Uma Musume: From Being Knocked Ten Meters Away

Chapter 113 Reading a love letter?
On the stage, Kitagawa Xuanju noticed that Yasui had really left.

She shook her ears and took a step forward unconsciously.

"Xiaobei..." Standing behind Beibu Xuanju, Satomi Crown noticed her movements that were not in the choreography and whispered a reminder:

"A new track is about to begin..."

His ears twitched again, and Northern Black Horse quickly came back to his senses.

Taking a deep breath, she waved her arms vigorously to the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, and took the lead in a new round of position changes.

The stage lights gradually changed, and the tunes played by the speakers transitioned from the ending of "Winning the Soul" to a new round of songs.

……

As the night deepened, after the noisy and lively winner's stage performance ended, in the backstage performance preparation room.

Beibu Xuanju was the first to raise the cup in his hand, with a smile on his face, and said loudly:
"Thank you all for your hard work! Let's toast to the success of this winner's stage..."

"cheers!"

After all the horse racing ladies responded to Northern Black Horse with a smile, a relieved and relaxed atmosphere filled the air.

After drinking the drink in the cup, Beibu Xuanju took out his cell phone.

After noticing her trainer's sudden departure, she kept an eye on the empty spot.

It remained empty until the show was over.

So why did the trainer suddenly disappear at this time? He had an appointment with Senior Emperor and the others to attend the celebration banquet later...

Confused, she skillfully entered a phone number on the phone screen.

The dial tone sounded, but before she could raise the phone to her ear, the receiver suddenly became busy.

"Eh...? Is the signal bad...?"

Blinking, she was about to redial when a text message popped up on the screen.

[Anjing Zhen: If you are going to the celebration party, you can go there first.
I met Xingmu here, I'll go there later.]

Little Xingmu? Why is she here? Doesn't she have a tutor arranged by her family today?

Questions kept popping up in her mind, and she wanted to write back to ask, but one side of her cheek suddenly felt cold.

"Wow! So, so cool!"

She screamed and dodged to the other side, and was surprised to see that Satomi Crown was standing beside her at some point.

With a smile on his face and a bottle of iced drink in one hand, Satomi Crown glanced at Kita no Xuanju's phone.

"You're so serious, yet you look so hesitant...huh?!"

The smiling expression turned into a look of surprise that didn't seem fake, and Satomi Crown suddenly covered his mouth.

"Could it be that... our Miss Champion is reading someone's love letter?!"

Northern Xuanju was stunned.

The next second, her ears, along with the fur on them and her tail, exploded. Her ears and cheeks felt hot, and she screamed:

"W-W-What love letter?! What are you talking about, Crown-chan?!"

"But if it's not a love letter..."

His expression changed again, and with a look of confusion, Satomi Crown tilted his head and spread his hands.

"Why do you look so anxious?"

"That, that's..."

Beibu Xuanju was halfway through speaking in a panic when a thoughtful voice with a slightly desolate feeling came from the other side.

"Love letters... I heard from Sister Qi Cao that they are letters written to each other by a man and a woman who are in love."

Holding his elbows and pinching his chin, he looked at the black colt in the north in deep thought for a moment.

"So, Xiaobei wants to write a letter to a man?"

"No, no! Mingsheng-chan, don't listen to Crown-chan's nonsense..."

"Or maybe I'm waiting to hear from a man."

Interrupting Northern Xuanju's blushing explanation, Satomi Crown and Mingsheng looked thoughtful like thunder.

"But there's no need to be so strict about things like gender. "Xiaobei, even if you're writing a love letter to a girl, I and Mingsheng will still support you~"

Kita no Xuanju finally realized that Satomi Crown was teasing her.

Not only did he tease her, he also dragged Ming Sheng Lei Dong, who obviously had only a vague understanding of love letters, into teasing her too.

I have to say, this prank was very effective.

I was indeed about to send a text message to the trainer just now. Isn't this exactly what Mingshengjiang mentioned as "a man and a woman"?
Wait! Xiaobei...how did you get so confused by Crown Sauce?

It's obviously a normal inquiry, okay? How did it become related to a love letter?

Then there's no need to panic like this, right?!
"Wait a minute! I can explain..."

Waving one hand desperately, Northern Xuanju raised his cell phone.

However, before she could finish, a picture suddenly flashed through her mind.

She was sitting on the back of a motorcycle on the asphalt surface of the parking lot, with Yasui Makoto squatting on the ground checking his running shoes.

Without the support of running shoes, the feet in long white cotton socks hung stiffly in the air, and the toes flexed and stretched unconsciously.

Along with this scene, I also recalled the moment when my feet were wrapped again, the hot feeling of my ankles being held, and the tips of my ears.

Inexplicably, she suddenly didn't know how to explain it.

Panic surged back, and her throat went dry.

However, before she could think of what to say, exclamations came one after another from all around.

"Eh?! Is this true? Kita-kun is... in love?!"

"Who's following who?! Who's following Northern Classmate?!"

"Wait a minute, the academy seems to have some rules about this...?"

"What's the big deal? As long as we don't get caught... Oh, and everyone, don't tell anyone what you heard today..."

"Yeah! I won't tell anyone!"

Clearly catching the heated discussions around him and catching a glimpse of the burning gazes looking at him from the corner of his eye, Beibu Xuanju couldn't help but feel the burning sensation in his memories.

I don't know what to say either.

Just in time to catch a glimpse of the mockery in Ri-mi's eyes, she took a deep breath and raised her voice an octave in anger and amusement.

"It's the trainer! I was asking the trainer about going to the party later!

"What on earth are you thinking about?

"And Crown-chan, if you keep doing this, I, I...I'm going to get mad!"

To prove it, she met Satomi Crown's eyes, staring hard and puffing out her cheeks.

"Okay, okay, it's just a joke, it's just a joke. You seemed too serious before. I'm sorry, Xiaobei."

He smiled and waved his hand, bowed slightly, and then waved to the people around him.

"We were joking, just joking."

Seeing that the so-called hot topic was just a joke, the surrounding horse racing ladies took a few curious glances and regretfully shifted their attention.

After calming down the commotion he had caused, Satomi Crown smiled and prepared to leave.

"But if Xiaobei wants to go to the celebration party with the trainers, I have to go to the Diamonds too. If I'm late, the Diamonds will have to wait too long."

"Then I'm going to see Sister Qi Cao too."

He answered calmly and continued with the previous sentence. Mingsheng Leidong's expression changed. He felt in his pocket and took out his cell phone.

"Since Sister Qi Cao asked me, I'll take my leave now."

"Yeah! I'll ask the trainer here before I leave. Bye, Crown-chan, Naruto-chan."

After saying goodbye to his two good friends, Beibu Xuanju once again retrieved the text messages he had read before.

"It's okay, I'll just wait for the trainer to come over together."

As her fingertips hovered above the send button, her eyes unconsciously glanced at her ankles wrapped in the purple garters of her stage costume.

The tips of her ears twitched for a moment, she pursed her lips and clicked send.

(End of this chapter)