Late December—Christmas.
On that day, Su Luo also received Christmas gifts from the girls.
To be honest, Su Luo didn't really care about Christmas gifts.
After all, from childhood to adulthood he'd basically never received any, and since he'd matured too early, he'd never really believed in the Santa Claus fairy tale either.
Who the hell crawls down a chimney in the dead of winter wearing a big red padded coat just to deliver presents?!
Expecting gifts on a holiday like this—honestly, that's criminal behavior!
(Not that he was jealous because he never got any presents or anything.)
He totally didn't care.
"I brought this for you, Su Luo."
When Oguri Cap handed Su Luo a carrot charm, Su Luo laughed out loud.
Ha!
I've got a Christmas present too!
But… Oguri Cap actually chose a carrot-shaped phone charm for me?
Su Luo glanced over and realized Oguri Cap's own phone had the exact same charm hanging from it.
This girl… even her phone charms are food-shaped?
She really does love eating.
Besides Oguri Cap, the other horsegirls Su Luo had looked after this year also came to give him Christmas gifts.
Rudy Lemo gave Su Luo a piece of calligraphy—big bold characters reading "夜露死苦"—written in her own hand.
Uh. Very delinquent vibes.
Lady Mini picked out a box of weird-flavored candy.
Brilliantly Shining sent him a box of premium king crab from Tokyo.
No idea where Radiance managed to get such high-end king crab, but since it looked delicious, Su Luo happily accepted it.
Gout warning!
And of course, Tamamo Cross also gave Su Luo a very special Christmas gift…
"This is…?"
Su Luo stared at the heavy trophy in his hands, his mood… complicated.
"It's my GⅡ winner's trophy~"
Tamamo Cross grinned like an innocent goof.
"Honestly, I didn't know what gift to give you. I thought and thought, and in the end… this trophy felt like the most important thing."
"…Uh."
Su Luo held it together.
Sigh…
A trophy…
Sigh…!
A GⅡ trophy!
Sigh——!
"Th-thank… you… for… your… gift!"
Su Luo practically ground those words out through clenched teeth.
Dear god—please don't win next year!
Sis, I'll call you sis, okay?!
Just… please stop winning!
Of course, Su Luo also understood what it meant for Tamamo to give him that trophy.
The biggest race Tamamo Cross had ever won was that GⅡ event.
That genuine, high-value graded stakes trophy was probably extremely meaningful to her.
The fact she gave something that commemorative to Su Luo showed just how much she valued him.
Knowing that, Su Luo quietly placed the trophy in the dorm room he stayed in at Nishikino Academy.
Yes—Su Luo had arranged a dorm room for himself at Nishikino Academy.
After investing so much money, of course he'd renovated the dorms too.
By now the dorm area looked like some kind of upscale residential complex. If he could, Su Luo even wanted to hire security guards…
As for whether it was "problematic" that the dorms were meant for horsegirls and he was a man living there…
What the hell—I invested the money. Why can't I live in it?!
Anyway, no matter what people said, when Su Luo stayed in Hokkaido, he basically lived there.
And because she knew Su Luo was going to Hokkaido, Noren Ace even specially gave him a scarf.
"Hmph. I just happened to buy one extra scarf at the mall. Hokkaido's pretty cold, so… take this one."
When she handed it over, Noren deliberately turned her head aside so Su Luo couldn't see her expression.
Su Luo didn't really think much of it.
After accepting the scarf, he started thinking about how he should return the gifts next Christmas.
This year was only because he "didn't celebrate Christmas," so he hadn't prepared any return gifts.
Next Christmas, he couldn't keep doing that.
And honestly, receiving so many gifts from the girls made Su Luo genuinely moved.
He had to do something in response, right?
"Well then—next year, I'll just lose money properly! Invest even more into them~"
With that beautiful wish in his heart, Su Luo welcomed the new year.
But would things really go as smoothly as he imagined?
In April of the following year, Su Luo stared at the two additional trophies that had appeared in his Nishikino dorm room—and silently fell to his knees.
March: Tamamo Cross—Hanshin Daishoten, winner. GⅡ.
March: Oguri Cap—Mainichi Hai, winner. GⅢ.
April: Tamamo Cross—Tenno Sho (Spring), winner—
GⅠ.
"THUD!"
Su Luo slammed his head hard into the dorm room floor with a dull, heavy sound.
His face twisted in agony and despair.
"Aaaah—"
"No! You can't! You can't do this!"
"You can't be like this—!"
Curled up on the floor, Su Luo writhed like a maggot.
"Why can't the Central horsegirls stop the two of you?!"
"Damn it! Are the Central horsegirls all useless?!"
"My loss-making generals!"
"My loss-making vanguards!"
"Why are you two doing this to me?!"
"All those days in the past—have you forgotten them?!"
Su Luo wailed in misery inside his room.
All the warmth and gratitude he'd felt last Christmas had been thrown straight out the window.
Right now, he felt like Oda Nobunaga sitting in Honnō-ji, waiting to be burned alive.
Oguri Cap and Tamamo Cross were the bastards setting the fire!
His generals were hopelessly incompetent!
My life is over!
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