Uma Musume: From Beginner to Basement
By EEEEE然后亮标
Updated: 2023-01-30 10:00:02
Word Count: 2205
With Lucky taking over at the controls, Tang Han successfully completed his trainer contract with Rice Shower. From that moment on, he had one more horse girl he was responsible for.
After Symboli Rudolf uploaded their trainer-registration details to the academy website through her computer, Lucky immediately drove the Tang Han Unit away.
Yes—ran away.
Lucky knew that in Tang Han's current compromised mental state, if anything unexpected happened, even with her piloting him, it would be hard to hold the line. So the moment she got Tang Han and Rice Shower officially paired, sent out the training plan Tang Han had painstakingly prepared the night before to every horse girl's phone, and finished the necessary paperwork, she immediately took control of his body, fled Tracen Academy, and returned him to what was currently the safest place of all—
the male trainers' dormitory.
But before Lucky made the Tang Han Unit bolt, Symboli Rudolf personally handed Tang Han a key to a training room.
According to Tracen Academy regulations, once a trainer is assigned to two or more horse girls, they qualify to establish an official team.
The trainer may give the team a name, as long as it follows academy rules, and the academy will also allocate that team its own standard training room.
Lucky accepted the training room key on Tang Han's behalf, though the team name had not yet been decided.
At the time, Tang Han was still under the effects of charm and could not offer any opinion, so Lucky decided to wait until he had fully recovered before letting him choose the team's name himself.
And by the time Tang Han truly came back to his senses, it was already evening.
"..."
Tang Han sat on the bed in his dorm room, staring blankly ahead.
This was different from the time he got drunk and blacked out completely. When he had been reduced to mush by Rice Shower's cuteness, he had still retained consciousness, so he remembered very clearly everything that had happened that afternoon.
"Rice Shower... is really cute..."
Right now, he was going over it again and again in his head, reflecting on how thoroughly he had been melted by Rice Shower's adorableness, and feeling a powerful urge to die of embarrassment.
He truly had not expected Rice Shower to use acting cute as her ultimate trump card. As a certified big-brother type, he simply could not withstand it. What was worse, after getting hit by it once, he had wanted to get hit a second time too. He had genuinely become a complete fool with eyes only for Rice Shower.
But what really left Tang Han speechless was this:
Apparently, being turned into mush by Rice Shower had actually been the correct choice?!
Which meant that if he had not watched Rice Shower act cute at the time, something unfortunate would have happened afterward?!
Tang Han already had a faint idea what that misfortune might have been, but he did not dare think too deeply about it.
After all, for a simple, pure-hearted big-brother type like him, the possibility of cute little Rice Shower turning into some tragic mixed grain mess was absolutely unacceptable.
Fortunately, the ending had been good. Rice Shower had not turned into "assorted grains," and Tang Han had not been violated by horse girls. A happy ending all around.
It was just that Tang Han and Rice Shower had now officially entered a trainer-trainee relationship, which meant they would be spending much more time together from here on out.
For a man with a severe weakness to little-sister cuteness, this would be a brutal challenge. He would need to respond with even greater caution in the future.
And now, Tang Han wanted to have a serious talk with the true culprit behind all of this.
Tang Han: Lucky...
Lucky: Dad! I'm sorry!
Tang Han had not even started speaking yet before Lucky launched into a lightning-fast apology. Her speed at admitting fault was even faster than Tang Han's own speed back when he used to submit to the System, perfectly embodying the saying that the student surpasses the master.
...How strange. After being called "Dad," it felt like ninety percent of his anger had instantly vanished. He was not even that inclined to scold her anymore.
Not that Tang Han had originally planned to scold Lucky in the first place. He understood her reasoning. One more contracted horse girl meant one more chance to gather Hope energy.
In fact, Tang Han himself had initially wanted to do exactly that—take on a whole group of horse girls to raise his odds of success. He had only refrained because he was too afraid of being torn apart by five horse girls at once.
And besides, Lucky had not been trying to harm him. She had always acted according to the path indicated by the warning lights. If she had not taken over and brought him back that day, there was no telling whether Tang Han would currently be in the trainers' dorm or locked in a basement somewhere.
So really, all Tang Han wanted was to talk calmly about the past... and about the future.
"Luck... never mind..."
Tang Han shook his head.
He suddenly realized there was not actually much he wanted to say to her.
What had already happened could not be changed. No matter how much he and Lucky talked, it would not alter the facts.
Tang Han felt that instead of dwelling on the past, it was better to focus on doing what he needed to do now—setting a small goal first. Within three months, get either Urara or Rice Shower to win a G1.
"..."
Tang Han got off the bed, sat down at his desk, pulled out a thick stack of blank paper from the drawer, and picked up a fountain pen.
Tomorrow's training plan would need one more copy added.
...
The next morning, Tang Han arrived bright and early at the door to his team's training room.
It was a small room, something like a storage-container office. It was not large, but it came equipped with basic furnishings: desks and chairs, lockers, a whiteboard, markers, a water dispenser, and so on.
A trainer could use it to explain training matters to horse girls, brief them on upcoming races, store personal belongings, or simply let them rest if they were tired from training.
If they won a race, they could even hold a small celebration party here.
In short, having a training room was extremely convenient for any team.
Most importantly of all, the training room—just like the academy shuttle buses—possessed tank-level defensive capability.
"Not bad, not bad."
Tang Han surveyed his training room and was deeply pleased with the academy's policy of giving every officially formed team its own room.
With this room, he now had one more safe place in this world.
It was basically the equivalent of a safe house in a zombie game. As long as he hid inside, he could escape the harassment of all the terrifying creatures outside.
"Haaa..."
Tang Han stood in the doorway, enjoying the freshness of the morning air, feeling utterly relaxed.
Was there really anything more comforting than standing in front of your own safe house?
If a dangerous horse girl appeared, Tang Han could retreat inside immediately. The tank-level defenses would effectively hold them off for a while until relevant personnel arrived to rescue him.
However, at that moment, Tang Han suddenly spotted something not far away:
a curly-haired horse girl and a short-haired horse girl were dragging along a pale-faced male trainer.
Tang Han thought the trainer looked familiar.
Eh? Was he not the senior trainer who had ridden the same bus as Tang Han that morning?
What were they doing to—
"No! Nooo!"
The senior trainer was wailing in despair, as if some unspeakably terrible fate awaited him.
He struggled desperately, but how could a weak human possibly resist horse girls? Let alone two of them.
The two horse girls ignored the senior trainer's cries and continued dragging him into the training room next door.
Then, click, they locked the door behind them.
Not long after, that training room began to shake with a steady rhythm.
Tang Han: "???"
So the training rooms could be used like that too?!
Only then did Tang Han finally realize something horrifying:
A training room with tank-level defenses could indeed keep dangerous things out—
but it could also keep the people inside from getting out.
The moment he understood this, Tang Han's legs went weak, and he hurriedly backed away from the door to his own training room.
Now he could no longer look at the training room the same way.
The place he had just adored only moments ago—the place he had almost wanted to live in every day—
was no longer a safe house.
It was a basement with official approval.
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