Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 372 Let Them Crash into Us and Try It

Maruzenski herself knew that she just had such a strong intuition and firmly believed that she would be able to play in this Peak Cup.

Of course, my close friends and Kitahara all knew the regret of not being able to participate in the classic tournament during my active service.

But this kind of thing is ultimately the same as Yongwu's retirement due to illness. You can't empathize with it unless you've experienced it yourself.

For a long time, Maruzenski used various methods to convince himself to adapt to and accept those regrets.

This is also the fundamental reason why I like racing.

There is no way to go on the track again. If you want to experience the ultimate speed and competition, drag racing is one of the few ways.

She had already adapted to it, and was clearly aware that she had no chance to return to the stage of Uma Musume.

But now, thanks to Beiyuan, he has such an opportunity again, and it happened much earlier than he expected.

So, just like she would never admit defeat in a race, Maruzenski firmly believed that she could seize this opportunity and become the first horse girl to make a comeback.

Even if all you need to participate in the comeback event is luck.

So, as he and Kitahara casually chatted with Yongwu and the others and looked at the training situation at the Tokyo stadium, Maruzenski always held this absolute confidence.

As for why he was so confident that he would be chosen, Yongwu and the others couldn't fully understand it, and Kitahara didn't understand it even more.

After leaving the Tokyo stadium, he couldn't help but ask.

"If you really want to participate in the Summit Cup..."

Sitting in Maruzenski's sports car and on the way back to Central College, he thought: "I think maybe I need to reset the schedule of the competition.

“After all, if it’s a draw, it still depends on luck.

“The details of the event have not yet been fully announced, and the plan I submitted also specifies how to participate.

"How about when we get back to the academy, I'll discuss it with the chairman, Lu Duo and the others, and apply to the URA Association. What do you think?"

In Kitahara's opinion, if the contestants for the Peak Cup are determined by the current draw format, Maruzenski may not be selected right away.

This horse racing girl was so confident in front of Yongwu and the others. It might be a bit embarrassing if she was not chosen.

As the chairman of the Eternal Club, this organization is not an official setting in the sequence of the URA Association.

But starting from the Youth Cup, the planning and arrangement of events outside the Shining Series are the primary responsibility of the club.

Including this Peak Cup, from the design of the competition system to the arrangement of Uma Musume's escape, he was actually responsible for everything.

It’s not that the URA Association doesn’t want to take full responsibility.

The association has no experience in this area. Even if it designs based on other events, it does not have the design level of Kitahara who starts planning very early.

So if Kitahara really proposes to change some of the rules of the Peak Cup, there will be no problem in principle.

In fact, Kitahara himself did not realize that he had such thoughts and was somewhat concerned about Maruzenski's affairs.

If he were just standing from the trainer's perspective, he would not consider changing anything just for a certain horse girl.

He has always been standing from the perspective of all, or as many, horse girls as possible, and has been carrying out various training and competition arrangements.

However, although he did not notice Maruzenski's thoughts during this period, he was vaguely aware that he seemed to be spending more and more time with him.

I also feel more and more that with the assistance of this horse girl, many things seem to be handled more easily than before.

In the past, he had to rely on himself to come up with many of his ideas and arrangements, and then he would get help from Komiyayama, Yusuhara and others.

In recent times, while he was still in the process of thinking, Maruzenski was able to predict some things as if he had foreseen the future.

Once he starts to work on it, he will easily find that many things have already been thought of or done by others before he has even started to do them.

This made him unconsciously want to do something to help the other person.

If the time and scene were different, Maruzenski would most likely notice Kitahara's subtle change.

At this moment, her mind was completely immersed in her next game.

"Apply to adjust the game schedule? Well, no need."

While driving, she casually said with a smile: “Beiyuan, you also know the procedures of the association.

“If this Peak Cup is like the previous Thanksgiving Cup, and is held as an entertainment event like a Thanksgiving Festival or a relay race, then it’s fine.

“After the Japan Cup, the people in the association must have become more procrastinating because of the importance attached to it.

"You have to apply here, discuss there, and communicate with Yongwu and the others. Not only will it take time, but it may not be successful.

“So, there’s no need.”

"but……"

Beiyuan hesitated, "You are so confident in front of Yongwu and the others, what if you are not selected?

"Isn't this a bit too embarrassing?"

"Huh? You actually think so."

Maruzenski was surprised, but then he smiled again, "That kind of thing doesn't matter. Do you think I'm the kind of horse girl who would worry about that kind of thing?"

"...That's not the case."

Kitahara was very clear about Maruzenski's character. After thinking about it for a while, he realized that with the other party's casual personality, he really wouldn't care about this type of embarrassment.

"Actually, I'm just curious," he asked after thinking for a moment, "How can you be so sure that you will be selected and participate in the Summit Cup?"

"This..."

The corners of his mouth curled up more and more, Maruzenski paused, and suddenly changed the subject and answered an irrelevant question, "Hey, Kitahara.

"You should remember clearly what kind of horse girl is needed to win the Satsuki Sho, the Japanese Derby, and the Kikuka Sho, right?"

"Well, the fastest horse girl wins the Satsuki Sho, the luckiest horse girl wins the Japanese Derby, and the strongest horse girl wins the Kikuka Sho."

Without any hesitation, Kitahara quickly said this common saying in the horse girls world.

Just as quickly, he realized something, "You mean..."

"Yeah, it's a lottery, isn't it to see who is luckier?"

His fingers gripping the steering wheel couldn't help but tighten, and his white knuckles turned slightly pink. Looking directly at the scenery rapidly receding in front of the windshield, Maruzenski smiled.

“The Summit Cup, prepared for top-notch horse racing ladies, is an unprecedented event even if it is just a trial event.

“I think it’s not just me, but also Luduo, Qianming, Yongwu, Seattle and others.

“As long as you have confidence in your own abilities and believe that you are a horse girl here, no one will be willing to miss this kind of event.

“So, the competition starts now.

"I firmly believed that if I was in the Japanese Derby, even if I didn't want to win the final place, I would definitely be the first to cross the finish line.

"So, it's more about luck...

"There's no way I can lose to any of them."

Finally understanding where Maruzenski's confidence came from, Kitahara felt surprised, but also felt a subtle sense of naturalness.

Things like luck seem very illusory when we talk about them normally.

But in the case of Uma Musume, it seems to really exist.

If they had not known in advance that some things could have been avoided, such as Ogurt's classic triple crown and the injuries of Little Bay and others, these horse racing ladies of the Eternal Club seemed to have faced the shackles of the times.

The same is true for Maruzenski, as well as the symbol of Ludo, the representative of Chiming, and Yongwu she mentioned.

Even with these constraints, in another timeline, they still broke through and showed their own extreme style on the stage. In a sense, each of them was not unlucky.

As for changing the times, I have already thought of and done everything I can think of and do.

Just as Maruzenski said, the Peak Cup event held after the Japan Cup cannot completely bypass the URA Association at present, and it also needs to cooperate with it to proceed.

Otherwise, just using the Tokyo stadium for the competition would not be so easy.

If you really want to apply to change the lottery rules, it is basically impossible to achieve according to the current process.

So, we can only leave it to her luck...

Originally, he just wanted to agree with Maruzenski's words, but after seeing the yearning in the eyes of this horse girl and feeling the passion contained in them, Kitahara unconsciously changed his words.

"If you're lucky, would you like me to help you find a four-leaf clover?"

After thinking for a while, he smiled and said, “Although it’s not a Japanese derby, if it depends on luck, it seems that the clover is quite useful?
“I remember that many horse girls have this custom… or habit?

"Before the Japanese derby, I went to the shrine near the Tokyo stadium to look for shamrocks and made them into amulets or something.

"Before the Japanese derby, Xiaolimao's mother and sister went out of their way to find a piece for her.

"so……"

Just as he was about to continue speaking, a strong sense of direction interrupted his words.

By the time he reacted, the scenery outside the car window had already changed direction.

Looking at the direction, it was exactly the direction of the shrine he mentioned.

At the same time, Maruzenski's excited voice was heard.

"Wow, I didn't expect a blockhead like you like Kitahara to be able to think of such a thing~"

With an unconcealable joy on his lips, Maruzenski felt that his subtle strategy during this period seemed to have worked. He resisted the urge to turn his head to look at the side and continued driving, looking straight ahead.

The corner of his eye kept drifting to the side, "Well, whether you can find a four-leaf clover later, it's all up to you~
"If I'm not chosen to participate in this Peak Cup, it's all your fault, huh~"

With Kitahara's current emotional intelligence, he definitely wouldn't be able to notice Maruzenski's involuntary coquetry.

He just adhered to the principle of doing what he said, and after laughing at Maruzenski's childish behavior for a while, he went to the shrine and looked for a four-leaf clover seriously.

However, having always relied on science for training and competition, he was not very familiar with this kind of metaphysics, and he failed to find it this time.

Although Maruzenski was not disappointed, Kitahara took the matter to heart and decided to spend some time studying it and find the so-called lucky clover before the game day.

All preparations for the event were finalized long in advance, and subsequent training proceeded as usual.

In addition to training, Kitahara also carefully organized the information of relevant opponents and discussed it with the team.

This information was certainly not obtained through "reconnaissance" at the Tokyo stadium.

Just as Maruzenski said, and as Yongwu and Seattle Roundabout thought, Kitahara didn't need any on-site investigation at all.

He already had enough understanding about the horse racing girls overseas before he came into contact with them.

Subsequently, based on the data analysis system that the Hypothesis team has been building, it can be said that a considerable portion of the intelligence on his side is even more detailed than that of his opponent.

As the horse girls and their trainers who will be participating in the competition, these materials must naturally be prepared as the focus.

"The most noteworthy ones are these five horse girls..."

That day, in her own lounge, Katsumi Komiya was holding a stack of documents, frowning and muttering to herself, "I have to pay attention to five opponents at once...

"Xiaoyu, do you feel tired...?"

She raised her head and looked forward.

Although it is called a lounge, it actually has simple fitness equipment.

There was a horizontal bar in the direction she was looking.

On the horizontal bar, a petite horse racing girl, wearing a sleeveless tight sports vest and sports shorts, was holding the horizontal bar tightly with both hands, with her legs slightly curled up, doing pull-ups.

As the body rises and falls on the horizontal bar, fine beads of sweat emerge on the exposed, smooth arms and shoulders, gather, and then slowly slide down along the smooth and full muscle lines.

"18...19..."

The one doing pull-ups was naturally Komiyama's horse girl, Tamamo Cross. After Komiyama asked, her ears moved but she did not answer immediately.

"20!"

Suddenly, the whole body jumped up, and then rotated around the horizontal bar neatly. Gymnasts usually turn half a circle in the air and land lightly on the ground.

Tamamo Cross then grinned, revealing his pointed little fangs, and looked over with a smile.

“Not five.”

"Huh?" Komiya was stunned.

"That's six."

Correction, walked to the other side of the horizontal bar, picked up the towel and sports drink placed there, wiped the sweat off his body, Tamamo Cross smiled and said: “Although I don’t know which five opponents you are talking about, Komiyayama.

“But, they should all be those horse racing girls from overseas, right?

"Where did you put Inari?"

"Oh, that's not what I meant."

Komiya Katsumi was helpless, "I wanted to say that among the new opponents, these five are worthy of attention, and this is also what my senior brother specifically told me.

"Look, let's not talk about Toni Bianca, the Arc de Triomphe horse girl. She has 26 wins in 15 fights, including 1 G wins. How can she be ignored?
"Then Moonlight Madness, Senior Brother mentioned that she will use auxiliary tactics, so targeting a player who won two G1 games must be very troublesome, right?
“There is also Ellis Glory. Just looking at her 18 wins, her statistics on paper are better than Tony’s.

“Also, according to the information my senior gave me, her running styles are very diverse, and her final sprint time is longer than that of other horse racing girls, so she’s not easy to deal with.

"And then there's this Michelle baby..."

Komiya hesitated for a moment, his eyes wandering a little on Tamamo Cross.

"That's it... Anyway, even though she only has one G1 win, but... But it's still very difficult..."

"You mean her height?"

After wiping the sweat and drinking a sports drink, Tamamo Cross walked back to the horizontal bar.

Rubbing her fingers on the metal pillar of the horizontal bar, she raised her head and looked at the pillar that was much taller than herself, "That thing should be taller than this pillar.

“Really, I don’t understand how these horse girls grow so tall.

"So, Xiao Gongshan, you are worried that we are too small and will be at a disadvantage in the competition, right?"

"but……"

Suddenly he looked at his trainer with a smile, and Tamamo Cross punched the metal pillar with a bang.

A buzzing sound came from the entire horizontal bar, and as she heard the sound, the corners of her mouth curled up.

“We have been working hard for this for a long time.

“It started with going to Europe, to the training camp, and now the truck training.

“We…really worked hard and prepared for a long time.

“So, even if she is so tall, even if these opponents are very strong, even if there are really collisions in the game.

"Then let them bump into us and give it a try."

(End of this chapter)