Recrusive Race III

Shouji was looking at the stop watch. Each number on the clock moved quickly. So as Miayfuji Saturn, who was already going through laps in the field.

When the final laps were finished. Shouji written down all the numbers he got, then show them to Miyafuji.

“Your times improved quickly by each laps in fraction of a second,” Shouji said as he handded over the clipboard.

Myafuji Saturn was happy about the result. She said, “Yay! I finally can beat some horse girls later in the race. My time has finally come.”

Gold Ghost saw the time, she smiled and said, “You did great. I wish you luck on the next race.”

Myafuji nodded happily, then she looked at Shouji, “Trainer, can you come to my race next week?”

Shouji looked at his schedule that was already planned by himself. He had more than enough time to see her race. And Shouji replied, “Yeah, I can.”

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After few various small talks later. Shouji changed his clothing after his training section with his Trainees.

He then saw a car near the gate of the academy. There was Speed Joker who wore her casual clothes. She wore an orange hooded puffer jacket, under it was a cream crew-neck knit top. Her bottoms wore a blue pocket joggers. Her foot wore a red light grays shocks and covering it by a white training shoes.

Shouji smiled at Speed Joker who was waiting for him patiently. He walked closer, and said, “You arrived here earlier than I thought,”

Speed Joker looked at the person approaching, and smiled to Shouji. She replied with a soft smile, “Well, we need to go now. A plane is already reserved for our flight. Now, get into the car. We don’t want to be late.”

Speed Joker entered her car, she sat on the driver seat. Shouji sat on the front passenger seat.

He look at the dashboard of the car and saw many gauges. He was not does not know anything about cars at all, but he only knew how to drive it, and change oil.

Shouji curiously said, “This is my first time seeing a dashboard like this.”

Speed Joker replied to him, “It is just for extra precaution. This car is slightly different from normal cars that most regular people drive. But it is fun to drive.”

Speed Joker turned her ignition key, which it starts the starter motor in her engine. Then her engine roared to life. She shifted to first gear, then start pressing the acceleration pedal lightly.

Upon on their way driving to the Airport. Shouji felt how smooth car drove on the road. It was very comforting. He also notice the bucket seat only equipped in driver side too.

Despite Shouji knew few things about Speed Joker, he did not knew everything about of her driving a car.

He leaned his arms to the door, and looked through the transparent window. There were many building passed by in the scenery, along with many truck and cars through the opposite lane of the highway road.

Neared at the airport. Speed Joker did not parked her car, instead, she drove near the security gate to enter the airport, where staff were allowed. This made Shouji confused.

The security guard knock at the window of the driver’s door. Speed Joker rolled down the window. The security guard said, “Miss, if you mind need to check your access.”

Speed Joker pulled out a golden card with a three word in black bold, GLG. Below the letters were security codes.

She the gave the card to the security guard. The security guard notice the card was part of a Golden Lieaf Group.

When the security guard searched the security card number on the computer at his post, his eyes widened. Then he hurried back to Speed Joker.

The security guard bowed, and gave the card back. They said, “I’m sorry for the long check up wait. Please, come in quickly.”

The gate entrance to the airport was opened. Speed Joker drove through it, and followed the tarmac that had been painted with yellow line of colour.

She looked around to find the right path to the hangar, where the large cargo plane was parked.

Shouji saw many planes that parked at the gate. There were also airport buses filled with people drove at the opposite direction. Staffs worked in bright yellow safety vest, who was checking planes engine, and also some filling them up cargo into the planes cargo bay.

The sound of Turbo fan engine whined through out the bustling airport. It was very lively, and it was not going to be quite at anytime soon.

About fifteen minutes. Speed Joker found the plane in the distance. It was coloured in white with a large leaf vinyl on the tail of the plane. On the left side of the fuselage, it there was three giant words said, GLG.

It was no mistake. This was the right place that she came for.

Worker near the plane, they saw Speed Joker’s Jetsun AL500 approaching. One of them looked at the clipboard with the same picture of the car, along with its license plate.

Speed Joker stopped her car, then went one of the workers, whom all of them wore ear protection headsets.

She tapped one of them, and said, “Where should we go?”

The worker with his gloved hands, he pointed up at the cargo plane middle fuselage. The cargo plane was a double deck. He replied, “Go over there. You guys arrived on time. Now, come into the plane. Its time for departure. We will get your car into it.”

Shouji expressed in awe at the double deck cargo plane, while first deck was for cargo only. But this was not the time for a tour. He followed behind Speed Joker who entered the rear cargo door.

Shouji saw the of the cargo deck, which it was very large. He muttered, “This looks awsome.”

Speed Joker look at him, and said, “Lets go, we need to get up there.”

Shouji nodded and followed Speed Joker from behind.

The workers outside the cargo plane, they loaded Speed Joker’s Jetsun AL500 along with many other cargo into the cargo bay of the plane. They strapped the car with cargo straps, to make sure it does not move around in mid flight.

Once that was done, they all leave the cargo deck, and closed the rear cargo door.

One of the workers went front of the plane and use glow stick to signal the pilots on the cockpit to help them steer in reverse. When the plane reached the taxi way, they will now heading to the runway. At the very end of the runway.

The four turbo fan engines on the plane throttled up quickly. In maximum power, the pilots released the brakes, letting the landing gear wheels spin loose.

They slowly speed up, until the entire plane lifted above the ground.

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About one and a half hour of flight later. Shouji and Speed Joker landed in New Chitose Airport.

Speed Joker drove the car out from the airport, while Shouji saw on the front passenger seat.

This was their first time in Sapporo. The cold climate were something they were not prepared for.

Speed Joker turned the AC heating dialler from blue to red. The Air Conditioner inside her car began to warm their bodies up.

Shouji looked at the window slightly covered in moisture. He said, “Sapporo is this cold at this time of the month. I should bring something warm with me.”

Speed Joker looked on the road, she was focused on the driving, but enough attention to reply to Shouji. She replied, “Talking about this place so much, we should check if there is any restaurant we can eat, because I’m hungry after a long flight.”

Shouji looked at Speed Joker. He then opened his phone and tap at the map app icon on the screen.

He searched the nearest restaurant in Chitose town. It listed quite a few reviews of best selling restaurant in the list.

Shouji asked, “Is there anything you want to eat?”

Speed Joker replied, “I’ll go anything with rice. How about you?”

Shouji thought about it, then he said, “I’m feeling the same as you do.”

He tap on his phone as he found the perfect restaurant to eat for both of them. When they were at the red light. Speed Joker saw the map on Shouji’s phone. She drove and follow the map.

They both arrived at the restaurant that was named, Taikyu’s noodles and rice. Speed Joker parked her car at a nearby parking lot, not far from the restaurant.

They both sat on the table and prepare to ordering their food.

Speed Joker ordered a curry rice with extra carrot, and a spice level at 5. While Shouji, he went ordered fried rice with omelette.

After they order their food. Speed Joker looked at Shouji.

She put both hands on her chin, and said, “Shouji-kun, you already went to Sapporo before?”

Shouji who was focused on his phone, he turned his attention to Speed Joker. He replied, “Yeah, I did. But never enjoyed few moments of the beauty of Sapporo. Since I only have limited budget to just to race here, and make a living.”

Speed Joker thought carefully on her next moves. While they were out from the town for a while. She should consider of Shouji’s mental health too. Healing him would helped him to get better on his performance.

Working very hard was okay. But pushing to someone’s mental and physical limit. That was mostly called work enslaving.

Despite many people here in Japan worked to the brink of death, mostly for those who worked in black companies. They still want to made a living, to survive, and to live.

For most who were thrown out from society. They would not get a job position, no matter what they do.

Shouji being a trainer had him working to do research of their opponents in the race. Trainers also worked carefully to make sure their Trainees would not lose with out a fight.

When their food arrived by the waitress, whom already near the table. She carefully places the food on top of the dining table, and said, “One rice curry, and one fried rice omelette. Hope you enjoy.”

Both of them began to eat their food, slowly but surely enjoying them.

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Once both of them were finished eating their lunch. Speed Joker drove the car to Sapporo race course.

After she parked the car, they both went into the race course, and get few looks of the interior.

Since this was around at march, there were no major upcoming events in the race course. It had time to reserve for the Aurora Comet Series in the next two days.

Speed Joker gave a hard look, and she thought, {When they will arrive? I heard their team name was named Goreus Racing.}

Shouji looked curiously at her, who was in deep thought, and said, “Is there something wrong?”

Speed Joker her attention to him, meeting his dark brown eyes. She said, “Nope, just thinking the temporary team that we would meet with.”

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In the Aurora Comet Series, the team had different layout. Each trainer must had their own trainee, and one trainer cannot have more than one trainee.

This gave way for many trainer to create teams with each other, they would work hard to raise their team performance score, which averaged around their trainees performance scores.

Example, If they had 4 trainees ranked at A1, A1, B2, and C3. It would lead them at team ranked B6. Many other factors included too.

To increase their performance score, for the trainees. They need to work hard together as a single team. Winning races can significantly gain points and raise their performance score. If the judges from URA saw one team working well with their teammates, it gave more points than just winning.

If a the team were all in the top 5. All of them would score points.

However for those violated the rules and many warnings. Their points would decreased significantly. When their ranks were higher than C1. Many off them would gave racing suspensions, stopped them to race for quite a while. Worst case, banned for a season in the series.