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

The next morning with Takaaki-kun and Murayama-kun accompanying me, the three of us went to the “next” city hospital.

This time, all three of us got our get-well gifts separately. Pushing that aside, I wonder what Saijoh Zenbei-san who was on the verge of death last night did with that expiring boned pork meat. It kept bugging me.

Wait.

“Takaaki. Isn’t that a package from the butchers again?

“What? T-this time it’s ham. Ham. It’s not weird, right?”
“You brought something perishable again?”
“B-because they say that meat products are good fortune as get-well gifts. When I asked today, he said that, “ham is even better!”

This guy… is being tricked again… Chocolate for Valentine’s day was probably spread in a similar fashion. Someone spirited but stupid like this guy probably said, “chocolates will make your love come true!” But seeing that I don’t ever hear “meat is good fortune as a get-well gift” now, the butcher’s trick stopped at only Takaaki-kun. Of course it did.

Saijoh-kun was hospitalized in the surgery ward.

Saijoh-kun appearance was atrocious. Half of his head and face were covered in bandages and he also had bandages on his arms.

“Saijoh… you…”

Saijoh-kun was silent.

It was because at the time, Saijoh-kun was totally nailed onto the butt of a nurse working with her back turned to him.

Saijoh, after finishing a thorough observation, said
“Oh? You guys are here?”

What a dreadful greeting.

“Things look pretty hard…”

To this, Saijoh-kun answered in a whisper.
“Yeah it is… You know the white gowns? You can see the definition of the lines more than expected. Terrible, right.”

No. I didn’t say “hard” in that meaning. It’s embarrassing to be thought of as an accomplice with him saying “right.”

“I can almost tell the pattern… but this ambiguity… right?”

No. Like I said, it’s embarrassing to be told “right?”

“That’s not what I’m asking. How are your injuries?”

“Yeah, it seems like my nose and my rib are broken. The problem seems to be my eye socket. Well, it’s not too bad.”
To this, the nurse who was just being “observed” by Saijoh-kun responded.
“It’s not too bad isn’t the case! Your eye was really close to flying out.”

“But still…”

At that time, more of Saijoh-kun’s visitors arrived.

They were a plain-clothes Chuzai-san and Minako-san.

“Ah! M-Minako-san! … And police!”

“Am I just on the side?”

“C-come in, come in. Over here. Even though this place is squalid.”
He motioned to only Minako-san.
Minako-san bowed her head deeply.

“Since you were the only one not there, I thought this was the case.”
Chuzai-san said.

“It looks like you put on quite a show.”
“Yeah… well.”
“Chaki was prosecuted. It wasn’t his first offense. He’ll probably be going to juvenile hall.”
“Is that so? I guess it’s time for him to pay up…”
“He was hospitalized with heavy injuries, too, but it seems like he’s not going to prosecute you guys. … The problem is the school.”

That’s right. Saijoh-kun had already received two suspensions for good-for-nothing things. One time was the vehicle road violation from “We are the Wind,” and the other one, predictably, was an act of violence. It wouldn’t be unexpected if he were to be given “expulsion treatment” this time.

“I did contact the school and asked them to make it light, but they’re a different organization. I’m not sure what’ll…”

“I’m sorry. It’s all because of me…”
Minako-san apologized sincerely.

“Well, it’s ok. I don’t like to study anyways…”
Even though he said that, he couldn’t throw off the anxiety of “expulsion.”
We lost our words, too.

To tell you from the results, Saijoh-kun ended up just being suspended during his hospitalization. Rumor, that was taken as the truth, had it that his homeroom teacher Shirai Kyoko-sensei did her best to suppress it, but in reality the truth seemed to be that Great Inoue-kun’s father, who was one of the big wheels in the prefecture, used his power.

Saijoh-kun was staring silently at the window for a long time.
But. As expected, there was a nurse working with her back facing towards us there…

“By the way. Saijoh.”
“Yes?”
“I brought you a get-well gift.”

As he said that, Chuzai-san handed him a package.

“Oh, and this. I’ll return it to you.”
He took out a picture frame.

That was

The “even more outrageous photo print!” that we used in volume 4 “Sunset Shoot-Out.”
That’s right. It was the dreadful photo print that would sober up 100 years of love.

“Should I hang it around here?”

“H-how un-adult like, Chuzai! I-in front of Minako-san, too!”

But something like this was only a farce compared to the upcoming big incident that we would be wrapped up in.
At least for me…

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