Elder brother's garrison

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"Most of the rooms in our shop are for admirals and ship girls. You know admirals, right? They're the ones you usually see wearing white uniforms with lots of pretty girls following behind them. They're 100% admirals. There are a lot of eccentric admirals, so to avoid trouble, let's not have too much interaction with them."

The young woman spoke to her junior with a serious expression.

“In this city, if you offend the admiral, no one can protect you.”

"Ah, sister, but I just saw you greeting that cute little white-haired girl." The newcomer tilted his head, puzzled, as the older sister explained, and asked, "Sister, didn't you say we can't communicate with the Admiral?"

The young woman's expression froze.

"Oh dear, this... this is of course because I've been through countless battles... Anyway, you'd better ignore it for now. In time, you'll naturally know which admiral you can talk to and which you can't."

"Oh... okay." The newcomer nodded, then asked curiously, "So, sister, what are the usual living requirements of the admirals who stay at the inn?"

"The admiral is very busy when he is in the city of Zhangchang, so he doesn't have the opportunity to order us around. We are usually quite free because the admiral usually returns to the hotel very late, and they are mostly sleeping soundly."

"sleep?"

"Ah."

"Ah..." The newcomer blushed slightly. She held up one hand, making an "OK" sign, then extended the index finger of her other hand and deftly twirled it inside the "O" of the "OK." "Um, does 'sleeping' mean... sleeping alone, or sleeping with someone..."

"You child..." The young woman, seemingly also an inexperienced "girl," blushed slightly, then glared at her junior with a mixture of embarrassment and reproach. "What were you thinking about... Of course... of course, you were thinking about everything..."

"So there really is one?"

"Look at those ship girls, they're so beautiful, so innocent, and have such great figures. They listen to you, and even if they don't shower, they smell nice all over after a day of exercise. If a girl like that falls for you and stays by your side all day, even you, as a girl, can't resist, let alone a man."

"Wow... does this mean the male admiral might be having an affair with one of the ship girls he's in love with?"

"So female admirals aren't acceptable?"

"Um, is this kind of thing okay between girls?"

"Who knows? I've heard that this kind of thing happens quite often to female admirals. That's the charm of ship girls." The young lady said, while reaching out and poking her junior's forehead.

"Ah... then, so that means that white-haired admiral you greeted earlier might be sleeping with a ship girl right now..."

"Hey, you brat... You can't just make jokes about the Admiral like that, can you? Take this!"

At the counter, the more senior staff members jokingly and playfully hit their juniors.

The two human girls quickly started laughing and playing together.

"Excuse me, is this where I change the supplies?"

Just as the two staff members were joking around, a clear and melodious voice suddenly rang out next to the counter, as if it had teleported instantly.

The two girls were startled and quickly straightened up, looking towards the counter.

Both girls were taken aback when they saw the person at the counter.

Beside the counter, a tall woman was standing there holding a large stack of all sorts of items.

The woman was carrying so many items that they formed a small mountain in front of her, blocking the two staff members' view of her face.

"Uh... excuse me... may I ask..."

"I'm very sorry, but the Admiral of Missouri damaged the amenities in your room for some reasons that are not easy to explain. May I ask if you could replace some of the items for Missouri here?" The woman bent down, placed the various items that looked like a small mountain on her chest on the counter, and then straightened up.

After seeing the ship girl's appearance, the two staff members were so frightened that they immediately stood up straight and looked at her with some fear.

This ship girl... isn't she the admiral's ship girl whom they were just joking about?

Oh no, I hope she heard me...

The two staff members stared blankly at Missouri, and were so frightened that their hands trembled slightly.

Missouri looked at the staff with a smile: "Excuse me, could you please get us some replacement supplies?"

"Ah...uh...yes, I'm sorry...but...it's okay..."

"That's great. I was originally going to follow the normal procedure and call the staff here to come up and clean up, but the admiral said that since we went a bit too far this time, we should come down and apologize in person. Since the admiral is unable to do it, Missouri came in her place."

"Uh... um... well, may I ask what you want..."

“Well… most of the amenities are damaged, but we won’t need them during our stay. Please just give Missouri a clean sheet.” Missouri smiled at the staff and took out a few bills from her clothes and placed them on the counter. “This is for compensating for the damaged amenities.”

The staff hurriedly retrieved a spare sheet from the sterilization cabinet and handed it to Missouri. Missouri didn't seem to have anything else to say. After a simple thank you, she smiled at the staff and left with the sheet.

The two staff members breathed a sigh of relief after Missouri left.

"That's great..." the junior patted his chest.

"I told you not to talk nonsense, let's see if you dare to say it again next time." The young lady poked her junior's forehead with a huff.

"Um... I was wrong..." The junior shook his head. "Next time I will definitely make sure no one is around before we start talking."

"..."

"...Wow, sister, look at these supplies, what happened to them?"

"what?"

"The broom is broken like this, the crowbar is broken in half, and the chair leg... Waaah... It's wet, and there's drool in it..."

"...She's probably being used as a tool." The young woman spoke with the air of a senior. "Look at that admiral just now, he looked all rosy-cheeked. He probably just finished being intimate with the admiral. Admirals and ship girls... well, ship girls have very sturdy bodies, who knows what kind of strange play they might end up doing."

"...Uh, sister, you mean these things are the tools of that white-haired admiral?"

"You can't judge a book by its cover..." the young woman sighed.

"...Is this bed sheet one too?"

"Bed sheet? Oh... You'll see this a lot in the future. Bed sheets are changed very frequently. Sometimes, because it's the first time, it's normal for them to get a little blood on them..." The young woman looked at her junior, but her gaze froze when it stopped on the bed sheet.

In the hands of the younger generation, a blood-stained sheet was being held up. The snow-white sheet was covered with bloodstains of all sizes, layer upon layer, and the air was filled with the faint scent of blood.

Those who know will recognize it as a bed sheet, but those who don't might mistake it for a shroud.

The two staff members stared in disbelief at the blood-red sheets fluttering in the wind.

"That admiral..."

"...She's a ruthless person..."

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Miss Odin's berserk state caused relatively minor changes to the house, which were within a recoverable range.

After returning to their room, Missouri and Wisconsin swept up the wood shavings and laid clean sheets back on the bed. With the help of these two ship girls, the messy room quickly became tidy again.

Little White, who had been smacked on the shoulder, changed into clean clothes, sat on the bed, and had just taken a few bites of the hamburger that Wisconsin had handed him when he heard Odin, who had been asleep for a short while, let out a soft moan behind him.

"Huh? Miss Odin!" Xiaobai put down her hamburger and turned to look at Odin.

Odin, feeling somewhat dejected, woke up from her sleep and swayed as she sat up in bed, where she saw Little White sitting on the corner of the bed, staring at her with her eyes open.

"..." Odin looked at Xiaobai with complicated emotions. Her eyes were filled with guilt and dejection, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

"Miss Odin, are you hungry? Would you like something to eat?" Compared to Odin, who didn't know how to start the conversation, Xiaobai's reaction was much more straightforward. She grabbed a hamburger and went up to Odin, greeting her with a smile.

Odin subconsciously took the hamburger from Xiaobai, his gaze lingering subtly on Xiaobai's shoulder.

“…Thank you.” Odin held the hamburger somewhat numbly, opened his mouth and took a bite without even opening the packaging.

"Oh dear, Miss Odin, this needs to be opened before you can eat it." Little White quickly reached out and helped Odin unwrap the hamburger.

“…” Odin looked at the little white creature's busy appearance with a complicated expression, “…I’m sorry.”

"what?"

"...I...have seen all your memories..."

"Ah..." Xiaobai withdrew her hand, lowered her head somewhat awkwardly, "You've finished watching... So, what's your review...?"

“…What a…amazing journey…” Odin’s expression was somewhat bitter. She gave an awkward smile, her fingers tightening slightly as she gripped the hamburger. Finally, she lowered her head dejectedly. “…I’m sorry…I misunderstood you…”

"...That's it."

“That level of memory… it should be a very secret thing for you… why are you willing to show it to me?” Odin asked, looking up.

"Haha... I didn't mean to hide that at all... It's just that Miss Odin believed the memory fragments I showed you so much... When I think back on that experience now, it feels like reading a fairy tale."

“The sense of reality is different; your memories are genuine.” Odin shook his head and put down his hamburger.

The room suddenly became quiet as Odin fell silent.

The only sound in the air was Wisconsin's hamster-like munching on fries.

“Um… Lu Lin…” Odin suddenly spoke up.

"Ok?"

“Well… I’m a man of my word… I won’t ask you to release Sukhbaatar anymore… Ah… that’s true, even if you, Lu Lin, were willing to release Sukhbaatar, she might not be willing to come back… Well, it seems that Sukhbaatar likes you more than me…”

"That's not true at all. In your memory, I also saw that Lord Su and you lived a very happy life. In daily life, Miss Odin was calm, reliable, and made me feel very safe, like a mother. Lord Su must have relied on you a lot..."

“…Yes, I know that.” Odin smiled, his head bowed.

"Uh...so you knew..." Little White, who was only halfway through puffing out his cheeks, almost choked.

As expected, Miss Odin is a ship girl who knows herself very well.

“That’s why… well, since I won’t be asking Sukhbaatar to come back anymore…” Odin’s thighs rubbed together awkwardly, her face flushed, and she looked up at Little White.

"Hmm?" Xiaobai blinked.

“It’s…it’s that…” Odin hesitated slightly, looking at Little White with embarrassment.

"So... at your naval base... um... would you like... to open another encyclopedia or something?"

Chapter 981 Awesome

Wisconsin, sitting on the ground, chewed on a hamburger while staring longingly at Little White and Odin on the bed.

"Uh...uh..."

Wisconsin hadn't eaten many hamburgers, though she used to really like them. She'd bought quite a few for herself at the fast food restaurant earlier, but after all that mess just now, the once-hot hamburgers were now completely cold, and the flavor was gone.

Wisconsin swallowed what was in her mouth.

Then I suddenly felt a sense of emptiness emanating from within.

—Speaking of which, it seems like everyone else has gained something tonight, while I've been just sitting here doing nothing all night. In fact, while I was doing nothing, Missouri even dragged me over and let that supply ship take a bite out of me.

Thinking of this, Wisconsin looked down at the red teeth marks around her wrist.

When Odin went berserk and bit Wisconsin, he deliberately held back, so the bite didn't break through Wisconsin's defenses, but only left a ring of pressure marks on Wisconsin's wrist.

However, even though there was no blood, the real sensation of being bitten was still accurately transmitted to Wisconsin's body.

My feelings are so complicated.

Wisconsin took another big bite of her hamburger, her cheeks puffing up in a huff.

Even as the conversation between Xiaobai and Odin seemed to have reached a very noteworthy juncture, Missouri didn't glance in their direction at all.

She simply smiled faintly, her head bowed, looking at the watch on her wrist as if savoring some sweet memory, seemingly blissfully immersed in her own world.

Wisconsin glanced toward Missouri.

Missouri.

"Ok?"

"What are you looking at?"

“Missouri is checking the time.” Missouri raised her wrist and looked at Wisconsin with a proud expression. “Look, this time it only took two or three hours. The admiral’s ship-retrieval speed is getting faster and faster.”

"..." Wisconsin.

On the other side, on the clean sheets.

After experiencing a series of events, Odin finally reached a consensus with Odin, but his attitude seemed much more hesitant than when they first met.

After indirectly suggesting that she wanted to add one more point to the newbie's naval encyclopedia, Odin herself sat awkwardly on the bed sheet. She lowered her head, her eyes nervously looking left and right at the sheet, but she didn't dare to look directly at the little white creature in front of her.

Odin's feelings at this moment were very complicated.

The memories that Xiaobai gave to Odin included all the experiences Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar had during the period of time separation, from their first meeting to their separation. Although the part about the will of the deep sea was deliberately removed, the overall story between Xiaobai and Sukhbaatar was still conveyed completely.

At the risk of his head exploding, Odin pieced together the story of the White One. After realizing that the White One was not lying or bragging, Odin understood the bond between the White One and Sukhbaatar.

Odin also understood what Sukhbaatar meant when he said that good things always happen as long as you live by the sea.

Although Sukhbaatar remembered nothing, she was indeed waiting for the little girl in front of her.

Even though her memories had faded, Sukhbaatar's keen intuition as a supply ship still made him subconsciously drawn to her and want to help her, even at the cost of angering himself, just to stay by her side.