Taking advantage of Tazuna falling asleep, Tang Han escaped the warehouse.
But he did not leave the sleeping Tazuna alone in that dim, gloomy place. Instead, he carefully picked her up and carried her out as well.
So where could he put Miss Tazuna somewhere safe?
After thinking it over, Tang Han decided to take her to the academy infirmary to rest.
Of course, carrying a beautiful woman everyone at school knew all the way to the infirmary without attracting attention would have been an extremely difficult task for an ordinary person.
Fortunately, Tang Han was not ordinary.
Since he liked hiding around the academy to read, and often changed locations because he was afraid of staying in one place too long and exposing himself, he knew the campus routes inside and out—where the horse girls clustered, where they did not, and how to move without being noticed.
And since it was morning and everyone was in class, there were very few horse girls out on the roads.
So Tang Han successfully slipped past everyone's line of sight and brought Tazuna to the infirmary.
There was a horse-girl doctor inside, treating the cut on another girl's lips.
The doctor asked, "How did you hurt your lips?"
The horse girl blushed. "I… kissed my trainer… for too… too long…"
The doctor paused. "How long?"
The girl raised three fingers on each hand.
The doctor blinked. "Thirty-three minutes?"
The girl shook her head.
"Six hours…"
Tang Han: "..."
Silently, he laid Tazuna down on an empty bed, tucked her in, and left a note on the desk for the doctor on duty, explaining that Miss Tazuna was resting here.
Once he finished all that, he turned and fled at top speed.
He did not stop until he reached the training grounds.
"Whew. Safe…"
Tang Han let out a long breath and looked toward the infirmary with lingering dread.
"I'm such an idiot… really…"
Before Tazuna had cornered him today, Tang Han had never once imagined that she might have those kinds of intentions toward him.
But now that he had calmed down and thought about it carefully, a lot of her past behavior really had been suspicious.
Calling out to him in particular whenever they greeted each other. Volunteering to be the referee when he said he was joining a friendly race. Inviting him out to dinner afterward…
And most of all, when he got drunk and collapsed, she had taken him from Kiryuin's hands. At the time, Tang Han had assumed she was kindly taking him toward the school gate to hand him over to the driver. But now it turned out she had actually been trying to drag him somewhere isolated and strip him?!
"Miss Tazuna…"
Tang Han felt a sharp ache in his heart.
He could no longer trust Hayakawa Tazuna completely.
I treated you like a close friend, and you wanted to sleep with me…
She was beautiful, gentle, and kind. To most people, being slept with by her would probably sound like a blessing.
But Tang Han did not see it that way.
Miss Tazuna was a horse girl.
What if she grew dissatisfied with just sleeping and started demanding kisses too? Six hours of kissing, like that horse girl in the infirmary?
That was absolutely terrifying.
But he also could not avoid all contact with her. Tazuna was the academy's secretary and helped manage the horse girls. As a trainer, he was bound to interact with her.
And if he wanted to build training equipment, he still needed special components. Since Basement Bro had not written any books on how to make those parts himself, he would still need Tazuna as a supplier.
So there was no way around it.
That meant he might face a situation like today again in the future—threatened into letting Miss Tazuna sniff him.
After thinking it through again and again, Tang Han came to a single conclusion.
"I need a horse-girl bodyguard!"
Humans had limits. The more one relied on schemes and caution, the easier it was to get caught somewhere unexpected and hauled off for a good jumping.
Only horse girls could defeat horse girls.
So Tang Han needed to find a horse girl he could trust—someone who did not have to stay with him twenty-four hours a day, but who at least could remain by his side for most of the time he was at the academy and protect him.
The plan seemed feasible.
"So… who should I ask?"
As he was wondering which horse girl he could trust, his eyes were drawn to an ash-gray horse girl sitting cross-legged on a grassy slope not far away.
Even though it was class time, she was sitting there seriously playing chess against herself.
It was his good bro, Gold Ship.
The moment he saw her, the panic in Tang Han's heart eased noticeably.
"Yo, Bro Ship!" Tang Han waved first.
Gold Ship looked up and saw him.
"Yo, Master!"
She stood and walked over.
But when she got within about ten meters of Tang Han, she suddenly seemed to sense something and froze.
"Hm?"
Then she quickly rushed over, stopping right in front of him, and leaned toward his chest.
"Sniff, sniff…"
Her nose twitched slightly, like she was trying to catch the scent on him.
"Bro Ship? What are you doing?" Tang Han instinctively stepped back.
"Don't move!"
Gold Ship pressed a hand to his shoulder to stop him from retreating.
"..."
Her domineering attitude scared Tang Han so much he did not dare move anymore. He could only let her keep sniffing at his chest.
This was bad.
Had Gold Ship smelled his horse-girl catnip scent too, just like Tazuna?
He had barely escaped the tiger's den, only to fall straight into a wolf's maw?
If even Gold Ship betrayed him too, after everything, Tang Han felt he might actually lose all hope.
Fortunately, Gold Ship was still worthy of trust.
"Hm…"
After sniffing for a few seconds, she frowned.
Then she looked up at the sky, thought for a moment, and reached behind her back to pull out a spray bottle from who-knew-where.
Psssh—
She sprayed several clouds of transparent mist all over Tang Han.
The droplets scattered across his whole body, then evaporated a few seconds later without leaving any visible trace.
But his Doctor's Coat now carried a strange scent.
"Bro Ship, what is this?" Tang Han sniffed at himself and found the smell oddly sweet, a little like the honey drink he made.
"No need to thank me."
Instead of answering directly, Gold Ship said something that completely baffled him.
"This is one of the failed products from when I was learning to make honey drinks. You can't drink it, but it works great as an air freshener."
"Huh?" Tang Han stared.
What kind of failure could turn a beverage into an air freshener?
Then it hit him.
"Wait. Air freshener?"
He finally understood why Gold Ship had been sniffing at his chest.
Earlier, when Tazuna hugged him, her body fragrance had inevitably been left on him.
Tang Han himself could not smell it, but horse girls could.
And if he walked around the academy carrying Miss Tazuna's unmistakable scent on him, he would definitely get mobbed.
So Gold Ship had used this spray to mask it and save him from danger…
"Bro Ship…"
Once he understood her good intentions, warmth flooded Tang Han's chest, and tears sprang to his eyes.
Bro Ship, you're so kind. No wonder you're my good bro. I'm going to cry.
Bro Ship! From this day on, I trust you completely!
There was no one better suited for the role of bodyguard.
"Bro Ship! From now on, stay by my side!"
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