Snow and Ice || 태국

The third time

The inline skating club members quickly dispersed the crowd and cleared the tracks.

Both sides agreed to skate five rounds on the running track. Whoever reached the finishing point first would win.

Taehyung changed into the skates and a helmet and positioned himself at the starting line. Skull Head did the same.

90% of the surrounding crowd were either RCU students or teachers trying to blend in with the students. All of them were silently looking at the two people on the track.

The air was laden with tension and the atmosphere momentarily took a solemn turn.

Eunwoo quietly asked Jungkook, "Do you think my boss can defy the odds?"

By asking this, Eunwoo only wanted to hear some casual reassurance. Instead, Jungkook took one look at Taehyung's back view and muttered, "That scoundrel."

Eunwoo: = =

Nayeon was standing on Eunwoo's other side. She soothingly said, "I don't see why not. Anything is possible."

This was the right way to reassure someone. Eunwoo instantly felt that Nayeon was an angel.

The inline skating club president was on the grass with his hand raised.

Inline skating originated from ice skating, but there is a difference in the skates' friction, maneuvering technique, and other factors. As such, it is not possible to do figure skating and artistic roller skating interchangeably. It was because of this that Taehyung said that the club president had made a blunder trying to get help from the school's figure skating team.

However, this was not the case for inline speed skating and ice speed skating. The two sports were so similar that an inline speed skater could practice ice speed skating and vice versa. Practice venues for ice skating were scarce, and Taehyung had substituted ice skating with roller skating for practice in the past.

In other words, if a person could skate fast on ice, they could skate just as equally fast on the ground.

From primary 2 to high school year 1, Taehyung had practiced ice skating for eight years. In the beginning, he only ice-skated for recreation but in the later years, he trained to intend to become a professional sports athlete. It was only that he did not preserve in this endeavor.

Despite so, it was still not a problem for him to now race with an ordinary person.

That was right, an ordinary person. In his eyes, Skull Head was only a recreational skater. After researching on their inline skating club, he discovered that the better ones in the team were all artistic roller skaters. They did not have any members who specialized in inline speed skating.

Therefore, among their entire group, all of them were scrubs in Taehyung's eyes.  

After counting down, the club president sharply swung down his arm and blew the whistle. "Ready—— 3, 2, 1——"

The sharp whistle pierced the air and penetrated everyone's ears. The two on the tracks were like two missiles that had received orders to launch. "Swoosh." Both of them took off in a blur.

The odds-defying moment that Eunwoo was hoping for did not appear.

This was because right from the very start, Taehyung was in the lead.

The crowd was hushed.

Previously, the silence rose from pessimism. Now, the silence came from their astonishment.

The strange silence continued for some time until someone finally let out a shout. "Dafaq."

Then, other exclamations from the audience followed. "Dafaq", "awesome", and "go for it" The place was flooded with similar cries of encouragement.