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Welcome again! The fourth installment of the Chosen One saga is upon us! This one is a bit slow, but the amount of original content is unprecedented in the series. Also, there's a bit surprise. How big? Well, BIG! AND IT EXPLODES! But you'll have to wait for it till chapter 22.

The background for this fic is the movie. Whether or not there's some content from the upcoming O.V.A mini-series is subject to change.

And as usual I would like to thank Doran Maya here. He's done more this time. Much more. Huehuehue…

So without further ado, onwards march!

Chapter 1 – Not again…

"Toshiroooo! Peel these daikons for me!" The melodic voice of Yoshika rang across the Miyafuji Clinic.

"Coming!" Toshiro responded from the living room.

Almost a month has passed since I proposed to the love of my life, Yoshika Miyafuji. I still have that scene before my eyes. Yoshika's eyes welling up with tears as she saw the ring… The fireworks banging on the sky, lighting everything under them in a multitude of colors… Our tears of joy…

The next day, the recently installed phone in the clinic almost exploded. The townsfolk of Yokosuka sure knew how to spread info, and not even twenty-four hours have passed, and Adolfine called me, congratulating me on her and uncles behalf. The press also hammered the phone, but I only gave brief answers…

The last phone call that day was the most mysterious one – a man claiming to be the caretaker of the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum called, and wanted to meet me personally. I agreed, and the next day the man came to Yokosuka by airboat. He wanted to see Yoshika's engagement ring. Reluctantly, she agreed and gave it to him. After carefully examining it, the man almost got heart palpitations. He said that he would give any amount of money, so that this treasure of historical significance joins the collection of the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum. I looked at Yoshika, she looked at the ring, and we made a deal

"Sir… I don't want money, I just want something in return… I want an exact replica of this ring made for my fiancé."

That's what I sad. The man almost showered me with kisses after hearing that. He left hastily, and just after a week, the replica came in by a special envoy.

"It isn't the same ring as you gave me, but I'm glad that I could somehow help preserve history…" Yoshika said when I gave her the ring.

After that, a thought crossed my mind. I visited my high school, and gave a proposition to the principal – I write the third year exams, and he gives me papers that I finished high school. He pondered a bit at my proposal, and agreed to it, but only because of who I was. He assigned a tutor, free of charge, to bring me up on the curriculum. I gave myself a week, and after a week, and a series of murderous tests, I could finally write 'high school' in the 'education' part of my resume. Not to brag, but I passed the exams like shit through a goose.

Sometime around that, July 14 that is, I called Perrine. She was surprised, but when I said 'Happy Bastille Day, Perrine', she started behaving as if she wanted to kiss me through the receiver. And of course, after a usual show of feigned ignorance, she wanted to talk to Yoshika. Some things never change… Eh…

One day I proposed to Yoshika and Sayaka that maybe I should move out with Yoshika. Both opposed with will of iron, so I started doing stuff around the clinic, mostly small renovations. The days passed on like nobody's business. Around the end of July, Mio ventured out to Europe. She said that the Yamato was being repaired, and that she was posted on it as an advisor. We greeted her of in the harbor, as she boarded an airboat.

On a side note, it seems that Kuji is doing God's work, and Yoshika's curves improved a bit during all this time. She gained about two centimeters of height, and her bust circumference also increased by that length. Yoshika was thrilled by these changes, even more than me, but she thinks it's the natural way… Maybe I should tell her one day?

Yoshika was also attending an officer's course, a shortened version, since she's a 2nd Lieutenant of the reserves. It only took her four hours daily, but it was too much even for her… But that was over already, and apart from that, she didn't want to have anything to do with the IFN.

And also Yoshika could finally wear earrings since her regenerative powers have ceased to work, which she gladly utilized one every suitable occasion.

Today is August 2, and I have a really bad feeling…

"Toshiro, damn you! Come here and help me!" Yoshika shouted furiously. "Or no snuggling until September!"

"Yes ma'am!" Toshiro shouted and quickly ran to the kitchen.

He took a daikon, and peeled it fervently, much to Yoshika's amusement.

"Now, that's what I wanted…" She said.

"Heheh…" Toshiro laughed nervously.

Suddenly the doorbell, another thing Toshiro did for the clinic, rang melodically.

"I'll get it." Yoshika said. "Stir the pot for me, would you?"

"Stirring and peeling at the same time? What am I, Asura?" Toshiro grumbled.

"You'll manage, I know you will… Heehee…"

Yoshika ran to the door. Toshiro didn't hear anything, but she ran back quickly and said, "It's for you Toshiro…"

What's with this bleak expression?

Toshiro went to the door, and saw the last person he would like to see now, the black haired Karlslander beauty with a rifle scope hanging from her neck and the body of an amazon hidden underneath her slightly unorthodox uniform – Adolfine Galland.

"Nope, we're not interested, please come later. Like in ten years." Toshiro said firmly and turned back.

"Wait…" Adolfine said silently and grabbed him.

"Do you want to interrupt my happiness yet again? Now, as opposed to February, you should have a perfect image of the situation, and yet you come here…"

"Leave…" An emotionless voice sounded from the kitchen and Yoshika, armed with a big knife came out. "Leave before I get angry…"

"Please calm down, Yoshika." Adolfine said.

"Where do you want to send Toshiro now? Liberion? Amazonia? Cyrenaica again? The Easter Island? Orussia?" Yoshika enumerated the possibilities with shaking hands.

"You were almost right with Amazonia. I want to take Toshiro to Neue Karlsland…"

"But why?! We are happy here as we are!" Yoshika shouted with tears streaking down her eyes.

"Please, calm down… There is a reason why I want to take him there, besides the official ones…"

"Oh?" Yoshika's tone changed. "What is it?"

"It's Toshiro's grandmother, Mary… The doctors said if she lives for another week, it will be a miracle…"

"What… What… What happened…?" Toshiro asked out of breath.

"She had a stroke, Toshiro… She is 81 years old, and you should know that the chances of her living through this are slim…" Adolfine said with a gloom expression.

"No… No… This can't be happening… Another family member of mine is going to die, and I don't even know what she looks like! Adolfine, take me there, immediately!"

"That's why I'm here, Toshiro. I will explain the rest of the causes why I'm here during the flight…"

"But… But Toshiro…" Yoshika squirmed.

"Yoshika…"

"Please, Toshiro, I will handle it…" Adolfine kneeled before Yoshika. "Tomorrow, somebody tasked with a special mission will come to you, Yoshika. You will embark on your own journey, so you won't have to feel bad about Toshiro being separated from you."

"What… What journey…?"

"It's a surprise, but I promise you, as an Officer of the Wehrmacht, and as your friend, that you will like it." Adolfine said calmly but firmly.

"Oh… Okay then… But promise me that Toshiro will have the means to contact me!"

"I promise."

"Okay then… You can go, Toshiro. Your fiancé lets you, heehee… Go and pack yourself, I have a soup to tend to."

"Kay, Yoshika…"

Toshiro went to their room, and he packed the stuff that was lying around to his chest. He took it and went to Adolfine. Yoshika was also standing there.

"Will a simple 'goodbye' be enough?" Toshiro asked with a smug face.

"Hell no!" Yoshika shouted.

She lunged forward, and they kissed with such passion that Toshiro's tongue almost went numb.

"Ooooh… With such a goodbye, I can safely assume we will still be engaged by the time I see you next time…"

"And don't you even think about it being different!" Yoshika said.

"Come on, Toshiro." Adolfine said. "Udo and Fritz are waiting."

"The same airboat as before?"

"Yup."

They exited the clinic, and slowly walked towards the Naval Base.

"So, Adolfine... What the fuck were you talking about to Yoshika?"

"Truth and only truth. Tomorrow, Sergeant Shizuka Hattori, a cadet from the Etajima Naval Academy, will come to Yoshika with a proposal. The Helvetian Academy of Medical Sciences, founded only two years ago in Basel, invited her to study in its ranks."

"Is that a private university?"

"Yes, and I know where you're going at. We funded your fiancés education entirely."

"Wow… Incredible…"

"It's the least we can do to sweeten her life a bit, after she sacrificed her magic… So, continuing, the girls will board a ship and sail to Marseille, and from there, they will venture on through the continent, up to Helvetia. Don't worry, in Gallia and the Netherlands they are safe. Belgica is a bit dangerous though, but that's why Hattori will be with Yoshika."

"Hmmm… I think I like it… Buuuuut… Yoshika is only after middle school…"

"Don't worry about that either. There are a slew of high schools in Basel that will take Yoshika in."

"So, what do you plan for me after I do all my business in Neue Karlsland?"

"For now, we plan to let you go, but I don't give you any guaranties."

"I suppose that will have to suffice… So, what's the 'other' stuff I'm being hauled about?"

"As I told you, we will discuss it mid-flight. We can't talk about it around the rabble…" Adolfine stealthily glanced over the few people looking at them.

"Whatever… Let's get to the plane then…"

They arrived at the Naval Base piers, before the BV 222 airboat.

"This again…" Toshiro sighed. "Good that we only have a day of flight ahead of us…"

"Not exactly true, Toshiro, your math is off… It's slightly over eighteen thousand kilometers to Buenos Aires. That's three days and some of continuous flight. But we can't fly continuously. Despite all the mods, we can only go 245 km/h for 30 hours, which means that we'll fly for about… four to five days."

"Now I see… But you won't be breaking out your bikini in Hawaii, right?"

"Nu-uh, we're only refueling and cooling down the engines there."

"Oh what a shame… I really like looking at you in a bikini… Let's just get this behind us…"

"Lets…" Adolfine sighed.

They boarded the plane, and made themselves comfortable. The engines started, and Toshiro was off on another adventure, in his new homeland, away from his beloved Yoshika.

And chapter one ends here, bros and brosefines! As usual, see you in three days!

Oh, and watch out with those fireworks today, mericans ;)

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