"Huh… huh…" After an unknown amount of time, Luo Cheng suddenly sat up, looking at the dim room.
"Strange, I'm..." Luo Cheng patted his head. His mind felt like it had been thrown into a blender. His senses gradually returned. Smelling the air in the room, Luo Cheng covered his nose.
There were strange wet stains everywhere: on the desk, on the couch, on the floor, and even on the ceiling. It was as if the entire room had been washed, all damp and sticky. Luo Cheng turned his head and quickly spotted Agness Tachyon lying on the couch. She, too, looked like she had been washed, sticky all over. Her once-fluffy hair was matted to her face, and her skin glistened. Her eyes were closed, and her chest rose and fell rhythmically. It seemed there was something in her mouth, and she was instinctively swallowing, making 'glug-glug' sounds.
Luo Cheng rubbed his throbbing forehead, trying to remember what had just happened. Vague memories emerged. He remembered drinking Agness Tachyon's potion, and then... Tachyon, Tachyon, Tachyon... His world was filled with Agness Tachyon!
Remembering what he had done, Luo Cheng slowly lowered his hand. He looked at the mess in the room and couldn't help but swallow. All of this... is my doing? What did Agness Tachyon give me to drink? This amount is a bit too much.
He moved to Agness Tachyon's side, touched the girl's face, and was relieved when he confirmed she was only sleeping. Only a horse girl could withstand such a violent session. A normal person would have been long gone.
Luo Cheng picked up the lab coat from the floor. It was a little dry, stiff, and yellowed. He covered Agness Tachyon with it. Although his memory was blurry, Luo Cheng vaguely remembered seeing the regular Agness Tachyon after drinking the yellow potion. She could talk and interact with him. What was going on? Was it a hallucination from his head overheating, or... had he briefly returned to reality?
Looking at the sleeping Agness Tachyon, Luo Cheng stroked her hair. The girl opened her eyes. Her dark red eyes glanced at Luo Cheng.
"Guinea Pig-kun... what's today's training plan?"
There was no point in asking her now. He would have to wait until he was back in the real world to ask.
After resting on the couch for a while, Luo Cheng sat up. Come to think of it, even after making such a mess of the room, his body didn't feel uncomfortable? On the contrary, the feeling of weakness had disappeared. Agness Tachyon's potion was something else. But it couldn't be used on normal people, and even horse girls had to be careful. The current Agness Tachyon looked a little like a cream puff.
Why did Tachyon make this stuff? To play a game? The effect seems a bit too strong.
It was now the afternoon. Luo Cheng stood on the training grounds. After nearly half a year at Tracen Academy, Luo Cheng was starting to look a little like a Trainer. In the real world, Luo Cheng had heard some colleagues say he was scatterbrained and didn't look like a Trainer at all. It was true. All of them had to pass a test to get in, but he had just inexplicably appeared here. For the first few months, he didn't even think of himself as a Trainer. He only trained Teio out of boredom. It was more accurate to call him a player than a Trainer.
But after a series of plot events, Luo Cheng finally began to feel like a Trainer. He could choose to be lazy and just eat, sleep, and play with the horse girls, but if he did, his life would probably be over. To maintain his sanity, Luo Cheng had been setting goals for himself, like exercising, training Teio and the others, and becoming more like a Trainer. These were all self-imposed tasks. If he gave up on them and indulged without a care, it wouldn't be long before he was completely assimilated by this world. To protect his sanity as a 'human,' Luo Cheng had been assigning himself tasks.
"Alright, let's go train."
"Yes!"
Luo Cheng watched the horse girls warm up and run on the training grounds. A figure came up beside him. He took a closer look and saw a woman with light purple hair. Her smooth hair was tied at the back of her neck, just touching her shoulders, giving her a clean and sharp look. She was wearing a women's suit and a black choker around her neck, with diamond-shaped earrings clipped to her ears. Like Luo Cheng, she was a Trainer, with a senior Trainer badge on her chest.
Her crimson eyes swept over Luo Cheng as if she hadn't seen him. She leaned on the railing and watched the track. These people couldn't interact with Luo Cheng. While the horse girls could still greet him, the Trainers were completely lifeless. Unless Luo Cheng actively touched them, they wouldn't react to his presence at all.
The woman's name was Fumino Naze. Luo Cheng had seen her a few times. His colleagues in the real world had also mentioned her. She was the youngest Trainer in all of Tracen. The Trainers at Tracen were generally between 30 and 40 years old. There were almost no Trainers in their 20s like Luo Cheng. Fumino Naze was one of the few. She wasn't a recent hire; she had already been working for four years, meaning she had entered Tracen at just 18 years old. This was an incredible achievement for other Trainers. The Trainer exams were very difficult, often with only one out of a hundred passing. The civil service exam had dozens of people competing for one position, while the Trainer exams had nearly a hundred. The difficulty was self-evident.
But for Luo Cheng, none of this mattered. He couldn't leave this academy. This place was his everything. No matter how big the outside world was, it would disappear the moment the plot ended, and he would reappear in his office. Luo Cheng felt that the Trainer's manual should have a line added: 'You can't go too far from your spawn point.'
Forget about these annoying things.
Luo Cheng looked at Fumino Naze next to him. Her face was beautiful, her skin like a hard-boiled egg, and her nose was delicate. Her hair was neatly combed, and her aura was a bit like Air Groove's but more mature. She didn't have the horse girls' unique stats and skills, only two statuses: mood and affection. Her affection level was zero.
Luo Cheng had never made a move on her. In fact, he had never made a move on any of the Trainers. Besides Fumino Naze, there were a few other young female Trainers at Tracen, such as Katsumi Komiyama, who always wore her jacket tied around her waist, and Aoi Kiryuin, who wore a black jacket.
When Luo Cheng saw them, he always felt inexplicably uninspired. It was like some very pretty characters. Even if they looked good, if they didn't match his fetish, it just wasn't going to work. Luo Cheng found that after being in this world for so long, his fetish had gradually become horse girls. He loved their fluffy ears and tails, and the way they twitched and moved. Sometimes, they would playfully coil around him. When they were in a good mood, their ears would perk up, and when they were sad, they would droop. Plus, they trained every day, so their flexibility was far beyond human capabilities, and they could strike all kinds of difficult poses. After holding them for so long, he felt like something was missing when he met a normal human.
Luo Cheng reached out and touched Fumino Naze's head. She didn't have ears. Her hair was much smoother, but Luo Cheng preferred the feeling of the tips of the ears perking up in his palm when he stroked their hair.
Just as Luo Cheng was playing with Fumino Naze's earrings, he suddenly heard her say, "That kid is good..."
That kid?
Luo Cheng followed Fumino Naze's gaze and looked at the training grounds. He then saw that Fumino Naze was looking at Tokai Teio.
"Should I sign a contract with her?"
Hmm... Luo Cheng's eyes narrowed.
I don't steal your horse girls, and you're trying to steal mine.
Should I just max out your affection right now?