The mediocre trainer doesn't want to reopen

"For me? Such a valuable thing?" Kitano was a little surprised when he heard this, and was obviously tempted. This was really like giving a pillow when he was sleepy. He was already having a headache over these things.

But although Kitano had the idea, he didn't take it immediately. After all, it belonged to Rudolph. But Rudolph saw Kitano's hesitation and said softly, "No, this is just a very ordinary thing for me. And Trainer Kitano, you need it more than I do. Rather than wasting it, I think it's better to lend it to you. After all, the emperor is also training with you. With this, you will be more comfortable."

"Don't worry, I've copied all the files on my computer to the new one, so you can use it without worry."

"If that's the case, then I'd rather be respectful than obey."

At this point, it would be a bit pretentious for Kitano not to take the call. After all, he really needed the laptop. Seeing Kitano take it, Rudolph couldn't help but smile again, but he remained calm and said softly, "That's all. I'll take my leave now—Ah, by the way, Trainer Kitano, this laptop wasn't charged before, it might need to be restarted."

"I understand." Kitano nodded and watched Rudolph leave. At this moment, Kitano, holding the laptop in his hand, couldn't wait to tinker with it in the team room. Soon, in the hands of Kitano, who was an old otaku in his previous life, the laptop was plugged in and started working soon.

As an old otaku, Kitano hadn't touched the computer for a while this week, and he was really itching to use it. When he turned on the computer, saw that he had to enter a password, and entered Rudolf's birthday without hesitation, he successfully opened the notebook.

On the desktop, what caught the eye was a photo of Rudo that symbolized herself - a photo of her when she won the undefeated triple crown.

"That's really Rudolph's style," Kitano sighed. In his previous playthrough, Rudolph's laptop also had this photo as wallpaper. The only difference was that in that playthrough, Kitano was Rudolph's trainer, and he was still in the photo. But this playthrough, it was just Rudolph, with no trainer standing beside him.

But this photo undoubtedly aroused Kitano's memories, some beautiful memories of the past. Although the ending was a foregone conclusion, when Rudolph won the undefeated triple crown, Kitano was still excited to the point of tears, and he hugged Rudolph and cried.

"Then let me see. I finally got my laptop, so I'll download a game to satisfy my craving... Okay?"

However, at this moment, when Kitano was about to download something using the browser on the laptop, which had obviously been cleaned and had a very clean desktop, he saw a folder titled "Daily Notes" in the space below the browser.

Did Rudolph forget to delete it? Kitano thought of this, but driven by curiosity and the confidence he had shared with Rudolph, he almost didn't hesitate and immediately opened the folder...

Chapter 146: Does Rudo symbolize intentional leakage of information?

It must be said that this folder is truly attractive to Kitano, the former trainer of the Ludo Symbol. Because Kitano understands the Ludo Symbol, she would not choose any fancy file names, and she rarely changes the file names. Every time she changes the file name, it shows the importance of the file.

As for this "Daily Note", Kitano didn't know whether it was because Rudolph neglected to do so when he was cleaning the folder or for some other reason, but when he saw it, he clicked on it without thinking, without any guilt at all for snooping into Rudolph's private messages.

The reason is very simple. After all, he was Rudolph's trainer in the first round. In that round, he and Rudolph talked about almost everything. There was almost nothing they didn't know about each other except their own intimacy. There was no privacy at all. He could play with Rudolph's notebook at will, and Rudolph could check Kitano's mobile phone without informing him, and even unlock it with fingerprints.

With this kind of relationship, Kitano didn't feel like he was infringing on Rudolph's privacy. Besides, what privacy did Rudolph have with him? Kitano knew almost everything about her. He didn't know when this "Daily Note" was written. If it was old, he could just take a look and delete it.

When Kitano opened the folder, he saw several more folders. One of them contained some photos of Rudolph. Rudolph didn't often take selfies, so these were photos taken by others, probably the Emperor of the East China Sea. They were all photos of Rudolph in his daily life.

"The one reviewing documents, the one in casual clothes, the one wearing glasses... they're all here." Kitano flipped through the photos one by one, and looking at Rudolph with different expressions in the photos, his mood improved a lot. Along with some good memories of the past, his smile widened a little.

When Kitano opened the folder on the other side, he found that it was filled with documents. When he opened one of them, he saw the date and weather clearly recorded on it.

"Is it a diary? Rudolf has this habit?" Kitano was really a little surprised. In his impression, Rudolf was not a person who kept a diary. Her memory was extremely strong. She would never forget almost anyone she met. She could remember things for a long time after seeing them once. There was no need for her to keep a diary at all.

This seemed to be a recent event, judging by the date... maybe it was over a week ago? When he first entered Tresen College?

Kitano felt a little strange. He clicked on one of the latest documents and read through it line by line, muttering to himself, "May 21st... Today a new trainer arrived. His name is Kitano Ryuichi. I met him in the chairman's office. He's quite handsome, but unfortunately, he's not very confident. I think my words were a bit harsh. I hope he didn't take them to heart."

Did he really start recording it from the day he arrived at Tresen College? Beiye frowned slightly, feeling that it was a bit strange, but he continued reading.

"I had Chi Cao take him to visit Tresen Academy. On the way back to the Student Union, Bai Ren seemed to question Trainer Kitano's abilities, and I actually refuted her. I rarely get angry, but I don't even understand my behavior that day."

"But for some reason, I always feel that Trainer Kitano looks strangely familiar, as if I have seen him a long time ago. For this reason, I wrote this diary. I think it is necessary."

The last line also explained the purpose of Rudolf writing this diary. Kitano suddenly realized it, but what caught his attention more was what Rudolf wrote in the diary. The sense of familiarity with him made Kitano a little nervous.

What does this mean? Could it be that after he restarted last week, Rudolph still retained his memories of his past? But if he restarted, wouldn't that mean he'd be starting over from scratch?

No, no, no... calm down. Rudolph just felt that he felt very familiar, but he didn't recognize him. That means Rudolph still has no memory of their last show. This sense of familiarity... might be some residual feeling, right?

Kitano was a little uneasy, but he still chose to click on the next document. He now desperately hoped that Rudolph did not remember the past, otherwise there were some things that he would find difficult to explain.

"On May 22nd, everything turned out a bit unexpectedly. We actually held a special tryout for a position for Kitano's horse girl. This would have been impossible in the past, but for some reason, the thought of selecting the best freshman from the entire academy to become Kitano's trainer made me inexplicably happy for him."

"It feels weird... Why am I so happy? What's wrong with me?"

"Fortunately... he doesn't seem to have remembered it." Kitano breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, but Rudolph's growing sense of familiarity still made him feel a little more uneasy, and he continued to click on the next document.

"On May 24th, I made a decision that went against the rules... I found the Emperor of the East Sea and asked her to join Trainer Kitano's team. For some reason, I felt that entrusting the Emperor to him would be the right choice. Although he was not confident, I believed he was a good trainer."

Kitano learned another fact in this way. Although Kitano had already guessed it, it turned out that Rudolph was the one behind the scenes trying to find the Emperor of the East Sea... However, Kitano smiled slightly when he saw Rudolph's last words to him: "I believe he is a good trainer."

He's truly ashamed... Rudolph. You clearly have no memory of our past, yet you still trust me so much.

"On the 25th, I approved Emperor's decision to participate in the tryouts. This was clearly against the rules, as Emperor was stronger than most of the freshmen. But I did it anyway... Am I a bad president?"

"On the 26th, Sirius came unexpectedly for a visit, and he was very close to Trainer Kitano... I got mad again, but I don't know why. Trainer Kitano and I have nothing to do with each other, so why did I get so nervous when I saw Sirius so close to him?"

"On the 27th, I inexplicably felt that as soon as I saw Trainer Kitano, my mood became particularly good, as if all the fatigue from dealing with the day's work had disappeared. What's wrong with me?"

Each document represents Rudolf's thoughts after interacting with Kitano day by day. At the beginning, there were some other contents, but as time went on, Kitano found that the contents in Rudolf's documents were almost more and more centered around him. They were all words that expressed that he was in a good mood after seeing him, but he didn't know why.

But in the words, a strong and hard-to-conceal goodwill was still conveyed to Kitano through the text. Even in the end, Kitano unknowingly flipped through the last document, and this document only had a short line of words -

"Am I really in love with Kitano Ryuichi?"

This short sentence made Kitano's heart skip a beat. Staring at this line of text, Kitano didn't come back to his senses for a long time. It was conceivable how much impact this sentence had on his mind, making him unable to calm down for a long time.

……

"Hmm? President, you got a new notebook?"

In the student union, Qi Cao noticed a new laptop on Rudolph's desk after he returned and asked curiously. Rudolph chuckled and said, "Yes, the family bought me a new one... My previous one was a bit slow because it had too many files, so this one has a lot more memory."

"It seems that the president will be in a good mood because of the new things." Narita Bairen on the side also noticed Rudolph's good mood. It can be said that he has never seen Rudolph in such a good mood since the end of the selection competition.

Qi Cao and Bai Ren both found it strange. The president didn't seem like the type to be so happy and excited when getting something new, not to mention that with the financial resources of the symbolic family...getting a new computer was as simple as eating and drinking water. Was it worth being so happy?

"Yeah, I'm in a very good mood today."

However, Rudolf admitted it frankly after hearing it, and at this moment she lowered her head slightly to hide her almost twisted smile. The corners of her mouth were almost smiling to her ears. It was conceivable how good her mood was at the moment.

I can really describe my feeling as "ecstasy". I am happy for myself for coming up with this method.

Trainer-kun...you should open your computer now and see the "diary" I left for him, right?

There is no falsehood, all of them are real feelings... but they are not completely true. In this way, it should be enough for Trainer to feel my good impression of him, right?

Then everything else will fall into place. Trainer-kun... you'll be mine soon.

Everything you have will be mine, soon. Rudolph's hollow eyes held no emotion, only a stubborn joy and the excitement of achieving his goal.

Chapter 147: Kitano has no love for Rudolph

Kitano rarely returned to the trainer's dormitory, but instead lay down on the small bed in the team room. This bed was slightly smaller than the one he had in the trainer's dormitory, but he didn't care. At this moment, he had more important things to think about than the size of the bed.

It was already past midnight, but Kitano still couldn't sleep all night because of the "diary" in the folder in the laptop that Luduo had symbolically given him. The content in it made Kitano think about nothing more, and several words in it kept lingering in his mind.

Rudolph, like him? Really? Now the only question in Kitano's mind was this, and he was a little unsure how to accept it.

Admittedly, Kitano had thought about Rudolph liking him during the first round - whether it was Sirius, the Gas Trough, Bai Renyi or the Speed ​​Symbol, everyone seemed to treat the two of them with an attitude of "the whole world knows that you are already a couple", but only he and the Rudolph Symbol had never confirmed this with each other.

Yes, Rudolph and Kitano, the pair who had been partners for seven or eight years in that round, even at the end they had a tacit understanding with each other. It can be said that they had done everything they could do except what a couple should do, but they never revealed the slightest emotion of "liking" each other.

Although Kitano had always heard everyone say that Rudolph must like him, in that first round, he mostly just laughed off the rumors without caring. Even Qi Cao and Narita Shirahito, whom he had promoted, had asked him similar questions, but his answer never changed.

Kitano knew full well that to outsiders, his and Rudolph's close relationship, almost like a couple, was perfectly normal. After all, compared to those young people who had just arrived, he and Rudolph had already known each other for about six years. He had been with Rudolph from his classical years to his appointment as student council president. During that time, they had never been apart for more than a week. Even on the later expeditions, Kitano always followed Rudolph closely.

The reason for all this is actually very simple, because Kitano and Luduo know each other very well. With their current level of familiarity, without any one of them, the other will simply fail.

Kitano needs the symbol of Luduo to help him resist external pressure and doubts. The strength of the "Emperor" is enough for him to improve himself and benefit greatly, while also giving Kitano the confidence to resist external pressure.

Rudo Yuto also needs a trainer like Kitano to take care of her daily life, even her mental stability before going on stage and the many tasks behind the scenes - these were things that Rudo Yuto could not take care of at the time while she was still in service, and she did not have time to do these tedious little things, but these little things can often greatly affect the mood of a horse girl.

As for the possibility that the Symbol Family has a team that can take care of Rudolf Symbol... this possibility is impossible. First of all, Rudolf is already very familiar with Kitano. They are so familiar with each other that even if Rudolf sits in front of Kitano wrapped in a bath towel and asks him to blow his hair, he will not have any extra reaction. This has become a habit of Rudolf imperceptibly, but this habit can only be done in front of Kitano.

Think about it, you're the "Emperor," Japan's horse king, wrapped in a towel and having a stranger blow-dry your hair. Wouldn't she be embarrassed if this got out? But if you correct it... Honestly, asking someone who's just finished training and a race, who's mentally and physically exhausted, to have to worry about this is really uncomfortable.

——Before Kitano appeared, Rudolph might have needed to think about these things, but after becoming completely familiar with Kitano, Rudolph could put these trivial matters behind him and concentrate on the game.

Why does Rudolf always slow down just before the finish line in every race? He euphemistically calls it "the emperor's mercy." The truth is, it stems from her unique status. As the symbol of her family, she must always maintain her composure and face any challenge without fear or retreat.

No matter how difficult the game is, you must maintain a bit of rationality and respond to reporters' post-match interviews, and you must not expose your nature as a "tyrant" to the outside media.

Regardless of whether she has had enough rest or not, she must recover quickly as long as there is a challenge. Even if it is a sudden challenge, she must respond fully.

For various reasons, there is almost no possibility for Rudo to relax. She must always be vigilant because on the road to becoming the Japanese Horse King, those who try to pull her down from the altar are often not foreign horse racing girls, but rather the media and some people in her own country.

However, Kitano's appearance gave Luduo a symbol of free time. She could go all out in the competition without worry, and could be lazy in a private space. She could yell, get angry, and be sad... As long as there were only the two of them in a space, she could be herself.

After becoming the student council president, Rudolph often stayed up late, and Kitano always stayed up late with her, but Rudolph and Kitano both knew... what she was staying up late for was not the night, but a brief period of freedom.

Such a relationship made the two of them an inseparable pair. Whether they loved each other... Kitano didn't know. He might have liked Rudolph at the beginning, but that was because of his identity as a time traveler, and he loved her like the dog in her house. But after thoroughly understanding Rudolph, the horse girl, Kitano even felt a little disgusted with her for a while.

Disgusted by Rudolph's cruelty, her rudeness, her disdain for everyone, and the pride that comes from her high self-esteem - all of these are symbols of a true Rudolph. It can be said that they broke all of Kitano's initial cognition of Rudolph, and it was difficult to confuse her with the good president in his memory.

But in the end, Kitano understood Rudolf, just as Rudolf also accepted Kitano. The relationship between the two did not reach the point of love in the end, but it seemed deeper than love and more difficult to separate.

Simply put, if it is love, then the conversation between the two may be something like "You love me, I love you, you are my sweetheart" every day, but Kitano and Rudolph do not have such a relationship.

Their relationship was simple, consisting of long silences during overtime hours, with Rudolph occasionally looking up and asking, "Are you asleep?"

And Kitano replied as a matter of course: "Not yet, I'm still with you." That was enough.

For Kitano, Luduo symbolized everything he had at the time. They didn't need many words; their relationship was more like one of mutual dependence, moving forward. Therefore, they didn't need the emotional support of "love" to move forward together.

So no matter how outsiders viewed their relationship, Kitano and Rudolph just smiled slightly and didn't say much, because they both knew that in the eyes of outsiders, their relationship seemed to be like that.

But this cannot be changed. Rudolf has never said in person that she likes Ryuichi Kitano, and Ryuichi Kitano has never confirmed this - for a person like him, having such a person regard him as a part of his life is already very satisfying for him.

But now, in the notebook of Rudo Symbol, Kitano saw Rudo Symbol's thoughts in this round, which he was not aware of.

She said she liked him, was that reasonable?

"Could it be that the familiar feeling left over from that playthrough has led Rudolph to mistakenly believe this feeling is a sign of love for me?"

Kitano, tossing and turning in bed, pondered the matter and seemed to have come up with a more reasonable explanation. However, this explanation was still not enough to calm Kitano's thoughts.

Rudolph liking him... this joke was not funny. Especially now that he was the trainer of the East Sea Emperor, he was well aware of the close relationship between the East Sea Emperor and the Rudolph symbol. If Rudolph liked him... it would definitely affect the Emperor's condition.

Even the atmosphere within his team would become tense. The best thing to do now... seemed to be to pretend not to know.

"Alas... Rudolph... If you think about the past, you might not think this feeling is love... Instead, you'll blame me for my weakness, right?"

Kitano thought about how he had committed suicide last week. If Rudo knew about it, he would probably have suffered a miserable end. He would probably have been beaten up by Rudo. Any of the horse racing girls he had experienced would have beaten him up for his cowardice if they knew that he had ended up committing suicide.

I can only think of a way to put this matter aside for now... maybe I should see Rudolph less often? Thinking of this, Kitano slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep in thought.

……

At the same time, in Uma Musume's dormitory, Condor and Kusagami Tobi, as roommates, are about to turn off the lights and go to bed. Kusagami Tobi has been blowing her hair in front of the mirror in the dormitory, while Condor has been looking at Kusagami Tobi with a worried look on his face on the bed beside her.

"Da." With the sound of a hair dryer being turned off, Cao Shangfei finally couldn't help but turn his head and asked Condor curiously, "Elu...you've been staring at me for a long time. What's going on?"

"Nothing... I just felt that you seemed to be in a bad mood today, Xiaocao."

Shenying never mentioned that she saw Cao Shangfei's application to Beiye being rejected, but Cao Shangfei looked depressed all day long, which made her very worried.

No matter what, Xiaocao can't be so unhappy all the time. Thinking of this, Shenying also made a plan and said to Cao Shangfei: "Ailu, I don't want Xiaocao to be so unhappy. If there is anything, Ailu can help, Xiaocao, please feel free to ask me for help."

Chapter 148: The possibility of drastically stimulating the blackening plan is questionable

"Elu..."

However, Cao Shangfei looked at Shenying who seemed to be very concerned about her, and she realized belatedly that ever since Beiye rejected Qingyun Tiankong, her mind had been full of thoughts on how to correctly persuade Qingyun Tiankong and go to Beiye to tell him her own ideas.

I have to say that this is a difficult problem, especially since Cao Shangfei knows too well that Qingyun Tiankong looks so indifferent and lazy, which makes it difficult for a trainer to think that she will be a very talented horse girl.

But Kitano knew very well that he not only understood Qing Yuntiankong's talents, but he also did not misunderstand or look down on her because of her lazy appearance and her not-so-excellent bloodline.

It was as if he, like the other horse girls like Kusanagi Hibi, had witnessed from beginning to end how Qingyun Tiankong had become what it is today, and knew the spirit and indomitable spirit hidden beneath her seemingly lazy appearance, as well as the calmness with which she could easily deal with any powerful enemy.

To be honest, if it weren't for Ms. Cao's desire to protect her companion Qingyun Tiankong, and the fact that the joining of the East China Sea Emperor had already dealt her a heavy blow, Cao Shangfei herself would have wanted to find Kitano to be her trainer.

And now Kitano has opened a convenient door for them, and the conditions are even very simple - as long as Qingyun Tiankong personally admits that she is willing to join Kitano's team, it will be fine.

This is very simple for Ms. Cao, and even it would be easy for Shenying to do it - but it is a difficult problem for Qingyun Tiankong.

As mentioned before, Qingyun Tiankong was clearly devastated by the East Sea Emperor's joining the team. But that wasn't the most important thing. Cao Shangfei had always found this point extremely difficult to implement, and that was why Qingyun Tiankong hadn't found a trainer for so long—low self-esteem.

Yes, no one would have ever thought that Qing Yuntiankong, who slept soundly in class as if nothing mattered and everything was under his control, had not sought a trainer because of "inferiority complex". I'm afraid few people would believe it.

But Cao Shangfei knew the reason. Because of Qingyun Tiankong's ordinary bloodline, the strength and ease she displayed today were actually based on her sufficient training and hard work. However, she also knew that her bloodline would ultimately limit her upper limit, and she was destined not to go very far.

So, even though she was very interested in the position in Kitano's team, and was even the first to sign up after the news of the selection was confirmed, she did not dare to admit that she went there for this position.

Because of her low self-esteem, her only hope was to win the championship through legitimate means, and even when she heard that Kitano was recruiting new leaders, she didn't have the courage to speak up.

It was also because of her inferiority complex that after she learned that a genius like the Emperor of the East China Sea had joined Kitano's team, she did not mention the idea of ​​joining Kitano's team at all, and even deliberately distanced herself from Kitano's team - because she knew that her own limits were far superior to those of a genius like the Emperor of the East China Sea.

This is also the reason why Cao Shangfei wanted to delay Di Wang at the beginning. She knew that if Di Wang joined the team earlier than Qing Yun Tiankong, it would definitely irritate Qing Yun Tiankong's nerves. At that time, it would be even more difficult to persuade Qing Yun Tiankong to muster up the courage.

But it was too late to say any of this now. Gazing at the Condor in front of him, Cao Shangfei held no hope in his heart, but he still tried to reassure Condor by asking softly, "Elu... how do you think we can help a horse girl with low self-esteem to muster up the courage to approach her favorite trainer and ask to become one of his members?"