The moment he saw Special Week beside him, Shinji roughly guessed where that sense of unease was coming from and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Ms. Grass, oh Ms. Grass, how can you be so bad at this?
And even if you fumble, don't take your frustration out on others...
Huh?
Shinji had thought that Ms. Grass would be glaring at him with a resentful gaze right now, and might even have her hand on the naginata on her back.
But when he偷偷 (tōutōu - secretly) glanced over with the corner of his eye, he found that her expression was very normal. Although her mood was a little down compared to before, it was much better than before they had set out, and she had no intention of reaching for her naginata.
In fact, after he looked over, she even noticed his gaze and returned a smile.
Shinji was stunned.
Although he might be a bit slow in some emotional aspects, as they say, you win some, you lose some, and the reverse is also true. In exchange for his emotional dullness, he had an extremely keen perception of malice.
Just like when he had been attacked by that simpleton horse girl at school before, if he hadn't confirmed from the very beginning that the other party had no malice towards him, and that she was holding back very obviously, which made it difficult for him to go too far, the fight wouldn't have been so hard.
And now, for the same reason, he could also confirm that Ms. Grass's current appearance was not an act, but that she really had no malice towards him, and even seemed a little grateful.
This, what's going on?
He wasn't worried that she had fallen for him, because it was obvious that she was still completely devoted to Special Week and hadn't paid him any extra attention or shown any other abnormal behavior. But that just made it even more difficult to figure out what she was thinking.
Could it be that because of his previous assist, she now saw him as an ally on the same front?
Or did she see him as Special Week's older brother, and was now looking at him as a brother-in-law?
Shinji felt it should be one of these two options, or both. And with this kind of thing, he couldn't just go and ask her directly. Besides, even if he did ask, he might just provoke her and cause some accident that could have been avoided. It was better to just maintain the status quo.
Thinking this, he ended his eye contact with her, then turned to look at Special Week beside him. He took the initiative to ask about her questions, and after answering them, he chatted with everyone as they returned to the academy. There were no accidents on the way.
Then, after returning to the academy, everyone had lunch, stayed in the clubroom for a while, put away the things they had bought, and after chatting for a bit longer, they parted ways to do their own things.
Shinji also returned to his own dorm, but he didn't immediately start slacking off. Instead, he sat down at his computer and took out the arrangements and plans for next week's Maiden race that he had just gotten from Agnes Digital. After a simple check to confirm there were no problems, he put the documents aside, then opened his phone and went to the trainers' group chat.
Ever since the Chairwoman had announced the new regulations on Monday, the trainer's group chat had been very lively. It was often the case that there would be over ninety-nine new messages in just a few minutes, and the chat content was unprecedentedly unified: discussing where to find suitable charges and team horse girls.
Although Shinji had no worries in this regard because his team's situation already met the standard, it didn't stop him from watching the show in the group. Occasionally, he would pop up and give them some bad ideas... I mean, suggestions.
However, not all trainers were troubled by this problem.
Excluding those who already had a team, many trainers in the group had already found a new charge or team horse girl within this week, completing the task ahead of schedule. Among them were the few trainers who often chatted with Shinji in the group.
For example, Koyoi Ichi. Although her name sounded a bit like a boy's, she was actually female. She had come two years earlier than Shinji and had a background character horse girl as her charge before the new regulations. And after the new regulations, she had acted quickly and soon found a second charge, who was also an acquaintance of Shinji's.
Tamamo Cross, also known as Tama or Tama-bro. She had dealt with Shinji before and was now Oguri's roommate, and also a very strong horse girl.
The moment Koyoi found Tamamo Cross as her new charge, she announced it in the group, and the other trainers immediately sent their congratulations.
But for some reason, as they were congratulating, the topic suddenly went off track.
[Fudo Daichi: Wait a minute, why do I feel a sense of déjà vu from Trainer Koyoi's team? It's like...]
[Nishiguchi Ei: Like a group of little kids playing house?]
[Fudo Daichi: Yes, yes, that's the feeling.]
[Koyoi Ichi: ...]
[Koyoi Ichi: Shut up! It's not like I wanted to grow up like this!]
Perhaps because her family was poor in the past and she didn't get enough nutrition, or perhaps it was just her own reasons, although Koyoi was currently older than Shinji, her physical development was very unfortunate.
Her chest, it couldn't be said that there was no meat, only that it was as flat as a runway. And her height was also not very tall, only 143 cm—it was said that this was the result of secretly using height-increasing insoles. But that wasn't the most fatal thing. The most fatal thing was that she also had a baby face. Paired with her figure, on her first day of work, she was almost sent out by her colleagues who thought she was a middle school student who had gone to the wrong school. In the end, it even alarmed the Chairwoman.
And it wasn't just her. Her first charge was also small and tender. Although a high school student, just by looking at her appearance, no one would doubt if you said she was an elementary school student. They were a pair of unfortunate siblings.
As for the newly joined Tamamo Cross, although her situation was not as serious as theirs, it was not much different. Although a high school student, she looked to be at the level of a middle schooler, and even the kind who had just entered middle school.
With this team, forget others, if you just put the Chairwoman in, and then said they were sisters from the same elementary school visiting, it wouldn't be out of place at all. The trainers in the group were even considering whether they should just call them the Loli Team from now on.
[Koyoi Ichi: Loli your head, your whole family are lolis.]
[Koyoi Ichi: By the way, I was reverse-nominated recently. If there are no accidents, I'll have a third charge soon. And she's not like us. She's tall and has a good figure, so quickly put away your strange thoughts.]
Reverse-nomination refers to those talented and strong horse girls who take the initiative to find a trainer and ask them to be their exclusive trainer.
[Shinji Kitahara: Reverse-nomination? Amazing.]
[Shinji Kitahara: Her name is?]
[Koyoi Ichi: She calls herself Super Creek.]
Looking at Koyoi's reply, Shinji was silent for a moment, and then silently lit three sticks of incense for her in his heart.
No hope. Just wait for death.
Shinji had never had any dealings with Super Creek, but as a transmigrator, he knew a little about her.
Super Creek. Although her name had "creek" in it, in reality, she was anything but small, and it wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say she was at the level of a married woman. And not only was her figure at that level, but this one also had another characteristic: an overflowing maternal instinct, especially an almost obsessive passion for taking care of young children.
But the problem was, there were no young children in Tracen.
So how was she to vent this passion?
The answer was to target the people around her.
No young children? Then just forcibly turn the people around you into young children.
It wasn't that she would really devolve them into young children; she didn't have that ability. But just dressing them up as young children was enough for her to use as a substitute.
Lullabies, rattles, baby clothes, bibs, baby bottles...
Besides Shinji, no one currently knew why Super Creek had these things prepared. But it probably wouldn't be long before the people on Koyoi's team would know what these things were for.
Shinji was even willing to bet that the reason Super Creek had reverse-nominated Koyoi was definitely not because she had taken a fancy to her ability as a trainer, but because she had some ulterior motives.
However, even so, he did not choose to remind her. On one hand, of course, it was because he couldn't explain the source of his information. On the other hand, it was also in the spirit of "let my friend die, not me." He planned to sacrifice Koyoi a little to protect himself. After all, a good-for-nothing slacker like him was also very good "young child material" in Super Creek's eyes.
If he were targeted by her, and with Eclipse's help, then the one who would be forced to wear baby clothes every day and be forcibly taken care of and even breastfed might be him.
I'm sorry, Trainer Koyoi. If I have the chance in the future, I'll definitely buy you some adult milk powder to improve your taste.
Shinji apologized in his heart, then continued to browse the information in the group, and also saw a few familiar names.
Fudo Daichi, male, had chatted with Shinji before. While having a background character horse girl as his charge, he had also taken on a team horse girl who was on good terms with his charge but was not yet ready to debut to complete his quota. Her name was Tosen Jordan. Although Shinji had never had contact with her, he also knew that this one was a formidable little ancestor, and his heart had already begun to pray for brother Fudo's blood pressure.
Nishiguchi Ei, female, was the one who often promoted funeral homes. Her charge was Mejiro McQueen, Teio's good friend. Recently, to complete her quota, she had had McQueen find two background character horse girls who were somewhat related to the Mejiro family to join the team. She was one of the most relaxed ones.
However, not all trainers had completed their quota so easily. In fact, those who could expand their team to three people within a week like them were a very small minority.
Most trainers, to this day, let alone finding a team horse girl, hadn't even gotten past their own charge. Some had even ended up in the hospital with a shattered pelvis because of it, directly missing the best time to find people. If there were no accidents, they could only wait for the transfer students to arrive and then find them.
But these matters had nothing to do with Shinji. After all, he was both a new trainer and had a team of a full seven people, without even an assistant trainer. Even if the Chairwoman's requirements were doubled, it wouldn't affect him.
In comparison, another matter was more concerning to him.
"As expected, something is wrong..."
After reading the messages in the group for a long time, Shinji pinched his chin, a strange look in his eyes.
He had not just noticed the existence of a problem today. It was just that he had only recently started to pay a little more attention to it.
Although when he played Uma Musume before he transmigrated, he basically skipped the story, he still knew some of the most basic things.
For example, Teio and Tachyon should not be opponents who debuted in the same year. Because according to the normal world line trajectory, Tachyon should have won and only won the Satsuki Sho as her only G1 championship in her entire three-year career. But the problem was, the Satsuki Sho, as one of the Triple Crown races, was also Teio's goal, and according to the normal world line trajectory, she should have also won the Satsuki Sho.
This was a conflict.
And if you followed the anime plot, Teio, as the protagonist of the second season, should have debuted after Special Week. But now the situation was the opposite: Special Week was a year later than her, and had even been put together with Oguri Cap.
However, because the timeline of Uma Musume has always been a mess, and knowing that he, a transmigrator, would definitely disrupt the normal process, although he had been a little puzzled before, he had not paid too much attention to it.
It wasn't until Monday, when he heard the news from Tazuna, and combined it with some of his past experiences, that a guess faintly formed in his heart. But he couldn't be sure at the time. It wasn't until he finished reading the group chat just now that he became a little more certain.
A surge in the number of horse girls...
He closed his phone, leaned back in his chair, and looked out the window.
Rather than a surge in numbers, it was more like the horse girls who were supposed to appear at different times were concentrated in the same period, thus disrupting the various original histories and processes.
And, this matter most likely did not start more than a decade ago, but had already happened at the time of Teio, or even earlier. It was just that the situation was relatively less serious, so it hadn't attracted attention.
This could explain why Teio had debuted a year earlier than Special Week, and also explained the situation of Oguri Cap and the new charges the trainers in the group had found.
And it wasn't just the number of horse girls and the timing that were wrong. Recalling some of his past experiences and what he had seen and heard, he felt that this matter was probably far from that simple.
Although he was a materialist and did not believe in any ethereal gods, because of some of his past experiences, he knew that the Three Goddesses of this world, or at least their influence, did exist.
A surge in the number of horse girls, a change in the world line, Black Forest, and even horse girl hunting...
Unless the Three Goddesses were all blind, it was impossible for them not to notice such a big commotion.
But the problem was, if they did notice, then why hadn't they taken action to solve these problems?
Was the current situation what they had expected, or even what they had actively guided?
Or was it that they wanted to do something, and might have even already taken some measures, and the current situation was the result after being dealt with?
Shinji felt that the latter possibility was more likely, but he couldn't be sure.
However, he did not dwell on this matter for too long. After all, this problem was a bit too grand. A small, slacking trainer like him had neither the ability nor the qualification to worry about such problems. It was already enough if he could handle the matters at hand.
As for the rest, it was better to leave it to the big shots to worry about.
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