"There are only two Trainee Drivers in this T2 Expansion Race. One is you, and the other is him."
"There's another Trainee Driver?"
Shen Qi had not expected another Trainee Driver to have passed the application screening for T2. That really was impressive.
But if there was a Trainee Driver like that, he should have seen him at the banquet hall.
Unless the other driver had been eliminated in the first round and had not felt like attending the banquet.
"I really haven't heard anything about him."
After all, this race was far beyond his own level. Shen Qi had mostly only paid attention to the drivers in his group, and only discovered at the banquet that Wen Jiu had also entered the Expansion Race.
In the first round, Wen Jiu had drawn a downhill race. His Toy Car had spun into a whirlwind-charge Twister form and flown over most of the hillside, ultimately receiving a time penalty of over forty seconds. Naturally, he had failed to advance.
However, the children and Pokémon at the venue had practically gone wild at the sight of the Toy Car, and the amusement park's little toys had sold out.
The referee's voice came through his headset. "I'll have him come to your Service Bay now. His name is Taichi."
"Taichi?!"
After the call ended, Shen Qi froze.
What was going on? Was someone from Digimon making a cameo?
He had better not pull out a WarGreymon. Dragon and Fighting-type, right?
Only when a little boy with brown, cauliflower-shaped hair cautiously ran into the Service Bay did Shen Qi realize this was not the Taichi from Digimon.
He was the youngest of the four Eevee brothers.
Very early on, the anime's Original Series had featured a story about four brothers from a fairly well-off