The next day, Zhou Tai'an's group embarked on their journey back to Kasamatsu.
Team Rigil would be staying here for another week before returning to Central Tracen Academy.
However, he only had them and the inn's proprietress, Sachiko-san, see them off to the side of the road from the inn.
"Until we meet again at Central," Tojo Hana said with a smile, pushing up her glasses.
"That will be a few years," he looked back at Oguri Cap standing behind him and also smiled. "I hope when I go to Central in the future, you will take good care of me, Tojo-san."
"I wouldn't dare say 'take care'," she shook her head. "I have much to learn compared to you, Zhou-kun. It will be I who learns from you then."
On the other side, Sachiko-san also made a promise to Oguri Cap, "If you guys come back next year, I'll give you a 50% discount again!"
"I don't know if Trainer plans to come back," Oguri Cap didn't readily agree. She was used to listening to his arrangements for these things.
"It's fine. As long as you want to, I'm sure Zhou-kun will arrange it!" Sachiko-san thought she had figured out the relationship between them.
"Hmm..." Oguri Cap hesitated.
Brand New Shine took over, "That also depends on Trainer's plans. It's not like we can just come because we want to."
Sachiko-san blinked, turned to look at him, and repeated what she had just said.
As she had expected, although he was very satisfied with Onsen Ryokan Yukara, he did not promise to come back next year.
"To be honest, there won't be any suitable races for Oguri Cap to challenge in Hokkaido next year." This was the root of his hesitation.
"Well... even if you don't come next year, there will always be opportunities in the future," Sachiko-san said with a carefree expression, waving her hand.
"Well, if I ever choose to come to Hokkaido in the future, I will definitely choose your place with my horse girl," he finally said what the inn's proprietress wanted to hear.
After a journey of over four hours, they returned to Kasamatsu.
After dropping them off at the academy, he chose to go back to his apartment.
After thoroughly cleaning the room that had not been tidied for two months, the young trainer, who was planning to take a nap, remembered the matter Oguri Cap had asked him about two nights ago.
"I don't know much about this kind of thing. I'd better ask someone who does." So he called Kitahara's home.
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An hour later, the two trainers met at a fast-food restaurant.
"You're amazing, Tai'an-san!" Kitahara clapped his friend on the shoulder upon meeting him. "After just one summer vacation, you've already become a Graded Race trainer, had Oguri Cap win a national local exchange Graded Race, and made history for our academy."
"It was mainly thanks to Oguri Cap's hard work," he shrugged. "And I guess you definitely didn't let Fujimasa March rest all summer, did you, Kitahara-san?"
"Well—" Kitahara smiled sheepishly. "Although I can't compare to you, Fujimasa March and I won two Open-class races in Nagoya together. Next, we're preparing to adjust her condition and aim for the Young Crown and the Chukyo Cup in the second half of the year."
"The Young Crown and the Chukyo Cup?" The dates of these two races flashed in his mind, and he replied, "I'll probably only have Oguri Cap participate in the Chukyo Cup. The Young Crown is only 10 days before it, and I don't want to over-exert her."
"Then it will be Oguri Cap, well-rested, against Fujimasa March in the Chukyo Cup..." A hint of hesitation flashed in Kitahara's eyes, but in the end, he stuck to his plan. "Even so, I won't change my race plan. The Young Crown is, after all, our local Graded Race at Kasamatsu. Fujimasa March needs a Graded Race like this to accumulate capital."
"There's still over a month until the Young Crown, enough time to adjust," he smiled and brought the topic back to why he had asked him to meet. "I didn't ask you here today to talk about races."
"Oh? Then what did you want to talk about?" Kitahara leaned back. "You don't think I can solve a problem that you can't, do you?"
"I think you actually can," he shrugged. "Do you think it's a good time to buy real estate in Kasamatsu right now?"
"Buy a house?" Kitahara was taken aback. "Why would you suddenly have such an idea? I thought you weren't planning to settle down in Kasamatsu."
"It's not for me, it's for Oguri Cap," he revealed everything. "She wants to buy an apartment in Kasamatsu and bring her family over."
"She probably has less than 20 million yen right now, right? You can't really buy much of a house here with that," Kitahara frowned. "The housing prices are getting more expensive every year, and the prices of all kinds of industrial raw materials are also high. A lot of people have put their money into the stock market."
"What about you, Kitahara-san? Haven't you joined in?" he interrupted his friend. "I've heard people say the stock market is very profitable right now."
"I think I'll pass," Kitahara waved his hand and continued, "I don't think it's very safe to turn money into numbers that can change at any time."
"Let's get back to the topic," he said, looking at his friend seriously. "If you trust me, Tai'an-san, my advice is that you tell Oguri Cap to wait and see for now. If she must bring her family over, then rent an apartment."
Kitahara pursed his lips. "I just have a bad feeling about Japan right now. This kind of prosperity feels like a bubble."
"A bubble..." he squinted and nodded in agreement. "Indeed, I have that feeling too. That's why I was undecided. If you think the same way, then I'll just tell her not to buy a house."
He also had a premonition about Kitahara's worries. Otherwise, he wouldn't have only exchanged a small portion of the large sum of US dollars he had gotten from selling his family's house into yen for daily expenses.
But he was still a little hesitant to refuse Oguri Cap's idea.
"Will she be disappointed that her trainer can't even fulfill such a simple wish?" the thought couldn't help but cross his mind.
But when he gathered his courage and told her his suggestion at the academy the next day, she nodded simply. "I'll listen to whatever you say, Trainer."
Noticing her reaction, he could only tell himself that he must take good care of the gray-coated horse girl who trusted him so much.
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