Elder brother's garrison

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The children smiled sincerely at the deep sea and the great river, their faces radiating unconscious kindness and affection.

Ah, humanity.

Yamato Fukami rested his chin on his hand, ignoring the children in front of him.

These poor, ignorant human children didn't even realize that their true form was the Deep Sea Dean, whom everyone feared, and they stayed so close to him every day.

I am the invincible Dean of the Deep Sea, a legendary hero of the deep sea.

One slap and I could crush the little skulls of you brats.

Deep Sea Yamato thought to himself, then reached out and pinched the child's cheek.

"Hahaha... Sister, it itches so much, it itches so much..."

The little girl, gently touched by Yamato's palm, smiled happily. She hugged Yamato's outstretched hand and bounced around several times. "Pretty sister! What story are you going to tell us today?"

"Huh? Today? Uh..." Yamato Akami withdrew his hand, propped himself up on his back, and thought for a moment, "I don't have any inspiration today..."

"Sister, sister, you said the same thing yesterday! But the story you told later was so interesting!"

"Those were all made up on the spot."

"Sister, please make up another one! After you hear your story, we'll go to Jinghua's teacher's house and study hard!" The children surrounded Shenhai Yamato, several little hands grabbing her wrists and shaking them pleadingly.

Yamato rolled his eyes.

"Okay, okay, okay... I'll make one up right now."

"Yay!! Thank you, beautiful sister!" The children raised their hands as if they had won a victory, then moved closer to Yamato's legs, staring wide-eyed at her fair and beautiful face.

"Today... um... about today..." Yamato Fukami rubbed his head, looking at the distant sea with some worry, and pondered for a moment, "Alright... then I'll just say something random..."

"Um……"

"The deep sea has fallen in love with humans."

"And then, let's tell the story of how she willingly became a ship girl..."

Chapter 1346 *Splash*...

"Missouri, I've bought breakfast."

On the beach, Wisconsin, wearing high heels and carrying a large bag of jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), roubao (meat buns), youtiao (fried dough sticks), and soy milk, walked towards Missouri, which was gazing into the distance.

Missouri had been gazing at the scenery on the beach from afar when she heard Wisconsin calling her. She turned around and smiled at Wisconsin.

"Thank you for your hard work, Wisconsin."

"Here, this is for you." Wisconsin handed Missouri a portion of the breakfast she was carrying, then glanced in the direction Missouri was looking at the beach full of ship girls. "What were you looking at just now?"

"Missouri? Just now, Missouri was looking over at Yamato-senpai's side." Missouri smiled and pointed to the other side of the beach.

A group of energetic children blinked and looked around Deepsea Yamato expectantly. Deepsea Yamato held the children's hands, closed his eyes and said these words, his mouth opening and closing.

"Deep Sea Yamato? What is she doing?"

"I'm telling stories to the children."

"Ugh..." Wisconsin looked troubled. "I'm being bothered by the kids again."

"Wisconsin, don't you like children?"

“No, to be honest, I do like them, but I just can’t handle kids…” Wisconsin sighed and plopped down next to Missouri. “Never mind, let’s eat first. We’ll bring breakfast over after they finish their stories.”

After saying that, Wisconsin took out a round meat bun, opened his mouth wide, and took a bite.

Beneath the soft, fluffy skin of the meat bun, sweet and delicious meat juices splatter everywhere.

"Speaking of which, is the admiral back today?" Wisconsin asked Missouri, taking a bite of her meat bun and looking up at her.

“If all goes well, he should be back tonight,” Missouri nodded.

"What if things don't go smoothly?"

"Let's delay it for a couple of days."

"Oh dear." Wisconsin chewed her breakfast, looking reluctant. "Doesn't that mean Iowa and the Admiral will have to spend two more days together..."

"Seniors!!" Just as Missouri and Wisconsin were chatting casually, three or four ship girls from a mercenary group ran towards Wisconsin from the other side of the beach, waving their hands.

The expressions on the faces of these mercenary ship girls.

They seemed somewhat flustered.

The ship girls ran up to Wisconsin and Missouri and bowed deeply to them.

"Good morning!"

"Hello." Wisconsin and Missouri nodded to the ship girls. "Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Um, seniors..."

"Just call me Missouri, and this is Wisconsin."

"Ah, hello Missouri, hello Wisconsin!" The mercenary ship girls nodded vigorously, exchanging glances. "Um, today is the third day since your naval commander left..."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the admiral will be back tonight," Missouri said with a smile to the ship girls.

"Ah! That's great!" The ship girls smiled, but quickly suppressed it. After thinking for a while, they asked Missouri shyly, "Well, actually we didn't come here for this."

"Hmm? May I ask what it is?"

"This morning, just as dawn was breaking, our lookouts reported seeing some shadows in the depths of the sea again," a ship girl said, looking up at Missouri after a moment of gathering her thoughts.

“Some shadows?” Missouri and Wisconsin paused, “Shadows…the Deepsea Amphibious Ships?”

"I'm not entirely sure. The lookouts said they only saw a shadow for a fleeting moment." The mercenary ship girls shook their heads. "And then we never saw it again... It could have been our comrades' imagination, but after discussing it, we thought it would be best to tell you."

Missouri didn't speak, and lowered her head to think for a while.

"Yes, thank you very much for the report." After a while, Missouri smiled at the ship girls. "This is very important information."

"Missouri, has this area finally produced deep-sea amphibious ships?" Wisconsin wiped the grease from his lips and stood up from the ground.

“Based on the Admiral’s deduction, given the concentration of deep-sea aura in this area, it shouldn’t be possible for deep-sea amphibious ships to emerge so quickly—but there are always exceptions, and this kind of news certainly cannot be ignored.” Missouri said to Wisconsin, then turned to the ship girls, “So, how do you mercenary seniors plan to handle this matter?”

"Uh...us?" The mercenary group's ship girls looked left and right, then looked at Missouri apologetically. "Well, our leader has been a bit too nervous these past few days. We feel like if we tell him about this now, the consequences will be very serious...so we'd like to go patrol the sea area ourselves."

“I see. That’s a good idea.” Missouri nodded. “If you gentlemen don’t mind, would it be possible for us to travel with you?”

"Are you all coming too?" The ship girls' eyes lit up, and they asked excitedly.

“It should be fine to leave the beach for a little while,” Missouri said.

"That's great!" the ship girls exclaimed with joy.

Actually, the reason these ship girls came to inform the Missouri and Wisconsin waters of the changes was that they thought it might be dangerous for them to patrol the waters on their own, and they wanted to find two reliable companions to travel with them.

Before the ship girls could even subtly make their request, Missouri took the initiative to offer to join their team.

Being able to act immediately is a characteristic of the ship girls.

After exchanging their opinions, Missouri and Wisconsin tidied up their ship equipment and then set sail with the ship girls who had little equipment to tidy up.

These days.

Because of the events that have occurred, no villagers are going out to sea to fish anymore.

The azure sea stretched as far as the eye could see, shimmering in the sunlight. The waves rhythmically splashed out small white sprays, and every now and then, a few seagulls would glide across the surface of the water.

Missouri and Wisconsin followed at the rear of the ship girls' formation, heading deeper into the sea.

"Has the aura of the deep sea in this area not increased these past few days?" Wisconsin asked Missouri with a puzzled expression as they sailed through the sea, sensing the surrounding atmosphere.

“Hmm, the deep-sea aura is very stable, but the overall momentum is weak.” Missouri raised his hand and sensed it slightly. “In fact, it could be said that the scale of the deep-sea aura has even subsided in the past two days… The concentration of this deep-sea aura is far from being enough to generate a deep-sea amphibious ship.”

"...Then what about the shadows they saw earlier?"

“On the bright side, maybe it’s just a group of fish passing by.” Missouri smiled at Wisconsin. “However, it’s our duty to be responsible for the seas, so it’s still necessary to come and check it out in person.”

“Oh…” Wisconsin nodded.

The small fishing village is surrounded by a vast sea area.

The ship girls moved forward, forward, and slowly sailed to a depth in the sea that was far beyond the reach of the naked eye, far from the beach.

"Our companion saw the shadowy figure around here... but she was too scared to search ahead alone, so she came back to inform us." The ship girls leading the way pointed to the sea ahead and said to Missouri and the others.

"A wise move," Missouri said with a smile, offering her praise.

Arrived at the destination.

The ship girls led Missouri and Wisconsin further into the ocean, patrolling the deeper waters.

The sea remains calm and peaceful.

The waves roll and the seabirds soar.

But things remained calm, for some reason.

The ship girls felt a strange sense of unease creeping into their hearts.

As the ship girls delve deeper...

The faint aura of the deep sea that had been drifting on the surface of the ocean began to become slightly denser as the ship girls traveled.

"Was the shadowy figure found around here?" Missouri asked the ship girls ahead.

"Yes!" the ship girls replied.

“…I see.” Missouri nodded, glancing into the deeper part of the sea.

Deeper into the sea.

The sea remains azure blue.

But above the sky.

It seemed a little dull.

"Excuse me... has it really been the creation of a deep-sea amphibious ship?" the ship girls asked nervously.

"Please don't be nervous, seniors." Missouri smiled at the ship girls. "This concentration of deep-sea aura is still far less than that in the Chapter Sea area. Under normal circumstances, it still won't produce deep-sea amphibious ships."

“Under normal circumstances…” The ship girls swallowed nervously.

"Please relax. In short, let's all stay together and search this area for a while, shall we?" Missouri smiled at the ship girls.

“…Hmm.” The ship girls looked at each other, and remembering that they had initiated this patrol themselves, they all nodded.

Missouri and Wisconsin, along with their ship girls, searched the sea, maximizing their search capabilities and traversing the areas with slightly denser deep-sea atmosphere.

result.

Still found nothing.

After searching around twice, the ship girls' tense expressions eased somewhat.

"It seems the shadow this morning was just an illusion after all..." The ship girls breathed a sigh of relief and sighed to each other, "These deep-sea auras haven't produced any enemies yet."

"We're lucky, aren't we?" Missouri said with a smile to the ship girls.

"Missouri, shall we patrol deeper into the sea?" the ship girls asked Missouri, pointing to the deeper parts of the sea.

“As for Missouri… I still think…” Missouri lowered her head and pondered for a while.

Just now.

The mercenary ship girls, who had been focusing all their attention on Missouri, suddenly stared blankly.

All that could be seen was the sea not far behind Missouri.

A nimble black shadow, hidden on the seabed, was hurtling towards Missouri from the surface of the sea not far away.

"Ah!! Missouri!! Watch out!" the ship girls screamed.

"Hmm?" Missouri, who was pondering while resting her chin on her hand, subconsciously turned her head at the sound of the ship girls' panicked voices.

Just as Missouri turned her head.

The shadows beneath the water's surface also reached Missouri's feet.

"Splash—!"

In the eyes of the mercenary ship girls.