May 2nd.
"There, it's done now. It should be pushing about 400ps now," Choo Tin, who was looking at a table displayed on the screen of his laptop, which is connected to something underneath the dashboard of Saniro's Mazda RX7, as he was sitting on the passenger seat of the low coupe with the door open, as the lessons in class have ended an hour ago. The engine hood of the RX7 is opened with the rotary engine running for tuning, after Saniro brought Choo Tin for a round around the Academy District in his rotary rocket.
"Wow, never believe you can really programme e-Manages!" Saniro exclaimed at the result, as his car now have additional 40ps from the fine-tuning. "Thought you are only joking yesterday!"
"Sure it's now 400ps, but are you sure that the fuel system can support it? 7's 13B have a reputation for trouble in that if it goes beyond that," the always mild-mannered Choo Tin says, as he pushes a bit of his hair in front up. "And I mess around with computers, that's why."
"What can you say about a 13B-REW that has been added with 2 extra injectors and upgraded with an imported Walbro fuel pump?"
"Then it should be OK for now," Choo Tin says, as he disconnects the laptop and closes it, and steps out of the RX7, closing the door, and the engine hood of the RX7.
"Hooo…now time to hit the roads with the extra power!" Saniro exclaims with excitement as he runs and enters the RX7.
The RX7's engine is revved a few times, and the blue RX7 drives off quickly with the newfound power. Choo Tin looks on as he sighs. "Well, time to go back to lowering the Perdana's power…the TD05 won't stand a chance of making it in these months. I so want a GReddy TD05 turbine," he ponders himself. "Or perhaps an ER34 sedan like Kyo's…guess I'll be alone for today. Kyo got his Manga Club stuff, Saniro got his training, Shun got the Engineering Department thingy. Guess I'll hang around the Academy District after I'm done."
He walks back to the black Perdana, parked on the roadside outside the car park. He takes off his tie, and opens the engine hood, to reveal the turbocharged 4-cylinder 4G63 engine with a red engine cover from the Lancer Evolution III. Other than that, a tower bar from Cusco is seen, along with the heat shield-protected Blitz SUS Power air filter, same as the one Saniro uses. A ground wire system was in place, but the battery seems to be missing. The engine looks to be well maintained. A GReddy blow-off-valve is seen being part of the aluminium turbo piping, and the blue hoses uses ones from Samco. He looks on the engine bay with a smile, and opens the door of the Perdana and sits on the driver's seat. He starts the engine of the Perdana and plugs the laptop to a wire hidden in the glove box. He then presses the buttons of a controller on the centre console and types several things on the laptop. He sees that the horsepower is lowered back to the previous 350ps, and is satisfied with it. He disconnects the laptop, and places it on the passenger seat. He went out to close the engine hood, but as he was about to do that, suddenly someone hit him on the back, causing him to knock his head on the engine hood. Luckily it was only a bruise, and looks back to see what hit him. To his surprise, it was 2 girls, Makie, with Ako behind.
"Senpai…thank you very much for returning the ribbon that day…" the short Makie says bowing to Choo Tin, who was far taller than her.
"You're welcome. It's my pleasure to help anyway, Sasaki Makie-san," he replies to her with a grin and one of his hands behind his head.
"Senpai, why don't you introduce yourself? Since you already know my name," Makie says.
"Oh, forgot. I'm Ko Choo Tin, from Malaysia. Nice to meet you, Makie-san," he says as he bows to her, knowing it was a Japanese custom to do so.
"Nice to meet you too senpai. And this is my friend, Izumi Ako," she says as she points to Ako. "You come from another country? Cool!"
"Nice to meet you too, Ako-san," he says as he bows again to her, as Ako bows to him. "And yes, I did."
"Hmmm, senpai, is that yours? It looks so cool…" Makie says in excitement as she sees the sedan with the opened engine hood, exposing the complex engine bay.
"It does? Thanks for the compliment!" Choo Tin says in an embarrassed tone. He have always thought cars like Saniro's RX7 are cooler than his rather normal-looking Perdana.
"But it looks a bit weird."
He falls to the floor hearing that, as sweat drops appear on the heads of the girls.
"Hmmm, can you do us a favour?" Makie asks.
"Well, what is it?" he says as he puts his hand on his chin, after standing up from the fall.
"We want to meet up with someone at the World Tree there. Can you get us nearby there?"
"Well…like that…hop in the rear seats then," he says, as he closes the engine bonnet, and opens the rear door to let the 2 excited middle high girls enter the car. He goes in, and the angled HKS exhaust rumbles as he drives off.
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"Hiyaa!" Ku Fei says as she delivers a blow to Negi. Asuna and Setsuna was looking on, taking a break from Asuna's kendo training, with Konoka looking on from a mattress put on the grass.
"Negi-sensei, you still needed a bit more focus-aru," Ku Fei says. "I know you defeated Chachamaru-san, but you still need training-aru."
As they look on, a loud sound is heard coming towards them.
"Who is it?" Setsuna says, as she readies her sword, along with Asuna holding tight to her harisen, as the others paused.
The sound becomes louder, a car hops into the air and it lands on the grassy land. The black car screeches to a halt at an instant, stopping near them, as the others looked on open mouthed with their eyes turned into large black dots.
"What in the world just happened…' Negi looks on blankly at the black car. "Is that even possible…"
"Hey, isn't that car…the one that belonged to the foreigner from yesterday?" Asuna looks on, recognizing the car to be belonging to one of the senior high boys that talked to them yesterday.
As they look at the black car, Choo Tin stepped out of the black Perdana as it shuts down, take up his right hand and says with a calm expression, "Hi everyone, wasn't expecting to meet you guys up here." "I would have been gone if not for the GTO brakes. Like this car the way it is."
"You can't be serious…to be driving ALL THE WAY up here for FUN!" Asuna screams at the teenager wearing a calm expression. "In my entire life here, I have never seen someone to be that crazy! You must be put into the history of Mahora as the first guy pull that stunt off!"
"No, someone asked me to get them here," he says, as Makie and Ako alight from the Perdana, with a tired but excited look on their faces.
"It was dangerous, but it was fun! I've never been in a car that actually travels up here!" Makie says, and seeing her teacher, says "Hi Negi-kun!"
Negi, seeing his two students, says, "Oh, hi Makie-san, and Ako-san too."
"Hi Negi-sensei," Ako says with a shy tone.
"He's your sensei too?" Choo Tin looks at the 2 girls with a surprised look. "Oh, forgot that all of you are from the same class."
"You know them?" it was Makie and Ako's turn to be surprised. They never expect a senior, especially a male one, to know their teacher in the first place.
"Oh, just got to know them yesterday," he tells the 2 girls. "So, this is the World Tree everyone has been talking about? Never knew that the tree was actually that big."
"Now you know," Asuna says.
"Hey, Negi-sensei, what are you doing? Seems exciting," Choo Tin says, seeing Negi was doing something else before he came.
"Oh me? Kenpo training," the child teacher replied back at the student that is older than everyone else here.
"Negi-kun! Look what I've brought!" Makie says excitedly to Negi, taking a box out.
"Oh my God, not that 'osechiryouri' again?" Asuna says seeing the box Makie is holding.
"Osechi-what?" Choo Tin surprised hearing that.
"It's food that is usually prepared during the New Year, and served in boxes, senpai," Ako whispers to the older foreign boy, as she is carrying a few boxes similar to the one Makie was holding. "Well, Makie-chan can cook well, so…" "And sensei had apparently too much of them the last time around, and…"
"Oh I see…" "Well, I think that I should be off now…seeing that I should not be here…" Choo Tin says sheepishly, as he sees Makie distributing the boxes to everyone. He turns around to walk off but…
"Hey senpai, wait!" Makie shouts to him, and runs up to him. "There's another box here!" "Since Yuuna-chan and Akira-chan could not make it…here, take this! I think this is the first time you have this, isn't it?" she says as she held the box up to him.
Choo Tin takes the box with an embarrassed look on his face. "Well, if it's like this, thank you then. Guess I'll just take it home then and enjoy it..."
"Hey Choo Tin-san, join us here!" "We love to hear more about you!" the Welshman Negi says in excitement to the other foreigner there.
"Well then, guess I'll join you guys. Just wait for a while," Choo Tin says as he goes to take his laptop from his car, so he would not be that bored listening to a group of girls chatting.
He goes back to the picnic mat, and sits on an empty space next to Makie. He feels very embarrassed, as this is the first time he was eating with a group of mostly girls, plus that this is the first time that a girl have treat him for a lunch. As they eat, they talk about all sorts of stories, from Haruna's latest gossip to Choo Tin talking about his background and showing pictures he have in the laptop. Initially he was a bit uncomfortable, but then was able to join along, and talked in a little detail about his made-in-Malaysia car, and the feats by Malaysia, and of course, the food. The talking goes on until…
"Hey Maki-chan, how about you show us some of your gymnastics again?" Asuna suggests to Makie.
"What? Again?" Makie becomes surprised at Asuna's request.
"Yeah, Makie-san. Show it to us again!" Negi says. "I want to see it again!"
"We want to see how much your gymnastics have improved since that day, Maki-chan!" "Plus, this time to our senpai here too!" referring to Choo Tin. "You don't mind right, senpai?"
"Erm…ummm…whatever…" a surprised Choo Tin says, not knowing what will happen next.
"Hey, your car should have a sound system, right?" Asuna asks.
"Erm…yes. It's an expensive Kenwood system. Cost me thousands of ringgit back in Malaysia."
"Whatever, this time Maki-chan will perform with music!" "Are you OK with it, Maki-chan?"
"Well, if it's alright with you guys around…" Makie speaks in an embarrassed tone.
Makie takes off her shoes, and walks to the grass. Choo Tin parks the big Perdana next to the mat, and opens the doors of the Perdana, and switches on the Kenwood head unit. He opens up the boot, to reveal a subwoofer hidden inside the boot, with the 'missing' car's battery next to it. He then randomly picks a CD that he keeps in the glove box, and slots it into the 6-CD changer hidden in the boot, and selects a song on the head unit. Makie stands on the empty part of the grassy ground, with the big World Tree in the background. She is holding her favourite ribbon on one hand. Asuna stands on one side with Ku Fei, as Konoka sits on the mat with Setsuna. Choo Tin presses the 'Play' button on the Kenwood head unit and heads outside the car, and leans on the front fender of the car and crosses his arms with Negi standing next to him.
-BGM: N Sync – I'll Never Stop-
She coughs once as the song starts, and then jumps to the front to start her gymnastics routine (note: she is still wearing her school uniform). She performs the gymnastics routine with the ribbon that Choo Tin returned to her the other day, and she executed her moves with the ribbon in perfect timing, as graceful as a swan. She performed with perfect synchronization with the pop song playing from Choo Tin's car. The rest are mesmerized by her performance. She completed her performance as soon as the song is finished, with a pose that looks professional.
-BGM ends-
Everyone claps, and gives positive comments about the performance.
"Wow, Madoka would love to hear this song, since she likes Western music so much," Asuna tells herself. "Hey Maki-chan, it was great!"
"Whoa, as expected, Makie-san!" Negi says as he claps his hand, along with the others. "What do you think, Choo Tin-san?"
"Hmmm, that is great. First time watching gymnastics first-hand," says a partly embarrassed Choo Tin. "But I do agree with sensei, it was really great."
"Hmmm, you do seem to look analytical when Makie-san was performing," Negi tells Choo Tin.
"Oh, me? Maybe because I got used to doing that to every modified car that I see on the road," he says with a grin.
"It looks different, it seems that you got a bit embarrassed," Negi says as he smiles at the only other foreigner around other than himself.
"Me? You got to be joking sensei…" he laughs at that, as he tries to hide his blushes.
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"Thanks for getting us back here, Choo Tin-san!" Negi says to Choo Tin who was inside the Perdana, outside the girls' dormitory. "Sure it was hard to get 7 other people into your car, but thankfully it was big."
"You're welcome, sensei," Choo Tin says, smiling. "It's my pleasure to help."
"Well, got to go now. It's late now," Negi says, as he looks on to his watch. "See you next time, Choo Tin-san!"
"Oh ya, ask Makie-san to come here, got something to discuss with her."
"A date with Makie-san, huh?" Negi grins as he hears that.
"No, no, Negi-sensei, something else."
"I'm just joking. No need to get serious about it. All right then," Negi says as he goes off to catch up with his other students.
In a while, Makie came next to the black Perdana.
"Hey Makie-san, can I ask you something?"
"Erm…yes senpai?"
"You seem to be very embarrassed in front of your sensei. You like him, right?"
"Wha-wha-what, senpai? Since when did you know?" she stammers as she becomes red-faced.
"Hehe, I can already see that," he grins. "Don't worry, Makie-san. In my opinion, your sensei is really a nice guy, believe me," he adds with a thumbs up. "I support you, Makie-san!"
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A Makie-filled episode, it's obvious now that only one person knows and actually supports everyone's favourite gymnast in Negima. And a bit of light has been shed on the specs of the Malaysian-made car, since now it was powered by the reputable 4G63 from the Lancer Evo III, for those keeping the score. Yes, it was possible to do in real life, since the engine bay have the room for it.
We know for definite that Choo Tin was the whiz kid in the group, since he carries a laptop around and does some tuning for his friends, like the RX7.
