Elder brother's garrison

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“Ah, okay!” Elizabeth replied instinctively, as if she had been granted a pardon.

After answering, seemingly worried that she might have revealed too much of her relief, Elizabeth cautiously turned to look at Lexington. When she found that Lexington didn't react at all, but just smiled gently at her, she breathed a sigh of relief. Then, she bowed apologetically to both Little White and Lexington, and ran ahead to the place where the clothes were hanging up to dry.

“What a lovely child…” Lexington smiled slightly as he watched Elizabeth’s departing figure. “I think I can understand why Akagi seems to like her so much.”

“Elizabeth has been very considerate of our base recently, sending us whatever seafood she catches from the sea as soon as possible,” Xiaobai said to Lexington. “We even eat together sometimes.”

"I see." Lexington nodded slightly, then looked at Saratoga beside her. "Gaga, keep up the good work!"

"Huh?" Saratoga tilted her head, looking completely bewildered by Lexington's expression, and didn't straighten up for a long time.

"..." Lexington ruffled Saratoga's hair, then said to Little White, "Anyway, let's put aside the gossip for now... Now that we're here, could you tell me about what's been going on in Chapter Eight sometime?"

“Oh, sure! Hmm… Let’s go inside the villa first. After all, I haven’t been here the whole time, so my explanations aren’t detailed enough. Hood’s free too, and I left my notebook with her. We can go find her.”

Xiaobai led the ship girls into the villa.

In the villa.

Hu De sat comfortably on a small wooden stool, facing the sun, with an Oscar in his hand.

"Although conditions are tough here in Chapter Eight, and we can't hold afternoon tea parties, it's quite pleasant to be able to quietly bask in the sun occasionally." Hood stroked Oscar's soft, smooth fur, enjoying the wonderful feel emanating from Oscar, and sighed softly, "Hmm... it would be even better if we could drink some black tea, what do you think, Oscar?"

"Meow..."

Oscar, with his eyes drooping, lay on Hood's lap, yawned, and made a token squeak.

"It's a pity I can't understand cat language. I wish I could know what you're saying, Oscar," Hood said, squinting and gently patting Oscar's belly.

“Gagaga—it’s saying that if people don’t work hard, they’ll end up like it, becoming women’s toys.” Suddenly, a loud, booming voice rang out beside Hood.

"Huh? A man's voice?!" Hood was startled by the voice. She quickly sat up and looked around, only to see Little White and Lexington standing next to her. Behind them stood a long line of aircraft carrier ship girls, among whom Essex was not far away, expressionlessly covering the beak of the talkative Bald Eagle in her arms.

"Bell, don't speak." Essex's ruby-red eyes were devoid of emotion.

"Caw caw! Ooh ooh—" The bald eagle's head was pressed into Essex's arms. It made a trumpet-like sound, flapped its large wings, and finally, with a ding, its whole body went limp and turned black and white, quietly falling into Essex's arms.

Hood looked at Lexington in surprise.

While Hood was distracted, Oscar kicked off Hood's leg and ran out of the villa in a flash, disappearing from sight.

"Lexington? And the Commander? Wait, when did you all get here..." Hood didn't look for Oscar; she just stared at Lexington in surprise, speechless. "You..."

Hood had been resting and recuperating all day, and taking the time to pet her cat. Seeing how carefree Hood was, Xiaobai hadn't told her about her and Lexington's plans. So when Hood saw Lexington, who had been waiting a thousand miles away, appear in front of her with a large group of ship girls, she was initially caught off guard.

"As you can see, we've come to help too."

"Uh... oh..." Hood paused for a moment, her gaze instinctively glancing behind her. Then, as if realizing something, she smiled and nodded slightly. "...It's Super-Big, right..."

"Ah."

"Is this also part of the commander's plan?"

“Yeah, I just thought of it this morning.” Xiaobai glanced back at the villa, then held up a finger to her lips at Hood. “So please don’t tell Elizabeth or the others…”

"Don't worry, I'm a British lady, I have all the manners I need." Hood smiled slightly and said to Little White, patting her chest.

“That’s perfect. Lexington and the others are new here, so I’ll leave it to you, Hood, to explain our experiences in Chapter Eight to them.”

"Ugh... why did I have to come..." Hood muttered resentfully, seemingly quite upset that his vacation time had been ruined.

“After all, Hood, you are one of the backbones of the naval base, aren’t you… Of course, it’s not appropriate to let the lady just talk on and on…” Lexington chuckled, then squatted down and took out several plates of what looked like freshly baked pastries, a few tea sets, and black tea bags from her ship equipment space. “If you don’t mind, how about we have an afternoon tea party?”

"Huh? This is freshly baked..."

"Before I left, I thought you might like this, so I asked Reputation to make some. I hope you like it."

"I love it, I love it so much!" Hood nodded with delight and excitement. She quickly pulled out several wooden stools from behind her and said to the ship girls in front of her, "It's just storytelling! I'm very good at it! Come on, come on, let's do it right the first time, Hood's Sunflower Lecture is about to begin!"

Lexington went outside the villa to fetch a kettle of hot water and brewed the tea bags.

Before long, the sweet aroma of pastries and the fragrant scent of tea filled the villa.

Hu De sniffed the air, gently picked up a cup of black tea, brought it to his lips, and took a light sniff before revealing an expression of enjoyment.

"Indeed...afternoon tea is the best...that's what a lady should do."

Hu De was moved.

Chapter 1922 It's so good!

Hu De picked up his teacup, took a deep breath, savored the aroma of the tea, and smiled contentedly.

"In short... let's start from the day we arrived at Chapter Eight." Hood took a sip of tea, cleared her throat, and then began to speak to the ship girls sitting around her. "That day, we traversed the arid jungle and arrived at this wilderness..."

Don't let Hood's seemingly idle lifestyle at the newbie naval base fool you. As the world's most outstanding British lady (self-proclaimed), her storytelling skills are truly exceptional. If there were an award for the best storyteller among the newbie naval base's ship girls, Hood would at least be in the top three, if not number one.

A small table propped up, a life of peace and tranquility.

Hood began to tell the ship girls about what the newbie naval base had experienced in Chapter 8. Although most of her words were improvised, every word she spoke was concise and to the point, giving it an epic feel. The plot was full of twists and turns, vivid and interesting, and left a lasting impression. Before they knew it, the ship girls present were captivated and listened with great interest.

After Xiaobai finished two cups of black tea and two pieces of cake, Hood, who was in the center of the gathering, continued to talk eloquently. The ship girls at the table listened attentively, their eyes shining, showing no signs of fatigue.

Hu De's story is indeed very well told.

However, the thought that she was the protagonist in Hu De's story made Xiao Bai feel a little ashamed. She had forced herself to listen for the time it takes to drink two cups of tea, but now her face was burning and she couldn't take it anymore.

So Xiaobai secretly put down her teacup and quietly left her seat.

Hood didn't notice Xiaobai's departure. She was already engrossed in the story and unconsciously began to use her years of experience watching midday soap operas to add some artistic exaggeration to her tale. The story she told gradually transformed from an ordinary expedition into a dramatic and exciting one, with one wave of plot twist after another, complex relationships between characters, tangled love affairs, and clever misunderstandings. Whenever Hood reached a profound point, the ship girls at the table couldn't help but applaud and cheer. In the end, not only the twenty ship girls from Lexington, but even other new ship girls from the naval base who happened to be passing by gathered around and cheered with curiosity.

Listening to the increasingly exaggerated stories behind him, Xiaobai unconsciously quickened his pace and left Hude's side, running to a relatively quiet place.

As Hood moved further away from the wooden table, his voice gradually faded away.

Xiao Bai found a blind spot in the corner of the villa that wasn't easily noticed, then took out a cushion from his ship equipment space, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down.

"Phew... I just wanted Hood to casually tell Lexington and the others about Chapter 8... I didn't expect Hood to turn it into a long and dramatic stand-up comedy routine... Hood is really something, how come she's getting more and more off-topic..." Xiaobai sighed helplessly, glancing at the group of ship girls gathered in the distance, "It's so lively over there, I can't go up and explain, I can only hope that the ship girls over there won't misunderstand anything after listening to her..."

"...No coincidence is too good to be true." A faint voice came from behind Xiaobai.

"Huh? Who?" Xiaobai was startled by the voice that suddenly appeared behind her. She quickly turned around and looked in the direction of the voice.

Then, Xiaobai unexpectedly discovered that Tirpitz was holding a handheld game console, with a power bank lying flat on his stomach, and was curled up in a rather strange position in a recess in the wall.

"Huh? Tirpitz?!" Little White exclaimed in surprise. "When did you get here...?"

“I’ve been here all along…you just didn’t notice me.” Tirpitz put down his handheld console and gestured for White to be quiet. “Shh…be quiet. Don’t reveal my location.”

"Oh..." Little White quickly covered her mouth, blinked, and looked at Tirpitz huddled in the wall recess with a confused expression. Then she tilted her head and couldn't help but cover her mouth and ask in a low voice, "Um... Tirpitz, what exactly are you doing here...?"

“Of course I’m hiding from my sister.” Tirpitz picked up her handheld game console and calmly said while rubbing the controller, “If my sister catches me, she’ll definitely drag me outside for physical training… I’m just a homebody, I’ll die from sunbathing too much, please leave me alone.”

“Ah… speaking of which, Eugen did mention something similar before…” Xiaobai subconsciously looked around the villa and, sure enough, found Bismarck kneeling in front of Tirpitz’s empty bed at the other end, expressionlessly searching for Tirpitz’s whereabouts. “…Ah…”

Xiao Bai sensed a gaze from Tirpitz.

She turned her head to look at Tirpitz and found him staring at her intently.

"My dear sister, don't betray me," Tirpitz said earnestly to Little White.

“…Uh…” Xiaobai gave a wry smile. “Well… if you’re keeping Bismarck in the dark for Tirpitz, it’s really putting me in a difficult position… How about this, as long as Bismarck doesn’t come to me asking about your whereabouts, I won’t tell her, okay?”

"Hmm." Tirpitz nodded, continuing to immerse himself in the world of the handheld game.

Seeing Tirpitz playing the game alone, Xiaobai, who had nothing to do, quietly went over to kill some time.

Tirpitz was playing a game with a very cute art style. The protagonist was a plumber in a red shirt, carrying a hammer and accompanied by a few followers, hammering around in a colorful paper world. Xiaobai remembered that the last time she saw this plumber character was in a very old side-scrolling platformer where you could eat mushrooms to grow bigger and stomp on enemies to grab flagpoles. She didn't expect this character to be so famous and appear in other games as well.

Xiaobai watched the screen of the Tirpitz handheld game console.

Tirpitz acted as if the newbie didn't exist, continuing to fiddle with the game console controller.

suddenly.

Just as Xiaobai was engrossed in the game's storyline, Tirpitz's handheld game console beeped, then the screen suddenly went black and stopped responding.

"Huh? Is the power out?" Little White asked Tirpitz.

"..." Tirpitz held the handheld game console with a sense of loss. She looked down at the power bank on her stomach and sighed softly, "Sigh... it's out of power."

"What about the other power banks?"

“We’ve used them all up. That was the last one.” Tirpitz patted the handheld game console, put his hands behind his head, looked at the cracks in the wall grooves, and sighed, “…Poor Bomb Bin…”

"Bomb Bin?"

“The character who just died in the game,” Tirpitz said.

The character Tirpitz mentioned, named Bomb Bin, is a new sidekick that the protagonist recently recruited in the game she just played. He looks like a black bomb, very cartoonish, and cute. In the recent adventure, in order to save the female protagonist who was trapped under a large rock, he chose to sacrifice himself, lit the fuse on his head, and self-destructed to break the rock and finally rescue the female protagonist.

That scene brought tears to my eyes.

Unfortunately, Tirpitz's handheld game console lost power shortly after that.

"Oh...oh...um, it's a very cute character..." Xiaobai nodded in realization, then said with a sigh, "Yeah...so tragic...it's a pity the game console ran out of battery, I wonder what the rest of the story is like...what's the name of this game?"

“This game is newly released, it’s called…” Tirpitz opened her mouth to say something, but before she could finish, her gaze was suddenly drawn to Hood’s party in the distance. She unconsciously closed her mouth and silently watched Hood’s party for a short while, “…”

Tirpitz's gaze lingered for a moment on the aircraft carrier ship girls who had just reached Chapter 8 beside Hood.

"Huh? What's the name of the game? Tirpitz?" Xiaobai was still waiting for Tirpitz to say the name of the game, but when she suddenly stopped talking, she couldn't help but remind her.

"...Did they just arrive?" Tirpitz looked at Shiro and gestured to the aircraft carrier girls in the distance.

"Oh...yes, it just arrived." Xiaobai glanced at Hood a few times following Tirpitz's gaze, then nodded in reply, "It was delivered by Chaodahe...what's up?"

“No…” Tirpitz said, then paused for a moment before solemnly emerging from the wall recess. She sat cross-legged in front of Little White and looked up at him very seriously. “Little White… next time you go back to the naval base, please take me with you.”

"Huh? You're going back to the garrison?"

“Go back and charge it.” Tirpitz pointed to his game console. “Besides, I haven’t had any chips in a week. Let me go back and have some.”

“Uh…this…” Xiaobai hesitated, and thought for a while.

Xiaobai roughly understands Tirpitz's desire to return to the naval base. Once Chaoda and her strength have recovered, taking her back to the naval base wouldn't be a troublesome matter.

but……

Previously, it was understandable to use Super Yamato's teleportation ability in order to implement the Naval Base Plan, but if Super Yamato's ability is used only for personal selfish desires... Xiaobai feels that the impact is not good and it is not very fair to Super Yamato.

“Um, Tirpitz… I think the abilities of Super Yamato should be used for more righteous purposes, such as…”

"Bomb Bin".

"what?"

“Bomb Bin…” Tirpitz spoke up, holding up his handheld game console and looking at Xiaobai with a serious expression, “Don’t you want to know what happens after Bomb Bin self-destructs…”

"……"noob.

Of course.

After reaching a deal with the Deep Sea Crane, the sea area in Chapter 8 is now safe in a sense.

During this period, Xiaobai felt that even if Tirpitz went back to the naval base a few times, there wouldn't be any major problems on the sea.

Chapter 1923 The Vanishing Grapes

After dinner time.

After a period of rest, Super Yamato's stamina had almost recovered. After asking Super Yamato if its stamina was barely enough and receiving a completely okay reply, that night, Shiro, Lexington, and Tirpitz secretly took Super Yamato's vortex portal back to the cafeteria entrance of the newbie naval base.

"This ability is really overpowered." Stepping out of the vortex portal, Tirpitz stared at the cafeteria door behind her, looking at the scattered ship girls still eating dinner inside, and muttered to herself, "If I could use it, I could go to any anime convention in the world whenever I wanted."

“You can’t just use Super Yamato’s abilities recklessly. The main reason I was sending you back this time was to take Lexington back to the naval base, and I only gave you a ride along the way, Tirpitz.” White said to Tirpitz seriously, “So it’s an exception, an exception!”

"Okay, okay, I understand." Tirpitz looked away and gave a thumbs up to the huge object behind him.

"I never expected Tirpitz to come back with us this time." Lexington looked at Tirpitz with a smile and said, "Tirpitz, do you... have some important business to attend to at the naval base?"

“Give it to You…” Tirpitz opened her mouth to speak, but Little White behind her ran forward quickly, jumped up and covered Tirpitz’s mouth.

"Tirpitz...she...she remembered she left something at the naval base!" Little White covered Tirpitz's mouth and smiled awkwardly at Lexington.

Little White didn't want Lexington to know that the reason she sent Tirpitz back to the naval base was to charge her game console...

“…I see. I understand.” Lexington smiled gently at Xiaobai’s nervous look, but didn’t ask any more questions. “Since you have something important to do, then go and do it quickly… As for me, I’ll go back to my office first to tidy up some documents.”

“Ah, I’ll go with you, Lexington too,” Little White said to Lexington, letting go of Tirpitz.

"Hmm? No need. Actually, I finished most of my work this morning. Going now is just to check for any omissions or deficiencies."

"I think I'll come along... After all, with one more person, we can finish work faster, right?" Xiaobai said to Lexington with a smile, "It's late at night, so you can go to sleep earlier, Lexington."

“…Since Xiaobai has said so…” Lexington smiled slightly, “then I shall respectfully comply.”

"Tirpitz, can you get home by yourself?" Little White asked Tirpitz.