, well, it's a long story. To put it simply, more and more ship girls came to visit during the renovations." Xiaobai explained briefly, then stretched out her hand to Saratoga from afar, "Saratoga, you're back just in time. Want to come and have some dinner together?"

In the past, whenever Xiaobai suggested having dinner with Saratoga, Saratoga would always wholeheartedly agree, with both hands and feet and her golden retriever in full force.

But at that moment, Saratoga, who had just received the invitation, suddenly felt a chill on her neck.

"I...I'm not hungry..."

Saratoga tried to refuse, but before she could react, she suddenly felt herself being shoved hard several times from behind. Saratoga lost her balance and took two steps toward the living room.

There was nowhere to step in the living room. Saratoga felt as soon as she stepped into the living room, several destroyers' hands suddenly grabbed her thighs like vines, digging deep into her flesh, making it impossible for her to break free.

Saratoga looked down and saw several destroyers staring at her with bright, piercing eyes.

"Sister Saratoga, you're here?"

"Sister Saratoga, we have a seat here, please come over!"

"..."

Saratoga turned around, his eyes wide with anger.

Behind Saratoga, her previously united ship girl teammates suddenly vanished as if their feet were greased. Seeing that Shiro hadn't had a chance to invite them, they all turned into black shadows and disappeared from the room.

In an instant, Saratoga was left with only Tirpitz and a few Abyssal Fleet members.

Saratoga: %……%￥!

Saratoga had a million swear words in his mind.

Where are my teammates?

You promised to take me next time.

How could you have sold yourself out like that!

Saratoga was heartbroken.

"Don't panic." At this moment, the remaining Tirpitz didn't run away. She sighed and walked into the living room next to Saratoga, reaching out to pat Saratoga on the back. "I'll come too."

“Tirpitz… Waaah—” Saratoga cried, overwhelmed with emotion, “I thought you would abandon me too…”

“I wish I could, but this is my home, I can’t run away.” Tirpitz’s eyes were somewhat empty.

“…Saratoga.”

Saratoga and Tirpitz, like ship girls going to be executed at a market, crossed mountains and rivers to arrive at Shiro's table.

With a smile, Xiaobai even made room for Saratoga next to him.

Saratoga glanced at the seat that Little White had made for him.

On the other side of the seat, Lexington was leaning on the table with one hand, looking at him with a charming smile.

Saratoga swallowed hard, forced himself to move to his seat, and looked down at the cutlery on the table.

"Saratoga, what do you want to eat? I'll get it for you," Little White asked Saratoga.

"……Meat."

"Okay." Xiaobai picked up a few pieces of sweet and sour pork ribs and handed them to Saratoga's bowl.

Saratoga looked left and right, and realized that after she sat down, neither Lexington nor Little White seemed to have asked her what she was planning to do. She swallowed hard, carefully picked up her chopsticks, and put a rib into her mouth.

"Oh, by the way, Saratoga, I never realized before that you're so good at using chopsticks!"

"Well--"

What else would you like to eat?

"..." Saratoga glanced at the innocent smiling face of the little white dog and felt a little relieved.

—Could it be that, just in case… Xiaobai didn’t actually know that she went to the comic convention and sold her comics?

Saratoga suddenly felt a sense of clarity upon realizing this.

Saratoga breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaobai doesn't know!

Scared me.

Saratoga immediately felt relieved and quickly shoveled down several mouthfuls of rice from her bowl.

Don’t say anything else.

These ribs are delicious.

"Mmm—" Saratoga felt relieved and her appetite was greatly stimulated.

"Is it tasty?"

"Um……"

"This meal was made by Missouri. Missouri's cooking is excellent. Saratoga is very lucky to have caught this meal."

"Mmm..." Saratoga quickly shoveled rice into her mouth.

"If we had come back from the comic convention any later, we wouldn't have been able to eat any," Xiaobai sighed.

"Mmm-hmm-hmm—hmm? Oh cough cough cough cough cough cough cough"

Today's chapter is a two-in-one chapter.

Chapter 1002 Spreading Love in the Center of the World

As soon as Xiaobai finished speaking, Saratoga, who was quickly shoveling rice into his mouth, felt a sudden tremor in his heart.

Saratoga had just instinctively gasped when the mouthful of rice she was eating was sucked into her throat, choking her and causing her to cough violently, covering her mouth.

"Huh? Saratoga, what's wrong?!" Little White didn't expect her words to elicit such a strong reaction from Saratoga, and she asked Saratoga in a bit of fright.

"Oh cough cough, cough cough cough cough cough cough cough water... water cough cough cough..." Saratoga's face turned red.

"Oh oh oh oh! Here!" Xiaobai grabbed the bottled water on the table in a bit of a panic and handed it towards Saratoga.

Saratoga put down his rice bowl, grabbed the bottle of mineral water that Xiaobai handed him, unscrewed the cap, tilted his head back, and chugged it down his throat.

The cool water flowed down Saratoga's fair neck, quickly calming her down.

A bottle of mineral water was rapidly emptied at a visible speed amidst a series of beeping sounds.

"Wow!"

Once the bottle of mineral water was empty, Saratoga, breathing heavily, slammed the empty bottle back onto the table.

"Saratoga, are you alright?" Little White asked worriedly, patting Saratoga's back. "How are you? Don't rush so much next time you eat..."

"Um……"

Saratoga looked at his rice bowl and nodded somewhat ashamedly.

How embarrassing it would be if I, a grown woman, choked like this on a few pieces of pork ribs!

This meal...

As Saratoga pondered this, she seemed to finally remember why she had choked from fright earlier. Her relaxed state of mind instantly tensed up again.

Saratoga turned her head alertly, looking nervously at the little white creature patting her back.

“Little White!” Saratoga asked nervously.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"...You...you...did you know..."

"What do you know... Ah... You mean the comic convention? Yeah, I know, I even went to see you guys at the comic convention this morning, hehe... Saratoga, you really work hard." Xiaobai said to Saratoga with a shy smile.

"!!!" Saratoga looked incredulous.

"Saratoga, you guys were probably too noisy around when you were moving the boxes, so you probably didn't even notice me. I didn't mean to bother you, so I just came back."

"Then...then we'll sell them at the anime convention..."

"I know too. I've seen it too," Xiaobai replied.

"Alas!"

Saratoga trembled with fear.

Xiao Bai! She really knew!!!

She...she...she already knows we're selling her comics!

Saratoga was terrified; he was so scared he could barely hold onto his chopsticks.

When facing Little White, no matter how angry Little White shows, Saratoga, who knows that Little White's gentle nature has nothing to do with chaotic evil, will at least not feel the fear of encountering a natural enemy.

Saratoga feels this way now entirely because she not only has Whitey by her side, but also Lexington.

It's okay if Little White is angry, what's important is that Lexington is angry.

After all, even if Little White is angry, Saratoga can probably calm her down by going up to her and acting cute. But if Lexington is angry, she's not as easy to talk to as Little White. What awaits Saratoga might be a long-awaited "intimate exchange" between the sisters.

—Sa said she was afraid of nothing but the dark room in Lexington.

Going into that place once will lower your sanity level.

Saratoga didn't even dare to look back at Lexington sitting on his other side, afraid of seeing Lexington's smiling face, which carried a faint murderous aura.

"Little little little little white white white white..." trembling Saratoga sensed a threat to her life. "I..."

"Okay, it's alright, let's eat first."

Xiao Bai smiled at Saratoga, then picked up his chopsticks and placed the best piece of pork rib on the table into Saratoga's bowl.

“…Little White…” Saratoga called out, still somewhat shaken, holding the bowl.

"Let's talk later, Missouri's food is getting cold," Little White said to Saratoga with a smile. "Hey, how's the ribs?"

Saratoga paused for a moment, then lowered her head, staring at the rib in her bowl with a complicated expression, remaining silent for a long time.

After a long time.

Saratoga suddenly realized.

Oh wow.

——I understand.

—This is my last meal before I'm executed!

Do I have to face judgment after I finish eating?!

No!

I had just been released from the dark room not long ago.

I don't want to go back to the dark room so soon.

It's so dark and cold there, it's terrifying!

Saratoga's hands, holding the rice bowl, were trembling.

This food! How could I possibly eat it!