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"This story is fiction.

All names of characters, places and

organizations in the story are fictional.

Follow the traffic rules and drive safely."

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo

Now listen y'all, what you waitin' for is the Noizy Tribe

We're back!

Furihodokitakute, hazusu mune no safety

Yureru omoi o tsukamaete, sou, kisu o shite

Sou, itsumo pressure, gyuugyuu ni yurareta densha

Yodonda meshita hitogomi kara mitero ze tte

Itsuka, hora denkousekka

Tobidashi ano checker flag te ni ireru, sou shinjite

Dakitai yume ga mieru deshou

Kono ude ni kanjitai, your soul

This moment I can feel, zenchou tourai o shiru

Kono mama iku ze, I'm the Noizy Tribe

Come with me, come and cry with me

Got to be, got to be, now you got to be free (Yeah!)

Noizy Tribe, you're my Noizy Tribe

You can feel, you can feel, you can feel in my love (C'mon!)

Come with me, come and cry with me

Got to be, got to be, now you got to be free (Yeah!)

Noizy Tribe, you're my Noizy Tribe

You can break, you can break, you can break 'cause you're Noizy Tribe

Here come the Noizy Tribe, we're back!

"Skyline"

Really?!

We did it! Keisuke won!

--Yeaah! --Yes.

The distance was a little hard to tell. Shall we go for a third round?

Nah. I clearly lost.

Plus, my tires are finished.

I'm real sorry about before. I couldn't hold on and ran into ya on the inside.

Once I was in the drift, the car wouldn't respond to my more delicate handling.

Still, that felt great. It's been a long time!

I could forget everything but battling it out with the steering wheel!

Good job.

Give it your all out there, Jo. These guys are better than we thought.

Yes, I know.

Sure is hot tonight...

And it looks like it's going to get hotter.

"Act 22: The Sorcerer of the Single-Handed Steer"

--Good night. --Good night, sir!

--It's so hot! --It really is hot today, huh?

At this rate, the Project D team will have it rough out on the road, huh?

'Cause it gets this hot even at night.

Let's go hang out somewhere that's nice and air conditioned.

Yeah.

Back from the dead!

Uh-huh. So, where's Takumi headed to in the middle of this scorching heat?

Ibaraki.

According to Kenji, he's facing a really tough opponent.

Speak of the devil. It's Kenji!

Hey!

I see this wretched heat isn't keeping you busy at all.

You're one to talk. You two fools are lollygagging around here as well.

Lollygagging?

That's, like, so ohmigod, right?

--Right? --I know!

--I guess. --And then, like, Ryoko was all...

Aah, why are we three the only group of guys?

Even though there should be the same number of girls as guys out there...

Eew, you perv!

Yeah. What's more, it's the same group as always...

They call summer the season of youth...

Should we three guys be spending it lollygagging in a place like this?

No, we shouldn't! But what's the alternative?!

No need for you to get upset, is there?

--Where do you want to go next? --Somewhere we can be alone.

For real?!

Dammit! This is makin' my blood boil!

Now, now. Iketani, Kenji. For a racer, women are just...

They sure would be nice.

Right about now, Takumi's racing intently...

Should we really be doing something like this?

We don't have any excuse, do we?

No, we don't.

Okay, I'm counting on you.

Yessir!

Please choose your starting position for the first race.

Maybe I'll come from behind...

I'll follow for the first race.

Understood. Fujiwara! You lead for the first race!

I'm Toshiya Joshima. A pleasure.

Takumi Fujiwara.

You mind if I ask you something?

Uh, please do.

I'd like to know why someone your age decided on an Eight-Six.

I'm extremely curious to hear the reason.

Well, it's not as if I actually chose this car... It was originally my father's.

Your father's?

Yes.

It's been at our house since I was a kid.

This was all we had, so it's the only car I ever drove.

I'm attached to it, and drove it a lot illegally before I got my license.

Interesting.

So, your father taught you driving techniques before you had your license?

Yeah... That's about how it worked.

I'd like to meet your father. I have a feeling we could be friends.

You'll allow me to do my best as your opponent.

By all means.

Ryosuke, we can start anytime.

I see.

--Listen closely, Fujiwara. --Okay.

I'll be clear. This is the fiercest opponent you've yet faced. He has no weaknesses.

At present, there is only one piece of advice I can give:

Endure.

Even if you can't win, you should be able to make it so that you aren't beaten.

I will give you additional advice when the time is right.

As much as possible, look at the course and not the other driver.

He is a ghost.

Don't forget.

Begin it, Fumihiro.

Okay.

All right, beginning the countdown!

Five! Four! Three!

--Two! One! --Ghost?

Go!

Got it.

The first downhill race has started.

I'm counting on you, Jo.

By the honor of the man they call the God Arm,

please make this a one-win, one-loss draw.

Keisuke.

Do you think Fujiwara will be all right?

Worryin' about it won't change anything, will it?

This is his race now.

According to Mr. Toudou,

this guy Toshiya Joshima has settled into a particular sort of technique.

Call it a habit or whatever,

but he'll keep his left hand on the gearshift and steer only with the right.

What kind of merit would that have?

Me, I've gotta use both hands to steer or it doesn't feel right.

Wait a minute. Steering with just one hand...

Wouldn't there be corners where there's not enough steering angle to turn?

Actually, aren't most corners on a mountain pass like that?!

That's why Toshiya Joshima, the sorcerer of steering,

is called the God Arm.

He's fast! Unbelievably so!

As I thought, he's quite good.

Oh. It's probably drift.

It would take incredibly high skill,

but if he used a zero-counter drift from the minimum possible steering angle...

That's not it. Toshiya Joshima does not drift.

It's not drift and it's not grip...

Apparently, his racing is something in-between.

Huh? In-between drift and grip? So it's neither of the two?

"Steep Curve"

Everyone seems to think Jo's one-handed steer is some off-the-wall technique,

but it's grounded in solid principles.

What it boils down to is, how do you turn along a slight steering angle?

Jo has spent more than 20 years pursuin' that question.

He's combined various techniques, and after all that trial and error,

he got to where he is now.

He'll emphatically say it's not drift and it's not grip, but if ya ask me...

...it's the perfect drift.

The really high-level techniques are the ones that're hard to see,

and just look sort of plain.

Tires do their best work

when the G-forces kick in and you're not sure if they'll grip or slide out.

Yeah...

I think he makes his car slide just enough that you can't tell by looking.

From a logical standpoint, that sort of makes sense.

I get it. So that's what it means to be in between drift and grip?

Mr. Toudou knows full well.

The Toudou School and Purple Shadow have been rivals for many years.

Back when we were active in the scene,

we used to have racing meets all the time on the circuits.

To think that the top members of Purple Shadow would actually do a street race...

If we'd let this chance slip by us, we'd never get a second one.

The God Foot Kozo Hoshino...

...and the God Arm Toshiya Joshima are two men whose racing we should watch closely,

I'd say this means.

Fumihiro, do you remember Shingo Shoji of the Night Kids,

whose specialty was the duct tape death match?

Shoji... Oh, I think he was the guy

who'd fasten his right hand to the steering wheel with duct tape.

This would let him turn only within a set range of steering angles.

In other words, his turns had to rely on accelerator handling.

It could be that Toshiya Joshima's single-handed steer

is an extension of that technique...

Or rather, its ultimate, most thoroughly perfected form.

But why bother? Aside from having his left hand able to perform all shifting,

what's the benefit?

The answer to that is in the realm of sensitivity unique to Toshiya Joshima.

While undoubtedly an unorthodox driving style,

some of the WRC's top drivers have utilized a single-handed steer.

It's exactly the same! This feeling...

A pressure, a kind of overwhelming tingling sensation.

It's just like that of a certain bastard of an old man who drives an Impreza...

It's so alike it makes me sick!

"Touge Tunnel Project

To be implemented soon"

What I think about how it's going?

Yes.

That's neither here nor there.

This won't be a race that'll be decided in one or two rounds.

Oh, really?

The course itself isn't that long, and there aren't many proper straightaways.

It's going to have to be something of a drawn-out race.

But if...

If there's anything that could decide this race quickly...

It would be Fujiwara losing.

Put another way, unless he digs in for the long haul, he'll have no chance of winning.

That's the kind of race you should think of this as.

The key will be the second round, when the opponent goes first.

If Fujiwara can hang in there, tough it out somehow...

This will become one tangled marathon of a race.

Anyone with a bit of knowledge would think that about the first round.

No matter how heated things look like they're getting,

they're still just trading light jabs.

--Awesome! --So fast!

They're both fast! Joshima of Purple Shadow and Project D's Eight-Six!

I've never seen such fast cornering before!

It's awesome... An all-out downhill battle!

The first round will be over soon.

Dammit! He did nothing but pressure me, and I couldn't do anything!

This first round went as planned, with me getting a good, long look at you.

There they are.

They're right on top of each other! There's no gap at all!

Beginning the countdown!

Five... Four... Three...

Two... One...

Go!

It looks like the second round's begun.

Yeah.

This second round is the critical stage, huh? And we're following this time.

Fujiwara's tenacity when coming from behind really is second-to-none...

He hasn't lost once from behind, no matter who he's faced.

Still, Keisuke said "if" Fujiwara can hang in there.

Meaning, he must be facing an incredible opponent!

The S2000 really is a difficult car to master,

but its racing capabilities are second-to-none.

Mr. Toudou says it's even faster at cornering than an NSX.

Having a driver like Toshiya Joshima behind the wheel

means there's no way it could lose to an Eight-Six.

Yeah, I wonder...

Maybe he won't even have to do anything special, just draw out the car's potential,

and that will be enough to catapult it into a zone where the Eight-Six can't keep up.

I'd like to believe that's how the second round will be.

But what's "normal" in a situation like this isn't normal at all...

Because both drivers are anything but ordinary.

Especially the driver of that Eight-Six, huh?

He has a genius-like ability you'd have to race him to understand.

What's more, it's perfectly suited for that car, the Eight-Six.

In a sense... he was born for the purpose of becoming that car's driver!

Its engine is not just an NA,

it is an F20 capable of producing 125 hp per liter.

The F20 is a VTEC unit that boasts enough power output to put racing engines to shame

and most assuredly poses a threat to Fujiwara. However,

the S2000's true value lies in its handling capabilities.

Its mid-front mounted engine

achieves optimal 50:50 front-to-rear weight distribution,

and its rigid High X-Bone Frame is such that

one forgets the car's open-body structure.

In addition to its compact and lightweight in-wheel, double wishbone suspension,

it boasts heightened racing capabilities exhaustively refined

through traditional means rather than a modern electronic control system,

such that it can even beat high-tech cars fitted with turbochargers or 4WD.

However, as a car, it is limited to the smallest percentage of drivers.

In other words, you have to be extremely talented in order to make full use of it?

Experiencing the "limited domain" that is the S2000 is, one could say,

the privilege of a handful of drivers blessed with great skill.

And "God Arm"Toshiya Joshima is one such driver.

Fujiwara's gone head-to-head with a really troublesome opponent...

I'm pretty interested in this second round.

We'll get the general idea of what kind of script Jo's thought up for this.

You say "script," but...

Mr. Joshima is in front, so why not just lose his opponent and be done with it?

Nah. You wouldn't think it, but he's actually a bit perverse.

The more talented his opponent, the more that little devil of his comes out.

If Jo put his mind to it and went on the offensive,

I bet he could outdistance any opponent.

Whatever else, he knows this course inside and out.

Not even a pro racer could beat us in that respect.

This is tough. I'm trying my hardest, but he's still a good distance ahead.

I'll say this for the sake of Jo's reputation. If there's no winner in this second round,

I think the script he's planned is to win not when he's leading,

but when he's following.

What?! Even for Mr. Joshima, that would be impossible!

This course has no straight angles and is all corners,

so overtaking someone would be...

Nah, I bet that's probably what he intends to do.

'Cause he's perverse.

I didn't notice when I was in front...

...but his lines are different!

There are points where his line doesn't match what I'd thought best.

His timing when he reaches the in-line is earlier or later...

It's different from normal theory!

But here, is his way the right choice?

If not... I can't explain this speed!

Ryosuke... What you told Fujiwara is really bothering me.

As much as possible, look at the course and not the other driver.

Your opponent is a ghost.

Fujiwara's greatest weapon is his ability to be behind an opponent

and "absorb" his speed, so why...?

And what did he mean by "ghost"?

I don't get it. How can he be so fast using a line like that?

Senjou ni saita rose, for the reason they don't know

Mae ni shika susumenai caterpillar ga kyou mo fumitsubushita

Yo, hates and pain, nikushimi dake fuyashite

Hates and pain, sonna sesou, live eizou

Dakishimete ite ne, motto tsuyoi te de

Fuan na yoru ni anata no koe (For the reason they don't know)

Sekai wa itsuka chi o nagashite ite (All around the world)

Sonna news o wasuresasete yo, wakaritakunai

Nobody reason, nobody sure where is the end

Aa semete mou sukoshi, uso demo ii, yasashiku utatte

Sakusou suru jouhou wa mass media-tachi ni mou hora

Ressei ga noukou na taikyoku no urei o tsutaedasu

Risei wa kanensei, yokushiryoku o kaiteru nenrei, yeah

Dokomade senrei uketsuzukeru zenshin zenrei

Nobody reason, nobody sure where is the end

Tayorinai kowaresou na fune koideru nara

Nobody reason, no one confess that it was wrong

Aa semete mou sukoshi, uso demo ii, yasashiku utatte