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

The story returns to the 3rd volume, right after our midterm exams.

Specifically to before we battled the record store owner, a couple days after Chuzai-san left us. Please return your minds back to before our record store strategy meeting.

Chuzai-san’s “desert-high-schoolers-at-the-pond grand plan” failed, and on top of that, he still had some after effects in his throat and eyes all the way back to town, while he repeated “remember this” and hiccupped.

Even when I think about this now, for a police officer to say “Remember this” to high schoolers was pretty bad. If it were now, he would probably be on the news as an awful “public servant,” but back then, public servants weren’t paid much and especially being a police officer was like having to do hard labor with low wages so the people’s confindence in them was great. Either way, it was a tolerant time.

Now. The time was right before the record store strategy meeting.

Saijoh-kun said
“I have to drop by the teachers office for a bit.”

If it were a normal person saying that, the response would be “why?” but in his case, it was a daily event so no one was interested.

But because we were worried about what consequences might be tied to it, we asked
“did you do something?”
like usual, to which he responded,

“No… I’m just going to go get some stuff. Can you come with me?”

“What are you going to get?”

“It’s actually…”

->->->->

“A package from the book store!?”

“That’s right…”

From our suspicion of shoplifting incident, the worn out series that was pulled from of the bag, specifically,
“worn out fly tape” and
“Saijoh-kun’s mom’s worn out underwear”
were left on the bookstore’s desk, he said. That was true… We put back the poison gas rag in the bag, but we closed it right after. (from v2 “VS Bookstore“)

“It seems as though Chuzai delivered that to the school…”

Chuzai!?

“That’s couldn’t be a good thing, right?”

Right. Please think back. Chuzai-san still had the “*M Fan” January to August issues that we gave him,in his possession.

“Yeah…… well……”
He said it as if he had something stuck in his molars.

“Did you check the contents yet?”

“Yeah, cause I was called out once already.”

Hm. And what about the “S* Fan”?

“What? It was in there. The February issue…”

Likely… Just as I thought, Chuzai.

“So it’s confiscated again?”

“No… it’s not something that I brought to school. They won’t confiscate it.”

I see. So that’s why he had to pick it up after school… Should I have been happy for him?

“Well, you’re lucky it was the February issue. The January one had butter on it right?” (from v2 “Butter Rebellion“)
This was Murayama-kun’s question. Everyone remembered well.

“What? Y-yeah.”

Saijoh-kun mumbled.

What?

“You… didn’t… for February, too…?”

“Um. Just a little. The gravure page. I tested a little with butter… In the February issue…”

Huh!?

“Man. If it didn’t work on all the pages of January, it’s obviously not going to work on February, either, right!?”

“No. The printer might have been penitent, right?”

You be penitent!

Why didn’t he tell us earlier anyway?

But.
“Well… if that was all, it would have been fine…”

What? That wasn’t all of it? Even that much was already enough.

“Chuzai’s method was extreme. That’s why I’m so down.”

I was a bit surprised because I though that it would end with “S* Fan.” It wouldn’t have been a mistake to call Saijoh-kun “optimism walking around in a school uniform,” but he seemed so depressed. It was definitely not a trivial matter.

“The problem is Shirai…”

By saying Shirai, he was referring to his homeroom teacher, Shirai Kyoko-sensei (fictitious name, age 30. Graduated from Ochanomizu University). Not only was she his homeroom teacher, she was the advisor to the track team that Saijoh-kun was a part of.

Does she have anything to do with it?

Along with Great Inoue-kun, I decided to go with Saijoh-kun to pick up the stuff.

Saijoh-kun was released from the teachers office before too long. In his hands was a paper bag from the bookstore with his name written largely.

What secrets were held within this normal looking paper bag?

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