Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 5 (section)

===Record 63: So Very Much Trouble===
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'''05/23/1998

'''13:52

5th period had begun, but we had left school and gone into town.

It was a very windy day. The spiraling wind seemed to rule over the traffic circle in front of the Itsukaichi Line’s Nishi-Akiru Station.

I sat on the traffic circle’s curb and played with Daitarou who you had placed on the ground. The Boss was working on his motorcycle nearby and Lady was tuning the clock in the center of the traffic circle. Other Officers were scattered around in their uniforms.

We had nothing to do while the south wind blew in the pre-rainy season heat.

“God, I’m bored,” said the Boss. “Snowy alone would be enough to deal with an illegal school takeover. So why are there so many of us here?”

“They said I had to go because I’m his superior. What about you?”

“I had to do maintenance on my girl here either way. It’s not like I would learn anything in class anyway.”

“It’s so like you to not just say you think class is boring. I think that’s most everyone else’s reason. Senpai isn’t here since he and the daytime don’t get along.”

“What about the 1st Special Duty Officer?”

“When Snowy stalked off with her sword drawn, she followed after her with a bowling scoresheet. My guess is she’ll be back with the sheet filled in with strikes. I doubt Snowy would settle for just a spare.”

“The only question is how many pins there are, huh?”

I looked up to see what Lady was doing and saw her with her keyboard connected to the tall clock, headphones attached to the keyboard, and her butt swinging to an unheard beat. She was really getting into it, but it looked weird as hell when you couldn’t hear what she heard.

I sighed.

“Why did this illegal school takeover have to be an underground school when it’s so damn hot?”

“They’re calling it the 51st D School now, right? It’s an evil railroad research school working for an evil railroad research committee, so they probably wanted something close to the station so they could fight the good railroad research committee.”

“Yeah, maybe so. But what makes a railroad research committee good or evil?”

“The good one has a commander who gives unreasonable orders and the evil one has four unreasonably idiosyncratic generals.”

“Thanks for the unscientific explanation there.”

I heard an electrain slowly approaching.

The Itsukaichi Line’s downward slope came into this station, but so did the upward portion. There was only one track here, so it switched at the station.

The track made an electric sound as the electrain approached. Lady stopped wiggling her butt like a cute weirdo and looked to the electrain.

“Oh! The South Wind and the Whirlwind are arriving at the upwards platform! I’ve never seen that before! It’s so cool!!”

With her headphones on, she spoke unnecessarily loud while only trying to talk to herself.

The South Wind brushed up her short hair, said something to the Whirlwind, and alighted on the roof of the electrain’s front car.

After watching the wind in a blue coat sit down on the roof, the Whirlwind in a white kariginu passed through the chain link fence and flew into the sky over our heads. After spreading a fan and spinning around, the wind blew out.

I shut my eyes against the wind and she was gone by the time I opened them again.

I figured she had gone to summon the rainy season, but then I saw two people descending the station stairs: you and Snowy. Snowy kept swinging her sword in a testing manner and making confused grunts while you raised a scoresheet covered in butterfly marks.

“Hey, listen up, everyone! I have big news!” You took a breath. “I just heard someone actually shout ‘curses!’ for the very time in my life!”

Okay, yeah. I see how they’re evil now.

'''Author Comment:

Nishi-Akiru Station is known as Akigawa Station nowadays. Its name was changed when it was given its current form.

I think the old name has more character, though.

You can see Snowy proactively heads out when there’s trouble. The protagonist only does it if he feels like it. With the Boss and Lady there too, you can really tell everyone is trying to kill some time.