Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 142: Attempt to Actively Trigger the Domain

Although we received assistance from Kurokawa Masato and Suruga Tezuna in terms of equipment and venue, the entire arrangement could not be completed within one or two days. Purchasing, debugging, transporting, and assembling all take time, and the Hanshin Grand Prix on March 3th is about to be held. Under such circumstances, we naturally cannot wait for the equipment to be ready before training. The 27 training match must be carried out.

On the morning of the training day after two days of rest, Kitahara watched the horse racing ladies warming up on the track from afar. After thinking for a long time, he decided to discuss something with Maruzenski beside him.

"Maruzen, do you think it's possible to trigger the ability of the domain manually?"

Maruzenski did not go to practice together today, but was called aside by Kitahara. She guessed that the latter wanted to talk to her about something, but she didn't expect it to be so unexpected.

Almost without any hesitation, she shook her head subconsciously.

"How is that possible, Kitahara, what are you thinking about?"

She felt a little amused. "Whether it is for humans or horse girls, the domain is a field that has not been thoroughly studied. Especially for horse girls, the domain is essentially a gift from the three goddesses. Even for horse girls like me and Ludo who can already regard the domain as a state, it is difficult to say that we have a clear understanding of it. You..."

Suddenly, she paused, and disbelief gradually appeared in her eyes.

"Wait! Have you thought of something? Have you thought of a way to actively trigger the domain? Really?"

Extremely rarely, this usually relaxed and carefree horse racing girl became excited. She turned around suddenly, grabbed Kitahara's shoulders hard, pulled him to face her, and held his shoulders.

"Is it true, Kitahara?!"

Although his shoulders were a little painful from being grabbed, Kitahara was not annoyed. He could understand Maruzenski's thoughts.

The importance of the domain to horse girls is not only that it can make them stronger on the field. The reason why it is called the gift of the goddess is that its most crucial role is to protect the horse girls after their transformation into their true nature.

On this point, ever since Maruzenski came to Eternal World, Kitahara and others have compared her with examples and data many times.

The examples are simple. Modern horse girls like Maruzenski, Ludo Symbol, Chiaki Representative, and earlier legendary horse girls all mastered their fields before and after retirement. After that, no matter what kind of injuries they had before, as long as they recovered through rest and treatment, they never had similar problems again, and even common diseases were rare.

The data is a collection of all the legendary horse girls information available around the world.

From the analysis of that information, it can be seen that the probability of injury during their transformation is directly proportional to their physical fitness and inversely proportional to their training and living conditions. At the entry-level and mastering levels, this proportional effect will be significantly increased, which means that the domain during this period is not considered "complete". When they become domain-level horse girls and can treat the domain as an ordinary state, the proportional effect almost does not exist, at least from a statistical point of view, it can be completely considered non-existent.

This means that horse girls who have completely owned their field and become the "normal in their field" do not have to worry about problems such as injuries.

So, if there is some way to trigger the domain artificially, it means that all horse girls will have the opportunity to have a "normal domain", which will completely change the entire horse girl world and even the entire world.

As a member of Uma Musume, Maruzenski naturally looks forward to the emergence of such a world, but her past experience tells her that this is impossible, so she denies it and then becomes extremely excited.

"Maruzen, I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious."

Knowing Maruzenski's thoughts, Kitahara patiently explained, "I do have the idea of ​​actively triggering the domain, but I'm not sure if it will succeed."

"From the beginning, we wanted to help Oguruma and the others master the domain as soon as possible. The three preliminary battles of Gaoyue Sho and various data have also proved that fighting with strong enemies can increase the probability of triggering the domain."

"Tama and Inari are both extremely outstanding and powerful horse girls. They will be participating in the Hanshin Grand Prix together this time. I think this might be a good opportunity to give it a try."

Maruzenski is not a horse girl who easily loses control of her emotions. She was anxious just now because she subconsciously imagined the idea proposed by Kitahara, not because she was overwhelmed by it.

After listening to Kitahara's explanation, she quickly calmed down, withdrew her hands from his shoulders, frowned slightly, and began to think.

"Well, fighting a strong enemy can indeed be considered a key trigger condition."

She recalled: "Before this, Luduo and I had similar experiences."

"Maybe my situation is a little special. I didn't meet any particularly tough opponents back then. But after missing the Japanese derby, it seemed like I wanted to go against all those who opposed me. I accelerated more and more recklessly off the court. If I think about it carefully, my biggest rival back then was probably myself."

"Now that we have the support of your data, Kitahara, this result can basically be confirmed."

“It’s all thanks to you for forming such a team,” she smiled with a hint of gratitude. “If you hadn’t thought of installing various instruments and equipment at the racecourse, and had enough horse girls as data sources, I’m afraid it would have taken a long time to discover this.”

"It's fate, I think."

Kitahara said calmly: "It just so happens that this generation has outstanding horse girls like Oguruma and others, and they also have sufficient skills. Otherwise, even if I had those ideas, I would not be able to realize them."

"In short, according to the data we obtained earlier, in the three outpost battles of Gaoyue Sho, the data of Sakura Chiyoou, Mejiro Aldan, and Super Little Bay did not change significantly throughout the game, while Dido Shooter and Oguri Hat clearly had close contact with the field."

He became serious.

"In the final sprint on the straight, Dido was very close to Oguri. Both of their data showed an upward trend at this time."

"This trend is not obvious from the numbers. On average, each item is only a few tenths or even a few tenths more. But if you draw a line graph or perform a significance calculation, you can clearly find that this upward trend exists."

"We asked Oguruma, and she said she also felt a similar 'no distractions' feeling, which means she has reached the threshold of the domain. Although we haven't communicated with Nanase Fumino and Dido Shooter, but judging from the data, Dido Shooter's physical data in the last few dozen meters before crossing the finish line can be said to be at the 'entry-level domain' level. She is probably closer to the domain than Oguruma, or even has touched it."

Hearing this, Maruzenski thought, "As for Didu shooter, I can confirm with Qianming. She was still analyzing it with trainer Naise and the others a few days ago, and there is no result yet."

"Ah, I have to say this again," she suddenly laughed, "Although we are on the same team, the conditions here are much better than Qianming and his team."

"I don't really know how to analyze it, but seeing you guys just messing around on the computer, especially Kyoko and Kouki, the two of them just tinkered with all kinds of equipment and somehow came up with the results, it really feels very convenient."

...Isn't it convenient? It looks simple, but it is the result of a lot of money spent.

With a secret smile, Kitahara did not explain the profits brought to him by Hewan Enterprise. He directly fed back to the team. Now, the instruments and equipment used in the entire Eternal World are the most advanced commercial versions, especially the medical equipment used by Kyoko and the forging equipment used by Guanghui, which were specially purchased or customized through some channels.

With such resource support, if we still have to go to great lengths to get a few pieces of data during training, then all this time would be wasted.

In short, I hope all the efforts are not in vain.

After a brief sigh of emotion, Kitahara continued:
"In fact, we don't need to wait for news from President Qianming. I think that the two of them, Xiaolimao and Didu, are close to this situation, and they are probably strong rivals."

"In addition to this..." He paused, "there is another condition. They experienced an increase in their body mass index around 200 meters, or in other words, they were in a downhill position, one behind the other."

"Do you understand what I mean, Maruzen?"

"...You mean, factors such as distance, location, and venue can all become conditions for triggering a domain?"

Maruzenski was thoughtful. "This should be correct. I mentioned it before. I felt the situation in the field. Basically, I was in front of the team and basically entered the final corner."

"As for Luduo, although it is on the final straight, there is also a situation where you need to surpass your opponent, so as for the triggering conditions..."

Her eyes suddenly lit up. "That is to say, we can find a way to infer the conditions that can trigger the domain, such as those of Xiaoyu and Inari, and then... we can find a way to make them encounter these conditions in the arena!"

"Yes! This idea is really simple! Since the domain requires conditions to be triggered, all we have to do is find these conditions!"

“You’re worthy of it, Kitahara, you really, really... Anyway, if this method works, the entire Uma Musume world will thank you!” She became excited again.

Kitahara himself was very calm. He just smiled and did not point out that Maruzenski actually had a misconception. It was true that a domain needed conditions to be triggered, and it was enough to find the conditions.

However, knowing clearly that conditions need to be found and being able to find the conditions is not difficult.

It’s like after many light bulbs were invented, it was a simple thing to use tungsten filament as wick, but the difficulties that had to be experienced before that were unimaginable to most people.

In other words, no one in this world has proposed "finding the field triggering conditions" or such an idea has not been circulated. It's not that no one has thought of this, but that they can't find it.

In fact, if I didn't know the inherent skills of Oguruma and the others in advance, and confirmed through data that this was basically the domain of this world, I wouldn't be able to find it.

However, now that it can be confirmed, then by combining the currently collected competition data and confirming this with the performance of Tama and Inari in this competition, perhaps the truth of the field can be revealed in one go.

Although the horse racing girls outside the original plan were not designed with inherent skills, the fact that "data can calculate the triggering conditions of the field" can be completely speculated to be a kind of "rule" of this world. Regardless of whether this rule is set by the three goddesses, since it is set, it can be studied, analyzed, disassembled and applied.

Hmm…so what is this? Materialistic theology?
After thinking to himself for a while and laughing for a while, seeing that Maruzenski had calmed down again during this time, Kitahara smiled, looked away and looked at the horse racing girls who were about to finish their morning exercise.

"My thoughts are similar to what you said, Maruzen."

He thought about the right words and said slowly: "We have accumulated a lot of data on Xiaoyu and Inari."

"Especially Xiaoyu's. In order to solve her psychological problems, she accidentally touched the domain during a training match with Kasamatsu. After that, this situation was also reflected in other training matches."

"Then with her data as a basis, we can more quickly determine how to arrange the Hanshin Grand Prix so that she and Inari can both try to step into the world called the domain."

After discussing with Maruzenski, a group of horse racing ladies also jogged over here.

In addition to Kitahara, Yusuhara and Komiyayama were also in charge of training today. The two horse girls participating in the competition this time were in charge, and since it was a big prize race like G2, it was natural for the two trainers to be present together.

Ogurimo, Mejiro Aldan and Super Bay did not have to train that day, and they were free to move around after their morning run. They did not leave the training ground, but cheered for Tamamo Cross and Inari Ichi's training at the side of the field, and helped pass water and so on. Shin Shinkyo and Miyamura Kyoko were also more relaxed today. They had nothing to do except dealing with matters related to the wind tunnel equipment, so they did not come to the training ground that day.

"Before arranging the training, I will discuss with you the running arrangements for the Hanshin Grand Prix."

When Kitahara said this, all the members except Maruzenski were stunned. The Eien team usually did not discuss running methods, tactics and other matters during training. These more complicated matters were discussed in the evening meeting after training, so that they could be discussed in more detail and could be trained directly the next day without wasting a lot of time.

"Hey? Are we talking about running now? Uncle Kitahara, you look a little weird today?"

Tamamo Cross was the first to become confused, but she quickly shook her hands indifferently, "Well, it's just a small problem, as long as you are happy, uncle."

Then her eyes lit up.

"Oh right! Since we're talking about running, is there any tactics?"

"It just so happens that in the previous few matches, we saw that the Arc Artist of Little Bay and the Waltz of Aldan were very useful and had good effects in most matches. We have long wanted a tactic of our own!"

"Come on, tell me, Uncle Kitahara, what tactics are we going to use in this game?" She shook her ears and twirled her arms like a windmill, looking eager to try.

"That is to say, uncle, you can't be partial to one and ignore the other! I also want my own tactics!"

Inari yelled, unwilling to be outdone.

"...tactics..."

Kitahara hesitated for a moment, and Komiya also smiled and said, "Yes, senior brother, I am your junior sister. It is only natural for you to help Xiaohaiwan and Aldan come up with tactics. After all, they are your horse girls. Then is it okay for me, your junior sister, to have a horse girl as well? Hehehe~"

"...You are also a trainer, can't you think for yourself?" Kitahara was a little helpless.

"I don't have a brain as useful as yours, brother."

Komiya was not shy at all, he came closer with a smile and a flattering look, "Please, Senior Brother~"

"Oh, let me tell you, Xiaoyu has actually argued with me several times, and she also wanted a tactic or something, but I really can't think of it! Brother, please be kind to me, Brother~" She complained and acted coquettishly.

Kitahara became even more helpless, but Yuhara spoke up as if to help him out.

"Okay, Komiya-san, tactics are not something you can just come up with. Look, Kitahara-san has more than just two horse girls, Kobayashi and Aldan, and Oguruma is one of them, too, but she doesn't have any special tactics."

"However," he suddenly changed the subject and looked at Beiyuan expectantly, "Brother Beiyuan, if you really have any ideas, you can actually tell us and we can think about it together."

...If I had thought of it long ago, would you still need to urge me? How can you just come up with a strategy...

After a little distress, Kitahara was about to arrange the competition first, when he suddenly had an idea.

However, if we combine what I discussed with Maruzen before with the characteristics of Tama and Inari, it seems that we can have a clue...

He vaguely grasped an idea and pondered. Seeing this, the others all looked happy and hurriedly held their breath, interrupting their chief trainer's thoughts.

After a while.

"...I have a preliminary idea. Or rather, two."

Looking at Tamamo Cross and then at Inari Ichi, Kitahara touched his chin.

"The two of you are both...well, have a lower center of gravity, which is actually an advantage."

"Especially Xiaoyu, you already have a good balance and good adaptability in the three aspects of leading, centering, and chasing. Maybe you can try a tactic based on this."

He raised his finger and drew a broken line in the air, facing the surprised gazes of the two horse girls and the astonished gazes of the other members.

Or "lightning".

"In the training match with Kasamatsu, you successfully switched from chasing behind to being in the middle and then to leading. You also performed similarly in the subsequent matches, and it did not affect your overall speed at all. This shows that your balance is exceptionally strong."

"Then you can try to make short and frequent position switches at the right time in future games."

"It was like lightning, weaving through the ranks."

He started drawing lightning again.

"This tactic will basically prevent you from getting surrounded, and you can grab any position you want. More importantly, you can use your repeated sideways steps to... ahem, affect other horse girls. Just be careful not to commit a foul by going diagonally."

"We can try to train this, using traffic cones for weaving in and out training, and then when the wind tunnel equipment arrives, we can simulate using the change in wind direction, and it should be possible to simulate it."

"Inari's situation is a little different from yours, but you can give it a try first. It would be best if you can master it."

"Then this tactic... let's call it 'Lightning Pace'."

(End of this chapter)