“Bokuchu” Us vs the Police: 700-Day War

The next day.

Saijoh-kun came to school with something strange. No, it wasn’t in the same category as “*M Fan.”

“Hey. Look at this.”
“What is this?”

It was an odd metal object that resembled a dynamo.

This is something I acquired from Manoc, when I was in elementary school, it’s called an anytime match.”
Manoc Co. At the time, they were a mail order company that advertised in most boy magazines and sold suspicious items. Although they were suspicious, to boys at the time, the many fascinating items that were shown were popular, even more so because you could purchase them with stamps.

Saijoh-kun after lighting this mysterious match (it didn’t look like a match) said,
“This can create a flame in any weather. With this…”
And started telling us his plan to subdue Chuzai-san.

“Whaaaat!?”

His plan for counterattack was exorbitant, but on the flip side had an element of fun that only he could come up with.

“Ok! Let’s try it! Chuzai will foam from the mouth.”

We immediately got to preparations.

After calling out the first year Jaime (Tange-kun),

“All right, with this money, go buy as many bottle rockets as possible.”
“What? What are you guys doing?”
“Hmm. A fireworks festival. Grand fireworks festival.”
“Eh? Cool. I wanna join.”

We looked at each other.

“Ok. Sure. We’ll let you join.”
“What? Yay!”

Because he was the smallest out of our members, he was especially ideal for sitting on the back of a bike.

“Well then, you’re the in charge of the inventory. Hurry, go buy them.”
“Affirmative!”

The rest of us bundled up 10 pieces of pipe and created a bottle rocket launching platform. It’s shape resembled the South American instrument, “quena.”

That’s right. The plan was that we were going to set a bunch of bottle rockets and fire them all at once at Chuzai-san, who would be chasing us on his bike.

Entitled, Operation “Even Oda Nobunaga will Turn Pale.”
We were excited about this one. It was a really good idea for Saijoh-kun. At the time, there weren’t any warnings on bottle rockets, so we used them for many things.

So we split up into three groups, Murayama and Chiba (the guy in volume 4 that imitated Kudou-sensei) pair, Saijoh and I pair, and dragged in Great Inoue-kun to pair with Jaime behind him. We then rode off separately by bike. We headed towards the front of the RPS.

Let me explain the plan here.

On the bike that Saijoh-kun and I were on, we had set the pipe launcher that could fire ten bottle rockets at once. This was because at the time bottle rockets came in bunches of ten. Great Inoue-kun’s bike was to ride next to ours and supply us with bottle rockets. Now we were able to continually launch bottle rockets. Ten at a time at that!

Murayama group was to ride by first as a decoy. In our flawless plan, we figured that Chuzai-san would start his pursuit when he saw the first group, so with this, we were able to place some distance between our “launcher” and Chuzai-san.

All right. Start the operation.

“Jaime, got the fireworks?”
“Yes! I’m totally ready! But, where are we going?”
“Don’t worry about that. All you have to do is hand us the bottle rockets.”
“I understand!”
“Ah. Ten at a time, all right? Take them out of the bag and hand them over.”
“What? Ten, right? Roger that! Senpai!”

After the Murayama-kun pair blazed past the front of the RPS, Chuzai-san came flying out. It was according to the plan. Finally as the four of us passed in front of the RPS, he said

“You guys again!?”

It was the exact same pattern as yesterday. Chuzai-san started chasing us on his bike.

“You guys! Don’t underestimate Bicycle Number 2!”

Chuzai-san’s secret weapon had become number 2 at some point.

But Saijoh-kun in the back,

“H-hey, he said n-number 2.”
“Yeah.”
“I, I wonder if it’s got more features?”

Why is this guy scared over something meaningless?

On top of that, today we have our own secret weapon, too.

After a while, we separated from the Murayama pair and made a left with the other bike next to us. We proceeded to a road without pedestrians. They were, after all, bottle rockets. We had no idea where they would fly. If we troubled others, it would become more than a prank.

But this road was ok.

Because it was no longer a downhill, it became a huge strain for the person pedaling, but it was “improbable” that he was going to catch up. After all we had our secret weapon! It was awesome.

And as Chuzai-san came to about 20 meters behind us, Saijoh-kun started lighting the bottle rockets that were set, one after another!

“Fire!!”

Peuh——
Peuh——
Peuh——
Peuh——
Peuh——

The bottle rockets were fired one after another! Chuzai-san was stunned!

“W-whoa!”

Chuzai-san, startled, started swerving. The effect was exceptional!

“All right! Jaime, give me more!”
“What? O-o-o-ok!”

But then…

What Jaime handed him was,
“W-what is this! These are sparklers! Give me the bottle rockets!”

“Umm… There’s no more bottle rockets.”

Huh?

“Why not!? We told you to buy as many a possible!”

“But… senpai, you said grand fireworks festival… it’s boring with only bottle rockets… So I got different ones…”

“Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!”

“We have a lots of fountains though.”

“Idiooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!”

Ten minutes later, in the hot, shining, summer sun, was seen the figures of four high schoolers picking up trash, this time in a significantly larger area than last time (the whole town).

“Oh my my. How admirable, to be out here every day.”

“Thaaanks. We have to keep our town clean, you know.”

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