Chapter 1448

NO. 64: After You Always Get Used to Taking the Initiative

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As everyone knows, the opening route for the vast majority of trainers is to support each other with a horse girl, two people three-legged, to blaze a trail together.

Regardless of victory or defeat, regardless of stumbles, it ultimately means having exerted one's effort to complete a round, being able to speak of a completeness in the sense of tempering.

Although the horse girl's racing career ends here, what follows is continuing life on one's own, but the trainer can step into the next stage relying on this completeness.

Training experience can certainly be applied next time, and will, in repeated accumulation, raise the confidence and stamina for building a team.

Even if there were mistakes along the way, detours taken, roundabout routes, the past accumulation will not be wasted; ultimately it will be some strength, some advantage.

Even in the mobile game that Bi Ze has played, where the player-character trainer can recruit multiple horse girls upon leaving the novice stage, they still strive in the horse girl development storyline to avoid mentioning other girls the trainer cultivated at the same time.

It's not impossible, just not common, and also not appropriate.

That would too easily invite gossip and doubt, and it would be hard to show the unity of the horse girl and trainer as two people three-legged.

Try to avoid it, with only a little added to show diversity; this is a compromise the game makes for player experience and real-world considerations.

But in real life, this compromise would only increase.

The vast majority of trainers cannot, upon hiring, arrogantly sign multiple horse girls, and the trainer's code does not really allow it either.

So Chazuo, Bopang, etc., initially signed only temporary contracts, and to this day have not been made permanent.

Aomo Lindun's qualifications are insufficient.

Senior trainers are allowed to form teams, while novice trainers can at most look toward the temporary contract rules for special circumstances.

However, even such a novice is rare in the world, and becoming one results in being the subject of public controversy in the first few months.

All negative, all resentful, everyone resents him for wasting the horse girl's talent, criticizing his lofty ambition for fame and profit.

At that time, the name Omer. Linton amounted to a byword for greed, malice, short-sightedness, and foolishness.

But now it is different.

After half a year of multifaceted effort, the final reputation, compared to the initial, can also be called a complete reversal.

Aomo has always been unafraid of this, not because he is confident in his ability, but simply because he does not care about others' opinions; yet when speaking of this, he did indeed have some confidence back then.

A confidence that to others looks more like arrogance, which let him respond to the expectations of three horse girls, believe his ability could bring them respectable results, and thus dare to take on the responsibility of cultivating a fourth horse girl.

He still does not care about others' opinions, but he feels somewhat strained, because the horse girls under him have expanded from four to eight.

Although these later four do not intend to go through a second playthrough, focusing more on the Dream Cup, a special race that can fulfill each of their wishes, he still cannot feel at ease.

There are many reasons for this, but what troubles him most is not the three idols from his teenage years.

but rather a certain person he casually dated during his youth.

He is right before his eyes.

She wears a dark green racing outfit that still fits after being updated; its unconventional tailoring transforms the prototype resembling a male formal attire into a display of arrogance, and the waist belt and bright-colored belt used to secure it emphasize her domineering style despite being female, making it easy to imagine her haughty aura when she once galloped on the track.

Just as she is usually confrontational and straightforward to the point of being somewhat crude.

It is hard to imagine that a symbolist once so repressed could produce such a woman, but perhaps it is precisely that repressive environment that forged this personality—she despises lies and expedients to such an extent that every encounter with Aomo is as aggressive as a bit of Zhouri Ningjing.

But in Aomo's view…

Rather than saying she dislikes herself, it's more like she dislikes someone similar to herself.

Yes.

Although for fans, comparing oneself to an idol is a great offense, he cannot help but admit: he and Ludaofu Xiangzheng are indeed similar in conduct and manner of speech.

Especially in their attitudes toward work and toward serious matters, they can be said to be cut from the same cloth.

And yet, most of the times the Sirius Symbol seeks him out, it is when he puts on a serious attitude.

This is hard to judge.

Also, as a fiend who has seen her interact with Ludaofu Xiangzheng many times, it's hard not to suspect that I have become some kind of substitute.

Disgust is the unwillingness to show true feeling before the other; displeasure is the difficulty of displaying one's personality before the other; the Sirius Symbol shows how restrained it is before Ludaofu Xiangzheng, and just as directly before Aomo.

It seems to be an attempt to display all the dissatisfaction accumulated over the years with one's childhood friend—whenever Aomo sees her come again to pick a fight, he first feels she is like a little Zhouri Ningjing, then notices even more detailed differences.

As the fiend bearing this, he is naturally meticulous, able to discern the subtle difference between the manifestation of anger toward the whole world and the complex hostility toward a particular person; but even if he can notice this, he really cannot do anything about it.

The timing has not arrived.

He always thinks this way, after all he is always busy, with little leisure to actively create opportunities, so he can only wait passively for the opportunity to come naturally.

But there is also a difference in the waiting.

His waiting for the opportunity regarding Zhouri Ningjing can be described as a not-so-attentive passive wait; as for the Sirius Symbol…

From the moment he signs the temporary contract with the other party, the day when the opportunity arrives is already clear.

The contract between trainer and horse girl is a two-way binding; even if temporary, it still holds effect, obliging both parties to comply.

And the result of compliance is this frantic sprint down the deserted road at this moment.

"Slow, slow by a full three seconds—such a result is hardly enough to earn a decent placing at the Canaan Racecourse, Miss Sirius."

"…"

Separated by the fence, separated by the rippling wind-breaking barrier, the horse girl, who now has several extra decorations compared to her initial appearance, can only glare fiercely for a brief instant.

No leeway to speak.

At a speed of 110 km/h, opening one's mouth is nothing but a stimulating, even somewhat dangerous, wind blast.

The horse girl's cultivation system of source energy naturally has a foundation guaranteeing bodily safety in high-speed airflow, but the specifics of cultivation still depend on the individual.

Some horse girls can even shout loudly when crossing the finish line, while others cannot utter a sound.

Some horse girls even have their faces distorted by the fierce wind from pursuing extreme speed, making expression management impossible.

Of course, among these there are also some not due to external force, but simply the release of the id's facial art distinctions…… The four high school girls under him have each already run several races, and their public images each have several deviations from the proper path; the Aomo trainer, regarding this, is deeply taboo, can only say train, train, don't talk about these.

Then let's look at training——

Look at how, in accordance with Aomo's demands, giving the Sirius Symbol, whose victorious outfit was originally meant to show elegance, fixed weight devices at various points, she sweats profusely on the Saichang yet cannot get the hang of it, and facing Aomo's incessant, blunt pointers, she can only accumulate dissatisfaction in her rose-red eyes.

If it were someone else, she would most likely walk away with a cold face.

But there is no doubt, Aomo is the person she herself chose.

The newcomer trainer's qualifications should have been the key point for this experienced horse girl to seize the initiative, but that composure naturally must be built on confidently asserting one's advantage.

But now...

She truly has no advantage at all.