Chapter 9: Delivery in need of help

Every spectators on the sideline were left stunned at of Speed Joker performance at the very end. They thought she was going be left behind like other girls do. In the end, she was just different.

Speed Joker grabbed a small book along with a pen on her P.E pants. She wrote down her performance log as she muttered.

“75% on baseline, which is not enough. Approximately, 50% more of my potential gap. Roughly in speed of 65 KM/H at peak in the last moment. That is nowhere enough.”

She stopped writing, and calculating more of her performance logs.

Ghost of Ash and Kilroy Joy were out their breath, while Speed Joker not looked like them who still isn’t out of breath. Ghost of Ash went to Speed Joker, she grabbed on her shoulder.

“Joker, why did you back off at the last second?” She asked.

Speed Joker put her book away on her P.E pants, and turned around to see Ghost of Ash.

“My target wasn’t to get recruited yet. Per say, this is just a performance test for me,” She replied.

Ghost of Ash wasn’t having that excuse on how she felt right now.

“You’re mocking me aren’t you? and for the rest of this girls here?” She said with an aggressive tone.

Speed Joker quickly realised this, “No, no, no! That is not what I meant. What I mean is, this is the few time I’ve run on track.”

This made Ghost of Ash confused on Speed Joker, “Then, what do you mean?”

“Well,” Speed Joker scratched behind her head, “Its been the first three years I ran on track.”

Ash gave a shocked look to Joker, “Alright, if that what your going to say, I’m not going to bother you anymore. Remember, you’ll be on my target list.”

{Great, now on a hit man list on one of the girls. I’ve already had enough rivals in Motor sport, now adding to the list. Life does give me lemons each day,} she thought.

Far on the track, who stood on the incline of the hill. Blue Alpine smiled, “Looks like I’m going to have a big obstacle up ahead,” she murmured with a grin.

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As that had passed. Speed Joker left the track first, before many trainers came down to find a talented Trainee.

When she walked down a hallway, she saw a man sat on the floor in the corner. There was two horse girls near him.

The first horse girl had a blond hair, and other was light blue hair. Both of their hairs are about in the waist length.

Speed Joker listened to them carefully.

“Ah, seriously,” the blond horse girls said, “if you keep us training like this, we would not even pass our maiden race in first place.”

“How long are you going to keep doing like that?” the light blue hair horse girl said, “if you really can’t trust us that much in this forsaken team. What is the point of you training us?”

Speed Joker peeked at the corner, {Hoo, so they are having a heated argument.}

She squinted here eyes to see clearer on the man there was no doubt it was the trainer she saw on field about few hours ago.

But one thing she really want to know, why is the trainee fought with their trainers?

She knew about few stories like this before coming to the academy. Some of horse girls can be very nasty when they are mad, it can lead to some trainers to hospital beds.

At the same time, most of the trainers either survived due to their gene had a part of a horse girl, which is true to many extent in a way.

As Speed Joker kept here eyes on three of them, both of horse girls finally left the poor battered trainer. She went to him.

“Hey, are you okay?” She asked softly, to make sure he was not emotionally distressed.

The man looked up at Speed Joker, “What do you want? Mocking me because I failed as a trainer?”

Speed Joker shook her head, “No, I was just wondering why you were here along with those horse girls.”

The man smirked, “Just leave me alone. Is better then knowing it, I’m going to quit from the central. Don’t even bother try an excuse to sympathise me.”

Speed Joker looked at the man stood up and patted his clothes. He soon walked away with an irritated expression on his face.

“Looks like not only horse girl are the one’s struggling here,” she murmured, as she looked at the retreating figure in the distance.

Speed Joker went to the changing room, she changed back into her Tracen Academy uniform.

Joker carefully placed her dirty P.E clothes into her bag, then zipped it up nicely, and left the changing room. She went to the academy cafeteria to get some refresher on the beverage section.

She grabbed some cold orange juice and drank it.

“This feel so refreshing,” she said with a satisfying smile on her face.

Then the head chef whispered on her left horse ear, “The juice taste great doesn’t it?”

Speed Joker slightly jumped from the whisper, “Don’t do that!”

The head chef laughed, “I didn’t laugh this much ever since years ago. Your quite an interesting horse girl if you didn’t know.”

“Nope, I consider myself normal,” she replied back to the head chef.

Speed Joker took another moderate sip of the cold orange juice on her right hand, “Why is this juice so good. What did you put on it?”

The head chef smiled grew wider, and Speed Joker felt a lot more nervous.

{People like this gets on list that I don’t want to meet,} she thought.

The head chef said in a low voice that nobody can heard it, “It’s a secret.”

Speed Joker went complacent with her ears moved back, “Seriously?”

After she cooled down in the Academy cafeteria. She went around the academy and looked at various activities. The one activity she would never do. It was dancing.

She remembered on her running first race from three years ago, fresh on mind like it was still new. When she danced on stage, she made wrong moves in each position, and never get it right.

After that dance, she went off stage to hugged her mother. Her mother was Rainbow Speed, she patted her, and comforted her by saying, “Its fine, every person isn’t good at their first time.”

She kept looking at the dance room with many horse girls doing their practice there.

“Haa…” She breathe out, {Even to this day, dancing is still a nightmare more then crashed myself in motor racing. I should really overcome my nightmare.}

She turned her attention back to the front, and then bumped on Gold City. Speed Joker rubbed her bottom as she already fell on the floor.

Gold City looked at Speed Joker and gave one hand opened, “Are you okay?”

Speed Joker grabbed her hand, helped her stood up, and replied, “I’m fine.”

She examined Gold City, which she recognised them quickly.

“You’re Gold City senpai?” Speed Joker asked.

“Well, you know me very well. It is not surprising that I have a job as a model,” she replied, “So, Junior, what is your name?”

Speed Joker replied, “My name is Speed Joker, a new horse girl that just came join the Academy.”

“Speed Joker, huh. Your quite unfashionable,” Gold City said as she examine Speed Joker, “Also, you smell a lot of sweat.”

“Yeah, because I came after running on the practice field.”

Gold city thought about it for a while, then she got the hint.

“Oh, the recruitment of Horse Girls for trainer to let them recruit into their team,” she said out loud.

Speed Joker nodded, “Yup, that is the one.”

“So, why are you looking at the studio?” Gold City asked.

Speed Joker looked at the clear glass, and saw the horse girls danced around for their live show after races.

“Just, some old stuff I don’t want to do,” Speed Joker replied, “Anyway Senpai, I’ll be going now.”

Speed Joker walked passed Gold City with a nervous look on her face.

{What a weird horse girl. First time I met a horse girl reacted like that to dancing,} Gold City thought as she looked at the retreating figure.

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Time went by quickly. Speed Joker done few more studies in the academy all about running. She done this implement into her own training method she used.

With dusk rolled around the corner. Speed Joker was heading to the gate of the academy while carrying her bag on her left shoulder.

She sighed, “Well, I got more to do after this.”

She passed the gate, and now it was time for her to head home. As she walked on the side walk of the Tokyo City, there were many people on their way to go home. Most of the people she saw were tired with bags under their eyes, even some looked a lot worse than others.

When she was nearing her small partment building, she saw an old lady and an old man who opened a shop. They looked in a hurry.

Speed Joker went to the other side, and went to them.

“Excuse me, is there anything I can help?” Speed Joker asked nicely.

The old lady turned around and saw Speed Joker. She said to Speed Joker, “Well, we got an order at this hour, which it is our closing time. An hotel wanted few orders to arrive there later. But, I don’t think we can get there in time.”

The old lady helped the old man beside her, “My husband had been experiencing a lot of back pain. I’m worried about him more than our business.”

With Speed Joker heard about the story thoroughly, she thoughtfully made her decision. Despite she had quite a heavy activity. She still had some energy in her.

“Alright, I will hear your request.” Speed Joker replied.

“But, where is this items are going to?” She asked to the old lady.

“It is quite far. Its in Kanagawa Prefecture. I can give you the detailed address in a paper,” The old lady replied to Speed Joker.

{Who in the world requested at this hour and that far? I can’t be sure. But for now, I should help them deliver this,} Speed Joker thought.

She received the detailed address on the paper, it was a resort in Hakone.

{Mountain road driving, this got a lot more interesting.}

The old lady pointed at two cardboard boxes, along with two wooden crates placed near their shop.

“That will be the items you will delivering,” the old lady said.

Speed Joker examined the cardboard box all of them were about 10 Kilograms each, while the wooden crates had liquid inside. With an examined weight written in 20 Kilograms.

“Then, I will get my car. This should fit all in the trunk nicely,” She said to the old lady.

Then the old lady with a sceptical look on her face, and said, “I will be waiting.”

Speed Joker went back to her apartment. In her apartment room, she changed her clothes from her Tracen Academy uniform. She now wore a white shirt with a picture of horse girl said ‘Never give up’, blue pants, a black jacket with golden line motifs, and a pair of shoes coloured in dark gray with white stripes.

She looked herself in the mirror, “Not bad, this should do.”

She grabbed her car key secretly placed in the cabinet. Then went to the garage where her car was parked.

Speed Joker went into her car, and started it up. The engine hums to life. She put the gear in reverse, and slowly drove backward out of the garage.

She carefully stopped at the side of the road, near the side walk. She closed the garage door and locked it.

Speed Joker drove her car to the Shop where to the old lady and the old man was.

She parked her car near the shop.

The old lady looked surprised, “Oh my, such a young girl already had a car? I thought you were lying.”

Speed Joker smiled to the old lady, “I’m just slightly different from others.”