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

“You can go now.”
Chuzai-san said to his wife.

“Oh, how come? Am I disturbing something?”
His wife said to Chuzai.

“You leave your wife here and leave.”
We willed that strongly in our minds, but because we hadn’t mastered telepathy, it only showed on our faces. Though, since the eyes express feelings just as much as words, Chuzai-san might have noticed it. We probably had dreadful expressions.

“Yeah. I have to lecture these guys a little.”

“What kind of cop lectures after making us shoplifting suspects?”
This was also said with our will-power.

“These kids are so funny though.”

Ooh! Did our will-power level up?

“Well… Then, don’t get in the way.”
Chuzai-san gave in quickly. It seems as though we weren’t the only ones who were weak against her.

While his wife looked on, there was a man who was juvenile, and two juveniles who weren’t yet adults, so our conversation wasn’t peaceful.

“I took the liberty of looking up you guys…”

“Well… That sounds great…”

Chuzai-san opened a notebook. There was something reported in the “official notes”? About us? Saijoh-kun was probably all over it.

“You guys have… done a lot of stuff before, huh?”

“Yeah… Well, if you live, things happen…”

“I won’t call you guys good-for-nothing but…”

“Yeah…”

“You’re not good-for-anything.”

What? Huh? Which is it?
Are we not good-for-nothing, or are we not good-for-anything?

“You’re pretty good too, Chuzai-san”
“It actually wasn’t too much work.”
We said.

“I’m not praising you!”

“Huh…”

His wife let out a giggle. Hmm. Cute.

“You guys caused trouble with my predecessor, too.”

By predecessor, he meant the cop that was stationed here before this Chuzai-san was assigned.

“What? But I’ve never been detained before you.”
I said but then,

“Oh. I have a little.”
Saijoh-kun interrupted.
Why am I not surprised…?

“Even if you’re not detained, there are written reports!”

Hmm. Is that so?

“You guys caused problems for the postman, didn’t you?”

“Yes…”

I had a recollection of this incident too, so we answered together. I would like to write about this “New Year’s postcard volunteer delivery incident” at another time. We had indeed been involved in a lot in this small town.

“You guys are in high school, so stop getting involved in stupid stuff.”

This appeared to be his main point. Without hesitation I answered:
“What? But if we did stuff like this as adults, that would be even more stupid.”

At that Chuzai-san took a deep sigh. Seeing that, his wife let out another giggle.

“C’mon. Even you guys know that in this world there are things called laws, right?”

“Yeah… But we’ve only learned up to the 17th amendment so we don’t know anything newer than that.”

At this his wife couldn’t hold it in and
“Hee hee.”
laughed out loud.

At that time, the new character “Murayama-kun” who was left at the bookstore, came inside hesitantly.

“Um…”

He had brought the bags that we had left at the bookstore. Without saying though, I think his true intentions were to see Chuzai-san’s wife.

Chuzai-san turned to Murayama-kun and said,
“Oh, you, come in here, too!”

Since he was one of the people holding the banner when we cheered, Chuzai-san seemed to recognize his face.

“No… I… I just came here to bring these, so…”

“Sorry about that Murayama. This guy’s being…”
Said Saijoh, when Chuzai-san suddenly responded bitterly:
“What do you mean ‘this guy’? Are you talking about me? Eh?”

Ignoring that, Murayama-kun said,
“Well. That’s okay, but something serious is going on at the bookstore…”

“What!?”

We said as we looked at each other.

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