Chapter 618: NO．199: I only wonder why this Telesen is so calm?

NO．199: I only wonder why this Telesen is so calm?

【Initiate an experiment: How is it? Relying on your special sharpness, can you detect that wild girl's strange condition?】

【Deep Coffee: …… Suzi, don't call classmates like that…】

【Initiate an experiment: Fine, what's that masochistic guinea pig saying again?】

【Deep Coffee: ……】

Having given up on correcting, the black-haired horse girl, who had long known the other party, naturally understood their nature.

She knew such a conversation would go on endlessly, so she merely glanced for a few seconds at the target dressed in dance attire standing on the stage.

At this time they were in dance class.

Telesen has a dance studio, dedicated to laying the dance foundation for the victor's stage.

Of course, it also includes advanced training.

The dance studio itself is also equipped with several dozen stage transformation devices needed for dance practice, to help active horse girls master advanced dance.

And as a first-year active horse girl, Aimu Zhiji naturally would be guided by the same teacher as the senior group and debuted horse girls like Chazuo.

Meanwhile, those who have not yet debuted continue to review and break down some basic dance movements.

Being in the same group naturally makes observation easy, especially since the other party, as a senior, would be prioritized by the teacher to go on the practice stage for a 'public execution'.

Indeed, this is actually the dance skill review segment on the first day of the new semester.

Just like there is a placement test a few weeks after the start of term, used to gauge the students' start‑of‑term condition.

Because most horse girls regress after summer break, and even undebuted ones often forget everything, this segment has long been secretly called a 'public execution' by the horse girls.

It sounds exaggerated, but that's the fact.

After all, it's well known that Central Telesen has many Jidong horse‑girl students, and Jidong always places great importance on seniority culture.

Being a senior yet forced to stand on the embarrassing front line, Telesen's placement‑test course design is obviously quite motivating.

Enough to drive many Jidong horse girls to make a last‑minute effort at the end of the long break, cramming at the last minute.

Although the performance is still only mediocre, as long as it's not too embarrassing it's fine!

Actually, Chazuo, who hails from Manchester in the Amer region, hasn't been much interfered with by this Jidong cultural dross, but she spent the whole summer frenetically competing with Suzi and Bobang.

Its momentum was so strong that it even once infected a certain human roommate's mood, giving them a brief spell of voluntary exercise.

Naturally, there's nothing to worry about with her.

In fact, she would likely be the top performer of her cohort, setting her apart from the other students with worried faces.

But she does not therefore become conceited.

In those dark‑gold eyes, there has never been any trace of arrogant self‑satisfaction.

Only concern remains for the person on stage.

Although the other person actually dances very well, enough to make the distant dance teacher nod frequently, a satisfied smile almost surfaces.

She obviously appreciates Aimu Zhiji's self‑disciplined demeanor, feeling that the posture is flawless, and deeply feels that having such a student in her own class is itself a fortune.

And Chazuo would gaze at the graceful, focused Aimu Zhiji for a few seconds before lowering her head again.

【Deep Coffee: Performance is very stable, but……】

She turned her head and glanced sideways; the spot was empty, making the nearby classmates who noticed her turn look puzzled.

"Chazuo classmate?"

"Nothing."

Having a trainer like Aomo, Chazuo would also make this change.

No longer like when she was a child, constantly insisting "There's a friend over there", "There are lots of people over there", those sorts of lines that make expressions stiff.

But unfortunately, when your deeds and identity are already well known, an overly blunt denial can backfire.

Thus, at this moment the classmates' expressions grow more tense, like a patient hearing a doctor say "Your condition is still optimistic" and feeling even more uncertain.

However, Chazuo, who caused this scene, didn't notice, because she had already turned her gaze back to her phone screen.

【Deep Coffee: The meaning of "Little Sis‑san"…… is that she's very unsettled……】

【Initiate an experiment: In other words, your spiritual sense can't notice her mindset at all; you can only understand it through empathy with that masochistic guinea pig's sister, right?】

Ah… this repression is truly rare…… being able to make the guinea pig guy push our training on the first day…… really is quite a challenge……

【Deep Coffee: Suzi……?】

【Initiate an experiment: Don't you find this interesting? Chazuo?】

This guy can actually fool your spiritual sense!

You know even the guinea pig guy can't escape your perception, right?

【Deep Coffee: No… the trainer just didn't avoid it……】

【Initiate an experiment: That would be even more interesting—if we suppose the guinea pig guy also has such a blocking technique, this would undoubtedly be a fine preliminary experiment, right?】

"……"

Faced with the companion's text that seems even more intriguing than before, Chazuo's heart inevitably bears a hint of worry.

Thinking back to whenever Suzi gets this excited, she always ends up stirring up some big trouble.

This worry spills over, making the doubtful classmates feel even more terrified; a misunderstanding is escalating, and she's also fretting that the increasingly serious companion might become even more radical.

And compared to the seemingly temporarily unavailable "friend", it's still some reliable person who's better suited for seeking help and confiding.

【Deep Coffee: …trainer…… has a minor issue……】

——

Ailisuzhi's aggressiveness has always been like this—just as she initially barged into Aomo's field of view, throwing his plans and even future schemes onto another track.

Lightly stepping into others' territory and then utterly destroying it, just like sweet tea, makes her body and mind delighted.

This, too, is naturally a kind of victory.

Although Aomo also proposed a compromise, giving his then vague and unclear future a continuation, allowing them to achieve a win-win.

That did not hinder her enjoyment.

Born into a free and affluent family, she learned from childhood how to seek her own victory.

A run, an experiment.

The addictive speed of running, the exhilarating advance of experiment.

Sweet yet frenzied, it is a vivid stimulus distinct from everyday life, a unique enjoyment for those who possess both talent and the ability to realize it.

Once you have experienced it, you can no longer tolerate mundane daily life, and eventually you advance toward the border-zone area of Teleisen.

That top-tier proof called central will surely bring her that devilish guidance again.

She craved a completely new challenge, stemming from stronger opponents and also from a more exciting test field.

In fact, she indeed got what she wished for.

Even confronting the disciplinary committee and debating with the student council constitute a unique enjoyment.

Ailisuzhi truly enjoys that sense of opposition from the depths of her being; whether bodily or mental, she longs for a victory.

Only the pleasure of conquering something and the delight of breaking through something can release her inner desire.

That most rational researcher has always been immersed in this madness.

But before meeting Aomo, she had not run for a long time.

At that time, she had already stayed in Teleisen for too long.

So long that she gradually noticed the flaws in her own footwork, and so long that under the dual pressure from the student council and Chazuo, she gradually felt the boredom of clinging to old ways for too long.

The experiment's progress could not excite her at all, and the running could not free her from restraint.

The day-to-day 'commonality' once made her feel as if she were rotting.

Losing her dream?

No, calling that desire a dream would be too much.

Because it is not some dazzling thing or achievement, Ailisuzhi sees herself clearly; she merely wants a challenge that can break reality, preferably one after another.

Because victory itself is actually quite boring.

People are always attracted to what they cannot obtain, and after obtaining it they discard it like worn-out shoes, turning to seek a completely new challenge.

Horse girls are the same.

But Ailisuzhi has been mired in mediocrity for far too long.

Since she is not a villain who breaks rules and disregards life, she can only be a high school student, resigned to that boredom and loneliness.

Until, in the day-to-day petty squabbles, she encountered the new guinea pig she 'caught'.

It was like Faust finding his Mephistopheles.

One contract, one promise, and she could relive the enjoyment of those days.

Even if the initial stage is dull, it can still provide her with experimental subjects she could not previously access.

Demons, monsters, a brand-new experimental curriculum, a brand-new scientific challenge.

Now there is even something reasonable, legal…… perhaps not entirely legal.

But it truly can let her relish the pleasure of intruding into others' territory and destroying it completely.

Very challenging.

There should be a challenge!

It is precisely this challenge that makes her delighted, for she is a morbid Faust.

Lost in madness for a long time, yet unable to find the stage that would excite and delight her to the point of flushing.