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Terulus, a planet undergoing rapid environmental upheaval

caused by a haywire terraformer that was supposed to reclaim the planet.

The "stampede" phenomenon has ravaged the planet for centuries,

causing tectonic deformation, extreme climate change and mutations in wildlife.

Mankind, unable to settle in these unforgivable conditions,

developed oversized wheeled cities to live in.

I've stared at your back for way too long!

Loser King, may god rest your soul. This is the day I surpass you!

Out of my way, back marker!

Shiro!

Follow in the tracks of the champion's ghost!

Passed the seventh pylon.

Old Man, this isn't good!

The engine's gonna blow!

What?!

Shiro!

Shut it!

Like hell I'm gonna pull over when I'm so close!

Don't push it, Shiro.

What did you say?!

I mean, it's impossible for someone like you.

You bastard, Goodspeed!

You have my praise for making it this far with that pathetic engine.

However, only the ultimate all-rounder will reign supreme today!

Shut the hell up!

Anyway, by that logic

I'll definitely win!

No, I will!

The racers will be passing the eighth pylon in a few seconds.

This is bad, Old Man.

They're forecasting a level four stampede.

We might have to cancel the race.

What are you saying? Let it run!

Anyone born and raised on Orks

ain't gonna get scared by some natural bump in the road!

We're gonna win this thing!

Y-Yes, sir!

Shiro!

Gotcha!

Today's the day Loser's great hundred year old record falls.

The stampede's hit!

And it's a whopper at that!

This isn't my finish line!

That was unfortunate, wasn't it?

I wouldn't say that.

Loser... King.

This isn't over yet.

I can still do this!

Let me...

Let me race!

His heart has stopped completely.

I guess this means...

Don't say it! He's still alive!

The stampede has even caught up with Orks.

We won't last long here.

The other medical districts are already starting to evacuate.

We can't leave him like this!

Give it your best shot!

Shiro...

Come back to us soon.

The car can easily be fixed, but it's pointless without you, its driver.

Hey!

Wh-Who the hell are you?

We're in the middle of an operation!

They have been subdued.

Good job.

Are you sure you don't want to go after Goodspeed?

I don't want to have to deal with a married man.

Only someone hardened and headstrong can ride with me.

I heard the legend had a similar disposition.

So just zip it, okay?

Take your time.

Well now...

This is a really nice room.

I mean, it's not too shabby a place to spend your last moments in.

You were so close, yet so far away.

A little further and you'd have smashed the unbeatable hundred year record

of the legendary racer, Loser King.

If the race hadn't been interrupted, you would have surpassed him.

What a shame.

That engine just won't cut it.

Don't you want a better engine?

I'll give you the best one ever.

As for compensation...

Well, let's see...

How about your life?

Not a bad deal, is it?

Don't get so excited about racing again.

If you want to move forward, I will give you a new power!

Now, rise! Rise with my Tomoe Drive!

I will give you the power!

Rise, Tomoe Shiro!

Rise!

What in the...

Morning, Shiro.

Any comments on how well the Tomoe Drive beats?

The name's Mikagura Tomoe. I'm your new mama!

What? You don't look all that happy.

As promised, that's the best engine you can get.

But it also serves as your heart.

Let's take part in a certain race, shall we?

Oh! It's here.

Here comes the host.

Anna Perenna.

The last wheeled city that can only move forward.

And that's quite an audience building up.

Wow, that one over there is a real classic car.

Hey, Shiro, look...

Orks has been consumed by the stampede.

I can't surpass Loser there anymore.

This is the only race for me.

The Planet Redevelopment Race!

Listen up, fearless idiots!

You'll be racing at Ground India for an enormous prize!

The Planet Redevelopment Race at Ground India?

Yeah, we're heading there now.

It's one of the 26 unexplored fields on the planet.

I guess we'll just have to cut through the heart of it to reach the south.

That's the starting point for this race.

The race where Loser disappeared over a hundred years ago.

You don't look like the same guy who was complaining just a second ago.

You'll have to plant this on the terraformer

located in the heart of India.

The first person to plant their transmitter is the winner.

Wait a tick.

Wasn't the whole point of wheeled cities

to get us as far from the terraformer as possible?

It's foolish to make that place the goal.

"Tailenders," was it?

You call it foolish?

Then, to surpass the legend of Loser, you must become an even bigger fool.

What's your angle, anyway?

Elaborate.

Big prize money...

Not to mention, the host of the race

just wants to scythe open the unexplored fields.

But that's not what you're after.

You're a sharp one.

Shut it and just focus on the driving.

Maybe I am after the cash.

You haven't paid for your surgery yet.

You just meddled around with my body for your own selfish needs, didn't you?

It's a wonderful thing y'know, broadening our horizons of unexplored lands...

Oh, shut it.

If that's your true intention, you can go on without me.

It's meaningless to go without you.

My objective is to crush the terraformer with my Tomoe Drive.

I will crush that wretched machine causing all these environmental fluctuations

with one hit from my Tomoe Drive.

Only the person who brings the wall down first can become a legend.

Even if death awaits him on the other side.

Didn't I tell you already?

The Tomoe Drive functions as your heart as well as the engine.

What's up? You don't look so good.

It's nothing.

I'm just itching to start racing. That's all.

Faster, faster.

These guys are the Tailenders.

This is the Planet Redevelopment Race.

The race that even Loser wasn't able to finish.

And I shall be the first to cross that finish line.

I want to see you do that. Make sure you show me this time.

Someone you know?

Nope.

All right, the race is starting.

A stampede? Why now?

Déjà vu much?

Goddamn! It's too dangerous to hang about here.

How can you be so sure?

Intuition!

I see.

That driving style...

He can't possibly be who I think he is.

Shit!

Go!

Great!

Crap, we're off to a slow start.

Hey, I thought it was pretty good!

"Pretty good," my ass!

I'll destroy you.

Let's keep it safe, gentlemen.

What the hell is happening here?!

Is this one of the effects of the stampede as well?

Why do you think the terraformer ends up creating this kind of environment?

Well, if it hasn't gone haywire, it must hate us with a vengeance.

Miss Tomoe.

Yeah?

I'm going to send you the rest of the course data now.

Roger!

Also, there's a name you should note on the list of competitors--

What the hell?

My data didn't say anything about an obstacle like this!

Well, it is a hundred years out of date.

I say we go around it.

We're gonna smash through it!

Say what?

It's obvious, isn't it?

I can't beat Loser if I take a detour!

You haven't changed one bit, I see.

Shiro, Goodspeed's on the leaderboard!

You're kidding!?

As I thought, you're...

Goodspeed!

You bastard! For real?!

I was given this body in exchange for my life.

But I don't regret it

because I can race alongside you like this.

Bring it on!

Shiro!

What?!

Sleep! You're relics of the past!

What a pair of idiots!

What do they think they're doing?

Where did Goodspeed go?

Bro, hit 'em with another round!

What the hell? When did he get so far ahead?

Hold on tight!

Th-That's...

a wheeled city!

What's it doing in a place like this?

Wheeled civilization wasn't constructed merely to avoid the stampedes.

Originally, mankind tried using wheeled cities

to remove the terraformer.

But the damage and casualties were too great,

and eventually, a weary mankind abandoned their continued efforts of extraction.

Centuries later, the inhabitants of the wheeled cities

referred to the avoidance as "progress."

That's why, when we fight against the tide

people tell us we should get with the times.

So, we're the back markers.

That's why we're known as Tailenders.

No one's here.

I guess everyone took the logical route.

Only idiots like us would dare to come this way.

Who's carving through the mountain? Goodspeed?

No, it wasn't me.

What?!

Goodspeed!

I don't know who's giving you trouble,

but thanks to them, I caught up to you, no sweat.

I don't have time to play with you right now.

What was that?!

Hinamoto Izou.

My mentor. He completed the race at Ground Juliet.

Looks like the heirs to the legend are all here.

The volcano's celebrating my victory!

You are Tomoe Shiro, I presume.

You're the guy who almost died at Orks.

You're a hundred years too green to challenge the legend.

Shut it!

I'm different from the person I was before.

And different from who I was a second ago.

All thanks to this!

An engine in your chest, huh?

I'll destroy it!

Mentor!

You can't surpass the legend without resolving to throw everything away.

What more can I possibly abandon?

Ask your heart of hearts!

What the hell is this?

I guess it's my turn now.

Nice one, Tomoe!

This won't get us anywhere.

There has to be a way to get rid of this guy.

I guess there is one way...

Then, get on it, quickly!

Don't take me lightly!

You simple-minded racer!

It's mine now!

Impossible!

I ripped out the engine!

How the hell are you able to keep on going?!

And what's with this speed?!

Wh-What in the world is this?

What he ripped out was the Tomoe Drive's limiter.

What a dumbass.

Thanks to him, we were able to make up some time,

because it's necessary to remove the limiter from here on out.

Every little detail is going according to your calculations, I see.

You have any other secrets up your sleeve?

My seat's the only one in this car that has an ejector.

Perfect.

Goodspeed.

I'm gonna break through.

My ass is literally on fire.

Shiro, we shall now find out who is truly the fastest!

So much regret.

We'll soon be out of radio range!

I'm closing the lines of communication.

Tomoe-san!

Don't worry, it's the same thing that happened a hundred years ago.

Stay safe.

Thanks.

That's the first time you've ever thanked me.

That's the Indian terraformer!

What the hell?!

I-I don't feel like I'm moving forward at all.

Am I dreaming?

Shiro, can you see that?

That back!

It can't be...

But that back...

That's Loser...

Loser King!

Finally, someone's caught up with me.

Impossible!

Someone must have put a ghost driver up for us.

That's no ghost driver!

You're right.

He's the real deal.

Mikagura. You seem to have learned nothing.

Our destination happens to be the same. That's about all.

But Loser,

that form you've taken closely resembles the ideal form that I envisioned for my Tomoe Drive.

Tomoe Drive?!

Hey, don't tell me you already knew about Loser!

Why didn't you tell me?!

The engine that adapts and evolves to its environment.

That's the Tomoe Drive.

The engine with no end to its evolution.

As if I understand what that means!

You just told me you had nothing else up your sleeve!

Impossible!

A hundred years! A hundred years!

That man carried on riding at full throttle for a hundred years!

A hundred years.

I see.

The time lag has been great.

The environmental changes aren't the only effect of the Indian terraformer.

The closer you get to it, the more the space-time continuum distorts.

No matter how hard you try, you can never get close to it.

In other words

the more we try to get near it, the more the world separates from us.

Mere minutes end up becoming years!

That's right.

When you get here, you realize that your top speed is a concept in itself.

No, speed is relative!

An incomparable top speed holds no meaning!

Shiro!

You sure are something else, Loser.

And who might you be?

Tomoe Shiro.

I am the man who will surpass you.

Such confidence!

Amazing!

He can still accelerate!

What a guy...

Thanks, Tomoe.

I was able to come this far because of you.

This isn't the time to be like that, Shiro!

Goodspeed, take care of her.

Shiro, stop!

Sure.

Unfortunately, this is as far as I go.

At least I was able to see your backs from a distance.

He's such a weirdo.

Sorry.

My body has become one with the machine now.

No! No!

You are my engine!

I finally developed the ultimate engine!

Shiro, you'll abandon me just like Loser did...

I'll catch you as many times as it takes.

The path you took yesterday becomes a completely unknown path today.

But we will continue forward and exploit it,

even if the terraformer rejects us.

This isn't over yet!

I can still go on!

I'll advance further than anyone has before!

This isn't my finish line!

The Planet Redevelopment Race!

You fearless idiots inhabiting the wheeled cities!

My mistake, you little shits!

When I returned from India, another hundred years had passed.

Goodspeed, who returned with me,

barely made it back in time to meet his grandchildren.

I heard that Shiro's old man did his best to keep Orks running.

Mankind is still tied down by the terraformers.

Perhaps the terraformers are seeking an answer.

An answer to how much change organisms can undergo.

They'll only allow those who can adapt to the environmental changes to survive.

As new machines are found, technology advances.

Leaving mankind behind...

Tomoe-san, we're almost at Anna Perenna.

Goodness, you sure have guts.

I've waited far too long.

Mind you, I only waited a hundred years, so I guess you've had it worse.

You know,

I think the problem was that I made someone else do the most important part.

Huh? What do you mean?

Never mind.

Exploit the world!

This isn't our finish line!

Come together, Tailenders!

All we can do as the chasing pack is jump over the same walls with more grace,

so that, one day, we can all line up at the same start line.