Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond's eyes held a shimmering light. Both stared at Sakura Bakushin O's smiling, confident, and persuasive face, their small mouths slightly open and their pretty faces flushed.
Sakura Bakushin O's earlier remark, "That's not enough," was like a bolt from the blue, directly plunging them from the joy of successfully joining the team into an abyss.
Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond were fans of Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen, respectively. Both watched Tokai Teio's and Mejiro McQueen's races almost without fail, either live or via television broadcast.
Therefore, these two rookie Horse Girl, who had yet to debut, naturally understood the huge gap between themselves and their idols.
Upon hearing Sakura Bakushin O's decisive negative words, both were quite disheartened.
They thought their talent had been denied by this genius Trainer.
However, the outcome seemed to be otherwise.
"If you keep walking the path others have walked, you will lose your own footprints."
Sakura Mejiro said to Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond.
"Having a goal to strive for is a good thing. You can take Teio and McQueen as your role models. But I still hope that you can forge your own path and surpass them."
Sakura Bakushin O's words were not empty encouragement; it was also his own firm decision.
To outsiders, his simultaneous cultivation of the Triple Crown Tokai Teio and the Horse Girl known as the strongest long-distance runner, Mejiro McQueen, was already an incredible achievement.
But Sakura Bakushin O was not satisfied with the results he had achieved.
He was a transmigrator, or strictly speaking, a reborn person.
From Earth in his previous life, he was reborn into this world.
He experienced the process of birth and growth for the second time.
In the anime of his previous life, Tokai Teio missed the Triple Crown due to a fracture, and in the end, even her second goal of being undefeated ended in failure.
Mejiro McQueen was not much better than Tokai Teio. After failing her goal of a three-peat in the Spring Tenno Sho, her left leg suffered from shin splints, a terminal illness for an Uma Musume.
Therefore, when Sakura Bakushin O found himself reborn into the world of Uma Musume, he decided to rectify these regrets.
With the system's support and his memories of the "Uma Musume" anime from his previous life, he successfully made up for the regrets of Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen.
Although Sakura Bakushin O successfully prevented Tokai Teio's fracture during the Japanese Derby in the Classic Triple Crown Race, allowing her to participate in and win the Kikka Sho in October of that year, thus earning the title of Triple Crown Horse Girl.
However.
Tokai Teio successfully winning the Triple Crown also meant there was no "second jet" where she would push herself to the limit in the strong All-Comer race, leading from start to finish, just to make a comeback for Tokai Teio.
As for Mejiro McQueen, Sakura Bakushin O had already taken precautions very early on for her potential future shin splints.
To this day, Mejiro McQueen and Tokai Teio's legs have not had any further problems, except for both suffering fractures after the Arima Kinen race at the end of last year.
Of course, this also meant that...
The Tokai Teio who, after a year-long comeback, broke through herself in the Arima Kinen and created an impossible miracle to prevent Mejiro McQueen from giving up her dream, also disappeared.
Although this time, Tokai Teio successfully won the Triple Crown and achieved her initial dream.
But Sakura Bakushin O believed that there was still a significant gap between the Tokai Teio here and the Tokai Teio in that parallel world.
The Tokai Teio of this life did not break through herself, which meant she did not enter the "Zone."
Sakura Bakushin O deeply regretted this, but he also couldn't bring himself to be indifferent to Tokai Teio's three fractures and Mejiro McQueen's left shin splints.
The system showed that his training completion for Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen had not exceeded 90%.
Sakura Bakushin O felt that this was likely because in this life, these two did not experience the setbacks of their previous lives, and their strength had reached a plateau.
However, it was not a big problem. He was still the Trainer of Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen, and their Horse Girl careers were far from over.
He still had ample time to make Teio and McQueen Horse Girl on the level of the "Emperor" and the "Monster" to fulfill his own regrets.
For the two new Horse Girl in front of him, Sakura Bakushin O had already made a decision in his heart, which was to train them with even higher goals.
If the two of them only aimed to become Teio and McQueen, it would be difficult for them to achieve greater accomplishments.
Just as Sakura Bakushin O placed his hands on the shoulders of the two Horse Girl and offered this encouragement...
Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond, these two Little Horse Girls, felt touched in their hearts, and also scrutinized this Trainer, whose image was vastly different from Tamamo Cross's description earlier.
"Looking closely, Miss Sakura is really beautiful! Her eyes are like sapphires…" Satono Diamond thought to herself.
"As expected of Trainer-san who can help Teio win the Triple Crown, not only is she strong, but her personality is also really good, and she's so pretty…" Kitasan Black's heart stirred again.
"How touching!"
Akikawa Yayoi, sitting in her office chair watching them, once again flicked her fan and shouted at the three.
She looked at Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond, who had turned their gazes due to her loud voice, and then smiled:
"Sakura is right, to become an excellent Uma Musume, you cannot follow someone else's path."
"I'm a little curious…"
Akikawa Yayoi then shifted her gaze to Sakura Bakushin O.
"This time, what kind of achievements do you want them to achieve? Having a grand goal is indeed a good thing, but if it's too distant, it might reduce motivation."
"Then let's set a small goal for them first."
Sakura Bakushin O slowly removed his hands from the shoulders of the two Little Horse Girls, held up three fingers, and raised them in front of Akikawa Yayoi.
"Starting with both of them becoming Triple Crown Horse Girls!"
"Eh?!"
Listening to Sakura Bakushin O's words, Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond both cried out in unison.
"Starting with… Triple Crown? Trainer-san, isn't that a bit too…"
Kitasan Black stammered, too shocked to speak clearly.
It was at this moment that they finally began to understand what Tamamo Cross had said earlier about this Trainer-san being quite strange.
"No… that's not right, how can two people both win the Triple Crown! These races can only be participated in once in a lifetime… Kita and I are from the same generation, if one person wins the Triple Crown, then the other person will definitely…"
Satono Diamond was equally astonished. She widened her golden eyes and looked at Sakura Bakushin O with an incredulous expression.
"You… are you saying?"
Akikawa Yayoi was also clearly startled by Sakura Bakushin O's bold statement. Her tone was somewhat hesitant.
"That's right."
Sakura Bakushin O's lips curved upwards, and he once again placed his hands on Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond's shoulders.
"The Classic Triple Crown and the Triple Tiara, held simultaneously. They each get one."
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