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

A gentle minded boy “me” was totally being made up as a criminal due to two slices of bread. I’m wasn’t a passive person, so I really argued my case, but the battle was me against the 37 people in my class plus a local government employee (teacher), so there was no way to win. The verbal arguments lasted about 30 seconds at which time,
the single phrase, “you brought it,” ended it…

The local government employee commanded,
“do something about it.”
What that meant was a local self-governing body was telling me to do something about it. There was no way for me not to go.

In the courtyard, the PE teacher was already adding to the humor of the show, by playing chase with the goat while holding some string. The goat chose the flowerbed as its escape route everytime, so the chasing caused heavy trample damage to it and the situation went from bad to worse. Even an adult couldn’t catch it; what would a boy like me be able to do?

I was brought out by my homeroom teacher and in front of all of the kids packing the windows to get a look. It was like a coliseum.
There the hero enters! But because the flowerbed was already heavily trampled, so my entrance was made to heavy booing as if I was the away team.

The PE teacher was a little advanced in age, so he was already out of breath from chasing the quick goat. The teacher looked over and said,
“Haa… Haa… You, huh?”
Like I’ve been saying, it’s not…

But the stray goat. As soon as it saw me,
“Meeh?”
it bleated.
Hey, people will misunderstand so don’t bleat as if you were asking me a question. Don’t goats usually lower their intonation when they bleat?

But the stray goat keept bleating in question form “meeeh?” and coming closer.
Yeah, yeah. Usually this scene would be so cute. Peter from “Heidi, Girl of the Alps” would be overjoyed and would do a one armed handstand. But I was the away team at this coliseum. It was not that kind of situation.
“Peter, we’re not in the Alps, you know?”

Goats are generally known as “stupid animals that like high places.” But this goat, remembered 2 slices of bread and “the person who carried it.”
Amazing.
It’s amazing, but don’t come closer!
Stop bleating in question form!

My wish didn’t come true and the goat was detained by the PE teacher right in front of my eyes…
Right in front of my eyes…

The PE teacher got the end of the string and with a
“Here!”
Handed it over to me.

“Yes?”

“Take it home.”

This was the decisive blow.

From all over the coliseum was heard,
“See, it was **-kun’s goat.”
“**-kun’s goat made a mess out of the flowerbed.”
“Oh no. The third graders’ sponge cucumbers are no good because of **-kun’s goat. They were supposed to use them in class.”
“The first graders’ crocus are torn up too, all because of **-kun’s goat. Some of the first graders are crying.”
“The rice seedlings for the sixth grade graduation commemoration was also trampled by **-kun’s goat, too.”
“**-kun won’t be able to come back to school tomorrow.”