Uma Musume Girl, I'll tell you about my Santa Hat special move too?

Top Clear Mind, the ultimate clear and still mind!

By fully combining multiple top-level running techniques, a completely new technology of its own is unleashed. This power is capable of doing things that are so incredible, unreasonable, and beyond everyone's imagination!

The girl leaned her waist and leaped out as if she were about to fly into the sky, crossing the final bend in the blink of an eye.

The still world was shattered as she ran, but before any of the racehorse girls could react, a whirlwind and lightning swept across the entire track in an instant!

Immediately afterwards... lightning flashed and thunder roared, and a fierce wind arose.

It swept across the entire arena, transforming into a black hole-like vortex that completely swallowed everything in the world, turning all existence into nothingness and vanishing into nothingness!

That was a sight beyond anyone's imagination.

Even Dongshang Biange, who was also a domain holder, could not see how the Stardust Illusion was accelerating; the only thing fixed in reality was the reality of her rushing towards the finish line.

Combine [Shrinking Ground] with [Miracle Runner of the Holy Night]... and then add [Sonic Shot] to the technique created by fusing these two.

(Reveal, the power that belongs to me... that truly belongs to me alone!)

[Inherent skill... Awakened.]

[System Prompt]

[Host has been detected learning a self-created, unique skill.]

[Currently, the unique skill is: Unnamed. Skill effect: Can be activated when entering the final straight, increasing corresponding speed, acceleration, and stamina. This unique skill can be activated once every 30 seconds of holding the lead position in the race.]

Please name your unique skill and choose to add it to your own unique skill slot or inherit it from another unique skill slot.

[Note: You can only have one unique skill slot, so please choose carefully.]

(The culmination of our collective dreams will open a new door to evolution—may it transform into the radiant path beneath our feet!)

Let this last bit of life... transform into an illusion that transcends stardust!

Gritting his teeth, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace!

At this moment, all that remained in the girl's eyes was the boundless splendor beyond the finish line.

The significance of this match has become completely irrelevant.

I want to win! I want to seize the glory!

All that remained in my mind was this one thought.

He surrendered his body to instinct, defeating all 17 opponents in the competition and declaring that they had surrounded him to win the championship.

Let the running style be born, the one that bears its own name—

[Unique skill has been named: Stardust Illusion!]

This skill has been added to my character's skill list.

Each step the girl took was faster than the last.

The fragments of the shattered Blazing White World had somehow reformed, and a colossal dragon, larger than ever before, gradually emerged in mid-air, streaking across the sky like a shooting star.

The dragon, wielding the power of meteors and riding the wind, became entangled with the phoenix warrior who had emerged from hell.

Both sides relentlessly attacked with the aim of killing the other, and the entire world trembled completely in the battle between the two monsters.

The stardust illusion sprints wildly along the final straight, every muscle in its body straining to give its last step, even its eyelids are too heavy to keep wide open.

Therefore, the past illusions that had always haunted my ears and eyes began to blur...

However, no matter how hard she tried, burning her soul again and again to accelerate her surging forward.

The fiery, scalding figure beside him remained like a persistent thorn in his side, stubbornly clinging to the inner track.

It was as if if she relaxed even for a mere 0.1 millisecond, she would surpass her without hesitation.

(This is it...this is what I've been waiting for...)

"Emperor of the East Sea! Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Faced with the terrifying prospect of fainting at any moment, Stardust Illusion had no choice but to rely on such shouts to get through the final stretch of the journey.

With the finish line drawing ever closer, she no longer had time to think about whether the Emperor of the East Sea beside her or she was ahead.

She wanted to hear the announcer's shouts echoing across the stadium, but due to hallucinations and the whistling wind, she was unable to do so.

Never mind that, if you want to win, you have to run!

The finish line was in sight, and the East Sea Emperor, whom he considered his arch-rival, held out against him until the very last moment!

By now, both she and he must be completely exhausted.

That's why we have to keep running!

Keep running forward without stopping!

As long as I can get to that place... as long as I can be the first to cross the finish line!

My thoughts stopped at that moment.

The stardust illusion and the petite figure beside her took their final running steps simultaneously—

The intense heat around them suddenly surged, instantly suppressing the aura of the Stardust Illusion.

This overwhelming aura... it's unclear where she got the power from, but...

(No! The winner must win!)

Stepping forward, a stepping forward more powerful than ever before!

The reason it was able to be more powerful than ever before was because—

The finish line was almost there, and at this moment... she no longer needed to step on this grass!

That figure standing before the finish line was so beautiful.

It's like a soaring stardust dragon.

In the final moments before crossing the finish line, the runner poured all his speed and power into that one step.

Immediately afterwards, she took off into the air... and then suddenly flew headlong towards the finish line!

[Crossing the finish line! Stardust Illusion has crossed the finish line!!!]

[The winner of this Satsuki Prize is Stardust Illusion—oh no! Did she fall?!]

The host's hysterical shouts were followed by a sudden moment of astonishment.

The stardust illusion, which had crashed heavily to the ground and rolled forward, finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Standing guard at the edge of the track, the dozen or so medical teams rushed forward immediately upon seeing the situation and began to try to provide emergency treatment to the Stardust Illusion.

Having allowed these people to manipulate his body, Stardust Illusion can no longer even feel pain.

The only saving grace was that the auditory hallucinations that I couldn't shake off finally started to gradually decrease in volume after I crossed the finish line.

As if fulfilling a mission, the past, which symbolized past failures, also began to fade away.

From the final straight, she fought fiercely against the Stardust Illusion until the very last moment, forcing her to take this last-ditch, leaping sprint to the finish line.

The fiery red figure slowly released the momentum from the sprint after crossing the finish line, and then walked silently to the Stardust Illusion.

Suppressing the pain and exhaustion that almost made her vision blur, she mustered her strength and looked up at the girl in front of her:

(Well, I won in the end!)

(East Sea...Emperor...?)

The petite figure before her seemed like a burning young girl, flashing a bright smile at her as she lay sprawled on her back in a disheveled state, as if she didn't care at all about her defeat.

(She's actually laughing?)

The Stardust Illusion opened its mouth, as if to say something.

But his throat was so dry it was almost smoking, and even swallowing a little blood during the game couldn't relieve it, so he couldn't make a sound at all.

He could only struggle to raise his head and cast his questioning gaze at the emperor before him.

However, before Stardust Illusion could figure out what was going on,

As the auditory hallucinations began to fade, the girl in front of him gradually became translucent.

(It's become semi-transparent... Get up?)

As if bidding farewell, the fiery red figure slowly waved without saying a word.

The Stardust Illusion unconsciously reached out its palm, trying to grab the East Sea Emperor in front of it, but it couldn't touch anything.

Before she succumbed to the final darkness, she finally heard the last words the host uttered:

[By overtaking in just the last three waves and leaving the second-place East Sea Emperor a full six horse lengths behind—this classic triple crown duel is undoubtedly a resounding victory for Stardust Illusion!!]

(Huh...?)

(What does 6...horse bodies...mean...?)

Consciousness completely vanished.

First, let's get down to business. Satsuki Shō's writing is burning me out; it feels like a side effect of Zone (not really).

To reduce the dragging feeling caused by the lengthy content of the competition, the only thing I can think of is to update the content as much as possible like this.

I've been writing 8000 words a day, and sometimes over 10,000 words, often until 1 or 2 AM. It's exhausting. I'll be taking a day off tomorrow to rest and catch up on my progress. I hope you can forgive me. Please, please!

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Now let's talk about this competition. Overall, the Satsuki Sho is mainly about the duel between Stardust Illusion and the Emperor of the East Sea. This is also the main theme that this book has established from the very beginning, so there's not much to say about that.

However, in my opinion, the more important thing about this match is actually breaking through the mental demon of the Stardust illusion, that is, in the debut battle, both sides fought to the last moment but lost the match because of a little hesitation.

She didn't seem to care that much, but in fact, she could recall the figure of the East Sea Emperor in almost every competition afterward, which meant that Stardust Illusion had never gotten over the shadow of her debut battle failure. She just pretended to be training her brain a lot so that no one would notice this.

So in the Satsuki Sho event, I also arranged a debuff (it wasn't intentional to weaken the protagonist; in fact, as everyone has seen, this debuff didn't have a significant actual impact, but it just made people feel constantly disturbed).