Elder brother's garrison

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"Saratoga, is the food not to your liking?"

Seeing Saratoga holding her bowl of rice, her face growing increasingly pale, and her reluctance to eat, Xiaobai asked with some concern.

“…Little…Little White…”

"Yeah, I'm here."

"Um... this food... can I not eat it?" Saratoga asked pitifully.

"...Huh?" Xiaobai paused, stunned for a moment, then a faint grayness quickly settled in her eyes, followed by a somewhat disappointed expression. "Ah...I see...it's not to Saratoga's liking..."

"Hey? Xiaobai, what's wrong?"

"The Admiral has always loved this dish, but she didn't eat a single bite before. When we asked her, she said she knew you were coming back soon and wanted to save her favorite dish for you so you could eat it together," the ship girls said to Saratoga. "Now that you're complaining about this dish, of course the Admiral is sad!"

"Uh!"

Saratoga felt an arrow pierce his back.

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"Xiaobai...I..."

"Ah, it's alright, it's alright, I know... Saratoga is blonde after all, it's normal that she doesn't like Chinese food..." Xiaobai said a little disappointedly, forcing a smile and chuckling at Saratoga, "It's okay, it's just a meal..."

"Uh!"

Saratoga felt another arrow suddenly shoot into his buttocks.

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"I...but..."

"It's okay, after all, everyone has different tastes..." Xiaobai said with her head down, then thought for a while, and reached out with a hint of apology to take Saratoga's bowl of rice. "Um... I'm sorry... I put the dish I don't like in your bowl... I'll eat this for you."

"..."

Saratoga watched as Little White, with his eyes downcast, slowly picked out the ribs from Saratoga's bowl with chopsticks, and felt as if she were in a hail of arrows.

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Oh wow.

My heart hurts so much.

"No! No! I like it!!!"

With a whoosh, a flash of gold streaked past Xiaobai's eyes.

Xiao Bai only felt a fragrant breeze brush past his face, and then the ribs on his chopsticks disappeared.

Saratoga, standing in front of her, puffed out her cheeks and chewed, her head shaking rapidly like a rattle-drum. Then, she snatched the rice bowl from Xiaobai's hand, grabbed her chopsticks, and continued shoveling rice into her mouth.

“Saratoga…you didn’t dislike her…”

"I love it! I love it! I love it the most!"

Saratoga devoured the food like a whirlwind.

This meal is...!

This is for Xiaobai to keep for himself!

Even if it contains arsenic, you still have to eat it!!!

Saratoga shoveled food into her mouth rapidly, and as she ate, tears welled up in her two big, blue eyes.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

It's just a small dark room!

It's just freedom!

So what if my older sister scolded me?!

Compared to making Xiaobai sad!!!

What's that?!

It's done!

Woohoo, this food smells so good!

"Waaaaah—" Saratoga was so moved that she cried her eyes out, eating and crying at the same time, her emotions so complex that those observing her were completely baffled.

Only Lexington, sitting on the other side, seemed to understand Saratoga's heart. She silently gazed at Saratoga's profile, and as she looked, she propped her chin up, her loving face full of doting smiles.

"Snapped!"

A bowl of rice was finished in the blink of an eye.

Saratoga put down his empty bowl, then stretched out his arm and vigorously wiped his mouth.

"Saratoga, you like this so much?" Little White asked with some surprise, seeing Saratoga's lingering enjoyment.

Saratoga glanced at the little white man's smile, then put his hands together in relief.

My sacrifice... was worthwhile.

“Come on!” Saratoga closed her eyes and, mimicking the way criminal suspects are arrested in TV dramas, stretched out her hands towards Lexington behind her.

"Huh? What's coming?" Lexington asked, cupping her face in her hands and pretending not to know.

“…drawing comics of Shiro…” Saratoga muttered, “Sister, take me back and lock me in a dark room.”

"Ah... this." Lexington closed her eyes, nodded with a slight smile, "Well, about this... never mind, let Xiaobai tell you."

"Huh?" Saratoga paused for a moment, then turned to look at Little White.

“The comic… well, I just said it’s all over…” Xiaobai’s face was slightly red. She scratched her head and said to Saratoga, “Well, I’ve read the content of the comic. Since it’s a very wholesome comic, I don’t really mind being drawn as a comic character by you guys.”

"Eh?"

“That’s how it is,” Xiaobai said with a smile. “So it’s okay.”

Saratoga blinked, then glanced back at Lexington: "And you too, sister..."

“I already knew that,” Lexington nodded. “I’m also somewhat interested in the comics drawn by the Deepsea Abyss.”

“…Ah…” Saratoga lowered her hands, looking down in a daze, “Eh…”

—Since you weren't planning to punish me in the first place…

—So what was I doing all that self-indulgent fun before?

Saratoga, it has a subtle feeling that makes you want to bang your head against a wall and die.

Saratoga clutched her face and slumped onto the table, remaining there for a long time.

Xiaobai and Lexington exchanged a glance.

"Ah... since we've eaten, there's something I'm actually quite curious about." Xiao Bai smiled at Lexington, then looked down at Saratoga, who was slumped over the table. "Saratoga, speaking of which, you didn't help them when they were drawing those terrible comics last time, so why are you joining in this time, helping Deepsea Tirpitz, and going to the comic convention to help them sell their comics?"

"..."

"Saratoga?"

"...Tirpitz of the Deep Sea still can't speak..." Saratoga's muttered voice came from above the table, "...so she can't create plots yet..."

"Ah... oh..."

"So she could only draw what she saw and heard in her comics."

"Um……"

“So…” Saratoga said, lifting her head from between her arms, her face flushed, “when you see something so moving… it’s only natural to want to share it with others…”

Chapter 1003 Super Sea Area Mutation

After the dinner, Xiaobai and Lexington did not punish Saratoga.

After all, this was Saratoga's first offense, and she acted with the noble ideal of promoting love and peace in the world. Personally, I quite support Saratoga.

However, no matter how noble the behavior, it is not a good thing to use the Admiral's character design and sell the drawn comics without the Admiral's consent. Even if Xiaobai's original intention was not to punish, it would not be right not to do something.

Therefore, before dinner was over, Lexington, under Little White's instructions, gave Saratoga a few words of verbal reprimand, and that was the end of it.

The matter has come to an end.

Dinner at Xiaobai's house ended in a cheerful atmosphere among the ship girls. After dinner, the ship girls even helped Xiaobai clean her room. After they finished cleaning and the ship girls left, Xiaobai finally found Tirpitz and the Deep Sea Maid Group sleeping soundly under the table, having somehow gotten away from it.

The busy day finally ended after Shiro and Taihou escorted Tirpitz and the Deep Sea Deans back to their rooms. Shiro's life at the naval base finally returned to its usual tranquility.

During this period, the total amount of documents that the new naval base needed to process has decreased significantly. The workload is now so heavy that even Lexington can handle it with ease. After Xiaobai started working, the work that had been painstakingly accumulated over this period was completely melted away in just one morning thanks to Xiaobai's quick processing.

The newbie, who was so bored by the excessively lax work that he had nothing to do and even started to worry unnecessarily, initially wondered if there was some hidden problem with the newbie naval base and went to investigate the reason for the sudden decrease in workload.

After carefully studying the recent business reports for a while, Xiaobai discovered that the reason why the workload of the newbie naval base suddenly decreased was not because there was a problem with the newbie naval base, but because almost all the high-level sea area naval bases in the world began to intentionally or unintentionally avoid contact with the newbie naval base after the autumn deep-sea activity season.

Whenever a new ship girl from a naval base goes on an expedition to earn resources, if there are ship girls from other naval bases within a hundred miles of the target location, their admirals will immediately recall them as if they are afraid of losing their own ship girls, thus freeing up resources and space for the new ship girls from the naval base.

This is why the efficiency of the newbie naval base is like a race car changing from a city center full of traffic lights to a highway with no cars, increasing efficiency by more than one or two times, thus greatly reducing the workload of the newbies.

Although I don't understand the situation or the reason.

But Xiaobai doesn't think this is a very bad thing.

After finishing his work for the day, Xiao Bai, sitting in the office, sipped his coffee and watched Lexington's back as she stood by the window, tending to her lush green potted plants in the sunlight. He thought to himself, "This is what I'm thinking."

Isn't it fine?

Although I don't care about the amount of work, it would be a good thing if Lexington could have more time to rest like this. After all, if the workload is less, Lexington can say goodbye to spending all day at his desk.

Well, I don't really care.

Xiao Bai, holding his coffee cup, thought to himself.

"Xiaobai, is the freshly brewed coffee good?" At this moment, Lexington, who was tidying up the potted plants by the window, suddenly seemed to remember something. She turned around and asked Xiaobai thoughtfully.

"Mmm, it tastes great." Xiaobai nodded.

“That’s good… So Xiaobai likes this…” Lexington smiled at Xiaobai, then turned back to her tools, fiddling with the potted plant in her hands. “Coffee and milk tea… Well… I see… Well, that’s fine then…”

Lexington's murmurs were soft and faint, not directed at Little White, nor at Lexington herself, but rather seemed to reflect some thought in Lexington's mind.

Xiaobai watched Lexington's retreating figure with curiosity. Just as she was about to ask a question, the office door was suddenly pushed open with a bang.

"Admiral! Ah! And Sister Lexington too!"

Fubuki pushed open the door and jumped into the office with a face full of excitement. As soon as she entered the office, she waved her little hand vigorously towards Shiro's desk.

"Ah? It's Fubuki."

"It's Fubuki! Fubuki's here!" Fubuki laughed as she skipped and hopped over to Shiro, leaping onto him and pressing her face against his waist, rubbing against him excitedly. "Sniff, sniff, sniff—it's the Admiral's scent!"

Xiaobai put down his coffee cup, and following Chuixue's posture, let her sit on his lap, and reached out to pull her into his arms.

"Has Fubuki been behaving well these past few days? Has she been secretly playing with her missiles with Changchun again?" Xiaobai asked Fubuki with a smile.

"No way!" Fubuki quickly raised her hand and assured Shiro, "I don't want to study disobedient torpedoes. From now on, I'll only accompany Changchun in exercises and won't touch Changchun's ship equipment!"

"Hmm—that's a solution too, yeah, good job." Xiaobai reached out and patted Fubuki's head.

"Hehehe, thank you, Admiral." Fubuki shook her head from side to side, then her eyes lit up, and she reached out to grab Shiro's sleeve. "Ah, right!"

"Well, what's wrong?"

"I almost forgot about the important matter. Admiral, Admiral, someone's coming from the main gate of the naval base," Fubuki said.

"Huh?" Xiaobai was taken aback. "Who is it?"

"Lord Governor!"

"Huh???"

Inside the office of the rookie naval commander.

Mu Yu, who had been waiting for a long time outside the gate of the newbie garrison, walked in.

Mu Yu, whom I hadn't seen for a few days, seemed to be in a bad state today. He had dark circles under his eyes, chapped lips, and an ethereal look. He looked like he had been staying up late for the past few days and seemed somewhat exhausted.

"Hey! Little White Sister, I'm here again!"

As soon as she stepped inside, Mu Yu seemed to have a telepathic connection and smiled directly at Xiao Bai, who was sitting on the other side of the office.

His originally shameless smile now carried a hint of helplessness.

With a dark expression, Xiaobai muttered an "oh" in a low voice.