Uma Musume no Nama no Nichijou (Horse Girl), First and foremost

Well, never mind...

Full power unleashed!!!

Compared to the past.

"Aren't you worried about the Tamamo Cross? The White Disaster."

"Me? What am I worried about? This is something they'll have to go through eventually anyway,"

"Besides, it's precisely at times like these that our value as trainers is truly highlighted."

As she spoke, this pure white horse girl was also the first, or rather the second, momentum and skill trainer in the history of Japanese racehorse girls, and currently the only one.

While others make a comprehensive judgment based on the opponent's other data and track conditions, Golden Victory relies on its ability to dominate the opponent from the pinnacle of momentum and skill.

Representative Qianming immediately understood one thing.

The Golden Family... Even though the arrival of the new era has rapidly narrowed the gap between the two sides, once they enter their areas of expertise, this gap will not be close for quite some time, but will instead widen further.

What happened after that...?

Who knows? Anyway, it has nothing to do with her, a retired horse racer.

"The new era belongs to young racehorse girls."

Lost in thought, watching the many female riders already running on the field, Chiaki, the representative, displayed more delicate emotions towards the race today...

"Game start!"

"It seems everyone is a bit too immobilized by their initial momentum!"

At the start of the race, almost all the female racehorses on the track exhibited a state of pause or difficulty in moving, as if they were all keeping a close watch on each other to prevent any female racehorse from trying to disrupt the common late start order.

They used their momentum and techniques to influence each other's starting pace!

However, there will always be exceptions.

The petite, slender figure in a blue sports vest, unlike the other racehorses, effortlessly navigated the chaotic starting line as if unaffected.

"Oh!!! But at this moment, Tamamo Cross, who is the most popular, is showing her special talent. She should be the first one here to learn the power technique! She is now in the lead, even leading the pack! I wonder if Tamamo Cross can maintain this attitude and finish the race!"

With the promotion of this match, the audience's opinion has changed to some extent.

After all, all the horse girls I support have started learning momentum techniques, so as a horse girl competition fan and a supporter of a specific horse girl, I also have to keep up with the trend.

Aura is a powerful symbol possessed by strong female warriors.

They even invited some racehorse girls with particularly strong presence to demonstrate the terrifying power of their skills.

Of course, the Horse Girls Association itself did not assign Golden Victory to be in charge of publicity.

Firstly, there is no consensus between the two parties regarding her past achievements, or even if a decision has been made, it cannot be done now due to concerns about the credibility of the Uma Musume Association.

The bigger reason is that if Golden Victory were to showcase the uniqueness of her momentum and skills, the stark contrast between the strong and the weak would be detrimental to the overall operation of Japanese horse racing.

There is actually another explanation for this.

Perhaps in this new era, Japanese horse racing showgirls also need a new legend...

While cheering from the sidelines, Tamamo Cross felt that this match was indeed more troublesome than usual.

Tsk, these guys are really scary...

Not only the familiar opponents of Tamamo Cross, but also those racehorse girls who are meeting for the first time or coming to the top arena for the first time, each of them has more or less learned how to use their own aura.

The opening scene was terrifying, as if everyone was suffocating, but it was the best choice for Tamamo Cross.

Using momentum techniques to influence others is much simpler and more practical than using momentum as a defensive tactic, which is why very few racehorse girls actually master momentum techniques as a defensive tactic.

Walking among the crowd, feeling the atmosphere around you at all times, and at the right moment, letting the aura of others collide with that of another opponent!

This is her choice!

The way to guide the momentum of others with one's own! In other words, using someone else's strength against them!

Golden Victory's words really make sense...

With her current experience, it wouldn't be difficult for her to use this kind of aura technique, but to make it fit her perfectly would require some talent.

The surrounding energy surged like thunder across the field, but upon closer inspection, apart from the gaps between them, the scattered energy techniques were so subtle as to be almost imperceptible.

By coordinating actions with heart and body rhythm, this method conserves energy while ensuring one's own well-being.

coming!

In an instant, a powerful aura and techniques came from behind, followed closely by the auras of many others!

Moving in the same direction is like a challenge launched by a newcomer against an earlier one; however, such an operation is an exceptionally painful experience for the vast majority of racehorse girls.

Taking the lead in this era seems to have become more difficult.

Unless you maintain your position by sprinting away and successfully leave the main group far behind, being within the sight of all the horse girls in front means that they can almost all influence you with their aura and skills.

boom!

Boom!

Just before receiving a stimulus, the heart suddenly speeds up its operation, and the external stimulation becomes the driving force for the body to move forward!

"A war of attrition...? I really couldn't tell. It seems that the tactic you gave Tamamo Cross was very useful in today's match, right?"

Even if she were to retire, the legendary racehorse girl's experience, Chiaki, could easily tell with a little judgment that, normally, the racehorse girl in front should be subjected to a concentrated barrage of momentum and skill attacks from the racehorse girl behind.

Perhaps due to her mental stamina and her own momentum, other racehorse girls on the field were unable to maintain that kind of frantic use of momentum and skills to drag down their opponents from behind. If they did that, they would be out of the running after their energy was almost depleted.

However, when faced with Qianming's explanation, Chunbaima Musume just grinned without responding. But in Golden Victory's eyes, he was now looking at the arena with even more excitement, paying close attention to the current situation of the match.

Sensing something was amiss, the race seemed to be praising the leading racehorse, Tamamo Cross, for its resilience and incredible speed.

Now, after passing the first bend and entering the second bend, Tamamo Cross has already created a gap of nearly 100 meters between itself and the teams behind it.

Powerful running speed...

"But this situation... doesn't seem to be a normal acceleration... could it be?!"

Hearing the other party's surprise at suddenly remembering something, the pure white horse girl responded to Representative Chiaki with a touch of smugness:

"Well, although that thing was hard to replicate, once our group of friends had a goal and hope, they were able to create a technique that met their requirements with a little effort."

There was no direct answer to Representative Qianming, nor was it stated that they had successfully replicated the feat achieved by the Golden Victory.

However, from the pure white horse girl's response, she also realized that the situation of Tamamo Cross on the field was indeed the result of momentum and technique.

"...It seems that after this match, the importance of momentum and technique has become unshakeable."

She was unsure about other families, but in Qianming's family, such agility and skills had not yet emerged, and even the research direction was still in the experimental stage.

Holding the belief that other prestigious horse-girl families were not much different from their Chiaki family, if Tamamo Cross had this advantage in this match, the outcome would seem to be no longer in doubt.

"There shouldn't be any problem with that, but it will still be a bit troublesome for Tamamo to win this match."

After passing the second corner, with Mejiro Dylan and Golden City closely following behind Tamamo Cross, Golden Victory knew that it would be too hasty to say that this race would be an easy victory.

I wonder what role the field will play in this competition.

Hey, these guys are really patient.

After sensing the ease with which the racehorse girls behind her were handling the situation, Tamamo Cross realized that she had underestimated her opponents this time.

The tactic she was supposed to execute was actually quite simple: to create an early lead in the game so that her opponent would give up on winning.

If the gap is too large, even Tamamo Cross won't be able to handle it, not to mention that there might be some changes that even she herself is unsure about.

However, the two racehorse girls behind them are Mejiro Dylan and Golden City.

Well, we should be able to manage Golden City by just being a little careful.

But Dylan is completely oblivious...

Mejiro family horse girl, who participated in the subsequent races while still recovering from her previous injury, was involved in the Territory Race against Golden Victory.

During the Osaka Cup, her own aura and skills seemed to have developed some resistance to her influence. What's ridiculous is that this resistance was even more resilient and less influential than that against her teammates like Oguri Hat, with whom she usually bickered during practice.

And then... and then there's the distance of this match.

The race distance of 3,200 meters, a lap and a half, means that she must compete with the Mejiro family's racehorse girls on this long-distance track.

The Mejiro family is almost synonymous with long-distance horse girls, just like the prestigious Sakura family of middle- and short-distance horse girls.

This match was perhaps the most difficult of her three spring championship victories...

With that mindset in mind, I made it through the second corner and returned to the straightaway.

Perhaps the initial collective excitement of facing numerous powerful enemies has largely faded. Even without using aura techniques to enhance her perception, Tamamo Cross can roughly tell that the horse racers behind her are no longer as reckless as they were at the beginning.

Tsk tsk... If only there were other wicked horse girls like us in this competition.

Well, the tense yet exciting atmosphere at the beginning, besides being created by the competition and the audience, also owes a debt to the petite, spiky horse girl.

She doesn't even need to use any momentum. As long as she makes herself appear weak and less noticeable, the people on the field will have the illusion that "I could do it too." And at the start of the competition, she will immediately put her momentum into trying to make everyone make mistakes at the start.

Unfortunately, this chance to get carried away was affected by the horses' own qualities and the distance of the race itself, and after running for a while, they returned to normal.

If other racehorse girls were to team up with Tamamo Cross, such as having a certain unscrupulous pure white horse girl join in, the race would likely see some truly exciting moments, like a horse losing speed halfway through or even failing to finish.

While feeling a little regretful, she didn't intend to continue indulging in these daydreams, but instead focused all her energy on how to win the competition.

She wants to win this game.

She must win this game!

She's going to become the second horse girl in Japanese Uma Musume history to win the Spring Triple Crown!

She's going to inherit the title of Golden Victory!

It's unclear what kind of consensus has been reached between the current Golden Victory and the Uma Musume Girls Association. Even if we knew, there's probably very little that Tamamo Cross can actually do.

So... winning the competition and forcing the world to take them seriously is what Ash-haired Horse Girl wants to achieve now!

"The initial effects have indeed materialized."

Seeing that the field had been divided into three teams with considerable distance between them, Golden Victory understood how the current situation had come about.

It's not a difference in the quality of the female racehorses or a gap in racing skills, but rather a result of tactical choices.

Leading the pack is Tamamo Cross, who is currently leading the race solo.

The second group consists of Golden City and Meguro Dylan. These two racehorse girls are not exactly chasing their opponents closely, but they have indeed locked onto the racehorse girl with the spiky hair ahead of them.