Why was I assigned to be a horse girl?

……

As Fei Tu Hu Po and the others returned to the lounge, she told the noblewoman about the special attack skill targeting the young lady.

After listening, the noblewoman breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness you didn't learn another skill like 'Majestic Presence'... otherwise we wouldn't be able to survive. It's just adding a bit of imposing presence and aura. Luckily, my skills are superior, and my aura is already at its peak..."

"But you still need to talk to Kotobuki Toru about this." After making a couple of sarcastic remarks about Hitoko Amber, the noblewoman said seriously, "But are you really a martial arts genius? You learn everything on the field... If you go to run adventure battles in the future, won't you become the strongest cerebellum?"

Why not "The Brain"?

"You haven't used your brain much, have you?"

Having grown accustomed to the noblewoman's sarcastic remarks, Fei Tu Hu Po pondered for a moment before asking, "By the way, is my demeanor really that bad?"

"Um, don't ask me yet. Have you participated in any activities to improve your temperament? You only know a little about music, you can't dance, and the best way to improve a person's temperament is through reading... well, I haven't read much either... So you still want to have temperament?"

"Ugh……"

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Chapter 168 Satomi Hikari, Eager to Surrender to the Enemy

Seeing that Fei Tu Hu Po's face had drooped, the noblewoman quickly tried to make amends, saying, "Of course, actually, you are already considered to have a very elegant appearance."

"Hey, even Donna, you agree that I'm good-looking?"

Hitotsu Amber cupped her face in her hands, blushing and smiling shyly. Being praised by other beautiful girls for her looks... even she would feel shy.

However, even Hitotsu Amber had to admit that the noblewoman was right!

Although it might seem a bit like self-praise, Hito Amber genuinely believes her face is very beautiful, incredibly beautiful, so beautiful that it could even be featured in art textbooks after she dies…

The most valuable thing about a person is to have self-awareness. If someone thinks this face isn't pretty enough, then that person must have a problem with their own aesthetic sense!

Unfortunately, as beautiful as they are... the three goddesses and the noblewoman all seem to feel that they actually lack elegance. As for Kotobuki Toru, Hitoko Amber thinks there's no need to even ask...

If Kotobuki Toru really gave me an answer, I might be shocked by it... so I'd better forget about it.

“I acknowledge your good looks. In fact, if you just sit there quietly as a static beauty without moving or speaking, you could rival the elegance of most imperial concubines. So, why don't you just stop talking altogether…”

Fei Tu Hu Po immediately shook her head: "If I can't move or speak, then I'm no different from a dead person."

"Then you'll have to find a way to improve your character..." The lady shrugged helplessly: "Reading, classical music, and dancing are the three most effective ways to improve yourself. Choose one!"

Reading books is out of the question, I'll never read books in my life, and I probably can't learn classical music in a short time...

Fei Tu Hu Po clapped her hands, "I think I should continue learning to dance! I haven't even finished learning the winner's stage yet... It feels so unfair to the audience if I just stand there like a statue every time."

"Wait a minute, you mean you've been enrolled for so long, but you still can't sing and dance at the same time, so you're planning to stand on stage and sing today?"

"Yes, yes... I'll leave the backup dancers to you all."

The noblewoman was speechless: "You really are arrogant, having so many noblewomen from all over the world dance for you..."

However, the only thing worth mentioning now is that Hitotsu Amber's singing ability is passable. Even if she can't dance after standing on the stage, she won't be accused of being perfunctory by the audience.

"Why do you still act like you're used to it? Hurry up and learn to dance! After G2 comes G1. You're not going to wait until the G1 level matches start to think about standing on stage and singing, are you?"

Scarlet Amber and the noblewoman were playfully fighting, and after winning the competition, everything they said was cheerful.

Not far away, two racehorse girls, Kita Genko and Satomi Hikari, sat together, looking like a bunch of losers sharing their experiences of being losers.

"She couldn't escape again this time... I can only say that she truly lives up to her reputation as Hito-kun."

Northern Black Horse's tone was somewhat regretful, but he didn't seem particularly upset.

This is the biggest difference between team races and regular individual horse racing.

Team games involve having teammates.

There are no other excuses for losing the individual competition. Everyone was fighting alone, and the wins and losses on the field depended entirely on one's own skills and experience...

Therefore, losing the individual competition was really painful. After the competition, I could only sulk and reflect on why I was so bad and why I chose such tactics, which further deepened my sense of defeat.

But losing a team match isn't as painful—because of the magical thing called "teammates" who can be blamed, everyone actually feels less bad...

As we all know, if a team loses, the problem is definitely not with you. If you lose, it must be that your teammates are too bad and don't deserve such good teammates!

Although everyone knows that such thinking is wrong, humans are not always rational beings...

Moreover, this time, Northern Black Steed truly had reason to say, "What kind of teammates did Scarlet Amber bring? Noble ladies and elegant steeds! And who are my teammates now? Golden ships, and you want me to team up with them?"

Therefore, Hokuto Genko didn't feel too frustrated; on the contrary, he showed some happiness because he had encountered such an excellent racehorse girl as Hishiko.

However, Kozumi Satomi seemed to be preoccupied... likely because he had lost to Hitsukoha twice in a row.

"Don't be upset, Little Diamond. There are team competitions all the time. We can win next time! It's just that we lost to the same racehorse girl twice."

"That's not the reason..." Satomi Hikari wanted to pinch his friend's mouth, which was completely incapable of giving advice. "Speaking of which, Kita, do you think what Kōji said during the match earlier... was right? Our Satomi family's racehorse girls are all in the same team... isn't that really hindering our development?"

"Eh? You're still thinking about that." Beifang Xuanju thought for a moment and nodded slightly. "Actually, I think a real man should challenge the unknown... Little Drill, you're not thinking of switching teams just because of Qiangji's two sentences, are you?"

Satomi Hikari didn't hide anything from his childhood friend, nodding slightly: "I've thought about it. Although I don't really like Kotobuki, the racehorse girls from Xuanyuan XIV are really quite unique."

"Hey, if we're going to go by what you're saying, Little Diamond... wouldn't our Spica be even more of a show-off? They're all amazing people. You know about Strong Strike, and Golden Ship is even more amazing... I think she'll go down in history because of her amazing personality. And our predecessors are all top-notch experts."

Satomi Hikari recalled the sharp tongue of Kyoku and the eccentricity of the Golden Ship on the field today, and his expression became even more resistant: "Your team already has enough people... one more won't make a difference, and that's just what I'm thinking right now."

"Then, perhaps we shouldn't rush into a decision? Let's observe the situation a bit more?"

"Okay, let's go, let's go perform on stage and have some fun!"

"Xiao Bei, you really do like show-off horse girls."

"Of course! Everyone is so lovely, it would be like wearing fine clothes in the dark if they didn't go on stage!" Beifang Xuanju grabbed his friend's hand and headed towards the dressing room, saying as they walked:

"Oh right, after our stage performance, there's a ranking match between Senior Sister Little Chestnut Hat and Senior Sister Super Little Creek! They've also opened up the AR track today, it's super cool! Let's go check it out!"

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Chapter 169 Brand New Technology - Track Reality Augmentation

About 30 minutes later, Hitoko Amber emerged from backstage, drenched in sweat...

She had just been saying that she had made great progress in her singing, and was even a little proud of herself. But when she got on stage and compared to Ma Niang, a veteran vocalist and singer from the Northern Genko family, she was nothing at all.

When Northern Black Horse opened its mouth, it almost stole the spotlight from the center position. If this really happened on the G1 stage, it was afraid it would be utterly humiliated by the other racehorse girls...

Take advantage of the time before participating in the G1 tournament to practice more and familiarize yourself with the winner's stage...

When Kotobuki Toru arrived backstage, everyone high-fived each other in celebration. Then, Hitoko Amber raised her hand and suggested, "We've won another match today, and now we have a new activity room to stay in. So, shall we go have a victory celebration?"

“You can celebrate anytime… but there’s something really exciting going on right now.”

Kotobuki glanced at the messages and time on her phone, then looked up and asked the horse girls in front of her, "There's an AR device installed at the Central Treisen racetrack, the kind of augmented reality device similar to the Projection Three Goddesses AI... It's used to add special effects when the horse girls are running. Do you want to go check it out?"

"Hey, when Northern Black Horse dragged away Satomi Light Drill earlier, he seemed to be talking about something called augmented reality... I want to go check it out!"

Fei Tu Hu Po has always been very curious, and without thinking twice, she raised her hand to indicate that she wanted to go and see what was going on.

Then the noblewoman and the elegant gentleman also raised their hands.

"If Fat Rabbit goes, I'll go too."

"If you all go... then I can go with you too."

The three female racehorses quickly finalized their itinerary, greeted the staff at Tressen, and headed out to Tressen Racecourse No. 2.

Walking on the campus road, Hitoko Amber raised her hand and asked, "By the way, I can basically understand that the Three Goddess AI uses AR technology, but isn't that to allow the AI ​​system to communicate better with the horse girls? Why is this AR technology used during the race?"

"Of course, it's so that everyone can see the effects of the skills used by Uma Musume."

"I usually... I see things quite well, don't I?"

Kotobuki Toru pointed helplessly to his nose: "But I can't see..."

"Hey, is there something wrong with your eyes?"

Kotobuki Toru quickly reached out and pinched Hitoko Amber's plump, elastic cheeks with his thumb and forefinger. With a little pressure, Hitoko Amber cried out in pain.

"I can't see it. We humans can't see the skill effects on the racehorse girls."

Although Hitoko immediately started begging for mercy, Kotobuki Toru, in order to make Hitoko listen to him seriously, still held onto Hitoko's little face and continued, "At first, when the racehorse girls talked about how the other had skills, how their bodies would glow, etc... everyone just thought it was just the racehorse girls running around in a whimsical way. It wasn't until the last few hundred years that everyone finally confirmed that racehorse girls' skills really exist. It's just a pity that the human eye can't see them at all."

Hito Amber tilted her head and recalled for a moment, then suddenly remembered what she had learned in her Uma Musume history textbook just a few days ago: "So, in the past few hundred years, top-level Uma Musume races have usually had an extra Uma Musume commentator, right?"

Because of the profound impact of her previous life environment, even after becoming a horse racer, she still managed to attend the best school, Central Teresa, and earn a decent amount of prize money.

Fei Tu Hu Po also worries about what to do if she suddenly loses her job, or what to do if she has no food to eat after graduation.

Therefore, she had specifically studied the methods used by her senior racehorse girls:

Decades ago, before the internet industry was as developed as it is today, retired female horse racers didn't have many options like becoming live streamers or selling products.

At that time, the main choices for racehorse girls were basically just a few. Besides doing odd jobs, running errands, and doing physical labor, one option was to race more races when they were professional, save up enough money to live a carefree life, and then enjoy themselves. If a racehorse girl was ambitious, she would even use this money to invest in the next generation... This is how prestigious racehorse girl families like the Satomi family and the Mejiro family accumulated their wealth generation after generation.

Another option is to join the Uma Musume Association with professional knowledge, manage various Uma Musume races, or directly return to the racetrack as a commentator based on their racing experience.

Besides that, there's another very wild and embarrassing option... which is to find a decent-looking wealthy family and marry into a rich family.

However, what Hitotsu Amber dislikes most is Ma Niang who chooses to marry into a wealthy family... Everything comes at a price. After marrying into a wealthy family, she might have to face a rich man with whom she has no emotional foundation and who is also very ugly... He might even be old enough to be her father!

Fei Tu Hu Po felt that with her experience as a telephone customer service representative, she should have no problem doing commentary. Coupled with titles such as "former professional player," "professional commentator," and "incapable of independently completing commentary," the hype would be huge, making it a good choice.

"So the reason we invited Uma Musume as a commentator is because Uma Musume's commentary allows us to see her using her skills?"

“That’s right, but there’s another problem… and you’ve probably encountered it on the field as well. Even from the perspective of the horse girls, everyone’s skills just light up with different colored lights, at most gold or silver with a border.”

Although blue represents stamina recovery skills, red represents prerequisite skills, and gold represents self-buff skills... such a simple classification is sufficient for use on the field, but that's all it is.

Hito Amber felt a little regretful when she thought about this. All the other racehorse girls' skill names were so unique and cool, but her own self-created skill was just a flash of red light... It really felt like a promising start but an unsatisfactory finish.

"Therefore, with hundreds and thousands of different skills, it would be too monotonous to have only a few colors of special effects."

Kotobuki Toru led everyone to the entrance to the spectator area, took out his trainer's badge, and registered the entire Xuanyuan Fourteenth Squad into the spectator register.

Next to the registration counter, there was a projector-like device. In front of the camera, Dali Arab spoke in a businesslike manner, as if recording a video, but he could just pick up where Qin Chui Tō had left off.

"Since the vast majority of viewers of Uma Musume Pretty Derby are human, they also want to see the skill effects of the Uma Musume. After countless feedbacks and technological innovations... with the learning of modern technology and AI, in recent years we have been able to use augmented reality technology to add skill effects to the track and the Uma Musume on the track that everyone can see, without affecting the race!"

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Chapter 170 This is so cool, even if you die running it, it's worth the price of admission.

Approaching the arena specially built for one-on-one duels between horse racers, it was clear that even though it was a two-person competition, the stands were packed with people just as many as those at the Capricorn Grand Prix earlier.

Seeing how cool the introduction had been, Fei Tu Hu Po rubbed her eyes hard before entering the room... afraid of missing any detail of the competition.

"I hope this racetrack featuring horse girls powered by augmented reality technology is pretty cool! Let me see what's going on!"

Hurriedly walking up the steps to the stands, Hitokohaku's two close friends, the two racehorse girls, had already entered the gate. Through the live camera footage inside the gate, Hitokohaku could see her senior, Oguri-chan, whom she hadn't seen for a very, very long time.

Long time no see, you seem to have gained a little weight...

Shifting our gaze to the field, a massive projection effect was projected directly onto the lush green grass.

[Trexon Ranked Match - S Tier]

【Little Chestnut Hat (S+) VS Super Creek (S+)】

[2400 meters, turn right clockwise, sunny]

The data is intuitive and easy to understand. I had seen this scene before in the Olympic swimming broadcasts. In those broadcasts, the information of each swimmer and their best rankings were photoshopped into each lane.

This time, similar banners were actually printed directly on the track... Looking down from the spectator stands, it really gave off an extraordinary feeling.

Kotobuki looked at the large expanse of green space that was now empty after the advertisement, "I love this high-tech feel... It's still an intra-school competition right now, so the area behind is all empty. But when it comes to the G1 race, the sponsors' advertisements will be able to run from the starting line all the way to the finish line."

Fei Tu Hu Po looked at her with disdain: "Isn't that too vulgar? How can you do such a crude thing on such an important stage?"

Kotobuki Toru chuckled dismissively, "Aren't the fences of other football fields covered in advertisements too? Besides, if manufacturers aren't allowed to advertise, where will your mother's bonuses and winning outfits come from? These all cost money."

“That’s true…” Fei Tu Hu Po leaned on the railing, watching the changes on the field.

After the contestant introductions were projected, two beams of light emanated from the gate, gradually forming a band of light that extended forward along the track from the gate.

It's easy to see that the color representing Little Chestnut Hat is gray, while the color representing Super Creek is brown.

The light strip extended all the way to the far end of the track, as if telling the audience how the racehorses would run today. The light strip continued to the finish line of the track, and the projection effect turned the laser detection gate at the finish line into gold.

As the metal gate turned completely gold, a starting gun-like sound rang out, and the gate of the horse saddle opened.

Two beams of light shone out from the gap in the gate, and even from such a distance, the Scarlet Amber could still witness the dazzling light with its own vision.