Noah does need a rest after his hardworking..

I don't even know how you trip like that. Is it an issue with his shoes, do the have no grip? Does he have some sort of issue with his muscle control? I joked the last time but he may actually need corrective measures just to be able to run.

Ah, get surprised and fall down while begging for his life. Of course that's how Noah reacts to Katz. It fits him perfectly.

Playing dead is a perfectly valid threat response in nature. I'm not saying his fellow students are going to think much of it, but it is valid.

Over time, Noah has become less pathetic... I think...

But MAN is that ever judging on a curve.

Kinda hilarious that even Katz's reaktion to Noah is one of confusion :D

All the same, this is in no way Noah's most impressive moment.

@Z2 To me he seems a lot more pathetic this chapter than he did in his first chapter, but that might be because this is the first time he's been forced to run. Every previous challenge has been something he could either handle mentally, or just ignore and wait for it to be over.

@Jack: I agree, the only person I know who was even comparably clumsy to Noah in this arc had a problem where they could not coordinate their left and right sides and couldn't so much as jog.

geez does noah has a low Dexterity score?

@ Z2 - Noah's an unathletic pretty boy who hates the concept of human touch. Finding things that he's not pathetic at IS making him less pathetic, but he's still being given a starting line five meters from the finish line and hoping that he actually crosses it before the slowest runner.

He's gonna hurt his knees

now that i think about it, and with noah down on the ground
jamal could remove his time stop and the cat missile will fly directly at Catz

Noah stop daydreaming in the middle of a fight! :D

I guess before standing behind him Catz hasn't even really noticed Noah. :D

Dignity! Don't you guys recognize it when you see it?

For all that Noah comes across as pretty pathetic in this strip, I can't help wondering exactly what he is seeing. He seems to be concentrating pretty intensely on the cat missiles to the extent that he doesn't even notice Catz until Catz flown past him and calls out to him.

What is he seeing - or what is Ciel telling him? Perhaps the next page will tell us.

Looking back at previous pages, Noah was actually pretty good at running early on.

Example: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_noah_312

I wonder why he's suddenly so bad at it in this chapter?

Though, 2 pages later he falls over because Ciel snuck up behind him, so I guess it isn't that much different.

The words "abject snivelling coward" spring to mind, can't think why. I do think he's been getting worse in this regard as time has gone by. And he's been growing increasingly obnoxious as well... I dunno, maybe he's just breaking under pressure? Not really fair of him to take it out on others in the same situation (or a nastier one in Ciel's case). He's being beastly to them.

The tripping thing though... don't get me wrong, it's given us some great prat falls, but it does seem very odd. It's almost like he was wished into existence a few hours ago and hasn't got the hang of walking yet.

@Jack I don't think he tripped this time, I think he deliberately ate dirt in an attempt to dodge unknown, probably offensive magic.