A Positive Response

What were Rutherford and Desmo talking about? 

To understand that we would have to know about the course of events that took place after Yvonne started her final laps around the training ground.

When Yvonne had passed the canopy and her parents, that marked the beginning of the ninth round.

She huffed and puffed as she dragged her exhausted and weary body onwards.

'I still have time! I can make it, so come on Yvonne!' She cheered for herself and continued jogging.

Her ankles were swollen and the leather boots were beginning to clamp down on her feet, causing a brutal obstruction to the blood flow down in her feet.

'Could we not have proper sports shoes in this world? Where are the people who always asked us to just do it when we need them the most?' She sneered at the company that made sports shoes back in her original world.