Having trained real horses, why are we now training racehorse girls after time-traveling?

Ever since the Empress learned of her leg ailment from the highly skilled senior physician, Old Su, she knew that her trainer was definitely different from others. In the Empress's memory, aside from the possibility that her trainer was the kind of person who, in the dead of night while she was asleep, could bypass the Amazon dormitory head and a group of racehorse girls' sight, and obtain or copy her dormitory key without her knowledge, and secretly perform bone palpation on her while avoiding her and her roommate, Heavy Cannon's, attention, then he definitely knew something!

Of the above possibilities, the easiest one is to avoid attracting her and Heavy Artillery's attention—but even if Heavy Artillery sleeps soundly every day, she is not completely unprepared!

If that's really possible, then the Emperor of the East Sea wouldn't think of his trainers as just ordinary trainers; they might be horse girl assassins who traveled out of the game "Assassin's Creed"!

His trainer had never used bone palpation on her, yet he could tell at a glance what even the most experienced old doctors had to do—the possibility of that was too low. The emperor preferred to believe that his trainer was a time traveler.

Adding to this, Jinlang's unusually flustered behavior after the Japanese derby and his bone-touching without consulting her, all these factors combined meant that, although the East Sea Emperor wasn't sure if her trainer was the kind of transmigrator often mentioned in novels, she was certain that her trainer, as well as trainers Ikezoe and Wada, were definitely not simple!

They all appeared together at Treson Academy, all showed a strange interest in her, all found racehorse girls who were a perfect match for them, and were all longtime friends. With all these factors combined, the East Sea Emperor was certain that they must know the key to breaking through her emotional knot.

However, Wada is very busy now, with Ikezoe leading the Gold Master on an expedition, so the Emperor of the East Sea has no choice but to focus all his attention on his trainers.

What displeased the East Sea Emperor was that his trainer was completely unaware of this, and even indifferent to her long-term deliberate neglect (referring to how she would glare at Jin Lang from behind, her expression saying "pay attention to me," but every time Jin Lang tried to talk to her, she would act arrogant and leave, as if it were too easy to negotiate, repeating this several times).

Moreover, this time, he didn't even contact her about McQueen's departure. Now, the Emperor has finally couldn't hold back and stepped in.

"Your Majesty, the classic three-crown competition in your country is not over yet, and didn't you say you wanted to have a showdown with senior Rudolf? We have plenty of opportunities to win."

When Megumi McQueen heard the Emperor say this, he smiled gently and said, "After your classic three-crown competition ends, we still have six months to compete together, so there will be plenty of opportunities to face off."

"Japan Cup, Arima Kinen, Osaka Cup, Spring Emperor's Sho... If you'd like, we can even play against each other in GII or GIII level matches. Of course, I think your personality, Emperor, would prefer GI level matches, right?"

"But...Your Majesty, you should understand the consequences of our current power imbalance, shouldn't you?"

McQueen clearly understood the Emperor's thoughts, but she didn't want to be so impolite—but with the Emperor's current strength, it would be difficult for her to threaten McQueen in mid-range races, let alone long-range races. Even if McQueen didn't activate her domain, it would be difficult for the Emperor to beat her in long-range races.

If she had activated her [Domain], it would be even more incredible. After defeating Mi Yu, McQueen's strength had once again undergone a qualitative leap. Her [Pure White Rhythm] could now extend the track by a full 800 meters! For an emperor's endurance, that extra 800 meters would be enough to make her run out of breath.

Furthermore, this breakthrough by McQueen not only strengthened her "domain" but also enhanced the harmony of her "aura." Now, McQueen feels calm and serene, yet she can also reveal her fierce side when necessary.

This is the source of McQueen's confidence in saying she wants to go on an expedition. She's not just acting on impulse. Without real skills, who would dare to say they want to go on an expedition abroad?

As for the outcome of the battle with the Emperor... at least, McQueen felt that the Emperor at this stage had no need to challenge her; he needed to become stronger first.

"Waaaaah!" The Empress clenched her little fists in frustration at being told this by her acknowledgment of her opponent, but there was nothing she could do. She knew very well that even winning against the Golden Ship was an unknown quantity, let alone against McQueen.

McQueen's current strength is definitely above that of the Golden Ship. Although it's unclear where the Golden Ship's strength limit lies, McQueen's current position as captain is not entirely based on her professional skills. Her competitive strength is also beyond doubt. Even the equally renowned opera singers and the Golden Ship, or even Rudolf, who is currently present, would not dare to say that they can definitely beat McQueen.

If a modern emperor were to challenge McQueen, it would undoubtedly be like throwing an egg against a rock, a fact the emperor is well aware of.

"I will definitely become stronger! McQueen! In the Spring Emperor's Prize! I will definitely challenge you!"

"Just you wait! I won't lose to any of you! Whether it's Golden Ship-san, McQueen, or the Chairman! I will win!"

The emperor, who absolutely could not lose in terms of momentum, had made up his mind. However, the next moment, without saying a word, the emperor immediately took a few steps forward and grabbed the hand of Jin Lang, who was watching the show from the side.

"Hmm? An emperor?"

"Stop asking questions! You're holding me back! Come with me now and help me break through my current level!"

However, the East Sea Emperor had no intention of letting Jin Lang pretend any longer. After confirming that his trainer was definitely special, the East Sea Emperor regarded Jin Lang as the best backer who could help him surpass the Golden Ship!

Therefore, no matter what, the Empress must make her trainer vomit all the knowledge she has this time, so that she can break through her current limit and reach the strength she wants to achieve, to challenge McQueen and the Chairman!

The Emperor grabbed Jin Lang's hand and pulled him away without saying a word. McQueen and Rudolph were too late to stop him. The golden ship that had just entered was so startled that it retreated to the side when the Emperor ran out the door.

"The Emperor?! Why are you dragging the old man along?!"

"Sorry, Golden Ship-san! I'll have to borrow you for a little while, goodbye~"

The emperor had no time to explain to the golden ship, nor did he want it to ruin his rare opportunity. He grabbed Jinlang and headed towards the place he had already decided on.

—The Three Goddess Statues! I heard that both Ikezoe and Wada, the trainers, went there to resolve their inner conflicts, and it was also the source of the rapid increase in the strength of the good opera students and the master opera leader!

The Empress didn't know why she had this idea, but she felt that the three trainers must have a way to communicate with the three goddesses and seek their help and blessings!

Chapter 524: Jin Lang's Worries About the Emperor Remain Unabated

"Emperor? Where are you taking me?"

"You'll understand when you get here, Tuorena! This matter concerns my Emperor's breakthrough in cultivation! The Chrysanthemum Appreciation is getting closer and closer, we need to improve ourselves quickly!"

The Emperor of the East Sea was extremely anxious. Almost two months had passed since the Japanese Derby. The Takarazuka Memorial was over, and he watched as everyone from the Ikezoe Group went to France. Meanwhile, both the Good Opera and the Ryutō were extremely busy with their trainers. Suddenly, there were far fewer people in the team who could train with her and hone her skills.

Although Rudolf has been helping the East Sea Emperor integrate her "Aura" and sometimes trains her together with Megumi McQueen and the Golden Ship, the Emperor gradually feels that she has reached a bottleneck again. If she does not break through this bottleneck, the degree of integration of her "Aura" will not become higher, and she must break through her limits again.

The Emperor now understands that his trainer definitely knows how to help her break through her limits, because he must know many things that the Emperor and everyone else don't know—in fact, the Emperor has a feeling that his trainer may have known a lot about them before inviting them to join the team, just like Golden Ship!

Coincidentally, the relationship between Golden Ship and his Torena is very unusual. According to McQueen, Golden Ship was the first person to have a strange reaction with Torena. And most importantly, this reaction is very consistent with that between Ikezoe and the Golden Master, as well as the Wada Kazuyo Opera.

This aroused the suspicion and suspicion of the Emperor of the East Sea. At this moment, the Emperor of the East Sea pulled Jin Lang to the statue of the Three Goddesses, finally stopping in his tracks. He looked at Jin Lang with a strangely smug gaze and said aggressively:

"I've seen through it all! My dear Tuorna! You don't need to pretend anymore. As clever as Your Majesty is, you can't hide anything from me, you racehorse girl!"

"To be honest, Tuona! You saw through my leg problem a long time ago, which is why you were so worried about me getting hurt, right?"

The East Sea Emperor, with a smug look on his face, said to Jin Lang, "You knew from the beginning that my running style was prone to injury, so you told the guild leader about it. That's why the guild leader introduced me to the team and had you supervise me to correct my running style."

"I delayed my debut by a year so that I could avoid strong competitors and not have to go head-to-head with my good opera classmates and the great female opera singers, right? Because you know that my leg might have some problems, so I don't want to do anything so dangerous."

"Hmph, but you can't hide these things from me. Now, this emperor is going to issue you, Tuolaina, an ultimatum!"

Before Jin Lang could answer, the emperor pointed at him and said, word by word:

"This emperor has made up his mind! If I'm destined to suffer a broken bone in my entire life, I might as well make a grand spectacle of myself! Rather than live a mediocre life, I'd rather take a gamble! This emperor is not afraid of breaking bones!"

"So—Torna! Don't hold back! Tell me! What obstacles do I need to overcome to achieve a breakthrough? I will not hesitate! As long as I can become stronger! Become a racehorse girl who can compete with McQueen and the Chairman! I will do it!"

However, the emperor felt that now that he had made his decision, his burden Na would definitely try her best to respond, and he would tell her everything without any more worries and how to resolve her inner conflict. The next plot would be the classic manga storyline where he could make a huge breakthrough and then compete with the Golden Ship at the Chrysanthemum Appreciation. That's what the emperor thought.

However, when the emperor expressed his opinion and said that he was not afraid of breaking his bones, Jin Lang's expression gradually changed from slightly surprised to helpless.

Well... Jin Lang was indeed a bit surprised that the East Sea Emperor could think of this. He knew that the East Sea Emperor had more or less seen through his special qualities, and she had guessed it pretty accurately—it has to be said, she truly lives up to her title as the East Sea Emperor. It seems that the intelligence of the skillful horse racer is not just reflected in the race itself.

However, when the Empress said she wasn't afraid of breaking her bones, Jin Lang's initial admiration vanished. He realized that the Empress hadn't truly matured as she claimed; on the contrary, she was still a child with very self-righteous ideas.

It's not that she's no longer afraid of fractures; it's simply that she's never experienced what it feels like. She doesn't understand that pain, nor has she felt that sense of crisis. Therefore, her lack of fear is merely the recklessness of a newborn calf unafraid of tigers. Once she experiences that feeling, she will never again utter a word about not being afraid of fractures.

For racehorse girls, a fracture means at least six months of recovery, inability to compete or train, and even increased fragility of the leg bone. They also have to be wary of another fracture and are prone to developing a fear of their own leg, making them hesitant to use their full strength – something the opera had already experienced at the Arc de Triomphe.

Is Good Opera less courageous than the Emperor of the East Sea? Not necessarily. Especially considering that Good Opera sensed the possibility of fracturing her leg, yet still decided to step onto the stage to meet everyone's expectations, ignoring Wada's objections and overcoming her own weakness, she was able to calmly accept the reality of the fracture—although judging from her recovery, it was far from being a serious fracture. But one can imagine that even Good Opera feared such consequences; wouldn't the Emperor of the East Sea be afraid?

She simply hadn't experienced that sense of crisis, that feeling as if her career was about to end and she would never be able to run at full speed again—an emperor hadn't tasted it yet, which is why she could speak so fearlessly.

However, while an emperor can utter such words, Jin Lang cannot allow the emperor to act so arbitrarily. He, Rudolf, and everyone else have worked so hard to help the emperor so that he will not repeat the mistakes of his original world.

Three fractures, three resurrections, a miraculous emperor—it all sounds wonderful, but when it happens to you, it's truly cruel.

In particular, the East Sea Emperor is no longer a horse racer, but a lovely horse racer girl. Do you expect Jinlang to watch this child suffer three broken bones and then shine the brightest light of her life at the last Arima Memorial race?

—It sounds pretty good, and it really resonates with the Japanese mindset, who love to see scenes of cherry blossoms blooming brightly and then fading away—but just because most Japanese people like it doesn't mean that Jinlang likes it.

He was old, and at his age, he couldn't bear to see these things. He knew that some of his ideas were naive, wanting the emperor to achieve results no less than in his previous life while also ensuring her safety and health. This idea was indeed naive, because Jin Lang himself knew very well that miracles and geniuses could not coexist.

However, Megumi McQueen seemed to offer Jinlang a glimmer of hope. In her original world, Megumi McQueen, who should have spent her life battling illness like an emperor, now had a completely different life under his careful care and nurturing. She had never been sick or suffered a broken bone again. Her existence gave Jinlang a glimmer of hope, a hope called his own innocence, perhaps not entirely a fantasy.

An emperor's growth doesn't necessarily have to be accompanied by illness, and some pitfalls don't have to be encountered to grow—at least the current emperor has already grown quite a bit, and along the way, he hasn't been tormented by illness, and has even avoided the crisis following the Japanese derby.

Now, the emperor says she is not afraid of pain, but only wants to achieve greater things and shine brightly once more—isn't this a waste of all her previous efforts?

Therefore, Jinlang had to dampen the emperor's enthusiasm for this wish.

"Your Majesty, you are not ready to face the real challenges. We have been trying our best to help you overcome these challenges, and now we are only just beginning to see some results."

"Your Majesty... In fact, without you even realizing it, we have already safely passed the first hurdle. You have already broken through your own destiny."

Chapter 525: The Dialogue of the Three Goddesses

"We've already overcome the challenge? What do you mean? We haven't done anything, have we?"

The Emperor of the East Sea clearly did not quite understand Jin Lang's words, but Jin Lang's words had indeed indirectly confirmed the Emperor of the East Sea's thoughts. At this moment, the Emperor of the East Sea was even more delighted by this—his burden, Na, was indeed extraordinary!

My guess was correct. My trainers, as well as Wada and Ikezoe, all knew a lot about her, just like Golden Ship! They all knew about her and what she needed to go through to help her break through her limits!

But now, Jin Lang says she has overcome a crisis, but the East Sea Emperor doesn't feel that way. She feels that she has done nothing, so how can she say that she has overcome a crisis?

"That's because we're all protecting you, Your Majesty, because we all don't want you to repeat the same mistakes."

Jin Lang slowly approached the emperor, naturally taking the hand of this child who never seemed to grow up in his eyes. The two stood before the statues of the three goddesses, and Jin Lang spoke, word by word:

"If I told you that after the Japanese derby, you would suffer your first fracture and be out of work for six months, thus missing the Chrysanthemum Festival, how would you feel?"

"Moreover, you will encounter similar things several more times in the future, and each time you will need to recuperate for at least half a year. And every time you recover and feel that you can return to your peak, your injuries will once again entangle your body, making you feel that feeling of falling from heaven to hell again, repeatedly..."

"Until the very end, you finally felt your own powerlessness, and felt that the era was finally about to leave you. In the end, with all your unwillingness and your last peak, you unleashed everything in the last Arima Kinen race, which brought you applause and cheers - and then your retirement."

"Your Majesty, tell me, is this the future you desire? Are you truly prepared to embrace such a future?"

However, Jin Lang's words gradually calmed down the East Sea Emperor, who had been acting impulsively. Gradually, the Emperor began to understand the seriousness of some things, realizing that many things were not as simple as he had imagined.

The mere fact that she missed the Chrysanthemum Appreciation due to injury was enough to make the current emperor feel very serious—she lost the Satsuki Appreciation herself, and she accepted her defeat wholeheartedly, after all, she was not as skilled as others and there was nothing she could do about it. However, missing the Chrysanthemum Appreciation due to injury was a much bigger blow to the emperor.

This wasn't because of her lack of ability. If it were due to insufficient strength, she could still accept it, since losing to a stronger opponent isn't shameful. However, because of her injuries... the feeling of not even having the chance to try, not even having the opportunity to challenge, was what made the emperor feel even more distressed.

Watching an opportunity slip through your fingers, yet being unable to try it even once—that's more heartbreaking than losing a game.

The only thing that could offer the emperor any slight comfort was that her dream of an undefeated three-crown victory was already unrealistic, which was somewhat ironic for her.

"But... I don't want a future where I don't experience any difficulties and everything is paved for me by everyone!"

However, the emperor also had her own principles. She told Jin Lang her truest thoughts: "If everything goes smoothly and there are no difficulties, I can't feel any growth at all! This kind of smooth-sailing future without breaking through my own limitations is not what I want!"

"In that case, I can only be a genius, a genius in everyone's eyes—but I will never become an emperor who surpasses McQueen and the Emperor!"

"I'd rather have my own achievements than be a talent racehorse girl who can win without any worries and has no real substance!"

"I also want to beat strong opponents! Like my good opera classmates and Raging Waves! Like the great masters and the noble ladies! And McQueen and Yusaku—they all defeated strong enemies and broke through their limits! But why can't I do it!"

"Just because my legs are prone to breaking? Just because of this—am I destined to live such an unchallenging life, as a horse racer for a rich young master?!"

The Emperor of the East Sea finally revealed her true feelings. After learning about the hidden danger in her leg from Old Su, the one who was most heartbroken and found it hardest to let go was herself. It was because she realized that her burden was indeed special that she guessed the hardships she might face in the future.

However, the East Sea Emperor was still determined to face it, because she was unwilling to be limited by her own physical limits. She could be faster and stronger. Her spiritual power surged like boiling water, but her body could not support the extension of her ideals. This made the emperor feel an unprecedented cruelty.

She chose to face it, not because she wasn't afraid. Of course she was afraid of fractures and injuries. How could the Emperor of the East Sea, who could scream in pain even from a needle prick, not be afraid of pain?

But rather than physical suffering, the feeling of not having even had a chance to try her best, without having even given it her all, was more agonizing for her.

She doesn't want to be some glass-legged racehorse girl or some rich young master. She is a racehorse girl, and her duty is to run and to challenge higher peaks.

She desperately wanted to become stronger so that she could achieve more of her goals as quickly as possible in her limited career, to run with McQueen, to run with the Chairman, and to fulfill her long-cherished wish as soon as possible. That way, even if she really couldn't run anymore in the future, she could accept it all with equanimity.

She really didn't want to wait any longer. When she saw the fierce yet dazzling competition of so many of her teammates, she was even more unwilling to wait any longer. She also wanted to go all out and run with great passion.