May 4th.
"Hey Akeno, working extra shifts too?" Shun asks a man, supposedly in his early 20's.
"Yeah, since I'm free from university stuff for today," said the man called Akeno. "Hey, you drove? Can hear it coming, no thanks for it being quite loud."
"Oh, parked it on the near the restaurant," Shun says as he points through the glass to the Chaser, parked on the roadside. "And thanks for the 'compliment'," he adds, although it was a little sarcastic. He was known to be quite a sarcastic person more than anyone else.
The both of them worked at a restaurant named 'Café le Yggdrasill', a restaurant serving mainly European cuisines. It was a restaurant with French flavour.
"Oh, got to be working hard to get as many customers as possible today," Shun says as he scribbles a blackboard outside the café with chalks, with the dark blue Toyota Chaser in sight, from a distance.
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As Saniro wanders on outside of the stadium alone, he sees a girl with a group of young boys. It was Ako. From afar, he sees that she brings the boys for a jog in a park near the stadium. He looks with a calm expression.
You will certainly get over it, Ako-san…
As the group disappears, he walks away to his hidden RX7, as the GReddy exhaust spews some smoke when the rotary rocket moves off the grounds in a sounds that resembles that of a vacuum cleaner, but more 'musical'.
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Shun was wiping one of the tables of the café, when 2 girls wearing casuals appeared. It was a girl with long purple hair, and one with short black hair. They sit next to a table located on the outdoor section of the café. Shun proceeds to take the menu and takes them to the 2 girls and asks, "Miss, can I take your orders, please?" he says holding a board.
"OK, I would love to have a cup of coffee please. Madoka?" Misa tells Shun, and asks Madoka.
"And give me a cup of lemon juice," Madoka replied in her slightly husky voice.
As he walks off the table, the purple-haired girl begins to get excited, "Hey, isn't that…'him'?"
"Yeah, I do notice that! His ID tag says so!" Madoka exclaims. "It's really him!"
"Owww…he's so cute!" the other girl says in excitement. "Plus he seems to be a nice guy! Whoa!"
"Hey Misa, isn't your boyfriend good enough?" Madoka retorts at that, since Misa is the only girl in 3-A that has a steady boyfriend.
"Oh, ya…forgot…got carried away. Never figured out that he is actually THAT handsome," Misa innocently apologises to Madoka for being ever excited. "Sakurako should have come with us…too bad she's sick…"
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-BGM: Mitsumune Nobuyoshi – Sunny Dance-
Elsewhere, Choo Tin was driving in the Perdana, which has just been installed with a small boot spoiler from a Mitsubishi Eterna, which is a straight fit, since they're the same car! As he drives by, having fun with the new gearshift knob from RalliArt, he sees a banner on a shopping centre written 'BIG LUCKY DRAW! HOST OF PRIZES WORTH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF YENS TO BE WON!'
"Hmmm, looks interesting," he says to himself, as he parks the car at the car park outside the shopping centre, and goes into the building.
"RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON NEWSPAPERS NEXT WEEK," a banner reads as Choo Tin looks at some of the prizes on display.
"Hooo…a Lancer Evo VIII just for the lucky draw? The company must be mad to have that as a prize," he says to himself, as he looks on to a white Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII GSR (CT9A), along with a silver Mercedes Benz S500 (W220) and a black Nissan 350Z (Z33) lined up side-by-side. He walks off the place as the crowd grows, each of them trying to have a shot at winning the prizes.
-BGM fades-
As he walks to the car at the car park, the phone rings.
"Hello?" he says on the receiver. "Oh, it's you Yuuna-san." "What? She hurt herself?" "Alright, thanks for notifying me, Yuuna-san. You have been a great help. I'm coming over now," he says as he keeps the ticket in the wallet and walks to the parked Perdana.
Ouch. That must hurt, but thank God it's nothing much.
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"How the heck in the world you get so much money to do all this!" Yuuna remarks as she sees the black Perdana. She and Akira have just brought Makie, who hurt her ankle in training, into the rear seats of the black 'luxury-sports' sedan."Oh, I struck lottery back home, so I did all this," Choo Tin says as the 2 girls have big sweat drops on their heads.
"And you climb all the way up to the World Tree with this too that day! I heard someone did a 'jump' there," Yuuna grumbles on, while the taller Akira just remain quiet and looks on. "You must be seriously crazy."
"Call me that, but I will be always proud of this car," he flashes a thumbs up as he says that.
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"Hey Shun, how was everything?" Akeno asks Shun, as he takes off his ID tag from the shirt.
"OK, except that 2 girls keep on looking at me for no apparent reason."
"Never mind them, they think you look cute," Akeno says as he laughs.
"Funny. Very funny indeed," Shun replies sarcastically, as he walks off to the Chaser. "See you then."
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Hmmm…who could be those 2 girls…it seems like I have seen them somewhere before…A series of thoughts go down Shun's mind, as he could not forget the 2 particular customers from afternoon, as the loud SSQV whistles again into thin air as he up shifts. The SSQV, one of the blow-off-valves (BOV) produced by HKS for turbocharged cars, was the 'son' of the SQV. It was a BOV known to be very 'musical', through the distinct trademark 'whistle' it makes. Inside, it was a proof of HKS' reputation as one of the market leaders for aftermarket parts for Japanese cars, given their experience of more than 20 years in the business. Their quality is as well known as their taste for creating cars having more than 1000ps. As it whistles again…something struck Shun's mind.
I know! They're from that class! No wonder…but how they know I worked there? Must be a coincidence then…
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Short chapter, just a day at work for Shun.
