"Wait! Are you treating me like a cat?! Put me down, I'm not a liquid!" Hakki's brain short-circuited for a moment and she started to struggle. Super Creek stood to the side, one hand on her cheek, smiling with exceptional gentleness. Her eyes were practically overflowing with maternal warmth.
It seems this child didn't eat well when she was young, which is why her development isn't great... just like Cross-chan. I'll have to take extra care of her from now on. In that case, let's set up a stove in the training room and prepare meals for the other five Hmm-hmm Super Creek thought of the harmonious scene, the curve of her eyes softening even more. Just the thought of it was pure bliss~!
"Hmm? You really want to join my team?" The black-haired horse girl suddenly perked up. She turned around to fix her just-woke-up appearance before turning back. "Ahem, my name is Kitahara Jones. I'm currently Oguri's trainer, but uh... you probably know the situation... Uncle Roppei was in charge of Oguri's training at Central, I just took over after she retired... so I don't have any official experience training a Central horse girl yet, you know...?"
Although she was eager to sign this horse girl who had walked right up to her, Kitahara was more concerned about her future. If she was a horse girl with excellent potential, then keeping her would probably be ruining a piece of uncut jade.
"Well... to be self-deprecating... my talent isn't that great either. It's embarrassing to say, but I did a test a year ago, and my time for a thousand meters was one minute and ten seconds. With results like that, other trainers probably wouldn't want me."
"I'm also glad I missed the freshman trials, otherwise I would definitely have been expelled from Central," Hakki said, looking up at the blue sky. She was never comfortable looking people in the eye when talking about these things, always feeling a vague sense of guilt.
"Is that so... well, have you made up your mind? In that case, it seems we'll become the combination of the worst trainer and the worst horse girl at Central," Kitahara said jokingly. Hakki, whose sense of humor was very low, couldn't help but laugh.
Oguri Cap, Zennin Gloria, and Super Creek tacitly left and went back into the training room.
Just as they sat down and Super Creek was about to make tea for Kitahara and Hakki who were coming in, Oguri Cap suddenly remembered something. She stood up, glanced at her phone, and said seriously, "It's time. I'm going to eat breakfast!"
"Eh? Wait! Oguri! You were the one who invited her, you should at least be here for a while!" Zennin Gloria was too slow. By the time she finished her sentence, Oguri Cap had already slipped out the back door and disappeared without a trace.
"Oguri is still the same as ever. Ah... that girl named Hakki Byakku just now was so cute..." Super Creek said with a gentle smile, her elbows propped on the table and her cheek resting in her palm as she waited for the tea to brew.
Zennin Gloria couldn't help but shiver. She had been here for a long time and had absolute authority on the lethality of Super Creek's motherly care. Even Ms. Nase Fumino was afraid of it!
She wasn't sure how Super Creek would take care of Hakki-san if she really stayed here. But from the look on Hakki's face just now... did she seem to be enjoying Super Creek's gentle embrace? Zennin Gloria felt that this world was getting more and more chaotic. And it seemed that Ms. Nase Fumino had also signed a new horse girl, who was said to be very talented. Would this training room even be big enough?
Hakki and Kitahara didn't stay outside for long. They seemed to have reached some kind of consensus and went into a separate room upon entering.
"So it's settled? Signing me is a gamble, you know," Hakki said, her finger pressed on the ink pad as she confirmed with Kitahara one last time. If she agreed, this piece of paper would tie their academy lives together.
"I'll apply for uninterrupted power and weekends off for your dorm. Of course, sometimes a person needs to take a gamble, and so do horse girls. What if I turn out to be a good judge of talent?" Kitahara picked up a pen and wrote her name with a flourish on the already prepared application form, then pushed the paper to Hakki.
Hakki raised an eyebrow and muttered, "Instead of being a judge of talent, you should probably imagine yourself becoming Shang Yang or something... but joining is joining, just don't cut off my internet and electricity."
The negotiations were complete. Hakki didn't dawdle and pressed her handprint on the paper. Kitahara happily put away the application form. This afternoon, she would go to the student council for the second review. After so long, she, Kitahara Jones, finally had her own horse girl! From today onwards, it was a new life!
There was no turning back. The moment Hakki stepped into the living area, alarm bells went off in her head. Her ear-radars shot up, and her body instinctively ducked and covered her head, dodging Super Creek's chest-lunge. Looking back, she saw Creek's disappointed expression and sighed in relief that she had reacted quickly enough.
Why does every horse girl at Central want to get handsy with me... She pretended to be nonchalant and sat on the sofa. Just as her stomach growled, a plate of exquisite breakfast was placed in front of her.
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Surprised, she looked up and saw Super Creek's chestnut hair. Creek gestured, moving the plate closer to Hakki. "Eat up. It's not too late to grow. You have to eat a good breakfast and a full lunch."
A golden, glistening sunny-side-up egg, two pieces of crispy toast sandwiching freshly sliced carrots and ham, and finally a glass of carrot juice. It looked like a very nutritious breakfast.
But Hakki glanced down at her stomach and hesitated. She decided not to say that this wasn't enough to fill her up. She didn't want to trouble Super Creek too much. She would just eat this and then go to the cafeteria for more.
"Thank you, Super Creek-senpai." Being a junior had its perks. For horse girls she was familiar with, she could use excuses like "I've seen your past races" to explain why she knew so much. But there were some personalities that Hakki was terrible at dealing with. Super Creek was one of them.
She wolfed down her breakfast. During this time, Super Creek watched her eat with a motherly gaze, making Hakki's entire body cringe with embarrassment... Zennin Gloria sat in a corner, continuously hammering at a horseshoe, as if what was happening here had nothing to do with her. Kitahara had already left the training room to raid the student council. The only sounds in the room were the clanging of the hammer and the smacking of Hakki's lips.
"I'm done, thank you very much! The breakfast was delicious!" Hakki clapped her hands together with a snap. When she stood up, she found she was only at eye level with Super Creek's chest. In a way, wasn't this also a kind of insult?
"Would you like some more? What would you like for lunch? Since we'll be in the same training room from now on we're a family~" Super Creek said, getting ahead of Hakki and naturally taking away the dishes.
There was absolutely no room for resistance... Super Creek was practically... a natural-born... killer! — Hakki thought.
The sound of two people's footsteps came from outside the training room. Super Creek's ears twitched slightly. She recognized one of the footsteps as her trainer, Nase Fumino. But the other was an unfamiliar horse girl.
The door opened. Fumino was holding a document, and the black-haired horse girl following her was looking around with curious eyes.
"This is our training room. Deep Impact, you can get to know the others first. I need to take care of some things," Fumino said, also noticing the unfamiliar Hakki in the room.
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Deep Impact: "?"
Well, damn. She had been so excited about negotiating the "no internet or power cuts" condition with Kitahara that she had completely forgotten that the other trainer was Nase Fumino, and that Nase Fumino's new horse girl was her own roommate, Deep Impact!
Four eyes met. Speechless.
"Um, Deep Impact-san, nice weather we're having," Hakki was the first to speak. As she did, a passing cloud covered the bright sun outside.
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