Chapter 18: Unintended Consequences

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER 18 OF THE CHINESE MANHUA

As Jin races past the judge's stand, an electronic sign lights up that 2 miles have been completed, with a little over 4 miles to go. Jin is still in the lead, but with each lap, another boy, the one with beige hair, is slowing gaining on him. The two other boys in the race are farther back. At the halfway point, the sign lights up 3.2 miles completed, 3.2 miles to go. Jin is still leading, but his pace is beginning to fall off. Yet the beige hair boy is still right behind him, staying with Jin, with the other two in third and fourth positions in the pack. The four cheerleaders are putting in as much effort in their performances as the four runners. Like a touchstone, Jin picks out and takes note of Yulan amid the other three, with every lap as he passes the cheerleader section.

At about three-fourths through the race, two of the boys have dropped out, the one with the blonde spiked hair, and the beige haired boy. This leaves only two left, the boy with dark brown hair, and Jin. In fact, the brown haired boy has already passed Jin to take the lead, as Jin begins struggling just to keep up his speed and pace, both of which are slowly decreasing. Watching from the official's stand is the Class Representative and Qiu Yi. The Class Rep comments that it looks like Jin is close to reaching his limit, and may not be able to finish. Qui Yi replies that Jin did not train very hard for this longer length 10K race, did he ? The Rep responds that Jin could have been able to finish, as he is quite capable of doing so. But only if he had paced himself better earlier on. He should not have sprinted in the first third of the race, he should have rationed his speed and endurance to last the whole time. Now he is all messed up, with little energy or stamina to go on, and yeah, he may not be able to finish the race.

Sure enough, Jin has the 'pedal to the metal', going as fast as his tired and aching body will let him. However, Jin keeps slowly falling farther and farther behind the brown haired boy, who at the beginning of the race was running in fourth place ! Soundly berating and punishing himself, Jin's mind silently remarks that he showed off too much at the beginning of the race, expending too much energy that should have been portioned out to last the run. Now he can barely hold on to this even slower pace. Sweating profusely, and becoming all the more careless and unable to hold to steady movements, Jin continues pushing himself, although his mind is warning him that his 'go for broke' attitude is not going to work.

By now, Jin is so tired and disconcerted, that his running stance is becoming ever more sloppy and unpredictable. Soon, it was inevitable that he would make a serious mistake. Without warning, Jin takes a stride, and misplaces his foot on the dirt track. His foot twists and buckles sideways, as he begins to lose his balance. With his next step, he falls forward, and flat onto his face. Now prone on the ground, he becomes motionless. A shout of horror goes up from the crowd. The four cheerleaders are surprised and dismayed. The Class Rep and Qui Yi are shocked by the dreadfulness of what just happened.

Shouts of ***"JIN JIAHUI"***, ***"JIN"***, and **"Are you okay ?"**, go up from the stands. However, laying on the ground, unable to move, and with his leg stinging and hurting something awful, Jin is in so much pain, that he doesn't hear any of it !

(End Chapter 18)

**Chapter Lookback, Commentary, and Opinion**

-Kyle-

Messages: 64

Dec 15, 2020

I swear I heard of some anime somewhat related to this with like the exact same concept, .....
but I can't find it.
ugh !

Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

Messages: 33

Aug 20, 2023

There are a lot of transgender and gender-bender manga and anime out there. However, most of it is in the form of genuine Japanese manga and anime, rather than the knock-off stuff from other countries, like China or Korea.

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