"Saratoga is up." Lexington tapped his sister's room with the plate in his hand.

"Got it, sister," a lazy voice came from inside, accompanied by a yawn, as if she had just woken up. Lexington knew that his sister was the same as the otaku girl Noah's Ark who liked to stay in the room, and she especially liked to sleep in, but these days as long as she screamed, she would get up early, and she was simply different from the past.

"Sister, you leave breakfast at the door, I'll come out later." There was a sound of rustling clothes in Saratoga's room, as if changing clothes.

"Well, be careful when you go out to sea." Lexington put down the dinner plate, in her impression that her sister had never been so serious, when she followed her on the sea before, she always hid behind her like a child, enjoying the shade brought by her sister, but now she suddenly grew up, she didn't sleep anymore, she didn't eat snacks, and the most she did every day was to go to sea with Prestige or Wales, and make herself stronger with the baptism of battle.

And the most fundamental reason for all this is the disappearance of the admiral who she called her brother-in-law, who is actually the backbone of the entire town guard mansion, which has changed everyone in the town guard mansion. Saratoga would wake up early, and Hatsuyuki would no longer wander around all day, and her fantasies would become unusually serious. As for Noah's Ark, she still likes to lock herself in her room as before, but instead of playing her favorite games inside, she keeps drawing his past appearance one after another like a madman, as if he is looking at things and thinking about people, looking at those portraits in a daze. These are all found by Lexington when she went to bring her food, she originally thought that the most heartless thing in the town guard mansion was the otaku Noah's Ark, but now she found that she was the most injured, and she was also looking forward to the return of the Admiral, just like herself.

Thinking of this, she smiled and sighed, straightened her white military hat, and her long flaxen hair fluttered in the morning breeze like a silent butterfly fluttering its wings. In the deep sea, what we have lost will definitely be regained, whether you are a demon or an abyss, we will not back down. There are some things that have a first time, and there must not be a second time. She looked out the window at the rising sun, her eyes as firm as a sword.

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"I've gotten up in the first snow, and I'm going to go to sea for training today." Blowing snow pushes her sister who is still lazy in bed, and she is ready when she is fully dressed.

"Is it already morning?" The girl, who was slowly squirming in the sheets, opened her sleepy eyes, looked out the window at the light that barely cooled the darkness, took a deep breath, and suddenly jumped up from the bed with a carp, and made a FIGHTING gesture to her tired self. Although she has not yet grown up, she knows that this is the time to be lazy, because the Admiral has not yet returned, and the Admiral is still trapped in the deep sea waiting for their rescue. Although she didn't spend much time with the big brother who loved to laugh, she was grateful that the other party was willing to take her sister in, not out of pity and sympathy, but out of love for herself, at least as she saw in those clear eyes.

And when she went to sea for the first time that day and met the deep sea known as the "Admiral Terminator", when she thought that all this was going to be brought to an end, the figure she thought would escape bravely stood up and exchanged herself for the hope of everyone's survival. The moment she left, she realized that he was very different from other admirals, at least he would not be disdainful of the weakness of the ship girls, nor would he be annoyed by his naughty mischief, and he would not be just a coward hiding in the Admiral's Mansion like them. He can be brave enough to go to sea with everyone, brave enough to not flinch in the face of the deep sea, brave enough to exchange his life without any hesitation. The moment she left, she had never hated her weakness so much, she looked at the figure smiling and waving goodbye, only to realize that she couldn't do anything in that situation, nothing could be done, she could only watch everything happen like a bystander. Powerlessness was the only word she could think of at the time.

Before this, she had also felt guilty for her weakness and incompetence, because no admiral was willing to take them in, and then she met Jiqi, who thought that she would only be left as a vase and used as a decoration, but he never had such intentions. It seems that in his eyes, all ship girls are the same, and they will not be favored because of rarity and strength. So since the Admiral has given us a new life, we must exchange all we have for him, even if the group ends up dying in the depths of the sea.

She exhaled heavily, slapped her cheek hard, clenched her little fists, and worked hard for the new day.

"Okay, okay, sister, how many deep seas are we going to sink today?" Chu Xue changed his clothes vigorously and jumped out of bed to get ready to go.

"Just don't get distracted while you're fighting." Fuyuki slammed a knife on her sister, causing her to cover her head.

"Sister, you lighten it, it hurts." Hatsuyuki rubbed her head and complained.

"You have been distracted in the battle for the past few days, if it weren't for Sister Prestige, you would have broken it a long time ago." Blowing Snow looked at his usually lively sister with some hatred.

"Not really, at most...... At most, it will only be broken, how can it be as serious as my sister said. Hatsuki whispered a defense.

"You have to cheer me up today, if I hadn't interceded with Sister Prestige, you would have been banned from going to sea by Sister Lexington." Blowing Snow turned her face sideways and said seriously, "You don't know, every time we go to sea and come back, Sister Lexington will carefully check us back and forth, for fear that we will be injured, we went to sea because she thought about it for a long time before she reluctantly agreed, don't you cherish this hard-won opportunity, do you have to make everyone unable to go to sea?" ”

"I know, I will be serious, sister." Chu Xue replied in a low voice, nodding vigorously to reassure her sister.

"If only you knew." Blowing snow sighs. She knew that her sisters would not play a decisive role in the battle that would soon follow, but that they would have to play their part in order to admit.

She can also understand Lexington's caution, after all, before that, she had promised the Admiral to take good care of everyone and not to do stupid things, so she would hesitate to go to sea. And they also promised the Admiral to wait for his return, but everyone in the deep sea knows that it is synonymous with cruelty, so for this promise, she must continue to work hard and use their own strength to fulfill this promise.

Wait, Admiral, we'll bring you back, because if the Guardian Mansion didn't have you, it wouldn't be the Guardian's Mansion.