It was another late afternoon practice again, after the CX practice had already easily subsided. This time it was the usual Sanaka and Sayaki still there. Hayate and Sunia had already left. Which left Sayaki to battle each other unchecked, this was occasionally done by hands, but most of the time by harder regimes.
Sayaki's fitness had improved a lot, while Sanaka's skills had drastically improved. But it was still the same. Sayaki would dominate for the first half while Sanaka would come out on top for the last bit. The 2 and a half hours in Sayaki had now dropped off while Sanaka had continued to improve, to the point that they were almost equal.
"You guys are still here" calls a woman from behind them. Normally they would've kept going but this time they stopped. This didn't know why but for some reason it seemed like a survival instinct that they had to see what was behind them. They looked around to see an above average height woman with a bob haircut just above shoulder length. She looked as if she was younger than them, but she held a maturity that told you that she was older.
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I was annoyed even though I practiced hard, the gap in our ability seemed endless. Over this week this girl had made me look bad on every occasion, without even trying. Everyone must be thinking that our centers have completely different levels of abilities, so we should just kick me to the back.
And now this random person has just walked in. It was odd. It was somewhat like when I met with Hataya, I felt cold, had goosebumps.
"Osiki" Sayaki mumbled under her breath. I've definitely heard that name before, so I know it must be a pretty renowned name. I could ask who she is or not. I expect that she would be someone from the main group.
"You guys want some bubble tea. I expected you guys would be down here" she says laughing.
"Thankyou" we both say while taking the drink, a bit awkwardly.
"So you guys are the two centers?"
"Yeh" we reply in unison
"That is interesting, But you guys are the same I guess." she says smiling.
"The Same?"
"Well you have the same personality." what drug is this woman smoking, is one of my main thoughts, I guess she's rich enough to buy the real strong stuff.
"So how is co-center going"
"Fine" we say looking at each other.
"I had to co-center with someone once, we weren't compatible at all. All I wanted was for the position for myself, and that is what I thought she wanted. But It turned out she just wanted the person below to take both of our positions." she sits down reminiscing about her past
Well maybe if I can learn from this person I can take down stupid Sayaki
"So, what happened?" Sayaki says, before me.
"Well funnily enough, it was just like she wanted neither of us ended up being the solo center. It had seemed there had been a storm raging on behind us, and I was too caught up in our little house fight to notice it coming. "
This time me and Sayaki looked at each other both contemplating.
"Nah, we're not like that." we say in unison.
She starts giggling to herself.
"Well I need to leave, but thanks for the chat" she says getting up and leaving. We say our thanks for the bubble tea and then we kind of mutually decide not to practice anymore. Even though we don't say in case we get seen as the weakling.
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"Well they truly are just like those two." Osiki says, smiling.
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"You guys picked up this small dog, and it turns out your mum wouldn't even allow you to keep the dog so you're giving it to us?" my brother says in half anger, and the other half of his brain is malfunctioning at their actions.
Sid and Samarchi are currently standing at the front door holding a small fluffy white dog. It was one of the cutest dogs I had seen.
"No,no. Since this is our second home, we decided to leave the dog at your house. "
They both say in unison.
"I hate you guys" my brother says, slamming the door in their faces. He puts up a strong face now, but I'm aware that he will crumble and we will get to keep the small cute white fluffy dog.
"So your co-center?"
"Yes, but it's with Sayaki, and it seems she doesn't want to cooperate, well neither do I" I say crossing my arms.
"Does the book have anything on this?"
My brother thinks to himself, grabbing the book. He quickly flips through the pages.
"Here it is, it says both should match each other, type crap.", he says contemplating. That is not very useful as my partner is a piece of crap.
"Here it is, if your partner is a complete piece of crap, the two solutions are to destroy them. This can be done by becoming way better than them. I guess by completing more lessons. Or somehow bringing them down to your level. By emotional blackmail, blackmail, give them an injury." my brother says contemplatively.
"The book isn't wrong but it's not going to be easy"
"To do what"
"To break her leg"
My brother stares at me with one eyebrow raised.
"Best you can do is just improve for the time being, until you are at her level." my brother says walking to the door. Because Sid and Samarchi shadows can still be seen through the front door window.
At least I can say I was right, my brother cracked pretty quickly, honestly quicker than expected. Well the dog was cute.
"Why did you guys pick up the dog, again?"
Suddenly out of nowhere a large whiteboard appeared. The white board seemed to have heaps of random formulas in there. I don't know how imaginary numbers or logarithms got into their formula but apparently it did.
"Well we have used advanced calculation, cutting edge, I don't know if anyone has ever done it in this depth as us. To determine that 50% of a guy's attractiveness is the dog they have." Sid and Samarchi say beaming with pride. My brother's face is 'why am I their friend'.
"And we have the cutest dog there is," Sid says, pulling the dog to his face. The dog is really cute, and I, Sanaka, am happy to have that dog.
"How much did you pay"
"13 grand"
Thump,
No that was not them getting punched, that was my brother fainting.
Well my brother did end up walking the dogs. Like a pushover, and he even said that Sayaki was out walking a dog that looked exactly the same as His.
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"It's so odd, their improvements seem to be skyrocketing." Yahiga says looking down at two different profiles. The other person in the room just grunts.
"What does 'hmm' mean"
"hmhm"
"Oh you expected this all along, sorry that I did not see this." she says, throwing down the papers on the desk with a bit of force.
"Ever since you were a junior you were like this," the old man finally says as he looks at her.
"What do you mean by that?" Yahiga asks, crossing her arms.
Amano however knows that responding is not the right answer.
"However, back to your original statement. Would you choose a horse with the bad jockey or the horse with the good jockey, when the one with the good jockey os only barely better results."
"Obviously I would choose the bad jockey horse then because we could always just find a good jockey." Yahiga says in a exaggeratingly slow tone, because she is completely over this man's bad comparisons.