At the front gate of Tracen Academy, the moment Tang Han stepped off the school bus, Hayakawa Tazuna spotted him by comparing his face to the photo on her phone.
She put her phone away and waved at him.
"Good morning, Trainer Tang Han~"
"Good morning, Miss Tazuna," Tang Han replied politely as he walked over with his hands in his pockets.
"The parts you ordered last night arrived this morning," Tazuna said with a smile.
"Oh? That fast?" Tang Han was a little surprised.
The night before, he had asked Tazuna to order some special parts from a friend of hers—parts that weren't available on the open market—so he could build training equipment for his horse girls.
But when Tazuna had said, "Order tonight, arrive tomorrow," he had assumed she meant tomorrow evening at the earliest, or maybe the afternoon. After all, these parts were hard to find precisely because they were complicated. No matter how skilled her friend was, surely they couldn't have produced so many of them that quickly.
Yet Tang Han had never expected them to be finished and delivered before he even arrived at school that morning.
That meant everything had been prepared in a single night.
The speed was unbelievable.
"But… what about the quality?" Tang Han asked, suddenly worried.
Her friend's manufacturing and delivery speed were astonishing, but he had no idea how good the parts actually were. He was concerned that rushing the job might have resulted in inferior craftsmanship.
"Hehe, Trainer Tang Han, you don't need to worry." Tazuna saw right through what he was thinking and said, "If the parts were poor quality, then any training equipment built from them would also be poor quality. And with your girls' safety in mind, I know you'd never accept that."
She smiled gently.
"My friend's workmanship is absolutely reliable. The academy's current training equipment—and everything they plan to use in the future—comes from her hands. You can trust her craftsmanship completely."
"In that case, if you say so, Miss Tazuna, then I definitely believe it." Tang Han nodded.
So the academy's equipment all came from the same person.
That reassured him.
"Then where are the parts?" he asked.
Since the items had already arrived in the morning, he wanted to speed things up. His mornings were usually free anyway—he mostly hid somewhere quiet on campus to read or write training plans—so he planned to use the extra time to build the training device today.
Given his absurd learning ability and the fact that he had read the manual dozens of times, he felt there was a real chance he could finish the tool before the afternoon and let Urara and the others use it right away.
"The pickup location is a little out of the way," Tazuna said. "You probably wouldn't know where it is, so I'll take you there myself."
Tang Han's head was currently full of thoughts about how to build the equipment and refine the afternoon's training plan, so he did not think much of it.
He nodded blankly.
"All right."
"Hehe…" Seeing how completely he trusted her, the corners of Tazuna's mouth curled up ever so slightly.
"Please follow me."
"Okay."
Tang Han followed her without a hint of suspicion.
After about ten minutes of walking, Tazuna led him to a secluded warehouse behind the academy.
Tang Han glanced around and found that it really was remote. Trees surrounded the area on all sides, and it was so quiet that almost no one would ever come here.
Tazuna opened the warehouse door. A faint chill drifted out from within.
"The parts you need are inside. Go on in and have a look."
She stepped aside and gestured for him to enter.
"All right."
Tang Han nodded and walked straight into the dim warehouse.
It was not very large. Cobwebs clung to the corners, old junk was piled up against the walls, and in the center of the room sat a brand-new cardboard box.
Tang Han walked over and noticed a freshly written note stuck to the box:
For Tang Han
"This should be it."
He crouched down and opened it. Inside were all the assorted components he needed.
Tang Han picked up a few and examined their quality.
"Not bad."
He nodded in satisfaction.
The parts were excellent. They weren't quite perfect S-rank quality, but they were at least A-rank. If he used them to build the equipment, it would last for a very long time.
As expected of the master craftsperson responsible for the academy's facilities.
Being introduced to a source like this was a huge help.
Miss Tazuna, my superhero!
Just as Tang Han was inwardly thanking her, Tazuna stepped into the warehouse behind him and quietly shut the door.
Click.
The sound of the lock sliding into place.
"!"
The instant Tang Han heard that clear locking sound, a chill ran down his spine.
Something was wrong. Very, very wrong.
He swallowed hard and turned stiffly to look behind him.
To his horror, Tazuna was standing in front of the only exit, smiling at him.
"Miss Tazuna?" Tang Han forced a smile, trying to sound calm. "What are you…?"
"…"
She did not answer.
Instead, she began walking toward him, step by step.
The sharp rhythm of her heels striking the ground echoed through the silent warehouse, over and over, pounding against Tang Han's panicked heart.
"!!"
His eyes widened. He stared fixedly at her as she approached.
No way. No way. This couldn't possibly be what he thought it was… right?
"Miss Tazuna, what are you trying to do?" Sweat began to bead on his forehead as he backed away in fear.
But after only a few steps, his back hit the cold wall.
"!!!"
There was nowhere left to retreat.
And Tazuna kept coming.
At that point, Tang Han could do nothing but curl in on himself in fear and watch helplessly as she stopped right in front of him, looking down at him from above.
"Hehe."
Tazuna still wore that same gentle, pleasant smile. One hand touched her own cheeks, which were slowly turning red. Her gaze was dreamy as she looked at him.
"Trainer Tang Han, let me be honest with you…"
"When you told me to close my eyes and cover my ears at the school gate before, I did exactly as you asked. I didn't see your face, and I didn't hear your voice…"
"But… I still accidentally caught your scent."
"Huh?!"
Tang Han instantly realized what that meant.
His constitution was special. His appearance, his voice, even his scent had an S-rank effect on horse girls—he was basically catnip for them in human form—and absolutely none of that could ever be exposed in front of any horse girl.
Tang Han knew Tazuna was a horse girl.
And now she was saying that she had accidentally smelled him before…
That could only mean—
Miss Tazuna was here to jump him, wasn't she?!
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