Chapter 1970: Side Story Chapter: Mystery x Chemistry (Part 2)

Side Story Chapter: Mystery x Chemistry (Part 2)

【Illusory Triple Crown Horse】

Feeling regret and pity that it could not challenge the remaining schedule of the classic Triple Crown, while also affirming that if it competed, it would surely easily win the laurels of the remaining two races.

Such a racehorse often earns, among horse fans, the distinction known as the 'Illusory Triple Crown Horse'.

But no matter how firmly the horse fans themselves believe, that belief still contains a few parts of wishful thinking.

In the countless scenes seen by Ailisuzhi, the horse soul named 【AgnesTachyon】 always gives the same fate to countless horse girls named AgnesTachyon: before they even reach the Kikuka Sho, they encounter the obstacle called illness.

Without exception, this makes the definition of the 'Illusory Triple Crown Horse' become an extreme satire.

Then there is always that painful segment: being doubted by many as possibly unable to pass the stamina test of the Triple Crown's final leg, the Kikuka Sho, and being doubted in ability.

Before the actual facts are laid out, all kinds of pessimistic opposing opinions will also not be lacking.

How do those countless Ailisuzhi cope?

The answer is passive coping.

Unable to break the shackles of fate, nor to recover from the blow, in the countless worlds she sees, those extreme, frenzied, even self-abandoning versions of herself simply live on in depressed frustration, and the greatest difference between them and her is evidently due to the difference in trainers.

But her focus is evidently not here.

After all, by now the special qualities of Tunshu Jun have been appreciated enough; there's really no need to make a fuss over his outstanding uniqueness in the trainer field.

What truly lets her feel surprise and novelty is evidently the companion that appears in those countless scenes, and even in the few scenes where it does not directly appear, there remain traces suggestive of a representative object.

【ManhattanCafe】/Mancheng Chazuo

Really unexpected.

Clearly the connection of horse racing itself is especially weak, yet my bond with her seems like the unified fate of many worlds.

Is it because of the influence of the so-called 'Pretty Derby'?

That really is quite deep… If it were Tunshu Jun, he'd probably complain like that, but Ailisuzhi's perspective is evidently not so casual.

Of course, there would also be no hostility.

Although Chazuo's opinion might have slight differences, she has always regarded Chazuo as a friend, and moreover as 'the original old friend' in that sense. Although the extra label of 'No. 1 Test Subject' largely undermines the two-way nature of this friendship, she evidently doesn't mind!

At the moment she discovered that the old friend with whom she had always gotten along (questionably) was actually a soulmate bound by fate, she felt only 'not bad. jpg'. Then, as that instant sense of omnipotence faded and the all-knowing view receded, her soul reimmersed in water, feeling as if the whole world were binding her, she suddenly realized——

Compared to Chazuo in other worlds, is the Chazuo I know perhaps too harmless?

Those dangerous ones.

Those mysterious ones.

Those nervous ones.

Those, while diverse, are all rushing toward different interpretations of darkness, with their astonishing final strides plunging especially deep; the black-haired horse girls always have a path toward the abyss, becoming accomplices with the self beside them, enough to make Suzi, who still stands in the sunlight, feel alienated and regretful, as well as a slight admiration.

An admiration of 'Sisters can actually be this handsome sometimes,' and then, upon coming to her senses and seeing again the somewhat concerned big girl gazing at her and the man beside her, she burst out laughing.

Even though the big girl is already an adult, she still looks like a little black cat; the reason is certainly not because of me, so what is the reason?

"Tunshu Jun~"

"Huh? Any gains?"

"There are plenty of gains, like catching you will also incur the guilt of provoking other women, oh!"

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"But have you noticed something somewhat ironic?"

"For example?"

"Embracing other shadows, the darkness actually limits that shadow's expansion, doesn't it?"

"…" Not knowing whether he heard, the trainer merely fell silent for a moment, then, meeting her gaze, said, "But the value of darkness is not merely about the size of its radiation, right?"

"Mm… that's also true."

Under the unchanging, emotionless amber-gold gaze of the black-haired horse girl, the brown-haired horse girl shrugged, thereby accepting his view.

Then she picked up another vial of reagent.

"Alright, back to the topic—aside from the portion Tunshu Jun initially tried, there's still one vial left~"

"Want to give it a try? Chazuo, very sparkling~"

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