Chapter 539: Its my Complete Defeat (2/2)

”Kuhh, the inside wall……”

I could hear Alice's frustration through the private line…… Yes, Alice's vehicle's Special Drive has the characteristic of ”automatically aiming for the Inverse Cornering”. In that case, if I were to block the inside wall…… Alice cannot activate her Special Drive.

The plan seemed to be a great success, as I was able to hold Alice off and get through the S-curve.

Thereupon, arriving on the long straight line…… I used my final Special Drive, immediately pulling a distance away from Alice.

Alice had used the Special Drive once at the first corner of the S-curve. This means that she should have 2 charges left…… a Special Drive for a total of 6 seconds. It's just a simple calculation, but if I can outpace Alice by more than 6 seconds, I can win.

With my last Special Drive, I was able to pull away quite a distance, which should be an advantage of 10 seconds. As long as my car has a higher maximum speed, there's no way she can overtake me.

After a few moments, I finally saw the 5 consecutive curves. I've won! Now, all I have to do is not make any mistakes……

”Ughee, Kaito-san, you're really amazing. For you to do this much even though this should be your first time playing this game, how surprising.”

[I think you made a mistake in using your Special Drive too much on the start……]

”Ahaha……”

At that moment, I felt a chill run down my spine. Arehh? What is this unpleasant feeling…… I thought victory was already almost in my grasp…… I have already entered the 5 consecutive curves. If I could just get past this point, the finish line would be just around the corner.

”……I did tell you, didn't I? My vehicle's special ability is to automatically attack the inner walls of the curves ”without slowing down at all”……”

[ ! ? ]

……Wait, what did she mean by that? I mean, Alice's has been using her Special Drive, right…… That drift should be her Special Drive…… Drift?

When she's drifting…… I think…… she's slowing down……

”……I've never used it yet. From the start of the race, ”I've never used my Special Drive”.”

[Wha!?]

As Alice said those despair-inducing words, approaching the third corner of the 5 consecutive curves, Alice's car appeared in my rear-view mirror.

With a speed over 100km/h, not slowing down at all…… Alice's buggy was approaching with an unconventional behavior, as if there were rails on the inner curves.

This is her real Special Drive…… This is bad, I should block the inner wall……

”It's useless.”

[She…… avoided my block……]

As if to trample upon my idea of blocking the inner walls and interfering with Alice's Special Drive, her car avoided mine with a perpendicular trajectory and passed through me, still moving with her maximum speed.

I completely misread her ability. Her Special Drive also automatically evades the car in front of her huh…… D*mn it, this is bad. The two remaining curves will allow her to make a big difference between us!

Now that I've used up all of my Special Drives, there's no way for me to catch up with Alice. It seemed that what I had said to Alice had come straight back to me.

Of course, my technique is far inferior to Alice's, who can drift like that even without using a Special Drive…… Still, if I had saved one last Special Drive for this moment…… No, it's too late to say such things now.

[……It's my loss.]

”Fufufu, well, this is just our first game. For me, I was wondering if I can win without having to use my Special Drive, but I was so surprised about how fast you were. Maybe next time, we'll have a better match.”

[……Mnghh. Alice, one more game.]

”Alrighty. After we reach the goal, let's take some break before we go to the second round!”

Dear Mom, Dad———— How should I say this…… I thought I had planned things out, but in the end, the match was complete under Alice's control. Even putting aside the fact that I was a beginner, I was overwhelmed by her strategies. Anyway, in this match———- It's my complete defeat.

~~ Highlight of the race ~~

? ? ? : [Amazing, that 96! It completely broke Alice-chan's drift opportunity, making her unable to push forward!? It also got a great start-up distance too! Just barely missing the guardrail!]

Serious-senpai : [No, there's no way a motorbike could do something like that!!!]

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Alice-chan : [Kaito-san was amazing! His course planning and strategy were great! But! However! Nevertheless! It completely didn't work! He's still far from beating Alice-chan!!!]

Serious-senpai : [……Oi…… It disappeared…… That thing blocking your name disappeared.]

Alice-chan : [……Eh?]

Serious-senpai : [? ? ?, that thing blocking your name disappeared.]

Alice-chan : [……Well then, that's it for the Afterword, let's get back to the main story! ? ? ?, who is that? I totally don't know any beauty with such a name! I'll take my leave then!!!]

On a side note : The character rough draft of Volume 3 has been posted in the Activity Report. Also, I'm secretly posting a Christmas original that I was going to submit to another project. If you're so inclined, please take a glimpse at it as if you were the Demon King of a certain card game.

(T/N: Dunno what TCG Author-san was talking about here)