A difference of 100km/h was already a pain in the ass, but now there was also Haruka going around slashing up speeding trucks, while talking about animals that were extinct in Japan?

Well, Rui-Ling did like a challenge. As long as the crazy lesbian and her slightly less crazy girlfriend didn’t damage his borrowed motorcycle, he wasn’t going to think too hard about whatever collateral damage they cause on their joyride. After all, this wasn’t about them.

This was about Suzumebachi, whose Suzuki Hayabusa was, despite his horrendously inefficient turns, still generating a hell of a lead. Narrowing his eyes, Rui-Ling leaned forwards, keeping his body profiled as he zipped on by. Unlike Haruka’s truck-hopping shenanigans, the immortal kept to the basics, making only slight adjustments as he grazed past slow trucks. While the Seaside Freeway did have a guardrail at the very edge to prevent sleepy drivers from toppling off into the sea, it didn’t have concrete dividers to prevent head-on collisions, which had been the cause of many accidents in the past.

Here, though, it simply meant that Rui-Ling could optimize his straight-forward racing style. The more times Haruka hopped from truck to truck, the more airtime she had, meaning less traction and less speed. The more times Suzumebachi showed off his mad drifting skills, burning rubber on the concrete pavement, the more seconds he wasted. Meanwhile, with no fear at all for his undying body, the immortal continued to accelerate, using both lanes to reduce how much he had to turn. With a passenger seat in the way, there was pretty much no way for him to lean in spectacularly for turns anyways.

All things considered, other than the dozens of near-accidents caused by Rui-Ling sliding between two opposing vehicles or hugging the cliffside guardrail, it really wasn’t nearly as spectacular as the other two contestants.

Did it matter though?

Not when that boring and efficient style allowed him to diagonally cut into the Yellow Jacket gang leader’s turn, forcing the youkai to swerve out of the way and lose enough speed that Rui-Ling finally passed him.

And it definitely didn’t matter once he was ahead, using his years of experience to read Suzumebachi’s own movements and consistently block the Youkai’s attempts to pass by him, forcing the race to a much more reasonable speed of 150km/h.

Haruka can win.

Rui-Ling just wanted that antennae-haired dick to lose.
[@TheWindel][@KoL]