April 28th.
"So, that is the Malaysian guy you has been talking about all these while," Saniro remarked, after lessons on a Monday.
"Yep, it's him. Didn't know that he will actually move here. Thought he was joking when he told me that he's going to move to Japan," Shun replied. "Well, going to follow him today for a tour of Mahora for him, so, I'll leave everything to you guys."
"Well, Kyo. Let's go then," Saniro says in a slightly angered tone as he walks off with Kyo.
Choo Tin then catches up with Shun, and asked, "Hey Shun-sama, why was that guy with the brown hair seemed to be a bit angry at me? Did I do something wrong?"
"Well, you did…literally. He was the one behind the RX7 you whipped the other day."
"I see...tell him that I'm sorry over that. Should not has done that, was too eager to see how the car performs in the Japanese touge," Choo Tin apologizing profusely to Shun.
"Well, should we move off to chat somewhere else? Since it will be boring to hang out around here…"
"OK, then. I want to go sightseeing in Mahora!"
In the turbocharged Perdana, they both went to places around Mahora, with Shun introducing to his friend each and every important area, the World Tree, the Tatsumiya shrine, and the others.
"What did you do to the car? According to the other guy, it was very fast," Shun, asks, as he looks around the car. There were a few gadgets inside the car, such as the A'PEXi boost meter mounted on the steering column.
"Well, swapped the 6A12 twin turbo for a 4G63 from Evo III weeks before coming in here. Plus, installed the entire 4WD system from the Evo III in place of the one from the Eterna. And fiddled with the Evo III ECU quite a bit, now pushing out 350ps from the standard turbo."
"I see…350ps! That is about near that RX7 you went against!" "That RX7 pushes out 360ps."
"Maybe, but the 4WD definitely helped me out in the rain. But please tell your friend that he should not feel bad losing to a 4WD."
"Yes, no need to repeat yourself. You have been too good to others." "But then his pride of having the most powerful car in school is gone within that."
"Maybe you are right. Ouch, I'm hungry now. Should we eat somewhere?" Choo Tin asked Shun.
"Oh ya, maybe we should hang out at Starbooks for a round of coffee."
"Alright then!" the always-cheerful sounding Choo Tin replied.
It was not long before they arrived there. Choo Tin parked the Perdana at a designated parking lot, and leaves the car after locking the doors, while the A'PEXi turbo timer does it job in shutting the car down. He says that it helps in Malaysia's hot weather.
As they chatted on a few things, mainly about each other's background and such, Choo Tin then asked,
"Hmmm…I wonder where is your JZX100 Chaser?"
"That? Still hasn't done yet. Been testing the car these days, but it will be out soon! I promise!" Shun replies.
"Haha, guess modifications need time." "I wonder how the girls here behaves?"
"Girls? They are either fun, or just trouble. I'll leave that for you to find out."
"OK then. Darn, it's late now. Didn't you say you got work?"
"Oh ya, guess I'll has to leave now. See ya then," Shun says, as he stands up, takes his coat and leaves the table, leaving only Choo Tin alone to enjoy the coffee.
As he finishes the coffee, he proceeds to stand up to leave the open-air café. As he walks back to his Perdana, suddenly a short girl with shoulder length pink-tan hair that is partly tied into 2 small tails, wearing the girls' middle high uniform, runs on his direction, with a girl with short light-blue hair, wearing similar uniform, following behind. The pink-tan haired girl crashes him, causing both of he and the girl to fall. The girl with light-blue hair looked on with a blank expression at that.
"Ouch…that hurts." "Miss, can you at least look at where are you going? Someone could get hurt or something," Choo Tin speaks, while maintaining his composure, as he does want to scold someone else like that. He pulls the girl up from the floor after saying that.
"I'm very sorry about that! I swear I won't do that again next time!" the girl apologizing profusely, as she wipes some dust off her clothing.
"Alright, I'll let you off this time. Be sure to watch where are you going next time," he says with a quite serious tone.
"I'm really sorry…" she repeats again, looking as if she will cry.
"OK, OK, I'll stop. And to you miss, be careful to take care of your friend here. She could hurt herself next time if she's like that again," Choo Tin says to the other girl.
"All right, sir," the other girl answered quietly.
"What did you say? Sir? I'm only 17 you know?" Choo Tin flustered as the girls were thinking him of being older.
"Sorry, senpai, then," the 2 girls say, as they walk off.
As the 2 girls walks off, he then look at them, and says to himself, "Hmmm, Shun was right. It's either they're fun or trouble." "But then that shorter girl just now was quite cute…hmmm."
He spots something on the floor, looking like a stick with a long ribbon. "Hmmm, what we do has here," Choo Tin says, taking the ribbon up. "The girl just now must have left this when she fell just now." "Miss…" he tries to call the girl, but they have already disappeared.
"Sure they went off quick." "Looks like I has to find them myself…let's see if Shun or the guys know any of them," he says to himself, as he walks back to his Perdana.
The engine of the Perdana is ignited. The 4G63T Evo III engine is roared alive, and Choo Tin puts an audio CD into the Kenwood head unit.
-BGM: Mickey B – Take Me Baby-
Choo Tin opens the glove box on the dashboard, and puts the ribbon inside. He puts the car on gear and drives the car off.
-BGM fades-
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Our favourite (well, for most of us) Makie-chan appeared in this chapter, and we won't know how she will take the loss of her ribbon!
