The next morning.
The number of horse girls waiting for Shinji in the training field became eight.
It's just that unlike the others, Nice Nature did not stand with the others, but stood alone in a secluded corner of the training field, looking like a marginalized person who had been excluded.
It wasn't that no one had tried to invite her over, but the problem was that as soon as they got close to her, they felt that almost substantial pressure, and then they understood why Eclipse had said in the group chat yesterday that the new team member might be a little special, and that it was fine for her to stay on her own in a corner.
Then, after the daily greeting, he directly found her and asked if she had time to go with him.
Of course, he didn't mention the matter of horse girl hunting, only said that he wanted to ask her to help ask some people some things.
And it wasn't just her. In fact, to this day, the horse girls of Black Forest still did not know the truth, and Tracen also did not intend to let them know. Even when asking for relevant information, they only said that those people were some extreme horse girl rights protectors whose ideas had gone astray, carefully maintaining their false beauty.
He used the same rhetoric with her. In fact, if it weren't for the consideration that if time dragged on for too long, the other party might notice the loophole and take remedial measures, he wouldn't even have considered the option of letting her help with the questioning.
"Yes, of course it's no problem."
She agreed very quickly.
And after she agreed, he did not rush over immediately. Instead, he found Tachyon on the side and asked her if she still had any stock of that truth serum from last time. Although he didn't plan to use it, it was better to be prepared.
Tachyon, who was resting after a round of training, did not notice his arrival. When she heard that familiar voice sound beside her, her whole body stiffened for a moment, and she subconsciously turned her head in the opposite direction, her tail behind her also beginning to sway gently.
Still angry...
Looking at her like this, he was a little helpless, but he still braced himself and stated his purpose.
She was silent for a moment, then reached into her clothes, fumbled around for a while, and then took out three tubes of pale blue truth serum and handed them to him, which made his eyelids twitch.
No, how can you train while carrying so many of these things with you?
No, wait, that's not the point. The point is, what do you want to do by carrying so many of these dangerous things with you! And since you can just take out three, then there must be more!
But this was where he had misunderstood her.
In fact, she had only brought three tubes of truth serum in total. If it were in the past, she would only have given him one. If he had insisted, she might have provided a second, but she would never have given a third under any circumstances.
After all, she still needed to use them, didn't she?
But after being startled by him, in a moment of panic, she had subconsciously handed over all the truth serum. Only after handing it over did she realize what had happened, but it was already too late.
And on the other side, after getting the potion, he called over Eclipse and Nature, and then went to the Tracen confinement room.
Although it was called the Tracen confinement room, because it served as both a juvenile detention center and a prison, it covered a large area, so it was not in the main Tracen campus, but in a separate building not far from Tracen.
However, although it was called a confinement room, after all, most of the people locked up were students who had made minor mistakes, so the overall environment was not bad. It was basically equivalent to a local Tracen campus with restricted travel and entertainment.
And don't think that just because you're in the confinement room, you're fine. Tracen was, after all, a school. Even if you were in the confinement room, there would still be teachers responsible for remedial classes, and special trainers to supervise training, and the execution was very strict.
The horse girls of Black Forest who had been caught could of course not escape this fate.
When they were first caught, they still had a heroic appearance, thinking that they could finally get in touch with the dark side of Tracen, and then righteously rebuke them.
And then, in less than a week, they basically all wilted.
Children are children. If you tell them to do some grand and heroic thing, they will probably rush up with a hot head.
But if you ask them to go to class honestly, and even execute a strict and regular healthy work and rest schedule, and eat meals that are absolutely nutritious but have a monotonous and uniform taste every day...
"Waaah, I know I was wrong, let me out..."
"Daddy, Mommy, I want to go home..."
"Phone, computer, internet, snacks, waaah..."
Oh, right, by the way, when these unlucky children were participating in Black Forest activities, their excuse to their families was that they were going to the main Tracen campus for a visit. Now Tracen had just happened to help them round out their story.
When he went, it was just their training time.
A row of little horse girls, their expressions as wilted as frost-bitten eggplants, were standing in a line,苦哈哈 (kǔhāhā - looking miserable) moving back and forth on the training field according to the plan, the light in their eyes also gone.
However, it must be said that although their mental state was a bit withered, their physical health had basically improved a lot from before.
Originally, before entering the confinement room area, he had been mentally prepared to return without success.
After all, according to what Tazuna had said, although the temper of these silly children had been worn down a lot now, and they were willing to cooperate in other aspects, they were very silent only when it came to the matter of those people.
To be simple, in a sense, also means to be stubborn.
Moreover, the emotions of horse girls during their full-fledged development period were already unstable, and it was easy for them to get stuck in a rut, especially when it involved past beautiful memories, it was even more difficult to shake.
But the moment he saw them, he suddenly felt that the three tubes of truth serum in his pocket had been brought for nothing, and even Nature was a bit redundant.
Because among the miserable-looking Black Forest horse girls in front of him, nearly a third of them were very familiar to him.
Of the remaining two-thirds, one-third knew the horse girls he had helped, and the remaining one-third had also heard of his name.
Although because he had not originally planned to deal with the main Tracen campus, especially those dangerous horse girls, he had deliberately avoided this dangerous area during his wanderings and rarely showed up in those big cities, so his reputation was not very prominent among the main Tracen campus and those elite horse girls.
But precisely because of this, in the countryside, especially among those surging horse girls that the URA had not counted, his reputation was extremely well-known.
In some places, he was even regarded as the spokesperson of the Three Goddesses on earth, and to this day, they were still secretly enshrining him at home—it was not allowed in public, because he felt that this thing was unlucky and had said many times not to do this. In fact, once, a village had almost built a temple for him. If he hadn't discovered it early, his clay statue might have been enshrined in the temple by now.
And then, after recognizing him, the originally quiet training ground immediately exploded.
He didn't even have to take the initiative to find them. Those little horse girls who had been as wilted as frost-bitten eggplants all swarmed up.
Those who knew him came up to talk to him directly, and those who didn't know him watched from the side, directly surrounding him.
And then, he explained his purpose.
Of course, he didn't mention the matter of horse girl hunting. He just said that those people had misunderstood the situation here at Tracen, so Tracen wanted to find them and have a good talk with them to clear up the misunderstanding.
And if necessary, he could also take them on a tour of the main Tracen campus, so that they could see the environment there with their own eyes, to prove that Tracen was sincerely for the good of the horse girls, and by no means treated them as commodities for profit.
And, he also stated that they did not have to worry about what Tracen would do to those people at all.
After all, even these little horse girls who had directly acted against Tracen were fine, and had even received good care. Then those who had just had some misunderstandings and had never had a conflict, wouldn't they be even more fine?
A very reasonable logic.
Especially since the one saying this was him, the legendary Shinji Kitahara.
Forget about those horse girls he had personally helped, even those who didn't know the horse girls he had helped had basically all heard of his stories. Some of them even had him as the protagonist of their bedtime stories.
They could not believe Tazuna, they could not believe Tracen, but they would absolutely not not believe him.
So what was the point of him bringing Neicha and the truth serum here?
He suspected, and then, without using anything, he very easily pried open their mouths and obtained a lot of information that even the Green Hat had not been able to find out before, and recorded them all bit by bit.
However, because the number of people was large, and he had to beat around the bush to collect those detailed pieces of information bit by bit, this work was not as smooth as he had initially thought. Plus, when the little horse girls' emotions got excited, their memories would be fragmented for a while, making his information collection work even more difficult. It was estimated that he would have to spend the next few days in this period.
And soon, he also found that although because he had recognized many acquaintances, the questioning part did not require her, she seemed to have some other wonderful uses.
It was very simple. After the little horse girls recognized him, those who had not had contact with him were fine, but those he had personally helped were each more fond of getting close to him than the last.
When he had helped them before, they were basically all just little puddings and it didn't show, but the problem is, it had been a few years now, plus the rapid growth brought by full-fledged development, that was really...
Anyway, it was definitely not suitable for the kind of contact from before.
But the problem is, he was not very good at just driving them all away, especially since as a human, he might not even be able to push them away even if he used force. So he could only look at them helplessly as they got closer bit by bit.
And then, at this moment, Nice Nature gently took a step forward and stood by his side, the sense of pressure surging out, forcefully stopping the advance of those little horse girls.
You've done well! You've done well!
With just this one action, he seemed to have found the feeling of cooperation between the two of them a few years ago.
And this was just the beginning.
Recording of conversation data, maintenance of on-site order, using pressure to control the little horse girls to watch from a safe distance, and even handing him a glass of water at just the right time when his mouth was a little dry...
Although many years had passed, in just less than half a day, he had almost completely found the feeling of cooperation with her from back then.
And he didn't even have to say a word. Just through some details in his actions and tone, she could judge what he needed and execute it.
As expected of Neicha...
He sighed in his heart.
To be honest, although her talent was high, it was not that high. Forget about becoming another him, even to the level of Agnes Digital was impossible—that person was a monster in a sense.
But in terms of execution and some aspects other than horse girl related, he was no match for her.
Social skills, affinity, management ability, field control ability, all-purpose housework...
Especially when paired with that gentle and stable personality, it was simply right in his strike zone.
After all, what he wanted was this kind of calm and stable life without any waves, wasn't it?
However, even so, he had no desire for her.
On one hand, of course, it was because she was still too young, and even had a year left before she could enter the high school division.
—By the way, although the middle school and high school divisions in Tracen corresponded to junior high and high school, the age range was very wide. Many middle school students would be high school students in a normal school. And as for the high school students, there were many who were already adults, and had even gotten their driver's licenses and had debuted as famous race car drivers. The curriculum also had university knowledge taught, and you could even take electives.
On the other hand, he was actually about the same as the people in her hometown. He saw her as a very excellent child, and of course would not have any thoughts about her.
'Always saying others are small, has this person forgotten that he has only just come of age?'
'No, that ID of his was reissued later, and when it was reissued, he even deliberately filled in his age to be older—wait a minute, so in that case, this person isn't even an adult yet!'
'Then does this count as us employing child labor?'
'Anyway, he himself said he's an adult, and his ID also says he's an adult, so by human standards, it doesn't count.'
'But the problem is, wasn't he from a young age...'
'It's fine. I just checked. We've never signed a contract with him, so there's no employment relationship (confirmed).'
'...That's not how it's supposed to be calculated, is it?'
A certain three treasures started their crosstalk in Eclipse's ear again, and Eclipse, who was already used to it, as always, showed no reaction, still silently standing by his side, silently staring into space.
And on the other side, feeling the long-lost wonderful sense of tacit understanding, he was so moved in his heart that he was almost in tears. He even began to consider whether he should raise her affection a little later and keep her on the team to help him out.
After all, such a good assistant, if she just ran away after he was done kneading, he would really be a little reluctant.
Of course, even if she stayed, he wouldn't let her work for free. Whether it was money, knowledge, or running forms, as long as she needed it, and he had it, he would do his best to provide it to her.
But that was not a problem to be considered at the moment.
Looking at the cheerful little horse girls in front of him, he sighed in his heart. While trying his best to maintain the smile on his face, he gently told them some things about the past and the present.
Bad things will always happen in the world. This is inevitable.
But at least at this moment, he was willing to use a white lie to maintain their false beauty.
Perhaps one day in the future, after they have grown into mature and reliable adults, he will choose to tell them the truth, to let them know that the world is not actually that good.
But, not now.
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