"Then let's get ready. First, go change into suitable shoes and a tracksuit. Zennin Gloria has them ready for you," Kitahara said, relieved that Hakki's enthusiasm for training and running was at a normal level. During their conversation yesterday, she could clearly feel Hakki's listlessness. Kitahara had been worried that she might have an aversion to running, but it seemed there was no problem now.
"Okay. By the way... will Oguri help me train?" Hakki agreed, picking up the shoes and then asking Kitahara.
"Hmm?" Mentioned by name, Oguri Cap looked up, a piece of carrot still stuck to the corner of her mouth. After a moment's thought, she answered before Kitahara could. "I will. But not right now. Kitahara doesn't know your strengths yet."
Having ambition was a good thing, but Kitahara couldn't help but wipe a bead of sweat. What kind of newcomer horse girl would want to run alongside a monster from the previous generation before even doing a test? Either she had no self-awareness or she was a masochist who enjoyed being tortured.
Kitahara glanced at Hakki's ash-grey hair and muttered to herself, "Looking at her... she doesn't seem like that kind of weird horse girl, right?"
The training track at Central Tracen was also built and maintained according to standard racetrack specifications. At this moment, Kitahara stood here again after a long time, and for the first time, she truly had her first horse girl signed at Central. Oguri Cap and Zennin Gloria were also by her side. Hakki's gaze drifted everywhere. Seeing Oguri Cap doing warm-up exercises, Hakki had a sudden idea to learn from her.
But just the first leg stretch, as soon as she bent down, the stretched thigh muscle made Hakki howl in pain.
"Wao!!"
Pain. This was extreme pain. Hakki had thought that after becoming a horse girl, her body's flexibility would improve, but she didn't expect her extensibility to still be so poor.
"Hakki, what are you, doing?" Kitahara was also startled by the howl. She put down her clipboard and walked over, stunned to see Hakki rolling on the ground.
"I... I wanted to learn from Oguri Cap and do some warm-up exercises, but I pulled a muscle... it hurts...."
"..." Kitahara put a hand to her face and sighed softly. "Oguri's kind of flexibility is rare even among horse girls. Why did you have to choose her as an example? Good thing you didn't try to imitate Tokai Teio..."
The sudden farce livened up the previously somewhat dull atmosphere. Zennin Gloria sat on the spectator stands outside the track, a box of sports drinks and several clean towels beside her. During training, she basically had no work, just needed to hand water and towels to the horse girls on the team. But now, seeing Hakki, who was also ash-haired like Oguri Cap but had a completely different personality, was a different way to pass the time.
When Hakki's twitching leg muscle finally calmed down, Kitahara arranged for her to do a simple track test.
"So I need to run two races? That's so much trouble." After listening to Kitahara's explanation, Hakki understood. It was just one run on turf and one on dirt to see which track she was suited for.
"That's right, a baseline test first."
"Actually, I know which track I'm best suited for. Do you believe me, Kitahara-san?" Hakki said, a determined light in her eyes.
"Hmm? Go on," Kitahara said, also pleased in her heart. After all, it could save a lot of trouble and they could go straight to estimating her distance suitability.
"Concrete."
"..."
Three words silenced the whole team. Oguri Cap even asked, "Kitahara, do horse girls even have concrete races?"
"Stop fooling around! Get running!"
"Eek! I know!"
Hakki also knew when to stop and, under Kitahara's gaze, started running without any technique.
Just that one move, and Kitahara's breath caught. She was filled with respect.
Although her starting posture was a complete mess, it didn't affect her starting speed at all. Oguri Cap also witnessed this moment. Although she was a monster of the older generation, her theoretical knowledge was also half-baked. But that didn't stop her from judging Hakki's monster-like starting speed from her rich racing experience.
"Kitahara, CuckooBird's start... is terrifying."
"Ah, I can see that too... wait, who is CuckooBird?" Kitahara crossed her arms, clicking her tongue in amazement.
"CuckooBird is Hakki. Hakki is also a streamer," Oguri Cap answered honestly.
But after a hundred meters, Kitahara's expression changed. After four hundred meters, her face was full of horror. At a thousand meters, seeing Hakki slide into the track with her face to the grass, she completely gave up and died.
"Kitahara! Kitahara?!"
Kitahara's fall startled Oguri Cap. She was shaken so hard by Oguri Cap that her brain was almost scrambled.
"I... I'm not dead. Don't worry about me for now. You go drag, no, bring Hakki back. I need to catch my breath," Kitahara said, patting her chest and sitting on the ground. Referring to what she had just seen of Hakki's thousand-meter sprint, how should she tell her? Her starting posture was very effective, but Hakki continued to run forward without slowing down, until she collapsed at a thousand meters. Roughly speaking... Hakki's distance suitability was completely unsuitable for any race at Central. But Kitahara immediately dismissed this idea. Maybe it was because Hakki didn't have a suitable strategy and consumed too much stamina.
A few minutes later, Oguri Cap returned, carrying Hakki. Hakki herself was very surprised, because after this thousand-meter sprint... she didn't even throw up?! Although she was breathing heavily and it was very uncomfortable, the severe rejection reaction didn't appear. Was this a characteristic she hadn't discovered before?
"Your running style is really... peculiar. Are you injured?" Seeing that face-plant just now, Kitahara felt a pain in her own nose.
"No, no... this is my Bakushin way! What do you think, Kitahara-san?!" Hakki was still a little proud, completely unaware of the surprised and thoughtful look Oguri Cap was giving her from behind.
So light. Hakki's weight was too light. This was the only feeling Oguri Cap had when she carried her back. Even though her height was indeed very short, her weight was still too light compared to a horse girl of the same body type standard. Oguri Cap wanted to say something, but hesitated and didn't mention the weight issue. She felt that CuckooBird had her own ideas.
"It's terrible! You must change this way of thinking! But your time for this thousand meters was very good. No need to test the dirt track."
"From the looks of it now, you can only participate in short-distance races. With this performance in a thousand-meter explosive escape, if you learn some techniques and train your stamina more, you should be able to handle the 1600-meter mile race," Kitahara roughly estimated Hakki's race plan, and suddenly felt a little fortunate. It was just a short-distance race... The hell it was! The horse girls in short-distance races were all like King Kong Barbies. Could Hakki's frail appearance really withstand the fierce jostling for position in a short-distance race?
Definitely not! It would be more in line with common sense if she was pinned down and raped by other horse girls...!
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