Leg 5.2
Miu
Miu continued running around the market. "Semolina? Semolina?"
She ran back to the market stall that she got the fish paste from. "Hi, hi, I need to return this."
"No english."
"I give you this, and you give me my money back!"
"No english."
"Fucking dumbass!"
Miu turned to a local. "Hey! Bitch!"
"Me?" the local asked.
"You speak English?"
(Obligatory reminder that for the sake of the nature of this fic, the characters as well as all of Japan will speak English)
"Yes."
"Do you speak Arabic too?"
"Yes."
"Can you come with me?"
Miu brought the translator over to the vendor. "Tell her that I need a refund on this bottle."
The local conversed with the vendor as she forked over the bottle of fish paste as she grabbed the money back. "Ask her if she has semolina."
The vendor nodded and handed her a bag of semolina. "Was that so fucking hard? No!"
She ran back to the chef and handed him the entire bag. "If you cunts don't accept it now… I'll lose my shit!"
"It's good."
The chef gave her the clue as she sprinted back over to Kazuichi.
Miu and Kazuichi: Currently in Last Place
"What gives?" Kazuichi asked.
"Shut the fuck up. I tried my best," Miu replied.
Leon and Ibuki
Leon was pouring some tea as he dropped the whole pot on the ground, which sprayed his foot with hot tea.
"Augh!" he shouted. "Wait… that's mint."
He picked up the teapot as he poured it into the cup, taking a sip. "Ibuki, we've got it! Let's go!"
Leon and Ibuki: Currently in 4th Place
"Ibuki thinks we should do pottery." Ibuki said.
"Yeah, but we don't know how picky they are on the judging."
"But wouldn't looking through a thousand carpets take just as long? Ugh… Ibuki can't take looking through things for hours!"
"You have a point. Fine, let's do pottery."
Tenko and Himiko
Tenko drank a cup of what seemed to be some kind of paprika-chili blend as she opened her mouth and panted. She desperately poured another teacup, hoping for some kind of milk or something sweet to help calm it down, but she instead got lemon juice, which she chugged and then coughed.
"Tenko?" Himiko asked. "Are you alright?"
"Himiko… I'm fine…" she replied, bent over and coughing.
Hajime and Chiaki: Currently in 6th Place
"Tenko, are you alright?" Hajime asked.
"I'm fine, degenerate." she replied.
"Well… alright," Hajime replied. He picked up a pot and put it back down.
"Once we got to the shop, we got a strategy." Hajime said. "It looked like the teapots with the tea were eliminated from the pool as teams found them and turned them in. The pots that teams have already gone through were partially empty."
Chiaki took on the role. "The teapots were initially filled to the brim, so by picking it up and comparing weights or listening to the amount of liquid sloshing, we could avoid drinking around half of them and just move on to the ones that no one has touched yet."
Chiaki picked up a teapot and shook it around, side to side to hear that there was enough sloshing to indicate that at least two teams had gone through it. She set it down and moved on, as Hajime was doing the same on the other end of the room.
Nagito and Nekomaru
"Is this the carpet shop?" Nekomaru asked as the driver nodded.
"We need you to stay here. I doubt this will take long." Nagito said. They got out just as Makoto and Sayaka's cab pulled up.
Makoto and Sayaka
"There's Nagito and Nekomaru! We caught up!" Makoto said. He ran into the carpet shop with Sayaka.
"Oh my lord this place is massive."
The size of the shop was around half of a professional soccer field with all the walls stacked top to bottom with folded carpets, several hanging carpets on ropes around the store, carpets on the floor… It was a nightmare.
Nagito and Nekomaru
Nagito and Nekomaru ran up to the shop owner as he gave them a small square of cut up carpet.
"Now, the piece of carpet that we were given was around a sixteenth of the size of the carpet." Nagito explained. "As such, it only had part of the design, and we had to figure out which carpet matched the design we had on our square."
Nagito ran into the middle of the store and randomly began pulling down carpets.
"Nagito… slow down…. You'll miss something if you start at the center." Nekomaru said.
Nagito pulled out a carpet and matched it to the carpet squares, and then ran up to the cashier who handed him the clue.
"Got it!"
Nagito and Nekomaru: Currently in 1st Place
"Oh come on, what the hell!" Makoto shouted.
"Maybe if Makoto is truly a lucky student… you guys could catch up to us and possibly win the leg." Nagito said. "But if not… we deserve this."
"I'm amazed at it myself," Nekomaru replied. Nagito ripped the clue open.
"Make your way to your next Pit Stop." Nagito read.
[i] Proceed to Pit Stop: Jardin Majorelle
Teams will now end this leg of the race at Marrakech's Jardin Majorelle, a garden filled with exotic plants and bright colors. The last team to check in here may be eliminated.
"Let's finally get a first place in this competition!" Nekomaru shouted, running outside and hopping into their taxi cab.
"Jardin Majorelle," Nekomaru said.
Makoto and Sayaka
Makoto got his carpet square, which was beige and had red diagonal lines with right-angle turns.
"I cannot believe that guy's luck! I know I have this supposed 'luck' too, but I just won a raffle!" Makoto said. "Whatever. Let's just focus on this so we can catch up to them."
Sayaka sighed and began going through the rugs. "This is insane."
Shuichi and Kaede
Shuichi and Kaede ran into the pottery shop as they saw the demonstration for the clay. The instructor was in a hole in the ground working with the equipment at torso level. The wheel began to spin as the instructor slapped a wad of clay on it and wet his hands. He then smoothed out the edges as he created a slight indent in the middle. His hands grabbed the edges of the pot and pulled it upwards, stretching it up and thinning out the sides, as well as making the hole in the center bigger. Reaching inside the pot, he caused the middle of the pot to bulge out slightly, then used a paintbrush to create a thick white line on the side. He then used a knife or a blade to slice the bottom of the pot off the wheel and set it to the side.
"That seems… doable." Kaede said. She and Kaede got into two pottery stations and descended into the little holes before grabbing the clay.
"Uhh… how do I make it spin?"
Shuichi looked around and then looked in the hole. "Oh. You have to spin it manually with your foot I think."
He rotated it with his foot as the wheel in front of it spun. "Yup."
Hajime and Chiaki
"Tea!" Chiaki said, pouring and downing the glass of tea. They exchanged it for their clue.
"Thank you!" Hajime said, ripping the clue.
Hajime and Chiaki: Currently in 5th Place
"Detour. Carpets or Ceramic?" Chiaki read.
"I think we should do ceramics," Hajime said. "A thousand carpets will take us forever."
Tenko and Himiko
"I'm going to use my maaaagic to find the right teapot." Himiko said. She waved her hands around and picked up a random pot, and poured it to find tea.
"Wow! You're amazing, Himiko!"
They turned it into the 'degenerate' shopkeeper as he handed them their clue.
Tenko and Himiko: Currently in 6th Place
"Detour. Carpet or Ceramics?" Himiko read.
"Let's do the carpets." Tenko said.
"Eh? Why?" Himiko asked. "That's going to take forever."
"My hands are made for fighting and throwing around degenerates. I can't do something nimble like that. Remember the bagels in Montreal?"
"Fine."
Just as Tenko and Himiko left, Chihiro and Hina came running in.
Chihiro and Hina: Currently in 7th Place
"Drink tea?" Hina asked. "I'm already so full from that Speed Bump…"
"Let's just wash down that eyeball with some tea." Chihiro replied. "It's not a big deal."
Makoto and Sayaka
"This is tedious," Sayaka said. "How long have we been here?"
"It's only been fifteen minutes," Makoto replied, staring up at the clock.
"It feels like it's been forever," Sayaka said. "I think we should switch."
"No, I want to stay here. We've gone through quite a bit of these."
"Makoto!"
"Twenty pots has got to take at least forty-five minutes. We can do this before then!"
"But if we miss one, this could easily take us at least two hours!"
"We just have to make sure we don't miss one!"
"Makoto! You said we'd switch if it took too long!"
"I don't think it's been that long."
Shuichi and Kaede
Shuichi wet his hands and spun around the piece of clay at a constant speed, thinning the sides.
"How are you doing over there, Kaede?" Shucihi asked.
"Uhh… not so good," Kaede replied. She was spinning the wheel at a kind of staggered speed, which caused the pot to be a bit uneven.
"The pottery challenge was difficult because you had to spin the wheel with your foot," Kaede explained. The issue was that it was difficult to spin it at a constant speed. Mine would slow down until I spun it again, where it would speed up again. The fluctuations in speed made things slightly disproportionate."
She narrowed the walls so much that it ended up collapsing over itself. "Gah!"
Leon and Ibuki
Leon and Ibuki walked into the pottery shop. "Alright, how do we do this?" Leon asked. They watched the demo as Shuichi and Kaede looked up.
"It's really hard!" Kaede said.
"Don't worry about it. Just let them try," Shuichi replied.
Leon and Ibuki went to their stations and descended into the holes in the floor.
"Wow! Ibuki thinks this is cool!"
"How do I turn it?" Leon asked, looking for some kind of electric mechanism.
"There's a disk on the bottom. You turn it with your foot." Shuichi replied.
"Foot?" Ibuki asked. "That's weird."
"Alright, Ibuki, let's get this done," Leon said, spinning the disk with his foot.
Chihiro and Hina
Hina chugged a glass of lemon juice and spit it out. "That's terrible. This is terrible… I have to pee…"
"We must've gone through at least half of these," Chihiro said, pouring a glass of camel milk and chugging it down.
"Look who's here, bitches!" Miu shouted from the entryway.
Miu and Kazuichi: Currently in 8th Place
"Find the teapot with moroccan mint tea," Kazuichi said. "That… seems okay actually."
"Not the most exciting thing I've done…" Miu replied. They rushed in and began pouring teapots. Miu poured one and drank it.
"Pfft! That fuckin' tastes like latex!"
"How do you even know what late- never mind."
Tenko and Himiko
"Look, Himiko, aren't these carpets gorgeous?"
"Nyeh… let's just do the challenge and get out of here." Himiko nyehed.
"Hey, girls!" Makoto shouted.
"Tch. Degenerate."
Makoto shut up and continued looking through the rugs.
"Though there were some hanging on racks like you'd see with clothing, most of the rugs at this store were folded up and stacked on top of each other. You'd have to unstack the entire pile just to get to those." Makoto explained.
"Makoto, can we switch now?" Sayaka asked. "I'm getting really frustrated."
Makoto pulled out a carpet and sighed. "Fine. We'll swi- never mind."
He held up the carpet and the carpet sample, which was a perfect match.
"We got it! Let's go!" Makoto shouted. Sayaka ran over to him as they slapped the carpet onto the front desk, who exchanged it for their clue.
Makoto and Sayaka: Currently in 2nd Place
"Make your way to your next Pit Stop, the Jardin Majorelle." Makoto read. They ran out of the shop and got into their taxi.
"You know, Makoto, you need to listen to me sometimes." Sayaka said. "I know that we got through this one faster, but you need to actually, like, take my opinions into consideration. I didn't feel like you were listening to what I was saying, just refuting whatever I argued. Just in the future, think about what I have to say."
"Alright, alright, sorry," Makoto replied. "I guess I just felt like we had to beat Nagito and Nekomaru and maybe I could really be as lucky as Nagito."
Nagito and Nekomaru
The taxi pulled up to its destination.
"This is the garden?" Nekomaru asked.
"Yes. Jardin Majorelle."
They got out and ran into the garden.
"Monokuma! Where are you?" Nagito shouted. Monokuma and the Pit Stop mat awaited them.
"Nagito and Nekomaru," Monokuma said. "You are team number ONE!"
Nagito and Nekomaru: 1st Place
"Yeah! You go, Nagito!" Nekomaru shouted.
"No, this is all you! Like worthless trash like me could beat out you ultimates on my own!"
"Don't say that about you, Nagito! Your luck essentially won this leg for us!"
"It's just my luck…"
"Well…" Monokuma interrupted. "For winning this leg of the race, you have won a trip for four to London, which you can enjoy after the race."
"That sounds great, Monokuma," Nekomaru said. "Perfect for team bonding!"
Hajime and Chiaki
Hajime and Chiaki arrived to the pottery challenge.
"This place looks cozy," Chiaki said. "Where's the demo?"
They looked around until they saw the Moroccan man making pots. "Alright. Show us the magic." Hajime said.
Shuichi and Kaede
Kaede stuck a knife in the bottom of her sixth pot and spun the wheel around so it would auto slice. She pulled off the pot from the wheel and set it aside.
"I've got six, how many do you have, Shuichi?"
"I think I have around nine or ten." Shuichi replied.
"You're fast at this," Kaede said.
"For someone who uses her hands a lot, I would think I'd be better at precise movements," Kaede explained. "But I've kind of learned that I have poor fine motor skills when it comes to anything other than piano."
Kaede grabbed another glob of clay and tried to smack it on the wheel, but it got stuck to her hand as she pathetically shook it to try to get it off.
Leon and Ibuki
Both of them were spinning their wheels quickly and churning out pots left and right.
"I think we're going to pass Shuichi and Kaede at this rate!" Ibuki shouted.
Chihiro and Hina
"Mmm…" Chihiro said. "Gatorade."
"Oh, give me some?" Hina asked. Chihiro poured her a teacup full of gatorade as they both drank it.
"Sports drinks. Great for computer users and athletes alike."
"Alright, we should focus," Chihiro replied, stifling a few laughs. They continued going down the line of teapots.
Miu and Kazuichi
"I have to take a piss now…" Miu said. "Be right back. Feel free to jack off while I'm gone. Just make sure to show me the tissue!"
Kazuichi sighed, facepalmed, and continued drinking, then began gagging on some kind of warm smoothie. He ran outside and hurled.
"Uhh… gross… at least I'm not full anymore, though."
Tenko and Himiko
"Oh, Himiko, if we just narrow them down by color, it should be easier! Just look at the only ones that are blue!"
"Nyeh… well a lot of these carpets are at the bottom of a big stack."
"Don't worry about it! Just unstack them and then stack them back up when you check!"
"What a pain."
Hajime and Chiaki
"Looks like that spins that," Hajime says, spinning the wheel with his foot.
"What?" Chiaki asked.
"Oh, you have to spin the wheel with your feet."
Makoto and Sayaka
Makoto and Sayaka ran into the garden and through the exotic plants to land on the Pit Stop mat with Monokuma.
"Makoto and Sayaka," Monokuma said. "You team number two, but how are you feeling? Three second places in a row? When are you going to get that gold medal?"
Makoto and Sayaka: 2nd Place
"It doesn't matter how many gold medals we win as long as we win that trophy at the end." Makoto said. "But still… hopefully soon. Haha."
Shuichi and Kaede
"I think Leon and Ibuki are passing us," Kaede said.
"Don't think about them. Let's just think about us." Shuichi replied. "We're almost done."
Hajime and Chiaki
"Don't rush it," Chiaki said, wetting her hands to put on the clay. "It's better to go slower than rush and have to redo a bunch of them."
"I can see that," Hajime replied, indenting the middle of a wad of clay and pulling it upwards to form walls. "That's really satisfying."
"I agree."
Chihiro and Hina
"Oh, I think I've got it!" Hina said. She poured a glass of tea and chugged it, jogging over to the judge who handed them their clue.
Chihiro and Hina: Currently in 7th Place
"Detour. Carpet or Ceramics?" Chihiro read.
"I think we should do the ceramics," Hina replied. "You've worked with tiny units like this that you need to be nimble with, right?"
"Yeah… circuits." Chihiro said.
Miu and Kazuichi
"That tastes like dog cum!" Miu shouted.
"I'm not even going to ask," Kazuichi replied. "Damn! How long have we been here? This is seriously pissing me off!"
"At least thirty seconds."
"Stop screwing with me! Just give me a straight answer!"
"EEK! U… uh…. Around thirty minutes." she whimpered, looking up at the clock.
Leon and Ibuki
"Can we get a check?" Leon asked. A judge walked up and looked at their twenty ceramic pots on the floor.
"How'd they get done so quickly?" Kaede asked.
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," Shuichi replied, staring intently. "They're not leaving anytime soon."
The judge left the shop and came back with a sledgehammer.
"Oh, no," Leon said.
He walked around, inspecting each pot. He pulled twelve out and squashed them underneath the sledgehammer.
"That would've been a lot more dramatic if these were fired and glazed," Ibuki said.
"We have only eight?" Leon asked in a mixture of shock and frusturation. "Argh."
Tenko and Himiko
"Nyeh… this is a huge pain," Himiko said, checking the carpets hanging from the ceiling.
"I bet a degenerate designed this challenge," Tenko replied. "We've checked the entire store! Why can't we find it!"
"We must've missed something," Himiko replied. "It's gonna be a huge pain to check every carpet again."
Shuichi and Kaede
"Can we get a check?" Kaede asked. The judge walked around their pots on the floor, sledgehammer in hand.
"It's good," he said, handing Shuichi and Kaede a small, unopenable ceramic sphere.
"What do we do with this?" Kaede asked. "Is this our clue?"
"Do we just smash it?" Shuichi asked. He looked around on it. "There's nothing that signifies the outside is a clue. Let's just chuck it."
He smashed it on the floor, causing pieces to shatter everywhere and their next clue to flutter out.
Shuichi and Kaede: Currently in 3rd Place
"Make your way to your next Pit Stop, the Jardin Majorelle. The last team to check in may be eliminated." Shuichi read. "Come on, let's go!"
Hajime and Chiaki
"Can we get a check?" Hajime asked. The judge picked up two of their pots and chucked them on the ground, finishing them off with the hammer.
"Only two, huh?" Chiaki said. "Oh, well. Not a big deal."
Leon and Ibuki
"Stupid! This challenge is stupid! Stupid, stupid, stupid!" Leon raged.
"Ibuki is concerned." Ibuki said.
Chihiro and Hina
"We are on our way to this pottery shop," Chihiro explained. "Hopefully the judging isn't too harsh,"
"It seems like it's rather out of the way, too," Hina said. "We've been driving for a while, and I really have no idea if we're going to the right place or not."
Miu and Kazuichi
"I got it!" Kazuichi exclaimed, running up to the shopowner to exchange it for their clue.
Miu and Kazuichi: Currently in Last Place
"Detour. Carpet or Ceramics?" Kazuichi read.
"Heh… Carpet." Miu joked. "Let's do that one."
Tenko and Himiko
"This is so boring that it's painful…" Himiko said. "I wish I had enough mana to magic my way out of this."
"Don't worry, Himiko! We'll find it soon enough!"
Himiko backed up and fell through a pair of curtains. "Uhh… Tenko?"
"What is it, Himiko? Oh… you look so cute when you're surprised!"
"Tenko? There's a second room over here."
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me."
Hajime and Chiaki
"We're done remaking those two!" Chiaki said. The judge walked up to them and gave them the OK, and handed them the ceramic sphere. They busted it on the ground as they picked up the clue.
Hajime and Chiaki: Currently in 4th Place
"Make your way to your next Pit Stop," Hajime read.
Shuichi and Kaede
"Here we are!" Kaede cheered. They ran outside. "Where's the entrance?"
"It's over there!" Shuichi pointed. They crossed the street, as Kaede almost got hit by a car.
"Uagh!" Kaede screamed, clinging onto Shuichi.
"Stupid foreign teens!" the driver shouted.
"Kaede, be careful! I don't want to have to work on another case today!"
"Sorry," Kaede replied. They held hands and ran into the garden, and jumped onto the Pit Stop mat.
"Shuichi and Kaede, you are team number three." Monokuma said.
Shuichi and Kaede: 3rd Place
"Alright, we'll take it!" Shuichi said.
"It's amazing how well we're doing," Kaede said. "As of now, almost halfway through the race, we have yet to finish below fourth."
"Hopefully that doesn't change." Shuichi replied.
Chihiro and Hina
"Here we are!" Chihiro said, running into the pottery shop where Leon and Ibuki greeted them.
"Good nomnomnomming!" Ibuki said.
"Hi," Hina replied. "How do we do this?"
They got up to watch the demo, but it was halfway done already and they arrived in the middle of it, visibly confused.
"Uhhh…."
Ibuki and Leon
"Can we get a check now?" Leon asked. The judge arrived and yeeted four of them out the window.
"You have a hammer." Ibuki said. "Use it!"
"It's no fun that way." the judge replied. "Do it again!"
Miu and Kazuichi
"There's no denying that we're in last place," Miu said. "Hopefully we can catch some of these teams with their pants down at this Detour."
"We'll see…" Kazuichi replied. "All we can do is hope. Damn… I sound like Nagito."
Hajime and Chiaki
"Hajime and Chiaki, you are team number four.
Hajime and Chiaki: 4th Place
"Alright, so we couldn't do as well as yesterday, but that's alright." Hajime said. "We're still in this, and we can always redeem ourselves in the future.
Tenko and Himiko
"Alright, we've checked everything in here. We absolutely must've missed something." Tenko said.
"Do you mean we'll have to check literally every single carpet here again?" Himiko asked. "What a huge, huge, pain!"
Leon and Ibuki
"Can we get a check now?" Ibuki asked. The judge arrived and gave them a thumbs' up as they chucked the ceramic sphere at the floor, revealing their clue.
Leon and Ibuki: Currently in 5th Place
"Good luck, you two!" Ibuki said, leaving Chihiro and Hina behind in the shop.
Chihiro and Hina
"I think we're making up good time." Chihiro said. "We've got half of them done. This isn't too hard."
"We'll see when they get checked," Hina replied. "Hopefully we can beat Miu and Kazuichi. I don't know where they are, if they're at the other Detour, if they're still at the tea shop, if they're lost… I hope they're lost."
Miu and Kazuichi
Miu and Kazuichi made their way into the carpet shop, where Tenko and Himiko were.
"Why are you two still here?" Miu asked.
"We can't find it," Tenko replied. "We have no choice but to keep scanning the store."
Kazuichi got their carpet square, a yellow carpet with black stripes, as they began searching through the shop.
"This place is massive," Kazuichi said.
"Unlike your dick."
"Hey!"
Tenko and Himiko
"It's official. I hate Morocco," Tenko said, sweating from the 1AM heat as they continued going through the carpets.
"Why don't these places have air conditioning?" Himiko complained.
"We must've wasted an hour here," Tenko said. "This was a poor decision."
Leon and Ibuki
"Leon and Ibuki," Monokuma said. "You are team number FIVE."
Leon and Ibuki: 5th Place
"We're still in it." Leon said, hi-fiving Ibuki.
Miu and Kazuichi
Kazuichi pulled out a yellow carpet and examined it. "Is this it?" he asked. Miu still had the carpet square.
"Hang on, gimme a second," Miu replied, running around the shop to where Kazuichi was. "That's it!"
"Are you kidding me?" Tenko asked. Miu and Kazuichi ran up to the cashier and handed him the carpet.
"Nice job," The judge said, handing Miu the clue.
Miu and Kazuichi: Currently in 6th Place
"Fuck yeah!" Miu shouted. "Later, lesbos!"
"Shut up!" Tenko shouted. "You're just like a degenerate."
Chihiro and Hina
"Can we get a check?" Hina asked. The judge walked up to them and smashed in three of the pots.
"The rest are good." the judge said.
"I'm going to implode." Hina said. "I can't take this stress."
Chihiro rubbed his nose with the back of his wrist. "It's not over till it's over. We don't know if Miu and Kazuichi are ahead of us. Let's just knock out this challenge as fast as possible, kay?"
Tenko and Himiko
"I don't understand," Himiko said. "We checked everywhere. Why can't we find it?"
Tenko sighed and pointed her face upwards, wiping off sweat from heat and stress.
Miu and Kazuichi
"We know that Tenko and Himiko are for sure behind us," Miu said. "As long as our taxi doesn't suck, I'm sure we'll be able to stick in this."
Their taxi pulled up to the garden as they paid his fare.
"Come on, Soda, let's go end this leg!" Miu said.
They ran together and jumped onto the Pit Stop mat.
"Miu and Kazuichi," Monokuma said. "You are team number six."
Miu and Kazuichi: 6th Place
"Oh… oh… thank god." Kazuichi said, between breaths.
Tenko and Himiko
Tenko sighed and looked through her area again, starting from the beginning. The first carpet that she pulled out looked… familiar. She checked it with the carpet square, and noted it was a match.
"Are you kidding me." Tenko said. "Literally the first place I checked both times. How did I miss it?"
They traded the carpet for their clue as they ran outside.
Tenko and Himiko: Currently in 7th Place
"Sorry, Himiko." Tenko said. "I was careless."
"No…" Himiko said. "It's not that big a deal. I went through that area too. I missed it too. You tried hard."
"NEEEE! Himiko praised me!"
"Okay… that's enough. We just need to get a cab now."
Chihiro and Hina
"We've remade them!" Chihiro said. The judge nodded and handed Chihiro and Hina the sphere, which they smashed against the wall.
Chihiro and Hina: Currently in Last Place
"Make your way to your next Pit Stop," Chihiro read. They ran outside and got into their cab.
"Jardin Majorelle." Hina read.
Tenko and Himiko
"Why did we let our cab go?" Tenko asked, trying to hail one to no avail.
"That was a poor choice… it's my fault." Himiko said.
"Oh, don't worry about that, Himiko!" Tenko praised. She raised her hand as a cab arrived in front of them.
"Jardin Majorelle." Tenko read. The driver nodded as they hopped into the back.
Chihiro and Hina
"Where are you going?" Chihiro asked.
"I need gas," the driver said.
"You still have like a quarter of a tank left!" Chihiro protested.
"Better safe than sorry," the driver replied. Hina put hands around the bridge of her nose.
"This is a nightmare."
Tenko and Himiko
"We're on our way to the Pit Stop now," Tenko said. "Maybe there is someone at the other Detour who is still behind? We're not sure."
"Hopefully there's a team behind us," Himiko said. "But no guarantee. If I had enough mana, I could increase the odds"
"Oh, Himiko, you have to show me that when we get home!"
Chihiro and Hina
"Alright, we have gas now, can we go?" Hina urgently asked.
"Alright, alright, what's the rush?" the driver asked.
"We're in a race for 100 million yen. Do you know how many cabs you can buy with that?" Hina asked.
"How many dirham?" the driver asked. Hina looked at Chihiro.
"Nine million Dirham." Chihiro replied.
"Oh, that's a lot. Well… got to get you there fast, huh? Sorry."
Tenko and Himiko
"We've stopped. Why are we stopped? This isn't a garden, it's a hotel!"
The driver ran outside and into the hotel to ask for directions.
"Does he not have google?" Tenko asked. The driver ran back outside and into the drivers' seat as they were off again.
Chihiro and Hina
"We're getting close. I can feel it." Hina said.
Tenko and Himiko
"There's the garden. That's the garden, right?" Himiko asked.
Monokuma awaited as a cab pulled up to the entrance and a team ran outside, landing on the Pit Stop mat.
"Tell us the bad news," Chihiro said. "We're in last, right?"
"Chihiro and Hina," Monokuma announced. "The last team to arrive… is approaching now."
They turned around as a cab pulled up and Tenko and Himiko filed out of it, dashing to the Pit Stop mat. Hina collapsed to the ground in relief.
"Thank god," Chihiro said.
"Chihiro and Hina, you are still in this race, you are team number seven." Monokuma said.
Chihiro and Hina: 7th Place
"Tenko and Himiko, you know what that means."
They nodded solemnly.
"Tenko and Himiko, I am sorry to say that you are unfortunately the last team to arrive, and that you have officially been eliminated from the race.
Tenko and Himiko: Eliminated
"We had a feeling," Tenko said. "We blasted what, ninety minutes on that Detour?"
"At least I got to race with my friend." Himiko said, hugging Tenko's waist. Tenko laughed and pat the back of her head.
"We may not've made it that far, but we got to go to five different countries and do these amazing things. I still wish we would've gone farther, but I have no regrets." Tenko said. "Besides checking those carpets thoroughly."
Hina and Chihiro waved goodbye as they walked away from the Pit Stop mat.
Please continue for a sneak peek of the next leg.
Race Stats:
This Leg:
1st: Nagito and Nekomaru
2nd: Makoto and Sayaka
3rd: Shuichi and Kaede
4th: Hajime and Chiaki
5th: Leon and Ibuki
6th: Miu and Kazuichi
7th: Chihiro and Hina
Eliminated: Tenko and Himiko
Race Average:
Shuichi and Kaede: 2.40
Nagito and Nekomaru: 2.80
Makoto and Sayaka: 3.80
Hajime and Chiaki: 4.60
Miu and Kazuichi: 5.40
Leon and Ibuki: 5.40
Chihiro and Hina: 6.00
Tenko and Himiko: 6.80
Celeste and Akane: 8.33
Hiro and Rantaro: 8.00
Sonia and Kaito: 11.00
Roadblock Counts:
Nagito 3, Nekomaru 3
Makoto 3, Sayaka 3
Shuichi 3, Kaede 3
Hajime 3, Chiaki 3
Leon 3, Ibuki 3
Miu 3, Kazuichi 3
Chihiro 3, Hina 3
Tenko 3, Himiko 3
Celeste 2, Akane 2
Hiro 1, Rantaro 2
Kaito 1, Sonia 1
Next Time on the Amazing Race: Hope's Peak Edition
"I LOVE ATHENS!" Ibuki shouted.
The final seven race through Greece as they face an ancient Roadblock.
*Shuichi sword fighting in Greek armor, sword clashing against a shield*
"Damn," he said.
There, rifts begin to separate the teams.
"We've noticed that there's a bit of an alliance between three of the teams," Nagito said. "We don't like that."
"Nagito is giving me really bad vibes." Sayaka said.
And Leon and Ibuki reach a breaking point.
"No, Ibuki is telling you needed to take a right." Ibuki said.
"That's not right! It's a one way road! Use your head!"
Who will be eliminated next?
A/N: And that's a wrap on Leg 5! After next leg, I plan to be doing an Elimination Station, a chapter devoted to the eliminated teams and what happened after they were eliminated. In these Elimination Stations, I'm willing to do a few Q&A questions for the cast (if any of you are willing to submit questions via PM or reviews). Use this format when submitting questions:
Q&A for (Team Name)
(Question)
Keep in mind that only eliminated teams will be responding. I will also do a second edition after leg 11, right before the finale. However, even the final three will be asked questions via interview. But if you have questions for me, don't be afraid to shoot me a PM or leave me a comment!
I do plan to make a Season 2 with the characters that I have shunned from the first season (Minus Korekiyo because he's creepy and Byakuya because there is absolutely no reason he would want to go on.) I have not planned it yet, but if you want to suggest locations and challenges to me for then, go ahead. I do not plan to reuse any countries, however.
If you want me to spoil the route so you have places you're looking forwards to, shoot me a PM. That's as much as I'm willing to spoil.
Please keep in mind that I will continue to split up each Race leg into two parts, except the finale. The finale will be one 9-10k+ word chapter so you don't get left on a cliffhanger.
Alright, that's it, toodles!
