Chapter 13: Hot Join 1

After Mejiro Squire talked with her Big Sister Mejiro Ryan in the training field. She went to the cafeteria. Inside the cafeteria, it was filled with many horse girls eating her food, or had a nice chat with each other.

As for the horse girl who ate the most in the cafeteria. They were Oguri Cap and Special Week. Both of them were famous for eating a lot of food.

Squire just grabbed a modest amount of food on her plate, and then sit there enjoyed her food in bliss. Despite she was in thought about how she failed to ask Speed Joker about herself, she can try again later when in class tomorrow.

Then suddenly her Big Sister Mejiro Palmer sat beside her.

“Why were you here eating alone?” She asked her.

“Well,” Squire said with a hint of nervousness, “I didn’t have any friends yet, other than my classroom mate Cherry Meteor.”

Palmer was surprised. Despite of Squire’s cool, elegant, and calm attitude around grandmother. She was quite shy on the inside. This was a big revelation about her little sister.

“Well then, you should speak out more to people. They might want to be your friends,” Palmer happily said, “Beside, I heard a certain horse girl that was stalking another horse girl.”

Squire blushed, “How did you know?!”

“Because I heard from other girls talked about few rumours here and there,” Palmer replied, “This is why you should try getting into social circles for a bit, and who knows what type of rumours floating around.”

On what Mejiro Palmer said was true. Squire will never knew what types of rumours she could hear, even the most spiciest one. But it was good for her to have connection with someone.

“I will try Big Sister,” Squire replied shyly.

Palmer patted her head, “Good.”

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Speed Joker walked in the hallway. She was looking at the paper in her right hand. The paper was written for her special project she had created for her new future car later. It was very aerodynamic, a lot more than her older projects she worked on. It also needed a new engine, different from the one’s she was currently using.

“Mathematics are going to be crazy in my head,” She said, and rubbed her forehead.

Then she put the paper into her bag, and sighed. It was another day for her like in office.

Most of the horse girl in the academy acts like normal girls would, with few slight different things in them.

If She compared herself to the other girls, she would like an Office lady that got enslaved by a black company, and work their back to get minimum wage.

Speed Joker looked at the time on her smartphone, it was around 17:45.

{Time to go home, enough studying for today.}

Speed Joker exited the academy, and walked her way back home. When she neared on her apartment area. There was the man again with cowboy hat.

{Ah, sh$t here we go again,} she thought, and let out another heavy sigh.

The man in cowboy hat (Hotsuke Chizu). He smiled at Speed Joker underneath the shadow of the hat.

“What is it this time? Another opportunity to get big cash prizes? Or any another stupid I need to take seriously?” Speed Joker asked, already felt irritated with her mood.

Hotsuke shook his head, and said, “Nope, but this will align with your target.”

Speed Joker slightly tilted her head in confusion, “And that is?”

{There is no way he can know, right?}

Hotsuke smirked, “You need a warehouse right?”

{So he knew about it. Did he have any secret agency somewhere to spy me around?}

He grabbed his digital tablet, it was another type of contract race for Speed Joker.

She read the paper contract. There will be a race in Sapporo, in the Sapporo Race course. It was designated as a N9 Class race.

Speed Joker looked up at Hotsuke, “You want me into an unknown Race? You know I can’t do that without joining a team you know.”

Hotsuke chuckled, “I know. But I will set up a temporary team that will suit you the best.”

Speed Joker looked at him pure disgust, “Alright, as long they are respectable people.”

“Great, the race would be dated in March 24th,” Hotsuke added, and then he walked away.

“Better then never I guess,” Speed Joker mumbled.

In her apartment room, she looked at her calender. Currently it was march 16th, about 8 more days before the upcoming event.

{I need to do some training in the morning, and maybe some yoga stretches too.}

Speed Joker opened up her log book. This time, it was a bout Oguri Cap in the logs.

Oguri was a monster in her generation, the fastest out of all Horse Girls she compete with. However, there is one secret on why she is very fast.

One, it was her posture of running. It reduces the amount of drag around the body, unlike normal running human posture. She went low instead of going tall, gave a big advantage unlike her bigger adversaries.

Normal human ran with their body straight up, to put balance more in the back. For horse girls, they tails behind them. So any posture she would use like Oguri Cap would work for Speed Joker.

Second, Oguri Cap had a lot of power into her foot. But this could result of her using a second spurt. One downside on having a lot of power, it was the amount of stress that the bone can handle in her foot.

One wrong move, it could snap her talus.

{This is going to work,} Speed Joker thought, {But the amount of power to my legs would be too much. So I need a better technique to distribute the load.}

Speed Joker check most of the shoes from each horse girls on every race. All of them were high heels, it wouldn’t distribute the load to the entire foot. Rather, it would move all into the front.

{Seriously, who design this?}

Each photo, even the history of Horse girl racing she researched, most of the girls are using high heels.

{This type of shoes wouldn’t work. So I need shoes that allow to distribute my entire load to my foot. This also would result increasing the grip in the any types of road, and reduced stamina waste.}

Speed Joker grabbed a piece of paper, then she drew the sketch of the shoe she would be wearing in the upcoming race later.

The shoe she sketched, it had a flat bottom, no high heels. It allowed to distributed all the weight into her entire bottom of her foot, and transferred smoothly to the ground.

The design was similar to human athlete shoes, it also had flat design.

“Now I just need to find a manufacturer to build it.”

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When next day arrived. Speed Joker woke up in the morning early, at the time of 4:00. She drove her Jetsun AL500, and went to Gunma Prefecture. From there, she stopped at the base of Mountain Myogi.

She parked her car at the desired parking lot.

Speed Joker stepped out from her car and do some stretches of her arms and legs.

“It is very cold,” She said, as she was finally done with her warm up.

She slowly climbed the Myogi mountain from the road.

Speed Joker was now battling against the uphill of Myogi, which she was speeding around 50 KM/H.

She cruised at that speed, and felt her stamina slowly drains. Her target was going to the top of Myogi, then went back down again.

As she was running. There was another horse girl behind her. She was very fast, at the speed of 60 Km/h.

She passed Speed Joker who was cruising at 10 Km/h less.

{Huh, it is not just me here any more,} she thought.

She accelerated further, increasing her speed to 60 Km/h. Speed Joker already felt her legs were starting to get heavy.

As she made it to the mid way of Mountain Myogi. She kept her pace and speed despite it gave toll on her legs.

{My legs are going to give cramps later.}

Once she made it to the top. She leaned on the wall out of breath.

“I should not really underestimate how hard mountain roads could be.”

Unlike driving in a car. Running uphill was a lot more challenging. She need to work more on her stamina and strength significantly. Because this was not enough.

Speed Joker looked at the distance. It was a horse girl with light red hair, and she was drinking her water from the water bottle.

{Looking at that making me thirsty. I should have brought my tumbler with me.}

The girl with light red hair went to Speed Joker as she was about to faint.

“Woah there,” she worriedly said, “Hey, are you okay?”

Speed Joker vision was blurry, “I need water.”

The girl gave her some water from her water bottle, it was enough to make Speed Joker sat beside her.

“So, what is your name?” The horse girl with light red hair asked.

“Speed Joker,” Speed Joker replied, “And what about you?”

“Call me, Atom Blossom,” Atom replied, “What are you doing out here alone in Myogi, and also, you are a lot younger than me.”

Speed Joker calmly said, “Just for an exercise. I guess it was too much for me to handle.”

“Of course it is too hard for you to handle!” Atom puffed her cheeks.

“You need more muscle in your body, especially your legs. Your arms are more than enough,” Atom said.

Speed Joker backed away slightly from Atom, who was enthusiastic, “I see… Thanks for the help.”

Atom moved her thumbs up on her right hand, “No problem.”

Then she looked on the road, “How can you go back? You already spent all of your stamina.”

“I have my ways. I just have to run back,” Speed Joker weakly replied.

Since Atom was a lot more taller than Speed Joker (185cm vs 155cm). She grabbed around her arms, “I’m going to carry you down. I’ll carry you behind my back. No more taking risk!”

“Yes, madam,” Speed Joker replied, obeying her. She did not want caused any more trouble.

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Arrived at bottom of Mount Myogi. Speed Joker can felt her legs cramped slightly over of he pushing it too much.

Atom looked at Joker, and said, “I will help you with that.”

She massaged her legs, allowing to muscles in her legs to relax. It took around 15 minutes until she was done massaging it.

“Thank you,” Speed Joker said, as she sat on the bench.

“So, how do you even get here?” Atom Blossom asked her.

She was curios about Speed Joker. Because she knew most of the people she came across were mostly from her hometown. For a horse girl from Tokyo came into her view. She was equivalent to a foreign person.

“I came here by driving my car,” Speed Joker, and pointed at the car she parked at the parking lot.

“I see…” Atom said. Then her eyes went wide in surprised, “Wait, What!? You drove here?!”

Speed Joker nodded, and said, “Yup, I drove here from Tokyo. Quite far actually.”

Atom gathered her thoughts, connecting the lines. She knew about Japan’s Central training Academy. But there was no way of Speed Joker came from there. But, she needed to ask her, to confirm her suspicion.

“Are you from the central?” Atom asked.

Speed Joker gave another nod as her reply of a yes. This made Atom worried.

“You should go back. A young girl like you staying here alone is not the best. Especially from unwanted adults,” Atom said.

Atom was right. Speed Joker, despite being a stubborn horse girl. Some part of her wanted to go back, but another did not want to. For her own safety, it would be best she listened to Atom’s advice.

Because, if Speed Joker was missing. It would be more then just some big consequences. As she Speed Joker finished on her decision, she was going back.

“Alright, I will go back,” Speed Joker said.

Atom nodded approvingly. Then she said, “Before we go, we should exchange numbers. If you come back here again in the future. There always be me that will guide you.”

Speed Joker looked up to Atom, and gave a big soft smile, “Sure, why not.”