At marathons, the girls are supposed to start running first and then the boys a little later.
Why this is done in this order, no one knows…
Perhaps it’s to avoid crowding.
In general, if you compare boys and girls, you can assume that the boys are faster.
And although there is a difference in distance, 10km for boys and 7km for girls… Within this distance, the lead group of boys will soon catch up with the back group of girls.
This is why they delay the start of the boy’s race.
As a result of this, it was time for Yuzuru and the company to run after seeing off Arisa and others.
At the signal, all the boys started running at once.
Yuzuru also started to run alongside Soichiro and the others.
(… At first, there is no difference, or rather, everyone goes along with the others.)
Was this because of the unique Japanese tendency to adjust to the group, to look around, and then decide what to do?
Or do boys and girls all over the world adjust to their surroundings?
Or was it because they simply run slowly in the beginning, so they don’t make a significant gap?
No idea why, but it’s customary for everyone to start out in a dumpling-like formation and keep in step.
Then, a few people would start to break away from the group…
The first thing that happened was that the lead group and the back group began to diverge.
The next thing you know, there’s a big gap between the lead group and the back group.
“……” (Now what to do?)
The one running in front of Yuzuru was Soichiro.
The one running behind him was Hijiri.
Soichiro doesn’t intend to let Yuzuru and Hijiri get ahead of him, and Hijiri was probably planning to overtake Yuzuru and Soichiro at the end of the race.
And of course, Yuzuru doesn’t intend to be overtaken by Hijiri, but rather he intends to overtake Soichiro.
It’s the beginning of the race, so they are keeping a certain distance to see how each other is doing, but from the middle of the race, it will become a psychological battle.
(Well, maybe we should keep this distance for now.)
Yuzuru’s first priority was to preserve his physical strength.
Yuzuru and the others are relatively in the lead group, which means, they soon began to catch up with the back group of women.
And in the back group,… Tenka was there.
Even though it was still early in the race, she was already looking distressed.
“Are you okay?”
“…z~ee~, don’t, z~ee~, speak to me….”
Such a conversation could be heard from behind.
It seemed that Hijiri had called out to Tenka.
But Tenka didn’t seem to have much room to answer.
Now, as they passed Tenka and approached the middle section…
Just on the other side of the lane was the lead group of girls running past the turnaround point.
And among them were… Ayaka and Chiharu.
The two of them are not the type to hold back or take a wait-and-see attitude in their personalities, so they must have been in the lead from the beginning.
But it seemed that they were having a hard time.
They only made light eye contact with each other and passed on.
And a short time after that…
He spotted a group of girls among the middle group ahead of him, about to turn the “girls” turning point.
(Ah…)
And in it was a uniform number with the surname ‘Yukishiro’ written on it.
Her beautiful flaxen hair, tucked into a bun at the back, swayed.
Circling the triangular cone placed as a landmark, … Arisa turned in the direction of Yuzuru and the others.
Her white skin was flushed and there was sweat on her skin.
She looked a little harried.
…. And slightly, her large breasts were swaying.
A pair of healthy white legs are peeking out from the short pants.
The gym uniform was a little sweaty, and the camisole was slightly transparent.
As Yuzuru was giving a hot stare to the slightly sexy Arisa…
As expected, Arisa also noticed Yuzuru.
And then, as if she misunderstood something, she gave a smile towards Yuzuru.
(Cute… )
His body suddenly felt full of strength.
But at the same time, he felt a bit bewildered.
(I don’t want any other man to see this…)
This fairy-like, pretty, and glamorous “fiancée” is only for me, and I don’t want any other man to see her.
Such a desire for exclusivity arose in him.
(No, but… I also want to show off…)
At the same time, he wanted to show off his fiancée.
Like, ‘My “fiancée” is cute, isn’t she? Don’t you envy me?’