Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 111 How about this tactic?

After the training that day, in Kitahara's office.

Looking at Kitahara fiddling with a sand table of a competition field in the middle of the office, Oguruma showed a rare look of worry.

"…What should I do, Kitahara…"

She bit her lower lip and said, "I have never thought about what the march said."

"After she said that, I watched my previous game videos and thought about all the possible tactics of my opponents."

"I found that if I had to catch up with my fleeing opponent faster, break through the more crowded front and center teams, and withstand the more pressing pressure from the pursuers, as the march said, I..."

She bit her lower lip again, "It seems that the possibility of my winning is not very high..."

There were 18 mini Uma Musume chess pieces on the sand table that Kitahara was fiddling with. Except for three that were placed far in front of the track, the rest were squeezed together.

Among a pile of chess pieces, there was a mini pony girl chess piece with long silver-gray hair.

...What's going on? "Overlord Encirclement"? Something that hasn't happened to the good opera has happened to the little chestnut hat first?
Beiyuan sighed a little.

In the year when Good Opera was undefeated, it participated in 8 games, almost the same as Oguruma. Many of its opponents in the first 7 games gathered in the last game, Arima Kinen.

In the Arima Kinen race, Good Opera was tightly surrounded by other competitors from the start, and tried many times to escape from the route without success. Until the last 300 meters of the straight, due to the coincidence of the famous athlete Nu Tao's sprint and Narita Road's stall, the team made a fleeting gap.

It was through that gap that Good Opera broke out, and with a strong last kick, sprinted all the way, overtaking the famous runner Nu Tao and winning the championship with a small gap.

This is also the reason why the activation conditions of the inherent skill "Dance for Victoria" in the game are so harsh yet extremely powerful.

She needs to be surrounded for a certain period of time before she can activate her inherent ability. After the activation, there is almost no possibility of losing.

But just like this inherent difficulty in activating in the game, Good Opera encountered encirclement again in the subsequent Takarazuka Kinen, but this time she failed to break out successfully.

...The situation of Ogurimo's Golden Youth Cup this time is very similar to that of the Arima Kinen and Takarazuka Kinen of Good Opera.

But their abilities, adaptability, running styles, etc. are very different, and that miraculous breakthrough is extremely dependent on luck, so it is impossible for Oguruma to prepare for it like a good opera.

So how should we arrange the tactics this time...

Kitahara felt troubled for the first time, and he also knew that a situation like Oguruma's was very rare, and there was no ready-made solution. The only similar situation was the two games of Good Opera, but with Good Opera's strength, they could only win one and lose one. This "tactic" with a winning rate of only 50% was really not convincing for someone like him who was used to having everything under control.

After fiddling with the sand table for a while, Beiyuan still couldn't think of any good solution, but he was not in a hurry.

It is now mid-December, and there are still about 12 days before the competition, so there is still time to come up with countermeasures and train.

He planned to ask other people's opinions first.

In the office, besides him and Oguruma, Shin Shinkyou, Miyamura Kyoko, and Kobayakawa were all there. After thinking for a while, Kitahara asked the three of them directly:

"Do you have any good strategies or tactics? I don't have a very good idea at the moment. Why don't you all tell me about it?" He admitted without hesitation that he was helpless for the time being.

The new light spoke first with a wry smile.

"Well... if Mr. Kitahara can't do anything, then I don't have any good ideas either."

She frowned in distress and looked at Oguruma with concern, "I haven't played in a match for more than two months. My training volume has also been reduced a lot because I was preparing for the Central Trainee Course. Tactically... I'm not very good at it."

Miyamura Kyoko was also embarrassed and said: "If it is a medical matter, I should have many ways to do it, but regarding the competition... I still have to trouble Mr. Kitahara to spend more time thinking about it."

Kitahara nodded. He was not surprised by the answers of Shin Shinkyou and Miyamura Kyoko.

Every profession has its own specialties. Xin Xin Guang Hui has now switched to the technical route. Miyamura Kyoko is a medical talent, so let them express their opinions. Kitahara just wants to try to expand his thinking and does not intend to force anything.

But when it comes to professionalism... After hesitating for a moment, Beiyuan looked towards the super small bay.

As if waiting for this gaze, Xiao Haiwan pondered for a moment, walked to the sand table, and picked up a new chess piece from the edge.

"I should be able to only provide Mr. Kitahara and Oguri with an idea."

Thinking about it, she placed the new chess piece at the very front of the entire chess piece.

"That was Mr. Kitahara's advice to me. Since my strength is endurance, I just need to find a way to get the whole race into my rhythm."

"The Golden Youth Cup is 1600 meters, so I can accelerate in advance and run at the pace of 2000 meters or even 3000 meters so that I won't be surrounded. I just need to withstand the pressure from behind to win."

"As for the pressure, I think I can handle the pressure from Oguri, Kodama, and Koinari, so I should be able to handle a competition like this."

Kitahara was a little surprised.

Xiao Haiwan was talking about the strategies and tactics he gave in the swimming pool. Only a long-distance king like Xiao Haiwan could apply them with ease.

He had thought that it would take some time for Xiao Wan to understand, but he didn't expect that she not only seemed to understand it, but could also use it easily and freely.

As expected of a genius-level horse girl, she doesn't need me to say anything when she encounters a tactic that suits her. So...

"I see, I understand."

As for Oguruma... huh?

Looking at Oguruma in surprise, Kitahara discovered that she now had a look of sudden realization on her face.

Xiao Limao also picked up a chess piece, the one that represented her long silver-gray hair.

She moved the chess piece sideways a long distance and placed it far away from the entire team, closest to the outside of the runway.

“I can also play to my strengths.”

Amid the looks of astonishment on Kitahara's face, Shin Shinkyou's face, astonishment on Miyamura's face, and Xiaowan's face, the horse girl who usually looked a little cold and dazed spoke confidently.

"My advantage is my strong leg strength."

"Wouldn't it be possible that they would surround me? Why not just not give them the chance?"

"I went straight to the outside lane. From the start, I went to the outside lane."

"In that kind of place, they won't waste their energy to continue to surround me in that position."

“I can’t quite remember how long the Kasamatsu track is, but having run so many times, I think it’s about 1100 meters in total.”

“The straights on both sides should be more than 400 meters long.”

"The bends on both sides should be more than 80 meters long."

“There’s no distance difference on the straights.”

"I was running on the outside of the curve, so I should have run a few dozen meters longer."

"It's only a few dozen meters. With my leg strength, I can still make it to the front."

"Beiyuan, what do you think of my tactics?"

(End of this chapter)