The sun is yet to come out but the alarm clock rings as our young driver gets up and begins getting ready for her day. She put on her tracksuit, tied her hair, put on earphones, and walked to her bus stop before getting on the earliest bus to the circuit. After arriving, she got off the bus walked into the Akinabalu Motorsport's garage, and clocked in. She placed her belongings in her locker and began jogging near the parking lot. She looked into the horizon and saw Mount Akinabalu standing tall as light from the sunrise gave it a pink shade.
"Mount Akinabalu sure is magnificent today." she told herself admiring the mountain.
She continued jogging around the circuit until she saw a Subaru pass her while blasting Eurobeat so early in the morning.
"Why is that guy playing that kind of music so early in the morning?" She said feeling a bit annoyed but carried on.
The car parks close by where she was jogging and she saw the driver get out and turns out it was Sugimoto who was driving the Subaru. Alice walked up to him and greeted him.
"Morning Senpai." Alice said while walking towards him.
"Morning kid, you're here quite early." Sugimoto said to her as he closed the car's door.
"I want to try jogging here every morning, is this your car senpai?" She asked curiously.
"Yep, this old beauty is my beloved car, an old 2000s Subaru." He answered.
"What model of Subaru is this? A WRX STI?" She asked.
"So you do know your cars huh? It's the 2004 model." Sugimoto revealed to her.
Alice looked around and admired the car from the outside until she saw the inside of it. The inside of the car was messy with trash lying on the carpet.
"Why don't you clean your car Senpai? It looks like a dump in there." She asked after him feeling a bit disgusted.
"Well I was planning to clean the car later, so I guess sooner or later." He told her while chuckling.
Alice began wondering why he would drive a car normally considered a weekend car.
"Say Senpai, why do you daily drive this kind of car? You do know that a city car is more efficient, right?" She asked.
"City cars are much more fuel efficient, but I guess I'm just attached to this car. This car used to rot in the back of the circuit until I got it for dirt cheap. I bought it home and began restoring it to its former glory. Now she runs like a beauty!" He replied.
"I see, I guess that car is part of your history huh? But still isn't it expensive to restore such an old car?" She asked him.
"Well back then it was hard to maintain, but now I could afford it so I guess that's another reason why I drive it." Sugimoto told her.
Alice nodded understandingly after hearing his reasonings. Sugimoto went to the trunk and grabbed his bag. As he got his stuff out, Alice decided to ask him something.
"Hey, how about we go jogging before we begin practicing?" She asked him.
As soon as she said that, she heard no response and looked back at his car, she was surprised to see that he had seemingly vanished into thin air.
"S-Senpai?" She muttered as she looked around and saw him already at the entrance, escaping from her.
"Jeez, he really doesn't like doing this kind of activity huh? But he does good physique." Alice thought to herself
"Eh, what am I talking about!" She said while blushing and getting the image out of her head.
Alice continued her jogging session for another 20 minutes until she eventually returned to the break room and saw him lazing around on the sofa.
