The mediocre trainer doesn't want to reopen

Then adding myself should not be a problem, right?

"Trainer-san! Come on, speak up! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

When the emperor saw that Kitano seemed to have not reacted yet, he hurriedly pulled Kitano's hand. But at this moment, Kitano opened his mouth and looked at Rudolph's expression, not knowing how to start.

What should he say? Should he actually add another good opera? But Rudolph's expression was already quite bad... If he continued to say this, would he be unable to leave this room today?

Otherwise, let's find another opportunity next time to discuss this issue with Rudolf and Aldan... I just hope that the number of people will not increase anymore.

Otherwise, he would really be torn into several pieces, and there wouldn't be enough to share...

Chapter 312: Christmas, a visit from the Holy King’s mother?

Although Kitano has solved a big problem, he is not too happy because the issue between Rudolf and Aldan has been resolved - after all, for Kitano, there are too many Uma Musume that he cannot let go of, and now he has only solved two problems, and the rest of the issues have not been completed yet.

For example, Good Opera, who had already confessed his love, and Bourbon and Mi Yu, who already had memories of the past... As for the halo of the Holy King... maybe it was still easy to say, as long as other people were willing to believe that the Holy King and he could not develop into a romantic relationship, and that the way they got along was somewhat like a couple.

So now the only one in the team who has previous experience with Kitano is Sakura Shinou.

However, Kitano was not worried about Shinou at all. Even in the previous round, there was no real progress between him and this idiot. Kitano was just worried that if Shinou regained his memory, he would see through his "lies".

But this is easy to judge. After all, Sakura Jin Wang can't hide anything in his heart. He will say things before doing anything. From this point of view, the current Jin Wang should not recall the past like other people.

Otherwise, her first thing should be to question Kitano about the past, right? And the current Prince Jin... is still the same idiot Prince Jin who is always so happy and doesn't think about anything. It doesn't look like he has recalled the past at all.

With this idea in mind, Kitano, now that the interpersonal relationships in the team have finally returned to normal, can arrange the next schedules of Sakura Shinou and Kusanagi Tobi with peace of mind - of course, he also needs to think about the matters of Holy King Halo and Qingyun Tiankong who will debut next year.

But... I don't know why, but the Holy King's halo seems to be always avoiding him recently. Why is that?

However, the Holy King's performance was not much different from before. He still stayed in the team room as usual and maintained a good relationship with all the horse racing girls in the team. As the captain of the team, he became more mature day by day.

However, the Saint King had a rather subtle mood towards Kitano during this period. Kitano could always sense that the Saint King was watching him with an inexplicable gaze, and every time he turned to look, the Saint King would immediately look away, pretending nothing had happened.

But every time he wanted to ask, the Holy King just looked indifferent and just said, "Nothing, just taking a look"... It was obvious that he had no intention of revealing his thoughts to Kitano.

Bei Ye did not force the Holy King on this matter. He knew that the Holy King would tell him everything he wanted to tell him. Since she did not let him worry, it meant that she could handle these things on her own.

So for the next two months, Kitano focused his energy wholeheartedly on his already debuted Sakura Shinou and Kusanagi Tobi, followed by training for Qingyun Tiankong and Shengwang Guanghuan, which will debut next year. It must be said that with the help of good opera, the results are gratifying.

In these two months, Kitano selected two 1400-meter short-distance races for Sakura Shinou. As Kitano expected, Sakura Shinou had a natural talent in the short-distance race of 1200-1400 meters, and he was hard to beat in the same period. He won the GII Keio Cup Championship with great momentum and achieved the team's first GII event victory.

At the Kuromatsu Sho tournament the following month, Shinou lived up to Kitano's expectations and won. Sakura Shinou had already won four out of four matches in just three months since her debut, including her debut match. Everyone was convinced that she would be the favorite to win the Classic Triple Crown next year.

However, Kitano has already planned to let Sakura Shinou switch to short distance running in the second year. Of course, this also requires Kitano, the trainer, to withstand external pressure. After all, from the current point of view, who knows that Shinou can only run short distances?

Everyone knew that Prince Jin could only run short distances, but they couldn't really publicize this to the outside world. Otherwise, if Prince Jin heard about it, there would be unnecessary trouble.

In the previous playthrough against Sakura Shinou, Kitano had chosen a 1600m race for Sakura Shinou, but after Shinou stalled and lost, he was able to switch to shorter distances without any hindrance. However, this time... Kitano, with his past experience, didn't intend to let Sakura Shinou waste a race on trial and error.

So Kitano has to find a way to withstand the pressure from the outside world. Fortunately, he is very good at this matter. He can ensure that King Jin does not find anything unusual while reducing the outside world's doubts as much as possible.

In the past two months, the one who performed even more amazingly was undoubtedly Kusagami Asuma - as a horse girl who debuted a month later than Shinou, Kusagami Asuma was much more adaptable than Shinou.

Now, Fei Caoshang's talent is more reflected in the mile race. After Kitano ensured that there was no problem with Fei Caoshang's legs, she successfully caught up with the competition schedule arranged by Kitano for her and won her first victory after her debut.

The focus, of course, is the GI Asahi Cup Future Championship, which was symbolically opened with the help of Ludo, because apart from his debut match, Kusanagi Fei only had one victory and only won the seventh place in popularity, but in this GI event, he won a big victory as Kitano expected!

Cao Shangfei, who adopted a staggered running style, showed off his physical advantage and won the victory with a lead of two and a half marathons. He also set the annual track record of 1:33.3.

And Kusagami Fei also won his first GI victory, and even the first victory in the Kitano team. In the outside world, the media reporters were shocked by Kusagami Fei's upset victory and did not hesitate to flatter and praise him, calling Kusagami Fei "Maruzenski come again."

Before Christmas at the end of the year, Kitano also took Sakura Shinou and Kusagami Tobi to participate in the JRA awards ceremony, and Sakura Shinou successfully won the "Best Sprint Horse Girl of the Rookie Period of the Year".

And Kusagami Hibiki also won the "Horse Girl of the Year Representative" award, which is an extremely glorious award for a horse girl, during her rookie period. This is equivalent to evaluating Kusagami Hibiki as the "strongest horse girl of the rookie year in the history of JRA", which is enough to make her extremely proud.

There was no doubt that Cao Shangfei would be the true favorite to win next year's Classic Triple Crown. This natural expectation made Cao Shangfei feel inexplicably happy... Of course, Kitano was also happy.

Perhaps only Kitano knows that the current Cao Shangfei can participate in the Classic Triple Crown because of his repeated reincarnations and feedback to the Three Goddesses.

And Cao Shangfei undoubtedly deserves such a well-deserved honor... Even if he had not trained under him, the original Cao Shangfei could and should have obtained these.

After the award ceremony, Kusagami Hibi, like Sakura Shinou, gave his shoes to Kitano. Kitano had already prepared a glass cabinet for this purpose and placed Kusagami Hibi's shoes in the same glass cabinet as Sakura Shinou's shoes.

However, Kitano was sensitive enough to sense that after he put Kusanagi's shoes into the glass cabinet, the expressions of Sheng Wang and Qing Yun Tian Kong, the two horse girls who were about to debut... seemed to be a little nervous.

Qingyun Tiankong was especially nervous, as she was probably the most nervous one. Kitano also knew why Qingyun Tiankong was nervous – after all, as fellow Golden Generation members, it was normal for Qingyun Tiankong to worry that she would be inferior to Cao Shangfei, seeing how strong Cao Shangfei was.

In this situation, Kitano naturally comforted Qingyun Tiankong, took her fishing, and chatted with her for a while. Although he failed to completely solve the problem, at least he felt that Qingyun Tiankong was relaxed.

After several months of busyness, Christmas finally arrived, marking the end of a year's hard work.

Kitano was also in his own team room, setting up the Christmas atmosphere by himself. There was no one else in the team room at the moment, as they all had their own things to do.

"Everyone's gone to set up their dormitories. Ardan and Zenshin are going back to the Mejiro household to say hello to Grandmother and stay overnight..."

"The Emperor has gone home, and Rudolf has to come over to spend the evening with us. I have to take care of all the arrangements and the Christmas dinner myself."

For a moment, Kitano, who was decorating the team room, suddenly felt that he was not a trainer, but rather the "mother" of all the horse girls in the team - he had to give her stickers and cook for her, so didn't he look like a mother?

However, this thought only lasted for a moment, and Kitano continued to decorate the team room. After a while, these children would come over, and he had to decorate the team room quickly...

"Da da da."

But at this moment, a knock on the door interrupted Kitano's actions. Kitano also felt strange. Who came at this time?

Since the team room had been fitted with a fingerprint lock, no one needed to knock on the door anymore, so the people who came this time were basically strangers. Kitano felt strange, but didn't doubt it, so he went up and opened the door.

"Click."

"Excuse me, who is this—ah?"

"Hello, Trainer Kitano, long time no see."

All he saw was the horse girl standing outside the door taking off her hat, revealing a face that Kitano felt was familiar. The person who came was none other than his mother with the aura of the Holy King!

"Madam Saint King? Why are you here? It's Christmas! Aren't you home?" Bei Ye didn't expect Saint King's mother to appear here, and hurriedly led her in. Upon hearing this, Saint King's mother said softly, "There's no one else at home... Huanhuan didn't come home for the New Year, and I felt bored, so I came to visit."

"I hope I didn't disturb Trainer Kitano. I don't think you'd be unwelcome, would you?"

The Holy King's mother put down her hat and gave Kitano in front of her a somewhat confused smile.

She didn't lie. Feeling bored and coming to spend the holiday with her daughter was indeed one of the reasons - but more importantly, she wanted to see how far her daughter and Kitano had progressed in the past six months.

I hope her daughter will not disappoint her as a mother. It's been half a year, so there should be some progress, right?

Chapter 313: Holy King Mother: See how my silly daughter is progressing?

Kitano could never have imagined that the Holy King's mother would come to Tresen College at this time. Honestly, even last week, Kitano and the Holy King had celebrated Christmas together, but the lady had never come to disturb them.

Instead, every year after Christmas, Kitano would take Sheng Wang to her home several times to meet her mother. Although the relationship between Sheng Wang, her mother, and Kitano was strained during her military service, after Sheng Wang no longer needed to compete, Kitano still hoped to maintain a good relationship with Sheng Wang's mother, putting aside the relationship of trainer and responsibility.

And the facts prove that hard work pays off. Kitano always felt that her greatest achievement before restarting from the Holy King was successfully repairing the relationship between the Holy King and her mother.

Although Kitano still believed that everything would be reset once he reopened, he still worked hard to successfully repair the relationship between the mother and daughter. Although it was not as calm and natural as that of ordinary mothers and daughters, at least he ensured that the relationship between the mother and daughter would not be as tense as before.

——But even so, every Christmas, Kitano never saw Shengwang's mother come to disturb him and Shengwang. Even though she knew that they had been living together for quite a long time, she never asked a single question. She still waited for Kitano and Shengwang to visit her once a year. Apart from that, there was almost no other communication.

So, what exactly is this lady trying to do here? It can't be like she said, that she's just trying to join in the New Year's fun because she's lonely. I've never seen you here before, right?

Could it be that... she knew that he, a trainer, was now getting along with her daughter almost like a husband and wife, so she came here specifically to call him to account?

To be honest, Kitano was most afraid of this result - although this lady had a strained relationship with her daughter, she doted on her daughter with all her heart.

If it weren't for the fact that she doted on her daughter, some cruel mothers would have directly blocked her and forced her to go back just because of Saint King Halo's behavior of running away from home and joining Tresen Academy against her mother's wishes.

However, the Saint King's mother did not even blame her for the matter of the Saint King's halo. Instead, she opposed it on the surface, but in fact she constantly stimulated her to make progress and persist. She gave her all the financial support she deserved, and even took care of the matter of the decisive server.

Does this sound like the image of a mother who opposes, or even prevents, her daughter from realizing her dreams? Actually, she wasn't opposed from the beginning. She was just worried that her daughter's enthusiasm wouldn't last, so she kept using this awkward method to motivate the Saint King.

Therefore, Kitano was extremely worried that this lady had come here to accuse him of something because she had heard about the matter between the Holy King and him... Especially since he was a trainer and the Holy King was a horse girl, whom she had safely handed over to Kitano.

So, on this day, facing the sudden visit of the Holy King Mother, Kitano was also trembling with fear and served her carefully. He handed a cup of hot tea to the Holy King Mother who was sitting next to the kotatsu.

"Tea, please."

"Ah, thank you, Trainer Kitano."

The Holy King's mother also took the hot tea handed to her by Kitano. She now seemed to have no sense of alienation as an elder. Of course, this was also related to the fact that the Holy King's mother looked young.

In addition, she herself is an international-level fashion designer and is quite professional in taking care of herself. Now she is sitting here in black long cotton socks. As long as she doesn't make a sour face, if she sits with the Holy King, they probably don't look like mother and daughter, but more like sisters.

But Kitano didn't dare to really treat the Holy King's mother as an equal to himself, especially since he didn't know the purpose of the Holy King's mother coming here... Although it didn't look like she was here to accuse him, it was better to be careful.

"You're welcome, Madam Saint King. Since you're here to celebrate Christmas, it's our duty as your juniors to take good care of you."

Kitano was also standing nearby with a cup of hot tea. Saint King's mother took a sip of the tea and found Kitano's reserved look amusing. She said softly, "Don't be so reserved, Trainer Kitano. Why don't you come sit with me next to the kotatsu?"

"No, thank you ma'am for your kindness. I'm fine standing."

But Kitano didn't dare to sit down. Not to mention sitting in the kotatsu with a married woman, but sitting with the Holy King had a different meaning, especially since Kitano still felt guilty.

Although Sheng Wang always claimed that he had no feelings for Bei Ye, his mother saw it differently. However, Bei Ye's reserved attitude at the moment actually made Sheng Wang's mother raise an eyebrow and whispered, "Why, Trainer Bei Ye promised to take good care of my Huan Huan, but why is he so timid now? Did he fail my expectations?"

"Or... have you developed some extraordinary relationship with my Huanhuan? So that when you see me now, it's like seeing your future mother-in-law?"

The words of the Holy King's mother almost made Kitano kneel down on the spot. As expected, after the Holy King's mother said this, Kitano sat down beside her obediently without saying a word, as well-behaved as an elementary school student, without any sense of the trainer's agility.

The Saint King's mother also found Kitano's likes amusing. She knew a lot about Kitano before she came here. As a former horse racing girl, the Saint King's mother still had her original network of contacts, many of which were at Tresen College. She knew everything about Kitano.

Therefore, she knew the news that Kitano collapsed from taking care of ordinary horse racing girls, and also knew the achievements of Sakura Shinou and Kusanagi Tobi, two rising stars on the same team as Huanhuan. She also knew more clearly about the close relationship between her daughter and Kitano.

But she didn't know the details, such as how far along the relationship was between them, whether there were any sparks flying, any small accidents, whether she was pregnant and needed to take care of the baby, etc. Of course, these were just her imagination.

That's why she wanted to gather everyone together to get a good understanding of the current situation. And the first person she questioned was naturally Kitano.

However, she couldn't directly ask Kitano about his relationship with her daughter. Instead, she asked in a roundabout way, "Trainer Kitano, how has my worrying daughter been doing recently? I heard that you made her the captain of the team?"

"Madam Saint King, your daughter's performance is excellent. Whether as a horse girl or as a captain, her performance is impeccable."

Kitano was full of praise for the Holy King, especially in front of her mother, so she couldn't say anything bad about her daughter. What's more, the Holy King did a really good job.

"I'm already arranging your daughter's debut. Next year, I'll have Sheng Wang debut, as well as another kid on our team named Qingyun Tiankong. I have high hopes for both of them."

"I've heard before that a kid named Sakura Jinou and another named Cao Shangfei received very good reviews from JRA this year." Seeing that the topic had been opened, Shengwang's mother took the opportunity to talk about these things.

"I've read their reviews, and they're all very good. I believe this is also due to your good teaching. Therefore, I very much hope that you can also train Huanhuan to be as outstanding a horse girl as that child named Cao Shangfei."

After discussing competitions and training, it was time to start talking about life. Saint King's mother, fully aware of her daughter's devastating ability to take care of herself, inquired, "So, Huanhuan, how have you been lately? Have you been causing any trouble?"

"This kid has always been a bit of a pain in the ass to take care of himself. Without help, it's hard for him to survive on his own. I'm afraid that's a lot of worry for Trainer Kitano, right?"

"No...actually..."

However, Kitano also wanted to explain that the Holy King had changed a lot. But he didn't know how to explain this change to the Holy King's mother. This woman in front of him was not the Holy King's mother who had watched the Holy King become more and more virtuous year by year. To her, her daughter's earth-shaking transformation was probably more shocking than the end of the world.

But before Kitano could say anything, the sound of a fingerprint lock opening suddenly attracted the attention of the two. And soon, as the door to the team room opened, someone who Kitano felt was the last person to arrive arrived.

"It's so cold. Where's the kotatsu? Can you make me some hot tea? I feel like I'm freezing."

"By the way, I bought you a cake and some cooking utensils, as well as lots of fruit. Let's... eh?"

Saint King Halo has changed her clothes now. She is only seen wearing a red cotton coat, which is the female version of Santa Claus, but it seems to be tailor-made. In addition, the Saint King herself has a good foundation, so she does not look bloated, but instead looks like a model walking on the catwalk.

However, just as the Holy King entered the team room with a lot of bags, her expression, tone, and every move seemed to have the aura of the Holy King as the mistress of her own home. When she turned around, she found that Kitano and her mother were sitting together on the kotatsu.

For a moment, even the Saint King Halo was unable to understand the scene in front of him, staring blankly at this harmonious but strange scene.

Why is mom here?

Why is that guy with my mom?

Could it be that my mind has traveled through time again? Was this just a dream? Am I actually still in the previous time and space?

However, after such a question flashed through the Saint King's mind, before she could speak, she saw Bei Ye took everything from the Saint King's hand and put it aside. Then, he pulled the Saint King's hand without leaving any trace and whispered to her, "Saint King, come here, I have something to tell you."

Chapter 314: Their "husband and wife" relationship cannot be concealed at all?

Although Kitano didn't think it was a good thing to whisper to someone else's daughter in front of her mother, rather than having the other party misunderstand the relationship between him and her daughter, Kitano felt it would be better to clarify the matter with the Holy King first.

Especially when Kitano knew that the Holy King had no interest in him and no signs of love, he felt that their way of getting along, which was only understood by each other, should be restrained a little in front of the Holy King's mother.

So, Kitano pulled Sheng Wang to the other side without leaving any trace, and under the surprised yet intriguing smile of Sheng Wang's mother, when Sheng Wang's hand was held by Kitano, his heartbeat could not help but suddenly accelerate.

"Stupid, stupid, what are you doing? Mom is still here."

"Can't you do this kind of thing in front of Mom? She'll misunderstand me."

The Holy King blushed as he quietly blamed Kitano. At this moment, the Holy King's thoughts coincided with Kitano's. They both refused to act too intimate in front of the Holy King's mother - and this was somewhat different from the Holy King's previous halo.

Although the relationship between the Holy King Halo and her mother has been restored in the latter part of last episode, she is very persistent in her interactions with Kitano. No matter what others say, she will not care and will not change the way she gets along with Kitano.

But now, there have been some subtle changes in his mentality. He has been constantly facing up to his relationship with Kitano. The aura of the Saint King, who is still in the exploratory stage, suddenly heard Kitano holding his hand and whispering to him like this, and his heart suddenly started pounding and he almost cried out.