187 – Competition – 3
The first runner is Yuuki.
Generally speaking, he is a typical game-loving boy with no athletic ability at all.
The confrontation between a seemingly corrupt male student who preferred playing games in the corner of his room rather than soccer or basketball and a promising track and field athlete was obvious.
As if her senior knew that, she stood still in front of her starting line without even warming up.
On the other hand, Yuuki was working hard to warm up, as if he wanted to prove that an empty cart was a mess.
“Let’s go! Ugh! After! After!”
He sat down and stood up several times, but now he is jumping up and down and waving his hands. I thought it might be too much of a warm-up for me to only walk 100 meters once, but I didn’t bother to point it out.
Seeing that the senior glanced at Yuuki and then turned his head without moving, it seemed like he was probably thinking the same thing as me.
“Haruna! “Get ready!”
“Uh, yes! Okay.”
Haruna, who was squatting down to tie her shoelaces, raised her head.
The next runner is Haruna.
As she approached her, she noticed that she was a female student who was slower than Yuuki.
The first and second runners look like this.
Even if I were Takase-senpai, I would just snort.
However, it seemed as if she meant it when she said she would give it her all, and she began to lightly warm up her body.
“Sister, be prepared! “Even though I look like this, I’m 2cm taller!”
“…… Is it.”
“Okay. “She is no longer an elementary school student who was protected by her older sister!”
No, let’s not laugh.
Yuuki is just doing his job.
“Even though I look like this, I’m a man! Even if you’re a player, you can’t get tired of women!”
Yuuki bluffed and shouted with all his might, as if to hastily pump up his confidence.
He probably knows best what kind of woman Takase Eri is.
“Stupid Yuuki. “Can we start now?”
“Yes, Yuuko. Please.”
It is time for Yuuki to be active for the first time.
Show your heroic side.
I couldn’t cheer him on and just stood a step away and watched him.
“Okay then. “Get ready.”
Yuko calmly stood next to them.
The whistle sounded loudly.
At that moment, the senior ran forward as if a bullet had been fired.
The rising dust cleared, and I could see the senior who had already passed half a lap.
On the other hand, Yuuki
“Huh… ! hehehe… !”
I was already exhausted.
“Wait… ! Huh… !”
As expected, Senpai and Yuuki were separated for a long time.
When the senior had already passed the 3/4 mark, Yuuki was ahead by half a lap.
And the difference is getting wider.
“Sister! Like this!?”
Then what did you want me to do?
Senpai Takase didn’t even look back at her, and instead she was running silently with a somewhat puzzled look in her eyes.
After making a circle, a senior passes us by.
“Stupid Yuuki! What are you doing!”
Yuko finally screamed as if she couldn’t bear it anymore.
When Yuuki, who was exhausted despite running only 100 meters, panted and stretched out his hand towards Haruna, the senior had already completed half a turn.
So, the difference has already widened to an absurd degree.
This result was something that anyone could have expected.
That’s why our senior easily accepted the conditions we proposed.
Because I know it makes no sense.
And that was exactly what we expected.
No matter how much you think about it, it doesn’t work with regular methods.
In that case, try to compete in ways other than running.
In a running competition, you beat your senior by not running.
That was our first plan.
“Haruna-nee! Go for it!”
Haruna finally clapped her hands and started running.
The difference in distance between the senior running far away and Haruna is already irreversible.
Now, here we are….
“Haruna!”
I shouted her name as loud as I could.
Hearing that sound, the senior who was running silently looking ahead was startled and stopped.
“Sister~!”
“Miss Haru!!”
Even Yuuko and Shiraishi.
Everyone approaches Haruna together.
“Are you okay!?”
Because she fell.
She was clearly told to act, but she actually fell and hit her knee while trying to do so.
That’s why we were scared too.
I was planning on acting, but Haruna was really hurt.
Bleeding from her forehead, her elbows, her knees.
“Ahh….”
Haruna stood up and grabbed her knees.
“Please stay still! “I’m calling Elena now!”
At our commotion, a senior running far away stopped and looked this way.
Then it turned around again and came towards us.
“Haru-chan… !”
Thinking that Haruna was really hurt, she came back.
Of course she was really hurt.
“…… Haruna. “Are you okay?”
I asked vaguely so that the approaching senior could not hear.
She nodded her head quietly.
I took off her shoes, pretending to check her injuries.
“Haru-chan, that’s too much… !”
Eventually, a senior approached us and bent down to look at her condition.
“Quickly, get on my back. “I’ll take you to the health room.”
“Sister….”
The senior crouched in front of her, turned his back and shouted.
“Come on!”
At that moment, Haruna pursed her lips and clenched her fists as if holding back something.
Even in the midst of her battle for her own future, she rushed back when her younger brother was injured.
Our strategy was to take advantage of that senior’s heart.
“Sister, I’m okay.”
Haruna stood up and looked down at her senior.
“Because I can keep running. Sorry. Sister.”
After she said that one thing, I took off both her shoes and started running.
“What…” Haru-chan… ?”
The senior looked blankly at Haruna walking away, seemingly not understanding what was happening.
The distance between Haruna and her senior gradually widens.
The senior looked back at the third runner, Shiraishi, who was getting ready to run.
“What a stupid thing to do.”
The senior muttered like that and ran out again.
There was nothing to be said even if they claimed it was cowardice or foul play.
However, this is not an official track and field competition; it is simply a relay race where the only rule is to complete the designated course.
With Yuuki and Haruna as the runners, we tried to catch our senior off guard.
And taking advantage of the senior’s embarrassment due to the hidden camera situation, he widens the distance.
Even so, Haruna was the one running.
“Miss Haru! “Come this way!”
Shiraishi shouts with all his might and waves his hands.
Behind Haruna, who was running as fast as she could on her bare feet, her senior was following her at full speed.
“Come on! Hurry!”
Shiraishi’s outstretched hand touches Haruna.
At that moment, Shiraishi rushed out as fast as his lightning.
Enough that the expression of the senior who was following behind changed.
‘When I was in middle school, I participated in a track and field competition and came in second place.’
That was one of Shiraishi’s many records that we didn’t know about.
‘I quit because I was weak, but I am confident in short-distance running.’
That’s why the next operation is an ‘unexpected ambush.’
After catching her senior off guard to the best of her ability, Shiraishi, who is an expert at running even if not as good as her, extends the distance.
That speed cannot be compared to Yuuki or Haruna.
The senior’s eyes widened slightly and then followed behind with a wistful look. His inner thoughts were probably ‘Hoo.’ I guess it’s something like, ‘It’s pretty good.’
If the distance is this wide, we have a chance of winning.
“Fighting, Aki-chan!”
“Run, Shiraishi!!”
With the support of Yuuki and Haruna, Shiraishi went even faster. Wagging red tail.
“Oh~~ Hohohohoho!!”
The courageous Shiraishi gets closer to us, smiling brightly as he runs.
“Ah, Aki-chan… careful… !”
However, that laughter was short-lived.
“It’s my victory… ! hehehehe… !”
This was because right next to Shiraishi, who was confident of her victory with a distance of half a lap, was her senior.
“W-what…” ! “How is this!”
The senior was lightly running next to Shiraishi with no movement on his face.
“Pretty good. Akira.”
“Ugh… ! “I’m not here yet!”
It has already passed the 3/4 mark.
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Senior was running back and forth with Shiraishi, but in my eyes, even that seemed to slow him down.
That’s right, because the senior who ran a long distance away at a serious speed and stood next to Shiraishi looked very relaxed.
“Ugh!!”
Shiraishi extends his hand towards me.
The last runner was me.
The strategy of catching the senior off-guard, exploiting his loophole, and widening the distance was now of no use.
What remains is a battle between me and my senior.
“…… hehehe.”
When Shiraishi and I clapped our hands, a senior who was passing right next to us let out a small laugh.
So, I found out.
Sempai was looking after Shiraishi on purpose.
To have an equal start with me like this.
“Minsu!!”
“Get it over with!”
“Cheer up!!”
I could hear their voices behind me.
Right in front of me is the back of my senior.
When I think about it, I watched my senior and measured her records, but it was the first time we ran together like this.
Is it because we both knew that the act itself had no meaning?
A meaningless game with a clear outcome.
But now I am trying to change the result.
Senior is accommodating to me even though he knows it is nonsense.
Her back… Eri Takase was moving further and further away.
It seemed as if it was about to leave me forever.
I gritted my teeth and muttered.
You can’t leave it like that.
Because I also want to be with everyone.
Now I have no choice but to become the main character.
I put my hand in my pocket.
That was the only weapon I prepared.