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

“It was the electronics store owner??”
“W-what’s with that!?”
The group members were angry.

“Sorry… The bookstore owner was wrong.”
Saijoh-kun and I apologized earnestly.

“Then what was our week of work for?”
They kept pushing. I couldn’t blame them.

“We’re sorry. I know you guys are mad, but I have a follow up request…”
“What is it? Go ahead. If it’s revenge on the electronics store guy, bring it on!”
Takaaki-kun said determinedly.

“No… We need to do that too, but it’s about the “Kougai Blues”…”
“Yeah.”
“It seems like the record store guy has a lot in stock now.”
“Of course he does. You said that would happen.”
“Yeah. The problem is that he has a return limit and can’t return them.”
“I see.”
They responded.

“And since we’re responsible,”
“Yeah.”
“We should all buy it… or not…”
“What!?”

“W-why do we have to buy the record we chose to be the worst seller!?”
That was an obvious comment.

“You and Saijoh buy them!”
That was also an obvious comment.

“Yeah. We already bought two, so…”
“Kougai Blues?”
“Yeah.”
“You guys are stupid.”

Even though they said that, we were a form of “benefit society,” so we determined that it couldn’t be helped and that they would help buy up the stock of “Kougai Blues.” It was because if they didn’t help us now, they couldn’t expect help when they needed their revenge.

“About how many of “Kougai Blues” were left?”
“Ah, eight.”
“How come the record store owner ordered so many?”
“He said he had 10 inquiries, so…”
“He ordered one for each!?”

SIGH… The group let out a collective one. It couldn’t be helped because all 10 of those inquires were made by us.

400 yen to high schoolers back then wasn’t a small amount. Even so, there were members among us that were rich from having part time jobs, so we gathered up 2000 yen and decided to buy 5 copies of “Kougai Blues.”

It was the freshmen’s job to go buy the record. It would look suspicious if they all went in at once so we sent 5 of them in over 3 days. Even then, there would be 3 left, but we figured that he would be able to do something with his “return limit” with them.

If you added Saijoh-kun and mine to those 5, we now had a total of 7 “Kougai Blues” and so we neatly tied up the mess that we made at the record store.

But.

As we passed by the record store a couple days later, something unbelievable crossed our eyes.

Big Hit! Currently causing a stir on Say! Young!
“Kougai Blues” many in stock!

Kougai Blues

Huh??
Big hit??
Many in stock??
Many…??

We immediately rushed into the record store.

“M-mister! You stocked more “Kougai Blues”?”
“Oh, you guys. Yeah. Right after you guys bought it, I sold 5 more. I thought it would be a fast mover.”
“5… more…”
“But why does a song like that sell? Say! Young!’s influence must be really strong.”

Say! Young!…

“How many more did you stock?”

“Hm? An additional 10. Why?”

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