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Chapter Thirty-One: September

On September 21, 1978, at 1:00 am, Cromartie High School hall monitor Kamiyama Takashi was riding a Mechazawa brand motorcycle on Destrade Drive near the comedian wig factory and the Little Bass River when an unidentified animal scurried across the road in front of his vehicle. The animal was fully illuminated in his vehicle's headlights, and he described it as 180 to 215 cm (6 to 7 feet) tall and about 75 to 90 kg (165 to 200 lbs), with a very hairy chest. He reported spotting the animal "gazing longingly into a music shop window" before it momentarily stood erect to pose with a bottomless microphone stand and become enveloped in a cheering crowd.

Two weeks after the incident, a second Cromartie hall monitor, Hayashida Shinjiro, reported seeing an unidentified animal crouched along the road in the same vicinity as Kamiyama's sighting. Hayashida shot the animal, recovered the body, and put it in his trunk to show hall monitor Kamiyama. According to Kamiyama, who later viewed the body, it was "actually just the plastic gorilla statue from that gorilla-themed sushi restaurant." He confirmed it was not the animal he originally saw, which he dubbed "Freddie."

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