Elder brother's garrison

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Standing outside the door, Xiaobai listened to the lively commands coming from inside the room. Curious, he tiptoed carefully to the door, picked up the doorpost, and looked into the room.

Inside the room, Kaga and Yamato Fukami, who had just entered, were seen carrying a broom and a mop, respectively. The two of them were like a whirlwind, shouting slogans as they dragged the mop back and forth on the floor.

"Oh la la la la la"

The deep sea and great rivers uttered a voice full of fighting spirit.

Deep Sea Yamato activated three times its normal speed, so fast that it seemed its limbs were moving so fast they were almost becoming phantoms.

As Yamato and Kaga worked, the floor in the room, which had been somewhat dusty, was soon polished to a waxy shine. Even the furniture, such as tables, chairs, and other furniture, were wiped until they shone brightly by Yamato's rag.

—Hmm, so this is the maid power of Deep Sea Yamato.

Xiao Bai smiled as she watched this, then looked away.

In the courtyard, Chi Cheng had already taken apart and washed Bai Ying's bedding. At this moment, Bai Ying was standing next to Chi Cheng with a washbasin in her hand, and the two of them chatted idly while hanging up the clothes.

Bai Ying integrates into her social circle really quickly...

Xiao Bai looked at Bai Ying with some admiration.

Just then, Yamato Fukami, who had finished cleaning and was carrying cleaning tools, came out of the room yawning as he stretched.

"Ughhhh—finally finished cleaning, I'm exhausted... Seriously... I finally get to go on a business trip and I still have to work overtime... If they don't pay me four times my normal wage when I get back, I'm going to sue Lexington for exploiting deep-sea labor!"

Deep Sea Yamato muttered something under his breath as he walked past Shiro, clutching a large bundle of brooms.

Shiro, who had been hiding in the pillar behind the door, came out and quickly followed Akami Yamato. She then reached out and gently patted Akami Yamato's shoulder.

"Thank you for your hard work, Yamato!" Shiro called out to Yamato from the Deep Sea.

"Ouch!!!"

The moment Shiro patted Yamato on the shoulder, Yamato screamed like a cat whose tail had been grabbed.

As Shiro touched him, Yamato's body stiffened instantly. In a flash, he threw off the cleaning tools and leaped forward like a cat with its fur standing on end, leaping out of Shiro's reach like lightning. Once out of Shiro's reach, Yamato quickly turned around, hunched over, and glared fiercely at Shiro's direction with lingering shock.

"..." Xiaobai was startled by Shenhai Yamato's gaze.

"……what."

When he saw that the person behind him was Shiro and not anyone else, the fierce expression on Yamato's face froze for a moment, and then quickly disappeared.

"Eh? It's Shiro..." Yamato straightened up and waved at Shiro with some trepidation.

"Uh... Yamato-neechan..." Shiro withdrew her hand, looking at Deep Sea Yamato with a bit of a loss, "Did I...did I scare you?"

While at the naval base, Yamato Abyss was arguably the person, besides Missouri, who had the most physical contact with Shiro.

Deepsea Yamato and Shiro are as close as sisters. When they lived together, they not only slept together and took showers together, but they also often did intimate things like hugging, lifting each other up, kissing each other's cheeks, and rubbing against each other's chests.

Usually, when Shiro pats Yamato on the shoulder from behind, Yamato will happily turn around, shout "Wow, it's Shiro!" and then pick her up and spin her around.

However, this is the first time that Xiaobai has been attacked by Shenhai Dahei today.

Honestly, watching Deepsea Yamato jump so far away as if it were nothing after being touched, and even glaring at him with the look one only has when encountering an enemy, Xiaobai felt a little hurt.

"Ah cough cough cough... No, no, you didn't scare me."

Upon seeing the aggrieved expression on Shiro's face, Yamato coughed several times and then strode over to him. "Oh... it's Shiro..."

"Yamato-neechan, um, what were you doing just now...?"

"Uh...no, I don't know..." Yamato squinted, subconsciously touched his shoulder, and moved around uncomfortably. "Just now...I suddenly felt like I was pricked by something."

"You got pricked?" Xiao Bai was taken aback and quickly looked down at her hand. "There's nothing sharp on my hand."

"Ah, I'm not talking about the physical thorns, it's about that, what's that saying again? I remember the deep-sea supply ship told me about it a few days ago..." Deep-sea Yamato frowned, thinking for a while with difficulty, "Hmm, like sitting on pins and needles? Or like being pricked by thorns? Anyway, I felt a thorn behind me, and then the whole back of my neck felt cold—I thought the person standing behind me was Bai Ying."

"Huh? Bai Ying?"

“Yeah, that’s the feeling I got from Bai Ying before.” Shenhai Yamato said, reaching out to hug Xiaobai and patting its head. “I’m sorry… I mistook you for someone else… I never felt this way when Xiaobai was behind me before… Maybe I’m just being too sensitive today…”

There was also some sadness in Yamato's voice.

It seems that although Shiro was a little disappointed after being scolded by Yamato Aqua, Yamato Aqua was actually more disappointed than Shiro, who had mistaken him for someone else.

"Did Yamato-neechan scare me just now because she mistook me for Bai Ying...?" Xiaobai murmured, letting Shenhai Yamato's arm pull her into her chest.

Two cool, soft mounds of flesh pressed against her cheeks through a maid outfit, and Shiro instinctively reached out and touched Yamato's waist.

Just as Xiaobai touched Shenhai Yamato's waist, he suddenly felt a stiffness in Shenhai Yamato's waist, as if facing a formidable enemy.

"……"noob.

"Oh dear... I'm not feeling well today..." Yamato Akagi, with beads of cold sweat on his forehead, forced a smile at Shiro. "Uh... I guess I'm not feeling well... How did this happen..."

"...Ah." Xiaobai suddenly seemed to have figured something out. "Yamato-neechan, do you still feel anything when you look at Bai Ying now?"

"Feelings? I don't feel anything... Ah, speaking of which, Bai Ying doesn't seem to give me that feeling of fear anymore." Shenhai Yamato said strangely after being reminded by Xiaobai, "I faced her a few times when she was moving earlier, and I looked at her just like I looked at an ordinary person... If you put it that way, it's like that strange feeling she gave me has transferred from her to you."

"Ah... I see." After Yamato Akagi said that, Shiro finally breathed a sigh of relief.

When Yamato first met Bai Ying, she told Xiao Bai that she sensed a rather strange atmosphere emanating from Bai Ying.

Every time Bai Ying looked at her, Shen Hai Yamato felt as if she were being watched by some terrifying monster, sending chills down her spine.

Previously, both Xiaobai and Shenhai Yamato thought that this might be due to the incompatibility between Baiying and Shenhai Yamato. After all, one is a ship girl who has been passed down from a previous generation, and the other is the Dean of Shenhai who has lived from a previous generation to the present. They might not be able to see eye to eye from the start.

But now, Yamato Akagi tells Shiro that she feels the sense of threat that was originally directed at Bai Ying has now shifted to Shiro.

—Only after hearing this did Xiaobai understand why Deep Sea Yamato's reaction was so strange this time.

It turns out that what gave Yamato the intense sense of threat wasn't Bai Ying, but rather the magical military knife that Bai Ying had been holding...

The knife was originally always with Bai Ying, so when Bai Ying held the knife, Shenhai Yamato probably mistook the source of the threat for a military knife.

Now that the military knife is in Xiaobai's hands, the source of this sense of threat has naturally changed to Xiaobai.

"Yamato-neechan, take a look at this." Shiro pushed Yamato's belly and got out of Yamato's arms. She took a few steps back and reached into her ship equipment space to pull out a long, rectangular object that was tightly wrapped in a strip of cloth.

"Hmm? This... is this the knife Bai Ying used that you bit into?" Shenhai Yamato asked, looking at the long, narrow object wrapped in cloth. "What happened to this knife?"

"Hmm. Yamato-neechan, feel it."

"Oh." Yamato Fukami nodded, then reached out and touched the military knife in Shiro's hand.

At first, Yamato Shinkai didn't react much to the sight of the military knife in Shiro's hand.

But when Yamato's five fingers first touched the cloth strip wrapped around the saber, her originally calm face suddenly turned pale.

"Alas!"

Deep Sea Yamato instinctively cried out, her shoulders trembling. As if electrocuted, she quickly withdrew her hand, then shook it violently a few times before finally staring at the military knife in Shiro's hand with some suspicion in her purple eyes.

"What, what is this...?"

Just now, when Yamato Akagi touched the military knife with her fingertips, a chilling and terrifying sensation surged through her body like a thunderclap, forcing her to release her hands.

The feeling was as if I wasn't touching a military knife separated by fabric, but a hissing silver serpent pointing at me.

Chapter 1024 The Distant Identity

Seeing that Abyss Yamato was staring intently at the saber in his hand with a confused and serious expression, Shiro breathed a sigh of relief and put the saber back into his ship equipment space.

"Xiaobai, what's that?" Only after Xiaobai put the saber into the ship's equipment space did Abyss Yamato finally breathe a sigh of relief. She wiped the fine sweat from her forehead and asked Xiaobai.

"Ah... this is what Bai Ying just gave me... um, it's that military knife... I don't know anything else about it." Xiao Bai said to Shen Hai Yamato, "That unpleasant feeling you mentioned before, Yamato-neechan, might just be emanating from this knife..."

"Huh? I, I'm the dignified Dean of the Deep Sea Academy, how could I be afraid of a mere knife? Even if she cuts me, she can still..." Upon hearing this, Deep Sea Yamato immediately puffed out her chest and spoke to Shiro with great indignation. However, halfway through her sentence, her voice lowered, lacking confidence, "Uh... Anyway, you should put that knife away..."

"Mm." Xiaobai nodded.

Yamato Fukami breathed a sigh of relief. She frowned and walked up to Shiro, gently touching Shiro's face.

When Yamato's fingertips touched Shiro's face, he instinctively flinched as if he had been electrocuted.

Yamato's eyelids twitched.

Shiro also looked up at Yamato Abyss and gave a wry smile.

"...Didn't you put that knife into your ship's equipment space...?"

"Uh... I did manage to take it in..." Xiaobai answered somewhat awkwardly, subconsciously reaching out to touch its belly. "Maybe... maybe it hasn't been digested yet..."

The saber was indeed stored in the ship's equipment compartment.

But there's also a "sword" inside Xiaobai's belly now.

For now, Deepsea Yamato experiences a strong aversion to Shiro whenever she comes into contact with him. It's unclear how Shiro will react after he fully digests the saber fragments. Hopefully, this aversion to Deepsea Yamato will disappear by then…

After all, for Shiro, the thought of Yamato being unable to touch him anymore would be incredibly lonely...

Little White touched her belly while secretly thinking to herself.

I hope my stomach and intestines will be in good condition and my digestive function will be optimal in the next two days...

"Huh? What does 'digestion' mean?"

"No, well, I guess I'll be fine in another day or two..." Shiro smiled at Yamato and then shook her head. "I'm fine now. I'm so glad to know that Yamato-neechan isn't avoiding me because she hates me. I'm probably pretty scary to Yamato-neechan right now, so I'll be careful about how far I keep my distance from you. During this time, please don't force yourself on me... Ugh!!"

Before Xiaobai could finish speaking, everything suddenly went black.

Deep Sea Yamato stepped forward and hugged Shiro tightly once again.

Back in the familiar embrace, Shiro was somewhat surprised to feel the cool temperature emanating from Yamato.

"Yamato-neechan, you..."

"I'm also the Dean of the Deep Sea Academy, don't I have any pride? It's just a knife, just a knife..." Deep Sea Yamato's voice rang in Xiaobai's ear.

Shiro wanted to look up at Yamato's face.

Yamato Shinkai pulled Shiro into his arms and pressed his face against hers.

"If people knew that I, Yamato, wouldn't even dare to touch my favorite Shiro because of a mere knife, how could I live with myself? I wouldn't even respect myself!" Yamato stubbornly hugged Shiro, rubbing against it more enthusiastically than ever before, as if this somewhat rough action could help drive away the discomfort in her heart. "This is fine!"

Xiaobai smiled wryly, silently enjoying the sensation of Deep Sea Yamato rubbing against his body.

"Yamato-neechan, there's no need to be stubborn..."

"This is nothing. Do you think I'm the kind of person who cries and whine over a little injury? I'm not even hurt yet, why would I be so dramatic... ah..."

"...But your voice was trembling..."

"...That's...that's because I caught a cold today..."

"……"noob.

Yamato Akami has ship equipment, how could she catch a cold...?

That said, deep-sea amphibious ships, which are not afraid of the cold at all, wouldn't be able to catch a cold even without shipboard equipment...

Thinking this, Xiaobai didn't dismantle the ship, Abyssal Yamato. She was just touched and gently touched Abyssal Yamato's waist.

When Shiro's hands touched Yamato's waist, Yamato's body trembled noticeably.

Xiaobai heard Shenhai Yamato's breathing quicken slightly.

"..." Xiaobai paused for a moment around Deepsea Yamato's waist, then slowly wrapped her arms around Deepsea Yamato's waist. "Thank you, Yamato-neechan..."

"Hmph!" Yamato Akagi let out a sound that was exactly what he expected.

...Now that things have come to this, Xiaobai is certain that this knife is definitely not an ordinary item.

The difference between Abyssal Yamato and Shiro's group is that she is not a ship girl, but an Abyssal amphibious ship.

Perhaps this knife possesses special power against deep-sea amphibious ships?

With this in mind, Xiaobai had a better understanding of the situation.

Perhaps it is because Deep Sea Yamato is one of the top super deans among the Deep Sea deans, with outstanding strength, coupled with the survival instincts and vigilance she has developed over hundreds of years of fighting on the cruel sea since the end of time, that her body has evolved the ability to automatically identify the threat posed by this sword...

If that's the case... it must have been really tough on Yamato-neechan.

Habits that have lasted for hundreds of years are hard to break...

As Xiaobai felt the stiffness emanating from the deep-sea Yamato's body, she didn't know why, but she felt a warm sensation in her heart.

--Um.

—Let's go into the spiritual world and find the Will of the Deep Sea, and ask her to help clean up the fragments of the military knife in my body.

Just then, Akagi and Baiying, who were hanging out bedding and clothes to dry in the distance, and Kaga, who was still finishing up in the room, were attracted by the actions of Shiro and Fukami Yamato at the door. They walked over curiously and looked at Fukami Yamato.

"Yamato, what's with that weird expression?" Akagi was the first to walk up to Shiro. She covered her mouth and looked at Yamato's face with some interest. "You look like you're about to cry from fright."

"You're talking nonsense! I...I...I really, really..."