Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 277 Scare yourself

As the most important event of this "Thanksgiving Festival", the obstacle relay race went quite smoothly.

In particular, the rules include the "Horseshoe Coin" link, which allows horse racing girls and guests in addition to the contestants to participate.

Just as the players from the first zone, such as Dashu Express, rushed out of the starting line, many horse girls who wanted to collect coins had already arrived at the haunted house in advance, ready to cheer for their favorite team.

However, not everyone is ready to support.

In a corner of the haunted house, several horse racing girls gathered together, looking at their phones, listening to the commentary of the race from inside, and chattering to each other.

“Although facing the approach, it is still Silent Suzuka who maintains the lead.”

“The obstacle relay race had a very short section before entering each obstacle area, so all the runners were able to show their best speed.”

"This is very beneficial for Silent Suzuka who is good at escaping. Maybe she can maintain her current high speed before entering the haunted house. It will be difficult to overtake her."

"but!"

“Golden Journey, who was slightly behind Daijian Fulai and had been at the end of the opening round, has entered the race for the leading position!”

"It's still because the walking section is shorter, so the two horse girls entered the sprint earlier than in previous training sessions."

“Although the gap had been widened before, the sprint of Taijian Fulai and Golden Journey was very powerful.”

"Especially when Dai Jianfulai, she almost sprinted at the end of the official competition. She simply closed the gap in the blink of an eye!"

"But! This isn't the distance she's good at!"

"The situation did not develop into a one-on-one duel between Taikan Fukulai and Silent Suzuka. At the moment when Taikan Fukulai and Golden Journey were sprinting, another player who was more proficient in this short distance also accelerated!"

"It's the Big Tree Express!"

"The short-distance burst ability of the Tree Express is fully demonstrated at this moment. Her instantaneous speed and posture balance ability are at the top of all the horse girls in the first division. This is simply a competition field tailor-made for her!"

"Faster than Tokan Fukuray, the Daishu Express caught up with the silent Suzuka who had been leading the way."

"If this were a serious mile or middle-distance race, the acceleration of the Big Tree Express would be difficult to sustain until the end."

"She will probably lose speed very quickly due to the huge consumption of energy during this race."

"But this is an obstacle relay race, and their goal is to rush into the haunted house earlier to buy more time for the next section."

"From the current perspective, the first one to enter the haunted house will undoubtedly be the Big Tree Express."

“Will she be first?”

“Will she be the fastest player to find the baton and buy time for her teammates?”

"let us wait and see!"

The volume of the cell phone was not very loud, but in the quiet environment of the haunted house, the several horse racing girls who were gathered around could hear it clearly.

At the end, the commentary started to change, and one of the horse racing girls who was watching let out a low sound of surprise.

"As expected of you, you are the president. You are so handsome!"

He spoke excitedly, with an intoxicated look on his face, and the Emperor of the East China Sea clasped his hands together in front of his chest as if praying, "No matter if it's the work of the Student Union."

"Or as an explanation."

"Mr. President is so handsome!"

"What a shame! If I had known this earlier, I would have begged the president to do the commentary as well."

"It will be fun to explain it with the president!"

In response to her words, there were helpless complaints from the side.

"Although I know that you, Emperor, admire President Luduo very much, this is not the time to be imagining nonsense, right?"

Stroking his forehead, Mebai McQueen complained, "And why are we here anyway?"

"Are you really going to listen to the emperor and dress up as ghosts to scare the students of Dashu Express?"

"Don't be so serious, McQueen. Don't you think this is interesting?"

"I'm not trying to scare anyone. I just want to find some horseshoe coins to support you."

Mebiro McQueen was surprised to hear these two responses.

"Support? Believer, who are you going to support?"

Sitting in this small corner of the haunted house with the Emperor of the East Sea and Mejiro McQueen were the latter's sisters, Mejiro Raiun and Mejiro Zenshin.

Several horse racing girls were contestants in the youth version of the Japan Cup in the afternoon.

In preparation for this event, they have been training together for a long time recently and have become very familiar with each other.

So after Mebai McQueen was puzzled, Emperor and Ryan were also surprised.

"Wait, Shanxin, didn't we agree to come here together to play ghosts?"

"If the good believer wants to cheer... could it be Musashi Suzuka-san?"

"Ryan still understands me better."

Mejiro Zenshin laughed, then scratched his cheek a little embarrassedly, "As for me, I always feel that my training is still not enough."

"Like Gaofeng and Aldan, I think if I were to debut with my current abilities, there would still be a big gap between me and them."

"Even if we don't talk about them, there is still a big gap between me and McQueen and Ryan."

"Especially after practicing together for this period of time, this feeling is even more obvious."

“So I thought, maybe it’s because I haven’t found a running method that suits me?”

She began to scratch her head and think again.

"During this period of training, Mr. Kitahara said that I am suitable for leading the release."

"I also take the lead in practice."

“But I don’t know why, but I always feel like something is missing when I run.”

"Then today, when I saw Musashi Suzuka-san's escape, I suddenly seemed to understand."

"I should be suitable for active leading and releasing like her?"

"Yes! That must be the case!"

She suddenly became excited.

“That carefree, unrestrained, and all-out running at the front.”

“That kind of enthusiastic and positive lead.”

“If it’s that kind of running, I can definitely carve out my own path in race walking.”

"When the time comes, even if I meet McQueen, Ryan, and the Emperor, even if I meet you, I will never lose!"

The topic of conversation in this corner suddenly became training and cheering.

"Oh! If that's the case, I also have someone I admire and want to support!"

Mejiro Rian also became excited.

"Of course it's Oguruma-senpai!"

"Too strong!"

"Senpai-san is so powerful!"

“Whether it’s the winning streak or the legendary journey from a local background to where we are today, it’s all so dazzling and wonderful.”

"Especially her terrifying last kick, amazing ability to change lanes, and sprinting tactics on the outside lane. Each one of them is so fascinating."

"I think that with such amazing strength, one must have very strong physical fitness."

She flexed her arms, and her muscles, which were much stronger than those of other horse girls of the same age, suddenly bulged.

"It seems that I still need to strengthen my physical training and muscles."

"That's not necessary. Ryan, if you keep practicing, I'm afraid your brain will turn into muscle."

Hearing Mejiro Raiun's analysis and decision, the three horse girls standing nearby complained in unison.

Mejiro McQueen and Mejiro Yoshinobu grew up with Ryan and were well aware of the latter's strange obsession with muscle training.

Even if other horse girls focus on race walking, their focus is on skills, running methods and tactics.

Although Ryan also pays attention to this aspect, her main focus is obviously muscle training.

The most obvious example is that, just like Mejiro McQueen knows all kinds of desserts, Mejiro Ryan is quite familiar with various brands of protein powder. Whether she goes shopping on weekdays or takes home economics and cooking classes at school, protein powder is always inexplicably included in her shopping lists and ingredients.

I would try to add protein powder to handmade meals such as "biscuits" and "bread". I am afraid that this is the only one in the entire Central Tresen College who does this.

Just as a few horse girls were chatting, a strange shining light, bursts of weird noises and panicked screams suddenly burst out from the haunted house.

Uooohhh——!
Boom——!
"Wow--!"

“Aaaaaaa——!”

"M-Miyu-chan?! Mi-yu!!"

The sudden sound startled the horse racing girls in the corner, especially the East China Sea Emperor who first mentioned that he wanted to dress up as a ghost and reacted most violently.

Her tail suddenly stood up, her ears and the fur on them all stood up, and she screamed.

"What happened?! What was that sound just now?"

"No, I don't know... but, but I seemed to hear someone shouting "Mi Yu"... is it, is it an illusion?"

"It doesn't seem so... I heard it too... Anyway, let's go and take a look together..."

"I second the motion. We have to go together, together..."

In panic, several horse girls whispered to each other for a while, and involuntarily held each other's hands and groped for a while in the direction of the voice, and soon they saw a familiar figure.

"Hey? It's Xiao Wan-senpai...?! That's right, that's Xiao Wan-senpai, right?!"

It was the Emperor of the East China Sea who spoke first.

What made her a little uncertain was that, facing the direction of the haunted house, a horse racing girl in white was walking towards her.

Based on her past impressions, she could barely judge from the slender and mature figure of the horse racing girl that it should be Super Little Bay, but she was a little hesitant to confirm because she had never seen that outfit before.

When he got closer while holding McQueen's hand tightly, the Emperor realized that it was indeed a super small bay.

It was just that this senior was dressed up as a "mummy" at the moment, so she couldn't confirm it at the first sight.

In addition to his appearance being different from the past, this senior was also carrying a small dark figure on his back and holding something in his arms.

After taking a closer look subconsciously, the Emperor of the East China Sea was soon surprised.

"Hey? Why are there Miyu and Bourbon? Why did they faint...?"

The three Mejiro sisters standing by also recognized the unconscious Mi Yu. Although they did not ask any questions, their shocked and confused expressions showed that they had the same doubts as the emperor.

Super Little Bay recognized the former and his group earlier than the Emperor and his companions.

However, she found it difficult to explain her situation. She just smiled helplessly and raised her chin towards the outside of the haunted house.

"I just happened to meet you, Emperor. Can you help me and accompany me to take Mi Yu and Bourbon to the infirmary?"

Upon hearing this, the Emperor and the others were shocked. No matter what they wanted to do in the haunted house before, they now nodded hurriedly in agreement.

On the way to the infirmary, Super Little Bay explained everything clearly to them in response to their anxious inquiries.

"This...how do you say..."

"I didn't expect this at all..."

"Originally, Miyu and I changed into our current outfits, which are the mummy and vampire. We were planning on scaring our classmates, or the students participating in the obstacle relay."

"Later, Bourbon and other classmates came over to play, so we wanted to play a prank together."

"Everything is ready."

"It turns out something went wrong."

"It seems that Bourbon was frightened by the thunder effects and sounds in the haunted house."

"She suddenly covered her tail and ran out."

"I thought she was trying to scare someone, so I jumped out too."

"Then Mi Yu fainted from fear..."

"Bourbon seemed to be frightened for similar reasons..."

"Anyway, this is what happened..."

Following Super Bay's explanation, the group of horse racing ladies who failed to scare others but instead scared themselves arrived at the infirmary, and Mi Yu and Bourbon were also examined by the health worker.

Emperor and McQueen also had a general understanding of the situation.

"Ah, now that you mention it, Bourbon seemed to have mentioned some things from his childhood when we were training together..."

After looking at the direction of the inspection with some amusement, Mebai McQueen suddenly said, "She said that when she was very young, she heard her father say that you must be careful of your tail when there is thunder."

"Because then some weird stuff will come out."

"If you're not careful, your tail will be stolen..."

"I didn't expect Bourbon would take such a joke seriously..."

She held her forehead and sighed, "I can't tell that she has this kind of personality. I mean, she usually doesn't joke around..."

"There is actually such a thing..."

Xiao Haiwan and Di Wang were all surprised. Then, Xiao Haiwan's expression changed and he moved a little closer to the infirmary.

The health worker over there has come over.

After she went up to them, she hurriedly asked some questions and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with Miyu and Miura Bourbon and they were just frightened, she quickly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay, it's okay, there's no big problem."

Patting her chest, she said with lingering fear: "Originally I just wanted to have some fun during the Thanksgiving Festival."

"This will help you relax and perhaps perform better in your afternoon match."

"If something unexpected happens, let alone the afternoon game, I'm afraid that Beiyuan and President Luduo will have to worry..."

Originally they were worried about their companions, but when they heard about the afternoon race, several horse racing girls who were also going to participate suddenly became cautious.

"Yes, there is a game in the afternoon. It seems that I need to confirm the situation with Mi Yu and Bourbon..."

After saying this worriedly, Mejiro McQueen looked at the examination room and then towards the Super Cove.

"Besides, Senior Xiao Haiwan will also be running the last leg of the obstacle relay race soon. It should be almost over, right?"

"Well, I've already told Kitahara about the situation here. This kind of thing must be told to him. If I don't keep it from him, he might get angry afterwards."

He took a deep breath and also looked at the examination room, then Super Bay turned to look in the other direction of the waiting room.

There was a TV specially provided for waiting staff, and on TV, the obstacle relay race was still going on.

"The first one to come out of the haunted house was Qigou. It seems that her calm and mature personality gave her a considerable advantage in this aspect."

“Taking advantage of this, she was the first to arrive at the second competition area and completed the handover.”

"The second competition area is located in the cafeteria, and the obstacle course is 'beating rice cakes'."

"The player taking over the ki tank is Narita Shirahito. This horse girl has performed well in the summer relay races, and this time is no exception."

"With her teammates leading the way, she has already started to beat the rice cakes, and her advantage is quite obvious."

"The rest of the contestants in the haunted house are gradually getting rid of the influence of terror and rushing out one by one towards the second competition area."

"Let's look forward to their teammates' next performance."

As an entertainment event, in addition to the exciting walking portion of each zone, the obstacle game segment also excites the audience and fans.

Just like how Miyu and Miura Bourbon failed to play a trick and ended up fainting from fright, the obstacles in the haunted house also presented all kinds of ridiculous scenes.

At this moment, in the background sound of Ludo's symbolic commentary, there was cheering and laughter for those scenes.

In this unusually joyful background, Super Bay suddenly looked at Emperor, McQueen and other juniors, and said cautiously:
"Although it's a bit inappropriate for a senior like me who was just making a fuss to say these words..."

"But before I head off to the obstacle relay, I still have something to say..."

"It's OK with Mi Yu, Bourbon, Emperor, McQueen, Ryan, Shanxin, or any of you."

"There's nothing wrong with playing around."

“Before the Japan Cup this afternoon, I must adjust my mindset and give it my all.”

"Don't worry about the fact that this Japan Cup is a 'Youth Cup' event. Since it is called the 'Japan Cup', we must do our best to win the game even though foreign players are participating."

"I believe you can do it."

My wrist still feels a little uncomfortable. The doctor said it's not tendonitis or anything. I probably sprained it during the Qingming Festival. I just need to rest more.
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