Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 235: Inspiring Generals

The time goes back to the beginning of the first stage, and the location is the starting point of the second stage.

A week ago, the roads before and after the starting point were parallel to the highway and did not intersect.

This is designed for tourism, and most vehicles are not suitable for driving on the beach. It is impossible to allow cars to enter the beach when it is crowded with tourists during the holidays.

Under the work of Yayoi Akikawa, after spending a lot of manpower and resources, the two sections of road were connected.

What this is all about is this relay race.

The relay area is a specially marked section of road where the surface gradually changes from an asphalt paved road to a sandy beach.

Next is the 3000-meter-long beach runway.

Like the road race section, there are fences and stands on both sides of the beach track.

Away from the shallow sea, there are special multimedia buses.

This type of bus is equipped with a device similar to a concert screen on one side, which can broadcast various programs in real time regardless of whether it is in motion or not.

Most of the time, these vehicles are used to slowly move along busy streets, playing various advertisements on the screen.

At this moment, the video playing above is the opening of the relay race.

"So handsome, President! Wow——"

With sparkling stars in his eyes, the Emperor of the East China Sea held his chest, his nostrils flaring constantly, and his mouth wide open while gasping for breath while cheering.

He looked like he was having trouble breathing and was about to faint at any moment.

This avid fan of Ludo Elephant is now standing in a large tent near the second stage.

Through the window on the side of the tent, she stared at the big screen on the bus outside, intoxicated by the heroic figure of Luduo running on it.

In a trance, she seemed to have returned to a few years ago.

She was still in elementary school at that time, but she was already a well-known genius.

Her academic performance is excellent, but what attracts the most attention is her achievements in various trainings.

The training of horse girls often starts in primary school. Although the intensity is not high, the professionalism of the teachers in each horse girl primary school is fully utilized.

There are many competitions, both within and outside the school, as well as the National Horse Girls Elementary School League.

In these competitions, the Emperor of the East China Sea encountered no rivals.

Over time, she sometimes felt a little bored because her opponents were too weak.

At one point, she couldn't find the meaning of the game.

If it's a race you're destined to win, why not just run somewhere random?

There are no rules or restrictions, no random comments or looks, running like that is the most free and refreshing way to go.

However, she was soon taught a lesson.

She had never seen such a glorious and majestic run.

That’s right, after she truly saw what powerful running was, she never saw another running that could match it.

She is not a trainer, and the theoretical knowledge she has learned from elementary school to Central Tresen College is limited, but she is a horse girl, a horse girl with top talent.

She only needed basic theory to figure out for herself what was so special about the powerful running of her idol that she had seen back then.

For example, pace.

Most horse racing girls have to take different paces according to the distance of the track, whether to turn left or right, the choice of running method, etc.

There are four types of Uma Musume steps. The swinging of the left and right feet and arms form different beats. The steps are also classified according to the beat and step span.

2 beats, 3 beats, 4 beats, shortened, middle, and lengthened, the combination of the two dimensions results in four professional steps.

Slow walk, fast walk, running, and rushing.

The pace you take depends not only on the playing field, but also on your own physique.

Generally speaking, leaving aside the dance-like paces used in training and performances, the priority of paces used in competitions is rushing, quick step, running and slow step.

In other words, the charge step is the most commonly used step by Uma Musume.

This step usually has a clear sequence and is repeated during training.

In a step cycle, after the left foot pushes off the ground, the right foot will not immediately touch the ground, and the whole body will be in a suspended state of briefly jumping up.

Although the right foot has not touched the ground at this moment, it has actually completed the retraction and stepped forward, preparing for the next step of the landing cycle.

During this period, the tension created by the suspended legs has not been released, and the body will naturally form a posture with the head and upper body slightly raised, while the torso and abdomen slightly contracted.

The swing of the arms is opposite to that of the feet and legs, that is, when the left foot and left leg push the ground, the right arm will swing forward.

vice versa.

This is to keep the body balanced.

This pace has been proven theoretically and tested in practice for a long time, and is the best way to bring out the speed of the horse girl in most stages of the race.

Especially the three most important stages: starting, cruising and sprinting.

Fast walking, running and slow walking are for dealing with situations such as turning, position switching and avoiding, and are also affected by different distances such as short, English, medium and long.

The most commonly used attack step is also divided into "left attack step" and "right attack step".

This has to do with whether the runway turns left or right.

Take the counterclockwise track with a left turn as an example.

The side of the turn with the fence is the inside side. When approaching the inside side, the horse girl's high speed requires her to lean her body inward to counteract the inward component of force and balance the centripetal force.

This requires the inner leg to extend forward to a greater extent at this stage, allowing the body to sink inward and better maintain balance.

This slanted step on the left track is called "left step".

The opposite of this is the "right attack step".

How to maintain different paces in the start, early stages, middle stage, corners and final straight, and whether to maintain the original pace, all depend on the conditions of the race.

Let’s take the left-turn race as an example. In most cases in this kind of race, the horse girl will take a left-attack step, and will also make corresponding adjustments when turning and other situations.

In other words, every race of every horse girl actually has a different pace.

But this is not the case with Rudraksha.

In every game, her pace is a fixed left attack.

Not only cruising, but also starting, turning, overtaking, avoiding, and sprinting, she uses the left attack step.

The Emperor of the East China Sea was certain of this after watching the game video hundreds of times.

Use left attack in the Japanese derby that turns left.

The Yayoi-sho and Gaoyue-sho who turn right use the left attack step.

I always use the left stride in the 2000-meter race.

In the 2400-meter race, the left step is still used.

After discovering this, the Emperor of the East China Sea finally understood what it meant to be powerful.

No changes of pace, no techniques or tactics required, no matter what happens before the finish line.

You don't need to pay too much attention to the trainer's instructions or worry about any other opinions.

At the finish line, he relied on his unrivaled strength to accelerate to the end in one breath and won the championship with a crushing victory.

This is unquestionably powerful.

This kind of power made the Emperor of the East China Sea deeply intoxicated. At the same time, he also realized that it was not that he did not have powerful opponents, but that his vision had been limited to elementary school for a long time.

She is not a real horse girl yet, but just a young kid with real talent and no worldly experience.

Outsiders all think that she is a fanatical fan who has no ideas of her own and just follows Luduo's symbol step by step.

Just like most of the fans of Rudo Symbol.

But she herself knows very well that he is not just her idol.

When she saw the army green figure standing proudly on the Tokyo racetrack, the bright red ribbon fluttering in the wind, the arm raised high, and two fingers raised, she saw a world. A world called the highest, the strongest, and the world that had all the meaning of a horse girl's career.

It is no exaggeration to say that reaching that world through her own efforts and legs is the ultimate goal of her career.

So now, seeing the figure who showed the world to her younger self again and running on the track again, how could she not be excited to the point of being incoherent.

While she was getting excited, someone directly poured cold water on her.

"I say, you've seen enough, Emperor."

This was Mejiro McQueen's helpless voice.

In this tent, there is not only the Emperor of the East China Sea, but also not only Mejiro McQueen.

The third runners are all here, and so are Xiaolimao and her friends in the second runners.

In addition, there are Special Week and Good Opera, two horse girls who are still in elementary school.

After learning that many of the familiar seniors, the most outstanding legendary seniors of Central Teresin, would participate in this relay race, the two of them came all the way from Hokkaido.

Before, Yuhara told Kitahara not to worry because these two children, in addition to coming to watch the game, also served as cheerleaders and logistics support.

This is not an unfamiliar task for them. They have done this a lot when they were with the Yongshi team in the past.

"We agreed to come just to check on the seniors, but you couldn't even walk once you saw the president and her friends' competition."

Then, helplessly, Mebiru McQueen came over, reached out and grabbed the East China Sea Emperor's waving hand, and pulled it hard.

"Okay, the president and the others have already started the game."

"It won't be long before they get here."

"Oguri-senpai and the others will also start the race, and their speed won't be slow either."

"If we don't get back to the starting point of the third leg now, we will definitely not catch up."

In fact, Mejiro McQueen initially thought that the behavior of the Emperor of the East China Sea was too frivolous.

Although this game is not an official event of Shining Star, it has attracted just as much attention as the latter.

Although her two sisters didn't say much to her, she knew very well how many people were paying attention to this informal competition from the news, videos, and updates from friends on her phone.

And the time left to decide the match is not too long, less than a month.

It is easy to imagine that after a period of time after the game is over, the heat will continue to rise due to reports and public opinion.

Faced with such a competition, she did not need her sisters to remind her. As she had always aimed to be the most dazzling white lady since she was a child, it was natural that she would not be negligent.

In her opinion, the emperor's behavior of stopping halfway, being obsessed with the competition like an ordinary spectator and completely forgetting that he was also a contestant was undoubtedly a neglect.

What made her even more helpless and secretly angry was that, as if influenced by the emperor, Narita Shirahito, Miura Bourbon and Miyu, who had originally agreed to come and see their seniors' preparations and then leave, also stopped to participate.

She admitted that watching Gao Feng's level of competition live was very beneficial.

But if this delayed the competition and tarnished the reputation of the Mejiro family, it would be a loss, and she absolutely could not accept it.

So, she couldn't help but continue to persuade him, her tone becoming a little anxious.

"Don't you realize that the seniors can finish 4000 meters in about 4 to 5 minutes?"

"It has been going on for a while now, which means they will be here soon."

"If we don't get to the starting point of the third leg to prepare..."

"Don't be so nervous, McQueen."

Although the Emperor of the East China Sea did not turn around, he pleaded with McQueen in a pleading tone, "Just watch for a little while longer, just... just 2 minutes, 2 minutes."

"No, no, no, just one minute, just one minute."

"Just let me watch for one more minute, okay..."

"Wow! Maruzen-senpai has sped up!"

"Huh? But it's not to get ahead. This, this... This is a bit abnormal, right?!"

He wanted to continue persuading him, but after hearing this, Mebiro McQueen couldn't help but look at the screen outside.

"... Indeed, if we want to get ahead, we should go faster. But if we don't want to get ahead, why should we speed up..."

After all, she is a horse racing girl, and although she wants to rush to her starting point to prepare, when she sees the event she cares about, Mejiro McQueen can't help but immerse herself in it.

No matter what, it was a competition that was far beyond her own level and could even be said to represent the pinnacle. It was impossible for her to not care at all.

Especially since my sister is one of the contestants.

At this time, a low voice came.

“Ah, that’s the strategy that Maruzen-senpai mentioned… Ugh! Oops, oh no, how did he say it out loud… Ugh…”

Also watching the game intently, Mi Yu subconsciously responded to Mejiro McQueen's response.

But after she finished speaking, she remembered that after arranging the strategy for this competition, Maruzenski had said that it should be kept secret from his partners.

Although the seemingly easy-going senior had a smile on his face when he said he wanted to keep it a secret, Mi Yu still decided to take it seriously.

She accidentally let something slip at this moment, and she suddenly lost the mood to watch the game.

Like a child who had made a mistake, she quickly lowered her head, curled up into a ball, hugged her head with both hands, and her long ears drooped.

"Wow...Mi Yu has caused trouble for everyone again..."

"Ah... That's not right. Ah, that's not right..."

Originally, she subconsciously went to watch the game. Mebai McQueen could still hear the surrounding noises to some extent, so she quickly comforted Mi Yu and changed the topic:
"Eh? No, did Mi Yu just say anything?"

“…Ah? M, M…”

Panicked, Mi Yu quietly raised his head, met the smiling eyes of Mu Bai McQueen, and quickly lowered his head, "Mi Yu doesn't know either..."

After spending some time together, McQueen was more or less aware of Mi Yu's sensitive and introverted personality. Seeing this, he was afraid of irritating her further, so he changed the subject.

"Then let me put it this way, Your Majesty."

It's not that she didn't hear Mi Yu's words, and the meaning revealed in them reminded her, so she began to provoke another companion.

"You want to be a horse girl like President Ludo, right?"

"Since President Luduo debuted, he has basically had no defeats."

"If you think the competition before debut doesn't matter, there's nothing I can do about it."

"But I'm going to the starting point to prepare."

"Running over here at this time doesn't require too much energy, and it can also warm up."

"Well, bye..."

"Wait a minute! McQueen, don't try to run away!"

Mejiro McQueen's words hit the heart of the East Sea Emperor, and she suddenly lost the mood to continue watching her idol's game.

It’s not that she no longer has expectations, but the dream that comes from her idol prevents her from confirming the possibility that Mebai McQueen deliberately mentioned.

She knew that was a provocation, but no matter what, she didn't intend to lose to any opponent at any time.

Especially Mejiro McQueen, whom I have secretly recognized since we met.

Not only her, but also Narita Shirahito and Miura Bourbon beside her moved their ears. Although they were as silent as when they were watching the game, they turned their eyes away from the game screen with reluctance.

They also have their own reasons for not wanting to lose.

And as Mejiro McQueen said, if we rush over now, we can just meet the two conditions of warm-up and being on time. If we are one or two minutes late, it will be a bit too late.

However, when they were about to say hello to the seniors in the second leg and leave, they unexpectedly discovered that there seemed to be something unusual over there.

Special Zhou and Good Opera, who were temporarily in charge of logistics, were both there. The two horse racing girls looked left and right, looking at a loss.

Especially for Good Opera, who usually looks like she doesn't care about anything and is very free and easy, she is like this now, which shows that the situation is a little unexpected.

And the relaxed and joyful atmosphere among the five active horse girls of the Eternal Team that their eyes were fixed on no longer existed.

Instead, it was full of tit-for-tat like when Mejiro McQueen just provoked the Emperor of the East China Sea.

(End of this chapter)