Volume 5 Chapter 11 (1/1)

Chapter 1 - The Reception Table is Right Over Here[]

1 Present: 14k[]

Even though the entire width of the road was covered in brand-new asphalt, there was hardly a passing car in sight On all sides of yh the h school were expressly built for the sake of the Hoshi+gaya Cup Ibara was probably going to be co up soon from the back Before that happened, I wanted to make sure I clearly re the new-student recruitment week

The time bethen a class started to run and when the next class started after them was usually around three minutes I was in Class A and Ibara was in Class C, so that meant I had started around six minutes before she did

For the first kilometer, I had matched my pace with that of those around ht up with e, I should have been running at around the pace of a slow jog

I had once heard that a person’s casual walking speed was roughly 4k would normally double that, and so on In a book that I had once read, if you were to walk at slower than 4mph, you were punishedUnfortunately, the exact conversion from kilometers to miles was hazy at best in my head, so I couldn't use that as a reference Anyways, let’s just assume that it was somewhere in-between a stroll and a fast run 6ke, so I decided on 7kure out how many kilometers were between me and Ibara, who had started six minutes prior That meant the ansas…

The ansas…

Multiplications and divisions ran circles inside rades in math, and the calculations weren’t all that extre all of theit with paper and a pen required different skills altogether Add onto that the fact that I was running, andtiure out the ansas unavoidable As I made excuses one after another, I kneaded the all the distances, times, and speeds into the formula in my head

Let’s see In around one minute, one would probably near about 17 meters or so She would catch up to me at around 41km from the start then That meant that the approximate distance between us was… Well, she probably wasn't that far back anyways

Even though I didn’t have enough time nor distance in the first place, in order to calculate howht I had two possible ways to reclaim the lost time and distance

The first one was to try running a bit more seriously

Andwhat happened that day all the more quickly

That day, if I recall correctly, was just like today I’m pretty sure it was fairly clear out

It was certainly colder, however

Translator's Notes and References[]This is a reference to Stephen King’s The Long Walk