"What are you brats doing here?"
"That should be our line!!! What are you doing visiting Prez's room at night?!?"
Mejiro Dober drops off the young man in front of Symboli Rudolph's room. They both feel like the journey was far too short, even though they have already taken the longest route.
Once Dober has gone far enough, the young man opens the door to Rudolph's room. He was expecting to meet only Rudolph and her roommate, but he was quite surprised when he met both McQueen and Teio.
"I have things to talk about with your father, Teio. Go back to your room with McQueen."
"What is it?!?! Tell me!! I'm not a kid."
"McQueen, bring your little sister back to your room, okay?"
"If I drag her now, she'll throw a tantrum all night long. Please calm her down first, Trainer."
"Rudolp, go kiss your kids."
"She wants her father, trainer. It's you who should be calming her down."
But you're her father, though…
"Tell me!! What are you going to talk about with Prez!!?!"
"Our wedding plan."
"Eh?!!? Is that true, Prez?"
"Fufufufu~~ He's just teasing you, Teio."
"You're so easy to fool, huh…"
"Shut it, McQueen!! You should be angry, too!! He is being selfish again."
"He was, is, and will always be selfish, Teio. That's just the kind of man he is."
"I'm going to marry you if you keep understanding me like that, McFatty."
"As–As if that would make me happy!!"
"Rudolph, how do you cheer up teenage umamusumes? You have once been a teenager, right?"
*STAB*
"Please… Be gentle with me… I'm still a woman at heart."
"I will make you my woman. Now tell me how to calm these brats down."
"A nice night walk down the beach would be nice."
"I'll give each a candy if you are good and go back to your room."
"No!! I'm not a child!! I want a walk!!"
Now you just sound like a dog rather than a child, Teio. I don't know which one is worse.
"Sigh… Fine… I'm blaming you for this, Rudolph. You'd better go with me for the suggestion of taking these brats for a walk."
And what's with me walking tonight? I have been going on two walks, and now it'll be three. I guess that is the risk of being around umamusumes, huh?
"Fufufu~~ Fine. Let me change my clothes first."
"Alright. I'm going to sit in the corner of the room as you change."
"No!! You wait outside!!"
The perverted Mejiro pushed the young man outside the room in a huff. The young man was about to protest that she had seen worse with her other family member, but decided to keep his mouth shut. It'll be a disastrous accident for Ramonu's supermodel career if it leaks out.
The young man has to wait for what seems like ages before the bunch of umamusumes walks out of the room.
"All of that for that? You didn't even get my rod to twitch!"
"This isn't about your rod, you dirty pervert!!"
"Everything is about me, McQueen."
"Gosh!! You're such a selfish prick!!"
"I am. Now let's go for a walk. I need to drain you girls of your stamina, or you'll get hyperactive at night. I swear I gave you girls a hellish training session. Where has all this stamina come from? Did I miscalculate your stamina reserve?"
For the second time tonight, the young man walked outside on the beach. He did it with Mejiro Palmer before, and now she is doing it with a much larger group of umamusumes.
"So, what do you want to talk about, dear?"
Dear? Since when did Prez call trainer with 'dear'?
"I'm simply asking for advice on some training menus, but I guess I will do that tomorrow."
"What? Is it because Teio and I are here? Why are you keeping our menu a secret? That doesn't make any sense."
"If I talk with Rudolph about your training menus now, you would insert your own view about it. I will ignore and make sure to be objective with the menu, but I can't say the same about Rudolph. Her closeness with you might muddy her years of experience and make her advice useless."
"I don't think it would be that useless… It might not be the best, but I doubt whatever I told you will be that bad, dear. Besides, their words might be helpful for their own growth, dear."
"Well… Not taking any chances. Besides, these brats will be busy training tomorrow, so we have some time to chit-chat."
"Hey! Stop calling us brats!! We are your trainees!!! Why can't you be more like the other trainers who are kind to their trainees?"
"That's because the other trainees are kind and nice girls. Unlike you."
"HEY!! I HATE YOU!! PREZ!! Get angry at him!!"
"Fufufu~~ Dear, please stop. An angry Teio might be adorable, but it will be hard to calm her, you know?"
"Sigh… Fine… I guess you girls are my little PogChamp."
"What does that supposed to mean? McQueen, what does PogChamp mean?"
"For the life of me, I couldn't tell you. You should ignore it, Teio. It most likely just trainer weird lingo."
"Eh? What is that?"
*CCCCRRRAASSSHHH*
While the quartet was happily chatting with each other, a wooden boat suddenly beached itself in front of them. Everyone was confused until they saw who the sailor was.
"Eyo~~ Is this Japan?"
"Stay Gold? What's going on?"
"Oh, thank goodness, it is. Boy~~ Was that a day I had."
"Let me guess, you run away from paying your child support."
"You still haven't put any in me, Trainer Igo. Isn't that what you promised me? How can I skip paying my child support if you haven't given me any child to support?"
"Trainer?!? What does she mean by that?!?!"
"She's just teasing you, McQueen. Do you think I will stoop so low as to marry a four-time-divorced dad?"
"That's your nickname for her, but I can't understand where it comes from."
"Vibe, McQueen. That is the vibe I'm getting from this deadbeat dad."
"Ahahaha… That hurt, trainer Igo. Ah!! How about a souvenir from my latest adventure? I'm sure it'll help my image in your mind, Trainer Igo."
The deadbeat dad rummaged through her tattered bag and brought out a folded chessboard. Instead of improving her image, everyone was just confused as to how a chessboard would help her image.
"What? Are you saying that you're going to challenge me to a chess match and prove your intelligence?"
"No~ No~ I could never beat you. The thing I want to show you is the content of this board."
The deadbeat dad slowly opened the chessboard to reveal all the pieces inside. Most are all normal chess pieces, except for the knight. All eyes are glued to it, especially the young man's.
"Eh? Is this supposed to be the knight piece?"
"I suppose…? Everything else is there, so this has to be it, right? But what is it?"
"Is it an animal? Perhaps a zebra? It looks like it, but a few things don't feel right…"
"..."
In this world, a knight piece is usually an umamusume, as most cavalry knights during the medieval ages were umamusumes. The knight piece would be a female humanoid head with umamusume's ears on the head.
"Do you know what this animal is, trainer Igo?"
"..."
The young man silently grabbed the piece and put it in his hands. It is without a doubt a horse. You don't need to be a grandmaster at chess to know what shape a knight piece should be. He couldn't believe the sensation in his palm. Sensing each crook and cranny of the piece with his hungry fingers to remind him of the shape of an animal that does not exist in this world.
"Where did you get this?"
"Ah! You see!!"
The bum turned around and boarded her beached boat. She bends down and grabs an old map before turning around to show it to her spectators. If only they were still there.
"I found it—Eh? Where did you guys go?"