In the end, Hakki found an internet cafe next to Central Tracen. She happily got a private room and settled in. Although she had said she would stream all night, before starting the game, Hakki had taken the academy's curfew rules into consideration.
But horse girls, once they start focusing on something, tend to throw all consequences to the back of their minds. Hakki was no exception.
She played with her online friends, and time unknowingly slipped into the dead of night. Hakki inadvertently glanced at the clock, and her heart skipped a beat.
11:47 PM. It was long past curfew, and her phone had five or six missed calls, from both Deep Impact and Kitahara, obviously all looking for her. It was too late to go back to the dorm now. So... since it had come to this, let's just keep playing!
Hakki resigned herself to her fate with the determination that she would be dead tomorrow, then put her headphones back on and rejoined the battle.
"Look here, you have to use Mackay to grapple up. You can't get up by taking the zipline," a finger suddenly pointed at a spot on the screen from beside her. The focused Hakki was a little annoyed by the interruption. Although she was wearing headphones, she could barely hear what was being said. So she shook her head and replied, "No, Mackay dies even more thoroughly. This spot depends on whether your teammates can coordinate to push up."
"I see. This game looks more fun than I thought," the voice said again by her ear. At this moment, Hakki suddenly sensed something was wrong. She had booked a private room, so it was impossible for anyone else to come in. Then who was the voice talking beside her?
Slightly puzzled and apprehensive, Hakki slowly raised her head, only to have her vision blocked by a magnificent pair of... mountains. She slowly slid down from her chair, peeking around to see the person behind her.
A sleek black business suit and beautiful black hair. The corners of Kitahara's mouth were curved in an irrepressible arc. Not of happiness, but the kind of smile that appears when a person is extremely angry. She also squatted down, looking at Hakki behind the chair at eye level.
"What are you doing here?"
"Uh... I was actually planning to go back to the dorm before curfew, Kitahara-san, but, but there was a little accident," Hakki explained weakly, but it seemed that any words were powerless now.
"Tracen's horse girls aren't forbidden from going to internet cafes, but you should at least report to your trainer and dorm manager! Staying out all night without a word, not answering your phone, do you know how anxious the entire Ritto Dorm was because of you?" Anger. Sometimes, you can't be lenient with a horse girl's mischievousness. You must give them some punishment to make them remember not to make similar mistakes again.
"This... I know I was wrong! I'm really sorry! Kitahara-san! Punishment... any punishment is fine! I'll accept it!" Hakki also understood the situation. This was all her fault. She had originally just coveted the better equipment in the internet cafe compared to her dorm's laptop, but it ended up turning into this.
"Sigh, I didn't mean to say too much, but for you to have such a big internet addiction at such a young age... I'm not forbidding you from going online, but you have to distinguish between primary and secondary matters. Since you've come to Central... since you've chosen me as your trainer, I have to be responsible for you. Regardless of the final results, we have to have a clear conscience, right?" Kitahara didn't yell at her as Hakki had imagined, but instead gently rubbed her head.
"Mmph! I'm not that young, you know. I'm much more mature than other horse girls in my grade. I'm an early bloomer!" Hakki hugged her head and retorted. She didn't like being called a child. Although her body was that of a child among children, she had the dreams of an old lady.
"Stop fooling around! Come back to the academy with me. I'll cover for you this time. I'll handle things with the student council. Don't stay out all night without reporting again."
"Alright! I get it! I can't repay Kitahara-san's kindness... then... then when I make money in the future, I'll give you two-tenths of it!" Hakki looked as if she was reluctantly parting with a treasure, which made Kitahara laugh in anger again, raising her hand as if to hit her.
Hakki quickly shut down the computer and ran out first. Kitahara sighed softly at this. She had been at a trainer's gathering, but was called away by a phone call from Fuji Kiseki. She had been searching place after place until now. It was lucky she found her within five tries.
By the time she lay back on her dorm bed, it was already past midnight. Deep Impact was already asleep. And because of the thousand-meter sprint test during the day, she was exhausted. After replying to a few messages from her online friends, she fell into a deep sleep.
But in the morning, the first sound Hakki woke up to was not a light hum of not being fully awake, but a scream of sore legs and aching body.
"Wuaahhh—!" Luckily, Deep Impact had already left the dorm, leaving her alone. It was both a good and a bad thing. Hakki felt that even getting out of bed was a difficult task now. The boomerang of not stretching after intense exercise had come back. Hakki picked up her phone with difficulty and saw Zennin Gloria's message from yesterday.
[Zennin Gloria:Remember to apply a hot towel to your legs after you get back to the dorm! And do some massage! You ran too fast just now, I didn't have time to tell you.]
With trembling hands, Hakki typed: Gloria... help, my legs hurt... [crying face].
[Zennin Gloria:...I knew it. Sigh. Stay in the dorm and don't run around, I'll be right there.]
Before long, Zennin Gloria arrived at Hakki's dorm. Pushing the door open, she saw the ash-haired girl on the bed with dead fish eyes and couldn't help but facepalm. She reached out and flicked Hakki's unsuspecting thigh.
"Waohah!!"
"Endure it! This is what you get for not doing a relaxing massage yesterday. No matter how much it hurts now, you have to endure it." Zennin Gloria looked at her, then stuffed Hakki's pillow into her arms. "If it hurts, bite the pillow. Just don't make a sound."
"Mmph mm hmm." With tears in her eyes, Hakki bit the pillow and nodded frantically, sticking one leg out from under the covers.
"Wah!! Wao!"
"Squeak!"
"Ohoho!!"
After more than an hour of various howls and screams, it finally quieted down. Although her legs still ached a little, it was much better than before after the massage and hot compress.
"After this lesson, you won't forget, right?" Zennin Gloria asked. Hakki nodded frantically like a bobblehead to show that she had truly recognized her mistake.
"I'll definitely follow instructions in the future and won't do anything special again... sob sob." You only learn your lesson after you've suffered. Hakki was the type who wouldn't turn back until she hit a wall.
Remembering something else, Zennin Gloria asked before leaving, "The trainer has been considering several debut races for you. After you've rested well for a few days, we'll make a decision."
"Thinking about my debut already? So fast... which races are they?" Hakki also became serious.
Zennin Gloria said, "Well, they are all 1000-meter debut races. But you can also choose a 1200-meter one?"
Finally, Zennin Gloria remembered Kitahara's last instructions and said, "If you win, there's a prize of over seven million yen, you know?"
Seven million yen in prize money! How many zeros is that!
Hakki's eyes were suddenly filled with a burning light for money.
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