Thunder grumbles on the outside.
Two years had passed since the Flying Circus evolved. The match between Inui Saki and Asuka Kurashina brought significant changes to the Flying Circus World Tournament.
Today, FC are divided into three classes; Third class, second class and first class, which qualified by the balancer setting on Grav shoes. The lowest class, third class, is the class to release Grav shoes’ balancer at the level of 20% to 40%. Second class is the class to release the balancer at the level of 50% to 70%. And the first class is a class of 80% to the maximum.
Everyone should have known, the higher you release the balancer the faster and agile grave shoes will be, but that means it will be trickier to control it. Done a speeding with low balance is dangerous because the athlete could hit objects or thrown to open sea with a high speed. Even though you are protected by anti-gravity membrane, the feeling of suddenly stopped will make you nauseous.
That’s why, the only ones who allowed to release the balancer above 80% are professionals or a world-class athlete, like Kurashina-san.
「Even so, how dare you registered yourself in the Second class, Amamiya!?」
I point my kouhai(junior) who grins like an idiot with my index finger.
Her name is Amamiya Sora, 15 years old. 152 cm, 43 kg. The only member of our School’s Flying Circus club besides me. Her blood type is B. Her three sizes are **cm, **cm, and **cm.
「W-well. As long as it is not First Class then that’s okay … I thought」
She shows her fang as she says that to me.
「Even if it is okay, that doesn’t mean you could register yourself in the Second Class!! You can’t even fly with 10% balancer off, how the hell you would fly with 50%!?」
I snap it out.
Her Nekomimi headband twitches as her mouth pout. Geez. If she wasn’t this cute, I’d slapped her 5 times already.
「Hey! I’m talking here!」
「I hear you, senpai …」
That’s what she says. But her finger twirls her cream hair and her brown eyes avoid my gaze instead.
I let out a sigh, let’s try to hold my anger a little bit.
「If you really hear me, then try to show that you are regretted to register without permission」
A silent. The only sound is the roar of the wind from outside.
I’m waiting for her to apologize to me. Really, this child always brings trouble. Well, as long as she wants to apologize, no matter how much she made mistakes, I will forgive …
「Tee hee~☆」
… … .
「” Tee hee~☆” My ASS!! YOU’VE MADE PROBLEMS, I ASK YOU TO APOLOGIZE BUT YOU ANSWER IT WITH “Tee hee~☆”!? WHOM DO YOU THINK WOULD GET THE PROBLEM!? I SAID THIS MANY TIMES ALREADY, YOU ARE OUR SCHOOL’S SOLE PLAYER!! OUR SCHOOL’S NAME IS ON THE LINE!! JUST ASK ANYONE NEARBY, NO ONE KNOWS OUR SCHOOL SPECIFICALLY!! THAT’S WHY THIS IS THE BEST CHANCE TO ADVERTISE OUR SCHOOL! AND YOUR “Tee hee~☆” DOESN’T SOLVE ANY PROBLEM HERE, YOU HEAR ME!?」
I let out a heavy sigh. The amount of my life always reduced 5 years every time I’m dealing with her. If this continues, I might bald at the age of 16. That wouldn’t be funny.
「It’s because your face look scary, so I pulled a little joke」
THIS SON OF A BITCH!!!!
「Nyahahaha. Easy, easy. Nyaah, let bygone be bygone. Better practice than continue your pointless argument」
Said Maya from our back. She sits on a folding chair, resting her chin on the table while eating dried fish snacks.
「If you can’t do it then just practice it, right? There’s this saying, wait, what was that? Oh nyeah. Practice makes prospection」
「Practice makes perfect」
「Nya, that one. Nyahaha, your English really is good Makoto! Teach me more about it, okay? 」
Once again, I sigh. If they said one will lose one’s happiness every time one sigh, I should have spent all of my happiness already. No, I might already take my next life’s portion.
Toyotomi Maya, 16 years old. My childhood friend. Her height is 159 cm, her weight is secret. I assume it’s more than 50 kg, but I’ll get killed if I say that.
She was a Flying Circus athlete, but she stopped 2 years ago. Now she’s an ace in track and field club. Her size is D cup.
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Putting that aside. It is true what Maya said, Amamiya needs more practice. Although we cannot fly on the sea due to the storm, at least she already wears her flying suit. Fortunately, we are in the gymnasium, so it should be alright if she does some practices and such here.
I glanced at the ceiling, it isn’t high enough to do a low yo-yo … Its length is also enough for one or two sonic boosts only. No, if the momentum is strong enough … and the balance is off to 20% … She wouldn’t make it.
What can I train her here? Her stamina? She already has plenty enough of it. Should I and Maya attack her simultaneously? Dog Fight practice? It’s okay, but she’s a Speeder, speed is her weapon. Well, she’s pretty fast in the last match, she even made Kuma-sensei took two shortcuts.
The problem here is her balance. She can’t fly if the balancer released even at 10%. Her bad habit of tilting her body always make her spinning non-stop. Yep, the problem is her balance.
「Senpai. Could you please stop looking at me like a beast? Don’t tell me you planned to attack me here? While the three of us are trapped in this school all alone? Senpai, you really are rotten to the core. I feel pity for you」
Be calm … calm … I already know she is such a bitch, something like this should be normal for me.
I turn my body facing Maya, trying to ignore to Amamiya’s words just now.
「Maya, there’s a balance ball in the warehouse, right?」
She nods lazily.
「Alright. Wake up, help me take four mattresses」
「Eeh!? I’m too lazy nyaa. I’m hungry, haven’t had any meal since lunch
And so she complained. She even doesn’t lift her head as she speaks.
[Grieet]
The sound of a heavy door echoing through the room. I turn my gaze, looking for the mattress.
「That should be my words. I overslept so I didn’t breakfast, my bento was eaten by a certain kouhai who doesn’t know gratitude, and now my dried fish snacks are gone" somewhere I don’t know. Surprisingly, I can hear someone eating something since then. If there is at least one person who is sensitive here, I’d be grate—ful!」
I pull the mattress in one stroke. Damn, I really hungry.
「Come one, help me!」
Maya finally got up from her chair, although she makes the sound “Chii~h” from that cat mouth of her. Her red scarf is about to fall as she tugs the mattress from the warehouse.
And, it’s finished. I put the balance ball that usually used for yoga in the middle, and then I arrange four mattresses to surround it.
「Senpai, what are you doing? Why do you set something like this here? Won’t this disturbs our practice?」
「This is the practice, balancing practice. You will fight with the balancer that of 50% only. If you can stand on the ball for 5 minutes without falling, I will allow you to practice using grav shoes」
「Eeh!? Why don’t we just wear the grav shoes? It’s troublesome if like this. Also, I already put my grav shoes on, I don’t want to put it off after all the trouble. Sora!」
A pair of purple wings appears on her shoes. Slowly, Amamiya floats in the air to 1 meter and stops there. She uses her own name as the activation, really.
「I start with 10%」
She grabs her shoes to press two buttons.
And there she is, finally shows up, Sora the Whirlwind. I mean, look. She spins very fast in the air. It makes me wonder, how could she spin that fast when the balancer is released only for 30%? Is it because her bad habit of tilting her body? Wait, maybe not just because of that. I think it’s because she put too much power to her grav shoes, which is in the same line with her body line, which then makes the anti-gravity membrane holds her only in one leg whilst her body rotates against the earth’s rotation? Is that because of an error in her grav shoes? No, as I recall, the same incident happened when she wears Maya’s grav shoes. In that case—
「Maaa! Koooo! Seeeennnn! Paaaaiiii! Heeellllpp! Mmmeeeeeeeee!」
Ah, I’m too much into my thoughts that I forgot she’s still spinning. Her condition is worsening, she already cried and begged me to stop her. Well, she vomited in the last time she spins like this, so this time is better than ever.
Also, I think I heard Maya’s laughter on my behind, but it must be my imagination.
「Be calm! Try to be calm! Open your limbs wide! Okay, good」
Limited to times like this only she becomes docile to me.
「Try to straighten your body. Do it slowly! No, don’t—Hear what I say! Try to straighten your body! Yep, like that. Good」
Slowly, her rotation begins to slows and then stopped altogether.
「Still want to continue straight to grav shoes?」
She shakes her head weakly, it seems like she will vomit if she opens her mouth
「Good. Land here and sit.」
She lands slowly, then fallen to sit. Her head must be in a mess right now.
[JDARR!!]
「Hieeek!」
A blue light flashed just like that. The three of us gasped, that was Amamiya’s voice. Looks like her dizziness gone with the thunder. But now she’s wilted with fear, too much that she curls into a ball like an armadillo. While I just standing here, can’t move at all, because Maya grips me tight like a kitten. A very big one.
The storm outside become even heavier. If this continues, we can’t go home tonight.
I try to revive the atmosphere.
「Amamiya, try to stand on the balance ball. I’ll look the time on my phone」
As I open my phone … As expected, there’s no signal. The battery also dried out. Unfortunately, I don’t bring the charger nor spare batteries. I close it and put it back into my pocket, that thing is useless now.
「Ok—ay … but senpai … my legs … I can’t…」
She trembles, still can’t overcome the fear from before.
Shit … she’s cute.
Wait, no! Don’t get lured into her honey traps, me! Remember, just how troublesome she is! Remember every trouble she made!
「A-ahem. Well then, here, let me help you」
I stretch out my hand to her while pulling back my body a little bit. I avert my eyes from her. If not, my gaze will be fixed on her tight flying suit.
「Senpai … you want to harass … your underclassman … whilst in this state? As expected … of senpai … I …」
She says that in tatters, gulping down her own fear. I don’t know whether I should feel sorry or angry to her. But one thing that’s certain; It was a useless worry.
「Well, if you say so」
I take my dead phone and put it as if I were making a call. I louden my voice so she can hear my fake conversation.
「Sensei? Yes, it’s me. Amamiya still can’t control her grav shoes, and yet she refuses to practices it. I’m afraid she will hurt herself later at the tournament. Yes. Yes, that’s what I meant. We should resign from the …」
「No!! Please, don’t! I promise I will master it before the tournament! So please, don’t resign … us …」
I show my dead phone to her. I bet she could see her own blushed face trough the black screen. So it isn’t really useless.
「Can you stand up now?」
She nods in silent.
「Good. Let’s start the practice now. Since my phone is dead, we are using the clock over there. You get on as I command it. If you fall and 5 minutes haven’t passed since then, redo it. Got it?
「Senpai … you meanie」
「You think for whose sake we’re staying behind? It’s thanks to you, forcing us to practice even though there was a storm warning」
Suddenly, the gymnasium’s main door knocked up hard. I take a glance there, it’s just a wind. It seems like is useless to hope anyone to pick us up. Ah, let’s just ignore it. It will stop sooner or later.
「Come one! Let’s start the practice!」