Chapter 677: with translation of chapter title

NO．46：Next chapter: The most dazzling man in the world! (x

「Ha… I'm saying, guinea pig, today… is something wrong? 」

「If you're asking about Chazuo, she focused on corner training yesterday until almost curfew time, so it's not hard to guess she didn't go to sleep right away after returning. 」

「No, this question! It's that even Chazuo can skip training, so why do I have to get up so early! 」

「Right, why is that? 」

Before the training ground, under Bo Fang's deliberately posed unresponsive stance, Aomo repeated his question about his still-unsteady breathing, then immediately smiled.

「Indeed, Miss Suzi managed to wake up early—doesn't she have any self-awareness? 」

「Although it's regrettable that you're still a few minutes late. 」He glanced at the time in the upper right corner of the light screen, then looked at the one holding a bag, clothes disheveled, school uniform tie slightly askew—Ailisuzhi.

Finally, he looked toward the track where many horse girls were already running; among them, the horse girl with a single blue ear cover was especially steady.

Steady enough that Aomo began to wonder whether to find an opportunity to send a message to Miss Chengtian Lu, letting her properly 'interfere' with the other's run.

Indeed, if you want Aimu Zhiji to relax, it would be more reliable to ask the truly clever one.

But his interactions with that cunning younger sister are inevitably accompanied by verbal sparring, and the mental drain is no less than that of the person in charge's interactions, so over the past few days, his chat logs with her often start with her initiating a topic, then he ends it by saying he has something to do,

Putting up a passive match makes it easy to get flagged and reported.

It might be good to loosen up the approach and let New Universe get close to Aimu Zhiji; given the former's subtle age, it might even arouse the latter's habit of taking care of juniors as an older sister—although New Universe's mental age might actually be higher than Zhiji's.

No, considering the chat cost, this might not be a bad kind of imprisonment experience for Miss Zhiji……

Just thinking about the threshold of conversation with New Universe, Aomo felt this wasn't a good choice either.

And as he withdrew his gaze, catching sight of that faint illusion, he suddenly realized— the presence that could persuade Aimu Zhiji was clearly right beside him.

These past few days, Chazuo has often been seen guiding Aimu Zhiji.

Even if her spirit medium aptitude is a bit low, it doesn't matter; high enough inspiration can compensate for the threshold to open spirit vision. Aomo doesn't doubt Aimu Zhiji's inspiration, after all, the places she's been can still directly trace the remnants of outer gods.

This little girl used to always take her astronomical telescope out at night to stargaze; if she didn't bump into Cthulhu, one would think her sister really was trying hard.

And now, just as he once promised to let her see her sister, Aimu Zhiji's spirit vision study, while not yet complete, at least often lets her feel her sister nearby, and she hears her sister's voice far more frequently than before.

One supposes that given time they'll be able to meet and talk normally, then fast-forward to the Super Spirit Body. Sis-san, becoming a two-in-one spirit king (crossed out) horse girl.

As for what the future Aimu Zhiji will be like, we'll leave that aside; at present, Aimu Zhiji, noticing the gaze, looked back, her violet eyes as general affairs committee member carrying a hint of 'Just came?' dissatisfaction, then suddenly shifted back to the original hostility she ought to have.

Cough, let us withdraw our gaze and look again at what's before us:

「I've already come running as hard as I could, guinea pig. 」That's what a certain horse girl could be heard stubbornly insisting.

After being stubborn, she saw the other suddenly squat down, causing her to instinctively retreat half a step.

Whether person or horse girl, they are quite wary of anything that might threaten their lower stance.

But unfortunately, Aomo was merely looking at her round-toed little leather shoes, which aren't suited for running.

Those little leather shoes matching the uniform had edges stained with plenty of brown dirt the same color as the shoes, which at first glance is easy to overlook.

「But the dirt on your shoe edges tells me you only began to accelerate after entering the training field's range, and you only suddenly applied force in the muddy area, creating the impression of a final‑kick sprint. 」

「Tsk. 」

Someone's pretense is dropped quickly.

「How leisurely, Miss Suzi—are you still scouting for test‑subject white mice all along, following a couple that seem especially suitable for a few steps, only letting go after learning the other's name and roughly their class? 」

「How dare you describe your assigned horse girl like a pervert! 」

「Good heavens, Miss Suzi actually has some self‑awareness about her actions，"Aomo put his hands together in feigned surprise，「so I'll have to impose a penalty of half a lap less. 」

「How many laps are left? 」

「Three and a half laps, please，"Aomo said mercilessly，「but before that, go with Bo Fang to the changing room to put on your clothes and shoes. 」

The tougher‑than‑uniform sportswear, plus the training running shoes with embedded horseshoes, are exactly the essential training kit packed in the bag Suzi is carrying.

「Yes——」she drawled unwillingly, Ailisuzhi wore a resentful expression and said，「What about my assistance experiment! The negative energy at Mount Changbai still isn't properly settled! 」

「Time will naturally be set aside; I think you shouldn't forget that there's still the campus selection match today. 」

「I know, how so—are you suggesting I go there to look for experimental subjects? 」

「Quite the opposite—it's a free time source that lets the two of them continue research, while I have to go to the site to check in, otherwise it'll affect the end‑of‑semester trainer‑rank evaluation. 」

「Hahaha, how pitiful, guinea pig. 」

「What do you mean? This time isn't actually hard to pass; on a normal day I could watch and play with the terminal, but today I still have to keep handling the scene for Renlong……」Aomo's words had barely fallen when he felt the cards in the card case stirring again.

That expression instantly turned ugly; he really wanted to say, 'I didn't call you!'

But right after, that utterance seemingly coming from the depths of his heart—making it hard to discern where the voice was from—"Dragon God… today I too must find a chance to promote feng shui!"—made him fall silent, realizing he was the one being called.

This isn't even in the realm of prayer, Renlong—are you seriously doing a high‑intensity self‑search, responding instantly with just a few keywords?!

And hey, little girl, why are you promoting feng shui to Renlong? You should tell Miss Jun Chuan instead—it'd be more effective!

A thousand complaints churned in his heart, but Aomo's face remained impassive as he waved at the two puzzled girls: "Hurry up and change—you need to do two speed‑training sets, one strength‑training set, and then maintain your condition before morning arrives."

「Yes! Master. 」As soon as the training segment began, the cyber horse girl who wouldn't pretend not to hear standby immediately responded.

「Good~ good~ good~! 」That's always the reluctant yet unusually early‑rising Miss Suzi.

It made it seem as if she didn't want to run, but in fact she was raising an objection to the trainer.

Such protest is undoubtedly meaningless, just as when she previously demonstrated potions to others, she didn't much care about their resistance; although Ailisuzhi understands that the guinea pig is essentially her own kind, she still hopes that when he hides something, the morality and dignity he shows will be revealed.

But unfortunately, this hinges on cause and effect; Ailisuzhi, over the summer break, spoiled herself rotten in her room, thereby giving Aomo enough 'training' to build up resistance.

He would merely smile and wave, appearing as if his conscience had suffered not the slightest reproach:

「Go quick, come back quick. 」

This planted in the assigned horse girl the determination to, upon turning back, bring out potions and have the trainer 'blow up'.