Chapter 10: Side Quest of Night Time delivery

Speed Joker put in all the items into the trunk, and also counted all of them. There was four of them, same on the list that she had on her hand.

“I think that is all,” she said to the old woman.

The old Woman nodded, “Thank you for your help. We will receive a phone call when the items arrived there.”

The old man looked at Speed Joker, he said, “Miss, sorry for your interruption day. I’ll repay you someday, and thank you for helping this old man.”

“No problem,” Speed Joker replied to both of them.

She went into her car and drove away. When she entered the highway and exited Tokyo, she looked at the view of the night road in the highway. There were only trees and walls alike as she passed.

Upon arrived at the toll road of Kanagawa, Hakone Turnpike. There were not much people drove their car at night. Only some of them are.

Speed Joker shifted gears down to 3rd gear in her Jetsun AL500. Her tachometer reached around 5000 rpm. She accelerated her car by pressing the acceleration pedal, increasing her engine rpm rapidly and reached 9000 rpm.

She passed many tight curves steadily with her driving skills, and manage to hit around 150 Km/h on straights of the road.

As she drove, she looked at her rearview mirror.

{Hmm? Who could be at this hour?} she thought.

The car behind passed her, it was a red Toyota Corolla. It had black coloured mounted wings and Watanabe RS wheels.

“A street racer?” Speed Joker murmured as the car passed her by quickly.

She just cruised in each section of the turn, with a slight tail fish at the end of each curve.

When she arrived at the destination. There were few cars she familiar with, that she found in the academy. One of them was a limousine.

Speed Joker parked her car, and she called one of the staff member.

“Excuse me, deliver from ‘Happy Fresh’ shop.” She said.

The staff quickly noticed her and notified other staff. Speed Joker opened the trunk of her car. The staff of the resort carefully lifted the two rectangular wooden crate, and the cardboard boxes filled with carrots.

“Thank you very much. Your a life saver to us,” the staff member said.

“Who was the guess that need this much carrots, my guess would be a horse girl inside,” Speed Joker said to the staff member.

“Yes, the guess in the resort are Mejiro family members,” the staff member replied, “But, we ran out of carrots and tofu. Thanks to you, we are saved.”

“I see. Then, I will take my leave,” Speed Joker said.

Before she entered her car, Mejiro McQueen noticed her. McQueen was going out for a bit, but didn’t expect one of the academy student was here.

“Your the girl who caused a bit of spark rumours around,” she said to Speed Joker.

Speed Joker looked up at Mejiro McQueen.

“Is there anything I can help, madam?” She said to McQueen.

Mejiro Ardan walked out from the resort entrance, she was searching for somebody.

“McQueen, grandmother is calling you,” she said to McQueen.

Then Ardan saw Speed Joker who was behind the door of her car.

“Oh, I didn’t know we had an academy student still awake at this hour,” she confusingly said, “What’s your name?”

“My name is Speed Joker,” Speed Joker said to her as she kept exchange glances with McQueen.

“If want to know, I don’t live any of the dorms in the Academy. I’m independent, live alone at an apartment,” She added to Mejiro Ardan.

“I see, my first time seeing one,” Ardan replied.

McQueen turned around and headed back to the resort. Before Ardan followed suit, she said her goodbye to Speed Joker; “Well then, I will see you later in the Academy.”

“Well, that was something. I should stop wasting my time and head home,” Speed Joker murmured and went into her car.

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Back on the road, going downhill of Hakone Turnpike. She drove relatively fast, with the speed of over 200 Km/h at some point. Then turned into each turn quickly.

Most of the road were very wide, unlike most mountain pass she came a crossed with.

“This is very nice to be honest, the road itself is very smooth too,”

As she was driving smoothly, then she saw a flash of headlight on her rear view mirror. It was no doubt, the red Toyota Corolla from before.

She pressed her acceleration pedal. Her car sped up even more on the road, and she began to use her four wheel drifting technique at sharper turns.

The Corolla behind her followed her suit, it kept up with the pace she created.

{Not bad, I didn’t expect for the driver this good. This is going to be interesting.}

On each turn the Corolla tried to overtook her on the inside of each turn, but she blocked it quickly and didn’t left a room for the driver of the Corolla to overtook her.

{Good Job, you already exceeding my expectation.}

The the red Corolla when outside. Both of them turned at the same time in a hairpin. But the Corolla began to feel the struggle as the movement get a lot more sluggish.

{Hmm? So this is your limit huh.}

The final stretched of the straight was nearing, it was going to be a downhill from here. She saw the Corolla behind her to slipstream.

Both cars hurled down at the staggering speed of 230 Km/h. The toll booth in front of them was nearing close. Speed Joker brake slowly, she increased pressure of the brake as it get closer to the toll booth.

For the Corolla brake a lot more early, and didn’t want to take the risk. When both of them passed the toll booth, they parked on a nearby parking lot. Speed Joker saw a young man exited the red Toyota Corolla.

{Look at that, a guy his looks are maybe same age as me.}

Speed Joker opened the door of her car, and exited. When she stood beside her Jetsun AL500. The young man looked at her with a surprise expression.

“Who might you be? Horse Girl young as you should be back in the Academy dorms, and start running in circles doing nothing,” The you man said.

“That is quite rude of you, have your parents learned you delicacy? I’m just here to deliver some items, I’m currently heading back to Tokyo,” Speed Joker replied.

Speed Joker turned around and opened the driver side door. Then the man spoke up before she went into her car.

“My name is Masaru Yuta. Might I ask your name?” The man asked.

“Speed Joker, my name is Speed Joker. Now, if you please, I will be leaving. Its getting late for me to stay here,” She replied to Yuta.

Speed Joker turned her car back on, and drove out from the parking lot. Then she went back to the highway headed to Tokyo.

Yuta looked at the car retreating in the distance.

“Huh, the world of racing is bigger than I thought,” he murmured.

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On the highway. Speed Joker saw a very fast Blue S30Z passed her.

{Hmm… I’ve been hearing some nineteen year old boy loved turning on L type engines in the community. Most of the drivers said so.}

She kept her speed stable in the highway, relatively cruised at a speed of 180 KM/H.

Once she arrived back, she saw the old lady waved at her. Speed Joker parked her car on the side with hazard lights on.

She exited her car, and met with the old lady.

“I got the phone call from the resort. The delivery has been successful. I’m truly thankful for you to help us,” the old lady said with a soft smile to Speed Joker.

Speed Joker smiled, and said, “No worries, I just do what I can within my capabilities. If there is any delivery that you can’t do, I can help you again in the future.”

The old lady pulled out an envelope filled with cash, “Here you go, for the payment that you helped us. Consider this for the fuel for your car too.”

Speed Joker gracefully accepted the white envelope, “Thank you very much.”

She went back into her car, turn her car around to the opposite side of the road. From there, she went to her garage.

Speed Joker parked her car in the garage and shut the engine down. After that, she went to her apartment building and sat on her sofa.

She opened up her phone and saw the time. It was 20:47.

“I’m hungry, I should cook something.”

Speed Joker went to the kitchen, and looked at her fridge. There was a fresh udon and curry.

{This much? It should be enough.}

She grabbed both udon and curry. Now, she opened her freezer and grabbed some fresh shrimp. Then placed all of them on the counter top.

{Hmm, I’m forgetting something.}

Speed Joker thought of it for a while, then finally a light bulb came into her mind.

{Right, I need to create the batter for the tempura.}

She went to her fridge to grab some eggs and all purpose flour, the she also grabbed a bowl from the cabinet.

Before she start cooking. She grabbed fresh one carrot on the bottom section of her fridge.

As she started cooking.

Speed Joker cut the carrots into small pieces, after that, she set those aside.

Next she she crate the batter mix for the tempura. She first mixed the egg and the all purpose flour into the bowl, then whisked it with a spoon. She added a bit of cold water to the batter.

Once that is done. She sliced the shrimp, but not all the way through. This made straighten the shrimp, instead of curling up like before.

Finally, she took the shrimp on its tale and put into the batter.

Now, Speed Joker focused on heating up the oil from her pan, she made sure that is enough oil to deep fry the shrimp to make the tempura.

When the oil is hot enough. She put the battered tempura into the hot oil with chopsticks on her hand.

When the tempura is coloured light golden on the skin, she put them out and placed it on the oil rack.

It was time for her to focus to cook her udon and curry.

Speed Joker opened her udon packaging and placed them into a hot boiling water in a water pan. She then stir the udon to make sure its cooked through. Next, she warmed up her instant curry in the packaging and add a little of water.

She also didn’t forget to add her carrots into it. She wait until the curry released hot steam into the air.

When all of them are done. It was time for Speed Joker to assemble her dinner.

She went grabbed a clean bowl from the cabinet, and placed it on the counter top. She first put the cooked udon noodles, then the curry, and finally the tempura on top.

She looked at her food with a slight drool coming out from her mouth, “I can’t wait to eat this.”

Speed Joker went to the dining table. She placed her udon bowl on the table, while beside it was the chopsticks.

She clasped her hand together, “Thank you for the food!”

Speed Joker took a bite of her udon wrapped with curry around it. She felt bliss of flavour exploding in her mouth, like a new year firework.

Then she took a bite of her tempura. The crispiness felt on her mouth felt divine, the shrimp inside was cooked through, and the batter on the outside was very crispy.

She continued eating her food until the bowl is empty. Then she clasped her hand again.

“I’m full, that was a delicious dinner,” she said.

After dinner, she cleaned all of the cooking utensils, food container, and eating utensils.

When that was all done, next was her laundry. Her dirt clothes smelled very bad.

{Maybe I shouldn’t neglected these.}

With that, she had to do laundries at night.