Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 9 (section)

===Record 53: Thinking Again===
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'''02/20/1998

'''21:45

After the Boss’s welcoming party, I was walking home with you and Lady. We would accompany Lady as far as the train station. I would then accompany you to the pharmacy located between the station and my home. Finally, I would accompany myself to my home.

The wind was weak, but the night was cold. We gave some help to a Seasonal Wind drunk and puking on the side of the road before continuing on our way.

“So that Boss guy is a transfer student from Kansai, huh? The times really are changing. That would’ve been unthinkable before. I always assumed Japan would be split my whole life.”

“It was in our second year of middle school that the country was reunited seemingly out of nowhere, wasn’t it?”

Lady turned toward you.

“You don’t have any kind of information on what happened as the 1st Special Duty Officer in charge of intelligence?”

You shook your head with Daitarou in your pocket.

“Unfortunately, no. All I know is that the Tokyo Chancellor’s Officers of the time did something that led up to it. But most of the data on those Officers has been sealed. None of it has been mentioned at international conferences and all of the current 3rd years who were freshmen at the time aren’t talking. I only know the names they used when they left Tokyo.”

“I know that the top level of the Chancellor’s Officers stopped all activities from the start of ’96 until Senpai was given the position of Chancellor based on only the first half of his Mountain training. Even though the reunification was such an important period of time. It’s called the Silent Half Year.”

“Does Senpai know anything about it?”

That was hard to say. He did have a lot of worries. If he did know something, I doubted he would tell us. Because he didn’t want to get us involved.

That did make me kind of sad, though.

'''Author Comment:

The story of the Boss’s arrival is told elsewhere, but this is the night after.

Not even the current Chancellor’s Officers know much about the incident in Osaka.

Assume that a lot of special circumstances apply there.