I, the horse racing girl, really didn’t sprint!

It’s better to go to bed early and relax. When you wake up tomorrow, neither of you will mention this matter and you can pretend that nothing happened.

She sat obediently in the chair, took a deep breath, and spoke first to break the somewhat strange atmosphere. "It should be normal for horse girls to help each other blow dry their hair, right?"

"Well... normal, very normal."

Seeing the strange atmosphere broken, Barbatos breathed a sigh of relief and explained, "In the eyes of humans, a man and a woman alone in a room, helping someone blow dry their hair, might be considered an improper relationship."

"But we are different. We are roommates in the same dormitory, and we are both horse girls. It is normal for friends to help each other with their hair."

"right?"

"So it's normal to hold hands and ride a Ferris wheel together, right?"

"Yes, and it's not because I'm afraid of heights that you're lending me a helping hand?"

The two of them chatted back and forth, breaking the slightly weird atmosphere and restoring it to its original normal state. At least the two of them tacitly pretended to be normal.

……

After blowing his hair, Xingyun Tiankong went to bed as usual and started browsing his phone.

Barbatos sat in his seat and pretended to look at his phone, but in fact he opened the system interface.

The gold coins she had earned from defeating 13 opponents in her debut match had already been settled, and now was the perfect time to update her equipment.

She already had an idea of ​​what kind of equipment to buy. By the time of the Winter Dream Cup, she would no longer be able to use oysters to extend the duration of [Sprint] and [Highland Bloodline]. Acceleration equipment such as "Phantom Dream" would also not be suitable.

Because acceleration skills or equipment cannot last long, and under normal circumstances, the legendary horse girl is much faster than her.

It's like she's running with a legendary horse girl who uses the same strategy of chasing as herself. A situation may arise where both are chasing the horse, but in her eyes the other girl may be running away.

The acceleration skill allows her to avoid being left behind for a short period of time, but after the time limit is over, she will be a lamb to be slaughtered, so she must buy an equipment that can increase her normal movement speed.

The system interface shows that the amount of gold coins is 1400.

It is made up of the remaining 100 gold coins from the 1600 gold coins earned from the entrance exam to buy the [Boots of Lightness and Glory of Justice], and the 1300 gold coins earned from wearing thirteen today.

I opened the equipment store and quickly found the [Winged Moon Plate Armor (900 gold coins)] in the defense equipment category. Effect: +150 maximum health, flying: +5% movement speed.

He lightly touched the system interface with his mind and directly purchased the [Winged Moon Plate Armor], gaining a 5% movement speed bonus under normal conditions.

Although the 5% movement speed may seem insignificant, and in fact it is indeed insignificant compared to those acceleration skills, the equipment that can be synthesized with [Winged Moonplate Armor] has a great movement speed gain.

I used the remaining 500 gold coins to buy another piece of [Cloth Armor] with +20 armor, in preparation for the next synthesis of [Chain Mail] with +40 armor.

[Winged Moonplate Mail] plus [Chain Mail] and spending 1000 gold coins can be synthesized into [Dead Man's Plate Mail].

[Dead Man's Plate (2800 gold coins)] The basic attributes are increased armor and health. These two items have no effect on Barbatos now, but this equipment has three effects, two of which are related to movement speed.

Ruthless: +5% movement speed

Fearless: Accumulates momentum while moving. When the momentum reaches 100 layers, it can provide up to 40 movement speed. Normal attacks will consume all layers of momentum.

The "Fearless" effect can be said to be tailor-made for Uma Girl. After all, she is going to the race to run instead of box, and she does not need to attack others, so the movement speed of 40 can always exist!

Now, there are still 1400 gold coins left to synthesize the [Dead Man's Plate], which means there are still 1 to 2 games left.

Legendary horse girl, I, Barbatos, am here!

……

Competition Committee.

The middle-aged man wore sunglasses and supported his chin with his hands crossed in white gloves.

Several old men around were clapping their hands on the table, causing several water cups to bounce on the table.

"Those overseas fans are really good at getting their way! When will the Winter Dream Cup be selected based on their overseas fans' votes?!"

"Disqualify her! She must be disqualified!!"

"When will a Uma Musume like this, who has no fan base in our country, be selected for the Winter Dream Cup?"

As the elders were arguing, a beautiful female secretary walked in, holding a notebook. "Chairman, Barbatos's Japanese fan base is growing rapidly. Please take a look at this."

As she spoke, she placed the notebook in front of the middle-aged man and clicked on a popular video that had over 8 simultaneous viewers.

Chapter 49 Bad News: It's Sewn Up

The middle-aged chairman looked at the laptop computer placed in front of the female secretary.

On the computer screen is a video that is currently being watched by 8000 people online at the same time. The title is quite eye-catching, "Debut is a legend, take a look at the debut battle of the legendary Uma Musume!"

The chairman's sunglasses reflected the content on the screen, and he reached out and tapped the touch screen twice to start playing the video.

The beginning of the video is the scene where Barbatos appears and shakes off his clothes.

The only difference was that the video recorded by their competition committee was that the author of the video photoshopped a set of clothes onto Barbatos. It was a Baroque-style costume with a green cloak and a Cecilia flower pinned on the brim of his hat.

The next shot is Barbatos throwing away the green hood, as if he has just changed his clothes. Next to Barbatos, several purple ""s are photoshopped in, mixed with strange sound effects.

But the barrage is already full of "Hey Hey"

"Besides Mondstadt, you can even see Barbatos at the racecourse."

"Get down to business, Barbatos!"

"Auntie, press it down~" and so on.

The chairman couldn't help but frown slightly, but as the chairman of the Japanese Uma Musume Competition Committee, he quickly relaxed his brow and continued watching.

The video did not show the scene of picking up the green cloak after it was thrown away, but directly switched to the scene after Barbatos entered the gate.

She was still wearing the same Baroque-style clothing with a green hood draped behind her.

It looks like a video made with Barbatos dressed up, but what's the point? Does changing clothes increase the video's hit rate?

Soon the chairman noticed the difference. After all the horse girls started running, Barbatos fell behind. The clothes she wore were photoshopped very realistically. The person who made the video must be someone who is very knowledgeable about computers. As we all know, videos cannot be photoshopped. The person who can photoshop a video into this look instead of a joint king must be a top talent in computers.

In fact, everyone in the committee had watched this game, and he, as the chairman, was no exception. He naturally knew that what would happen next was a scene where Barbatos would defeat thirteen opponents alone, and it was time to exert his strength at the next corner.

Just before Barbatos was about to sprint, a few letters "wryyyyy" appeared around Barbatos. The font was strange but it set the rhythm of the barrage, causing the barrage to also follow the three letters "wry".

The font style of these three letters is very similar to that of “ ”.

"?"

What's this?! The chairman watched the changes that occurred during Barbatos' sprint in the video. As the chairman of a Uma Musume-related event, he'd naturally experienced other competitive events and could more or less recognize that the new changes were related to League of Legends.

The moment Barbatos sprinted, the shoes on her feet changed, becoming a "three-speed shoe" and a "mercury shoe". Her left hand held the [Sprint] icon, and her right hand was bent backwards by P. It was not because the P was too severe that caused the distortion of time and space.

The person who made the video is very skilled. He photoshopped Barbatos' hands to bend backwards, holding a green sword, and there are faint golden ripples above his legs.

At this time, the barrage was "I am Barbatos, not cheating!"

"Give me some oil!"

"It's Thomson's Ripple Run!"

"..."

When the game was over, the winner's stage P'd out all the audience, and even appeared directly above the sea. The sun was shining brightly, and a head was just hanging up. No one knew why, but there was only a head left, and the person seemed to be still alive.

And in front of that head, it was Barbatos who squatted down and turned on the CD player.

The dance steps appeared in front of the chairman again, and the barrage of comments was scrolling.

"Little Plane, also known as Little Barbatos."

"Misida discovered something unusual."

"Grumpy Brother noticed something unusual."

"..."

After everything ended, a blond man covered in blood appeared on the screen. His hands were folded together, and on top of them lay a popularity vote icon. "Barbatos! This is my last ripple! Take it!"

After watching the entire video, the chairman hesitated to speak. Below the video is a link to the popularity vote.

Although he is already a middle-aged man as the chairman, he has been exposed to many things and has a general understanding of what is in the video.

"Now, excluding the votes from Chinese fans, how many fans does Barbatos have?"

The female secretary stood upright beside him. "Currently, there are over 3 fans, and the number of fans is still growing rapidly. It won't be long before the total number of fans exceeds that of the emperor."

Most of the "Emperor's" fans are from Japan, but Barbatos has accumulated 33 fans in China, and even the number of votes from Chinese fans is still rising.

"Chairman, are you going to close the voting window for fans from abroad?"

"Need not."

Japanese horse girls also go abroad to compete and have overseas fans, but they are only a small part of the fan base, with Barbatos being an exception.

The chairman reached out and flipped the notebook over, facing the elderly men who were about to speak, "You can take a look at it too."

The video was not long and ended quickly.

"What the hell is this?!"

The members of the competition committee who have always been highly respected could not help but express such feelings.

What is this? Why is it so fancy? Does this video have any meaning?

They turned their gaze towards the female secretary standing upright next to the chairman. "Since we're showing it to a few of us, what's the point of this video?"

"It's not a question of whether it's meaningful or not. It's really rare to see a match video that mixes elements of League of Legends, JOJO, and Fang Shen."

"I think I understand. Is this League of Legends you just mentioned popular?"

"League of Legends is an international e-sport, but it's not very popular in Japan."

"What about Fang Shen?"

"Chinese games are quite popular in our country."

"Well, what about JoJo?"

"It's a Chinese comic. It's very popular, but its audience isn't very broad."

"Well, how much popularity can this video bring to Barbatos?"

The female secretary bowed slightly and said, "What I just said is the good news. The elements in the video are not too hot."

The elders frowned as they listened, "So, according to you, there's more bad news."

"Yeah, the bad news is it's sewn up."

"?"

The chairman propped his chin up with both hands. "After this video is released, Barbatos's fan base in Japan will skyrocket."

"In order to avoid causing dissatisfaction among fans towards our tournament committee, Barbatos must participate in the Winter Dream Cup. After the competition, we will modify the Dream Cup selection requirements based on the situation."

Chapter 50 Is there a difference between a carousel and a rotating chair?

"So Nanban is the type of person who likes to sleep in?"

On the commercial street of Osaka, Barbatos was selecting "specialties" to bring back for his friends. He wanted to call the trainer to join him in the morning but found that he had not gotten up yet, so he had to give up.

Looking at the small pendants in my hands, I realized that these were bought as souvenirs by people from other places or foreigners when they came to Osaka.

She wasn't sure what kind of souvenirs the Uma Musume should bring back from the competition, so she searched online for information about souvenir shops and came to this famous Osaka shopping street.

Osaka actually has many famous places.

For example, the castle tower in Osaka Park, and the food street in Osaka. Osaka is famous for its food. Basically, tourists in the food street eat with the mentality of having no next meal. And the "couple" Ferris wheel they made yesterday.

These were all found by her online search that morning.

There was only one place that she already knew and had longed for, and that was Akihabara in Osaka, the place that all the two-dimensional people longed for.

If it weren't for Xingyun Tiankong beside her, she might have gone straight to Akihabara today. Although she couldn't enter the adult area, she could still take a look at this holy land of Japan's two-dimensional world.

This kind of place can only be visited by one person, and she must never let others know her two-dimensional identity!

"Maybe he was arranging your next training plan yesterday?"

Looking at Barbatos who was selecting his "specialties," Xingyun Tiankong said, "A training plan that will keep you from being left behind by 20 lengths."

Hearing this, Barbatos' body stiffened for a moment, and he immediately imagined the voice and smile of Nanban studying the training plan in the hotel last night. For a moment, he even felt a little guilty. "How about I participate in a training session and then touch it?"

"I feel sorry for Minamisaka for just a second!"

Nebula Sky didn't ask why Barbatos wasn't planning to train, just as she hadn't asked herself about it.

As far as slacking off is concerned, the two of them are very well-informed. They just need to finish the competition leisurely.