Uma Musume: From Being Knocked Ten Meters Away

Chapter 161 Summer Dream Cup

Okutama Town, where Santouyama is located, is located in the Tokyo metropolitan area. On Friday afternoon, after the training of Kita Genju ended, several people took a car down the mountain and returned to downtown Tokyo a few hours later.

I got off at the station near dusk and took the subway towards my booked hotel.

Just like all the previous G1 events, from the subway station to the route, you can see giant projection screens on the buildings everywhere showing various event videos, Uma Musume promotional posters, and competition advertisements.

Two of the horse racing girls who are the focus of publicity look very familiar. They are Special Zhou who has been helping Northern Black Horse before, and Cao Shangfei who assisted in the training match.

In the subway cars, the personal songs of these horse girls are played on a loop on the roof speakers, and passengers can see horse girls' portraits printed on backpacks or mobile phone cases everywhere.

The Northern Black Colt was already very excited before it even came down from the Three-Headed Mountain. He looked around excitedly all the way and even lay on the subway window from time to time, staring and wagging his tail to look around.

"Wow! Is this the Dream Cup? It's even more exciting than the classic Triple Crown!"

"Xiaobei, don't lie there like that, it's very dangerous..."

Without responding to Kita no Xuanju's surprise, Silent Suzuka beside him persuaded:

"And it will cause trouble to other passengers..."

Beibu Xuanju, who was still leaning against the glass and staring out the window, was stunned. He turned around and saw that the passengers around him were looking at him curiously or laughing. He quickly turned around and sat down obediently, smiled embarrassedly, and bowed apologetically to those around him.

Holding a brand new brochure in his hand, Yasui Zhen raised his head and glanced up.

"Of course it's lively. After all, the contestants of the Dream Cup are all famous horse racing girls from all the past."

"I know that, but I hadn't debuted before, so I just felt like there were a lot of people... and I've only seen Emperor Senior's Dream Cup."

Without hesitation, Kita no Xuanju revealed his identity as the "Emperor's sole recommender" and turned to look curiously at the brochure in Yasui Makoto's hand.

"By the way, Trainer, when did you buy this manual? Why didn't I notice it?"

"I got it at the subway station."

Yasui Zhen raised the brochure and flipped a page. "Someone from the association is handing them out for free over there. Didn't you get one?"

"Free? Well... I was just busy getting on the bus..."

Surprised, Northern Xuanju frowned in disappointment.

In a flash, a manual was handed to her. She looked over in surprise and saw Silent Suzuka looking at her with a shy smile, Mi Yu.

"Xiaobei can read this one. Mi has almost finished it."

"Really? Thank you, Senior Mi Yu!"

After expressing his gratitude, Beibu Xuanju quickly took the manual with both hands and couldn't wait to read it.

Before she went to the Santouyama training camp, or even before she started preparing for her final exams, she was already looking forward to the two matches she wanted to watch most during the summer vacation.

The first show was the Takarazuka Kinen. Just like the Emperor's spring viewing, she went to see the performance of the Golden Ship senior.

As a result, not only her, but probably all Uma Musume fans were shocked.

In that race, this senior had difficulty entering the gate, just like the Emperor enjoying the spring.

Not only is it difficult to enter the gate, but people also become anxious after entering.

Even though he was far away, standing in the audience, Beibu Xuanju could see and remember it clearly.

No one knew what was going on, but suddenly, Senior Golden Ship started arguing with the horse racing girl at the next gate.

Then, with a very handsome high kick, she stepped on the gate, as if she was going to argue with the other party to win.

At that moment, the floodgates slammed open.

In the Shining Series, the commentary announcement only served to clarify the match situation for those listening to the broadcast or watching the live stream. The only true start signal was the gate opening.

Just like the starting gun in a human competition, once the gate is opened, the competition will never end unless there is an accident that affects all the players.

As a result, due to the operation at the gate, the Golden Ship was naturally late.

It was visible to the naked eye that the other contestants had already rushed out with a huge gap of nearly 10 lengths, and she and the horse racing girl next to her just started out of the gate.

At that time, Northern Xuanju still fantasized that with the ability of his predecessors, he might be able to overtake in the subsequent races.

But it turned out that this was just an illusion.

In the end, Golden Ship Senior finished the Takarazuka Kinen with 15 moves and second-to-last place, failing to achieve the feat of three consecutive championships.

If it were in the past, Beibu Xuanju would only think about comforting her senior, and in fact she hurried over to do so after the game.

However, after a while, I happened to hear Yasui Zhen and other seniors talking, and I learned that the high kick that senior Huang Jinchuan gave when he left the gate not only affected the result of the game, but also affected many things.

For example, related endorsements, stocks, etc., all dropped a lot in a short time.

I seem to have the impression that it was about 121 billion yen.

Beibu Xuanju was not quite sure what 121 billion meant, but it should be a huge sum of money.

This made her even more worried about the golden ship, and she was also worried about whether this loss would have any impact.

After carefully inquiring about it again, she was surprised to find that there was no impact.

"Damn it! I wanted to win the Takarazuka championship for the third time in style... but there's no other way! I'd better win all three G1s in the second half of the year!" Huang Jinchuan said loudly after a long silence amid the comfort of his friends and seniors.

"Damn it! Investment! Really... there's no other way. Think about it, it's a golden ship. There's nothing I can do... I'll figure out the follow-up operations later." It is said that some businessmen who suffered losses because of this competition said this helplessly.

All in all, because of this unforeseen event, Northern Xuanju's previous experience of watching the Takarazuka race was very strange and wonderful.

The second game that I couldn’t wait to watch was the most important purpose of returning to Tokyo from Santouyama.

Summer Dream Cup.

She already knew that the participants of this special G1 event were all outstanding predecessors from previous years, and that a long period of preparation would be spent before each competition began, in order to present an all-star level event to the fans.

Perhaps because she had just thought of Senior Huang Jinchuan, when she was flipping through the manual, she did not pay attention to the more familiar Te Zi Zhou and Cao Shang Fei.

Instead, he unconsciously focused his attention on a horse girl whose name contained the word "gold".

"Golden...journey."

Muttering the name, Northern Xuanju flipped through the manual.

"The sister of the Golden Ship is also going to participate in this Dream Cup..."

"To be more precise, she's Huang Jinchuan's eldest sister. After all, she has quite a lot of sisters in her family."

Also flipping through the manual, Yasui Zhen said casually:
"After all, the Dream Cup promotion this time is based on the 'Golden Generation' gimmick, and they specifically invited the eldest sister of the Golden Family... probably with some kind of meaning that fits the hype."

"It seems to make sense..."

After turning a few more pages, Northern Xuanju looked to the other side curiously.

"Come to think of it, Miyu-senpai probably hasn't fought against Xingli-senpai, so Suzuka-senpai should..."

She paused halfway through her sentence, her face becoming awkward.

(End of this chapter)