Kitano didn't know that his original intention was just to be a "kind stranger," yet he seemed to have unintentionally shared his warmth with this girl, making the originally self-deprecating girl suddenly shine much brighter.
Kitano was actually a person with this kind of personality. Or rather, most people who are more self-deprecating are like this. Once they receive a little recognition, they seem to "awaken" all at once, going above and beyond their capabilities to meet the expectations of others, just so they don't disappoint that hope.
However, Kitano was not currently aware that his encouragement seemed to have quietly changed Rice Shower's mind. He had already had a tiring enough day. Not only did he have to report for duty and was forced to meet T.M. Opera O and Symboli Rudolf, but he was even cornered by King Halo during lunch, and then a whole fuss was made about some selection trial...
Now he was famous again at Tracen Academy... well, it wasn't the first time anyway. As long as he wasn't being stared at by a group of people with malicious intent, it was fine. He had had enough of that situation.
Kitano was also well aware that the reason he could stir up such a commotion and still get along so harmoniously with all the senior trainers was largely because he put "humility" at the forefront.
As the saying goes, you don't hit a smiling face. Faced with a junior who, although seemingly talented, was very respectful to his seniors, even if the seniors were a little jealous of his talent at first, they would still take good care of him. If Kitano had come in with an "I'm the strongest under heaven" attitude, let's see if he could still survive in Tracen Academy now.
People are very complex; they have good sides and bad sides. Someone who is good to you might only be treating you that way due to a chance encounter, and the way they treat someone they dislike could be much, much colder than you imagine.
Kitano was also well aware that the senior trainers at Tracen Academy now all seemed very friendly, like a bunch of goofy netizens. But that was because he had successfully integrated into this group. If these seniors were really pushed to suppress him, he would definitely experience the cruelty and oppression of the Japanese workplace once again within Tracen Academy.
He had experienced that feeling a few times before and didn't want to experience it again. In this cycle, if he didn't want to restart and didn't want to have too hard of a time, it was better to be an honest junior who wouldn't arouse public anger and wouldn't threaten the positions of his seniors...
"Hmph."
Just then, Kitano's phone suddenly received a private message. When Kitano opened his forum account, he found that the message was from an ID he had seen before in the trainer group chat.
If Kitano remembered correctly... this was Mejiro Ryan's trainer? The senior who had been hesitant to speak before Kitano and Rice Shower bumped into each other?
[Daily Muscle Training Check-in Day 0]: "Kitano-kun, good afternoon. Although this is a bit sudden, do you have time tonight?"
"As a senior, I'd like to have a drink with a talented junior like you, Kitano-kun. You wouldn't cruelly reject a senior's invitation, would you? If you agree, how about coming to the trainer's bar at Tracen Academy at ten tonight? I've already sent you the location~"
As he said this, Mejiro Ryan's trainer sent a location to Kitano, as if afraid he wouldn't be able to find the place. However, what Ryan's trainer didn't know was that the proposal for this izakaya was suggested to the Chairwoman by him in a certain cycle. It had been discussed for a long time before it was approved.
The subsidies for trainers were indeed high, but those were for expenses within Tracen Academy that could be subsidized and reimbursed. Most of these subsidies and reimbursements could not be applied for once they left the school. Therefore, before the izakaya was built on campus, trainers were active in bars outside the school, and such personal expenses could not be reimbursed.
But the pressure on trainers was also indeed great, especially the trainers at Tracen Academy. Not only did they have to be wary of their relationship with their charges every day, but they also had to pay attention to the training and races of the horse girls. Of course, the greatest pressure often came from the small things in daily life. It was often the small things that would ignite a person's breaking point.
However, everyone at Tracen Academy was very professional and knew how to restrain their emotions. Cases of trainers getting angry at their charge horse girls were rare. This situation had always been regarded as a major taboo by professional trainers.
Therefore, things like tobacco and alcohol that could relax and numb the self to the greatest extent became the favorite pastime of most trainers. Nine out of ten trainers at Tracen Academy drank, and eight out of nine smoked—of course, it was impossible to smoke in front of their charges. That was a bottom-line issue.
In this situation, the daily expenses of going to izakayas and bars were undoubtedly large. Therefore, Kitano had proposed to build an internal izakaya on the edge of the entertainment area within Tracen Academy, specifically for trainers to relax while reducing their daily expenses a little.
This proposal was difficult to pass at first, the main reason being to prevent the horse girls of Tracen Academy from learning bad habits. They couldn't touch a drop of tobacco or alcohol, after all, most of them were underage. What if a horse girl sneaked into an on-campus izakaya?
But in the end, this proposal was still passed, because Kitano had pulled in Hayakawa Tazuna to back him up, and in the end, he also pushed for the strictness of the overnight stay time and management system within Tracen Academy...
And from then on, every time Kitano started a new cycle, that izakaya was there as if it had been there from the beginning, and he could see it in every new cycle.
For this invitation from Mejiro Ryan's trainer, Kitano really had no reason to refuse—although he was not familiar with Ryan's trainer, since it was a kind invitation from a senior, he could only go.
"But... what does Ryan's trainer in this cycle want with me?"
Kitano recalled carefully. Not only had he just arrived at Tracen Academy for the first time in this cycle and couldn't possibly know any seniors, but even before, he had rarely had any interaction with Mejiro Ryan's trainer.
What made Kitano even more uneasy was that hesitant sentence from Ryan's trainer in the group chat... Kitano always felt that the reason Ryan's trainer wanted to see him might be the second half of that sentence.
"Forget it, I'll just go. It's not like I've offended anyone, why should I be afraid of seeing a senior? Could it be that the senior is asking me out because he thinks I'm handsome?"
Kitano thought about it again and immediately threw the matter to the back of his mind. It was still several hours until ten at night. He could still go to the trainer's dormitory and tidy up his dorm room situation.
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