Happy times are always short. In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.
After finishing her business with Mitsuo Taishi, Silent Suzuka quickly returned to Shinji's dorm, a hint of worry in her eyes.
Although she was the one who had brought Special Week over in the morning, she actually had no confidence that he could take good care of her. In fact, she was very skeptical.
There were two reasons for this.
One was that she knew that although Special Week didn't show it much, because she was from the countryside and had more traditional views, she was not very used to being in contact with men. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say she was resistant, and sometimes she even had some extreme reactions.
The other reason was that her impression of Shinji was not very good, and could even be described as very poor.
Because Suzuka was an outsider and had her own team, although she had been coming here to take care of Special Week recently, she didn't have a deep understanding of the situation within his team, let alone their training plans. So she could only look at him from an outsider's perspective and make her own judgment.
And if you looked at it that way...
Flippant, lazy, irresponsible.
She had never seen him guide his own charges. He clocked in for work every day and slacked off after clocking out, running off on time.
Suzuka had debuted a year earlier than Special Week, and had been on another team before her debut. She was already used to the competitive atmosphere of the main Tracen campus. Now, suddenly encountering such an outlier who was out of step with the surrounding environment, it was very normal for her to find it difficult to accept.
And this wasn't just her opinion. In fact, the horse girls who usually paid more attention to Shinji's team more or less couldn't understand his situation. Although it wasn't to the point of disgust, they definitely didn't like it.
And, there was another point. The way Special Week had been training recently also made her think of those bad trainers who, in pursuit of results and benefits, disregarded the physical condition and wishes of their charges and forced them to train.
Therefore, her impression of Shinji was not good, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as very poor. Handing Spe-chan over in the morning was a helpless move out of desperation. After finishing her business over there, she immediately rushed back, preparing to take Special Week back.
Knock, knock, knock.
She knocked on Shinji's dorm door.
"The door's unlocked," he replied.
She pushed it open, walked in, and looked inside. After seeing the two people in the room, her eyelids twitched.
...What's going on?
What greeted her was a scene she had never anticipated.
Shinji was sitting opposite Special Week, with a few paper strips stuck to his face, a triumphant smile on his face.
And opposite him, Special Week, whose entire face was almost covered in paper strips, had slightly red eyes, looking as if she was about to cry.
It was like this.
At first, Shinji had taken out Monopoly, thinking of just playing a couple of rounds with Special Week to cheer her up. But as a result, for three consecutive games, with the help of the good luck unique to idiots, he was crushed by her. Then, refusing to believe it, he played another three games, and the result was the same.
If it were just that, he would at most be depressed for a while. But the problem was, after winning six games in a row, Special Week got cocky and even wanted to propose some material bets, like having him treat her to a meal, instead of the trivial punishment of sticking small paper strips on their faces.
This was the beginning of a gambling problem. Shinji naturally wouldn't indulge her. He readily agreed to her request but also put forward his own: to change the game. And although he would treat her to a meal if he lost, if she lost, she just had to stick a paper strip on her face.
Faced with such generous conditions, Special Week, whose tail was about to wag off, naturally did not refuse.
And then, Shinji took out Chinese chess.
After checkmating her thirty-seven games in a row, the seedling of gambling that had sprouted on a whim was completely uprooted. In fact, if Suzuka had come a little later, he might have even achieved a forty-game winning streak.
This person is too much.
Suzuka didn't know his reasoning. After listening to Special Week's account, she only felt that this person was a bit of a sore loser and was also bullying an idiot. A true great demon lord.
However, although her impression of him was not good, Suzuka was still very polite and thanked him, saying that he had worked hard taking care of Special Week. Then she led Special Week back, comforting her in a soft voice as they walked.
But Special Week did not stay sad for long. Just as Shinji had said, she had the memory of a goldfish. Although she was still aggrieved when she just left the dorm, after buying a bottle of carrot drink on the way, her expression immediately brightened up again.
Seeing her like this, Suzuka also breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, after chatting for a while longer, looking at the smile on Special Week's face, Suzuka thought about what she had seen and heard these past few days. She hesitated for a moment, feeling that she couldn't just ignore her current situation. She had to at least remind her.
"Um, Spe-chan."
"What's wrong?" Sucking on the carrot juice with a straw, Special Week had a blissful expression on her face.
Suzuka carefully chose her words. "Don't you think that Trainer Kitahara is usually a bit too, um... lazy?"
"Shinji-san is just that kind of person." Special Week waved her hand. "Mom used to say he was lazy too. He never refuted it, and sometimes he would even readily admit it, and then he would still slack off the next time he had the chance."
Hmm? Special Week's mom also knows him?
Suzuka was taken aback for a moment. "You knew each other before? Why haven't I heard you say that?"
"It was many years ago. And later he disappeared without saying a word to me and Mom. I thought I would never see him again, so I never told anyone."
"I see..."
Suzuka nodded, and then her expression gradually became conflicted. She indeed didn't have a very good impression of that trainer, but looking at Spe-chan, she seemed to trust him very much. And she herself had only met the man a few times. If her judgment was right, it would be fine, but if it was wrong...
Suzuka was not very good at thinking about such complicated things. Saying that much was already the result of her best efforts. And after knowing that Special Week had known him before, she was even more at a loss for what to say.
But just as she was struggling, Special Week on the side suddenly spoke slowly.
"Suzuka-chan."
"...Huh?"
"Just now, you were actually trying to hint that Shinji-san might not be as good as I think, and that I should be wary and careful of him, right?"
Special Week turned her head to her, her hair obscuring her expression, her tone slightly different from usual.
"I understand your good intentions, but please don't do this again in the future. Otherwise... I will get really angry."
"Spe-chan..."
At that moment, for some reason, Suzuka suddenly felt that the Special Week in front of her was a bit unfamiliar, and the aura she exuded was a bit terrifying. She subconsciously took a step back.
But in the next second, Special Week's momentum suddenly dissipated, and she returned to her original self. Then she turned her head to look at Suzuka, who had taken a step back, a hint of confusion in her eyes. "Suzuka-chan, what's wrong?"
Suzuka was taken aback for a moment.
Strange, that Spe-chan just now... was it an illusion?
Suppressing the unease in her heart, she walked back to Special Week's side, sighed, and said helplessly, "It's probably because of the things with my trainer. I feel like my perception of horse girls is starting to have problems recently..."
She attributed the feeling just now to a hallucination left over from the morning's events. Because she had been in a high-intensity heavy track for a long time, she now occasionally had similar visual hallucinations when looking at other horse girls. This wasn't the first time, so she didn't pay it much mind—after all, that was Special Week.
"Ah? By the way, what happened to your trainer, Suzuka-chan?"
"...Nothing, he just got a little injured." Suzuka didn't intend to pollute Special Week's pure heart with those messy things, so she chose to hide it. Then, seeing that Special Week still wanted to ask, she immediately changed the subject. "By the way, Spe-chan, has your hair gotten longer again?"
"Shinji-san said so too just now. Is my hair really growing a bit too fast recently?" Special Week was immediately fooled, and then she started chatting with Suzuka about her hair problem.
It's just that as they were chatting, Suzuka's gaze gradually became puzzled, her eyes sweeping over the tips of Special Week's hair.
Strange, how come it feels like Special Week's hair is a little longer than just now...
It must be an illusion, right?
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