The mediocre trainer doesn't want to reopen

And now, it has been proved that Kitano's idea was correct. Shanxin seized the opportunity to turn things around and presented everyone with a battle that belonged to her.

……

On the field, Mejiro Zenshin surpassed those horse girls one by one. She could now clearly see the backs of Kusanagi Hi and Saint King Halo. Her last kick was not outstanding, but her biggest advantage at the moment was the physical advantage that she had accumulated for some time in the back.

She still had plenty of energy left, enough for her to "escape" the remaining 600 meters! The rest depended on whether she could surpass the other female racehorses who were also sprinting.

At this moment, the believer felt an indescribable feeling in her heart. For the first time, she felt that she was not that far away from those geniuses. The backs of Cao Shangfei and Saint King Guanghuan were right in front of her. Although they were not closing that fast, the believer could still feel that feeling of getting closer step by step!

It was as if she was approaching the footsteps of those geniuses.

"Mejiro Zenshin is approaching! Saint King Halo is gradually surpassing Cao Shangfei! Cao Shangfei's stamina is running out! Oh! The East Sea Emperor's steps are also beginning to show fatigue! Saint King Halo and Mejiro Zenshin are surpassing!"

"From behind! Mi Yu! Mi Yu is also charging forward! Qingyun Tiankong is also slowly slowing down now, because before, they were trying to keep up with Mejiro Zenshin's pace, and most of the horse girls don't have enough power to sprint!"

Qian Ming's commentary also sounded at this moment. At this time, Mejiro Zenshin's previous achievements were finally revealed. In order to keep up with the pace of Zenshin who was escaping at the beginning, Qingyun Tiankong, Cao Shangfei and Donghai Emperor all began to gradually show their physical exhaustion.

Qingyun Tiankong watched as Miura Bourbon slowly surpassed him, with a look of unwillingness flashing in his eyes.

The exhausted Cao Shangfei's last legs were gradually covered by the Holy King's halo. She looked at the figure of the Holy King's halo that was gradually surpassing her with a complicated look in her eyes.

The Emperor of the East China Sea is still struggling to hold on, but he still cannot change the aggressive aura of the Holy King behind him, as well as the advance of Mi Yu and Shanxin.

These "geniuses" began to show signs of defeat one after another, losing to people they had previously thought were not their opponents. All this was just because of a misjudgment at the beginning of the game. From the moment they tried to follow in the footsteps of Mejiro Yoshinobu, they were destined to lose.

Mejiro Yoshinobu successfully led the pace of almost all the horse racing girls. Many of them never imagined that the reason for their failure was just because of a marginal character from the Mejiro family whom they had not paid attention to before.

Even the Emperor of the East Sea had to admit in his heart that she had lost, but not to other stronger horse girls, but to Mejiro Yoshinobu.

In just one week, Kitano Ryuichi had trained a horse girl capable of leading the emperor to defeat. The outcome of this match was no longer important, because regardless of whether Mejiro Zenshin won or lost, Kitano Ryuichi's name was destined to be associated with this match, standing at the pinnacle of the trainers at Tresen Academy.

Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, suddenly, a dull sound of footsteps was heard, accompanied by a breath that startled all the horse girls, and the scene seemed to have changed.

The inconspicuous "No. 16" chestnut-haired horse girl who had been silent in the team, when even Kitano almost forgot about her, burst out with an aura that frightened all the contestants.

She rushed out from the crowd, no doubt using her "last kick".

But her "last kick" was a complete blow to all the horse racing ladies present.

Before the other horsegirls ahead could react, with that dull kick, horsegirl number 16 rushed forward at an astonishing speed! At such a rapid speed, she closed the gap with the horsegirls ahead.

"How can it be?!"

Saint King Halo's pupils twitched slightly. Having just surpassed Cao Shangfei, she was still trying to figure out how to maintain her advantage and prevent Shanxin and Mi Yu from catching up. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed the horse girl number 16 approaching at an alarming speed.

In fact, her last footsteps were much faster than hers! What kind of monster is this?!

Chapter 110: Master, please give me determination and courage again

How could one not be shocked when the ordinary "No. 16" horse racing girl, who had maintained her ordinariness from the beginning of the race to the end, suddenly burst out with such a terrifying speed in the final straight sprint?

"Who is that horse racing girl?"

"This is definitely not the strength a new horse girl should have. Even in GI competitions, there are only a few horse girls who can suddenly burst out with such a powerful aura. Who is this guy?"

And it was at this moment that Luduo finally discovered something was wrong. She stood up suddenly, with a hint of annoyance in her eyes - in the final of the selection competition that she personally hosted, there were factors that she was not aware of?

Rudolph was quick to react and immediately noticed the problem. He frowned and muttered to himself, "No, that's not right. According to the rule that only the top five horse girls in each race are selected, there should only be fifteen contestants in this race. There shouldn't be a sixteenth person."

"But the review of the participating horse girls is done by Chicao... and the secondary review is still done by Narita Shirahito, but now this kind of thing still happened... So that means..."

——In other words, Chicao and Narita Shirahito both "betrayed" her and colluded with that Sirius guy?!

Theoretically, there shouldn't be any flaws in the process, but now errors still occur. Rudolf can be sure that there is something wrong with the executor in the middle link. Combining her previous guess about why Sirius suddenly became so honest this time, she can be sure that Qi Cao and Narita Bairen stood with Sirius in this matter and concealed it from her!

When Rudolph thought about how her two most trusted vice presidents had chosen to help Sirius to challenge her, the student council president, she almost exploded on the spot without realizing it, but she still maintained a bit of rationality and prevented herself from losing her temper on the spot.

"Rudolph, this is the finals, you... calm down."

At this moment, Representative Qian Ming on the side also pulled the Rudolf symbol to let the emperor calm down a little, but in fact, Rudolf's reaction was already within Representative Qian Ming's expectations.

For some reason, when Qian Ming saw the Luduo symbol, who always seemed to be in control of everything, showing such a look of surprise, anger, and helplessness, he felt a sense of comfort rising from the bottom of his heart.

Don't get me wrong, Representative Qian Ming is not holding a grudge and wanting to take revenge on her after being defeated by the Rudo Symbol - although when Sirius invited her in the beginning, he told her the plan, and she agreed to watch the game as if she knew nothing. In a sense, she is in cahoots with Sirius.

However, she hadn't come here to see Rudolph embarrassed... Although that was her excuse for agreeing to Sirius. In reality, she had summoned him because she felt a strange familiarity with the name "Kitano Ryuichi" and had no real intention of making Rudolph angry.

When Qian Ming pulled Rudolph, he found that his expression quickly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. From the initial uncontrollable momentum, it slowly began to subside...

"Ah."

The next moment, what shocked Qian Ming was that Lu Duo actually calmed down and even chuckled. She slowly sat back in her seat and said softly, "Thank you, Senior Qian Ming, you are right, this is not the place to get angry."

"No... I don't even need to be angry. It's just a trivial provocation. If I feel insulted and get angry because of it, it would be contrary to the emperor's magnanimity."

"Rudolph...you...are not angry?"

However, although Representative Qian Ming guessed that Rudolph would restrain herself, she did not expect that Rudolph would restrain herself so quickly. The next second, she sat back down as if nothing had happened, crossed her legs, and looked like a heroic and powerful woman.

"Didn't I say it? The more this kind of thing happens, the more I must demonstrate my magnanimity as an emperor." Luduo smiled faintly and said, "What's more... Sirius deliberately did this just to make me look foolish. If I really get angry, it will only play into her hands."

"Anyway, this is the extent of her resistance to me. She can't possibly continue with anything other than challenging my authority."

"Just focus on the game. I've already guessed who Uma Musume number 16 is."

Rudolf, speaking this way, seemed to have truly calmed down. However, Rudolf knew very well that getting angry now would be useless; calm thinking was the most foolproof approach.

It seems she's been a bit too eager lately, to the point where both Qi Cao and Bai Ren have been "bribed" by Sirius... Was I too impatient to eliminate the threat? That's why Qi Cao and Bai Ren both feel I'm dangerous.

But even so, her goal will not change. Whether it is Sirius, Qi Cao, Bai Ren, or Qian Ming Representative, she will deal with them cleanly sooner or later and make sure that they will never hang around in front of Trainer Jun again.

But... now she has to change her methods and not let herself be isolated and helpless.

Thinking this, Luduo's symbol revealed a dangerous smile. Although she didn't know where Sirius was, she said to him in her heart, "Thank you, my dear sister. Your meaningless provocation this time has allowed me to discover the loophole and now I know how to make up for it."

"And you, a thieving cat, I will make you get lost. When Trainer-kun and I have our wedding in the future, I will personally bring a few more boxes of wine for you."

Oh, and that guy too. Rudolf's symbolic eyes turned towards the horse girl number 16, and the smile on his lips widened even further. Rudolf's expression even became more terrifying.

……

"Why is it happening like that!"

At this moment, the chestnut-haired horse girl No. 16 was slowly approaching the front with unstoppable force. She fully demonstrated the real gap between the elite horse girls who possessed the strength of the best in GI events and the so-called talented horse girls.

Geniuses are promising in the future, but they have not grown into strong people. When the real strong people come, no matter how promising the so-called geniuses are in the future, they still seem vulnerable.

With a wail, the Emperor of the East Sea watched in despair as the horse girl passed by her directly. Now, the only ones standing in the way of horse girl No. 16 were Qingyun Tiankong and Miura Bourbon.

And now, there were only less than 150 meters left to the finish line! The final straight lay before them, and this was the fastest speed any of the racehorses could achieve—especially since Mejiro Zenshin had previously set the pace for the entire field, leaving most of them exhausted by this point. How could they have the energy to sprint again?

As for the remaining players who were not led by the rhythm or had plenty of energy, Mi Yu was unable to show her advantages because the distance of the game was too short for her and her burst could not keep up.

Although Shan Xin and the Holy King's Aura were sprinting at full speed, and the Holy King even unleashed a powerful last kick, how could they compare to the last kick of Uma Musume, an elite figure in the GI arena?

And Umamusu No. 16 is already approaching Qingyun Tiankong, and it is only a matter of time before she surpasses Qingyun Tiankong. Now the only one who has a chance to win may be Miura Bourbon in the front.

But everyone could see that at the moment, Bourbon Miura's fastest speed was no match for Umamusume No. 16, especially since Bourbon Miura was unable to create a large gap with Qingyun Tiankong. It could be said that once she surpassed Qingyun Tiankong, it would be Bourbon Miura's turn the next moment.

And judging from her current speed... a distance of 150 meters is enough for her to surpass all the horse girls.

"Ha ha……"

However, Miura Bourbon, who is really giving it her all now, can still feel the footsteps of the aggressive horse girl No. 16 approaching from behind. She wants to run faster as much as possible, but it is obvious that Miura Bourbon also has a weakness... that is, her weak burst.

The advantage of her escape horse lies in the rational planning of her physical strength, and then controlling her speed and rhythm. She can keep a long enough distance from the following teams, ensuring that they cannot make up the gap by bursting out, while her speed from beginning to end is not greatly restricted by the uphill and track conditions.

Today, Miura Bourbon's tactics remain the same. She is even confident that she can use this tactic to defeat the Emperor of the East China Sea and Mejiro Yoshinobu. Their tactics have no effect on Miura Bourbon.

But, of course, she hasn't forgotten that she is not at her peak right now. Her physical fitness and endurance are not as strong as they were in her prime. This is why she is so nervous about being forced by the "No. 16" horse girl.

If she was in her prime, she would have the confidence to withstand the outburst of this horse girl. After all, this horse girl had not used her true full strength from the beginning, but only released all her strength in this last kick, which was why she seemed difficult to resist.

Logically speaking, even if Miura Bourbon lost, she would not have any regrets, because this No. 16 horse girl was here to fry fish. It is not shameful for a new horse girl to lose to a veteran horse girl, and everyone can understand it.

But Miura Bourbon had no intention of slowing down. Her eyes were fixed on the front, and each step she took was more determined than the previous one.

She did not forget why she was running; she also knew that her current appearance was being watched by her master.

She swore an oath in front of her master...she would become the undefeated Triple Crown horse girl. Before that, she would never lose.

Now, the master finally has the chance to witness all this in good health. How could she allow anyone to destroy her undefeated streak!

"Master... please, give me a little of your power."

In Miura Bourbon's mind, a trace of past memories slowly emerged... some memories from the time when she had not yet separated from her Master.

Chapter 111: Memory Fragments of Miura Bourbon: Countdown to Life

Miura Bourbon will never forget the esophageal cancer diagnosis report he found in the drawer of Kitano Ryuichi's desk when he was tidying up his master's desk. The date of diagnosis was clearly written on it - April 4st.

The confirmed date seemed like an April Fool's joke. Miura Bourbon also wanted to treat this confirmed report as an April Fool's joke. However, in the end, her reason told her that it was fate and the world that were playing a huge joke on her.

The best trainer who led her to run all the way, took her to the hard and cruel training, ate with her, persevered with her, and got up early with her, was diagnosed with a disease that made her pupils tremble two months ago.

For two months, Kitano Ryuichi pretended that nothing had happened and stayed with Miura Bourbon from beginning to end. Even a careful person like Miura Bourbon only felt that his master seemed to eat less than usual and was a little thinner, but he did not notice anything abnormal.

Now, it is already June, and Miura Bourbon has become the undefeated double champion of the Satsuki Sho and the Japan Derby, just as Kitano promised - this is the current record of the East China Sea Emperor that Miura Bourbon has always wanted to surpass.

Her long-cherished dream of winning the Chrysanthemum Shogi and becoming the next undefeated Triple Crown horse girl was within reach. But at this moment, she suddenly realized that the person who had been by her side all along, her most silent supporter, had actually fallen into a terminal state.

At that moment, Miura Bourbon panicked. She found her master as quickly as she could and for the first time, loudly questioned her trainer with extremely strong emotional fluctuations.

How she wished her Master could tell her it was just a joke, but Kitano did in fact say so. He looked a little thinner at the time, and was slightly stunned when faced with Miura Bourbon's questioning, but then he did reply with a smile: "Haha, did I fool you, Bourbon? It was just an April Fool's joke. The doctor used it as a joke when I went to the hospital for a routine physical. It wasn't just me, many trainers were fooled too."

"I just thought it was funny, so I printed out this fake medical record. Seeing you look frightened, is it that this joke from two months ago finally scared you today? Haha..."

At that time, Kitano's smile seemed so relaxed, not at all like a man who had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer two months ago. His complexion was certainly not good, and he had lost a lot of weight, but... there was a wonderful belief supporting him, allowing him to act as usual in front of Miura Bourbon.

It was so normal... There was a moment when Bourbon Miura really thought that his master was fine... Even though at this moment Bourbon Miura was already certain in his heart that Ryuichi Kitano's illness was real.

It had been a long time since he had seen his master so close to him, and Bourbon finally saw clearly that Kitano was not just a little thinner... His entire complexion had always been very bad, and he only covered it up with something that seemed to be makeup, but it only made his face look a little red. But looking at his neck, it was obvious that Kitano's skin was now sallow and not healthy.

His eye sockets were slightly sunken, as if from weight loss, and his pupils were bloodshot... probably from lack of rest.

What made Bourbon even more sad was herself. She was clearly the person closest to her Master, yet she had only just now realized all this.

If she hadn't stumbled upon this report, she might not have discovered it. She might still be immersed in the dream of an undefeated triple crown that was only one step away from her, until the person who supported her the most collapsed beside her... By then, even if she had realized her dream, what would it matter?

"Why... didn't you tell me?"

Because your dream is right in front of me, Bourbon. I don't want to hinder you, and I don't want you to lose your dream because of me.

At that time, Kitano did not respond to Miura Bourbon's words. He just kept smiling gently, stroking Miura Bourbon's hair, letting this fragile child cry in his arms, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

Although it was only two months after the diagnosis, Kitano did not recuperate in the hospital like those confirmed patients. Instead, he chose to stay with Bourbon Miura. After the Japanese Derby, in the months leading up to the Chrysanthemum Viewing Festival, he continued to let Bourbon Miura devote all his energy to training.

For Kitano, this illness came on suddenly, something he had never experienced before. The doctor diagnosed him with the possibility that his symptoms were caused by his long-term fast eating and drinking of hot soups and water.

When Kitano heard this, he couldn't help but think of Miura Bourbon. He had started working as Miura Bourbon's trainer a year and a half ago. To keep up with Miura Bourbon's hectic and rigorous training schedule, Kitano and Miura Bourbon would eat their three meals a day at breakneck speed, resting thoroughly before returning to training.

Miura Bourbon eats very fast, but she is a horse girl, and her body is blessed by the three goddesses. She will never be plagued by any disease or pain in her life. Even if she does, with the blessing of the three goddesses, even fractures and internal injuries will gradually recover with the passage of time. There is no need for surgery at all, it is just a matter of time.

But Kitano... he was not the horse girl blessed by the three goddesses. He overlooked one problem. There were many things that Bourbon Miura could do but he simply could not do.

This illness was a warning to Kitano. After all, he wasn't a horse girl, and as a trainer, he wasn't able to always be there for them, even though they supported him.

Therefore, he did not tell Miura Bourbon about this matter, because he was afraid that Miura Bourbon would think that his illness was caused by her. Therefore, Kitano did not say anything more, but just silently accepted this fact.

……

A few months passed, and Kitano's condition worsened rapidly, as if God was punishing him for his indifference to the disease, neither recuperation nor hospitalization. Finally, Kitano was admitted to the ICU.

The day Kitano entered the ICU from Tressen College, he underwent an operation. After the operation, Miura Bourbon, who had been waiting outside, only saw Kitano the day after the operation.

Kitano had undergone a complete change after the operation. Miura Bourbon looked at Kitano with trembling eyes. The day before he was hospitalized, Kitano could barely be described as "just looking sick". After the operation, he seemed to have aged twenty years.

There was a needle stuck on the back of his hand, and a large IV bottle was continuously supplying nutrient solution. Kitano's throat was connected to a tube, and he needed the help of an instrument to breathe. His face was pale and bloodless, and he suddenly became a dying man.

——But even so, his eyes were still fixed on the ceiling, as if to prove that his life, which was like a candle in the wind, would be continued in this way.

"Master..."

As Miura Bourbon's voice trembled, Kitano on the hospital bed turned his head slightly, but even such a simple action seemed so difficult for this person who could walk normally two days ago.

Miura Bourbon had never seen with his own eyes the appearance of a living person in such real pain... But even so, Kitano still managed a smile on his bloodless face, and pointed with difficulty with his fingers on the hospital bed, signaling Miura Bourbon, who was now in tears, to come towards him.

Miura Bourbon almost immediately leaned over to Kitano's bedside. However, at this moment, Kitano's mouth opened slightly. Although he couldn't make any sound, Bourbon seemed to hear what he was saying.

He was saying... don't worry about him, he won't die so soon.

Yes, even though living felt so painful, Kitano didn't have the slightest intention of dying now - he still had things that needed to be accomplished more than death, and it wasn't his first time dying anyway, so he wanted to complete a masterpiece that would bring him closest to his goal before he died.

Before that, he would not die. He wanted to see with his own eyes that Miura Bourbon, the horse girl he was proud of this round, broke her own fate and became the second undefeated triple crown horse girl.