A/N: First thing first, this chapter will have no action. Instead the heroes are taking their R&R (Rest and Relaxation)
Second, I recently saw a Youtube video about Christmas in Japan, and for this story, Christmas is a public holiday, unlike the real life which is not the case. Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fuLVCg_OBE
Third, some part of this story is heavily inspired from "Adopted" a Kousei x Emi YLIA fanfiction. And finally, this picture above is from Pixiv. I can imagine this is Kousei and Emi's performance in this chapter but with Kousei got no glass!
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=67605173&fbclid=IwAR2xnGog8f651m2JNhxd1CvE9r5riGX-Y5mwoKgw0zoeWN8RbWyY35rVQuY
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"I miss Tokyo" Kousei said as several pilots and airmen, including him and Emi, arrived on Yokota Air Base after a two-hour flight aboard a chartered All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
It's December, so Christmas related items and events are everywhere.
As Kousei and Emi boarded a train heading for Tokyo, blended with general passengers, both pilots, wearing their Class B winter uniform, realized that due to the war, security aboard trains and around stations are significantly tightened. Notable number of security guards inside the rail cars and the station area have handguns and one or two guards even carrying HK416 assault rifles. Armed police and military police, many also with rifles, along with bomb-sniffing dogs, patrolled both inside and outside stations. Vending machines, instant photo-booths, toilets, and pay phones are inspected more throughly to avoid suspicious items including explosives to be stored. Usage of baggage lockers are restricted "until unspecified time".
Such heavy measures are not baseless, as during the last six months twelve separate attempts of sabotage and terror attacks in the nation's railways and other modes has been detected and foiled; mostly by North Korean agents or domestic extreme left group opposed to the war. One of the plots are particularly worrying; sarin attacks on Tokyo Metro subway, which if carried on, will be a repeat of the 1995 incident.
Inside the railcar, Kousei felt his phone vibrated and he opened it.
"Kaori's father (Miyazono Yoshiyuki)? What he wants for me?" He reads the LINE message.
Good day, Kousei. and happy holiday. We missed you a lot here in Totsuhara, and our town are proud to have people like you serving with honor. Don't forget to stop at Ma Fille, as we had special 40% discount of all products in support of our troops. Including you. Bring your girlfriend with you! Your best friend also had called me before and said they will come visit us too. Have a nice day!
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"Shinjuku-eki.. Shinjuku-eki" (Shinjuku Station) the PA inside the train announced its arrival to the final destination, Shinjuku Station, in Tokyo.
20 minutes later, after a change of train they arrived in Totsuhara Station and began their journey home. On their way, they saw up to three gaisensha (Japanese sound trucks/van), blaring pro-military slogans such as "Guntai o Shien" which was translated from classic American military slogan "Support our Troops". Other citizens expressed their support by waving Japanese and other Coalition member-state flags from sidewalks, houses, apartments, flats, cars, etc.
On the other hand, opposition groups, especially the Communists, countered the "show of patriotism" by deploying sound trucks on their own with anti-war slogans.
"Let's stop by Miyazono's shop, shall we?" Kousei asked, as a Communist gaisensha passed in opposite direction with a bus they are currently on board, propagating their anti-war view. "Sure!" she asked, as she is reading current news on her phone.
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