After the crowd of horse girls promised not to cause him any trouble, Shinji breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking that these little ones were at least somewhat sensible and knew not to bother him when he was doing serious work.
So he sat down at his computer with peace of mind, took out his notebook, and began his serious calculations.
But it didn't take long for him to understand the saying, "The mouth of a horse girl is a deceiving ghost."
Less than ten minutes after he started writing, a small figure sneaked up behind him, watching his every move with a low, intense gaze from behind.
"...Tokai Teio, do you need something?"
"No, I'm just a little curious." She blinked and said seriously, "I'll just watch. I definitely won't cause any trouble for you, Trainer-san."
You're already causing trouble, you know that?
Shinji complained internally but didn't ask her to go back. After all, just watching... he had been watched by crowds before when he was dealing with horse girl problems, so he was used to it. A few glances wouldn't hurt him. If she wanted to watch, let her watch. Maybe it would give her some inspiration, increase her chances of winning in the future, and thus bring him more income.
But just as he was thinking this, a second figure joined the battlefield.
The brown-haired horse girl naturally sat down on the armrest of his chair, leaned forward, tilted her head, and examined the words in his notebook with great interest in her red pupils.
"...Agnes Tachyon, what are you doing now?"
"Curious," she said succinctly.
"Then can you please stand to the side?"
"No. I didn't sleep well last night. I want to sit."
"Then you..."
Before he could finish, something else appeared on the other armrest of the chair.
Shinji looked over and found that Teio had moved her position at some point. After noticing his gaze, she turned her head to look at him, blinked innocently, and took a sip of the honey special drink in her hand. "I couldn't see clearly from that position, so I'll just sit here too."
After speaking, she looked up at Tachyon and smiled.
Seeing Teio's smile, Tachyon blinked, and then, as if realizing something, she also returned a smile.
Shinji didn't notice their interaction. He had already focused all his attention on the design, his mind only thinking about finishing it quickly to get rid of these two great deities.
Then, after a while, with a jolt, a third general charged into the battlefield.
"I want to watch too!" Special Week directly pressed down on his shoulder, her eyes shining. Grass Wonder, who was sitting quietly on the side, looked helpless.
Grass Wonder didn't know what Shinji was writing, but seeing so many people go over, she was also a little curious. But her good upbringing did not allow her to do such a rude thing.
And opposite her, Eclipse glanced at the three over there, as well as Oguri, who had finished her snacks and was also heading in that direction. A strange emotion appeared in her eyes.
If it were another horse girl, they probably wouldn't have noticed this slight change in Eclipse. But Grass Wonder was different. As a qualified Yamato Nadeshiko, besides the basic applications of stalking, reasoning, and the naginata, she had also dabbled a little in psychology and was quite adept at judging others' emotions through micro-expressions.
Don't ask why a Yamato Nadeshiko would learn this. The answer is that it's a necessary skill to maintain family safety in the future.
At first, she thought Eclipse was probably jealous. After all, she had already investigated this team before coming and knew that Eclipse and Shinji were family who depended on each other.
But when she saw and distinguished the emotion in Eclipse's eyes, Grass Wonder, who had always maintained a polite smile, couldn't help but let her eyelids twitch. She almost couldn't even maintain the smile on her face.
Contentment and... anticipation?
At first, Grass Wonder thought she had seen wrong. So she lowered her head, took a sip of tea, then looked up again, and the twitching at the corner of her eye became even more obvious.
This, this is a bit incredible.
Could it be that this Miss Eclipse has some special癖好 (pǐhào - fetish/quirk)?
No, no, Grass Wonder, don't overthink it. Maybe Trainer Kitahara and Miss Eclipse just see each other as family? Maybe she's just happy that her brother is popular...
But what if, what if...
For Grass Wonder, who held herself to the standard of a Yamato Nadeshiko, that answer was a bit too shocking, so much so that she was thrown into confusion for a moment.
And while Grass Wonder was in chaos, the situation on Shinji's side was becoming even more chaotic.
Tachyon was the first to act.
After her staring contest with Teio ended, her gaze refocused on Shinji's notebook, and she began to examine it with great interest.
And then, she found that she couldn't understand it.
Words, symbols, nouns she had never seen before, all sorts of strange arrangements, and extremely abstract drawings... Tachyon continuously arranged and combined them in her mind, trying to analyze the information, but in the end, it all ended in failure.
She recognized every word in the notebook, but when they were combined, she couldn't understand what they meant at all, not to mention the abstract drawings that looked like ghost scribbles, which were even more incomprehensible to her.
Is this really designing a running form? Isn't he just doodling to fool them?
But because of Shinji's previous performance, this doubt only arose for a moment before being dismissed, and then she began to think more seriously.
And perhaps because this thinking was too serious, her body began to unconsciously lean forward, slowly getting closer to Shinji until they were less than two centimeters apart, and she could even faintly feel his warmth.
Seeing this, Teio's eyes sharpened.
First of all, she wanted to declare that she had no feelings for her Trainer-san. It was just that recently, Trainer-san had been affected a lot because of her and had even been attacked. So she naturally had an obligation to protect his safety and help him avoid any possible dangers. And it was obvious that Tachyon was a very dangerous existence.
Although she hadn't been able to object when Tachyon applied to join before, due to her non-interference agreement with Shinji, now, to protect Trainer-san's safety, she felt it was necessary to take some action.
And so, a battle of open and secret strife began.
Teio launched the first attack, and Tachyon immediately retaliated. All sorts of small movements followed one after another. And, as the battle deepened, to more conveniently obstruct the other's actions, the distance between the two continuously shortened, making Shinji, who was in the middle, the biggest victim.
Originally, they were just sitting on the side with plenty of room to move, but soon, the two little ones' bodies squeezed in, and a slightly larger movement could touch them. And after that, their arms were also placed over, their heads were also pressed against him, and in the end, even their legs, which were originally facing outwards, had slipped in, with white thigh-highs and black stockings kicking each other underneath, completely oblivious to the feelings of the person caught in the middle.
And besides these two heavyweights, the other two generals were not idle either.
As a famous poor student, Special Week's eyelids began to droop after staring at the ghost scribbles in Shinji's notebook for a while. Before long, she fell asleep standing, leaning on Shinji's shoulder, a crystal-clear drool starting to form at the corner of her mouth.
As for the last one to enter the field, Oguri Cap, because she couldn't find any place to lean on, after thinking for a moment, she simply drilled under Shinji's arm, poked her head out from under the table, and curiously examined the contents of the notebook.
And then there was good news and bad news.
The good news was that Oguri was not a poor student. Although she couldn't understand the contents of the notebook, she wouldn't fall asleep and drool.
The bad news was that Oguri found a bag of potato chips in the desk drawer. After discovering she couldn't understand the notebook, she simply took out the chips and started eating, the crunching sound very obvious.
Seeing the scene in front of her, the emotion in Eclipse's eyes became more obvious, and there was even a faint hint of hope.
Seeing her like this, Grass Wonder, who was sitting opposite her, became even more silent. For a moment, she didn't know how to describe her current mood. She could only lower her head and stare at the tea in her hand, forcing herself not to let her imagination run wild.
In the distance was chaotic confusion, and nearby was dead silence. The two sides formed a sharp contrast.
But fortunately, this contrast did not last long.
Because just as the chaos reached its peak, with Teio and Tachyon about to start掐 (qiā - strangling/fighting), Special Week's drool covering his shoulder, and Oguri's potato chip crumbs scattered everywhere, Shinji finally couldn't take it anymore and exploded.
Thump, slap, bonk, clatter.
In an instant, the four troublemaking horse girls were hit with varying degrees of force, and then they were forcibly grabbed together by two large hands.
After looking up, they were met with Shinji's gloomy expression.
"I say, have you all had enough fun?"
Although a horse girl's physical fitness is three times that of a human, although a human is no match for a horse girl, even so, in some cases, a horse girl cannot resist a human.
Just like now, facing the enraged Shinji, the four little horse girls, knowing they were in the wrong, guiltily avoided his gaze.
"...We've had enough."
"Then all of you go back and sit quietly. Immediately! Now! Right away!"
"...Yes."
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