Stop being a trainer!

Time itself is not terrible, time means nothing. But what is really terrible is the people, things and beautiful things that are taken away by time.

“But I won’t become a memory. You can come here and play as you please even after graduation. That’s how Uma Musume is.”

"Ah? You can come back and play as you please after graduation?"

"Yeah. After all, the management of Tresen College is actually quite loose, and the school is actually supported by many retired horse racing girls. Even if you retire, you can stay in the school for a while if you want. But don't think about accommodation and schooling, but I can still find you to chat and have a meal."

"That's it."

"What's wrong? Are you sad because you think I might leave?"

"..."

Looking at Representative Chiaki, who was holding his neck with his cheek so close to his, as if he was transmitting warmth to him with every breath, Kato Akira thought about it and decided to tell the truth in his heart.

"Yes, I am a little sad to think that you might leave this school in a year. Because during this time, I seem to have gotten used to your existence. And when one day I welcome a campus without you, I might feel a little sad."

"…Even though the students are about to graduate, you feel sad instead of happy and excited? Mr. Kato seems a little dishonest."

"I think normal teachers would feel a little sad when they see the good students they taught leave the campus."

"Really? Obviously, there is no teaching relationship between you and me?"

“Although there is no teaching relationship, it still feels like I have been teaching for a long time.”

"You're so stubborn~ You don't need to be so cautious."

Holding Kato Akira's shoulders, looking at the man with a normal expression, Chiaki showed a slightly regretful expression on his face and muttered softly:

"It's okay to show a little reluctance and vulnerability in front of me, right? After all, I'm almost an adult, and even if I were to use the old calculation method, I could get married next year."

"Come to think of it, Rudolph seems to be a year younger than you?"

"Yeah. But if you mention Rudolph at this time, can I take it that you are a little nervous now, Armin?"

"No. I was just wondering when I could rescue Big Shock."

"Hey, this is becoming your style."

Looking at Kato Akira who insisted on his own ideas, Chiaki stretched lazily with some tiredness, showing her beautiful body curves.

"Phew~ That's it, summer is almost over, don't forget me, okay? Well, for the sake of my lovely juniors, I'll go somewhere else first, bye~"

Chapter 52: This Summer is Almost Over (3rd Update!)

Kato Akira continued on the road.

I didn't encounter anything bad along the way, I just kept moving forward slowly.

Watching the fog in the forest and the distorted shadows completely dissipate, Kato Akiya walked quietly while thinking about this activity.

Uma Musume is a pure-hearted child, and in the final analysis, it is impossible for her to do anything to hurt others.

For them, they are more about playing and enjoying the time with their trainers. Because horse girls are actually sensible children, they have a certain degree of understanding of the three-year period from the beginning.

From the initial contract, to the continuous familiarity after the contract, and then to the current activities such as courage challenges together, for Uma Musume is essentially a simple process of deepening trust and mutual confirmation.

For the horse girls, this is a journey in their lives, and for the trainers, they are just a responsibility they have accepted. But this does not mean that they have to ignore each other. On the contrary, it is precisely because of this that they need to cherish each other's existence. Even the worst trainers will maintain a certain degree of goodwill and expectations for the responsibility itself.

They are different from teachers. Teachers are responsible for many students, some like them and some don't. They don't need to shape them into any particular way. Some responsible ones may be like this, but most don't have the time to do so. However, the existence of trainers is closer than that of teachers and longer than that of parents. For children of this age, the time they spend with trainers is sometimes even longer than the time they spend with their parents. In a way, it can even be said that they are one and the same.

This is also the theory of one mind and one body advocated by many families and Uma Musume. Although they cannot beat the Uma Musume of Europe and America, it has now been proven that the problem lies with the equipment, not the Uma Musume.

So this will actually lead to trainers communicating more enthusiastically with the horse girls.

By the time Kato Akira gradually returned to the main road from the rugged path, he had already seen three teams of horse girls and trainers communicating with each other on the road.

It was completely different from when I saw him. Those trainers were either trying hard to help the person in charge solve the mystery, or racking their brains to comfort their frightened person in charge, and some were even limping through the forest with their person in charge on their backs.

Even when he saw Kato Akira, he clearly behaved like a person who was not worthy of being used when they were together, but he did not hesitate to stand in front of Danran, and glared at Kato Akira in front of him, fearing that Kato Akira would do something bad to Danran.

After all, there were some rumors in the Tresen campus. It was said that Kato Akira could use a very terrifying method to instantly make the horse girl feel intense pain and despair, but it was not visible on the surface. It could also be like a time bomb, constantly accumulating, and then suddenly explode at a certain moment when seeing Kato Akira's behavior. This ability was even recognized by multiple anonymous horse girls. The trainers didn't even think about the authenticity of the movement, and subconsciously blocked the person in charge.

So isn't this good? He is willing to do anything for the sake of responsibility, but he just has to act like he wants everyone to stand together in front of humans.

What would you do if you had to sacrifice your responsibilities in order to keep the atmosphere with everyone?

In fact, the answer is quite clear, but these trainers often can't quite get over it.

Today's new trainers always fantasize about their peers, their own responsibilities, and friendly exchanges with others.

If you look at the older trainers, don't they all seem to be alone and go their own way? This is the difference between mature trainers and trainers who still have some ideas.

Although from this point of view, Kato Akira had no right to mock them.

After all, he also wanted to communicate with humans, instead of being like he is now, where he is almost isolated from humans.

But in the end, everyone was thinking about their own responsibilities. Therefore, Kato Akira felt sorry for the figure who was tied up at the end of the forest.

Deep impact, big shock.

This cute and lovely looking horse racing girl is her own responsibility.

In theory, the first person listed in the file is her. She is a girl who likes running very much and has a very gentle personality.

Although he doesn't look rich or have a very unique personality, Deep Impact's personality is actually gentle, but not in an extremely specialized way.

Compared to others, Deep Impact looks more like an ordinary girl. She has her own little thoughts, feels wronged, and argues and sticks to her own opinions for some incomprehensible things. At the same time, she also strives to move forward for what she likes.

Because she likes running, she will run for hours on her own even when Akira Kato doesn't care. Because of her kind and gentle personality, she won't complain even if Akira Kato doesn't take care of her for a long time, but will express her dissatisfaction in her own way.

It should be said that it was all his own fault. His mistake was that after provoking so many horse girls, he always forgot about the people around him.

It was Deep Impact who supported me and helped me clean the room in the beginning, but now that she has become the one in charge, I always ignore her opinions because of other things.

That's why he was so keen on recruiting so many horse racing girls, wanting to scare himself, and then put himself in the innermost part, wanting to give Kato Akira a hint of who he should see.

Perhaps the cold weather and damp forest fog also have their functions. At least now, Kato Akira's thoughts and ideas are very clear.

He looked at the person who seemed to be tied to a pillar, wearing a white dress, like a prisoner princess, and sighed heavily.

Facing her weak and desperate expression, but with her ears flapping and her tail swaying, as if she couldn't hold back the deep impact of her joy, he walked up to her and whispered:

"Deep Impact, I'm here to pick you up."

(Sorry for being an hour late, this is the third update!)

Chapter 53: Commoner Princess (Fourth update!)

It was difficult for Umamusume to hide her emotions.

Although they don't say much, you can tell by looking at their ears and tails. Their emotions are easily reflected in their body language.

However, this is actually a trap question. In fact, Umamusu is also very aware that her ears and tails can easily reveal her emotions, so she often chooses to react extremely quickly.

When you see their ears turned back, the human feeling should be "Ah, they are almost angry", right? But in fact, it is not the case. When you see the ears turned back, the horse girl is already angry.

The ears and tail are used to judge emotions at the present time. The state of the ears and tail is just a kind of adjustment, a more obvious expression. If anyone is stupid enough to really regard this action as a sign, he will be severely punished by the horse girl. However, this method does have a way to use it.

Just like now, although Deep Impact still looks like a pitiful imprisoned princess, in fact, its ears are constantly flapping and its tail is constantly shaking. This shows that Deep Impact is in a very excited state and can't even suppress its instincts.

However, as if sensing that Kato Akira had not made any follow-up move, the frequency of its ears flapping slightly decreased, and it began to stand up and move to the left and right, as if trying to locate his direction.

The tail no longer flapped back and forth, but drooped down with a hint of regret, and then jumped from time to time.

Finally, he opened his eyes a little bit and looked over here. The moment his eyes met, he closed his eyes again, pretending that nothing had happened. Even his ears and tail calmed down.

After a while, its ears and tail began to shake again. It opened its eyes a little and looked at Kato Akira cautiously, then closed its eyes again with a smile on its face. Its ears and tail kept blinking like propellers, and no one knew what kind of emotion was in its heart.

Just like a child waiting for an adult to play with him, no matter how small the action is, it can cause the child to smile and scream from the bottom of his heart. Although for most people, the scream is an extremely harsh noise, but for the person concerned, it is indeed a comforting sound that can make them feel at ease.

There is nothing more joyful than having children like you and you like your children.

However, Deep Impact is not his child in any way, she is his student.

"Deep Impact, gone."

"..."

“You were just looking at me.”

"..."

"So what do you have to do to get out of here?"

"..."

Deep Impact said nothing, just closed his eyes, then easily broke the ropes wrapped around his body and stretched out his two hands.

Looking at the deep impact, with the eyes closed and the palm stretched out silently, and shaking, Kato Akira shook his head helplessly, stretched out his hand and pulled up this cute and somewhat excessive horse racing girl.

Then, the petite horse girl took advantage of the situation and used her jumping ability to jump onto Kato Akira's back before he could react. Her hands and feet tightly grasped his lower back like an octopus, refusing to get down.

"Although I was planning to carry you..."

"I do not believe."

He buried his head deeply in Kato Akira's back, and his ears hit his shoulders.

"Uncle, you have lied to me many times. This time I decided to use my own hands to make the decision. I don't believe what you said."

"When have I ever lied to you many times?"

"I can't remember... But anyway, I have the right to act like a spoiled child! As the uncle in charge, my right to act like a spoiled child to the trainer is unlimited!"

"Yeah, that's right."

"...Eh? Uncle, aren't you going to refute me?"

He was stunned by the deep impact from behind, as if he couldn't believe it, and even stuck his head out and rested it on Kato Akira's shoulder.

"I remember that the uncle would have tried very hard to refute me seriously before, saying that since I was in charge, I should just run hard and not think about those trivial things. What happened now?"

"I should say that after a year, I have grown a little bit, right?"

"Nonsense! I said the same thing yesterday! It must be because of that woman! She insulted me and made it her own idea! I don't want it! I don't want to be another woman's shape or anything like that!"

"What do you think Aoi is?"

Listening to the deep impact behind him, holding his neck and crying, Kato Akira said with a bit of a smile:

"I just realized it. A good kid like you may not need any encouragement. After all, you really like running. You may just need company. So I'm also sorry that I haven't been able to spend time with you during this period. I was still thinking about other people's things when you were the most nervous."

"Nervous? Uncle, that's really weird. Why should I be nervous?"

"After all, it's your debut match, and you're officially stepping onto the professional stage. I thought you had nothing to be nervous about at first, but I soon realized I was wrong."

Carrying the Deep Impact, Kato Akira slowly walked along the safe route in the forest towards the end. Looking at the fire in the distance, he casually replied:

"No matter who you are, no matter what kind of honor and ability you have, you will still be nervous at the moment of truly deciding your fate. I trust you too much, but I shouldn't ignore your nervousness. Your ability is indeed completely invincible and great, but you are a child after all. I can't treat you as an old person."

"It's normal for you to want me to accompany you and want to play with me. But I have been busy with my own things recently and ignored my responsibility's call for help. So I am really sorry. I will make it up to you in the next few days."

"Whether it's your debut competition or the subsequent competitions, I will witness your running posture with my own eyes. I will never forget it."

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, Kato Akira's voice was flat, but full of determination.

Chapter 54: End of the Test of Courage (Fifth Update!)

"...Trainer."

Hooking up behind Kato Akira, the horse girl on his back slowly exhaled.

"I am really nervous... Does the trainer not like my running like this? Does he have any opinion about me? Even though I know that I can tell when the trainer is lying, I can't help but think so."

"Because Uma-musumes are such sensitive people, we always quarrel over small things and get entangled in trivial matters. But we also know that this is our nature. I also know that the trainer believes in me, but I just can't help it."

"I will definitely win, and I will win beautifully. Whether it's a training match or a real match, I have no reason to lose no matter who the enemy is. I have the confidence to win no matter what kind of enemy it is...Although Orphie is different from those foreigners, I believe that under the guidance of the trainer, I will definitely win. So what I'm afraid of is that the trainer doesn't want me anymore."

"When I think about it, I feel like I'm a weird horse girl, because when I think back, the trainer didn't actually do anything, right? They just came up with it on their own."

Being shaken on the back and hit hard, he looked up at the stars in the sky, and there was suddenly a hint of dissatisfaction and grievance in his voice.

"At first, I was worried about Orphie. Although she seemed to be ostracized by everyone at that time, I was worried that she was deceived by some bad guys, so I hurried over to take a look. Thinking about it carefully, how could there be bad guys in Tresen College? But that's what I thought at the time. In the end, I fell on the uncle's side."

"Even though the uncle didn't try very hard to recruit me, I just rushed to get close to him. Then I thought the uncle didn't want me, so I specially trained for a while. Now my gate is well trained, you know? Although I can't do it like the Emperor of the East China Sea, my gate has become very good. I am also working hard to learn things like positioning."