Walking on the way to the Tracen supermarket, Shinji Kitahara looked melancholic.
He actually understood why his team had created a chat group without him, the trainer. After all, from the moment the team was founded, he had been trying his best to avoid interacting with them. He hadn't even added them on LINE (a chat app similar to WeChat), let alone been invited to a group chat.
However, although he could understand why they didn't invite him, and in a way, it catered to his desire not to get too close to the horse girls under his name, and he should theoretically be happy about it... why couldn't he feel happy at all?
But, while he wasn't in the team's group chat, he was in the trainers' group chat. It was just that everyone was busy recently, so not many people were talking in it.
At Tracen, the first few days of school were often the busiest for trainers. On one hand, the holidays had just ended, and the horse girls had just returned to school. Their physical and mental states were still in vacation mode, so the trainers had to help them create plans, adjust, and make an overall plan for the new year. The workload was considerable.
On the other hand, as the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Although a small number of charges chose to spend the holidays with their trainers, most spent them separately. And since charges and trainers were almost always together at Tracen outside of the long holidays, the result was... well... let's just say those trainers were even more tired than the others.
Looking at the trainers rushing through the campus streets with dark circles under their eyes, holding all kinds of documents and reports, Shinji Kitahara, who was walking out of the Tracen supermarket with two large bags of toys, looked so out of place.
Because of the forum post, he had become a celebrity on campus. And since the post included his photo, it wasn't difficult for others to recognize him. So, soon after he came out, all kinds of gazes converged on him, and some whispers started.
Shinji ignored them. As a slacker, having a thick skin was a basic skill.
But he had only taken a few steps before he heard what those whispers were saying, and his expression started to crack.
"Hey, so that's Shinji Kitahara. Looking closely, he's actually quite handsome, much better looking than in the photo..."
"To be able to enter the main Tracen campus at this age, even if he just scraped by, it's still a very good achievement..."
"Ahem, about that, I heard a rumor that he deliberately lowered his score to get in, just so he wouldn't attract attention..."
"Is that so? Then it's no wonder the President has taken a liking to him..."
Wait, what are you people talking about?!
Shinji was shocked.
He understood every word the passing horse girls were saying, but when put together, he had no idea what it meant.
He admitted to manipulating his score; after all, he had planned to come here to slack off. He didn't know how it was exposed, but at least he had a clue.
But 'being liked by the President'? What was that? He had just had a head-on confrontation with that Symboli Rudolf yesterday and had thoroughly racked up negative affection points. How had he suddenly become liked today?
This was actually a misunderstanding.
To summarize what happened, when the public opinion on the forum was fermenting yesterday, the Chairwoman had noticed that something was wrong and had taken corresponding measures. With public opinion, it was better to guide it than to block it. Simply banning and stopping it could lead to worse consequences, so Yayoi Akikawa had thought of guiding it a little.
Although she knew about Shinji's deeds and abilities, she felt that if she just said it directly, she would probably be accused of faking it, so she took a compromise. Simply put, she used alt accounts to stir up the rhythm, saying that Shinji wasn't as bad as he seemed and had a considerable secret, encouraging the students to find information and speculate on their own. After all, people are more inclined to believe what they discover themselves.
Yayoi Akikawa's original intention was to have them discover Shinji's deeds (and if they couldn't find them, she would spread them with alt accounts), thereby proving his ability. But what she hadn't expected was that those idiotic netizens had thought in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
Shinji Kitahara has a secret?
When the public opinion was led in this direction, the first thing those idiotic netizens thought of was not that he might be hiding his strength, but that he might have some background.
And speaking of background, the one closest to Tokai Teio was, of course, Symboli Rudolf.
Shinji Kitahara has a connection with Symboli Rudolf?
Some people speculated this, but they weren't sure. More thought that he might have some connection with the Symboli family, which was why he could become Tokai Teio's trainer.
But at this moment, something happened that changed their perception.
Last night, while most people were still treating this inference as a joke, Symboli Rudolf had summoned Shinji Kitahara. And according to eyewitnesses, to meet with him, she had specially dismissed the other student council members, and the two of them had spent a long time alone in the student council room.
And at this very moment, someone, somewhere, dug up the fact that Symboli Rudolf had secretly found a trainer for Tokai Teio, but without naming who it was, and so...
Doesn't it all connect?
President Rudolf was worried that an ordinary trainer couldn't teach Tokai Teio well, so she contacted her family, quickly inserted a trainer in the new semester, and had him pass with a low score just so he wouldn't attract attention, so he could directly become Tokai Teio's trainer. And judging from last night's situation, there might be some relationship between the two. Maybe Rudolf brought out a trainer who had helped guide her in the family before. Maybe he's even the emperor's 'canary'...
Of course, after discovering that the forum's direction had gone wrong, Yayoi Akikawa immediately blocked these comments. But as mentioned before, with public opinion, it's better to guide it than to block it. It was fine before the block, but after the block, it spread even more widely.
And so, things became what Shinji was seeing now.
Listening to the various outrageous comments coming from his ears, his palms began to sweat slightly.
He didn't really care about being slandered or ridiculed by others in private, or even to his face. After all, he was already slacking off, and his skin was thick enough. Being scolded a few times wouldn't hurt him.
But these comments really scared him.
If they were just rumors, it would be fine. At worst, he would be hated a little more by Symboli Rudolf. The scary part was if they were true.
Although he felt that with the negative affection he had accumulated yesterday, these comments should just be rumors, but what if? What if she really was blind and had taken even a tiny liking to him?
After hesitating for a long time, he finally couldn't withstand the pressure of the surrounding gazes and comments and chose to walk back through a more secluded route.
In this situation, he couldn't take any countermeasures. He could only continue to slack off and turn a blind eye.
And just as he ducked into a secluded path to avoid the crowd, a horse girl who had been watching him from the crowd took out her phone and said in a low voice, "Target confirmed to be alone, no other horse girls around. We can proceed..."
"Good, I'll handle it."
Putting away her phone, she casually walked into the secluded path where Shinji had disappeared, then quickened her pace and soon caught up with him.
Looking at the man in front of her, still carrying two large bags and leisurely walking back to the clubroom, a hint of apology appeared in the horse girl's eyes, which then turned to determination.
She crouched down, burst forward, and accelerated.
In a few breaths, she was right behind the man.
It was only then that the man seemed to react and turned his head.
But it was too late.
The distance was only a few meters, which for a horse girl, was a distance that could be crossed in a single breath. There was no room for maneuver.
Looking at the man's slightly dazed face, she silently apologized in her heart and raised her fist.
Then, she smashed it down.
Bang—
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