After the 3rd part was completed, Gyro was in a bad mood, "Damnit! Even though we took a shortcut and were a few hours ahead of everyone else I still ended up in second place!" It pissed off Gyro to no end.
"Gyro I gotta ask, even after knowing that the kid your trying to save is gonna die of sickness in a few years, why are you still hell bent on winning this race?" I mean I had explained to him what I 'saw' when I had both eyes.
"Would you shut the hell up already?! Even if what you said was true Hifumi, it's the principle of the situation that innocent kid found himself in, it doesn't sit right with me that some innocent kid is set to be killed just because he was working for a noble planning to rebel against the King…." He said giving his opinion on it which makes me shrug.
"I bet you wouldn't care nearly as much if you weren't set up to be the executioner now would you? So let me ask from a stand point, if you weren't ment to execute him but you knew the kid was innocent, would you still come to America to do this race?" I ask him with only my left eye open.
"…." He went silent and said nothing but that silence is enough for me to see his stand point on all of this.
Currently we were going through an orchard in this part of the race, we began to pass an apple tree which I passed by and pulled off some fresh apples before tossing them to Gyro, Johnny and Stocking.
"So Johnny, How's it going with your Spin and Spiral Training? I can see some improvements, but I can see some problems as well." I said looking at him as my left eye was allowing to see his spiral and spin power flowing through his body.
"Problems? What problems?" He asks looking at himself and not feeling anything wrong as I shake my head.
"Johnny if you ever want to get your legs working again you need to have the spin and spiral flowing through your whole body, what I'm seeing is your only letting it flow from your waist up, you need to let it move through those useless legs as well." But hearing that pisses Gyro off more so.
"The hell Johnny! If your not working on it with your entire body you won't be able to get those legs working anytime soon!" Gyro says before the two begin to get into an argument with each other.
"By the way, earlier Sandman finally caught up to us and mentioned that storm coming in tomorrow and you stayed back to talk with him, what was that about." Stocking said while enjoying the drama going on in front of us.
"Nothing much, more or less just making up some insurances and maybe a future ally for us…." I said thinking back to earlier.
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After Sandman said his piece he began to head off as I looked at everyone else, "You guys keep going, I need to have a chat with our Native friend here." I said before turning and following Sandman leaving everyone else to follow a different more open route as Sandman was beginning to run into one of the few forested areas in this part of the race.
Soon enough Sandman saw me as he hopped up and onto one of the trees, "What is it that you need? I already payed back what happened earlier with Gyro, so I would say I owe your group nothing anymore." He says as I get off my horse and look up at him.
I then crouch down and spring up before landing on a tree opposite of him, surprising him slightly as he wasn't in those woods in the first part of the race to see me traveling the woods from tree to tree.
"I have a proposition for you Sandman, no maybe it's better I call you by your real name…. Soundman…." I said with a squint in my eye as Fortunate Son appears behind me while In a Silent Way appears behind him.
"…. What do you want, I'm only willing to hear you out because I know your not from this country and it's not your fault what has become of my people, though how do you know my name, my real name that only those within my clan know of…." He asked me with a squint in his eyes.
"Let's just say my power can read fortune and the identity's of people I come across, and in one of my fortunes that have all eventually come to pass I see you becoming our enemy in the future, one where you go out of your way to kill us just so you can get your peoples land back." I explain to him as I sit down on the branch I'm on.
He raises an eyebrow at that, but doesn't dismiss what I said, "You know my real name so I don't believe your lying to me, so tell me, why is it in this fortune you have divined that if you didn't speak with me now, was destined to happen." He asks me to which I explain the true purpose of this race, why the president needs the corpse, what he would offer him and how he would never keep his promise along with his demise when we arrive at the Mississippi River.
He goes silent and sits down on his branch as he looks at his hands in thought, "I need the money for my people's land, so that we can be free from the white man who took everything from us…." He says as I take out a map of the western United States as I circled the entire land mass his people once called theirs.
"Even if you got the 500,000,000 grand prize your tribe originally called all of Arizona as their land, no matter the price your people wouldn't be able to secure it all, the Navajo already claimed plenty of territory for themselves back in 1868 but as you are not Navajo this didn't help your tribe." I say to him which makes him sigh.
"It is a shame what happened to them, they were pulled from their ancestral lands and thrust into a place that isn't their own just to make things simple for the white man to deal with." He said feeling disgusted with what had happened to everyone of the many native tribes.
"Though you aren't willing to embrace the ways of the white man compared to the rest of your tribe, something that nearly got you killed for…." I said making him look at me.
"Alright, what is it you want to do then? What do you want of me in particular?" He asks me.
"Then I will come clean, I am willing to spend 100,000,000 dollars to purchase territory for your people, it should be enough land for your tribe to call theirs, all I desire is to make you an ally of ours throughout this race." I say which surprises him that I am offering him this much money.
"…. Why are you willing to do this for me? No matter what I do that wouldn't be enough to pay for this kindness." He says but I shake my head.
"Soundman your stand is one of the most powerful in this entire race and seeing it wasted on help the president with his goal and a promise he would never keep I decided it's best to buy you over to our side, and to make a request of you in the process." I said to him before I stood back up and landed on his branch as we stood face to face with each other.
"And what would you have me do?"
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"I see, well I hope this works out." She says as all she is here is to enjoy the journey with me on my training arc.
All I could do was smile as we kept on going with this race.
*Spin Spin Spin*
*Spiral Spiral Spiral*
And if someone saw what was under my clothes they would see my skin constantly in a state of Spinning and Spiraling as the sound effects were moving on my body.
All while I could feel my power constantly growing every second, and soon enough I will find a way to regain what I have lost.