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

The electronics store owner, overjoyed at being able to complete his delivery, thanked me over and over until he left.
“Man, you really saved me today. It’s hard to keep up with the pace of electronics these days.”
“No no, it wasn’t anything.”
“Hey, do you want to come work for me once you graduate high school?”
No way!

“By the way, owner.”
“We haven’t done anything in the shopping district that would cause suspicion.”
“Huh? Yeah, I know.”
The electronics store owner answered awkwardly.

This is how we finally cleared our shoplifting suspicions that were the result of “Chuzai-san’s reckless action.” Putting aside whether the electronics store owner really changed, from this day on, his attitude towards high schoolers was greatly improved.

Even though the electronics store owner had left, we had one last big job left. That was to restore the splitter in Yuko-chan’s room. We had planned that I was going to say that “I need to finalize the settings on the TV” and during that time, Great Inoue-kun would go and restore it. If we didn’t do that, they wouldn’t have turned it off because it was a new TV.

So Great Inoue-kun headed to Yuko-chan’s room. I pretended to adjust the TV.

But, we could hear Great Inoue-kun yelling from Yuko-chan’s room.

“Hey! I told you not to come in here, didn’t I!?”
It seems as though Takaaki-kun entered Yuko-chan’s room.

“AAH! I told you to stop rubbing up to the bear!”
It seems as though Takaaki-kun was rubbing up against Yuko-chan’s bear.

“Hey! Don’t put it there! Idiot!”
It seems as though… where is he putting it?

“W-whoa! W-what are you doing!”
What is he… doing?

I could imagine what was going on from just these comments, but Mr. Inoue had no idea so,
“What? Why is my son making such a commotion? Bear? Rubbing?”
He was wondering about his son’s eccentricities (?).

Finally Great Inoue-kun came back to the living room looking disappointed and told me that the job had been done with even with the distractions.

Murayama-kun and Yuko-chan came back moments later, a little earlier than planned. Murayama-kun wanting to know if the plan went accordingly, flashed me the ok hand signal. I put up the thumb on my right hand to signal to him that we succeeded, and Murayama-kun, as if to answer that, also put his right thumb and smiled.

To this, Great Inoue-kun said,
“Murayama. What’s that thumbs up for? Did something go well? Did it? You remember my warning? Right?”
He mistook his signal and was condemning Murayama-kun.
You’re really protective of your little sister, Inoue.

We all met in Great Inoue-kun’s room and were celebrating by toasting with colas when Yuko-chan suddenly entered.

“Brother! You were in my room, weren’t you!?”
“What? Why?”
Great Inoue-kun asked confused.

“Because my bear is facing the wrong way!”
“Well… no… sorry…”
Great Inoue-kun had been blamed even after he tried so hard to protect his sister from these perverts. It was a pitiful sight. There’s no way he can tell her that his friends were rubbing up or putting it there.

Then,
“Hey? Saijoh’s not here.”
Murayama-kun noticed and saved him from this predicament.

“Aah. We actually had him doing something earlier.”
We explained.
“What? Oh, maybe that was Saijoh-san then?” Yuko-chan said.
“Hm? You saw Saijoh?”

Then Murayama-kun said
“Yeah. On our way back. There was a group looking like they were on a field trip across the river. The person in the front looked like Saijoh, right?”
“Yeah. But we thought that it couldn’t be Saijoh-san… It really was him then.”

Field trip?

“That’s a little overboard, no? Just because he had 3 or 4 kids with him?”
“No. It wasn’t just 3 or 4. There were 12 or 13.”
“Yup, maybe more.”

We got a bad feeling about this so we rushed to go retrieve Saijoh-kun.

Then.
In the direction that Murayama-kun had shown us, Saijoh-kun really was walking in front of 15 or 16 kids.

“Saijoh! What are you doing?”
“Hey! Well. They kind of grew in number while we were walking…
ACK! Hey! Lieutenant Colonel! Stay in line! Heeey! Leader of the Guards! You’re falling behind!”

Lieutenant Colonel… Leader of the Guards? The ranks have grown…

“W-what is this group of kids…?”
“Hmm. They naturally multiplied. Hey, Major! Don’t walk backwards! It’s dangerous!”

You… really have talent…
It’s just like the “Pied piper of Hamelin.”

“By the way…”
Saijoh-kun said while walking.

And in a quiet voice,

“Are there any UFO landing sites nearby?”

Thank you for reading volume 3!

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