I'm Ornn, and I'm about to be beaten to my knees by the Man-eating Horse Girl!

"齁~~→↑~~~~~↓,齁~~→↑~~~~~↓..."

Fujimasa, somewhat helplessly watching the sprawling, sleeping girl, quietly got out of bed, opened the window, leaned on the windowsill, and sighed.

"Ugh--"

"Ugh!"

Almost at the same moment, the window next door opened, and a black-haired horse girl poked her head out and sighed.

Both of them heard the same helpless sigh from the other. Seeing that the other also looked a little sleepy, Fujimasa quickly asked, "Were you also woken up by your roommate?"

The black-haired horse girl gave a wry smile and said, "Yes, but it's all thanks to Flying Eagle that I can wake up at this time every day."

"Huh? Are you a freshman? I don't think I've seen you at school before!"

Fujimasa nodded and said, "Yes, my roommate and I are transfer students who just joined the Central Committee yesterday."

"A new transfer student?"

The black-haired horse girl thought for a moment, then suggested, "Hehe, then you can be considered my juniors. Today happens to be Saturday, and the trainer told me to take a good rest. There are no other plans right now."

"How about I act as your guide and show you some interesting facts about Central Tressen? These are tips and tricks compiled by our predecessors!"

Free local guides?

Teng Zheng was just worrying about what he saw in Central Treisen yesterday, and now that there's a free tour guide, it's like a godsend!

So she quickly nodded and said, "Then I'll have to trouble you, senior! I'm Fujimasa March, transferred from Tressen in Kasamatsu! Please take care of me!"

"Hehe, you're welcome. I am Rong Jin Shanyao. You can just call me Shanyao. I have been a student at Central Teresen for two years now. Please take care of me."

Fujimasa quickly washed up and put on her school uniform. After hesitating for a moment, she decided not to wake the newly radiant girl who was having a sweet dream, and simply pushed open the door and went out.

Rong Jin was already waiting at her door, and she looked even more radiant now than when he had seen her from the window earlier.

"Damn! How did I start telling lame jokes too?! Was it Ornn's influence?"

Fujimasa shook her head and looked at the rather elegant black-haired senior in front of her, asking, "Does Shining-senpai usually get up this early? It's only five o'clock, isn't it?"

Rong Jinshan led the way, and the two walked out of the dormitory building. As they walked, she said, "I've calculated my wake-up time precisely. From Monday to Saturday, I wake up at 5:02 every day. On Sunday, I wake up a little later, at 5:30."

"After getting up and washing up, it takes about 15 minutes. On training days, I leave home promptly at 5:20 am, and then go for a morning run on the track, which takes about 30 minutes. At 5:50 am, I start relaxing my body to prevent my muscles from becoming too tense and causing muscle soreness during the afternoon training."

"I went to the cafeteria around 6:00, arrived at 6:07, had breakfast in 15 minutes, arrived at the teaching building at 6:30, studied until 7:50, wrote the class's duty roster on the blackboard, and also wrote today's lessons on the blackboard. Classes officially started at 8:00..."

Fujimasa's icy expression finally crumbled under the barrage of numbers. Staring dumbfounded at her senior who was talking non-stop beside her, she couldn't help but ask, "Shining-senpai, is this the only way to train in the entire Central Teresen?! Isn't that a bit too strict??"

Rong Jinshan put her index finger to her lips, thought for a moment, and then shook her head, saying, "No, as far as I know, I'm probably the only one who did this."

"Hehe, March, there's no need to be so nervous. It's just my personal habit to schedule things so tightly, or... is it a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder? The other students aren't this strict."

Hearing the other party's reply, Fujimasa's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.

If the training programs for female horse trainers in the central government are all conducted in this machine-like manner, that would be truly terrifying!

"Huh? Shining-senpai, where are we?"

She looked around and realized that they were in a place that resembled a park.

Not far ahead stood several enormous trees, some decades old, their shade covering a large portion of the ground. Beneath the shade were five sets of stone chairs and a stone table.

However, these items appear to be crudely made, as if an apprentice stonemason roughly chopped them into a usable shape with an axe, and then they were repeatedly rubbed by someone's body until they reached a point where the surface could reflect light.

Rong Jin replied in a flash, "This is a place where students often come to rest; it's called the 'Little Park.' It's also a place for everyone to gather and chat. It usually gets lively here every afternoon."

"The people who come here to rest are mainly Nakayama Keiki, Narita Shirohito, and the senior members of the Golden Ship. I heard that the senior member of the Sirius team, who recently went on an overseas expedition, has also returned. They like to bring some playing cards and mahjong here to relax."

“The seniors from Japan, such as Zotsu, Daitaku Taiyojin, Golden Castle, and Mejiro Zenshin, also come here to relax for a while. Of course, they mostly come here to take a little break and unwind.”

Rong Jin, counting on his fingers as if reciting a familiar story, said, "This place is also a gathering place for all sorts of lively and mischievous classmates. The discipline committee member Qingzhu recalled that Sakura Jinwang, the class monitor, would often chase Shinko and Golden Ship here, which would gradually turn into a chaotic game of hide-and-seek."

"It's said that Chairman Rudolf himself was the one who placed these stones, and it seems that Senpai Chiaki and Maruzen also helped. Seven years ago, they moved these angular stones here,"

"[I want everyone to have a place to rest and chat, unlike what she did back then]," these are the president's exact words.

Fujimasa reached out and stroked the smooth marble slabs, asking, "Does Shining-senpai also come here to rest?"

"Me? I wouldn't, my schedule is really tight."

Rong Jin, shining brightly, walked towards the adjacent teaching building with the Fujimas March playing. She pressed the button for the third floor of the elevator and continued, "The building we are in now is a comprehensive experimental building, which includes laboratories, singing studios, and dance studios."

"When people have dance practice classes or want to practice songs for live performances, they come here to train,"

As if remembering something, Rong Jin pointed to the button inside the elevator that said the fifth floor and said, "Ah, but it's best not to go to the fifth floor. That's the only place in the school that stores a lot of experimental equipment, and it's also rumored to be the most sinister place in Tressen."

"gloomy?"

Fujimasa asked, somewhat puzzled, "Could there really be ghosts and monsters in this world? If it's just experimental equipment, why is this place so eerie?"

Rong Jin pursed her lips, hesitating about how to explain to the new junior student, when the elevator suddenly lost power.

“Bang!!”

With a loud thud, the elevator stopped between the second and third floors. A very short time later, it regained power and began slowly ascending.

Rong Jin Shan Yao quickly explained, "Ah, March, don't worry, this is a normal reaction. The elevator in this teaching building sometimes does this, probably because the circuit is a bit old."

She looked at Fujimasa March, only to find that the other person's face was rather pale.

March pointed to the elevator button and asked nervously, "Shining...Shining-senpai, I think the aging circuitry shouldn't automatically press the fifth-floor elevator button for us, right?!"

As she spoke, she pulled a red dagger coated in resin from her pocket and gripped it tightly in her hand.

This is a talisman Ornn prepared for all three members of Dolan's team; it can ward off demons and monsters and slay all invading enemies—at least that's what he said.

Oguri Hat is a blue ring, or something like a bolt; Fujimasa March is a red short sword; and Brand New Radiance is a yellow wooden round shield.

Now, she couldn't care less about whether the march was effective or not; faced with this inexplicable supernatural phenomenon, she had to prepare to fight back.

However, for some reason, Rong Jin, standing beside her, appeared extremely calm, as if he had experienced similar situations many times before.

The elevator slowly came to a stop on the fifth floor. The moment the elevator doors opened, Fujimasa had a fleeting thought about what terrifying thing might appear.

Is it an alien? A ghost? Or some urban legend?

But outside the door, there were no terrifying things she had imagined, only a pair of golden eyes that seemed to be burning.

Standing outside the elevator was a rather thin young woman dressed in a black robe. She held a mug with a cat pattern on it, and the mug emitted the unique aroma of coffee.

Her long, straight black hair cascaded down her back, and a white streak on her forehead partially obscured her eyes, but her golden pupils seemed to radiate a reassuring light in the darkness, calming Fujisaka's heart.

Huh? Wait a minute, gloomy?

Fujimasa immediately realized that although it was only 5:30 in the morning, the sun had already risen, and the fifth floor shouldn't be so dark under the summer sun!

"Ah! It's the teahouse senior,"

Rong Jin greeted the girl outside the door and asked, "Is it [that] again?"

"......yes,"

The black-haired horse girl took a deep look at the sphere emitting a strong luster in Fujimasa's hand, nodded and said, "[That] caused the power to trip. I'll take you down the other elevator."

Rong Jin bowed slightly and said gratefully, "Thank you very much, senior tea master! March, let's go!"

Following behind the black horse girl, Fujimasa March finally understood why the entire floor felt somewhat gloomy even though it was a summer morning.

In some places, newspapers were pasted on the windows; in others, the dark green or dark blue tinted glass used decades ago was used; and the only remaining relatively intact transparent glass was covered with layers of iridescent grease.

One of the newspapers had the words "Light Speed" prominently displayed. It seemed to be a newspaper reporting on a major G1 match, but most of the text was obscured by dirt and overlapping with other newspapers.

Curious, she reached out to brush away the grease, but a hand grabbed her wrist.

"Don't touch these things, they are some kind of chemicals, and they are very dangerous."

Fujimasa quickly withdrew her hand, looking at the black-haired horse girl who had stopped her: "Sorry! But... shouldn't the school send someone to remove these things?"

Tea House shook her head, looked at the half-open classroom door at the corner ahead, and said, "The only one who can solve these things is the person who created them, but right now, she doesn't want to do these things."

"Let's go. After three more classrooms, we can take the elevator down on the other side. The elevator on the left side of this building has always been like this, and it's prone to short circuits."

Following behind the mysterious horse girl, Fujimasa looked curiously at Rong Jin Shan Yao beside him, but the other party simply raised one finger and then gently shook his head.

The three of them walked to the elevator on the right in this silent atmosphere, and the tea lady reached out and pressed the elevator button.

While waiting for the elevator to reach the fifth floor, she asked, "Are you... a transfer student?"

Teng Zheng March quickly replied, "Yes, I am Teng Zheng March. I just arrived in Central Teresen yesterday."

The woman in the tea room turned around and pointed to the red sphere in the marching ball's hand, asking, "Did your trainer make this?"

"Huh? Uh, yes."

Teng Zheng March affirmed, somewhat bewildered.

After receiving a reply from the blue-haired girl, the woman turned back around. Looking at the metallic reflection of the elevator doors, she then said something that left the marcher even more confused.

"Your trainer... is very skilled, especially in areas where he's not a trainer."

Teng Zheng looked helplessly at Rong Jin Shan Yao beside her, but the other just shook his head in confusion, indicating that he didn't know what she was talking about either.

So all she could do was reply, "Um, thank you for the compliment, senior?"

"Ding--"

The elevator has arrived.

"Go down this elevator, and you should be fine. Next time you come to this building, remember to take the elevator on the right."

Holding his coffee, the man in the tea room watched as Tengzheng March entered the elevator and nodded, saying, "Let's talk again next time we meet. Goodbye."

Chapter 104 G3 Level Food God Competition - Breakfast Contest

Only after leaving the laboratory building did Fujimasa finally breathe a sigh of relief.

She looked at the senior student beside her and asked, "Shining Senior, who was that just now...?"

"Manchester Tea House is a senior in the higher education department, and also the most mysterious senior in the entire school,"

Rong Jin glanced back at the building behind him and said, "March, didn't you just ask me if ghosts exist in this world? Now I can tell you, perhaps they do."

"Really...really?"

Fujimasa's heart began to pound with fear, especially as he recalled everything that had happened in the elevator and the newspapers plastered all over the windows...

Wait, a newspaper?

"Hey, Shining-senpai, there shouldn't be more than just Tea House-senpai on that floor, right?"

Fujimasa asked, "She just said herself that it seems there's another senior colleague upstairs with her?"

Rong Jin nodded brightly, then sighed, "There is a senior, but that senior's mental state isn't very good."

"After the Satsuki Sho two years ago, she suffered a severe injury to her leg, which even the bamboo needle master at the school had difficulty treating. As for now... she should still be researching it on her own, right?"

Research it yourself? You can research this yourself?

Fujimasa March noted down the news with some doubt, while Rong Jin Shan Yao shook his head, changing the subject to something rather heavy.

She said, "Let's not talk about that anymore, let's go have breakfast! It's 6:34 in the morning now, and we expect to arrive at the cafeteria at 6:54. After breakfast, we can continue our tour of the campus."

The two arrived at the cafeteria entrance. Just as Fujimasa stepped onto the steps, they heard a commotion coming from inside the cafeteria.

"Hey, hey, hey, we've never heard of a horse eating this much! This is just too much!"

"Hey, Ah Chuan, I bet the winner of today's game will be this white guy. The prize is a limited edition lollipop. Are you in?"

"Alright! Let's bet! I'm betting on Little Trump! Five lollipops he stole from McQueen!"

"Wow! Little Te, it seems your challenger has appeared! Look, look! She's finished another bowl!"

"Meow~~ Huh? Did something happen while I was sleeping?"

"We can't lose to the newbie!! Little Te!! Eat up!!"

"Wow, that's amazing... I'll eat more! Ugh! Divine Eagle! Stop stuffing me with buns!"

A sense of foreboding welled up inside Fujimasa. She rushed into the cafeteria, looking towards the area where the largest crowd had gathered.

Behind a towering wall of plates, hidden by a pair of white ears, a female pony with long hair was passing a plate from the other side, chattering incessantly.

Although the horse girl's face was hidden behind the plate, Fujimasa March recognized her at a glance—it was Oguri Hat!

A group of female fans, seemingly eager for more excitement, surrounded the booth. Some were even cheering and gesturing wildly, clearly enjoying the spectacle.

Opposite the two gossamer-haired horse girls' booths, there was actually a deer-haired horse girl building a city wall!

Fujimasa exclaimed in surprise, "Whose subordinate is this? He can actually hold his own against Oguri, who was invincible in Kasamatsu!?"