Chapter 1139: with translation of chapter title

title: NO．44：Comparing Which Is More Splendid

The final link of the 'Triple Crown achievement'—which brings about a dramatic transformation in horse girls' abilities—this peculiar commonality was, in its early years, viewed by researchers in related fields as an alternative extension of the 'authentification' era.

Contains: Triple Crown achievement – we have the glossary term Triple Crown, so "Triple Crown achievement". Also "horse girl" is a generic term, not a name. "authentification" is a term but not a name.

As time passes.

With the development of horse racing culture.

After the medical community's understanding of horse girls deepened, this centuries‑old misunderstanding was finally put to rest.

Indeed, the widespread authentification phenomenon among horse girls truly affects physical development and even more so influences physical quality.

But all of this stems from the unique factor effect of horse girls.

Later researchers, using synchronized physical testing during races, first confirmed that the horse girl factor is not activated, refuting that hypothesis and putting an end to countless mistaken attempts by horse girls and trainers to take shortcuts.

But although it proved the old‑school theory wrong.

But the true principle behind the career's multiple transformations took over ten years to finally be established.

And it is still an extremely simple reason.

Will.

Will drives the body; at the instant when will, body, and source energy technique all reach their limits, the true unity of mind, body, and technique is achieved.

The final link of the 'Triple Crown achievement' is, for horse girls, that deep yearning, that erupting desire.

Whether they are about to achieve it, stubbornly refusing to lose, or simply wanting to thwart the other's success…

Regardless of the reason, on such a racecourse they will act more extremely than in most of the races they have experienced.

Just like the meme "When are you most nervous. jpg" that often pops up in player communities, everyone in the world can find the moment they are willing to truly devote their heart and soul, on the verge of their limits.

And it is precisely at that moment that you will feel a reality surpassing any previous instant.

And that reality, for horse girls, is even more the key to touching the flow state, the Zone.

Therefore, although past horse‑girl training emphasized it, in practice it never received special attention from industry professionals, and so it has become the inevitable focus of today's horse‑girl training.

And that is why today's trainers value the temperament of horse girls so highly.

When everyone has talent, when everyone is striving, and when everyone wants to win, what you ought to do—what you must do!

——That is, to want to win more than all of them!

A race can have only one winner; your dream, her dream—who has never had a dream?

On this track chasing brilliance, the silver brow stud reflects sunlight; the Sky Palace becomes a flickering point of light, and on the now much‑longer middle section of the track, it surges forward in a burst of speed.

"Oh oh! The Sky Palace athlete is accelerating to catch up! Surpassing the Noblewoman and the Globe, she who is closing in on the Peak—does she have any stamina left afterward?"

"Stamina… what nonsense is she saying?"

"My calculations are perfect!"

Following logic and adhering to calculation, the black‑haired horse girl firmly believes that a race is just a collection of numbers.

Her belief lies not in yearning for the finish line, but in putting into practice the calculation results she trusts.

Just like now.

Middle stretch, 2700 m, the 8th turn—just as she had confirmed with her trainer according to her calculation plan.

The beauty of numbers, the beauty of precision—these are the ultimate elegance she believes in.

Though she appears as a valiant, fashionable black‑haired horse girl, in essence she feels nothing for any queen's battlefield or any beautiful showdown.

She has come merely to manifest the aesthetics she firmly believes in.

She has come only so that, after the calculation of "7 cm difference and missing the Triple Crown by a hair" proves true, she will still not accept defeat and will carry out the perfection of the next calculation logic.

The fruit of research is precisely to be put into practice again and again.

So far, although the Peak's choice has surprised her a little, no other variables have appeared yet, but this is still only the middle stretch.

Before reaching the final stretch, before the segment where everyone displays their final kick, even though she is so convinced of calculation, she likewise tenses her spirit, carefully burning the rational flame in her eyes.

Only because she knows—even right now——!

"Noblewoman! Noblewoman is catching up! Just past halfway, the Noblewoman, unwilling to fall behind, has surged into the front! Likewise she passed the Globe, and at the same time the midsummer cicada chorus begins to slow—has she lost speed? Has she lost speed?"

"A horse‑length distance is dangerous!! At this speed!! This distance!! The Peak athlete successfully avoided it!! First place!! Now she is first place!!"

The wind is advising against.

Like a tangible film of strong wind, it fiercely dissuades the Sky Palace's steps, making each of her strides sluggish and difficult.

Just as with calculation, she grits her teeth and persists, because a reddish‑brown hue has already faintly appeared in her peripheral vision.

"She maintains a two‑horse‑length gap with the second‑place Sky Palace! And at the same time, the Noblewoman has caught up!"

"Sky Palace tries to overtake, but just as she succeeds she is caught up by the Noblewoman! The distance between them and the Peak is slowly shrinking! The distance between the three leaders up front and those behind keeps growing! Yet the race has not yet entered the final stretch! 3100 m! On the Fu Zhong racecourse, the last time such a fast‑paced middle segment occurred was two years ago at the Kikka Sho."

Two years ago…

The speaker says it unintentionally, the listener takes it to heart.

Two years ago at the Kikka Sho, the fast‑paced middle‑segment offense and defense, for the two horse girls on the field, both directly point to that year's name: brown hair flowing like a waterfall, in the final stretch like a blazing sun breaking through the sky, firmly shooting light into every competitor's eyes, making people involuntarily close their eyes and feel despair.

Dazhenhan.

Whether direct line or branch.

When the girls merge with the horse spirit without distinction, they also absorb everything of that horse spirit, including its name.

Thus they become separate from their original family and clan surnames.

Peak, Noblewoman.

These are not names that would appear in an ordinary family, just like Dazhenhan, having been infused with the most obvious imagery.

The summit of the peak.

The magnificence of nobility.

They are born such that they will never be compared to ordinary kids at home or relatives' homes; the only things they can be compared to are each other, and that older sister who was born several years before them—who, while they were still in elementary school studying textbook knowledge, was already galloping on the racecourse.

Admiration, longing.

When did this feeling start, becoming tainted?

Is it because of the effect of "formalization", quickly skipping the unfinished fifth grade of elementary school?

Is it because one started being introduced to the central, began basic training, and also because the older sister often came to visit and was mentioned by people around?

Both are already forgotten.

Only remember that from some point on, no matter what I did, everyone would mention Dazhenhan (to the Noble Lady), mention the Noble Lady (to Ji Feng).

The older sister became a great mountain in Dong Na's heart.

And the cousin's older sister also became a mountain higher and higher in Ji Feng's eyes.

But obviously, when each entered their own careers, the gradually showing more differences would make their obsessions completely different.

Consecutive victories, yet in others' eyes just walking the older sister's old path, and when tripped by the Sky Divine Palace from the Oak Tree Race Leap, the Noble Lady was even once gossiped about, just wanting to prove herself.

Consecutive losses, clearly having enough strength, but due to competing in the same period as the Noble Lady, repeatedly being suppressed, always ranking second Ji Feng, also does not believe others' or sister's words "enough strength".

She only wants to surpass that Noble Lady who has always blocked her way since the start of her career, hindering her reaching the peak, to regain her original goal.

"Still accelerating! Still accelerating! Can Ji Feng go further! At the same time, the Noble Lady also seems to have steadied her advantage, the unyielding dreams, at this moment stepping out with rapid steps!!"

Dream?

Never was any dream.

Violent steps.

Precise steps.

For both, all that exists now is only the goal that must be won!