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

“E-ev-ry-one… All of you came…”
Inoue-kun turned his head while in the prone position. The many bruises on his face told us the severity of the situation.

I couldn’t say whether or not Minako-san was safe.

“Takaaki…”

“Hm… Minako-san’s ok… Inoue… tried his best. Praise him, guys.”

“Yeah. Yeah.”

Inoue-kun, being helped up by his friends, was finally able to talk.
“Erm… I’m glad Takaaki came…”

“Hmm. Six at once is tough… as expected.”
Takaaki held his abdomen.
Or so I thought, when he took something off his abs and slid it out.

It was
“What? This? It’s my grandfather’s corset (back brace). Well, I have a helmet for my head. All I need to do is protect my abs to reduce damage.”
As one would expect, people used to fighting were different.

“But this chafes during the summer. My grandfather is probably a shrimp about now…”

That was a relief.

“What about that light?”

To this question Takaaki-kun answered:
“About that. I had some left over in my pocket from the other day. From the fountain war…”

“I heard your voices, so I lit one. As soon as I did, they ran away.”
“Oh, I see…”

“Jaime’s love for fountains, to be useful at a time like this… ha ha…”

“Ha ha ha.”

We laughed for the first time then.

“Everyone. I’m sorry…”

Minako-san apologized with crying in her voice.

“It’s not something you should apologize about, Minako-san. We’re the ones who originally showed you Hime-pond… Never mind that, are you ok?”

All Minako-san could do was nod.

Finally the rest of our friends came, as well as the wife.

Even that usually calm person was in a haste and,
“Minako. Are you ok!?”
“Yes… these kids protected me…”
“You guys, thank you… I don’t know what to say…”
The wife was also crying.

Even though we were thanked, most of us only came afterwards, so we were totally distracted by the fact that the two of them next to each other in the dark, totally looked alike.

“But. Why were their bikes over here?”
“Dunno… maybe it was planned.”

Saijoh-kun who had been silent until then said,
“Takaaki. That’s Chaki from Vocational, right?

“Yeah… No mistake…”

“Ok, got it.”

Saijoh-kun left the area after he said that. Chaki was a famous delinquent who attended the vocational high school in the next city and was “notorious” because he had so many suspensions, that he had to repeat a year.

“Saijoh! Don’t be rash!”

But everyone knew that it was useless for any of us to try to stop him.

Takaaki-kun then said,
“It’s ok. Saijoh doesn’t get into fights he can’t win. He has friends other than us, too. He had to settle it with Chaki someday anyways. Let him do as he wants.”

It was as he said. Saijoh-kun didn’t only hang out with us; he had a relationship with another group, too. I remember feeling that Saijoh-kun, who was always with us, always felt a little distant and lonely.

After a while, we could see the red lights of the police car so we signaled our location with the motorcycle headlights. There was another policeman and Jaime in the police car.

After confirming the situation, even Chuzai-san was pale in the face. It was because she was the sister-in-law that he had promised to keep safe to his wife’s family. How he must have felt, knowing that she had gotten into an incident in his jurisdiction?

“Minako-san! Are you ok?”
He tightly held the nodding Minako-san.

But!
All of us seriously objected to this!

It was because we had all prepared to have a fight with the delinquents, coming with what little bravery we had, and didn’t even get a chance to swing. We had become a lot more ferocious than normal.

“Hey! Cop! You have your wife!”
“That’s right. We don’t have a wife! Retard!”
“Why are you putting your hands on both beautiful sisters during this commotion!”
“I’m jealous! Damn you!”
“You three-some man!”

Well. Even though we were high schoolers, we were punching and kicking the policeman. The policeman that had come along was in dumbfounded.

“S-shut up!” Chuzai-san said, as if shaking us off.

“Yeah. But you went too far.”
The wife said.

“U-um… I, I…”
To this, even Chuzai-san was helpless.

But at this time, smiles returned to everyone’s faces including Minako-san’s for the first time. Everyone was so tense that they could cry. As if to play off our uneasiness, we laughed for a long time.

“Inoue, I’m sorry. Thank you.”
Chuzai-san apologized to Inoue-kun who was finally walking with help.

“Ha ha… I never thought that I would be thanked… by you, Chuzai-san… It seems we’ve finally lost our astuteness…”
Great Inoue-kun was being as tough as he could.

“By the way. Inoue…”
Takaaki-kun said all of a sudden.

“Hm?”

“I… Did good this time, right?

“Yeah… You’re a savior…”

“So then…”

“Yeah?”

“If there’s a request from that savior. You’ll listen to it right?”

“… Yeah. Say anything you want.”

“Yuko-chan’s bear, can you give it to me?”

“… Not a chance!”

No matter what the situation, Great Inoue-kun was still protective of his little sister.

“What!? Didn’t you just say that you would listen to anything!?”