Elder brother's garrison

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"Listen to Xiaobai, you should take it." Luo Lian also advised Nia, "Don't refuse, Xiaobai isn't an outsider."

"Ah... well... thank you, Xiaobai and Luolian." Nia blushed at Luolian's words, nodded sweetly, and repeated, "Thank you, Xiaobai, thank you, Luolian."

Luo Lian nodded to Nia. After thinking for a while, as if she had remembered something, she turned to look at Xiao Bai.

"Oh right, Xiaobai."

"Ok?"

"Because there were people watching on the beach the whole time, I didn't have a chance to ask you." Luo Lian looked around the street. By now, the group had approached their residence, and there were hardly any people on the street. She turned to Xiao Bai and said, "I've heard about the battle at sea. How did you manage to make Rome, whose level was only 1, easily defeat those challenger ship girls?"

"Yes, yes, I'm curious too!" Nia stepped forward immediately upon hearing this, her eyes sparkling with curiosity. "I've been curious all day!"

Upon hearing Luo Lian and Nia's voices, the ship girls perked up their ears, waiting for Xiao Bai's reply.

Xiao Bai looked at Nia and Luo Lian, then at the four Veneto sisters, Saratoga, Enterprise, and Changchun Anshan.

"Uh...you all want to know?" Xiaobai blinked and said.

"Yes, yes." Everyone nodded.

"..." Xiaobai frowned and smiled helplessly at everyone.

Didn't I explain Jean Bart's abilities to Luo Lian and Nia this morning...?

Since Jean Bart can appear beside others unnoticed without attracting anyone's attention, making her a "transparent ship girl" on the high seas to help Rome defeat its enemies seems like a perfectly logical idea...

Leaving aside Nia and the ship girls, at least with Luo Lian's intelligence, she shouldn't have been unable to think of this solution.

Seeing Luo Lian's serious and curious expression, Xiao Bai subconsciously glanced at the back of the line.

The last position in the team.

Jean Bart whistled, his arms behind his head, as he walked along, taking in the scenery with a relaxed and cheerful air.

Xiao Bai shifted her gaze back to Luo Lian.

"?" Luo Lian tilted her head.

"……"noob.

Xiao Bai sighed.

really.

Luo Lian wasn't without a solution. The reason she raised this question was simply because, after just one day, she, like everyone else, was forced to forget Jean Bart's abilities... or to put it bluntly, she simply forgot that Jean Bart even existed.

Nia, along with the other ship girls, also forgot about Jean Bart's existence.

Jean Bart's "observer" ability is continuously and passively effective. Even Jean Bart herself can only selectively disable her ability for a short while by actively communicating with others.

Being a bystander is indeed a bizarre skill.

But from this perspective... such a powerful and abnormal ability seems to be a double-edged sword.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai sighed softly.

"Do you still remember the name of my special ship girl?" Xiaobai asked.

"Huh? I remember, we went out together this morning, wasn't her name..." Everyone paused, answering instinctively, but then stopped abruptly, frowning. "...Wait... what's Shiro's special ship girl called again...?"

Jeanbart.

"Oh right! Jean Bart!" Everyone suddenly realized, "That's right! It's Jean Bart, the one who can make others ignore him!"

As Xiaobai called out the name, everyone seemed to have been enlightened and began to recall.

Xiao Bai smiled at everyone.

"Remember this, her name is Jean Bart."

Chapter 2694 Jean Bart's Reward

"Oh! That's right! Since Jean Bart's ability is to make others completely ignore him, then secretly helping Rome fight on the sea should be an easy thing to do!"

As the conversation progressed, Nia and Luo Lian both realized what was happening.

With Xiaobai's reminder, Nia and Luo Lian remembered Jean Bart's matter again, and the mystery that had puzzled them before was solved.

"Look at my brain, oh dear." Nia tapped her forehead with her free hand, then gave Xiaobai an embarrassed laugh. "So Jean Bart really did secretly help Rome in the fight, didn't he? It's such a simple thing, yet I couldn't figure it out even after thinking about it all day. I'm so stupid..."

"Xiao Bai, you ordered Jean Bart to secretly help Rome in the battle. Won't that leave some evidence against you?" Luo Lian asked worriedly. "I remember there should be quite a few people on the sea using cameras or something to film videos... Maybe the Admiral's Guild members are among them. What if their equipment captures Jean Bart..."

"It's alright." Xiaobai smiled and shook her head. She explained to Luo Lian, "Although Jean Bart's ability is to become invisible, it's not that he really becomes invisible. His ability works on people. Even if someone captures Jean Bart's image in video footage, it's still people who will be watching the video footage, right?"

"Oh...so even if someone sees Jean Bart in the video footage, no one will recognize her?" Luo Lian asked rhetorically.

"Yes. That makes sense."

"I see." Luo Lian nodded.

"Besides, even if something unexpected happens and Barth is eventually discovered, it doesn't matter." Xiao Bai held up a finger and smiled at Luo Lian. "I'm not lying."

"Hmm?" Nia, who was standing nearby, leaned over curiously when she heard this. "What do you mean?"

"I told these admirals from the very beginning that today's tournament is a practice battle between special ship girls and them," Xiaobai explained. "We never said that Rome was a special ship girl. I also sent real special ship girls to the sea, and the ones fighting against all the challengers are also special ship girls. It's just that these people are completely unaware of it."

"Ah... I see..." Nia suddenly realized.

"I never imagined you'd become so smart, Xiaobai." Luo Lian nodded, her gaze towards Xiaobai revealing a great deal of approval.

"hey-hey."

……

They chatted and laughed all the way.

After returning to Nia's residence, Xiaobai and his group dispersed on the spot.

Nia and her ship girls ran to the resource warehouse with a full load of rapid repair devices, while Luo Lian hurried back to the dormitory, saying she needed to properly organize the list of admirals for Chapter 8.

"Wow...I'm hungry!"

"Admiral! Let's go back for dinner!"

"Want to go to the cafeteria together?"

After Nia and Luo Lian left, the ship girls behind Xiao Bai all asked Xiao Bai questions.

"I'll wait for Nia and Lianlian to come back before we go together." Xiaobai looked at the enthusiastic ship girls in front of her, smiled and waved gently, "You guys go first today."

"oh----"

The ship girls from Xiaobai's family responded somewhat dejectedly after being politely refused by Xiaobai, but they quickly adjusted their mood and gave Xiaobai smiles.

"Alright, Admiral, let's head to the canteen first!"

"Mmm, enjoy your meal!"

The ship girls' possessiveness towards Shiro wasn't exaggerated to the point of being inseparable from him. Normally, when they were at the naval base, the ship girls liked to stick to Shiro all day long. But now that they were out and about, the ship girls were obviously much more sensible. They knew to give Shiro some social space.

Xiao Bai stood there, smiling as he watched the company, Da Feng, Changchun, and Anshan lead the reluctant Saratoga towards the cafeteria.

"Jean Barth, don't play pranks on me, okay?" Little White turned his head and said with a smile to the person behind him.

"Eh? Hehe..." Jean Bart quickly withdrew his hands, which were making a peace sign behind Shiro's back, then scratched his head and gave Shiro an awkward but polite smile. "So you've been found out... Admiral, how exactly did you ignore my abilities?"

"Aren't you going to the cafeteria with the others?" Xiaobai asked.

"Ugh... eating at the cafeteria is such a hassle," Jean Bart sighed. "Even if I obediently take my tray to get the food, the lady serving the food won't even notice me. Besides, with so many people, it's inconvenient for someone as invisible as me to stand in line..."

"what……"

“Red bean bread is definitely tastier, hmm.” Jean Bart crossed his arms and nodded in complete agreement.

“Looks like I need to think of a way to get the people in my own garrison to notice you.” Little White stared at Jean Bart’s face and said, “For those who don’t notice you, having enemies is enough.”

"It's pretty cool, after all, it's a passive skill." Jean Bart shrugged. "Besides, it's actually pretty good as it is now."

"Jean-Barthes doesn't like being noticed?"

"If everyone can see me, how can I slack off?"

"...I can see you, you know."

"Hehe, that's exactly what I'm talking about!" Jean Bart pointed at Little White triumphantly. "Even if you, Admiral, can see me, you can only drag me to the training ground at most! As long as the others on the training ground don't notice me, I can still slack off openly!"

"...You're only one day old and you're already thinking about slacking off."

"I'm not the type who can work all the time~ Slacking off is the best, slacking off is the best."

"But you'll get really bored if nobody talks to you, right?" Xiaobai asked again.

"It's okay, if I'm really bored, I'll just go and chat with someone." Jean Bart chuckled. "My skill stops working when I initiate a conversation. The sisters at the naval base are all very nice; as long as you're willing to strike up a conversation, you can always have a great chat!"

"It really is a perfectly self-consistent logic..." Xiao Bai looked at Jean Bart and smiled helplessly.

"Oh? By the way, Admiral, when I was chatting with the people at our naval base yesterday, they mentioned that we seem to have quite a few ship girls here." Jean Bart approached Shiro and asked, "Is our naval base very powerful? How powerful? What's its world ranking?"

"Just an ordinary world number one."

"Wow."

"what's wrong?"

"Then wouldn't I have even less to do?" Jean Bart opened his beautiful big eyes, the left side of his two bright pupils saying "touch" and the right side saying "fish".

“…From today onwards, I will personally supervise your training.” Xiaobai was silent for a moment before speaking to Jean Bart.

"No, Admiral!" Jean Bart's body went limp, clinging to Whitey like a lump of mud. "I've already tried my best today! I helped you defeat so many ship girls, Admiral! I'm completely exhausted. Please reward me and let me rest—"

"It's just standing on the water and shooting targets, it shouldn't be that tiring for the ship girls, right?"

"Admiral, you've never been a ship girl before!" Jean Bart, who was sitting on the ground with her arms around Shiro's waist, pouted, looked up at Shiro, and began to argue, "You have no idea how tired I am!"

"..." Xiaobai looked at Jean Bart's puffed-up cheeks, smiled slightly, and reached out to touch Jean Bart's forehead. "Alright then, here's your reward."

"Really?"

"Anything is fine except slacking off."

“Hey—what use is this reward to me—” Jean Bart cried out in agony.

"You'd better hurry up and think about what reward you want," Xiaobai said to Jeanbart with a smile. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

“…Hmm.” Jeanbart felt the touch of the white hand, and after thinking for a moment, she lowered her head. “Then…”

"That?"

"I don't need material rewards. With my abilities, I can get anything." Jean Bart thought for a moment, glanced in the direction of the cafeteria, and then said to Shiro, "Oh... speaking of which, Admiral, we are the world's number one naval base, right?"

“Yes, it’s the real deal.” Xiao Bai patted his chest. “Want to see my admiral’s certificate?”

"No, no—" Jean Bart quickly shook her head, then asked Xiaobai, "Then, Admiral, do we have a lot of ship girls in our naval base?"

"That's it."

"Do they have all kinds of ship girls?"

"Should be...?" Xiaobai tilted her head. "Not all ship girls have them... For example, Nia's Littorio, our naval base doesn't have her, but most of them should..."

"So, you mean I have a sister too?" Jean Bart asked, pointing to himself with interest.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was stunned. "Who?"

"She's my sister, my sister!" Jean Bart shook Whitey's arm with interest, his eyes wide like a destroyer as he excitedly asked, "I'm the second ship of the Richelieu class, so Richelieu is my sister! Admiral, Admiral, is there a Richelieu in our naval base?"

"Uh..." Xiaobai covered her mouth, looking embarrassed.

"Huh? No?" Jeanbart paused for a moment, then lowered her hand, a look of disappointment flashing in her eyes.

“It’s not that there isn’t one…” Xiaobai stammered, “If you’re talking about Richelieu, there is one in our garrison… but… um…”

Xiao Bai pondered for a long time, but he didn't dare to tell Jean Bart that "I kidnapped your sister."

"What! There really is one!" Jean Bart's face lit up with joy and anticipation upon hearing this. She quickly stood up and took Little White's hand. "Then, Admiral! I've already thought of my reward! It's... after we return to the naval base, how about you personally take me to see Sister Richelieu!"

Chapter 2695 This ability is still highly effective in the deep sea.

After Jean Bart finished explaining the reward, he immediately gave Xiaobai a smug look.

“Jean Barth…you want to see Richelieu?” Little White asked.

“Yes,” Jeanbart nodded. “Hmm? Does the Admiral find that strange?”

"No, that's not it." Xiaobai shook her head.

Xiao Bai actually understands Jean Bart's impulse to meet Richelieu.