If time could be turned back, Silence Suzuka would definitely choose to return to the day Kitano advised her not to participate in the Tennō Shō (Autumn).
She should have known long ago that her trainer's worries were never unnecessary. If even he, who had always supported her at all times, showed hesitation and disapproval, then it must have been a time of great risk.
But as the saying goes, no amount of heartfelt advice will make a stubborn person listen. Only after suffering a loss, feeling the pain in your heart, and paying the price will you truly learn your lesson.
...But this time, the price she paid for not listening to his advice this one time was far beyond her ability to bear.
On the track of the Tennō Shō (Autumn), she, as in all the races she had won before, took the lead with an "explosive escape." Having just received a response to her feelings from her trainer, her performance this time was even more outstanding than in any previous race!
The explosive Suzuka crossed the first 1000 meters in just 57.4 seconds. She proved with her actions what it meant to be "one horse in the lead, ten thousand horses without light." When she was running alone at the forefront of the track, almost everyone believed she would win this race just like before.
And as long as she won this race, she would achieve an even more honorable achievement—two G1 wins in a year, and undefeated all year!
And this undefeated record was not obtained by avoiding fights. Having successively defeated the "Empress" Air Groove, as well as the two rising stars Grass Wonder and El Condor Pasa, the value of her undefeated record might not be comparable to a Triple Crown horse girl, but it was definitely a remarkable achievement. According to his guess, if she had not had an accident this time, she might have even been able to join the ranks of the "Golden Generation."
...But all of this was just the ideal situation. What happened next, rather than a nightmare, was more like something that was destined to happen for him.
After passing the 1000-meter mark and entering the third corner, the leading Suzuka suddenly froze. Her first reaction was not pain, but a feeling of imbalance.
It was as if the pillar that had been supporting her had suddenly broken. She felt her body sinking rapidly, her vision blurred, until finally... her whole body fell to the ground.
A horse girl running at a speed of 1000 meters in 57.4 seconds suddenly lost her balance. Her body could not possibly stop straight down like falling from a high place, nor could she, like the horse in his memory, barely support herself with three legs after breaking one and carry her jockey off the track. A sudden fracture, and at such a high speed, meant that tragedy was bound to happen.
"Bang—!"
With a dull thud, her newly fractured and slightly thin body was even bounced up again by the hard turf when she fell. She rolled several times on the grass, sliding for about ten meters before the powerful inertia was finally eliminated, and her body finally fell limply to the ground.
And she herself, under this secondary injury that was even more severe than the fracture, completely lost consciousness and lay unconscious in the center of the track...
And behind her was the large group of horse girls that she had worked so hard to leave behind by more than ten lengths, but now, after she had stopped all her movements, were rapidly approaching at a visible speed! And the center of the track where she was, and the vast group of horse girls behind her, a predictable trampling incident seemed to be about to break out!
"Suzuka!!"
Almost at the first moment, the unconscious Suzuka on the track caused an uproar in the entire venue. In the stands, under a heart-wrenching roar, his body, before his brain, made what he thought was the right, but in the eyes of others, the most insane reaction.
He saw this terminally ill trainer, who had only been able to walk upright for the past two months, jump down from the stands, which were seven or eight meters high!
She had only vaguely guessed that winning races might buy her trainer more time. And she... no, or rather, all of his past and future charges did not know that his lifespan could not only be "increased," but also "overdrawn."
His lifespan, from the day he transmigrated, had become a "digitized" existence. He could see the countdown to his death. He could not control the passage of time, but he could, through various ways, accelerate the process of this time passing.
Whenever he had to do something beyond the limits of his body, the speed of this time passing would accelerate to a terrifying degree—but what he got in return was that he could often use his lifespan as fuel to burst out with actions beyond his physical limits.
The moment he jumped down from the high stands, he didn't even have time to worry about what was wrong with his legs. At the fastest speed, in an extremely ugly and even wretched way, at a speed that would even horrify a horse girl, he ran to the side of the unconscious Suzuka at the first moment.
However, at this moment, he also felt his legs go weak... He knew that the few years she had accumulated for him had been squandered in these ten or so seconds...
But it's not enough. At least... let this child live...
With his last bit of strength, the moment before he himself was about to fall, he exhausted his last bit of strength and pushed her unconscious body off the grass...
Very fortunately, the last bit of strength he had burned pushed this unconscious horse girl who had fallen on the track off this death track... And after doing all this, he, as if having burned everything, after a roll of inertia, fell beside his charge.
"Ugh..."
However, whether it was another injury that forced her to wake up from her coma, the scarred Suzuka opened her eyes with difficulty. At this moment, there was not a single part of her body that was not in pain. The fracture of her left leg made her face lose all color.
But all this pain, finally, when her fingers, in a daze, touched a slightly warm touch, she suddenly broke free from the pain and struggled to lift her head. And the person who had fallen in front of her became a sight she would never forget for the rest of her life.
"Trainer... san...?"
Almost the moment she recognized the person who had fallen in front of her as him, her scarred face, at this moment, seemed to have even forgotten the pain, leaving only a dazed, blank, and... unwilling to accept the truth.
"Trainer-san... trainer..."
She kept calling his name softly, as if hoping all of this was just a joke, or just a nightmare... And she also struggled to stand up despite the pain—she wanted to go to his side.
However, just as she was struggling to get up, suddenly, his completely lifeless hand quickly grabbed her wrist. The extremely weak Suzuka, in pain, almost immediately fell down again.
And this fall was met with an even stronger struggle. The disheveled Suzuka tried to get up again and again, and failed again and again. And she kept muttering to herself, her voice unknowingly filled with a painful sob...
"Get up... stand up... Silence Suzuka..."
"I have to save Trainer-san... Trainer-san... please..."
"Don't do this to me... don't do this..."
However, no matter how much she struggled, his hand, which was tightly gripping her wrist, never let go, as if it were a pair of handcuffs, cuffing her in place, not letting her go anywhere...
Perhaps because he had known her history, he felt that the fractured Suzuka would step onto the racetrack again regardless of her body. Before his consciousness completely disappeared, just to prevent his charge from being hurt any more, he chose to cuff her with his own body at the last moment.
An accident, a nightmare... From then on, in this world, there would forever be one less central trainer named "Kitano Ryuichi."
This trainer, who had chosen the unfavored Silence Suzuka at the time, but had created a legendary experience with his charge. But his life, just like his charge's career, was like a shooting star streaking across the sky, brilliant, short, burning everything, just to emit that momentary light...
...
A year later, at the start of another school year at Tracen Academy, just as the people in this academy were beginning to recover from his death and were about to slowly forget this brilliant trainer, they would not have expected that the arrival of a transfer student would once again, in the name of "Kitano Ryuichi's charge," make them recall the influence of this trainer.
"Welcome to Tracen Academy, this..."
"—Special Week."
The dark roan horse girl who had stepped into the academy reported her name, word by word. However, what impressed the receptionist, Miss Tazuna, the most was the aura that this horse girl named "Special Week" exuded.
That kind of cold, violent, dangerous... all kinds of auras were constantly transmitted from this horse girl who had come to Tokyo from the countryside of Hokkaido, as if she was constantly sending out the signal that she was the "lead horse." There was not a trace of gentleness in her eyes. On the contrary, it was complete coldness and indifference.
"I am Trainer Kitano Ryuichi's contracted horse girl."
"Now, I'm looking for someone—excuse me, is Silence Suzuka still at Tracen Academy?"
"I want to discuss with her about the death of my Trainer-san."
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