Okay. So where we left off, Taro agreed to let Asami tinker with his car..
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I've been killing time around here for an hour, so here are my car keys…
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See you in an hour.
Wait. You've just given her the car?
You’re not going to even be present when she's working on it?
Oh lordy Taro…
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It's almost been an hour….
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…………………..
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Maybe she won't come back…
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That can't be true. Such a cute girl…
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But they say you can't judge a book by its cover…..
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That's not good.
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I seem to have lost faith in people.
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This is why I'm not popular with girls.
…. Yeah…. Uh, sure... This is why they don’t like you. Not your attitudes and behaviour towards them...
She’s back!
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
: Mayumi-chan!
You came back! I believed in you!
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What are you talking about? Just take a look.
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Your car tuned by me:
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The green graph is the power before I tuned it. The red graph is after I tuned it. Compare them
So here’s the before image. We’ve got our Red Twin Turbo Supra RZ, fully modified, that is putting out an impressive 711 horsepower and 69 kg/m of torque.
It’s going to be hard to beat that....
...Holy mother of god.
925 horsepower and 89.5 kg/m of torque??!?!
The Leperflesh curve doesn’t even fit on the page!
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Wow, it's so much more powerful.
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How's my tune?
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This is amazing! I might be able to beat the champ!
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Hehe, you're finally starting to look like a zero-yon driver.
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Please, be my tuner.
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Sure.That was my intention from the beginning.
What is she getting out of all this?
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But my tunes don't last long
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Huh? What do you mean?
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My tuning is to maximize the performance of the car. I'll push it to the limit.
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So after three runs, the engine will need to be overhauled.
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That means you can't normally drive it with that tune.
Wait, three runs? So we can only drive it three times before it explodes?
Good thing we’ve got… like seventeen other cars to get around in…
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So what do we do?
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I'll come along to any race you enter. Then we tune it up in the circuit pit.
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If that's the case, there's no problem.
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Hmm, well, yeah.
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That settles it. I'll give you my phone number. Contact us before the race.
Woah, for once a girl actually gave Taro her phone number, not the other way around!
Lady, you don't know what you're getting into...
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Yeah, I get it.
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Oh, and I'll give you this too. Treatment
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Does treatment nourish hair?
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Stop with the silly jokes.
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Well, it's not really a joke....
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Huh?
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Don't you know about treatments?
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Well...
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Amazing. Treatments are meant to increase the tire's grip.
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So it's like VHT?
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The effect is the same, but the durability is much better.
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In America, we can't do without this. It's said that I can't do zero-four.
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Of course Champ uses it too, so I got one when I went to America.
This must be the extra special sticky stuff from the muscle men of Denver
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I see.
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A treatment?
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Well then, I'm going home.
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good bye
Oohoo. A treatment. This might just be the secret weapon we're going to need against Hiro.
Not long now…