Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 275: Does Oguruma really know what the event is?

Kitahara had no idea what kind of event he was about to participate in.

During this period of time, his attention was mainly on today's two events, and he didn't even know much about the various activities that Oguruma and the others were going to participate in.

At most, we can provide them with guidance in ball games and wrestling so that they can better apply their experience in race walking.

While he was a little curious about what project Oguruma wanted him to help with, he was also attracted by the various projects and the lively crowd.

There were so many interesting activities organized by the students themselves, and so many visitors came to participate in the thanksgiving ceremony.

It was better when I came out of the student union office, which was in the affairs hall.

A few days ago, this place was temporarily transformed into a "haunted house" at the wave of Akikawa Yayoi's hand.

Even the chairman's office was contributed to be used as part of the haunted house.

When passing by the haunted house, he also saw two unexpected but reasonable horse racing girls.

"Little Bay? Rice Bath? You two...why are you changing into your competition clothes now?...Hey?"

After meeting Super Xiaohaiwan and Mi Yu outside the haunted house, Beiyuan was surprised for a moment because of their clothes, and then he suddenly realized.

"Oh, and the clothes you're wearing are just right for a haunted house."

The two horse racing girls he saw were wearing the "Halloween costumes" that he "designed".

Mi Yu's costume theme is "vampire".

The original headdress was replaced with a lace headband similar to a maid's headband.

The dress is still the same purple and black color as the original winning dress, but like the headband, it has a lot more lace decorations.

The black skirt also has pumpkin head ornaments and spider web patterns.

What’s more interesting is that she has “vampire” fangs in her mouth and bat-like wings behind her.

The fangs and wings are very small, and the color of the clothes is not scary, so even if it makes a scary posture, it doesn't look scary, but rather cute.

Super Bay's outfit is much simpler, with a "Mummy" theme.

The white bandages formed the headdress, vest, long gloves, and short skirt, which managed to cover everything that needed to be covered.

The only problem seems to be that her figure is too mature. Even with a bandage vest and a short shirt, it still gives people a visual impact that seems to be about to burst out.

"Hmm, yes."

Seeing Beiyuan coming over, Xiaohaiwan was surprised and a little excited and said, "When I first saw this outfit, I thought I could wear it to the haunted house."

"Then I saw Miyu-chan was doing the same thing, so I asked her to come along."

"The classmate in charge here also said that he hopes the two of us can dress up as ghosts and scare Fu Lai and the others."

Are you afraid of your eardrums being broken?

Kitahara laughed.

As for his impression of the horse girl Daikan Fukurai, apart from her outstanding strength and fortune-telling ability, what he remembered most clearly was her "strange cry" when she was frightened.

It is said that the decibel of that "strange scream" is very high. If there is a glass next to it, the glass might even be shattered.

Then he thought again that the activity that Oguruma asked him to help with seemed to be related to divination.

When divination is mentioned in Umamusume, the first thing that comes to mind is naturally Dai Kenfuku.

In terms of design, this is a horse girl who has unique abilities such as divination and witchcraft. She will be restless whenever she is not fortune-telling, and she also likes to tell fortunes for others.

In the anime, she opened a fortune-telling booth at the festival with the famous general Nutao and told Mejiro McQueen's fortune.

I also used to give "dice pencils" to the special week of make-up exams to make choices when answering multiple-choice questions.

As for the effect of divination, I can only say that after using the "dice pencil", Zhou Tebi was able to participate in the second make-up exam smoothly.

The G1 decisive suit of Dai Kenfuku also has many divination elements. Although the main body is just a sailor JK suit, there are many prayer ema with the words "must win" and "good luck" hung around the waist and back.

He also carries a lucky cat named "Meow-san" on his back and holds a divination glass ball.

So even if Oguruma didn't mention it on the phone, the so-called fortune-telling activity must be the stall of this horse girl.

After thinking for a while, Beiyuan was about to say hello to Xiao Haiwan and Mi Yu and head to the activity area when Mi Yu suddenly spoke timidly.

"It's not a good idea to scare your classmates like this, Xiao Haiwan-senpai..."

Shivering, clutching his collar tightly with both hands, Mi Yu whispered, "Also, and... even though I know this is a haunted house..."

“But everyone is taking it too seriously…”

"It's so scary just looking at it..."

"How can I go in and pretend to be a ghost like this..."

As she spoke, she looked towards the haunted house with a bit of trembling.

Looking into the haunted house from where you are standing, you can probably see a bit of the interior from the doorway.

The students really put a lot of thought into this thanksgiving ceremony.

The usually spacious and bright office hall is now basically replaced by a strange stage play setting.

The wooden staircases, carved beams and oil paintings that imitate those of European castles make this place look very retro.

The retro castle setting, with limited candle light, spider webs, and tattered white curtains, fits the atmosphere of a haunted house.

He glanced at the haunted house and then at the trembling Mi Yu. Perhaps influenced by the joyful atmosphere of today's Thanksgiving Festival, Kitahara suddenly felt like joking.

"Is Mi Yu scared?"

"Ah? Ah... yeah, a little bit... Mi-Mi Yu originally wanted to ask Urara-chan to come to the haunted house with her..."

Mi Yu said with some embarrassment: "But Ulala-chan is very popular, and many classmates ask her for help..."

"And she also likes the Thanksgiving Festival, so she wants to go shopping around. When she comes to Central College in the future, she will open a 'Kochi Product Store' or something..."

Kochi Product Store...

Kitahara seemed to be thinking about something.

This is indeed something Haru Ulala would do. In the OVA, she took Kochi specialties such as lanterns, Kochi Castle clay sculptures, dried sweet potato chips, and Sakamoto Ryoma's oil painting board to compete with Yuki No Beauty's "Iwate Products Store".

But now it is not time for Chun Ulala to transfer to Central Tresen College.

From the perspective of type, it is true that Central College is a comprehensive school, but the current policy of recruiting students is not very relaxed.

Due to the unique timeline confusion of the Uma Musume project itself, the time for special week enrollment in the anime is actually much later than it is now.

At that time, students like Chun Ulala will be able to transfer in midway.

Now, I can only go to other Umamusume elementary schools like Special Week and Good Opera, and then join Central College when the authenticization begins.

But from this perspective, the timeline somehow matches.

Because in the original work, Haru Lala is indeed in the same school year as Tokugawa Shuu, and on the first day that the latter transferred from her hometown in Hokkaido, it was Haru Lala who first welcomed her.

"I wanted to invite Ulala to the haunted house..."

Looking at Mi Yu, Beiyuan thought for a moment, "It seems that the child is not afraid of haunted houses."

"Okay, I'm going to look for Little Limao now. If I meet Ulala on the way, I'll ask her if she's free and ask her to come to the haunted house to play as well."

Mi Yu's worries and embarrassment disappeared a lot at once.

"really?"

She said in surprise: "Thank you so much, Mr. Kitahara." Kitahara also smiled, then waved his hand and walked out of the office hall which was transformed into a haunted house.

Mi Yu also waved his hand and watched Beiyuan leave with expectant eyes, and suddenly he was stunned.

"Hey? Wait a minute, Senior Oguri isn't..."

Looking at the super small bay beside her in disbelief, she exclaimed softly, "Isn't she going to participate in that 'love challenge'? I remember she was over there before..."

"If that's the case, she and Mr. Kitahara..."

"Wow, this is getting interesting."

Completely different from Mi Yu, Super Xiaohaiwan was also stunned, but then he revealed an ambiguous smile.

"It's such a headache. I'm afraid they have no idea what the event is all about?"

“Ah? You don’t know…?” Mi Yu was surprised.

"Hmm... How should I put it? Let's not talk about Kitahara for now. In Miyu's impression, Oguri should have nothing to do with love, right?"

"……seems like it."

He nodded hesitantly, and after a moment's hesitation, Mi Yu tentatively said, "I originally thought that if Senior Oguri wanted to participate in that event, he probably heard about the ramen challenge..."

“Yeah, that’s it.”

The smile on Xiaowan's face grew wider, "Xiaoli must think so."

"As for Kitahara, I'm afraid he doesn't know what the event is."

"After all, he has always been focused on training and competition."

"That's it..."

Mi Yu pondered: "Then...should I remind them...?"

"If the two of them go to an event together, they might be misunderstood."

"No need, they don't know anyway," Xiao Haiwan said with a smile, "Besides, don't you think this is interesting?"

Kitahara had no idea what his horse racing girls were mumbling about after leaving the affairs hall.

He simply followed the location mentioned on the phone, came to the first floor of the teaching building, and stood in the stairwell looking around.

There were also many horse racing girls and visitors here, and for a moment, he couldn't tell which classroom was used for divination activities.

But soon, he noticed a familiar figure waving at him in the middle of the corridor.

“Hey! Crunch, crunch…Here, Kitahara!”

Really, aren't we going to participate in the "Big Eater Derby" later? I'm eating right now...

Is this a warm-up?

Kitahara could not help but smile when he saw at a glance that it was Oguruma who was eating something, and squeezed through the crowd.

"Sorry for the long wait. What activities are you going to participate in? Hey? What's this on you?"

After walking in and seeing clearly what Oguruma was wearing at the moment, he was a little surprised.

Oguruma was currently wearing the purple and white uniform of Central Academy.

What was different from the past was that she was wearing garlands of various sizes on her wrists, arms and neck.

In addition to the earrings, there are some small and cute "Cute Monster Series" earrings on both ears.

There are several masks of different styles stacked on the side of the face. After a little identification, they are common Japanese Noh masks such as raccoon cats and foxes.

She had several bags of snacks hanging on her wrists and a large piece of chocolate in her hand.

Judging from the remaining shape, this was originally supposed to be a "heart-shaped chocolate", but now only half is left.

The "crunching" sound just now was probably made by gnawing or chewing the chocolate. It sounded like it had cooled down just right.

“Oh, these…crunch, crunch, boom…boom—”

As he spoke, he broke off a large piece of the remaining "heart-shaped chocolate" and handed it to Kitahara. Oguruma showed a distressed expression.

“Everyone is so enthusiastic.”

"I originally asked Ko-Okuri to pull me here, saying that I had never seen such a fun place in Kasamatsu and wanted to participate in more activities."

"Then I came over."

"And along the way, many classmates and strangers gave me these."

"Such as this..."

Pointing to the chocolate that he had just handed to Kitahara, and then to a classroom in the distance behind him, Oguruma explained:

"Bourbon gave this to me."

"She was attending a 'dessert restaurant' event over there, and she gave this to me when I went over to see it."

"Won't you give it a try, Kitahara?"

As she spoke, she started to crunch the chocolate again.

It seems like these horse girls are having a lot of fun at the thanksgiving festival.

Thinking with some relief, Kitahara put the chocolate into his mouth, bit off a piece, and started chewing it like Oguruma.

"It's a little hard... maybe it's burnt a little due to the high temperature? But it still tastes good."

After giving a positive evaluation, he thought about his purpose again, "By the way, do you have to have a companion to participate in that activity you mentioned?"

"What kind of activities?"

Upon hearing this, Little Chestnut Hat suddenly became excited.

"Yes, Fu said that we must participate together in order to realize the auspicious result in the divination."

"Although I don't quite understand what divination is all about."

"But you must have a companion to continue the next challenge."

"And when you participate in the challenge, you have to hold hands together and wrap them together with a divination cloth."

"Let's get started quickly. If we're late, we might not be able to eat ramen before the 'Obstacle Relay'."

...We have to hold hands to participate in the challenge? What kind of a ridiculous challenge is this...

After listening to Oguruma's description, Kitahara couldn't help but feel a little strange. Without thinking too much, he just regarded it as a somewhat strange activity.

But after being led by Ogurtimao to the activity area, he felt something was wrong.

Why do all the people who come here to participate in the event look like couples...?
This game requires two people to work together and each hold a chopstick to hold a balloon...

There are also Hanafuda cards made by men and women working together...

Most importantly, this requires the "Feeding Play" ramen challenge...

Isn’t this the common “love challenge” seen on various variety shows…?
As they completed the simple but coordinated challenges one by one, when it came to the ramen session that Oguruma had been looking forward to the most, Kitahara finally realized what this activity was about.

and so……

Oguruma, are you sure you know what kind of event you are participating in...?
Looking at Oguruma who was looking at the big bowl of ramen in front of him with anticipation, Kitahara felt sweat pouring down his spine.

(End of this chapter)