Chapter 1496: NO.112: Gave a thumbs-up to the responsible attitude

NO. 112: Gave a thumbs-up to the responsible attitude

Not to mention whether the neglected Sirius has developed extra feelings, Aomo, who treats the scheduled training time as a deadline, obviously has to fight for every second.

Since the Dawn Consort cosplay still needs to be effective, his way of leaving with the new universe is direct teleportation, not openly lifting the tent‑style cabin entrance.

Let the girls know that keeping quiet about certain facts is just a precaution; they neither participate in the operation nor are involved in the case, and the only reason Aomo is willing to meet them is that they can let go of Sirius.

Of course, confirming Bai Ren's condition is also part of the purpose.

Even if he had once found time to explain the situation to Bai Ren, describing the special state of Sirius's soul and also explaining who the Beast King was, however, the most crucial point—that he himself was the future self from a parallel universe—he did not mention.

Not saying it was just to save trouble; this in itself doesn't help explain the case, but rather adds variables.

—If he actually said it out loud, who knows how many familiar folks would come just to take a look for those reasons.

But right now there's no need to increase combat power, labor, targets, or bait.

For Aomo, the refresh of those people merely raises the difficulty and blood pressure as variables, so his description of the Beast King covers only strength, status, and the fact that, being rejected by the world, he can barely stay for a month relying on the descent ritual.

That's enough—sufficient to understand the current situation while retaining basic reverence, so as not to get too close because of that unique aesthetic…… Aomo still isn't quite clear just how extreme Bai Ren's aesthetic sense is.

All I know is that she indeed has a strange reaction to her own demonization, and her counterpart from another universe is quite pure, but the direction of that purity is skewed—she's a monster enthusiast, and as for the Beast King……

Um… Aomo tentatively assumes it's a kind of respect; it's not convenient to elaborate further, since after that there was no chance to meet again.

The only one we can see here is…… this person, who can be momentarily dazed by the Beast King's pressure, counts as having made some progress in cultivation, but after going through this round, what is her attitude toward the Beast King?

When Aomo was explaining, he showed no inclination, but now the Beast King openly follows behind Bi Ze, so Bai Ren also has a chance to encounter him, and her reaction then……

It seems there was no reaction… By each holding their iridescent stone, they become the overseer of the monitoring room, able to simultaneously view and hear several screens' rainbow serpent deity, not missing the scene of their encounter and passing each other, and also observing Bai Ren's appearance in those meetings with the girls.

Plain and plain, just as before, it instead shows he's somewhat overthinking.

That really is strange… Aomo thought.

Whether goodwill, hostility, or even vigilance, all count as normal reactions; if he were to encounter that earlier version of Narita Bai Ren, Aomo isn't lacking mental preparation.

But what does this plainness amount to?

It doesn't look like pretense; rather, Bai Ren simply isn't good at pretending, and his habitual stubbornness in casual remarks has become something Aomo is used to—especially his excuses for being picky about food and refusing vegetables, which can't be called pretense at all, just sheer stubbornness like a dead duck's beak.

In her presence, even the Sirius symbol amounts to a performance act; the foundation of the symbolist's life leaves her with enough to surpass many people's capital, although the person regards it as an unpleasant, disgraceful stain……

Although Aomo thinks she could regard it as a reward for enduring hardship, this deep‑seated long‑held mindset is not easily changed.

If she could avoid unconsciously radiating that self‑loathing feeling before her eyes, Aomo even feels that leaving this mindset unaddressed wouldn't matter.

Indeed, in life there are certainly things that cannot be reconciled, and not everything ought to be reconciled.

But constantly using it to torment oneself is another matter altogether.

Aomo feels a trainer should be a coach, a teacher, but also often an elder, and a friend.

Especially for the Sirius symbol and Narita Bai Ren, who are university‑division horse girls, Aomo Lindun, who is naturally a year or two younger in age, finds it hard to adopt an elder's demeanor.

He can't even put on an air of authority—being a trainer with less than a year's experience, it's indeed difficult to strike a pose in front of those horse girls nearing the end of their careers, the 'mature' ones.

Since he's neither an elder nor an authority, he really is only fit to be a friend—even being a friend is a stretch, and some trainers in the central office are simply led around by the horse girls, with no initiative at all.

Aomo doesn't even see that as negligence, after all a trainer's job is to raise horse girls; as long as the horse girls eventually get good results and have their own initiative and ability, the trainer truly isn't necessary.

Just let her go—consider it as having a fully automatic horse girl under one's command.

Aomo Lindun also once had this dream; when he had just signed four mixed university/retired athletes, he also thought that fully automatic horse girls wouldn't need his attention—he could just leave them on autopilot waiting for powerful teammates to become overpowered, and that would be it.

But the facts are clearly not like that.

Everyone's running foundations are indeed 'complete', but beyond the basics it's hard to call them perfect persons.

Even there's Sirius, whose spirit isn't perfect—setting that aside, his running ability alone slightly lags behind the sisters, the type that needs special extra‑coaching sessions; his very existence is a mockery of someone's daydream.

—You don't really think you don't have to do anything, do you?

Never mind, never mind, let's strive……

A fleeting daydream can exist only for an instant; once grounded in reality, Aomo can only strive for the initiative in training, strive for the sense of authority in interaction, and strive for a friend position in which he lacks confidence, all so that those few sisters who are one to three years older than him can exit the stage as brilliantly as in his memory.

Thus he ultimately cannot ignore the Sirius symbol's self‑harming behavior, nor can he disregard Narita Bai Ren's unique fondness that can even interfere with training conditions.

Paying attention is necessary; slight testing is needed, and although the current conclusion is still unclear, that doesn't mean the experiment is meaningless.

Any theory needs countless proofs as its basis; although Aomo cannot now see the reason behind Bai Ren's calm demeanor, he is willing to wait for the future.

There are still many testing opportunities, but conversely the present focus… the present focus is not on those two horse girls who require his extra concern, even though one of their training dates is approaching, with less than thirty minutes left.

"I felt the fluctuations of Hei'an Lugiel and Hei'an Zagi."

Once he hurries for time, the Beast King will easily set aside his insistence on trying to regain normal speech and unleash his signature telepathy.

"Hei'an Lugiel has appeared here before; Hei'an Zagi's presence is faint—could it be from another dimension?"

"That's right, can you trace it?"

"Whoa, Dawn Consort?! Huh? Universe?"