I, the horse racing girl, really didn’t sprint!

"Who will win between Barbatos and Condor? No one knows until the last moment, but I believe Barbatos will definitely win the cherry blossom viewing."

"..."

"..."

"Regarding the recovery..."

Nanban was about to continue.

Barbatos, who had just finished a jog, stopped behind Minamisaka and said, "Of course I'm fully recovered."

"Minamisaka won't let me participate in the cherry blossom viewing if I don't recover."

Barbatos responded helpfully, saying that even before the reporters arrived for pre-match interviews, she had already jogged several laps, and even though her shoes were loaded, there was not much sweat on her forehead.

For her, jogging with weights is a daily routine. A few laps is not a burden and can only be regarded as a warm-up.

When the reporters saw Barbatos stop to speak, their eyes lit up and they asked, "Ms. Barbatos, what do you think of our opponent this time, Condor?"

"Do you think you can beat Condor at the cherry blossom viewing?"

This question has actually been answered by Minamisaka, but that was Minamisaka's answer, a very real but unremarkable answer.

They were a little curious about what Barbatos, a genius of the time, would think of this game.

"The Condors are a very strong opponent, and the pressure of this match may be second only to the Winter Dream Cup."

"But the winner of this competition will be me."

There wasn't much confidence in his tone, making the words seem rather bland, but it also made them seem like they had a kind of magic, as if the winner would inevitably be Barbatos.

It seems that this is not a subjective statement, but a declarative sentence describing the result, just stating a winning result.

This result made the reporters very satisfied, and this was exactly the answer they wanted to see.

After receiving satisfactory answers, the reporters left and headed to the Rigil team's location as scheduled to conduct a pre-match interview with another player, Shenying.

After the reporters dispersed, one person remained.

It was Minamino Harui.

Because of past events, she and Canopus have some friendship. She can be said to be Canopus's closest reporter. After all, even the news of Barbatos' injury was released by her.

She hesitated for a moment as she stayed behind, lacking some of the maturity that came from working in a newspaper office.

"How's Barbatos' injury?"

Although a reporter had asked this before, she wasn't asking about the previous injury, but rather the injury that could keep Barbatos out of a few games and possibly unable to run.

After asking this question, she felt a little abrupt and immediately added, "I will definitely not publish this."

As someone who likes Barbatos, I'm just concerned about the status of my favorite horse girl.

Hearing this question, Nansaka's eyes darkened and he looked at Barbatos.

Because even he didn't know Barbatos' physical condition, and no one knew whether Barbatos was holding on. What he didn't notice was that Xingyun Tiankong, who was helping him with the interview, turned his head away.

In Minamino Harui's eyes, even Xingyun Tiankong would not want to face the fact that her partner could not run.

And Barbato, who was asked, laughed.

"I don't feel any problems with this injury right now. Maybe I can keep running."

Chapter 218 Operations Meeting

The pre-match interviews are over.

Barbatos and Nebula Sky continued running on the training ground, one preparing for the Sakura Appreciation and the other preparing for the Satsuki Appreciation.

After nearly four months of hard training, they have basically adapted to this training intensity.

But Nanban, who was standing next to him, felt a little restless.

Barbatos training is really a bit uncomfortable.

It’s not that Barbatos didn’t train in the past, but at least he wouldn’t train so directly. He usually carried weights around the clock and used weights in his daily life as training.

But now I am running while carrying a weight.

He was a little worried about what might happen with such intense training.

After all, it is true that Barbatos has recovered from her injury, but there is still her own problem, and whether it will have any impact.

Or is it that Barbatos is actually almost unable to run the race and decided to make the Sakura Festival his last race, and as for signing up for the Spring Emperor Festival, he simply doesn't want to worry his trainer?

Nanban was a little confused for a moment.

He could more or less feel the changes that had occurred in Barbatos during the months of recuperation.

He had been following the live broadcast room and knew that Barbatos had not been broadcasting live for a long time.

It’s not that there has been no live broadcast, but the frequency of this live broadcast is completely different from the frequency before the Winter Dream Cup.

So what did Barbatos do during his recuperation period?

What kind of mental journey have you gone through?

Nansaka, the trainers, had no idea and didn't know how to ask.

When Barbatos and Nebula Sky finished another lap, Nansaka took the opportunity to stop them and said, "You've just recovered, so don't do high-intensity training."

But the words stopped at my lips.

The horse girls under my command are working hard. Why should I, as a trainer, stop them?

Moreover, although the amount of training is huge, it is essentially something that an ordinary horse girl can still persist in. He is so worried because Barbatos is injured.

"The cherry blossom viewing season is coming up soon. Should we hold a warfighting meeting?"

Nanban said this in a somewhat weak tone.

Normally he would always complain about the team holding operational meetings all the time. If all the time for operational meetings was used for practice, wouldn't Twin Turbines who haven't debuted yet have debuted a long time ago?

I didn't expect that he would ask his horse girls to stop practicing and go to a war meeting together.

"A war meeting? Sure."

Barbatos nodded and agreed.

War meetings are a fine traditional culture of Canopus, so how could they just abandon it like that?

And this time when she recovered, Canopus's friends were more or less worried, but they didn't know what to do if she encountered the condor at the cherry blossom viewing event.

In the past, before the Winter Dream Cup, this situation would not have happened.

I guess both Canopus and Rigil have confidence in their contestants.

But now on one side is the Condor who crushed the Kawasaki Memorial, and on the other side is Barbatos who has just recovered. This is more or less a cause for concern.

Moreover, Barbatos could still see through some of Nansaka's thoughts.

Although Minamisaka is an adult, an excellent trainer, and a computer genius, Barbatos is still one step further when it comes to understanding other people's thoughts.

Although she has always been passive on Xingyun Sky's side, it doesn't mean that she is not smart. It's just that her intelligence is not as obvious as Xingyun Sky's.

She could guess that Nanban was probably worried about his physical condition.

Only then did they talk about holding a combat meeting or something.

Otherwise, if the Sakura Appreciation operational meeting really needed to be held, it could have waited until after her and Xingyun Tiankong's training was finished.

A combat meeting was held, but before that, she and Xingyun Tiankong had just finished training and had to take a shower.

"Everyone is very worried."

On the way to the dormitory to take a shower, Xingyun Tiankong said.

The two of them had discussed this matter many times before, which others would worry about, but even someone as wise as Nebula Sky could not come up with any way to explain why Barbatos could heal himself.

After participating in the Winter Dream Cup, his injuries were healed thanks to the Three Goddesses.

It's okay to say this to Grandpa.

But compared to others, how many injured horse girls are trying their best to apply for a spot in the Dream Cup? Isn't that how they've recovered to their prime?

Even though it is the Winter Dream Cup, not everyone can participate.

Even when Barbatos participated in the Winter Dream Cup, many people had complaints at the beginning.

But the interests of the people are attractive, and some people spend all their wealth to participate, or the organizing committee wants to give it a try and if it doesn't work, then the problem lies with Barbatos.

So even though she knew that others were worried, she and Barbatos had no way of telling others that Barbatos was fine.

The only one who could respond to them was probably Barbatos winning the game.

I returned to the dormitory and took a quick shower.

Barbatos and Nebula Sky returned to Canopus's team house. The rest of the friends were already there, ready to work together with Barbatos to think about how to outrun the Condor.

Written on the big white board was the following: Cherry Blossom Viewing and Hawk Extermination Campaign!

When Barbatos saw the words "Eagle Extermination Operation", he paused and pondered for two seconds.

I couldn't help but say seriously, "Let's quickly erase the words 'eagle removal'. Eagles are second-class protected animals, and removing eagles is illegal."

Nebula Sky, who was standing next to him, smiled and was not surprised by topics like Barbatos.

Instead, the rest of the friends couldn't help but be stunned.

"really?"

Twin Turbine stood up in horror and jumped up to erase the words on the whiteboard one by one.

She wasn't worried about whether it was illegal or not, she was mainly worried that Barbatos would be locked up.

"Ah, all right! Let's start the war meeting now!"

"Actually, I've already thought about how to go about the cherry blossom viewing and how to deal with the condor, but I haven't had the chance to tell you yet."

Barbatos scratched the back of his head, walked to the big whiteboard in everyone's sight, picked up a black marker, and reached out to write on the board.

"Go all out!"

Four words were written on the large whiteboard: "I will give my all from the very beginning of the game."

Twin Turbine and the others slowly typed a question mark, "?"

Don't we give our all in every game? When did giving our all become a strategy?

Or does Barbatos want to use the strategy of leading and releasing?

……

Two days passed.

The Hanshin Racecourse was crowded with people as it was the day for cherry blossom viewing.

Chapter 219 The protagonist appears!

Hanshin Racecourse.

On the day of the cherry blossom viewing, all the tickets for the auditorium were sold out and the total number of people in the audience was close to 15.

Countless horse racing enthusiasts have arranged their time to come and watch the showdown between the world's geniuses at this time today.

Come and watch Barbatos’ game after returning from injury for four months after the Winter Dream Cup!

And now Barbatos is at the contestant's entrance, saying goodbye to his friends from Nebula Sky and Canopus, and preparing to step into this long-missed racecourse.

"Come on, Xiaoba!"

"I have to win the cherry blossom viewing!"

"If Xiaoba wins the game, Minamisaka will treat us to a nice meal in Osaka!"

"..."

Nanban was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but complain in his mind that he didn't seem to eat badly on a normal day.

All of Canopus' friends, except Nebula Sky, started cheering for Barbatos.

Barbatos smiled and nodded.

After checking the time, he turned and walked towards the entrance.

"Wait a moment."

Just as Barbatos was about to walk into the entrance, Minamisaka's voice suddenly stopped her.