Chapter 86.
<b>Chapter 86. Break up? (4/6)</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">Just as I resigned myself, I heard someone call out to me, “Ran!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Don’t you ‘Ran’ me! It’s too predictable damn it! Just let me die in peace this time you shit assassin who couldn’t even do your job right in myst life! You’re supposed to be a professional, right? If so, why did you screw everything up and say something so unnecessary at the end!
<span style="font-weight:400">When I opened my eyes, that girl had her eyes locked onto me with a serious expression. There was no panic on that beautiful face of hers. Her eyes were calm. She wasn’t flustered by this situation. A normal high school girl would have just frozen up in shock. But not this failure of an assassin.
<span style="font-weight:400">She lowered her body to the ground and kicked off with her right leg faster than I’d ever seen her go before.
<span style="font-weight:400">In a sh, she’d closed the distance and appeared in front of me with her arm stretched out.
<span style="font-weight:400">As fast as she may have been to react, she came up short, with me just barely out of her reach.
<span style="font-weight:400">As my body began to descend over the edge, I thought it was over. She’d done her best. But your best wasn’t always enough.
<span style="font-weight:400">I stared at the edge of the roof slowly receding into the distance when her face suddenly appeared.
<span style="font-weight:400">She didn’t hesitate and dove straight down, parallel to the wall headfirst. Like a lunatic who’d given up on life, she kicked off the underside of the edge during her descent to increase her downward speed. She quickly caught up to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">I was shocked. Was this girl trying to kill herself before I died?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you an idiot!” I screamed at her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’re the idiot, idiot!” She clenched her teeth and right when we were at the second story she kicked hard off the wall directly behind her. She forcefully transferred some of her downward momenta into horizontal momentum and headed toward me at a diagonal. She immediately hooked her right arm under my arms, changing both of our moments.
<span style="font-weight:400">I quickly ran the calctions inside my head in a sh using a few simple physics forms and understood what she was doing. Her end objective was simple, to spread out the average force exerted over our bodies by increasing the length of time that force is applied. It was the impulse-momentum equation.
<span style="font-weight:400">She shouldn’t have learned any of that yet though. Was it her instincts that told her how to minimize the fall damage?
<span style="font-weight:400">She’d acted at the second story as the midpoint to minimize the burden ced on her own body as well. The longer she waited to act the more damage would result. It was an optimization problem one could solve using derivative and integral equations.
<span style="font-weight:400">She made one final action that caught my attention. Right before we reached the ground she let go of me. Ourbined mass became singr and split. If this was an idiotic story, the protagonist would do something stupid like trying to catch them in their arms and remaining that way, but in reality, such an action was the dumbest thing you could do. Her quick-witted decision was the ideal method to minimize damage sustained to both parties.
<span style="font-weight:400">The final split-second decision she made reduced the average force we’d experience upon impact by about half.
<span style="font-weight:400">The change in time for the impulse was increased by how much snow waspressed along a diagonal trajectory rather than simply vertical.
<span style="font-weight:400">At the instant of impact, we slid across the snow horizontally a short distance. A certain degree of pain still spread throughout my body, but it had been greatly cushioned by the now knee-deep snow from the night before.
<span style="font-weight:400">I confirmed the status of my own body and realized aside from pain and my slightly rattled-up internal organs, nothing seemed to be broken. After narrowly escaping death thanks to Rosa, I broke out into a cold sweat. I’d sort of just epted my fate just now, but I’d seriously almost just died and it hadn’t even been because of Rosa. Rather, a simple gust of wind almost did it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Honestly. It kind of ticked me off. Sort of like, ‘Screw you nature! Don’t fuck with me! I decide how I die, not you!’
<span style="font-weight:400">I’ve never considered myself to be suicidal, I’d just rather be the one to choose my own demise. To exit the stage of this world at the time of my own choosing in the method I saw most fitting.
<span style="font-weight:400">And a gust of wind definitely was not that. If I’d been pushed off by Rosa I could have epted it, but for it to not only not end up that way, but for her to risk her own life to save me… I was sincerely pissed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nature’s always just trying to shit all over what I want.” I couldn’t help but spit that line out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Dumbass, don’t stand so close to the edge next time if you don’t want nature to shit all over your face. You were just begging nature to do it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Pffthahahaha! True.” I couldn’t help but burst out intoughter.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahahahaha!” She simrly startedughing.
<span style="font-weight:400">For two people who almost died, we definitely didn’t look the part the way we wereughing to ourselves with our backs t on the ground, bodies buried in snow.
<span style="font-weight:400">It took several minutes straight of uncontrobleughter before the two of us finally settled down.
<span style="font-weight:400">By the end of it, I had my hand over my stomach holding it fromughing too hard. It actually hurt tough. Both from the fall and from just how long we’dughed for.
<span style="font-weight:400">It didn’t help that a single gust of wind was colder than a fart straight out of Satan’s asshole. One might think a fart from him would be hot, but freezing cold temperatures could yield a simr burning effect. Both extremes of temperatures could burn someone.
<span style="font-weight:400">Too cold and you’d get frostbite. Too hot and you’d be burned. The difference between frostbite and an ice burn was for all intents and purposes, nonexistent. However, burns from extreme colds were often considered much more serious whenpared to their counterpart at the other end of the spectrum, burns from high temperatures. You typically didn’t notice such burns very fastpared to a burn from fire. The damage from cold could easily surpass the damage you would sustain from fire because you don’t notice it as fast. The simple difference was in how quickly your body identifies the pain and reacts to it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Cold tends to numb pain, it can act in a fashion that slows your pain receptors response time. Metabolic life is known to slow down in the cold to minimize energy loss in the form of heat. The body had just adapted in such an evolutionary fashion, in a way that was more biased toward responding to high temperatures. It was the speed at which heat was transferred that resulted in a person’s pain receptors responding. The bigger the difference in temperature, the more pain you felt as a result of the faster transference of heat. It was an exponential rtionship dependent on the temperature differential.
<span style="font-weight:400">For cold temperatures, there was a bottom limit of absolute zero, -273.15 degrees Celsius or 0 Kelvin. But the upper end of the spectrum didn’t have such a simple limit imposed upon it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Thus, logically speaking, your body would obviously take precautionary measurements against such a wide range above its own temperature. Theoretically, the nck Temperature, ten raised to the exponent thirty-two Kelvin, was the highest temperature that could be achieved, but for all we know, it could be even higher depending on how nature was built at the fundamental level. Well, all one needed to know was the number was big, bloody big to a stupid degree for the hot side of the spectrum.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway, all that really mattered here was that the difference in temperature was what dictated the rate at which heat transferred between two mediums. The bigger the difference, the faster the rate of heat transference.
<span style="font-weight:400">These were the most fundamental naturalws of thermodynamics. Everything else was simple biology. I’d learned all about such things in university. Yet… I was using this sort of knowledge for idiotic things like analyzing a gust of wind andparing it to a fart from Satan’s asshole. Just how low had I sunk, to so seriously contemte the cause and effect of a fart straight out of Satan’s asshole?
<span style="font-weight:400">How bored was I really?
<span style="font-weight:400">Only minutes ago, was I not talking about something rather important with Rosa? Breaking up and whatnot?
<span style="font-weight:400">Just how did my mind wander so far off track from that, to… farts out of Satan’s asshole?
<span style="font-weight:400">More like, why am I so stuck up on the fact that a fart came out of Satan’s asshole?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahahahaha! Hahahaha! It’s so stupid!” I’d abruptly burst out into another fit of uncontrobleughter.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What’s wrong all of a sudden? What are youughing about now?” Rosa asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t! I can’t breathe, Rosa! Hahahaha! Please! Stop me fromughing. Hahahaha! I’m seriously going to be a man who dies ofughter at this rate! Hahahahahahaha! Ha! Hahaha! Hahahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“What are you evenughing about still? Pftft. Like, seriously. Stop. Hahahahaha! What the heck? Why am I starting tough too? Ran, stopughing, there’s nothing funny anymore. Hahahaha! This is all your fault! I don’t even know why I’mughing at this point. Hahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Because of a fart from Satan’s asshole.” I wheezed as I just barely spit that out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What the hell is that even supposed to mean! Hahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hahahahaha! I don’t know either! Please help. I really don’t want to be the man who died because Iughed myself to death because of a fart from Satan’s asshole!”
<span style="font-weight:400">I was actually crying fromughing too hard.
<span style="font-weight:400">The tears were even freezing over.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you thinking that the gust of wind that blew you over was- hahahahaha! What the hell! This is all your fault! Now I can’t stopughing!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Rosa, if I die because of this- hahahaha!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Neither of us could stopughing by this point.
<span style="font-weight:400">This entire ordeal suddenly just felt like some stupid joke. The seriousness was all gone. Blown away by the wind.