On the wedding day, not many people came to celebrate, as the Tokai Family had intentionally scaled down the wedding.
As for the details of the wedding day, Tokai Shizen couldn't quite remember them.
Because the next day, after waking up from a coma, she only remembered one thing.
Are Uma Musume all that powerful?
In her limited memory, she only remembered that during the forty minutes she was conscious last night, the time displayed on the wall clock was different each time she woke up. The last time she saw the clock before completely losing consciousness, about six hours had passed since the beginning.
As for how much longer it continued after that, Tokai Shizen couldn't possibly know.
Thinking about this, Tokai Shizen was quite glad she hadn't died in bed.
After all, she understood her body's sickly nature.
Surviving such an intense night until the next morning truly counted as a miracle.
But, compared to her sickly body, what Tokai Shizen truly worried about was something else when she found Rudolph Symboli not in bed.
Slowly sitting up, she turned her head, searching for the person from last night.
Then Tokai Shizen found her sitting by the bed.
"Ru…"
"You are not Tokai Roman, are you?"
Purple eyes beneath the white meteor carried a hint of anger.
This made Tokai Shizen realize immediately that her identity had been exposed.
"Yes, I am Tokai Shizen, and it's because…"
A moment of hesitation,
Tokai Shizen was thinking about the excuse she should use.
Undoubtedly, the current Rudolph Symboli indeed possessed unlimited power in the world of Uma Musume in Japan.
Now that her identity was exposed, the annulment of the marriage was a certainty.
And her body, if it lost the family's support, would only be a slow death, and an irreversible one at that, as there was no cure for poverty.
So… "It was because of my admiration for you, Rudolph, that I did such a thing. Please do not do anything to the Tokai Family or my older sister."
She spoke the excuse the family had already prepared.
Listening to Tokai Shizen's excuse, Rudolph Symboli's expression didn't change much.
She only spoke after Tokai Shizen finished: "Now that you've finished, you can go back."
She stood up, without any hesitation, and left the room directly, so cold that there was no trace of the tenderness of last night.
Looking at Rudolph Symboli like that, Tokai Shizen just lowered her head.
It failed.
Tokai Shizen knew very well that the current Rudolph Symboli was not the softer version of her future self, who would possess the non-existent memory of ice skating with Oguri Cap.
The current Rudolph Symboli was still the Emperor.
Simply put, she was still a scumbag, so… after Rudolph Symboli left the room, Tokai Shizen only took a few minutes to compose herself.
Anyway, she had already encountered enough terrible things, so a few more wouldn't be a big deal to her.
Therefore, what she truly needed to worry about now was another matter.
"Did I bring any other clothes besides that white kimono from yesterday?"
Tokai Shizen fell into an intractable problem.
Several hours later, Tokai Shizen was picked up by the Tokai Family.
After returning to the Tokai Family, what Tokai Shizen had imagined did not happen.
At the very least, this group of people didn't directly erase her surname and cast her out of the Tokai Family, because doing so would have allowed them to push all the responsibility onto her. Then, due to the joint statement from the Symboli Family and the Tokai Family, she wouldn't even be able to find work, forced to do odd jobs and eventually succumb to illness.
However, with the Tokai Family's actions in the following days, Tokai Shizen realized that the Tokai Family had become greedy.
The purpose of daily blood tests was actually only one: to test whether she was pregnant.
And the final result naturally delighted the Tokai Family.
After all, that day's timing had been carefully calculated by the Tokai Family, and considering the intensity of the encounter between Rudolph Symboli and Tokai Shizen on that day...
It would have been stranger if she hadn't gotten pregnant.
Under these circumstances, Tokai Shizen gained temporary residency, at least until she gave birth to the child she carried.
However, very quickly, a second problem arose.
According to the prenatal check-up, Tokai Shizen was not carrying one child, but twins.
It is well known that if an Uma Musume is pregnant with twins, she will not be looked upon favorably.
But because of Rudolph Symboli's overwhelmingly powerful legend, the Tokai Family decided to take a risk.
They planned to wait a bit longer.
And just like the good news before, the twins Tokai Shizen was carrying were not both Uma Musume, but one human and one Uma Musume.
After receiving this news, the Tokai Family's attitude softened considerably.
After all, the nutritional needs of an Uma Musume and a human are completely incomparable, which is why Tokai Shizen was able to continue living in the Tokai Family.
And after those worrying problems disappeared one after another, there was still one last concern for the Tokai Family.
That was Tokai Shizen's health.
Tokai Shizen was naturally frail since birth, and it was precisely because of this that she, who originally had enough talent to become an Uma Musume, replaced her older sister to marry Rudolph Symboli.
Now, Tokai Shizen's health was the only problem left to consider.
Of course, all they needed was the child in Tokai Shizen's womb; as for Tokai Shizen herself...
She no longer had any reason to exist.
After all, she was the cause of the Rudolph Symboli wedding incident, or rather, the scapegoat.
Under the immense pressure from that Emperor, the Tokai Family would certainly pin all the blame on Tokai Shizen to ensure their own survival.
So why would the Tokai Family continue to support someone who could anger the Symboli Family and was also a huge waste of money?
Therefore, as Tokai Shizen watched her belly grow day by day, she had to consider what to do next.
Because she knew that the Uma Musume she was carrying would be taken away by the Tokai Family.
Although her child leaving her right after birth was something that made her want to explode, when she thought about her own situation, Tokai Shizen felt that perhaps letting her stay with the Tokai Family wasn't so bad.
After all, Tokai Shizen knew that with her body, no one would probably hire her for odd jobs.
And under such circumstances, she would also have to bear the living expenses of two children.
Tokai Shizen understood that she couldn't possibly raise them.
So, if possible, she even wanted to leave both children with the Tokai Family, because at least in the Tokai Family, they wouldn't be eating half-price bento every day and living in a ten-square-meter room.
But unfortunately, that was impossible, because she was also carrying a human.
And humans, to borrow a famous line, are like trash.
This sentence was the best answer to the Tokai Family's attitude.
After all, compared to a talented Uma Musume, a talented human was much easier to find.
Gently stroking her already swollen abdomen, she, sitting on the bed, could only let out a long sigh.