It's November the 25th!





: There’s a race today. I have to go to the circuit.



Circuit? I thought this was drag racing?





Interesting, this is a legit racing circuit. I had assumed we were always going to do this stuff on the streets. Hiro's going legit!

We probably should have actually tried doing this at one point over the last 1 and a half years... Oh well!





: We will now issue a notice…



Wait, hold the phone. We're being talked to be a sentient loudspeaker. They even animated it to flex and pulse a bit like a talking cartoon.





: Today’s event will have five races, and those who complete three races will be awarded a prize for participating in the main race.



I think this is trying to say we need to win 3 out of 4 races to race in the fifth?


: The combination of opponents is…



Combination of opponents? Just what sort of challenge will we face here?


: It will be a middle school



Sorry, a what? Are we racing 12 year olds?


: Don’t be nervous…



Perhaps you should be, Hiro. I’m not sure you should be hanging around middle schoolers, given we know all about all your perverted magazine purchases.





Oh hey look! A girl appeared! She must have been attracted to us by Sarah.

...

... I'm going to assume she's not one of these middle schoolers, and of a similar age to Hiro.


: Starting Line. Follow Me.



Ooh she's a direct one. I like it. We'll follow you anywhere...





Oh, she's taken us to a race!

It's a legit race too, open in the day, not under the cover of darkness.

You know it's legit too - because that's a sign with a Marlboro logo, and it wouldn't be 1990's motorsport without copious cigarette advertisements. Even when they banned Marlboro form advertising in motorsports they were still doing it subliminally.

And look - our opponent is a Nissan March. Hah! what kind of idiot would show up to Zero4 in a Nissan March of all things? We'll smoke this fool.





And smoke him we did. What a mucker. Buy a more expensive car.





: How is your heart?



Nerve racking, huh Hiro? 1 of 3 down, to advance to the final.


: I’ll do my best!






Doppleganger!


Our next opponent is another Toyota Sera. Let's hope our modifications give us the edge.





Ooh, that was pretty close! 17.74 to 18.02.

That's 2 of 3 needed wins down. This is looking pretty good.





: Shohaika! Let’s do our best!



I'm noticing the top right corner stat's translation has changed from 18 years old to 18 inches. This must be an indicator of how good Hiro's feeling right now.





Looks like we're up against our old four wheel steering, pop up headlight-ing friend, the Honda Prelude. We've beat him once before, we can do it again.





Damn, damn, damn! We lost by a tenth of a second!


: Let’s do our best!



You got it Hiro. We just need one more win to advance to the final. There's two more chances...





Oh, phew, it's a Familia GTX. We're basically veterans in kicking these guys asses now. C'mon Sarah, don't let us down...





Sarah let us down...

... We've got one more race to go. This is it guys... last chance to get into the finals.


: Don't do it! I'll do our best!






It's a Trueno... Let's use biosterous advice above - we're going to get it.



We didn't get it :(.

: Well, I lost.


: Damn it again Challenge!


: I’m definitely going to do it next time!