"I told them," Brand New Shine stuck out her tongue. "After I won my debut race, I told my parents I didn't want to be a horse girl anymore. Then my mom asked if I wanted to drop out of school. I said I would be a trainer's assistant in the future."
Brand New Shine smiled brightly. "At first, my family was a little reluctant, but after they found out I was doing logistics for Oguri, my mom specifically told me to do a good job and not to hold you or Oguri back. So I guess I got my family's permission."
"After Oguri Cap officially resumes training, you can follow me around," he said while driving. "I promised to teach you about training. We'll use Oguri Cap as a textbook."
"A textbook?" Oguri Cap tilted her head.
"You just run your training as usual," he retorted after hearing her confusion.
"Hmph, I understand," Oguri Cap pouted.
…
After dropping them off at the academy, he drove to the apartment to supervise the workers who were coming to install the furniture.
After Oguri Cap had decided to rent this apartment, he had spent a few days personally cleaning it from top to bottom and had ordered the furniture himself.
Fortunately, the furniture store had a delivery service. Otherwise, he felt he would have been exhausted from moving it all back and forth himself.
"I really need to exercise this body more," he muttered to himself as he stood at the door waiting for the workers.
But just as the furniture store owner arrived with his workers, the first thing he said left him speechless—
"Excuse me, is this apartment for your personal use, Zhou-kun?"
"I can't answer that," the young man's mouth twitched. "That's not a question I can answer."
"I'm sorry, that was presumptuous of me," the store owner bowed his head, then continued, "My wife took our child to Kasamatsu Racecourse today, so I found out that you are Miss Oguri Cap's trainer."
The store owner met his gaze. "Miss Oguri Cap has made history for Kasamatsu. We don't have to watch those bastards from Nagoya show off how great their local horse girls are every day anymore. I must thank you for that, Zhou-kun."
"Well... I just did what I should as a trainer," he had never felt he had done anything great.
In his opinion, instead of thanking him like this, the store owner should give him a discount. The interior decoration had cost about the prize money of one debut race, and more than half of it had been spent at his store.
"I know that just saying thank you doesn't mean much, so I'd like to give you a 50% discount on this order," just as he was thinking it, the store owner proactively mentioned a discount.
"Thank you so much!" he quickly bowed. The discount was much bigger than he had expected.
"With the money I save, I can consider buying turf-specific shoes for Oguri Cap," he thought.
For the next two days, he would check in at the academy in the morning, see how Oguri Cap was doing, ask Brand New Shine if they had encountered anything unusual, have lunch at the cafeteria, and then pack up and leave for the day, much to the envy of his colleagues, including Kitahara.
"If you want to live like Zhou-kun, then work hard and train your horse girls well," the academy's management retorted. "He now has a nationally recognized Graded Race win. What do you have?"
Kitahara could only shrug. He had never expected his friend to succeed in his expedition with his horse girl and now be living a life where he only worked half a day.
"Before the summer vacation, I was thinking that winning two Open-class races with Fujimasa March would be enough to show off to Tai'an-san," Kitahara pressed his forehead and refocused on the "Young Crown" that Fujimasa March was going to challenge next.
But he didn't know that for the past two afternoons, he had not been resting as everyone imagined. The young man, after driving away from the academy, would go to the apartment and carefully arrange the appliances and furniture, finally finishing just before Oguri Cap resumed her formal training.
Looking at the neat and beautiful apartment he had arranged, he nodded with an air of importance, then took a picture of the 2LDK with the camera he had bought earlier, preparing to have it developed and give it to her tomorrow. After that, how to bring her mother over would be her own business.
…
That night, with no work to do, he went for a run after dinner, picked up the developed film, went home, took a shower, and went to bed.
He smoothly entered the dream world. The jockey he was here, although he had also won an Open-class race with Oguri Cap, Saginomi Masao would not choose to go on an expedition to Hokkaido like him. After all, the owner did not have enough money to support it, which he also understood.
And the next race Saginomi Masao had chosen for her was the "Young Crown" that Kitahara was having Fujimasa March participate in in the real world, followed by the Chukyo Cup, a two-month rest, a B2-class race to warm up, and finally, the Young Grand Prix as the end of the year.
"But if she runs the Chukyo Cup right after this race..." he complained to himself. "There's only a 10-day interval. Even if her body is tough, she definitely won't be able to recover to her full potential."
But in the dream world, he was just an apprentice jockey and had no right to advise the owner or trainer.
So an idea came to him, "I'll just have her hold back a little in the Young Crown when victory is assured."
Saginomi Masao had no idea what his apprentice jockey was planning. After registering her for the Young Crown, he even specially sought him out—
"You have to perform well in the Chukyo Cup, Zhou-kun. After all, it's a Central racecourse, and some small-time Central owners will be there to watch. If you can get their recognition, you might get a commission to race at Central in the future."
"Mm-hm, I'll definitely do my best," he promised seriously.
On the morning Oguri Cap resumed her formal training, he woke up and glanced at her basic stats. Nothing else had changed, only her Affinity was heading straight for 300.
Before, he hadn't thought much of it, but after thinking about the scene in the hot spring...
"I really need to be prepared," he thought, both mentally and physically.
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