Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 364 Try to rely on others
After a few words off topic, Kitahara became serious again.

“And after watching the video so many times, I know very well how strong Xiaoyu’s fighting spirit is.

"The impact of this kind of consciousness cannot even be experienced in the data, or the data cannot explain why she can do that."

"What... stage...?"

Still shocked by Kitahara's so-called "entertainment method", Maruzenski's speech seemed a little intermittent.

"That is, the more opponents get close to her and try to overtake her, the better her speed, strength, running posture and other levels will be."

Beiyuan said solemnly: "Moreover, the closer she gets to the finish line, the more obvious her condition will become.

"This improvement is minimal in proportion to the entire competition.

"But in actual competitions, being able to improve again during the sprint to the finish line is crucial to winning or losing.

"If I remember correctly, Maruzen's Fuchu Championship match, which was your third match after your debut, should have been the same?"

There was a hint of inquiry in his eyes when he looked at Maruzenski, but more of it was certainty.

Maruzenski was stunned for a moment, and then immediately fell into memories.

It was not surprising that Yu Beiyuan could remember her competitions so clearly. In fact, after spending so much time together, she had long discovered that this trainer could remember almost all the famous and unknown competitions.

In other words, as long as it is a competition of famous horse girls, he can remember them all without missing any details.

She even knows more about the details of the competition than the horse girls themselves.

This is the case with Maruzenski at the moment. In her impression, the two or three games after her debut were not very famous.

Even though she participated and won, she didn't feel the improvement in her condition that Kitahara talked about.

But after being reminded, she gradually remembered.

"Well... now that you mention it, it is true..."

She pondered, “In that race, the one competing against me in the final straight line was Lingsu.

“If I had run at full strength, she would not have had a chance to catch up with me.

"But my trainer and team at the time thought my legs weren't strong enough.

“And for the sake of the subsequent games, we must maintain a certain level of physical strength.

“So in terms of running tactics, we were still relatively conservative in the end.

"This is how we have a long one-on-one duel at the end line."

After sighing, she nodded and said, "That is to say, during that sprint, the state improvement that Kitahara mentioned should have occurred?"

Hearing this, Beiyuan nodded, then shook his head.

"That's true, but it's not accurate," he explained, looking at Maruzenski's puzzled look, "In your Fuzhong Championship, there was indeed a boost in morale during the competition at the end of the stage, which increased the speed and other levels.

“But the key to being able to sprint and win the race when your opponent is catching up is that you have the ability to take the lead.

"If you just run away, it will be difficult to burst out faster in that state, and you will not be able to win the game.

“I am quite sure of this.

“Because even though you played a small number of games, the total number of times I have watched them is no less than 10,000.

"So if we just look at the number of views per game, your game is probably the one I've watched the most."

When he said this, Kitahara felt a little strange.

From the perspective of a trainer and the president of a horse racing club, Maruzenski can be said to be the most special horse girl and horse he has ever seen.

Generally speaking, the number of times a Uma Musume can speed up in a race is quite limited.

Acceleration means concentrating some or all of your physical strength and releasing it in order to gain an advantage in distance or position.

The exit from the gate, the opening turn, the middle straight, the last straight, and every turn are all common acceleration points.

Some horse girls with special skills may have more choices.

For example, Tamamo Cross who has mastered the lightning pace, and Oguruma who has more powerful drifting and cornering skills in this world.

But in the final analysis, even with many opportunities, considering physical limitations, you can actually only choose about three opportunities to accelerate.

These three acceleration opportunities are often when exiting the gate or in the opening stages, in the curve before the final straight, and on the final straight.

The acceleration when leaving the gate and in the opening position is mainly for grabbing a position. A position that suits your running style and tactics will allow the horse girl to perform to the best of her ability in subsequent races.

The purpose of the curve before the final straight and the acceleration on the final straight is the same, both of which are to decide the outcome.

Furthermore, if you don’t speed up at this time, the race will be over in the next ten to twenty seconds, and you won’t have a chance to speed up anymore.

This is not the case with Maruzenski.

In Kitahara's guess, she could achieve incredible full-scale acceleration.

The most obvious manifestation was the short wave reward in the penultimate game before her retirement.

In that race, she accelerated throughout the entire race except for the third turn and was always in first place.

Even though her speed seemed to slow down in the third bend, she burst out with astonishing speed the moment the team behind her was about to approach.

Afterwards, he continued to take the absolute lead and won the game in one go.

Kitahara's guess is that Maruzenski actually didn't need to slow down at the third turn of the shortwave track.

Because even though the game data of that era could only be viewed through video recordings, after analyzing it frame by frame, he was still able to determine with the level of a professional trainer that Maruzenski in that position had not lost speed.

Not only did she not stall, but judging from the details such as her running posture, breathing, and pace frequency, she also had a considerable degree of physical endurance.

In other words, she seemed to be "waiting" for the horse girl behind her to catch up.

Then he concentrated all his energy on the final kick and won the game in one go.

It is difficult to say that this kind of running is a standard escape, because with the speed of Maruzenski's previous race, there is not enough time and race distance left for the escape horse to reserve energy.

If a normal escaped horse ran in the same way as Maruzen, not to mention that it was "almost" caught up in the third turn, it would still be able to burst out with an ultimate last-gasp run and win by a huge margin of 7 lengths.

The mere fact that he was “almost” caught up would probably turn into the fact that he was caught up.

Once the fleeing horse is caught up, the race is basically over.

Due to limitations in talent, training, etc., the ability of the escaped horse in competing in the same position is relatively weaker than that of the horse girls in other positions.

If there is an opponent nearby, this method of escape will distract too much attention due to competition and consume too much physical strength. In this case, it is almost impossible to make a last-minute burst of kick.

The fact that Maruzenski was able to overcome this limitation shows that, in addition to being very comfortable in the competition, she also has more than just the ability to escape, and it is very likely that she also has sufficient ability to take the lead.

But Kitahara has no evidence for such speculation, and many of his current data analysis ideas are not widely recognized and understood by Japanese trainers.

The only ones who could analyze along his lines were the training members of the Eternal Club.

Therefore, the outside world and many people in the horse racing girls circle basically still believe that Maruzenski is a runaway horse and does not have the real acceleration and last foot like the leading horse.

Maruzenski didn't expect Kitahara to be thinking about training again. She just noticed what Kitahara said, that he had watched her game videos the most times.

In the past, she was not unaware that trainers would repeatedly watch past competition videos in order to improve the level of horse racing girls.

As the vice president of the student union, and for her own training needs, she would also go to see it.

But neither she nor any trainer she knew could watch the game videos thousands of times like Kitahara.

When it happened a certain number of times, she suddenly had a very subtle feeling.

So, he had carefully watched every time he exited the gate, every time he tried to grab a position, every time he accelerated, every time he overtook and crossed the finish line many times... ?
Oh, no...

I don’t have any experience of surpassing my opponents. It’s always my opponents who try every way to surpass me…

but……

He has seen the other scenes many times...?
When the frequency is small, this kind of viewing does not seem strange.

But with a favorable impression, and thinking about the fact that the person I like has watched my video recordings over and over again for tens of thousands of times, I always feel that there is something inexplicably weird in the beauty.

With this thought in mind, Maruzenski couldn't help but whispered, "Well... I mean, Kitahara, you've watched my game videos so many times, that's...

“I mean, do you feel anything strange…?
"I'm not saying you're weird, I'm saying... did you feel like there was something weird about me in those games?"

When asked this question, what Maruzenski was thinking about was his expression and posture in every game, as well as his confidence before the game and his tiredness and joy after the game.

However, after hearing this question that made Kitahara feel very strange, what came to his mind were the key points of the race such as running method, tactics, running posture, handling of curves and straight lines, etc.

"Strange place..."

So, under the influence of his professionalism, he quickly recalled the video of Maruzenski’s game and became confused, “No.

“With your strength, how could there be anything strange?

"If I really have to say, there are too many advantages to learn from. Even with the talents of Oguruma and the others, it will take me a long time to make them understand some of the key points.

"Then it takes some time for them to fully understand it.

“Of course, it’s not necessarily possible to fully integrate them, because the talents of different horse girls are quite different. The running techniques you use in the competition, Oguruma and the others can learn the principles behind them, but they may not be able to fully master them.”

"So... eh?"

Kitahara suddenly became confused. "Were we not originally discussing the upcoming competition? Why did we suddenly..."

"Ah, um, that... It's nothing, I just thought of these things and asked casually..."

After Kitahara's reminder, Maruzenski realized that he had gone off topic and hurriedly changed the subject.

"Anyway, let's...right, let's talk about the competition...yeah, about the competition..."

Damn it, Qianming was right...

Although there is no problem chatting about love with friends and juniors, there is no problem in taking the initiative to talk to Kitahara when I am ready...

But faced with such a sudden topic, just like what Qianming said, I immediately became flustered...

Uh...

This is a big embarrassment...

He was originally feeling nervous and didn't know how to continue fooling around for a while, but Maruzenski soon discovered that there was no need to worry too much.

Because as soon as Kitahara heard something related to work, he immediately shifted his attention.

"Well, that's what I was going to say."

Kitahara said without hesitation: "Since you can also understand the impact of that kind of combat awareness on the state during the position competition period, you should also understand that a horse girl like Xiaoyu who already has a strong fighting spirit will burst out with even stronger abilities when the opponent approaches.

"But if she is affected by those messy reports, some accidents are bound to happen."

"...Well, that's certainly possible."

While Kitahara was distracted, Maruzenski quickly calmed down, stabilized his emotions, and thought, "It's possible that I was too aggressive and entered a more excited state after the start of the game.

"This state itself will consume too much energy, and her competition with the same position will be more intense, which will also consume more energy, resulting in the possibility that she will not be able to cross the finish line at full speed.

"Of course, it is not impossible to use up too much energy in advance and not even have a chance to take the final kick.

"So we need to make sure she can calm down before the game and finish the game calmly.

"Or, if there is any way to make her control herself during the game, that would also be fine."

This conclusion was not something that Maruzenski came up with herself, but was discussed between her and Representative Chiaki.

Qianming had already confirmed this with Luduo, so this was the common opinion of the student union.

Kitahara had no reason to object to such an opinion. The conclusion he came to after learning about this situation was not much different from this one.

"And it's not just Jade."

Maruzenski added: “Inari is actually in a similar situation.

“Although there haven’t been that many reports involving her.

“But it’s precisely this lack of awareness that I think is a crucial issue for her.

“You should be able to tell, Kitahara.

“Inari’s desire to win is no weaker than Tama’s.

“However, her achievements, reputation, and even the coverage this time, are not as good as Xiaoyu’s.

“The same was true of the previous Emperor’s Autumn Appreciation, especially in the post-match analysis, she clearly placed too much emphasis on Xiaoyu, which is why she lost the match by the slightest margin.

"I think you should have considered this matter, right?"

"Yes, there is..."

After affirming this, Kitahara suddenly became distressed, “But you also know Xiaoyu and Inari’s temperament and habits. My training method can only guide them in terms of competition skills.

"I'm not very good at dealing with emotions, I can only make sure they are okay overall.

"But to be so meticulous..."

He didn't continue speaking, but smiled helplessly and spread his hands.

However, to his surprise, as soon as he spread out his hand, Maruzenski gently held it.

They had already arrived at the parking lot, and it looked like Maruzenski was merely reminding Kitahara to get out of the car.

"Okay, don't worry so much, or rather, don't always take everything on yourself."

After shaking Kitahara's hand and letting go quickly, Maruzenski smiled and said, "You are not working hard alone.

“You’ve done a lot.

"So if you feel a little embarrassed sometimes, try to rely on others, how about that?"

(End of this chapter)