Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 6 (section)

===Record: 78: I Look to the Moon===
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'''08/19/1998

'''20:05

It was summer. And it was cold. The A/C in the Officers’ living room on the 3rd floor of the central school building had completely broken, but the Boss and the Professor had worked to fix it. And now…

“Below freezing is impressive.”

I viewed the nighttime hallway. The Professor, the Boss, Snowy, you holding Daitarou, Lady, and I all sat in the frosty hallway. The Professor looked to the door behind us.

“How much do you think it’s built up inside?” he asked.

“Our bags are definitely buried,” I said. “We might need to consider getting a new room.”

“There’s no point in sitting around here,” said the Boss. “It’ll break soon enough, so let’s go swimming until then.”

“Swimming? Where?” asked Lady.

The Boss pointed to the large pool visible out the window. You and Lady nodded in understanding while Snowy frowned with her bamboo sword in her arms.

“Why can you people never stay focused during an emergency?”

“You don’t want to swim?”

“No, I do not.”

“Oh, yeah. If you got in the water, everyone would find out your chest is-”

Snowy glared at me and I shut up, but Lady turned to me.

“What would we find out about Snowy’s chest?”

“W-well, you would find out how flat it is. Japanese science is impressive, but if water gets inside the external packing type, you lose its blessing. As for what kind blessing that is, now we’re getting into more philosophical questions.”

“Oh? I can’t ignore this slight on science’s honor,” said the Professor. “Snowy, I will solve everything. I will make them bigger such that no one can tell the difference from the outside or the inside. First, I will ask the model club to create the ideal-”

Snowy’s bamboo sword flew with incredible force.

I wasn’t sure what she was so mad about, but she led the way to the pool. It seemed weird that we all had our swimsuits with us already, but I didn’t care once we were all floating in the pool.

We all got in the water that reflected the moon.

Lady removed her glasses and joined you in watching Daitarou swim.

The Professor filled a test tube with the pool water and- ''Stop, you idiot! Don’t drink it.

I joined the Boss in viewing the back of the central school building. The hallway was dark.

“I really do need to think about getting us a new room.”

“That’s not a job for the Vice Chancellor. I’ll help you search.”

“I can help some too. I have an idea where we might find something.

That last voice was female, so I looked back to see a long-haired girl on the poolside. I viewed the chest and waist of her black swimsuit to try and figure out who this was and she placed a hand on her chest in disinterest.

“They are very real,” she said expressionlessly.

Once I realized this was Snowy, I heard what sounded like a crashing waterfall from the school building. I turned that way to see all the 3rd floor hallway windows had broken and white snow was avalanching down.

'''Author Comment:

The air conditioner problem is mentioned elsewhere too.

Sneaking into the pool at night is something I feel like we did a lot in my generation, but I bet it’s a lot harder now that they have fences and stuff.

They did something similar in the Osaka game too.