Chapter 144: At least I Helped Her

With the final blow of the whistle, the onset of the race took place. My participants from around me dashed their start, while me and Saki had a rather slow start as we slowly paced as planned.

Kizhashi and Gaisen could be seen running ahead of us in their lane. In my peripheral vision, I noticed Uyeno and Nishimiya running, too. Of course they would've taken part in this too.

Saki, without uttering a single word, was running while keeping her gaze in front of us, and following a synchronised movement. We were slowly gaining speed, as we overtook two 

  and were now in the middle with a bunch of others.

Nishimiya was in the first position in this as well. Judging from both of their movements, it looked like Uyeno was quite athletic, too. And of course, the other fact was that Nishimiya was literally dragging her along with him.