Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 224 Five Color Circle Intelligence Training

The conversation between Narita Shirahito and Oguri Roman was very quiet, and the other people dining at the table didn't pay much attention to it.

During breakfast, there was a tit-for-tat scene between the Emperor of the East China Sea and Mejiro McQueen, and the atmosphere was very lively.

Kitahara didn't dissuade the two of them, but just looked at them with a smile.

He thought that perhaps these two horse girls were destined to compete against each other.

It’s just like the emperor’s spring viewing in history.

In 92, Mejiro McQueen had already won 8 games and completed the record of three generations of the emperor's spring viewing consecutively, and also completed the championship at the Hanshin Grand Prix at the beginning of the year.

With the momentum of victory, the team decided to march into the Emperor's Spring Viewing Race again to achieve Mejiro McQueen's consecutive championship in this classic event.

Among her opponents is the Emperor of the East Sea, who won two championships without a loss last year and has won all seven games since his debut.

Such a duel naturally attracted the attention of countless fans, and the two camps also left a tit-for-tat dialogue before the pre-match interview:
"The words of the Emperor of the East Sea can run to the ends of the earth."

"If that side can run to the end of the earth, then Mejiro McQueen can fly in the sky."

Pre-match declarations like this are not uncommon.

However, with the combined influence of the East Sea Emperor, who was a national idol at the time, and Mejiro McQueen, who was on the rise, this declaration obviously made the atmosphere in the industry even more heated.

Because of this intense competition, the media also took the initials of the names of Teio and McQueen, that is, Teio and McQueen, and called it the "TM Showdown".

As a result of the race, facing the popularity of the East China Sea Emperor, Mejiro McQueen, who had long since gained the second most popular position, started a long sprint at the fourth turn of the stage.

In the end, with an absolute advantage of 3 lengths, he achieved the first consecutive championships in the Emperor's Spring Viewing Competition in history.

At the same time, the East China Sea Emperor's dream of being undefeated came to an end.

This duel is not only often used as a topic of conversation after dinner in real life, but the performance in the anime is also extremely exciting.

So even after a long time, Kitahara can still recall every detail.

The duel between the Emperor of the East China Sea and Mejiro McQueen was the first and only time, so it seems nice to be able to watch a "TM Duel, Youth Edition" now.

Not only these two horse girls, but also Miura Bourbon, who also won two championships without a loss, ended Miura Bourbon's three-game undefeated streak, and Mi Yu, who won the three consecutive championships of Emperor Mejiro McQueen in the Spring Viewing. They all had confrontations in parallel dimensions.

Together with Narita Shirahito and Luduo, who is now unknown what he is doing, they symbolize that generation of Lao Deng. Even though this relay race is not a formal competition, Kitahara still thinks it is worth looking forward to.

So with this expectation, after finishing breakfast, he was a little impatient to go to the Transportation Bureau to check the road conditions in Nagoya and its surrounding areas.

His current plan is to refer to the settings of regular relay races in anime and this world, and arrange the competition venue on various highways dedicated to horse girls.

In his plan, he intended to bring along Oguruma, Kobayashi, and Aldan, three horse racing girls who had just finished participating in the competition.

The three of them were originally going to rest after the game, so after going to the Transportation Bureau, they could take them around and have some fun in Nagoya.

And with Uma Musume’s own opinions, the task of determining the race venue will be much easier.

However, after mentioning this idea to Oguruma and the others, Kitahara was surprised that all of his horse girls hesitated.

"Um...are we going to the Transportation Department or something...?"

Scratching his head, Oguruma looked at the small bay and Aldan next to him, then looked at Tamamo Cross and Inari Ichi who were a little further away, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Do you have to go, Kitahara?"

The refusal was clearly implied in such an inquiry, otherwise, given Oguruma's usual well-behaved and not-too-thinking character, he would probably have agreed out of the blue.

"It's not necessary to go..."

Kitahara quickly realized what his horse girl was thinking, and explained, "It's just that if we want to hold a relay race, we still need to consider the venue."

"Regular race courses are usually closed loops with a total length of about 2000 meters. The shorter ones are even only about 1500 meters."

"When you run, you will be in a state of juxtaposition and chasing each other. This distance will make the baton handover crowded, which is not conducive to the game and unsafe."

"I think I've shown you some videos of relay races before, right? Generally speaking, this kind of race is best held on a highway or in a prepared outdoor area."

"I originally wanted to take you to check out the road conditions, give it a try, and then we can find some place to play afterward."

"but……"

As he spoke, seeing that Oguruma was still hesitant and embarrassed, and so were Xiaohaiwan and the others beside him. Kitahara couldn't help but ask:
"From the looks of you, it seems like you have other things to do?"

"Well, Xiaowan, Aldan and I..."

Pointing at his friend beside him, Oguruma then pointed at Tamamo Cross and Inari Ichi on the other side, "And Tama and Inari."

"We discussed it yesterday and decided to take advantage of the two days of rest to watch the game together and exchange and learn together."

...What is this "Colorful Circle Intelligence Friendship Training"?
Kitahara was puzzled.

"Friendship Training" is a setting in the development stage of the mobile game. Before the game starts, a "Support Card" that can enhance attributes is set. During the development process, "Friendship Training" will be randomly triggered based on the attributes of the "Support Card".

After triggering "Friendship Training", the attributes obtained from "Training" will be greatly improved, and the favorability of the corresponding "Support Card" will also be improved, thereby further enhancing the effect of subsequent triggering of "Friendship Training".

The content of "training" is speed, strength, endurance, perseverance and intelligence. When it comes to intelligence, it is "intelligence friendship training."

"Color Circle Friendship Training" is a state in which the training effect can be greatly improved after the favorability of the "Support Card" reaches a certain standard.

The visual effect is that a circle of colorful light appears around the "Support Card", and the game will also generate real-time animation.

One part of the animation shows horse racing ladies gathered in front of a computer to watch race videos and teaching courses.

Because a development game can only carry a maximum of 6 support cards, and the triggering probability varies.

If you trigger 5 cards, which is the so-called "Five-color Circle Intelligence Friendship Training", you are very lucky.

To be honest, there are more horse girls under the names of the team than most trainers, and Kitahara actually feels that most of the previous training can be regarded as "colorful circle friendship training."

However, those trainings were conducted under the arrangement of trainers.

Similar to what Oguruma mentioned now, this is the first time they want to train on their own.

"Want to watch the video together... No problem at all, you guys are very motivated."

Although he was confused, Kitahara immediately gave encouragement, "In theory, if you can watch some videos and take some courses during the rest period after the game, the effect will be better."

"In this way, some of the insights or uncertainties gained during the competition can be quickly consolidated and understood."

"During this period of time, I have arranged for you to explain to the younger generations for the same purpose."

"But I think watching videos and stuff like that might be a bit boring for you guys, so I didn't make any special requests before."

"I am very pleased that you can take the initiative to do this now."

Finally, Kitahara expressed the emotion of an old father.

"Oh! Is it so useful? Then I must watch it carefully in the next few days!"

Little Chestnut Hat also became excited like a child being praised, and then she confidently said:

"If you keep persisting, you won't be left behind."

"And in the future games, whether facing other opponents or Xiao Hai Bay and the others, I will be more confident!"

"Left behind by everyone... Xiaowan and the others...?"

Kitahara suddenly felt that he didn't quite understand what Oguruma meant, and subconsciously followed her words and looked at the small bay and Aldan on the side.

"Oguri is really proactive..." Noticing the gaze of his trainer, Super Xiaohaiwan sighed first, then looked at Kitahara with a smile.

"She was probably talking about my and Aldan's attempts at the Chukyo Memorial and Chukyo Championships..."

As Kitahara's eyes gradually turned thoughtful, she slowly told him what happened during and after the competition, and then continued:
“I’m actually not sure about this.”

“But my intuition tells me that our trainers have made certain changes in the arrangements for competitions and training.”

“Especially in terms of thinking.”

"I just talked to Aldan repeatedly, and the two of us can roughly determine this."

"Now is a good time to confirm with Mr. Kitahara whether this is true."

...What a sharp intuition! It's worthy of being called a super small bay.

Although he had long known that Super Kobayashi had an innate racing instinct compared to other horse girls, Kitahara was still secretly amazed at this moment.

The difference between Super Cove's game instincts and that of Little Chestnut.

The latter's intuition is mainly reflected in her perception of other horse girls. She can easily judge the situation of her opponents by intuition during the game, thus seizing the opportunity to decide the victory.

For example, her judgment in sprinting to the finish line and turning is perfect.

In the competitions so far, she has been able to accurately seize the opportunities left by her opponents and rush to the first place in one breath.

Super Bay's game intuition is a little more macro.

Maybe she is a little worse than Oguruma in terms of perception of opponents, but in terms of the entire perspective of the field, she is obviously stronger.

This has actually been very obvious in previous competitions.

She started to judge the timing of acceleration in the middle stage, and it would not be enough to just rely on the reference opponent like Oguruma.

Being in the racing team, due to the presence of other horse girls, everyone will have a certain degree of misjudgment of the overall situation of the game.

For example, in many competitions, there are cases of runaway horses misleading other horse girls, which causes them to incorrectly estimate the time taken for the race, current speed, remaining distance, etc.

Sometimes, extreme situations also exist because the escaped horse's explosion disrupts all the opponents' plans.

In this way, if you want to perform strategic mid-range acceleration, even if you are not running away, you must have an extremely high overall vision.

Super Xiaohaiwan has just such an ability. Not only does she have good adaptability to escape horses, she also has the intuition to match it.

And in Kitahara's memory, there happened to be an extremely classic event that perfectly demonstrated the ability of the Super Bay.

This year's chrysanthemum viewing has not yet begun in this world.

In this historic Chrysanthemum Festival, at the 4th turn near the finish line, Super Little Bay and many strong opponents were squeezed in the middle of the team.

In that state, they were almost touching each other and would bump into their opponent if they were not careful.

Normally, there are no special opportunities, and almost no horse girls can stand out from that kind of encirclement.

Even Ogururo, who possesses the ability to change lanes at super high speed, and Tamamo Cross, who has lightning pace, would find it difficult to display their full strength in such a situation.

However, due to the special nature of the Chrysanthemum Award venue, there is a fleeting opportunity.

And Super Cove took advantage of that opportunity.

The Chrysanthemum Viewing track is located outside the Kyoto Stadium and runs clockwise.

The inner lane of this stadium is counterclockwise.

Under this kind of track design, in order to allow the inner lane race to have a wider racing space, there are no fences in the middle of the inner and outer tracks in some turns.

The 4th turn of the Chrysanthemum Viewing Track is located exactly at the junction of the clockwise track and the counterclockwise track, where there is no fence.

Because of this, there is a chance here, and it only exists for a moment, where, as long as the acceleration is sufficient, you can rush out of the group with a very small speed increase without losing too much energy or running a longer distance on the outside lane.

Super Bay seized just such an opportunity.

In a race lasting 3000 meters and with her opponents being the top long-distance horse girls of this generation, she was still able to stay calm about 300 meters from the finish line and seize the fleeting opportunity to win in one fell swoop.

Super Xiaohaiwan possesses extremely strong endurance, outstanding perseverance, and terrifying intuition. These talents and abilities are indispensable.

At this moment, what Kitahara did not expect was that she, the horse racing girl, actually possessed the same keen intuition outside of the competition.

You know, even the trainers have not fully confirmed the matter of changing or improving the team style, but Xiao Haiwan has already felt it.

"…What a terrible intuition, Cove."

After thinking for a while, Beiyuan sighed, then smiled and praised, "Not bad, I mean, your idea is very good, and your guess is also very good."

"And I have some guesses."

"I guess, Xiaowan, Aldan, you two will try in the competition..."

"And you guys wanted to watch the game during the break, probably because you thought you would run into each other in the next game, right?"

This situation is not difficult to guess. As a trainer, he must analyze the situation of the competition. Kitahara and others discovered the abnormalities or attempts of Xiao Haiwan and Aldan on the same day.

Although we haven't had time to discuss it in detail, considering the active attitude of these horse racing girls now, it is not difficult to imagine that they will become like this only when they realize the upcoming fierce competition.

"Chief Kitahara is also very capable. You guessed it before we even said anything."

Facing Kitahara's question, Super Bay smiled. Before he could say anything, Mebai Aldan couldn't hold back his fighting spirit anymore. He smiled and said in a deep voice:

"We were actually talking about that yesterday before Winning Live."

“But under the current circumstances, at least I hope to have an outstanding performance in the next relay race.”

"After all, whether it's competing with Senior Maruzen, President Luduo, or other seniors, it's an extremely rare opportunity."

"Especially, my sister, Mejiro Takamine, is also in this match."

So, it seems that with the future competitions and the relay race ahead, none of them will want to go out.

Then I'll be alone...

Seeing that the horse racing girls were very eager to stay here to study, Kitahara didn't intend to spoil their fun. However, when he was about to go to the Transportation Bureau alone, Super Little Bay spoke again.

"Then I'll trouble you, Mr. Kitahara, to work alone today. Also..."

Suddenly showing a look of worry, Super Xiaowan looked at the corner of the dining table.

"Perhaps Mr. Kitahara can take those two kids out for a walk."

"Although everyone was very enthusiastic at the welcome ceremony yesterday, how should I put it, those two children..."

"One is too serious, a bit like a smaller version of Mr. Kitahara."

"The other one... is he too timid? Or something... Anyway, he doesn't talk much either, and is even more introverted than Xiao Xiaoli."

"We should be training together later, right? If Mr. Kitahara is the chief, he should help them adapt to the team."

These words were full of a motherly tone of pampering and worry, which was consistent with Super Little Bay's usual words and deeds in the team.

Looking over where she said this, Kitahara soon saw that the person she was referring to was Miura Bourbon and Miyu, who were still sitting in the corner of the dining table, one with an expressionless face as if in a daze, the other with his head shrunk, at a loss.

(End of this chapter)