v3 28 Mar 2007 11:21 am
Kougai Blues 2
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Saijoh-kun and I dropped by the record store a couple days after that.
“Hey. Haven’t seen you guys in a while.”
“What’s the Kougai Blues out front about?”
We asked shamelessly.
“Oh, that. I had so many inquiries on it so I ordered a lot. But for some reason, I haven’t even sold one. It’s supposed to be hot on Say! Young now…”
Of course you haven’t.
Aside from that, the “Say! Young” thing was a totally made up. People’s rumors are a scary thing.
“Hmm. Why don’t you just return them?”
Saijoh-kun asked carelessly.
“Well, there’s a return limit. So I can’t return that many.”
Return limit. We heard that phrase for the first time. So that’s how it is…
“Well, can we buy one?”
“What!? Really? Thanks guys. I’m fortunate to have some great regulars!”
“Yeah. But didn’t you tell the bookstore owner that we were suspicious?”
We got to the point. We were investing 400 yen just to clear our names.
“What? What’s that about?”
“You know. That time when we were arguing with Chuzai-san.”
“Mmm. You guys are always arguing with Chuzai-san though. Weren’t you guys being detained the other day?”
So it did look like that… We weren’t being detained!
“Oh. You mean the other day at the bookstore?”
the record store owner asked.
To the two of us who were nodding in agreement, he said
“That wasn’t me. The person who said that was the electronics store owner.”
What!? E-e-electronics store owner???
“B-but the bookstore owner said that the record store guy said that…”
“Really? The bookstore owner’s getting old. The person who said it was the electronics store owner though.”
It seems as though his story has a kernel of truth in it.
“You guys have been buying here for a long time. There’s no way that I would say stuff like that about you guys.”
“What???? R-really…?”
“Really. The electronics store owner. And then we told him that he didn’t have anything small enough to steal and we all laughed about it.”
“SIGH……… really…”
The kernel of truth became whole.
“Why are you guys asking?”
“No, nothing. Can we please have another copy of “Kougai Blues”?”
Bunka Housou-san*1. It was us that made “Kougai Blues” requests every day since then.
*1 The radio station that broadcasted Say! Young!.
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