Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 298 Running in the Moonlight
Little Luduo was very interested in the proposal of the winner of the Sun Pillow, and after a little thought, she agreed to the suggestion of running a practice race on the training ground.

It's not that she is unfamiliar with the training methods of the Eternal Club. Generally speaking, after dinner, the horse girls here would not arrange any training. The main purpose was to rest.

Compared to this method, she is more accustomed to the way most horse girls do, and they will still do a certain degree of training after dinner.

This training arrangement made her involuntarily think of the time when she and Representative Hinamikaze Yingjia and Representative Chiaki were still in service.

That's how they were trained back then.

However, if you want to take Oguruma and Tamamo Cross with you, you may have to ask or comfort them. After all, if the two of them insist on following Kitahara's orders, there is nothing you can do.

"I have no problem running a race," Little Luduo smiled as he stood up from the table. "Just think of it as a warm-up before returning to the competition."

"But I'm going to ask those two juniors," she continued, looking at another table, "Their trainer has always disapproved of this kind of extra training."

"So, it's hard to say whether they will give me, a senior, some face."

"Like this?"

The winner of the Japanese pillow was stunned at first, then smiled with relief, "It sounds like you have a good relationship with the trainer, which is pretty good."

"Then Luduo and I will go and invite them together. With the help of another senior, maybe they will agree."

On the other side of the dining table.

"Okay, let's eat."

Wiping his lips, Tamamo Cross showed a satisfied smile and gave a thumbs up to the person opposite him, "Not bad, Oguri, the fried rice is very tasty."

"Of course, it's not as delicious as the Tamamo Cross Okonomiyaki we made~"

Oguruma on the opposite side was also wiping her lips. The full plate of fried rice on the table between the two horse girls was now empty, but for their current appetite, this was just a midnight snack.

"Is that so? Then I'll work hard to learn how to make fried rice even better."

Xiaolimao nodded seriously and said, "Actually, I just remembered that before the Japanese derby, Xiaoyu, you specially made Tamamo Cross Okonomiyaki for me."

"Although the Emperor's autumn viewing ceremony is not tomorrow, I feel like you haven't eaten much during this period, as if you are worried, so I made fried rice for you in advance."

"If you're not satisfied, I'll try harder."

"Oguri..."

Tamamo Cross was stunned. After a moment, she scratched the back of her head and said embarrassedly: "Thank you for caring about me so much. Actually..."

She chuckled, "I was just joking, Xiaoli, your fried rice is really delicious."

"Thank you so much, I feel much better now." She said sincerely.

Hearing this, Xiao Limao hesitated and said, "It turns out that Xiaoyu, you really have something on your mind recently."

Tamamo Cross was startled again and laughed, "Okay, I never thought that you, Xiaoli, who usually looks so stupid, would actually try to trick me at a time like this."

"Ah? I'm not being polite..."

Xiao Limao quickly waved his hands and was about to explain when Xiao Luduo and Rizhen Yingjia came over from the other side.

"Hi, two big stars of the shining competition, now two old veterans want to ask, do you have time to run a lap on the training ground together later?"

The one who spoke in a joking tone was the Hinamikura Winner. Her words stunned both Oguruma and Tamamo Cross. Then, when Little Rudo spoke reluctantly, his tone became a little formal.

"Don't listen to Himaru-senpai's jokes. I mean, there's no such thing as being unable to breathe."

She explained: "I won't hide it. During the training, I talked to you, Xiaoyu, but it seemed too serious and formal at that time. I was also worried that if I said too much, you would feel some psychological pressure."

"Right now, I think I can be direct. I'm worried about your recent condition, Xiaoyu."

"Hinumakura-senpai saw this and gave me some great advice."

"That is, if there is anything we horse girls want to ask or say, maybe a race can explain a lot of things."

"How do you feel?"

Seeing the surprised expressions of the two juniors after hearing these words, Little Luduo thought for a moment and added, "As for your usual training habits, I know that."

"Normally you don't do extra training at night. Kitahara told me that as well."

"However, I do have some training experience, so occasionally training and running at night won't have a big impact."

"As for Beiyuan, I will take the initiative to explain to him later."

"Of course, if you're particularly concerned, how about you watch Himaru-senpai run with me and time us?"

After hearing this, Oguruma and Tamamo Cross finally understood the whole story, especially Tamamo Cross, who burst out laughing.

"Sure enough, my feeling was right, Luna, you just have something to tell me," she stood up from the dining table and stretched, "Well, I won't hide anything, Xiaoli just asked about it."

"I have been feeling a little uncomfortable recently."

"There are matters concerning the Emperor's autumn appreciation, matters concerning the old man, and matters concerning some of my sisters."

"I had originally wanted to let all this out at the Emperor's Autumn Viewing Ceremony, but now that I have a chance to relax, I won't miss it."

"Hey? Xiaoyu, are you going to agree?"

Oguruma was surprised and said, "In that case, Kitahara..."

"Don't worry, don't worry," Tamamo Cross smiled and waved his hands, "Didn't Luna say that she would help us if anything happened? What is there to be afraid of?"

"If it was Luna, even Kitahara would be too embarrassed to say anything, right?"

"Besides, after our Emperor's Autumn Appreciation, it will soon be your Chrysanthemum Appreciation, Oguri. Don't you plan to take advantage of the senior's initiative to train a little more?"

"That... seems to be true. Kitahara respects Luna very much," Ogurumao scratched his head, with an excited look in his eyes, "and the Chrysanthemum Appreciation..."

“Although I have improved a lot in terms of physical endurance and tactical skills, I still have a little gap compared to Little Bay and Aldan.”

"Perhaps, Kitahara will tell me the specific running tactics later. Anyway, first..."

Tamamo Cross suddenly interrupted with a smile: "Okay, I've said it all, let's eat the small meal given by the seniors first."

She simply omitted the decision-making process and unknowingly made the decision for Little Limao, "Maybe after running, you can come up with some good ideas yourself?"

"OK, we and Xiaoli are all fine," she gestured to Xiaoluduo and the winner of the Japanese pillow, and said confidently, "How about it, two seniors, when do we start running?"

"Eh? Yes, Luduo, your nickname is Luna, how could I have forgotten it."

The winner of the Sun Pillow spoke first, glancing at Little Luduo and said teasingly, "Then I'll call you Luna before you change back."

"Luna~Luna~Luna-chan~Hmm, it feels so cute~"

Little Luduo felt helpless about the senior's teasing, but pretended not to hear it.

"To start, we need to go to the training grounds and take a look." She looked outside the cafeteria. "Generally speaking, there are not too many horse girls at the training grounds at this time."

"It doesn't look like there are any arrangements with the academy during the day, and there are no trainers to discuss. After we go there, we may have to wait until other students have a break from training before we can use the venue."

"It just so happens that we have all had supper, so we can warm up first. Otherwise, if we start running directly, it will put a great burden on the digestive system." This is not something she learned after following the Eternal Club. As an outstanding horse girl, professional knowledge in nutrition and health is also a compulsory course. Little Luduo knew that she should not do strenuous exercise immediately after a meal before her debut.

"As for the race schedule, it's 2000 meters on grass, left back. Everyone should be able to adapt, right?"

Looking around, he saw that Hinamura Winner, Tamamo Cross, and Oguruma were all nodding, so Little Luduo smiled and said, "Then it's settled."

"It just so happens that the Emperor's Autumn Viewing Competition is scheduled, Senior Sister, let's experience the competition of that year again."

"Xiaoyu's words can be used as training for the competition."

"As for Oguruma, we can't participate this year, so let's prepare for next year."

The parallel running training was arranged in a few words. Just like when they came, little Luduo was the first to walk out of the cafeteria.

But this time, a figure whizzed over and stood beside him.

"Luna-chan, Luna-chan, and all the seniors, are you going to the training ground?"

The one who came running over was the Emperor of the East Sea. She asked excitedly and expectantly, "Can I play, too?"

Little Luduo was not surprised by the appearance of the emperor. She had a vague foresee that as soon as she moved, the child would rush over.

However, she did not agree to the request of the Emperor of the East China Sea.

"Your Majesty, you have arrived just in time."

He nodded and said something. Seeing that the younger generation such as Mejiro McQueen followed the Emperor, Little Luduo discussed with him, "This time, Emperor, you can help out outside the court, okay?"

"If you want to run training together, I will accompany you later."

When the Emperor of the East China Sea heard the rejection, his ears and tail drooped down. When he heard the second half of the sentence, his ears and tail stood up again.

"Yeah! No problem, leave it to us!"

She agreed without permission and pulled Mebai McQueen over. Seeing McQueen's surprised expression of "what happened?", she asked excitedly, "How can I help you?"

If you conduct parallel running training during the day, with the assistance of trainers and academy staff, timing, video recording, starting line, finish line, and everything else will be ready.

If there is a need for gate training, we can even bring in standard gates used for competitions.

The conditions for independent training of horse girls are not so perfect. If the number is too small, the timing may have to be done by mental calculation.

Fortunately, there are a lot of East China Sea Emperors and their men, so with a simple distribution, the timing and other arrangements were made. I also asked them to go to the logistics department to get the corresponding tools.

The training was carried out in the name of Lu Duo, the student council president, and the logistics staff agreed to it quite readily.

So before long, with East Sea Emperor and Mejiro McQueen as the starting line, Miura Bourbon and Rice Bath as the finish line, and Haru Ulala as the timekeeper, under this arrangement, Little Rudo started training with the horse girls who were preparing to run training races.

Just as little Luduo had expected, there were many horse racing girls still working hard on the training ground. The already large racing field was divided into several inner and outer sections for training.

We wanted to do a parallel running training, but the field was totally insufficient, so we spent some time negotiating and finally adjusted the field so that the entire grass track could be completely empty within the time of a race.

With these negotiations, many horse girls who were training on the field knew that there would soon be a competition between the seniors and the stars of the shining event, and they couldn't help but look forward to it.

Therefore, during the warm-up jogging, little Luduo and others were always the focus of attention from the people around them.

Being the focus of attention was nothing new for these horse girls, but at night on the training ground, Ogururo and Tamamo Cross looked a little unfamiliar.

"...The last time we trained this late, it seemed like it was already Kasamatsu's time..."

Muttering to himself, taking advantage of the lack of pressure during the jog, Oguruma suddenly looked at Tamamo Cross curiously, "Oh, by the way, Tama."

"You said before that you haven't been in a good mood recently."

"It's the Emperor admiring the autumn, it's my grandfather, it's my sister..."

"What have you been through recently?"

Hearing this, Xiao Luduo and Rizhen Yingjia, who were also jogging to warm up, looked over.

The winner of the Japanese pillow was just curious, but little Luduo was constantly thinking about it.

She knew about the Emperor's autumn appreciation and the last trainer's physical condition, but she was confused about her sister.

...Strange, according to the files, Tamamo Cross doesn't have a sister. Is she talking about the racehorse girls taken care of by Sanye trainer...?
While he was thinking about it, Tamamo Cross smiled and shook his head as if to keep someone in suspense.

"Hehe, didn't the two seniors just say that all issues between us horse girls should be resolved by running?"

Her eyes suddenly lit up, "That's it, if someone wins the competition later, I will tell her all those things."

"Yes! It's settled!"

Although the other three horse girls were a little surprised by the sudden appearance of this not-so-small bet, they all smiled knowingly, thinking that this would make the training and competition more interesting.

Soon, the warm-up was over, and the other horse girls on the training ground made way for the track as promised. The four horse girls followed the track and came to the starting line formed by the Emperor of the East Sea and Mejiro McQueen.

"Yoho~ Welcome everyone to tonight's... Moonlight Cup! Yes! Moonlight Cup training match!"

Seeing that there were many horse girls watching, the East Sea Emperor, who was originally just acting as the starting line, suddenly became more serious and shouted, "The contestants of this Moonlight Cup training match include the cutest Luna-chan!"

"There are also Hikari Winner-senpai, Tamamo Cross-senpai, and Oguruma-senpai."

...Hey, Emperor, your discrimination is too obvious...

Almost all the horse girls who knew about the situation could not help but laugh at what the Emperor of the East China Sea said, but the Emperor of the East China Sea himself seemed not to notice and continued to act as the commentator.

"At this moment, the moonlight is bright and the atmosphere is good, so..."

She looked at Chun Ulala who was holding the timer beside her, and saw the latter nodded a little nervously. She looked at McQueen again, and after getting an affirmative look, she raised her arms high.

"2000 meters of grass, turn left..."

"Start!" He swung his arms down quickly.

Accompanied by arm movements and loud announcements, four figures rushed out of the starting line like the wind under the moonlight.

He was obviously interested just now. As there was no topic to broadcast at the moment, the Emperor of the East China Sea simply raised his voice and shouted as the commentator.

"Very good! The seniors all completed a great start, without any missed shots!"

"And...oh yeah! Location!"

"The current location is..."

Hastily recalling the commentary she heard every day, she jumped back and forth on the spot, trying to see the situation on the runway.

After jumping two or three times, she was suddenly surprised.

“Hey hey hey?! What’s going on?! President… Oh no, Luna-chan…”

"Luna-chan, Hinamikaze-senpai, and Oguri-senpai...are they fighting for the lead position at the same time?!"

(End of this chapter)