Chapter 285: NO．47：

NO．47：【Perception this high, is the sanity enough?】

Within the national concept encompassed by the early planning of Boundary Gate District, there once existed a small country whose main members were of the Korean ethnic lineage.

Many people in this country harbor a mental illness recognized by the medical community.

——Fire Illness

This is a cultural remnant syndrome, rooted in an ethnic cultural emotion based on hatred; sufferers show symptoms because their life's anguish and anger have no outlet.

In short, it is the disorder resulting from the long‑term repressive living environment combined with all kinds of adversity in life.

To be frank, when a nation has an ethnic mental illness recognized by the medical community, its problems are quite serious.

And the situation of the Symbol Family is like a youthful version of this problem.

The members of the Symbol Family have no innate genetic defects, yet almost everyone possesses an acquired mental disorder.

Sensitive nerves are like a single steel wire bearing the heavy load called possessiveness and competitiveness.

Based on this, even a tiny malice can be magnified millions of times.

Although the family's ambition has not swollen, that desire for control has not retreated but deepens day by day.

The man called Moon Chase Symbol grew up in exactly this environment.

He is undoubtedly a human male, with a younger sister who is a horse girl named Sweet Moon Goddess; she is both his pride and his nightmare.

The reason is that, as the sister, she possesses far greater strength, talent, and even the elders' affection than her brother.

"In the Symbol Family, where anything related to horse girls is given priority, even though Sweet Moon Goddess has no outstanding race results, her status is equally noble."

"Compared to her, Moon Chase Symbol never gets proper recognition no matter what results he achieves," said Sirius Symbol, shrugging his shoulders, "but he also hasn't achieved anything particularly eye‑catching."

"The achievements of the old matriarch when she restored the family were so high that later people find them somewhat suffocating."

Although Sirius Symbol doesn't care much about those business conditions, she at least grew up in the Symbol Family and picked up some rough ideas from others in the clan, which is hard to avoid.

Even if Speed Symbol's racecourse records—having dominated the Emperor's Spring Prize, consecutively won the Arima Memorial, and triumphed at the Arc de Triomphe—still fit the aforementioned remarks.

"As of now, only one person has been expected to surpass her, and that person is…" She trailed off, glancing at Qianming's representative.

This is a clever trick.

She has always found that person somewhat displeasing and dislikes even mentioning their name.

Therefore that name should be spoken by that person's close friend.

But that is really unnecessary.

Listening to the Symbol Family's troubles, Qianming's representative had a fairly solemn expression earlier, but when meeting her gaze now, the corner of his mouth curled up with a subtle smile.

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She has no interface, yet the topic continues, and a voice will reply in the next second:

"Ludaofu Xiangzheng," the person with calm brown eyes met Sirius Symbol's gaze and added a description, "His Majesty the Emperor of the contemporary horse‑racing world."

Aomo Lindun, a new trainer who shows many abnormalities compared to ordinary trainers in an investigation that has taken considerable interest in Sirius, one of which is his extraordinary psychological quality.

At this moment, this new trainer, with his composed demeanor, met her scrutinizing gaze and added:

"I am not completely uninvestigated regarding the Symbol Family, let alone the fact that Miss Ludaofu as the future family head is an open secret."

Speed Symbol has more than once, in journalists' interviews, praised the excellence of the successor, hinting that his own abdication will not be far off.

This also counts as building momentum for the new family head, merely Ludaofu Xiangzheng is not very cooperative.

Although he has not avoided confirmation from other reporters on this matter, he also serves as the student council president of Central Trensen, constantly present on campus and even more so in the student council.

Even during winter and summer breaks, he often comes to school to spend the day, let alone overtime when work is unfinished.

Rather than saying it's a student's manner, it's more like that of an overly earnest student council president, even resembling the image of a school staff member.

In short, he does not resemble a future family head.

"Have you investigated— the fact that Ludaofu actually isn't very concerned about many family affairs?"

Aomo heard this, glanced at Qianming, who made an innocent expression to prove his own ignorance.

So he turned his gaze back to Sirius Symbol: "I would like to hear the details."

"Simply put, although that person has begun to receive and handle those matters, most of them remain unchanged; the clan says her caution is good, since during the transition from old to new, sweeping reforms are taboo, especially as they themselves are the parties involved."

As she said this, the brown‑haired horse girl curled the corner of her mouth in contempt.

"Others will say she is too casual, for the clan has many who hope she surpasses the old matriarch, and such lukewarm conduct fails to meet their expectations."

"And you say she isn't very attentive?" Aomo asked, seeing her smile and nod, then added, "But that isn't the point you want to make, right?"

"Of course."

Her smile deepened, and its meaning, already present in her gaze toward him, turned into a teasing amusement.

Sirius Symbol recalled in this meeting the previous encounter, and also remembered that back then, the other party likewise grasped the rhythm of certain topics in this way.

He was not surprised by what would happen, nor by where things would head; he also sensed it.

This keenness cannot be said to be absent among the trainers once hired by the Symbol Family, yet it has not blended into such calm naturalness.

This feeling again made her feel somewhat familiar, as if… facing Ludaofu Xiangzheng within that family.

This caused her gaze to fall immediately onto the crescent moon on his forehead.

Some people and things feel nothing at first glance, but the longer you look, the more similar they seem, and the more you take a liking to them.

If he were truly pulled into the Symbol Family, facing that Ludaofu fellow, what expression would he have?

Harboring a mischievous thought based on childhood affection, she felt restless in her heart, yet she also knew exactly what the Symbol Family was like.

They are now discussing precisely this topic.

"The point is that Ludaofu's attitude of intervening too little not only fails to establish due authority, but also lets certain fellows see an opening."

"It also gives those who are inherently restless more room and time to act."

"Is Moon Chase Symbol one of them?" Aomo asked.

"Of course, he is one of the few in the family with the most severe illness, but merely, in our family's nervous condition, the deeper it goes, the more it appears normal."

She smiled and said.

Even as a member of the Symbol family, the Sirius Symbol did not hesitate to use such a harsh description to depict its own situation.

At the end of those words, her rose‑red eyes seemed to have solidified into a color that could not reflect or show anything else.

Such a feeling lasted only an instant.

So brief that one would need a stopwatch used to time horse girls to measure it, the gaze returned, and Aomo's impression from the previous moment seemed like some kind of illusion.

But a person whose head is stuffed with crystal cores will not doubt their own memory.