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

Electronics store revenge plan. We were overwhelmed by it since the day for carrying out our plan ended up being on Saturday, one day earlier than Great Inoue-kun had reported. Things were different back then; we had class in the morning on Saturdays.

After classes were done, we immediately ditched our clubs and rushed over to Great Inoue-kun’s house.

There was another big problem with our plan.

It was the construction of Great Inoue-kun’s house.

Old houses back then had their antenna cables mounted on the outside of the walls. TVs didn’t exist when they were built, so obviously they weren’t built for them. That in itself was very convenient for our plan.

The day before we carried out our plan.

Great Inoue-kun reported,
“Hey, I found the splitter in my little sister’s room when I looked around for it.”
The splitter was a small device that took the antenna signal and sent it to multiple TVs.

“By little sister you mean Yuko-chan’s room?”
Yuko-chan was two years younger than Great Inoue-kun and was in her third year of middle school (9th grade). She was cute, so she was very popular among us. Before we discovered Chuzai-san’s wife, we used to visit Great Inoue-kun’s house to see her. It goes to show that our behavioral patterns hadn’t progressed.

“Yeah, because I don’t have a TV in my room.”
“Hmm. That’s a big problem.”
“We need to do something about it…”

“How about Murayama. You take Yuko-chan out somewhere.”
“What!?”
“Doesn’t Yuko-chan like you, Murayama?”

Takaaki opposed this greatly.

“What!? We’re going to play with the pure feelings of a girl just so we can carry out our plans!?”

“Well… if you say it like that…”

“I can’t forgive that. Even if it’s for the plan, to play with a girl’s feelings! Even if you guys are all ok with it, my sense of justice won’t forgive it!”

“So Takaaki. You want to take her out?”

“What? Well. I guess that would be ok…?”

What kind of “sense of justice” do you have?

We easily found out that Takaaki-kun’s sense of justice was just really cheap jealousy. It was determined that Murayama-kun would take Yuko-chan out after all.

Great Inoue-kun said,
“Murayama. Don’t do anything funny to my little sister, all right?”
“Man… What do you think of me?”
“Yeah, someone like that.”

We actually didn’t have any trust within our group members.

Returning to the day of our plan. It was the day of revenge against the electronics store guy.

Every one of us, all eight, dropped by Great Inoue-kun’s house.

“Has the electronics store guy come yet, Father?”
“No. Not yet. Oh, all you trouble makers are here, too.”
“Hello Mr. Inoue.”
“What’s going on? Are TV’s that rare for you guys? We’re back to the early years of Showa. Wa ha ha!”

It seems as though Mr. Inoue was in a good mood because a new TV was coming. At the time, it can be said that a buying a new TV was that big of a deal. We could see Yuko-chan in the back of the room, and after finding out that Murayama-kun was among us, Yuko-chan blushed slightly and hid behind her dad.

Hmm. Cute. Chuzai-san’s wife had her grown-up charm, but it was hard to abandon Yuko-chan, too.

“Excuse us.”

We all met together in Great Inoue-kun’s first, and completed the final preparations for our plan.

So, let the plan begin. We decided to split up into three groups.

The three groups were bedroom group, family room group, and yard group. It almost sounded like a construction project, but it was totally different.

Before we started, we needed Yuko-chan to leave the room with the splitter.

“Go! Murayama!”
we said.
“What? Oh… ok…”
To Murayama-kun who didn’t seem to be too eager,
“Make sure you don’t do anything funny to my little sister!”
Great Inoue-kun said to drive the point.

Murayama-kun knocked on Yuko-chan’s door.

“Ah… Murayama-senpai…”
Yuko-chan and Murayama-kun knew each other and were fellow team members in the middle school volleyball club. Yuko-chan’s face turned red.

“Um… umm…”
“Yes, what is it?”
“Would you like to go to school together?”
“What? Together to the high school ?”
“Yeah… I’ll introduce you to the high school volleyball club. I don’t think you’ll lose anything by going…”

Ok! Looking good! Don’t come back for another 2 hours! You guys can do anything!

“No, they can’t.”

Does Great Inoue-kun have telepathy?

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