When Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen heard Kitasan Black's words, they didn't show the same surprise as the two of them, but both laughed.
"It's really her style."
"Don't you think this is a bit outrageous? We haven't even debuted yet, and she just said she wanted us to win the Triple Crown or something..."
"You have to believe that Trainer-san really has this strength," Tokai Teio said with a smile.
The four of them chatted and finally reached the spot where Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen had began to race.
Mejiro McQueen looked around and found the coin she had just used as a starting signal.
Then she picked it up and put it in her pocket.
"Well... I want to ask, Miss Teiō, what is the goal you are striving for?" Kitasan Black asked.
"Didn't I just say that? Like the president, I want to become an undefeated Triple Crown Umamusume, and I have already achieved it," Tokai Teio smiled.
"But Teiō, you are no longer the undefeated Umamusume," Mejiro McQueen said with a smile.
"Anyway, it's already great that I didn't lose before the Triple Crown! Speaking of which, McQueen, isn't it the same for you? I just won!"
"Sorry, so what if you won? It's not a formal competition anyway."
"McQueen, do you want to default on your debt?"
"I don't know. If I lose, I lose. It's just that this game will not be recorded. In the official records, I still maintain my winning streak," Mejiro McQueen laughed.
"Just wait, your winning streak won't last long. My next goal is to beat McQueen in long-distance events!"
"Oh, you're not too shy. If you can do it, try it."
Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond felt a little funny when they saw how they went from being good friends to being at odds with each other in the blink of an eye.
Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen were exactly the same as them.
"By the way...Miss McQueen, what was your original goal?"
Satono Diamond spoke in time, interrupting the gaze between Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen, whose foreheads were already pressed together.
"My goal is to win the Tenno Sho. The Tenno Sho has extraordinary meaning to the Mejiro family."
"Oh, it turns out that McQueen's goal is so simple," Tokai Teio chuckled.
"Winning once is certainly not enough! I want to win in a row, three times in a row! In the future, I will win four times in a row, five times in a row."
"Miss McQueen won the Tenno Sho title three times in a row, as well as the Spring and Autumn title last year. It's really a very impressive achievement," Satono Diamond praised.
"It's not such a big deal."
Mejiro McQueen didn't care on the surface, but in fact she was very happy to be praised by her juniors.
The evidence is that the lavender ponytail behind her swayed happily a few times.
"So, doesn't Miss McQueen have a goal to strive for or follow like Miss Teiō? Although Trainer-san said it's not good to follow someone else's path...but, in fact, Miss McQueen, you are the goal I strive for."
Satono Diamond blushed and said to Mejiro McQueen.
"How is it possible? McQueen looks so arrogant. How can there be someone who can catch her eye?"
Tokai Teio has a habit of teasing Mejiro McQueen.
But this time, Mejiro McQueen did not respond to Tokai Teio as usual.
"Actually, there is."
"Huh? McQueen, are you really lying? Why haven't I heard you say that? Who is it?" Tokai Teio was surprised.
"It's the sister I just mentioned, the sister I used to play with when I was little."
"Is this the one McQueen you said looks similar to Trainer-san?"
"That's right," Mejiro McQueen nodded. "The two of them are indeed very similar. They are both so beautiful that it makes people feel amazed. The first time I saw Trainer-san, I was shocked. How could there be people who look so similar."
"But our Trainer-san looks like a human, and I don't see a tail or ears. Besides, my sister has short blue hair, and our trainer has long black hair. The hair color is completely different."
"Although I don't know my sister's specific age, I have the impression that she is very mature, so I think she should be much older than me. I have seen our Trainer-san's ID, and she is not much older than us," Mejiro McQueen said.
"Is she strong?"
"Hmm... I don't know... I didn't understand much at the time, and she had only participated in one G1 level competition. But for me at the time, she was my idol."
"But it would be too much to only participate in G1 once..." Tokai Teio was a little embarrassed. "Umamusume usually doesn't get any good results when she participates in G1 for the first time, right?"
Tokai Teio said so, but she was undefeated until she lost to Mejiro McQueen at Arima Kinen last year.
"No, although she has only participated in the G1 level competition once, the first time she participated was the Spring Tenno Sho. And she almost won first place."
"So powerful?!"
Tokai Teio and her two junior Umamusume all exclaimed upon hearing this.
If it were just an ordinary G1 event, it would b fine. This the longest Tenno Sho, and a G1 event at that. She almost took first place too.
This kind of talent can be called terrifying.
"So how many lengths did she miss first place?" Satono Diamond asked curiously.
"No, she's not second," Mejiro McQueen shook her head.
"Is that third place? Third place is pretty good too," Tokai Teio smiled.
"No, she is tenth among the ten contestants."
Tokai Teio & Satono Diamond & Kitasan Black: "..."
"It's not even close at all!!!" the three of them shouted in unison.
"That's not the case. Listen to me."
Mejiro McQueen also felt a little embarrassed, but a frown was forming in her expression.
"She was supposed to be first. She obviously crossed the line in first place, but she was given a foul, so she was disqualified."
"Foul?" The three of them were surprised.
"Yeah. She was fouled for diagonally running on the straight line at the end of the course."
"Then is she hindering other players?" Tokai Teio wondered.
"Not really."
"Hey? Why is that? I remember that the central race has a rule about falling, right? As long as it does not hinder the path of other Umamusume, we are allowed to go diagonally."
There is a rule of the Japan Central Umamusume Racing that if an Umamusume goes diagonally and blocks the path of another Umamusume, and if the condition of "if the offending horse had not gone diagonally, the injured horse would have surpassed the offending horse" is met, the result of the offending Umamusume will be moved to that of the injured Umamusume.
If running diagonally causes significant harm to the progress of the competition, the results will be invalidated, which means the athlete will be disqualified.
More serious cases will be punished by suspension.
In other words, it is possible to move diagonally as long as it does not affect other Umamusume.
Even if it is affected, the results will only be exchanged with the affected Umamusume and will not be directly invalidated.
"This rule was added after she was punished for running diagonally," Mejiro McQueen said. "Everyone is saying that this rule was put in because of her."
"Well, that's really a pity," Tokai Teio sighed.
The first time she participated in the G1 event, she won the Tenno Sho (Spring) championship, but was disqualified due to imperfect rules.
It was really a pity.
"By the way, what's your sister's name?" Tokai Teio asked.
"Sakura, Mejiro Sakura," Mejiro McQueen said.
"Mejiro Sakura? Is there a person like that in Tracen Academy?" Tokai Teio asked doubtfully.
"She did not join Tracen Academy. She was a local Umamusume and was originally supposed to join the Central Tracen Academy. But that time the competition was not just as simple as invalidating the results. The Central Racing Association directly banned her for six years."
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Author's Note:
As for the six-year suspension, I hope readers will not be surprised.
The timeline of Umamusume's universe is very strange. McQueen participated in Tenno Sho three times in the anime, and the following year (?) Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond enrolled.
In other words, it takes four years for an Umamusume to graduate from the time of enrollment to move up a grade to welcome a new Umamusume.
Teiō and McQueen are one grade below Special Week, and they both belong to the middle school section of Tracen Academy.
Oguri Cap and BNW belong to the higher division.
However, at the beginning of the second season of the anime, when Satono Diamond and the black Kita-chan came to visit the school, Oguri Cap who should have retired was learning basic middle school content in the classroom.
(The top three of Heisei are still learning what the classic Triple Crown is, and the book in their hands is also a basic textbook. This is obviously what they studied when they were with Special Week)
In addition, the Umamusume anime also has an "individual" setting, which is that an Umamusume suddenly changes from a lolita form to a normal form.
For example, Kitasan Black and Satono Diamond were originally just little lolita. They suddenly became old enough to enter school after the anime.
When Teiō was a lolita, after meeting the president, she suddenly grew tall enough to enter school.
Although they are both in the upper division, it seems that many Umamusume are very different.
BNW, Rice Shower and others are still competing with the students in the middle division, while Oguri Cap and other top three players are obviously no longer competing.
Maruzensky, who is also in the Department of Higher Education and walks around in school uniform every day, is old enough to drive. An Old aunt (crossed out).
Starting from Teiō and McQueen's entrance into school, at least four years passed in the anime before Kitasan and Diamond entered school.
If you equate animation time with the real world... you move up a grade and count it as one year in the real world, the six-year suspension is actually equivalent to one and a half years in the real world.
If possible, please don't worry about the anime and the timeline in the original work...
The main setting this book is based on the anime, and will mix some settings from manga and games. Of course, there will also be many liberties.
The animation timeline is already confusing. If the fic was written like this for the sake of rigor, the reading experience would be much lower.