Yokohama's Fastest Legend

> *Ten years ago, one man was known as the fastest in all of Yokohama. The only man to drive full throttle in 5th gear around the 3rd Keihin's Tama River corner. Everyone who witnessed his races told the same story: "That guy is a 【CRAAAZY DRIVER】"*
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**Yokohama's Fastest Legend** (横浜最速伝説 - Yokohama saisoku densetsu) is a decade-old rumor and myth that has been circulating in the street racing community in *Racing Lagoon*.

## Background

During the late 1980s, WON-TEC developed the D-Project as a means to create biotechnological breakthrough in auto racing. The Diablo drug was manufactured as a substance that allow a street racer to suppress fear and drive faster, and the custom tuned Diablo-Zeta cars was created to test the effectiveness of the drug. Both were being distributed to the Drivers as these test subjects were released to the public road for data collection. Rumors started spreading around about the one crazy driver who would fearlessly roamed the highway at unimaginable speed. Certain racers, including Kuniteru Takahashi, Choji Todoroki, and White Tiger, have claimed to personally witnessed the Diablo-Zeta cars, often mistaking them to be driven by the same person, and were haunted by its demonic appearance. During Todoroki's race with a Diablo-Zeta, the Driver managed to drive full throttle in 5th gear around the 3rd Keihin's Tama River corner. This impossible feat became the moment that mythicizes the Fastest Legend.

A young man, implied to have heard of the story, roamed the streets to challenge the Diablo-Zeta. He managed to defeat the Drivers in his black Zeta3000 without the use of Diablo. This allows him to rightfully took the title of the Fastest Legend and won the affection of Aoi Kawashima. However, as the two began dating, Kawashima offered the young man the Diablo drug. Realizing that the Fastest Legend was a hoax created by WON-TEC, he fell into a rage as he deemed the Drivers to have defiled street racing. He then left on a journey to put an end to the D-Project. This led to the event of the War of Yokohama, where several Diablos-Zeta cars crashed into one another in a fiery accident, and the Drivers were beaten to death by the young man.

Yokohama's Fastest Legend has continued to be spread across Yokohama and Hakone for a full decades, while the rumors have been centered around the one Diablo-Zeta driver. Manabu Oda appeared to be the only street racer who acknowledged the true Fastest Legend's based on his acquaintance with the young man.

## Synopsis

Two years prior the story, Ikki Fujisawa left Hakone Drift Dancers to South Yokohama in search of the Yokohama's Fastest Legend in order to surpass him and becomes a legend himself. He started creating fame for himself, being unbeaten full two entire years in his stay at Yokohama. In 1999, Fujisawa recruited a young rookie named Sho Akasaki and reestablish Bay Lagoon Racing. On one night with a crimson moon, the BLR had a team battle against Honmoku NightRACERS. Fujisawa won the race and provisionally acquired the title of the Fastest Legend.

After several nights, WON-TEC announced the Yokohama GP as well as the revival of the D-Project, masking them as the sponsorship for street racers to be trained as professional racers. With the spiking number of accidents occurring around Yokohama, the rumor about the Fastest Legend 10 years ago sprung up again. Akasaki, who has been trying to under the truth behind recurring accidents, encounters the voice of his past self, claiming to be the Fastest Legend.

At the dawn of Yokohama GP's finale, team BLR headed over the Hakone to battle against Hakone Drift Dancers. There, Akasaki meets Manabu Oda, Fujisawa's mentor and the person who had told him about the legend. After the Grand Prix's final round, Akasaki and Fujisawa (who scored a one-two finish at the GP; Akasaki had, however, seen a strange dream the morning before the race) raced each other and the latter caught an accident. The voice inside Akasaki continued growing stronger and finally overtook his body. The voice confronted Manabu Oda for the information about the accident 10 years ago.

As Akasaki continued his quest to uncover the truth behind the Fastest Legend, WON-TEC cornered him and forced him to race in the Darkness GP against the revived Diablo-Zeta, presumably driven by the Yokohama's Fastest Legend. Akasaki managed to won the Grand Prix, then the voice took over his body and defeated the Diablo-Zeta in a Taiman battle. The driver of the monster machine turned out to be Fujisawa, having been forced out of the hospital and fed him more doses of Diablo.

Despite the Darkness GP further damaged Akasaki's mental state, it allowed other street racers to come to admire the young man for his driving skills. As Akasaki revisited several places, many expressed gratitude of being able to see and race with him. Furthermore, as WON-TEC need Akasaki to reawakens his inner voice, he's being convinced to race and won several UnOfficial Races to the point he has been regarded as the "Yokohama's Fastest".

The end of Akasaki's journey saw him and the voice completely annihilate WON-TEC. Aoi Kawashima finally revealed the truth behind the Fastest Legend and allowed Akasaki to completely recover his memory. Akasaki then stops Kawashima from plunging herself and Fujisawa down the river at the Ancient Bay. In the ending, Akasaki and Fujisawa, the two Yokohama's Fastest Legends, race each other toward the rising sun.