Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 4 (section)

===Record 54: What I Remember When I’m With You===
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'''03/01/1998

'''22:01

It might be March now, but it’s stall damn cold on the dorm building rooftop. I have the beginning of the final exams to thank for this. The Chancellor’s Officers have a lot less work to do at this time of year, but…

“Why do I have to watch out for students sneaking out at night when it’s still winter?”

My voice faded into the distance. I was looking at over a hundred monitors, each of which gave a different view of the area around the boys’ dorm. If I saw anyone suspicious on there…

“I hit the button for some light punishment.”

I saw something weird on monitor 8-1 on the upper right, so I pressed the button. A white beam of light shot into the sky from the admin building to the north. The beam curved back toward the ground and swallowed up the ground to the west.

After a moment, light exploded to the west. One down. There punishment was so light it was kind of boring.

I was tilting my head in front of the monitors when I heard your voice.

“Stop that. The neutron word cannon scatters the target’s elements around, making cleanup a real pain, so don’t fire it any more than necessary.”

I looked back to see you had arrived with some food for me. You raised the fast food bag in your hand.

“Feeling cold?”

“Yeah. But I can’t relax because there’s so many people I have to take out. That one suddenly started ninja-running through the hall without any clothes on. I bet he assumed no one would notice and was enjoying the thrill.”

“It is exam time. You never know what people will do when they’re stressed. But that’s unfortunate for him. If that had blown him away, he could have discovered something no one else saw.”

Maybe so. I checked the monitor to see the naked student now had an afro from the explosion. A gym teacher ran over and performed a giant swing on him.

I could hear their voices from the monitor.

“Well? How do you like this?”

“Ahh, more! Swing me more!”

Those two sure were enjoying themselves.

“Well, I doubt he’ll get into trouble again.”

I reached that conclusion and sighed. I pulled a burger from the bag you handed me. I looked through the monitors and switched on one that was still off. I aimed the camera toward the sky and zoomed in.

That displayed the starry sky, making for a simple telescope.

“My life would be so much nicer if I got to spy on the girls’ dorm instead. Look, you can see Kerry’s Comet that will be arriving next year.”

“Baron Kerry Bantham, right? They say he’s the instigator of the Grand Cross and a regular customer at the bank.”

''Girls love that kind of story, don’t they?'' I thought while watching you stare at the monitor.

''Now that is a nice ass,'' I thought just before you looked back.

“Did you just think something inappropriate?”

“Of course not. Oh, and hit the button for the second monitor from the right. There’s an idiot there.”

You switched from the neutron word cannon to physical artillery and fired. It wasn’t a tracer round, so I could only hear it flying north.

“I was just thinking.” You stared at the monitor showing the comet and began humming. “The night I first met Senpai was a lot like this one.”

'''Author Comment:

The protagonists are exempt from exams since they’re in the Chancellor’s Officers, but that means they have work to do instead. It’s probably not a good idea to be so cavalier about shooting people. I bet Snowy is out patrolling on her own.