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Chapter 16 - Redpanted Rascals

Toshiro placed the headphones down on their hook, and went down to the hangar. He placed himself just out of the hangar. After a few minutes, he saw Junko in white and the twins in black sweep from west to east, and turning around to land. After landing, the twins quickly taxied before Junko and hugged Toshiro.

"Hey, hey, what's this for?" Toshiro asked.

"Oh, we missed you." Karen said.

"You'll always have a place in our hearts, you know…" Anne said.

"Daawwwww…" Toshiro patted both on their heads.

"Don't spoil them, Toshiro." Junko said with a smile when she taxied before Toshiro.

"Aw but Miss Takei…" Karen moaned.

"Toshiro is our friend…" Anne moaned along.

"Oh okay… But behave, you two rascals, we're guests here."

"Yes ma'am!" The two responded.

"Okay, park your Strikers… somewhere, and let's meet the rest."

The girls placed their Strikers against the wall behind the Launch Units, and they went on up. On the junction, they met Mio.

"Oh? How did you three get here?" Mio asked.

"We're with a revisit, Mio. Nice to meet you again."

"Yes, also nice to meet you. But why only the three of you?"

"The rest was busy having a lazy Sunday…" Junko sighed. "Besides, it would be awkward to pile upon you with half of our unit, so only us three came. Not to mention some can't even walk normally…"

"My, my, we have guests?" Minna said coming down from the stairs. "Oh look, it's the twins!"

"Good morning Miss Minna!" The twins shouted cheerfully.

"Good morning, Commander, I'm Captain Takei Junko from the 504th." Junko introduced herself, and shook hands with Minna.

"So you are that friend from old times Mio was telling me about? You certainly look better than she described you…"

"Oh that Mio…" Takei said with a laugh. "So, where is everyone actually? It's a ghost town here."

"Ah yes, I can explain." Toshiro said. "Most of the castle is off-limits, since the inner construction is feeble. You'll probably find the girls in the dorm, or wandering around the base. Come on, I'll lead you to it."

"Toshiro, you still have some time at the radar left…" Minna reminded him.

"Aw, Minna…" Toshiro said with puppy eyes.

"God damn it, Toshiro, don't do such eyes or I'll melt away… Okay, I'll jump in for you…"

"Thanks."

The girls from the 504th, Toshiro and Mio went on out of the castle through the northeast exit. Almost immediately, they bumped into Trude and Erica.

"Oh! The twins!" Erica shouted. "What's up?"

"Hello Miss Erica! Hello Miss Gertrud!"

"Hey squirts." Trude said and pointed out at Junko. "Is that your Commander?"

"Well, I'm only the commander-in-battle, Captain Takei Junko."

"Captain Gertrud Barkhorn and this is 1st Lieutenant Erica Hartmann."

"A pleasure to meet you both." Junko said.

"I'm sorry that we can't talk a bit more, but we have some things to do." Trude said and went on with Erica.

They entered the dorm building, and they were immediately attacked by a cloud of dust.

"What…gives…?" Toshiro said while coughing. "Back out, everyone…"

While everyone was coughing, Perrine, to everyone's surprise, Yoshika and Lynne came out in white facemasks and brooms.

"Why are you all coughing?" Yoshika asked with her facemask still on.

"Take a wild guess…" Toshiro said with a sneer. "Nothing out of place by the way?"

"Noo…. Oh! Karen! Anne!" Yoshika shouted and ran up to the twins, giving them a vivid hug. "Hi again!"

"Heehee… Nice to see you, Miss Yoshika." Anne said.

"Yeah, nice to see you." Karen said.

"Oh, and Miss Takei is also here." Yoshika noticed. "Good morning." She bowed.

"Good morning, Miyafuji."

"Yoshika, who's that?" Lynne asked.

"That's the deputy commander of the 504th, Captain Junko Takei." Yoshika explained.

"Oh… Nice to meet you." Lynne bowed slightly.

"Good morning." Perrine nodded.

"What was that dust cloud, Miyafuji?" Mio asked.

"Oh, we decided to do some dusting, since it was all… dusty, heehee…"

"You should place some warning signs…" Toshiro mumbled. "Oh well, I'll just show you our beach… Come on girls."

"Oh, will you be staying for dinner?" Yoshika asked.

"Yes, if we are invited…" Junko looked at Toshiro.

"Of course you are…" Toshiro pouted.

"Well then, I'll make more food." Yoshika said and turned around to Perrine and Lynne. "Come on, let's finish dusting."

The tour group went on, and they saw Shirley and Francesca fishing on the bridge leading to the small island with the beach. Both of them had bamboo rods and straw hats on their heads. Judging by the lack of anything around them, they did not have a fruitful catch.

"Hi you two." Toshiro said while approaching them.

"Oh, hi Toshiro!" Shirley responded. "Oh, Anne and Karen are here? Long time no see!"

"Hello Miss Shirley!" The two cheered.

"Who, wha?! Twins!" Francesca suddenly acknowledged the presence of the two. "Lemme greet 'em!"

Francesca rushed at their direction, but Toshiro stopped her with his hand placed against her forehead.

"Greet them or grope them, I'm not sure what I've heard…"

"O, Lucchini, I got a bite!" Shirley shouted. "Its'a biggun!"

Shirley stood up, and pulled the rod back with a wild shout. An enormous fish jumped out of the water and landed on the bridge.

"Oh crap! It's a tuna fish!" Shirley cheered. "It's two hundred pounds or more!"

"Yay!" Francesca cheered, but her face paled in an instant. "Oh nooooo… Now we'll have to eat the whole thing so it won't spoil… Waaaah, don't want!"

Francesca approached the fish and kicked it back into the water.

"Wha… What the fuck was that for?!" Shirley yelled. "It was my biggest fish I've ever caught!"

"If I correctly follow Francesca's thought process, she just spared us about a week of eating tuna for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, tea time, supper, and midnight snacks…" Toshiro explained.

"Exactly!" Francesca cheered.

"But still… It was my fish…" Shirley pouted.

"Aw, don't worry, Shirley, we'll catch some other, smaller fishies." Francesca cheered up Shirley.

"If you say so…"

Toshiro gave the group signs to move on quietly, as the two resumed their fishing activities.

"They totally ignored me…" Junko muttered.

"Aw, don't mope…" Toshiro said while patting her on the back.

They arrived at the beach, and Toshiro said, "Nothing special, but at least we have one."

"We don't have a beach…" The twins sighed in unison.

"But your base is in a better shape than ours, both the interior and exterior." Mio said. "Oh, and that's my house by the way." She said while pointing at the small house a few steps away from the beaches sand. "Toshiro, let's go around the rest of the grounds, okay?"

"Sure."

When they were all returning to the hangar, Anne asked, "Mister Toshiro, where's Eila and Sanya?"

"They're sleeping after night patrol. But don't worry, they'll probably show up for dinner."

"Toshiro…" Minna appeared from behind the corner suddenly. "Didn't you forget about something?"

"Uuuugh… Well… Oh crap… We were supposed to go to Pescara, right?"

"Yes."

"Damn… But I want the girls to have a good time… I'm the host after all…"

"Don't worry, Toshiro, we'll tag along with Mio." Junko said.

"Really? Thanks." Toshiro turned to Minna as the girls wandered off. "But we should ride the Shirley's bike to get there fast."

"I already took care of it. And of this…" She threw him a small money sack.

"You were in my room, Minna?" Toshiro raised an eyebrow.

"You never said it's off limits…" Minna said with an innocent voice.

"Well, now it is. Maybe except for you, Mio and Yoshika. The rest has to follow proper procedures, so to speak."

"Fine. But let's go already, okay?"

"Sure, sure…"

They went to the hangar, and Toshiro found the motorcycle already prepared for the mission, with a strongbox inside the sidecar. Minna sat in the sidecar, and Toshiro drove off to Pescara.

The motorcycle was an ideal way of travelling through the narrow streets. Since it was a Sunday, the streets were partially empty, and they arrived at the bank quickly.

"This city is beautiful…" Minna said while climbing out of the sidecar.

"Romagnans sure knew how to build… Come on; let's get you introduced to the bank manager."

They both entered the bank, and like by fairy tale magic, the bank manager appeared before them.

"Buongiorno! I see the good Colonnello has returned, with an even more bella donna (beautiful woman)…" The manager said in an alluring voice and kissed Minna's hand.

"Oh my… But mister manager, we're just here to take up the money for our units pays…" Minna said flustered.

"Ah… You must be the Tenente Colonnello I was told about. Please, go to the man there, he'll pay you out."

"Thank you." Toshiro said.

"Toshiro, why is it that I'm kissed in the hand by another stranger? What's with those Romagnans?" Minna was both confounded and mesmerized.

"You could say it's normal for them, but that's a stereotype… But the guy didn't kiss Shirley's hand when we were here first, and you already scored two hits… Maybe you are sending some signals that only free men can decipher?" Toshiro replied with a smile.

Minna gave him a shunt in the side and said, "You think so?"

"You are in an all-woman environment. I hardly count, because I'm already taken, and the only men you meet are old geezer generals. I can safely assume that if you went into a tavern and went loose, you would have so many admirers you could pick through them like from a potato sack."

"You… Really think so?"

"Yes, Minna. Remember that at first you are a woman, then a soldier."

"I think it's the opposite, but… I'm nineteen… I'll lose my shield soon… Maybe I should find a man…"

"No rush, Minna. When the time comes, you'll find somebody you'll want to share the rest of your life with…"

"Thanks, Toshiro… Come on, let's get that money, and push our mission forward."

They approached the teller, and Toshiro said, "We are from the 501st, and we want to know if there's money for us."

The bald man with glasses looked at him carefully and said, "I recognize you from the papers, Colonnello, but I still need a permission slip."

"Of course." He said and pulled out his wallet.

Wait… Shouldn't everything be mush inside the wallet because of that involuntary swim I had to take?

Toshiro opened the wallet and saw that everything inside was dry. He pulled out the slip and gave it to the teller. The man looked at it, nodded, and gave it back.

"Bueno, Colonnello. Please, check this list, and I will fill that strongbox of yours."

Minna pushed the strongbox to the man, and he took it. Toshiro at the same time looked through the list. Not much changed since he saw a similar list in Britannia, except for the fact that the numbers were now astronomical.

"Uh, excuse me… What's the exchange rate of the pound?"

"A hundred lire to a pound, Colonnello."

"Thank you."

So if I scratch two zero's… Now the numbers make sense but… Gods, do I see correctly? Two hundred pounds for two weeks of work?! Oh right… That bonus annotation explains everything… That uncle of mine…

"Everything in order, Colonnello? You look a little pale."

"No, everything's all right, thanks for your concern."

The man returned to filling the strongbox with money.

"Say, Toshiro… Why do you get such a truckload of money?" Minna asked bluntly.

"Maybe uncle is compensating me for something… Or he is simply giving me pocket money…"

"Nice pocket money… Fifty pounds…" Minna pouted. "I didn't get so much money until I scraped my way to 2nd Lieutenant…"

"Heheh… Not my fault my uncle has a guilt trip about failing to provide for his nephew and sister-in-law when they were in need…"

"Huh?"

"Oh, right. My uncle always doubled the sums that my father sent to my mother and me. But after the war broke out, he accidentally scraped it, and we were left with nothing. Given the fact that my mother was always economic with her money, we managed to live on scraps until 1943… Then I had to drop out of high school and join the Navy as a shitty mechanic…"

"You never told me that… Well, now I know why the Kaiser gives you so much pocket money heehee… But you know you should use it for a good cause, right?"

"Yes, Minna. Hogging the money won't do anyone any good."

"Please, the money is now in the strongbox." The teller said. "Have a nice day."

"Thank you." Both Toshiro and Minna said.

"Now where?" Minna asked.

"Now, we'll have lunch at a pizzeria I know…"

"A pizzeria? I never ate pizza to be honest…"

"You seriously don't know what you've missed."

They used the motorcycle to do traverse the short distance between the bank and the pizzeria. Minna took the strongbox with her.

"Just in case." She said when confronted with Toshiro's surprised look.

The two entered the pizzeria. As before, there were no people beside the ones behind the counter.

"Mamma mia! Il nipote dell'imperatore (the nephew of the Emperor)!" Carlo shouted. "Please, Colonnello, have a seat!" He shouted and seated them forcefully at the table Toshiro used previously. "So, what can old Carlo fetch you?"

"A small pizza and a bottle of your best Chianti."

"Right up!" Carlo turned around and shouted, "Hey, Giuseppe, una piccolo!"

"Si!" He heard in response.

"Toshiro, we're on duty…" Minna said with a grimace.

"A glass of wine to help the digestion. Besides, the Romagnans seem to drink wine to everything."

"Well… Ah, zur Hölle mit dem Regulationen (to hell with the regulations)!"

"See? You can party if you can, heheh…"

"Wine is a noble alcohol, Toshiro. If it was beer of schnapps, I would oppose. Not that I would have any saying around you but… You get what I'm coming at?"

"Yes, Minna."

They waited a few minutes, and Carlo returned to them with pizza in one hand, and a bottle of Chianti and two glasses in the other. He placed what he carried on the table, and retreated behind the counter silently.

"So this is what a pizza looks like in life…" Minna said while lifting a slice up to her mouth. "I wonder if it tastes as good as it looks."

Minna took a small bite of the pizza, and chewed it carefully.

"How is it?" Toshiro asked.

"Magnificent. I would have eaten pizza sooner, but…"

"Yeah, Francesca told me already…" He interrupted. "Poor girl can't cook even if her life depended on it…"

"Maybe she'll mature in that way someday…" Minna said and took another bite.

"Hmmm… I have an idea…" Toshiro murmured. "Mister Carlo, could you come over here?"

The man rushed to the table and asked, "Yes, what can Carlo do for you, Colonnello?"

"You seem to know the place around, recommend me a good mason or carpenter."

"Aaaaah… You want to renovate your base a bit? Carlo knows just the man! It's my cougino, Vincenzo."

"A cousin, huh?" Toshiro gave him a distrustful look.

"Colonnello, it's not nepotismo! The man is a real master artisan! He could even renovate the whole castle if you give him enough money!"

"What do you say, Minna?"

"Well, give us an address, and we will visit him personally."

"His workshop is…" The man started giving him directions.

"Okay, I see… Thank you, Mister Carlo." Toshiro said.

"Prego, Colonnello. And tell him I recommended you, he'll give you a small discount."

"Thank you."

Carlo returned behind the counter. The two finished the pizza, and Minna said, "You can open the wine now, Toshiro."

"Somebody is eager here…"

"I only tasted that wine that is in the cellar, time to broaden my horizon, so to speak."

Toshiro uncorked the squat bottle in a straw basket, and poured the wine into the glasses.

"So, what are we drinking to?" Minna asked.

"To a good renovation, heheh…"

"Heehee…"

They bumped their glasses, and slowly sipped the wine.

"Hmmm… Very good… Slightly acidic… But very, very good…" Minna said with a wise expression.

"You sure know your wine, Minna."

"I'll also develop a good taste in wine, Toshiro, if you want that is. We have a whole cellar of… training material, heehee…"

"Yeah…" Toshiro drank wine in his glass and said, "Mister Carlo, how much do I owe you for this feast?"

"Please, Colonnello, don't offend me…"

"No, you don't offend me, Mister Carlo. You deserve compensation for such a fine meal and wine."

"If you so wish, Colonnello… Fifteen lire."

"A bit steep, but the wine was worth it…" Toshiro pulled out the small sack from his pocket and gave Carlo twenty lire. "A tip for a tip."

"Grazie, Colonnello."

They went outside and boarded the motorcycle. Following Carlo's directions, they arrived at a workshop on the edges of Pescara. It was all silent, probably because it was a Sunday. Toshiro killed the engine, and they went forward, looking for signs of intelligent life.

Toshiro knocked on the front door, and after ten seconds, a tanned man in his late thirties, skinny but ripped, answered his call.

"Hmmm… I militari (the military)? What do you want from Vincenzo?"

"Your cousin Carlo recommended you."

"Ahhh! If it is Carlo we are talking about, then it's a different pair of socks! What do you want me to build?"

"Maybe Minna here will know what we need better than me…" Toshiro said while stepping aside.

"Yes, thank you, Toshiro. We need a kitchen renovated, some furniture for the rooms, drapes, rugs… We also need a bath."

"Precise and to the point, as expected from a milady of Karlsland… Well, I'll visit you tomorrow, and look at what I'm undertaking, sì?"

"Yes, please. We will agree upon compensation and a time schedule tomorrow then."

"Agreed. But where should I go?"

"The castle outside of Pescara, the base of the 501st."

"Mamma mia! Such an honor! I would gladly go there today, but I'm a man of faith… You understand, sì?"

"Yes, I understand. Till tomorrow then."

"Arrivederci!"

"Goodbye." They both said and went to the motorcycle.

"I made a good judgment to let you do it, Minna. Straight to the point and precise."

"See? You learned something already, heehee… Oh… Something came to my mind…"

"What is it?"

"You didn't play the bugle lately."

"Oh… Yeah… I was sort of busy…"

"I understand, Toshiro. But be sure to start from the next morning, the girls need some discipline."

"True."

They rode straight to the base. After they arrived, Toshiro and Minna were almost dragged off the motorcycle by Trude and Yoshika.

"Trude, you are really energetic, what is it?" Minna asked.

"We have a crisis to defuse! The twins are throwing fireballs at each other!"

"Holy shit! What's the reason?" Toshiro asked.

"Don't know! Hurry or they'll burn down something!"

The four of them ran down the runway, and saw the rest of the girls watching a raging firestorm at the end of the runway. One could recognize two silhouettes amongst the flames, flailing their hands in all directions.

"Oh my… That escalated quickly…" Minna said.

"Oh well… Seems I have to go in there and cool their heads down." Toshiro said.

"No, Toshiro, you'll get hurt!" Yoshika protested.

"Miyafuji is right, you'll get burned." Mio concurred.

"Trust me, I'll be okay…" Toshiro said while enabling the Sacred Flame.

"I will, right?"

"Well… The Sacred Flame should negate those flames… But don't expect a cool breeze upon entering that firestorm…"

Toshiro slowly walked forward. Ten meters before the firestorm he could feel the warmth of the flames, and see details of the girls. As he entered the raging fire, he could hear the girls shouting at each other in a bubble of lukewarm air.

"Huh, what? It's almost cold here…"

"You didn't think that possessing the gift of pyrokinesis automatically makes you fire retardant, right? They must have used some sort of air bubble to protect themselves."

"Well… I really thought they were sort of like asbestos…"

"Stupid…"

"I tell you my panties are redder than yours!" Karen shouted.

"No, mine are the reddest of them all!" Anne yelled.

The two were fighting each other flailing their arms half-heartedly in the air, trying to hit each other.

"Ahem…" Toshiro cleared his throat aloud.

The two froze in place, and turned their heads in his direction.

"So… You two are scorching the runway, and scaring the shit out of my girls because of the color of your panties?" Toshiro said with a joyful tone.

"Yes, we are arguing about that!" Karen said.

"Precisely!" Anne followed.

Toshiro smiled, and in the same tone he said, "Well, as important it may seem to you, I don't think the general public really cares about your panties. Furthermore, if you won't turn off these flames in the next five seconds, I'll make sure you'll do bath and latrine scrubbing till the end of the year."

The two gulped in harmony and the flames were doused before Toshiro could even count to one. Surprisingly, there were no burn marks on the runway.

The girls from the 501st and Junko ran up to them with concerned faces, but they were surprised nobody even had a scuff on their uniforms.

"Explain yourselves, girls…" Junko said with a firm voice.

"We… We can't!" The both shouted flustered.

"You can't? Is it something… private?" Junko asked.

The two nodded. Junko approached them and the three huddled up. After a while they separated from each other, with Junko standing a step behind the two.

"Oh, so that's what it was about?" She asked with a cutesy voice.

The twins nodded. Suddenly, Junko struck the two in the back of their heads with open palms with such fury that the girls landed flat with their noses on the runway.

"You mean you made us worried sick over the hue of your fucking panties?! For fucks sake!" Junko shouted furiously with a vein throbbing on hear forehead.

Everyone was stumped at this sudden explosion of anger from the timid looking Junko. She must have also realized it, because she immediately pulled up both the Fire Twins and hugged them.

"If you are ever going to argue, please, do it in a civilized manner so to speak…"

"Yes ma'am…" The two mumbled.

"Now apologize to the 501st…"

"Yes ma'am…" The two girls turned around, bowed and said, "We are sorry."

A dead silence befell the gathered, which was soon interrupted by the asynchronous tummy rumbling of Karen and Anne. The two blushed like mad and muttered unintelligibly under their noses, to which the rest exploded with laughter. The twins were brought inside and seated, and Trude, Yoshika, Lynne and even Toshiro started making a potato rich feast.

After everyone was half-dead from overeating, Junko said, "Well, I think it's time for us… Come on you two rascals."

"Yes ma'am."

The three stood up from the table bowed slightly and went to their Strikers. They were followed by everyone, and they were waved and cheered off heartily.

"Toshiro, there's a fat stack of papers waiting for processing in the archive…" Trude said.

"Might as well… Unless Yoshika has some nice ideas?" Toshiro looked at his girlfriend.

"No, no. I'll probably have some training right now anyway."

"Okay then, Trude, let's battle those papers…"

The battle with the reports took them some time, after which Toshiro went to Minna.

"Oh, good to see you. I have already prepared the envelopes with the payments for the girls."

"Awwww… And I wanted to help you…"

"Heehee… Well, if you want to change something, be my guest."

Toshiro approached Minna, and saw three stacks of money out of the envelopes.

"Is the biggest stack mine?" Toshiro asked.

"Yes."

Toshiro took out three thousand lire out of the stack, and placed it into Yoshika's envelope, followed by the curious eyes of Minna.

"You are spoiling Miyafuji, you know?"

"She won't use up the money herself anyway, Minna. She will most likely send it back home, so her mother and grandmother have the funds to live a pleasant life."

"My, my… Aren't you considerate…" Minna said with a warm smile.

"Heh… While we are on the topic of money, one thing bothers me… Why don't we have a budget for our unit?"

"Well… We are just a support unit, not a main strike force, so we have to live on what we get for our service. In Britannia, we had about two hundred pounds to burn every month, and that was more than enough."

"I see… Well, since I don't have anything to spend my money on, let's say I'll give ten thousand lire out of each of my pay every two weeks as money for our whole unit."

Minna's eyes widened, but her face looked concerned.

"But… Toshiro… I can't let you give away so much money…"

"What's the point of hoarding it? I'll still have seventy pounds left each second week, and my uncle is an emperor for fucks sake, I'm a made man for the rest of my life, if I choose to leech on him, heheh…"

"Thank you… I promise I will put the money to good use."

"You'd better! We have a crapload of renovations to do here… What do you think about making a PA system?"

"That could be useful… Be sure to remind me about it when that Vincenzo guy appears tomorrow."

"Sure. You need anything to be done?"

"No, no. Everything is fine for today. You can idle with clear conscience, heehee…"

Toshiro went down, and to the end of the runway. He just lied down, and watched the clear sky above his head. He felt a bit drowsy, so he succumbed to this feeling and drifted away.

Erica woke him up, poking him in the side. It was dark already, so Toshiro deduced it was suppertime. After supper, during which the envelopes with the money were handed out, Yoshika took him to the side and said, "Ummm… Toshiro… I would like to take a bath…"

"Be my guest, Yoshika. Alone, with my assist or with me in the tub?"

"Ummm…. Ummm…" Yoshika stuttered with her face reddening with each passing microsecond. "I'll decide once I'm there, okay?"

"Okay. Go get your bath stuffs and I'll go make the water hot."

Yoshika nodded and ran off. Toshiro went to his room, and prepared the water for bathing. Just after he did it, Yoshika entered silently with all her bathing supplies.

"So, did you decide?"

"Y-yes… I want you to assist me…" She made a slight pause. "With everything…" She said with an alluring voice.

"Oh?" Toshiro said surprised and walked up to Yoshika. "By everything do you mean…" He took the supplies from Yoshika and placed them on the ground. "…that if I pull your shirt off…" He pulled up Yoshika's uniform, leaving her in the school swimsuit she always carries underneath. "…you won't be mad."

Yoshika looked at him with eyes full of good will and said, "Not at all."

Toshiro then slowly started to pull of the swimsuit saying, "And if I'll start pulling down this swimsuit…" He pulled it down all the way. "…also good?"

She kicked the swimsuit gently a bit to the side and said, "Very good."

Toshiro placed his right hand on Yoshika's stomach, which caused her to moan.

"Your hands are cold, Toshiro…"

He placed his left hand on her right him, which also ended in a slight moan. His left hand started moving towards Yoshika's right buttock, but it was stopped just around halfway by Yoshika's right hand. He tried his luck with his right hand reaching for her small breasts, but it was also stopped.

"I guess this means no, huh?" Toshiro said with a disappointed voice.

"Please, Toshiro… Wait just a few weeks… The next step is already going full out, so… I want it to be very special… Please, let me be prepared for this…"

"Don't tease me too much, Yoshika… Just seeing you naked in an intimate environment makes me horny…"

"Heehee… I'm glad I have such an effect on you… But for now, wash my hair and give me a backrub, okay?"

"Ugh… You little torturer…"

After Yoshika was dried by Toshiro's magic, and after getting clothed, she said, "Thank you, Toshiro."

"No problem…" He grumbled.

"Aww, why the long face? Oh, I know how to turn that frown upside down!" She cheered and swiftly kissed Toshiro. "Now, have a good night."

"Yes ma'am!"

"Oh and… You don't know if I got a raise, now that you are the supervisor?"

"Why do you think you got a raise?"

"Well… Because I got so much money, about thirty pounds, and I thought…"

"Heh… Consider it a bonus for being such a good girlfriend to me…"

"Oh… Heehee… Thank you, Toshiro, mom will surely be surprised when she gets the money…"

"My thought exactly, Yoshika."

Toshiro looked out of his balcony for a while, and turned in for the night early.

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