Zongman, working as a teaching assistant in Trasen

"Okay, okay, we'll be right back."

beep.

"Whoo~"

After removing the armor of the Metal Gear, Yagami Satoru let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "Brother Uozuka, we have to go back quickly, otherwise I feel like she is really going to eat me tonight..."

"...Heh, if she wants to eat you, does she even choose a day?"

He quickly sent a few text messages to everyone he knew and the horse girls—especially those peripheral members of the organization he was responsible for, to resolve the situation within the next few hours. Uozuka Saburo said disdainfully, "We're all in the same business. Who can stop those little girls with our own strength? Unless you want to fight her in this gear, then just accept it."

"..."

"Okay, stop changing the subject. I have something to tell you."

Putting their phones away, the two walked side by side, slowing their pace and heading outside with the air of a leisurely stroll. Uozuka Saburo lit a cigarette and said, "Let me be clear upfront, Brother Yagami, my meeting and friendship with you and Brother Kiryu at that banquet was absolutely not planned or prepared in any way. We became sworn brothers because we truly felt we were compatible and could get along... Do you understand?"

"No need to say more, I understand. Don't worry, I won't misunderstand you, Brother Uozuka."

"Um...so, you know my true identity?"

Yagami Jue raised his eyes slightly and said, "I still don't know the details, but I know that you come from an organization that cooperates with my father. Your main task is to protect me and help me in times of danger. To be honest, I don't think you are doing your job well enough~"

"Ha! With the way you were just now, if we stood together, who would protect whom?"

With a scoff, Uozuka Saburo blew out a few smoke rings and said, "Besides, since you're always hanging out with that girl from the Mejiro family, how can I protect you closely? With their apparent power surrounding you, plus your own strength, I can't think of anything in this world that can hurt you."

"Hey... didn't we meet here today?"

Yagami Kaku shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This world is huge, and the strong are not only those who appear on the surface... Brother Kiryu may not be able to fully understand this sentence, but I think you should be able to understand it, right, Brother Uozuka?"

"Of course, I even think I understand it better than you."

Taking off his hat and scratching his newly grown horse ears, the burly man in black continued, "In that case, I'll be frank. Brother, would you like to join our organization and become a peripheral member of my team?"

"Well, although it was you, Uozuka-san, who invited me, I'm sorry."

Yagami Jue turned his head and said with a relaxed smile: "I have already decided not to be anyone's lackey. I am who I am, and I act purely according to my will."

"...Oh, okay."

As if he had anticipated this outcome, Uozuka Saburo sighed softly, his face devoid of any disappointment. "In that case, let's put it another way: Although your father and our organization are partners, that doesn't mean we're his subordinates. If I were to take the lead... I can guarantee that if you deepen your cooperation with us, you'll definitely receive even better treatment than your father did."

"..."

"...It's okay. How about this? Just like we are now, when I need you to fight against something that harms our interests, I will find you and invite you to join the action."

"Of course you can. Even if your organization refuses to cooperate, I will still come and lend you a hand, Brother Uozuka!"

"Haha~ Thank you, but even brothers have to settle accounts, so don't refuse." Uozuka Saburo laughed, "I don't want your wife to know that I asked you for help and treated you unfairly, and then come after me after we get married!"

"...Hee, same here~"

Yagami Kaku thought of the powerful horse girls surrounding Uozuka Saburo, and the more attractive girls who were said to be candidates for beauty in the academy, and couldn't help laughing.

......

......

The two walked slowly for the rest of the journey, roughly but comprehensively listing the cooperation rules between the forces headed by Yagami Kaku and the Black Organization, and establishing a general set of rules and regulations.

After all, unlike Yagami Kaku, who had experienced many Shura battlefields but actually had no experience in managing an entire organization, Uozuka Saburo was very clear about the rules of interaction between groups:

Even if they are brothers whose blood is thicker than water, they must calculate every account and do their best to avoid conflicts.

After separating from Senator Armstrong, although Kakui Yagami nominally lost many of his connections and resources, he also possessed the hard power to form an independent force. Coupled with the support of a part of the Mejiro family headed by Mejiro Alisa, it is almost certain that he will become the leader of a certain force in the future.

Even if it is not for his own benefit, we must consider the stability of another affiliated organization that works closely with the organization.

And for this, rules must be established.

It would be best to draw clear red lines early while the relationship between the two is good. Even if disputes arise in the future, they will not lose the greater good because of insignificant minor conflicts or interests. In this regard, Kiryu Kazuma, who was not present, can be said to have set a good counterexample for them.

And when they finally left the scene through a small path—and met the FBI team that had arrived—and reunited with the others, they were immediately scolded.

The reason is simple: the horse girls are too worried about their safety...

While the other horse girls took Leon to find them, Mejiro Alisa was not idle: she tried her best to mobilize all the forces around her, and relying on various light and heavy firepower that had been sealed due to the changes in the times, she worked together and fought side by side with a group of FBI agents in the face of a huge crisis, and finally held on until the advance team of the Ground Self-Defense Force arrived and hit and eliminated most of the biochemical monsters.

During this process, at least fifty civilians were killed or wounded, Lyon's anti-biochemical crisis team lost one-third of its best men, and the property losses were incalculable.

The only good thing in this misfortune was that these monsters scattered outside to attack the crowd did not seem to carry any infectious viruses. All the harm was concentrated on the giant creature that "evolved" after Rikka Yuuta's death. With the demise of him, the main brain, the monsters dispersed and the affected area was controlled within an acceptable range, and did not continue to spread outward.

...Having said that, it is only within the "acceptable" range.

For those victims who witnessed the tragic deaths of their friends and family members, this was a life-altering event.

The same goes for the horse girls who witnessed everything.

"...Ma Musume-san, are you a Ma Musume-san?"

"......Um."

"Can you... hold my hand? I'm so cold..."

"......Um."

After making several phone calls, asking the organization to mobilize forces in related fields to suppress the matter and throwing the responsibility onto Mitsuaki Mejiro, Saburo Uozuka finally found Oguruma, who was squatting on a hill, holding the hand of a young man with blood oozing from his eyes.

Her mood is very strange now. Her whole temperament seems a bit decadent and dark. She is no longer the high-spirited person she used to be.

This is not good, very bad...in every sense of the word.

Saburo Uozuka didn't want to see the high-level horse girl he had worked so hard to build up a relationship with be wasted like this - by then, not to mention others, even Chairman Akikawa would have to fight him to the death.

This is a serious dereliction of duty as a teacher!

But from another perspective, Uozuka Saburo can also understand Oguruma.

After all, it was her first time seeing real blood and gore, and it started with such an "exciting" killing scene... The fact that she didn't go crazy with those horse girls next to her who were almost showing signs of insanity was enough to show that she was determined.

So now, as an organization's spy lurking in the Central Tresen Academy, as an old senior who is accustomed to life and death, and as a qualified and competent horse girl teacher, he needs to give the other party some guidance and try his best to eliminate her psychological trauma.

So, he walked forward without saying a word, and squatted beside the little boy who had lost his eyeball, just like Little Limao, and began to provide him with further emergency treatment.

There were too many wounded at the scene, and most of the Ground Self-Defense Force personnel were there to maintain order. The wounded were only given the most basic bandages and placed in the wide square outside the racecourse, and the treatment was completely ineffective.

This is the most suitable response measure at the moment, but it is not the best way for these injured people. If the little boy does not undergo surgery as soon as possible, he will lose more than just a pair of eyeballs.

"......? Uozuka-sama, I......"

"No need to be too aggressive. Help me hold down his body, otherwise he will die faster."

"......Yes."

He untied the cloth wrapped around the boy's face, carefully picked out a few pieces of material that were obviously not from the human body from the broken eye sockets, tore another piece of cloth from his body and wiped the blood and dirt around his eyes, and then found a new piece of uncontaminated cloth to tie him up.

He couldn't perform surgery, but he believed he had some experience in keeping the wound clean and preventing it from getting further contaminated.

During the process, Uozuka Saburo's crude technique hurt the boy's nerves several times, but it was not known whether he had run out of strength or was suppressing the pain. With the help of Oguruma, he did not make any big movements and survived the treatment safely until the end. However, he fell into a deep sleep after a few seconds.

"Okay, this will at least last until the medical staff arrive. You don't have to stay by his side anymore."

"...Yeah, I understand."

After a moment of silence, Oguruma caught a piece of her long gray-white reed hair and gently placed it in the boy's hand. Then she stood up and followed Uozuka Saburo to a secluded corner.

From here, they could see the entire square. The noise, scolding, howling, crying, and other scenes were all taken in by Ma Musume's keen five senses, making both of their faces darken.

After a long time, the strong man in black clothes and wearing a round hat spoke and broke the silence.

"Oguri."

"Ok?"

"After seeing all this, what do you think?"

"..."

Glancing around the hell-like scene with a bit of confusion, Oguruma bit his lips tightly, as if he had thousands of words to ask, but couldn't find a clue to start.

It was as if the world had become strange in an instant, completely separated from everything that had existed before.

"Are you thinking that none of this should have happened?"

Uozuka Saburo crossed his arms and looked down at her condescendingly: "Are you wondering if their suffering is caused by you?"

"......me......"

Lowering his head, the reed-haired monster may have shown such a helpless attitude for the first time in his life. Even his always straight back bent down, and he said dejectedly: "I can obviously save him..."

"There are obviously some viewers, some people, I can save..."

"But... I can't run fast enough, and I don't have enough strength..."

"Even I, when faced with those 'things', would be paralyzed with fear... Watching them, them!"

"Well!!!"

Recalling the human head that was blown away by a fleshy tongue in the blink of an eye, Xiao Limao's pupils couldn't help but shrink. He held onto the wall and vomited with such force that he seemed to want to vomit out bile as well.

"..."

Well, this feeling is really hard for him to understand...

While silently patting Oguruma's back, Uozuka Saburo thought.

Ever since he was fourteen, he had not worried about the life or death of others. Disregarding life had become a habit of almost every member of the organization. Who would care about the victims?

Chapter 271: Give her another talk therapy session?

But...after all, he has been in close contact with these girls for such a long time. He cannot understand or agree with this emotion, but he can still pretend to understand it.

"Yes, this is the truth of the world, Little Kuroneko."

As always, his strategy was not to directly refute, but to persuade indirectly. Uozuka Saburo said in a deep voice: "Peace is only an illusion, struggle is the eternal theme - struggle has never left our lives. I believe that as a horse girl, you should know this best."

"...The struggle of the game should be a game... not like this... such cruelty..."

"Hey? Don't you think it's cruel to judge a person solely based on a single running race?"

Pressing her shoulders and letting her sit on a bench to rest, Uozuka Saburo said, half sarcastically and half seriously, "You know your Tresen school motto, right? 'One horse takes the lead, ten thousand horses are humiliated.' You and your friends are indeed qualified to compete for that 'one' strength, but haven't you also seen many more 'ten thousand' who are used as stepping stones by you?"

"What do you think will happen to these horse girls who can't run very well no matter what, but are forced to be judged by the system that judges them by running fast for the rest of their lives, after they finish their active service?"

"......I have no idea......"

Oguruma couldn't help but bury her head even lower, and the whole horse girl seemed to curl up into a ball, which made Uozuka Saburo embarrassed to say the harsh words he had prepared, so he had to change the way to continue.

"Go figure it out yourself when you have time, but don't take it too personally... Everyone has their own destiny, just do your best."

"..."

"I know that as horsegirls, as women, you naturally have a strong ability to empathize with other people's emotions, but I still have to tell you: be a little cold-blooded."

"Close your heart. Don't let their despair enter your heart. Don't let their pain enter your heart."

"Don't sympathize with them...Okay, maybe you can sympathize with their experiences, but don't 'empathize' with them, because they don't need such emotions. They need something more substantial, do you understand?"

After saying this, Uozuka Saburo looked into Oguruma's eyes seriously, without saying a word, just silently observing the changes in her expression.

To be honest, putting aside positions and interests, Oguruma is the best horse girl of all the ones Uozuka Saburo has seen so far: she is physically strong, technically proficient, taciturn, and calm. Except for her personality being a little too sunny and her values ​​being too rigid, all of her qualities perfectly meet the requirements of an excellent agent, yakuza, or organization member.

It would be great whether he asked her to assist him in his undercover mission or to recruit her into the organization as a subordinate.

But in the final analysis, potential is just potential.

In the past thirty-five years of his life, Uozuka Saburo had seen many brilliant talents with his elder brother, many of whom were strong enough to be promoted to code members after training - but they all died, leaving no trace behind.

Some of them were born with character flaws, and were discovered due to their own actions or bad luck, and many of them died on the spot. However, there are also many who could not withstand the organization's tests, and in certain scenarios made decisions that were not in the interests of the organization, and were eventually abandoned.

Among them, the part of "Let the newcomers see blood" had the largest number of people eliminated.

When he looks at Oguruma now, he feels a bit like he is looking at those geniuses who were eliminated.

This somewhat unusual trial was completely beyond his expectations, but only this could be called a real trial: if Ogurimao survived, then Uozuka Saburo's evaluation of her would certainly rise further, and more resources would be allocated to her within the organization; but if she failed and never recovered, Uozuka Saburo would have no choice but to give up on further training of her.

...To be honest, the latter option is actually more beneficial to a "normal person". After all, he didn't train her for glory or honor for the country, but...

Well! He just felt that it was a pity that such a good seedling died in the middle of his life. That was all he meant.

After nearly two minutes, seeing that Ogurimao was still with his head down and motionless, Uozuka Saburo couldn't help but ask, "...So, have you made up your mind?"

"..."

"...Oh, never mind, I can't answer..."