Chapter 206

Mann: "I just saw your interview on TV; when your horse girl's race comes up, I'll definitely bring that kid David and Rebecca along to cheer you on!"

Entities: Mann, David, Rebecca.

Yuehuanshe: "Thanks!"

Entity: Yuehuanshe.

Mann: "No problem, see you tomorrow."

Entity: Mann.

Yuehuanshe: "See you tomorrow."

Entity: Yuehuanshe.

—— (ignore)

Kevin: "Hehehe, Little Snake's work is booming!"

Entity: Kevin.

Yuehuanshe: "You saw the news too? Your horse girl hasn't officially started her career yet; she'll only be on track after four months."

Entity: Yuehuanshe.

Kevin: "Alright, I'll wait. By the way, my luggage is almost ready; in a few days, once my passport is done, remember to help me receive it!"

Entity: Kevin.

Yuehuanshe: "... You came this early?"

Entity: Yuehuanshe.

Kevin: "I've already finished transferring schools a few days ago; I've been thinking these past two days and decided to come early to get used to the place. Is the food delivery well-developed in Boundary Gate District?"

Entities: Kevin, Boundary Gate District.

Yuehuanshe: "... It's well-developed, but the office has a small kitchen where you can cook for yourself."

Entity: Yuehuanshe.

Kevin: "As long as food delivery is good, goodbye!"

Entity: Kevin.

Looks like they really aren't planning to give up food delivery...

No named entities.

——

Penguin Logistics internal channel.

Entity: Penguin Logistics.

Great Emperor: "Newbies, newbies, newbies! Going on TV and not even bothering to promote the logistics company!"

Entity: Great Emperor.

Energy Angel: "Boss, Aomo is just a temporary worker."

Entities: Energy Angel, Aomo.

Great Emperor: "How can a temporary worker not promote the company!"

Entity: Great Emperor.

Moshtima: "Boss, doing this makes people likely to quit."

Entity: Moshtima.

Yuehuanshe: "In that situation, wouldn't advertising for Penguin Logistics just attract backlash instead?"

Entities: Yuehuanshe, Penguin Logistics.

Croissant: "The boss probably doesn't care about the haters."

Entity: Croissant.

Texas: "But maybe it would offend the URA Association."

Entities: Texas, URA Association.

Lapland: "What what? What are you talking about?"

Entity: Lapland.

—Great Emperor has kicked Lapland out of the channel—

Entities: Great Emperor, Lapland.

Great Emperor: "How did this girl get let in again! Are you Texas?!"

Entities: Great Emperor, Texas.

Texas: "Have you been drinking too much?"

Entity: Texas.

Croissant: "Wow! That's a strong attack!"

Entity: Croissant.

Moshtima: "Texas's statement sounds like a declarative sentence; maybe the boss is indeed drinking."

Entities: Moshtima, Texas.

Empty: "... Um, I let Lapland in; she said she wanted to discuss something with Texas."

Entities: Empty, Lapland, Texas.

Great Emperor: "Take it to private chat! Our company channel is a sacred place only for employees!! And what about the newcomers?! Why isn't the temporary worker speaking!"

Entities: Great Emperor.

"Trainer? Trainer? Lin Dun trainer?"

Entities: Lin Dun.

A finger kept poking his spine; Aomo was about to say a couple more things, but then a voice from the side said: "You're being too polite, Maruzen—here you'll see my loudspeaker—" "Ren completely forgot this is the spectator seats, huh?"

Entities: Aomo, Maruzen.

Aomo, unable to pretend to be dead despite hearing this, glanced sideways at Airisuzi, whose eyes seemed to say 'It's about time you threw a heavy punch!', then tilted his head back and looked toward Chiming Representative on the far side of the rear seats, as well as her old personal alarm in her hand.

Entities: Aomo, Airisuzi, Chiming Representative.

Then his gaze froze.

No new.

"...", not only him but also Airisuzi and Miura Bourbon, who saw her pull out that thing, had their gazes turn bewildered.

Entities: Airisuzi, Miura Bourbon.

Even the last one still had a somewhat poker face.

No.

"Is this a loudspeaker? Are you trying to call me or have me taken to the police station?" Aomo said expressionlessly.

Entity: Aomo.

"First, let's agree: normal people wouldn't think a person could insult a horse girl."

No.

"Rather, it's truly puzzling why Chiming Representative would carry a common female self-defense item given her abilities."

Entity: Chiming Representative.

"So it's just a little gadget to get you to turn your head," Chiming Representative said, acting as if nothing happened, putting it away and even dragging the senior beside her into the water, "Right, Maruzen?"

Entities: Chiming Representative, Maruzen.

"Little Chiming always has some weird little props," Airisuzi frowned, and Maruzensuki really took it, saying, "I remember this was still a prop from our school drama club back then!"

Entities: Chiming, Airisuzi, Maruzensuki.

"Exactly, exactly! I knew Maruzen would definitely still remember!" Chiming Representative nodded happily.

Entities: Maruzen, Chiming Representative.

What kind of B-drama would use something like this?

No.

Aomo turned to look at Airisuzi, who seemed to grasp the team's internal cues, quickly shaking her head to protect Tressen's reputation:

Entities: Aomo, Airisuzi, Tressen.

The problem is the senior, and it's not even the school!

No.

"Come on, don't worry about such small stuff—you know lots of fans would die to see Maruzen once, so I just brought you over! Weren't you two said to have met yesterday?"

Entity: Maruzen.

Chiming Representative explained with good intentions, making the brown horse ears perk up.

Entity: Chiming Representative.

Did you see them yesterday?

No.

Although we already know Guinea Pig-kun is a social butterfly, but isn't this getting excessive?

Entity: Guinea Pig-kun.

As Chiming Representative said, Maruzensuki, who drives around everywhere, is genuinely hard to find; compared to Tressen's rarity, it's even more so than Chiming Representative wandering around all day and the horse girl Narita Hakujin who never shows up.

Entities: Chiming Representative, Maruzensuki, Tressen, Chiming Representative, Narita Hakujin.

Have you seen that too?

No.

"It's just a coincidence," noticing Airisuzi's complexion, especially her dead stare at me, Aomo could somewhat guess what she was thinking, "We met on Third Outer Ring Road."

Entities: Airisuzi, Aomo.

"Yeah, Lin Dun's trainer's motorcycle left a deep impression on me," Maruzensuki clapped, eyes blazing, "Too bad his driving style is too conservative; I still want to race him!"

Entities: Lin Dun, Maruzensuki.

"Your driving style also left a deep impression on me," Aomo thought, "Being able to sweat in this rain must mean the summer is too stuffy, and besides, racing a motorcycle against a car seems off."

Entity: Aomo.

"Maruzen also has a motorcycle, huh," Chiming added, "She's also dabbled in motorcycle racing."

Entities: Maruzen, Chiming.

"…Let's talk about it later," Aomo said, glancing at the already introduced horse girl racecourse, then looking at the nearby seats where the tardy Nishizaki Yutaka team had caused a bit of a stir.

Entities: Aomo, racecourse, Nishizaki Yutaka.

After exchanging waves with that trainer, he also noticed the oddness in the trainer's gaze toward his own back.

No named.

That's understandable.

No.

Aomo was at a loss for words, lowered his hand, and warned those around: "The riders are about to enter the gate."

Entity: Aomo.

——

Enter the gate.

The gate of the Treasure Hill Memorial, at a glance, is nothing but famous, familiar faces — which is only natural.

After all, for entry into this race, they first compete on popularity, then on performance.

Although there are those like the Eastern Sea Emperor who, after winning the Jidong Derby, decided to temporarily rest and not rush to sign up for voting, there are also those like Yueguang Kuangqi who, despite finishing fourth regrettably, still bravely signed up for the Treasure Hill Memorial, barely meeting the prize money standard for young players in this classic race.

Furthermore, there are veteran horse race athletes: triptyth from Anmei District, celestialstorm from Hongying District, and tonybin from Yiluo District — those university division horse girls about to retire.

Among them, the high school division's Huangjin Cheng, Meiji Duo Bo, Meiji Mai Kun, and Du Ao Wang Dun are no longer so conspicuous.

But who cares about those cheers, right?

In such a grand event, the inside of the gate is utterly silent.

There is no leisure; all the horse girls remain silent, leaving the outside cheers to thunder.

——Finally

——Come on——!

——Rhythm, guarantee rhythm——

——Will anyone do a big escape?

——Must win——!

——Last race!

Don't shake——!

——I don't want to lose again……

For the glory of the White-eye family——!

——The victory of fighting alongside Mai Kun!

The expected, perfect conclusion——!

——Become the moonlight that leads everything!

The laurel crown of the ancient horse shall be taken by me——!

……

Battle intent collides in silence, spirit condenses in stillness.

The horse girls who had taken their starting poses merely stared at the alloy gate at the cutting edge of materials science, with no regard for each other in their eyes, yet their convictions had already been waging war without cease.

Then, in the next moment——

——They had waited for the full deployment of the Saichang's protective shield.

Eighteen pairs of legs, in their fierce pedaling, made the grass field sink; together with the raindrops, the thunder and violent wind that shattered them stood side by side.

"One horse length! One horse length! One horse length in the fierce competition! On this Saichang without a great escape method! Tony Bianka, triptych, and moonlight frenzy vie for first, achieving a stable distance of one horse length through repeated overtaking!"

"After that, the fourth place is Golden City beginning to accelerate and close the distance! Mejiro Mai Kun and Mejiro Duo Bo maintain steady speed!"

The summer rain was continuous, yet it fell not upon the splendid attire.

The girl of myriad colors, with her feet, brewed the wind pressure that drove away all the rain; from the elevated grandstand, the spectators could see the increasingly evident water curtain 'condensing' before each figure, and moreover, each's own radiance emerged from that long curve.

Someone walks in their prime, like the sun at high noon, scheming to seize glory.

Someone walks at the end of their life, seeking only a grand finale.

But no matter what, having already stepped onto the Saichang, on this Takarazuka Memorial Race that sums up past efforts, there is only one determination!

——Must win!

Mixed illusions, overflowing flowing flames.

The essence of burning life is precisely this limit of the pursuit of sport.

On the west stands.

Unlike the frenzied shouts around, the elderly woman on the seat quietly holds her cane, her gaze upon the Saichang revealing no emotion.

Even when asking the solemn-faced girl beside her, her tone is rather calm:

"Sirius, how do you feel?"

"Returning from the Celestial Gate City to the Boundary Gate District, how would you evaluate this Saichang?"

Having put away her solemn expression, the brown-haired horse girl almost immediately regained her usual confidence: "An intense battlefield as expected—this is what makes it worth looking forward to!"

The vastly expansive interstellar Saichang always seems to have strong contenders like clouds, but the origin of horse racing in this world ultimately begins from the Boundary Gate District, from Earth.

Compared to that interstellar Saichang, which, due to its excessive vastness, has its strong contenders scattered and disordered most of the time, the competition intensity of Earth's five major Saichangs is still stronger.

After all, the federated subsidiary planets where the three goddesses signed the agreement for otherworldly souls to reside are only three in number, and, like Earth's notion, they all strive to transfer to central higher education.

Hearing this answer, the elderly woman also merely said lightly: "That's how it is."

"For me, this is enough."

Glancing at this old geezer, Sirius thought in her heart that this guy really is just like an old person in such a place.

A sudden impulse——such a label, either a brat or an old man, or perhaps originally the same.

On a whim, I came over to watch the race.

On a whim, I asked myself what I thought, as if harboring some luck that could sway the emperor, who is accustomed to this scene.

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If I could lie, could I give the other person some unrealistic fantasy?

She thought it over, and again felt that this premise was quite laughable.

Whether I lie or the other person ends up having unrealistic illusions.

This old geezer really is that symbol of speed……

Having grown up under the stare of such a fellow, Rudolf is indeed quite formidable.