Chapter 239: Before the Sports Festival (1)
After that, both preparation and practice for the sports festival proceeded smoothly.
Or at least, that was according to the student council. With the vice-president returning to duty after recovering, they managed to do their work without issue. Nakamura-san was also regaining her usual cheerfulness. These days, I could see her practicing for the group events.
As for me, things went surprisingly well too.
“Alright, that seems good enough. How’s the time, Nina?”
“Hm… One second off from your personal best. You two are good enough to compete with the other pairs now. I expected that you two would improve, but this is a surprise.”
“See, Maki? Hard work pays off.”
“I-I guess yeah. Well, this was only possible because of your coaching, Umi.”
When we first started practicing, our pairing almost always finished last in the mock races because of my slow legs. Umi had to hold back a lot to match my pace. After a lot of practice though, I managed to get a sense of it and was able to keep up with Umi at full speed.
Other pairings of the three-legged races were made of people who belonged in the sports clubs, so they were way superior to us in regards to their physical capabilities. But, we could beat them in terms of cooperation because we were the so-called idiotic couple pairing.