(Overheard by Ai and Dinah on the way to school)
Tall Schoolgirl: Hey, you ready for the tea?
Short Schoolgirl: Sweetie, I'm so ready for the tea I'm buying two kettles.
Tall Schoolgirl: What?
Short Schoolgirl: Nothing, don't worry about it. What've you got?
Tall Schoolgirl: Did you hear about the blackmailing thing last week?
Short Schoolgirl: Whaaaat? Someone got blackmailed?
Tall Schoolgirl: Yeah. Apparently some girl broke down in the council room saying she'd been blackmailed into doing terrible things…
Short Schoolgirl: Geez. That's awful. Do we know who did it?
Tall Schoolgirl: Nah… It's not the only case of blackmailing I've heard around either.
Short Schoolgirl: No?
Tall Schoolgirl: Yeah, it's been going on for awhile, here and there. Don't tell anyone, though. I get it through the whisper network…
Short Schoolgirl: What kind of person'd be able to blackmail more than a few people at once? How would they even get that info? They'd have to be really resourceful, well-connected or wealthy…
(Seen by Sachiko whilst in the lineup at the cafeteria)
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: Sigh…
Frontin' Schoolboy: Sigh…
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: Do you ever look at the new anime season and go "Oh good, can't wait for this to come out so my friend can bitch about its feminine themes for sixteen thousand goddamn hours?"
Frontin' Schoolboy: Pretty much every season, my man. Get yourself a dozen titty anime and they'll whine about how you got ONE whole show that's trying to advance an agenda.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: UGH. I know. This season it's like… There's an anime about girl soldiers, right?
Frontin' Schoolboy: Oh here we fucking go.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: And it's not like a fetishy thing either, it's just a squad of soldiers who are all women.
Frontin' Schoolboy: I bet they don't even fuck a dragon.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: They don't, actually. It's pretty wild.
Frontin' Schoolboy: So your dude's whingeing?
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: OH IS HE WHINGEING.
Frontin' Schoolboy: Goddamnit.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: Women dern't belong in no army! Wahhhhh!' Fuck off, man, let the women shoot, you know? I don't care if it's ahistorical or whatever…
Hard-Boiled Schoolboy: [polishing a water gun] 'Ahistorical'. Now there's a word that sneaks into a conversation like a dame in a slinky dress, too pretty to be considered dangerous…
Frontin' Schoolboy: Uwaa-!
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: Jesus Christ-!
Hard-Boiled Schoolboy: Remember this, boys. Just because people expect dames to be docile don't mean they're gonna play along. You don’t need to go far to find dangerous dames, especially in Japan.
Frontin' Schoolboy: I spilled my fucking milk-
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: I mean y-yeah, I guess Katashiba has Madame Tomoko…
Hard-Boiled Schoolboy: [reloading water gun] Not even that kind of dangerous. You scratch the surface of Japan's past, you find warrior dames, spy dames, spy warrior dames… The Samurai women were called Onna-Bugeisha and wielded naginata into battle.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: But that's like olden times…
Frontin' Schoolboy: Aw goddamnit it's all over my bread-
Hard-Boiled Schoolboy: Everyone thinks that stuff's all in the past, but you'd be surprised. [holsters water gun] During the war, the Japanese formed schoolgirl militias armed with whatever weapons they could get their hands on… Swords, bows, bamboo spears, trained to die for the chance of gutting some yankee with a chicago typewriter.
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: That's, err… Grim. Like, a lot grim.
Frontin' Schoolboy: You better buy me another one-
In-Over-His-Head Schoolboy: He's gone, bud.
(Overheard by Hideki in the library)
Sappy Schoolgirl: Do you ever wake up thinking, "I would be so much happier if I knew something secret about a person I really liked?"
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: [sighing] all the time…
Sappy Schoolgirl: Do you ever think to yourself, "I wish there was someone I could go to and get info from about a person I really liked…"
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: Like Facebook?
Sappy Schoolgirl: No! Not like Facebook!
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: Oh.
Sappy Schoolgirl: I mean like… [giggling] An informant.
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: Oho.
Sappy Schoolgirl: I hear there's someone around who has, y'know… Leads. If you needed info on a person you could ask them.
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: Who? Who?
Sappy Schoolgirl: Well I don't actually know. Except that they apparently exist and are a student at the Academy…
Archery Otaku Schoolgirl: Hmm… That's not a lot to go on…
