21LO arrived 20 minutes late,
putting on optic orange colored clothes.

K “It’s too eye-catching!”
2 “What? Are we thieves? I bought some late night snacks as an apology for being late.”
He must be late because of it…… Never mind.

K “Anyway hide yourself.”
2 “Well, I’m sorry”
K “What?”
2 “I don’t have any credits left for return as I bought them.”
K “All right. 10,000 is enough?”
2 “Yes. I always pay you back, right?”
K “Do you? Well, keep down anyway.”
2 “Anything you say.”

K and 21LO hiding themselves. Anyway, there is a large amount of late night snacks that 21LO has bought.
It is impossible to eat them by the 2 of us on the roadside.

Well, there is a drastic reduction in the number of late night super markets lately.

Hey! Please look at this receipt.
It is a fine paper, too. It’s ludicrous only books are targeted for evil. Like cigarettes, books are set up as a symbol of bad. SAVE THE BOOKS. They can’t fool me again!

K “You bought a lot. Let me see the receipt.”
2 “Here.”
K “Wow! You spent 50,000.”
2 “Well, I was hungry.”
K “You bought too much. You usually eat like a bird. Can I have Cheese Royal?”
2 “Sure. And, what’s next?”
K “The housekeeper will take out the garbage at this time. We will steal it quickly.”
2 “Wow! You take an extreme behavior.”
K “It’s a necessary evil to create a new book.”
2 “It all depends on how you say it.”
K “It’s a necessary evil to create a new book.”
2 “You said twice! But we need it, right?”
K “But you are interested, right?”

It’s about the time the housekeeper appears to take out the garbage. It is quiet at the back door. I have a moral standard not to sneak into the house. It’s cold. A little more patience.

2 “It’s very cold. Let’s do this tomorrow if there’s no chance in 30 minutes.”
K “No, we need to steal the garbage today.”
2 “But…”
K “Demo Demo DEMO”
2 “JAGATARA?”
K “Yeah! You know it… despite your origin as a Zakuian. You must be an Otaku.”
2 “Hahaha. But… Demo Demo DEMO.”

2 “Your parents’ generation. They used to take part in the demonstration. Frequently.”
K “Did you read something in the old magazine or what? Some articles about it?”
2 ” Yeah, I read it. They marched with loud music.”
K “Saying something like, come out here someone in charge!”
2 “There was demo MIX going around.”
K “We don’t see such demonstrations now.”
2 “I wish I could experience it.”
K “I want to demonstrate. I need to act. Feel rushed in my youth.”
2 “Like the N.S.O.W Crew, it’s like my job is to destroy things. I want to burn myself out with making a mess.”
K “And God will give the blessing.”
2 “You know the animal rights movement. It sounds suspicious, doesn’t it? What do you think?”
K “Covered too much in the media.”
2 “It’s not animals bringing up the issue. The scientist is in it together.”
K “Yeah, it’s a farce. It’s obvious.”
2 “If a pet owner takes his pet to the public bath together, we might see animals taking a bath. It’s nasty. Don’t you think?”
K “But, in the point of animals, they wouldn’t like to take a bath with humans neither.”

2 “Truth is stranger than fiction, but what’s going on with the truth?”
K “The truth is crazy.”
2 “They might fuss about putting down pets.”
K “They might so.”
2 “Really, we need to take care for animals.”
K “There is a chicken demonstration lately.”
2 “I feel sorry for it.”
K “But, there is too much reports in the media.”
2 “It must be crucified by the media.”
K “Quicky the chicken caused the fire, didn’t it?”
2 “Oh. That was the fire in the fireplace, which spread to its feather.”
K “Then the 4-family house burned down.”
2 “A great-great-grand father died of it.”
K “But how can you blame the chicken for his death?”
2 “He doesn’t know the reason either.”
K “You said ‘he’! You are more aware of it than I expected.”
2 “Jackass! I am an animalist.”
K “Yeah.”
2 “But, I feel so…”
K & 2 “I feel sorry for it!”

Illustration: Tomoki Kurokawa