[Miyabigaoka] Takeuchi Manor

"Of course I should be excited; different Roads are awesome!" was the immediate reply falling from the Sky King's mouth. Now that he was standing, he performed a few stretches and heard out what both parties before him had to say. Chiyo came to him with the core details of this visit, but there was apparently a much more personal reason. Indeed, this was no simple desire to become better as a Storm Rider, and Jolyne herself was the one to explain this. Shoichi leaned forward to stare into this girl's face, his brows drawing together as he listened to her reasons. He felt sincere empathy for this girl's situation. She wasn't in the midst of some epic power struggle. She wanted exactly what Shoichi himself wanted, and that was to have a good time with close friends. "Hmm. Sou ka..." Strangely, Shoichi had nothing to say in response to any of this. All he did was turn away from her, and carry himself outside the kitchen... and eventually, outside the house to the courtyard.

"Ano..." Shoichi stared into Jojo's face and the small girl found herself staring back with intensity behind her convictions. She just wanted to play with her friends and to have them not be upset with her, which didn't seem like it should be so hard to achieve. Even so, Shoichi didn't say much of anything after she explained, he simply walked away, out of the house and towards the courtyard. There was a large grin on Chiyo's face as this happened and she noted the confusion which passed the small girl's face as she finished her dessert breakfast goblet. "Is it okay? I don't know what to think about that, Chi-nee..." she said which made Chiyo's brow raise, something about this younger generation calling her big sister made her feel strange. She was always the youngest among her own peers so the newfound responsibility to others was rather interesting. "Hai hai, it's fine, that's just how he is, come on then, you're about done right?" she said as the girl packed away the last of her food and both of them stood. Chiyo moved all the dishes to the sink and then headed outside with the pair of them and Jojo approached, those little wheels of hers upon reaching the ground proper began to create sparks as she leaned from left to right. "Alright, so what do I do?" she asked as Chiyo posted herself up outside and watched the ongoing things ensue. After all, she was here to observe and figure out if what she thought was wrong with this girl's body would actually lead to the sort of different Flame Road she expected.

By the time he reached the side of the pool, Shoichi stopped and turned to face the house. He awaited Jolyne, but while she was exiting the building, he looked up to view a woman with pink hair and crystal blue eyes, stood on the balcony with a smile. With a bright smile of his own, he winked at this young woman. This simple exchange told her to remain at the ready for what was to come. She wasn't entirely sure what said thing would be, but soon enough, Jolyne stood before Shoichi while questioning the agenda.

"You need to fix your run, right?" he asked in response, albeit rhetorically for the most part. There was only one thing which came to mind when he heard of this girl's desires. He scanned the area surrounding the house, planning a route for a race before those purple eyes of his gained wings and starlight in their irises. When this change occurred, he looked toward Jolyne again. "There's only one way to fix a run. We'll run an E-Class Hurdle around the property. First one to be a full lap ahead of the other person wins. Sound good?"

"Onee-chan, Ohayou gozaimasu!" Chiyo said as she looked up to find their tuner on the balcony overlooking the property. Given this the Storm Queen would join her after a few well placed jumps so that she could watch the coming race. This she'd do sitting atop the rails legs crossed at the ankles, her special eye active in her face so that she could see what she needed to.

Jojo on the other hand was left with Shoichi who came up with a race course he apparently thought would be good. She knew of the different kinds of races, had been looking into them so she'd know which ones to run with her friends. Hurdles meant they could grind against stuff and take whatever course over or through obstacles to get to their destination. "YOSH! Alright!" she said getting ready, the wheels on her feet beginning to reeve creating heat and friction along them as they did. This start up had Chiyo's undivided attention as she wondered how right she was about the young girl's attitude problem affecting her run.

"Ohayou gozaimasu!" Chiyo received in response to her greeting. The Storm Queen was apparently content to join the pink-haired woman on her balcony perch. It seemed they were fated to watch an apparent race together, but the woman named Usagi had no idea why this was the case... bar a few assumptions, of course. Either way, she leaned over the balcony rail next to Chiyo and looked down at the combatants. "So who's this?"

Jolyne prepared herself for the race to come, and Shoichi observed her preparations. Her method was rather normal for what one would expect of a Flame Road rider, but he still looked at the girl curiously. Though she was indeed a rider of the Flame Road, the wings he saw in this one were very unorthodox in that they were more flexible than the norm. Either way, he supposed this did have a purpose beyond simply racing. "Alright. On your mark," he said, making no visible efforts to even prepare himself for the race. "... Go!"

Chiyo had her eyes glued to the start of this race, the girl's stance was about what she expected from a Flame Road rider, but yet, it seemed wrong. The pigtailed lass on the balcony tilted her head ever so slightly to the left as if confused by what she was witnessing even so, she answered her Pledge Queen with all due haste. "That, is Kujo Jolyne, known to her friends as Jojo. Younger sister of a certain hot first generation Flame King, and his rather muscular younger brother Gem King," mentioned Chiyo who couldn't help the small smile forming on her face. "Funny girl, bit Tsundere with a soon to be very obvious complex. Let me know if you see it too." The Storm Queen's concluded sentence would coincide with the mark of 'Go' by Shoichi as the small girl hyped herself off and took off at a fast pace.

Jojo's take off was something of a runner's start, a bit advanced for what most would expect, but she didn't falter as she took off from a nearly horizontal bend, instead she used the momentum to launch herself forward. She sparked all along the way as she used her wheels to build up immense speed, building a bit of flame in her trail. It was a highly orthodox use of the Flame Road, one which Chiyo had gotten used to seeing from the Flame King of the first generation during their time spent together, even so... something about it didn't look right. Jojo herself didn't seem to notice much of anything, she looked to her side expecting to see her opponent lest she win this thing with way more ease than she thought to expect from her predecessors. Her movements began to shift, showing the characteristic flamoyance expected of Flame Road riders, but again, to Chiyo's eyes these movements didn't seem right. Her strides were too short for her legs to complete the tricks to maximum efficiency.

"..." Usagi was lost for words for only a few moments due to a certain choice of words from Chiyo. After stifling a giggle for several seconds, she managed to find her voice again. "Chi-chan, I'm going to ignore that double entendre. I didn't think those two had a relative in the third tower, but now that you mention it, I can see a resemblance." With that said, Usagi set her gaze on the start of the race. Mere moments into Jolyne's run, the Pledge Queen's expression turned sour at a moment's notice. It was almost as if she'd been given an awful message. "She wasn't made for this," she said. Interestingly, though, she didn't seem to be talking about the girl herself.

And so, Jolyne took off. Shoichi took a moment to inspect her movements from a distance, and he was also somewhat disturbed by what he witnessed. As to not allow too much of a wait, he followed suit. The Sky King was within a meter of Jolyne's location - and holding said distance - within blinks of his initial movement. "That's not gonna work out. Ya' can't beat me by just going as fast as you can," he said nonchalantly.

"Fuck?! Really? I couldn't get more than a stifled giggle off that one? I thought it was gold," the raven haired lass mentioned, as if she'd made the double entendre on purpose. Beyond that, found herself watching Shoichi gain on her rather easily and go on to make a statement as well. His words, and the words of Usagi made a small smirk appear on Chiyo's face as she continued to watch. "Three different sets of eyes. Seeing the world three different ways..." she said of the Pledge Queen, the Sky King and herself. "But we all know it's wrong... I am guessing by your statement you mean her regalia?" she asked semi-rhetorically before giving a small explanation. "You talked about Fuckface's the same way. Ya' know when he was running around telling everyone he was the Fang King," she said of the young girl and her elder brother's similarities in this moment. Fortunately enough, she didn't think the girl was doing what she was maliciously. She wasn't lying to herself, her body didn't give off that sort of vibe. Rather she was forcing movements her body wasn't really made for, and if Chiyo was right in her conjecture, then her regalia and her road didn't align to it either. It was simply a trick of the young blonde's brain.

Jojo on the other hand was stunned. She'd gained a great deal of distance on Shoichi and looking back she'd thought maybe she had this in the bag, but by the time she blinked again he was already at her side. The girl's eyes widened and her expression was one of pure shock. "How the fuck did you catch up so fast?" the girl questioned seemingly stunned and speaking in the rather abrasive manner she'd picked up from one of her brothers. She then scoffed away her shock and frowned. "It's a race, if don't go as fast as I can, then I can't win at all," the girl mentioned seeming not to see what the young man meant by his interference. Regardless he was now at her side so she found herself performing several spins and twirls to try and gain distance on him. Her movements were fast and precise even, but with her small frame they would only take her so far.

When Chiyo replied to her halted laughter, Usagi managed a gasp. "So you did do it on purpose!" she said as if she'd cracked the case of the century. She was quick to move on from this, though, and address the matter of the Flame Queen's run. Chiyo assumed she was referring to the girl's Regalia in her previous statement, and frankly, she could not have been more correct. "Hai. Otou-san would call it... Brimstone Flint. This Flame Road isn't meant for the stressful kind of run she's going for. But... Brimstone Flint isn't angry because she's doing this."

Meanwhile, Shoichi smiled in the face of the Flame Queen. "I moved," was his only retort. He was now officially having a conversation with this girl for the first time, but for some reason, this didn't feel like the case for Shoichi. When Jolyne gave her point of view on the speed of her run, and went on to begin strides that would produce the flames of her Road, the Sky King's eyes shut. "So you think you can win, with that being the limit of your speed," he commented in a voice much less generally playful than his norm. Whether Jolyne heard this statement or not, he wasn't sure, as he began to fall behind with much swiftness. Even so, he spoke calmly under his breath. "Muda muda." Shoichi was fated to catch up to Jolyne once more. This time, he did so with large tongues of flames in his wake as he performed numerous twists, grinds, and slides in an ironically flamboyant fashion. These movements sent him beyond Jolyne's location far quicker than he'd even managed to catch up before, and what's more... his eyes were still closed. "Ikuze, Jojo. If you're going to ride like that, do it right. It's the Flame Road, after all... You have to do it with a bit of flare."

"Of course I did. Yoichi is fun and all but I don't make commentary like that without reason," said Chiyo while her eyes traced this young girl's movements. Her speed while commendable wouldn't get her very far against a rider of Shoichi's caliber and she was about to be surprised. As this happened, Usagi explained what her Regalia should be doing instead of the sort of stressful run she was trying for. A chuckle came from Chiyo as the name of this regalia as Usagi's father would have named it was given. "Sou ka, I thought... her body was strange for what she was trying... I was confused, her numbers read like Muu-nii's so I figured she was just off the creation, but I was wrong. She started off like that, and is trying to become this... no wonder her friends are cross with her. If they grew up with her, such a change is obvious and drastic," Chiyo mentioned as she worked through her thoughts, seeming to miss that she'd done something similar to her own group of friends. Though admittedly Chiyo had experienced this of not her own doing, soon enough her own eyes would widen as she saw something she didn't think she'd ever see outside of the Flame King's presence.

Shoichi had fallen behind just a bit, and then... he caught back up, this time, he was using all the flare and flamboyance Chiyo thought was missing from the small girl's movements. And his speech pattern, from what she could gather, was fairly similar to what she'd gotten from Yoichi while they trained together. 'That isn't right... that can't be right. I thought, maybe I was just wrong, but he can't actually have that extra personality can he? Why would his father have given him three personalities?' she mentally wondered. Her eyes had all but completely shifted to Shoichi as she began moving through the most likely of scenarios to explain why the Sky King could actually have three personalities. Jojo on the other hand was given a rather stark awakening. The girl came to a complete stop as she watched Shoichi's run overtake hers. Flare, didn't quite begin to cover what she was seeing. She was stunned really, because she never thought she'd see someone do what she was seeing aside from herself. "I mean, that's pretty cool I guess..." she said and she followed along. She seemed to not think too much about this shift, but she felt happy, he was a lot like her brother in this moment. She moved similar to him, but it still wasn't right, it was as if trying to imitate this run left her own out of the equation completely. And as she moved, it seemed that she was unable to keep up with Shoichi and he pulled out further in front of her.

As her attention was moved about Chiyo decided it was time for a better view. "I wonder if a little push will be enough to set her straight," Chiyo mused aloud, but in her head she was still wondering about Shoichi, because the run she was showing off, was one as familiar to this small girl as her own. "Welp, no time like the present, Ja, Onee-chan," said the small girl as dark pigtails trailed behind her and she made a rapid spinning descent. By the time her wheels hit the ground a small accumulation of ice had gathered and she used the centrifugal force to launch herself forward towards Jojo and Shoichi easily spinning herself into the girl's line of sight and finding pace with her rather easily and backward as she continued to look at the small girl with glowing purple eyes and moving tomoe within them. "I've seen enough to now what's wrong. As you are... you can't win this against Shoichi, you can't even keep up..." Jojo stared at the girl stunned, another gentle stumble happened as she missed the pacing of a twirl which had her make a single moment of eye contact with Chiyo. Doing so, would let the small girl see herself through the Storm Queen's eyes if only for a moment, not that it was likely she'd know what to do with what she was seeing. "What? That doesn't make sense..." she said, seeming rather sullen. For someone her brother wanted to help her, this girl didn't seem to have much as far as good news. Jojo felt a bit contrary for being so excited to meet her if she was going to be this way.