8 A Military Nut

"Monster," said a disgruntled Kaname Chidori. 

Kyouko Tokiwa, a classmate, said "Gee, Kana, you haven't talked about anything else all morning. Now you say our sensei is the monster. I hope she didn't hear us" 

"Why is there a security search in the first day?," groaned Kaname, the victim of many random bag and pocket searches. 

"Yeah, it sure is. You don't have anything illegal, do you, Kana?" 

"Not unless they outlawed books over the weekend." Indeed, Kana had several books she'd borrowed from friends: Living Like Zhuge Liang!; Warning of the Dolphins-So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Marvels of Archeology: Did Moai Write the Dead Sea Scrolls? 

"As long as you're not smuggling a bomb or guns," quipped Kyouko. 

"Give me some credit. What kind of idiot brings weapons to school?" 

Kuroko and Tetsu joined the line of students.

There was a great commotion from the front of the line, where the teacher, Miss Shizuka, grilled one of the students. 

"Do you really think you can get away with something like this on your first day here?" 

"No, ma'am. I don't mean to cause trouble." 

"Until you show me the contents of your bag, you may not enter the building." 

"But .. " 

Although the boy seemed unnaturally calm, he also emitted an air of immense confusion and a desire not to be the center of attention. 

"Who's that? I've never seen him around before." 

Although he had the same stand-up collar like everyone else, he maintained a real sense of mystery about him. 

It was safe to call the boy handsome, but his tight-lipped mouth and alert eyes indicated an extreme sternness slightly undermined by his messy black hair. Although he was thin, he looked pretty athletic, as if he participated in an active sport, like judo. 

"Just open the bag, bub!" 

Fed up, Ms. Shizuka slapped the bag out of his hands. 

"Wait ... " 

"What do you have in here anyway? I'll bet there are cigarettes!" 

She thrust open the bag, pushing aside notebooks, textbooks, and a smattering of writing utensils-and uncovering an Austrian made automatic handgun with three ammo magazines. There also was a tube of explosives, several detonators, some stun grenades, a tiny camera, and a length of piano wire. 

"Young man!" 

"Yes, ma'am." 

"I don't know what school you came from; but around here, we confiscate toys like these." 

"Excuse me?" 

"Please wait in the staff room. It's almost time for class!" 

All the onlookers laughed and moved on their way. 

"Gross. he's a military nut," opined Kaname. "That gives me geek chills." 

"He looks like he might be interesting," declared Kyouko smartly. 

Poor Sousuke Sagara. Though he was at home on any battlefield and had been raised in international conflict zones, on a high school campus, he was a clueless moron. 

"Perhaps the security is tighter here than I had guessed," thought Sousuke as he and Miss Shiziuka walked through an empty corridor. 

At first, when she asked to search his bag, Sousuke thought he might have failed the mission already. After his weapons were 

confiscated, he resigned himself to following the teacher to the basement, where he assumed they would interrogate and beat him. 

But then, as all the students submitted to the search, he realized that it was routine.

"Wait a minute. Does that mean that a lot of students bring small arms and explosives to class?"

Sousuke quickly looked around, but he didn't see anything to support or negate the idea.

Looking at this scene, Kuroko thought in his mind "crap, this world is not safe"

...

Kuroko and Momoi passed the security searches without any difficulty. But one of their friends, Aomine was interrogated.

"Aomine again, he brings a lot of porn magazines again"

"pervert"