High Speed! by Volume 01

Author:Volume 01 [Unknown][Unknown]
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

When spring comes, Kotsuzumiyama grows a little taller. Since it’s only a head smaller than Myoujinyama, from ancient times, they compared the two mountains to brothers. At the time that leaf buds start blowing on Kotsuzumiyama, just like a little brother standing on his tiptoes to catch up with his big brother, it grows only a little bit taller.

It doesn’t mean that the mountain’s height actually changes. It seems that the plants’ distribution and the trees’ increase, by the color of the sky and such, make it look like that.

While wiping away the sweat trickling down his cheek and falling, Haruka was approaching Mutsukibashi. Although his pace is faster than usual, the temperature is considerably higher, too. Makoto and Rin probably aren’t coming today. Nagisa had left long ago. It’s been a while since he crossed the bridge alone. The wind blew again today on the bridge. He got the impression that it’s been a while since he felt the wind while running, too. Originally, he intended to run alone like this. It wasn’t part of Haruka’s plans at all to run with Nagisa and Rin. The same is true for swimming in a team.

He thought that swimming was fundamentally an individual sport, with relay being an extension of it. Therefore, carrying out practice individually being the rational approach, there was supposed to be no need whatsoever to fuss over being in a team.

Supposing that if this was baseball or soccer, things such as formation and coordinated play, and certainly team play as well, would become necessary. Understanding each other’s abilities, covering for each of them, power and balance as a whole has to be prepared. There are also things like breathing and eye contact for example, unless you practice, you can’t possibly do them.

But eye contact and formation isn’t necessary in swimming. Once you dive in, you’re alone. Displaying the strength each of them possesses, it doesn’t matter just as long as they swim fast. There isn’t supposed to be anything else to think about.

Rin talking heatedly, Makoto shouting that it’s no good without Haruka, Nagisa wanting to be a member, being told by Aki that he should swim.

Could it be that there’s something more in the contest called relay? He thought that if there’s something to it that he doesn’t know about, even if he pays the price, perhaps there’s a value in giving it a try. Even if the price he has to pay is other people interfering, cooperating against his will, being coerced to do things that go against his own intentions.

It’s something that he had decided on once he was prepared. He didn’t intend to simply go back on it. That’s why, if it’s necessary for the relay, he didn’t have a reason to refuse, nor did he intend to refuse to swim and run, the four of them together. It’s just that Haruka hasn’t detected a special significance of any sort in the contest called relay. It’s only that he continues to swim in the water, with ties clinging to him.

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