The Legends Still Live On
Bogen Dreizehn-komma-zwei: Extra Vier
Kapitel Zweiundzwanzig: Mütze
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Within the city of Kiel were members from both Schwarzwaldspitze High School and Ooarai High School. Both the Graf Zeppelin and the Zuikaku were docked within the city's port for school ships, which was placed at the port's inlet by the sea, near the Marine Ehrenmal. For Schwarzwaldspitze, it was just another stop at their homeport to resupply. For Ooarai, they were there because it happened to be the closest port that they could resupply from, which marked yet another time where both schools had to share the same port with each other.
There were some particular people that were all close to each other currently within the plaza for the Altstadt sector of the city. Said people consisted of Miho, Erich, and all their main friends plus Maho and Alfred. All were in their combat outfits for some reason. For the moment, Alfred had taken most everyone over to one of the many restaurants in the plaza. He specifically took them to the Kieler Brauerei, so those that hadn't been in the country extensively could get a taste of what Germany was really like, with 'taste' being taken literally.
Maho, Erich, Miho, and Yukari chose not to get hammered on beer with everyone else at the moment as they stayed outside within the plaza. Erich stayed out because Maho wanted to talk to him. Miho stayed out to stay with Erich, but Maho insisted that she talk to Erich alone, so Miho had to stay away. Yukari stayed out to give Miho some company for the moment.
"So," Maho began casually to Erich as she held a hand to her hip. "I saw that Blechkrawatte around Miho's neck. If I remember right, I remember that being yours, so you mind telling me what that's about?"
"Ah, you noticed," Erich remarked with a typical calm smile as he held his arms behind his head in a casual way. "Well I chose to give her that as a Christmas present, so it's now hers."
"Why?" Maho asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I wanted to give her something special," Erich replied to her question. "Because she herself is very special, so I wanted to give her something to match that."
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Watching the conversation go on from further away were Miho and Yukari. Miho was trying to see if she could read their lips to find out what her boyfriend and sister were talking about, but Yukari instead was staring more at Maho's Schwarzwaldspitze Panzerkraft uniform.
She whistled a bit in impressment. "Man, Schwarzwaldspitze's hat looks pretty sharp with that jacket of theirs, doesn't it?" she remarked to Miho beside her.
"Huh?" Miho snapped out of her focus on trying to decipher what Erich and Maho were saying to turn to Yukari. "Oh, yeah!" she smiled as she agreed. "It sure does!" She then thought for a bit. "Speaking of which, Ooarai's Panzerkraft uniform doesn't come with a hat."
"Well…" Yukari began as she took off her bag and started digging through it. "If we're going to put something on our heads…"
Miho looked on at Yukari in curiosity before Yukari slapped something on top of Miho's head. "We should go with something like this!" Yukari suggested.
What was on Miho's head was a hat of sorts. It was styled after an anglerfish, and it held the same pink color seen on the anglerfish emblem on her Panzer IV H. It appeared somewhat like a flattened anglerfish in its hat form. Miho grew a blank look upon noticing what Yukari had put on her head.
"Should we make it navy blue to match the jacket?" Yukari suggested as she donned an identical hat, but this one was dark blue like the normal Ooarai Panzerkraft jacket.
"Or we could change the jacket to be pink instead," Yukari additionally suggested as she changed jackets almost impossibly quick. She changed from her normal uniform jacket to a version that was pink, like the color of the anglerfish hat.
"Gott, you're so prepared…" Miho muttered as she slumped her shoulders. "Come on, there's no way we're gonna be wearing these, right?"
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"Alright, Maho. Bis nächstes Mal," Erich said goodbye to Maho after their little chat.
"Mach's gut, Bubi," Maho bid Erich farewell, and they then went their separate ways. Maho chose to go to the Kieler Brauerei to get hammered on beer like many of the others there.
Erich chose to go off to find Miho again. He couldn't spot her immediately, so he walked around the plaza a bit to see if he could find her hanging out somewhere. He soon happened on two girls around his age in what he found to be some rather odd clothing. One was rather energetic at the moment while the other was the opposite with her shoulders slumped. Erich thought they may have seen Miho recently, so he closed with them to ask.
"Sie da," Erich greeted as he stopped by them. "Wissen Sie wo…" he began to ask, but he trailed off as the girls turned to him. He recognized them as being Miho and Yukari, still dressed in the outfits Yukari had brought along.
Yukari had no particular expression outside her normal one as she turned to Erich, but Miho grew wide eyes as she grew a blush on her face from embarrassment of Erich not only seeing her in her current outfit, but also from him not recognizing her because of it.
Both Miho and Erich stared at each other and blinked a few times. Both felt just how awkward their current situation was, and as such no words were needed from them to acknowledge that.
Finally, Erich started to grow a teasing grin, and he raised a finger as if preparing to speak up.
Miho saw, and she quickly countered. "Ap!" she cut him off with as stern a look as she could muster. Such a look still had her blush present with her stern look of denial.
Erich stayed quiet, but he soon made a move to speak up again.
"Ap!" Miho denied him again as she held a hand up toward him.
Erich obeyed, but he soon disobeyed her order again to try and speak up.
"Ap!" Miho interrupted him again to deny him the chance to speak as she pointed to him with a similar intent of denial.
Erich stayed quiet in response. Both stared at each other with their current looks for several seconds of silence. Erich still had his teasing grin while Miho had her stern look of denial mixed with a blush. Miho was effectively daring Erich to say anything at all about her outfit.
"Fischkopf!" Erich quickly and childishly blurted out at random and caught Miho off guard. He then started laughing like a child as he immediately ran off.
He ran off because he knew Miho was going to follow him, and follow him she did. "Aaaargh!" she yelled out as she chased after him with intent. "Du unreifes Kind! Komm hier und lass mich dich schmatzen!"
And so Miho chased Erich around the plaza in an effort to make him pay for his comment. Neither of them noticed Yukari walk off while innocently whistling. She made her way over to the Kieler Brauerei where the others were. As she approached, she saw all nine of the others come out, and eight of them were absolutely hammered from beer. Maho was fine, as she only had a single drink. But the other eight were so drunk they were barely able to stand up, and they were forced to support each other.
Mako and David were effectively being supported by the rest, as they had fallen asleep during their drinking. Whether it was because they passed out from the beer or because of their natural tendency to sleep was impossible to know.
Soon enough, Erich and Miho came and passed them during their little chase, and the others grew interested in what was going on with them.
"Is it just me or does Miho look like she wants to kill Erich?" Herz wondered as he raised an eyebrow.
"I dunno, sounds like something interesting happened then…" Anton got out as those that were hammered tried to hold their balance.
"Noch ein Biiiiieeee-hiiiiieeeer!" Alfred drunkenly called out from his current spot in the group. "Ich möchte ein Bier, bitte!"
Maho looked to everyone who was hammered from their evidently massive drinking of beer, and she rolled her eyes as she grew a grin. "It's gonna be a hell of a hangover for all of them tomorrow," she remarked to herself.
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Part of Projekt Jägermeistern.
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