At night, after the curfew at Tracen had passed and everyone had fallen asleep one after another, Oguri Cap, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes with extreme punctuality. In the dark dormitory, with the extremely strong senses of a horse girl, she could clearly notice the regular rise and fall and the slight snoring of Tamamo Cross in the bed next to her.
"Well then... let's leave quietly."
Putting on her clothes and shoes, she carefully pushed open the door and closed it again... Her movements were as gentle as a child sneaking out of bed in the middle of the night to steal a snack, afraid of disturbing any familiar object. Any slight movement would make her feel nervous.
And just as she was tiptoeing and was about to reach the dormitory gate, a crisp voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
"Stop—where are you going, Oguri Cap-san?"
Behind her, the dorm leader, Hishi Amazon, with her healthy brown skin and the nickname "Heroine," was standing with her hands on her hips, questioning her with a suspicious look. However, Oguri, who did not want to give up at this point, turned around with a forced composure and looked straight at her scrutinizing gaze, her mind also quickly thinking.
In this situation, what would he do... that's right! I'll use that trick!
Having thought of a way, a bright light bulb appeared above her head. To avoid the dorm leader's scrutiny, she also, with a straight face, answered, word by word:
"I suspect the person I like is on a date with another horse girl. I have to go out and catch them in the act. I can't let them succeed."
"...Huh?"
And as expected, her words made Hishi Amazon, who had vaguely guessed the reason, fall into a daze for a moment. Especially when she saw her straight face and her serious appearance, it made her unable to even refute for a moment, falling into a long silence...
"—Just kidding." Seeing that his tactic seemed to be working, she was overjoyed and immediately changed her tune, still very calmly saying, "I just want to go out and get something to eat. I heard that the carrots planted by the director are ready to be harvested. I want to taste the fresh carrots."
"...Don't eat them all."
Hishi Amazon, who had breathed a sigh of relief, also waved her hand with some trepidation, signaling her to leave. And seeing this, she didn't even have time to be happy and immediately ran out of the dormitory. And the direction she was heading was not the director's building, but the training ground where he and Nakayama Festa should be!
"As expected, he was right. First, say a premise that is impossible to the point of being unacceptable, and then say your real thoughts, and it will be much easier for people to accept."
"No, now is not the time to think about this. They should be..."
...
"Huff... huff..."
At night, on the training ground, which should have just finished its renovation, two figures were now running in circles on the newly renovated track at a speed that was a jog for a human.
And on the outermost circle of 2000 meters, a track that was very difficult for a human, before even half a lap, one of the figures without horse ears had already stopped in place, panting heavily, her body bent over with great difficulty, unable to continue running.
"Stop, stop for a moment, let me rest..."
"This isn't even a warm-up, Kitano. Your stamina is too pathetic."
In front, Nakayama Festa came to his side at an almost-walking pace. Seeing his panting appearance, although there was a hint of mockery in her mouth, she still, at the first moment, went forward to support him, one hand helping him to soothe the air in his chest, waiting for him to recover.
"Honestly, your body is so weak, and you still ask me to run with you... you know I'm a horse girl, are you an idiot?"
"And running with you for a while and then resting for a while makes me feel very uncomfortable all over. I really want to run for a while, but you're already finished before I can even start. How do you want me to use all this strength I've built up?"
As she spoke, she also uncomfortably tried to move her joints, showing an extremely uncomfortable expression—she now felt a kind of heat all over her body. These joint parts were all itchy, as if there were many ants crawling on her body. Her chest and abdomen also felt itchy, making her unable to resist the urge to scratch.
However, because he was by her side, she did not want to do so many indecent actions and even forced herself not to try to move these parts. Clearly, she also had her own thoughts about this.
And being supported by her and walking all the way to a wooden chair on the side of the training ground, he, after finally catching his breath, faced her, who was sitting beside him and was exuding a faint heat from all over her body. He also, regardless of his wretched and weak appearance, smiled softly:
"After all, I'm also your trainer. Before, C.B. and Invincible had both suggested that I could exercise more and eat well. That's a good way to maintain a healthy life."
"I didn't think so before, but now, I feel it's necessary to make myself a little healthier... doing so will probably make you feel more at ease, right?"
"Oh? You've figured it out and plan to live a good life?"
And his words also made her pupils light up slightly. After all, as someone who had lived with him for several years, she was also very clear that although he had always been very encouraging to her in his words, always saying "I believe she can do it," his attitude towards his own body was actually quite negative.
To put it simply, you couldn't see a trace of the desire to live in him. His indifferent attitude towards his own life was basically a state of waiting for death. And now that she had completely known about his special nature, she also completely understood why the former him had this feeling.
Probably because... he had gone through too many reincarnations, too much despair. His repeated cries for help had ultimately not been able to avoid death. And with so many memories being carried by him alone, he himself had also become very indifferent to life and death.
And now, she, looking at the him who had taken the initiative to propose to exercise and maintain his health, and seemed to have rekindled his hope for life, a feeling of unpredictable joy welled up in her heart.
No—this is not enough. If he wants to live a good life in this time and space and have a chance to realize his wish, now there is only me, Gold Ship, and Silence Suzuka.
I must let him live. I must win more races!
"—That's the way to think." However, Nakayama Festa, whose heart was filled with a thousand words but could not express them frankly, chose to bury all these words in her heart. But she, who was not good at expressing herself with words, used her actions to express her "reward" to him.
"Well then... let's do it like the last few times."
Saying this, she silently turned her back to him. Her hand naturally brushed her chestnut hair to her shoulder, frankly exposing her slightly petite back to him, and answered in a still-calm tone:
"Running with you is really a pain. I'm itchy all over and have nowhere to use my strength."
"So, as we agreed, please help me get rid of this excess strength and stop this itchy feeling—of course, I'm also staying in your dorm tonight."
"No problem."
Faced with her, who had been making a big fuss a while ago but was now obviously used to it, he also did not say much. He took the initiative to place his palm on her back and, on her slightly petite back, used the method of rubbing with his palm to help her stop the itch.
And similar things, since Rudolf's condition in the hospital had improved day by day and he finally had time to return to Tracen to deal with the team's affairs, had already started to be done.
And the first thing he needed to do was to help her, who had been hit the hardest after her defeat in the Satsuki Sho, to regain her confidence and correct her fault of being too focused on Tokai Teio. For this, he had thought of many plans, but in the end, he chose this way of being alone to conduct "individual training" with her.
However, although it was called training, it was actually more like concern. Because he also knew very well that with just this little bit of extra training at night, it was obviously impossible for her to win against Tokai Teio.
Or rather, if she wanted to rely on making up for the basic gap between her and Teio to obtain a decisive victory, then both her starting point and talent were too far behind Teio, who had received orthodox education since she was a child. He thought it over and over. The only possibility for her to win against Teio was for her to burst out with all her potential and face the battle with the determination to win.
Therefore, he chose to cultivate his and her feelings during this time. Trying once again from the bottom of his heart to treat her as his own daughter, to take care of and dote on her, he chose to be her "Ms. Nobuko" in this time and space.
And the facts proved that his "Ms. Nobuko" was doing very well. He could clearly feel that the distance between him and her was disappearing. Both in body and mind, the two were slowly getting closer...
For example...
"It's not comfortable to just rub on the outside of my clothes."
She felt his touch on her back. In the past, it could have stopped the itch, but now she felt her body getting hotter and itchy, unbearable. Driven by the idea of "rewarding him a little" in her heart, she also turned her head slightly and said to him behind her in an almost commanding tone:
"Put your hand inside, otherwise it's useless."
"...But that's not good, is it?" His hand paused slightly. Looking at her back, who had basically just thrown on a tracksuit and run out, he was very clear that if he reached his hand inside, he would very likely come into contact with her flesh.
However, to this, she showed an interested smile instead, her tone with a hint of teasing as she laughed lightly, "What? You're starting to worry about this now? When you were touching my feet for acupuncture before, you didn't hesitate at all."
"Don't overthink it. I'm just letting you touch me. I also know my figure is very barren and won't make people have any ideas—didn't that Gold Ship person help you take a bath many times? Didn't you have any reaction at all? What are you worried about with me?"
"No, I think it would be a miracle of the world if anyone had feelings for Gold Ship."
And having gotten her permission, while agreeing, he also carefully lifted her tracksuit slightly. After feeling a wave of hot, stuffy air from the tracksuit, he also tentatively, as she had said, slowly extended his palm inside...
"Mmm..."
And the moment his fingertips came into contact with the girl's flesh, a particularly clear sound in the silent night sky escaped from her mouth. And she herself seemed to have noticed this and immediately explained:
"Your hand... is very cold. Didn't it get hot at all after exercising?"
"It's probably because your horse girls' body temperature is too high. Ah, so much sweat."
"You're so noisy."
He also answered lightly. And their conversation seemed to have paused again. Under the dark night, the horse girl, with her back to her trainer, letting him grope her back, this scene, no matter who saw it, would definitely suspect that this was a partner who had already reached the final step, and this was a foreplay item before the "main event."
And even she herself had this premonition. But now, feeling his temperature behind her, she silently made up her mind in a place where no one's eyes could notice.
I will definitely save you... Kitano, no matter what the cost, I will save you.
Hiss... but why does it feel like this burning sensation in my abdomen and chest is getting stronger and stronger... what is this feeling?
The touch of him on her back became more and more obvious. Her cheeks also unconsciously blushed a little. She couldn't help but reach out a hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead. The burning sensation made her pant slightly, and her legs couldn't help but tighten.
The subtle changes in her body, even he and everyone in the Gold Family didn't know. Everyone thought that she, who had already fully developed, seemed to have quietly ushered in another "growth" under the stimulation of this subtle adrenaline.
The feeling of being fully developed had caused a change in her body. She seemed to feel that she was much more sensitive to "stimulation" than before...
And all of this, at this moment, was seen by an ash-haired horse girl—at the high place of the training ground, Oguri Cap, who had arrived at some point, was watching the interaction between him and her below with cold, emotionless eyes. Her extremely strong five senses allowed her to see all of her subtle changes, so clearly that she couldn't help but feel disgusted.
Under the dark night, her palm unconsciously clenched into a fist. With the extremely strong strength of a horse girl, she felt a warm current slowly flowing down her palm... drop by drop of bright red blood flowed down from the palm that had been pierced by her fingers.
And similarly, at the corner of her mouth, her bitten lower lip also seeped a hint of blood. But she, who had held back the strong emotions overflowing in her chest, expressionlessly wiped away the bloodstain on the corner of her mouth, closed her eyes again in the darkness, clenched her fist, and with a voice only she could hear, in a manner almost like self-hypnosis, she repeatedly murmured:
"All of this... if it can let him live in this world... everything is meaningful."
"I can tolerate that he doesn't care about me the most in this world. I can also tolerate that he is closer to others... I can tolerate everything... as long as he can live."
"Yes... as long as she can help him live, I can tolerate anything."
As long as the bottom line is not crossed, she is just an ordinary country ash-haired horse girl. As long as she can tolerate it, all of this can continue to be maintained.
As long as... you occupy my position and also fulfill my responsibility, I can not care.
I can, not care.
Under the night sky, the figure of the ash-haired horse girl exuding a strange black aura, at this moment, seemed to have merged with the night. Her azure eyes, the moment she opened them again, seemed to have lost all their original color, and what could be reflected was only a deep stubbornness, stubbornness, and a morbid calmness.
Because I will not cause him any more trouble. No matter what, never.
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