Uma Musume, from entry level to basement

144. Essence and Blood

"Go see the gas tank?" Rudolph was stunned, his expression becoming serious. "Today?"

"Yeah." Tang Han nodded.

"Is that so...Okay, no problem." Rudolph didn't object or raise any questions, but agreed directly. "Then let's go see her this afternoon."

Although Tang Han's sudden request to meet Qi Cao today surprised her, they had clearly agreed to go on the weekend. After all, going on the weekend would not only be more convenient for everyone's schedule, but it would also give Tang Han some time to prepare mentally, so that he wouldn't be so panicked and at a loss when facing Qi Cao...

But since it was Tang Han who took the initiative to propose it in advance, and seeing how decisive he is now, he must have been prepared.

A preparation for failure or death.

For everyone who is determined to move towards their goal, Rudolph symbolizes that there is never any reason to refuse. All she has to do is to do her best to support him while respecting Tang Han's decision.

Moreover, Rudolph is also looking forward to the speedy recovery of his right-hand man, Qigou.

But before visiting the gas tank in the afternoon, she had one important thing to do.

"Now come and try the meal I learned to cook." Rudolph put on his gentle smile again.

"Ah, this..." Tang Han looked at the eel feast on the table and felt a pain in his kidneys. He shrank back and said humbly:

"Can I not eat it?"

"No."

Rudolph expressed his strong disapproval and walked directly behind Tang Han, pushed his back into the room, pressed him down on the chair in front of the dining table, and said:

"Don't waste food. If you finish it, you'll get a reward. If you don't finish it, you'll be punished."

"......" Tang Han had a bad feeling and turned around to ask, "What reward?"

Rudolph clapped his hands in a gesture of happiness and said, "I'll continue to cook dinner tonight."

"Uh..." Tang Han was embarrassed.

What kind of reward is this? Are we still making eel dinner tonight?

"So...what about the punishment?"

"Punishment..." Rudolph symbolically picked up the plate of fried eel with leeks, and his smile began to turn unkind. "Of course I will feed you the whole thing myself."

Tang Han: ...

So what’s the difference?! We all have to eat!

Tang Han had no choice but to finish the meal with her under Rudolph's expectant gaze.

And at Rudolf's symbolic request, the two took a nap together, and after they had regained their energy, they returned to Tresen College to find an energy tank.

.......

In the afternoon, at the entrance of Lidong Dormitory.

It was the familiar handsome young man and the familiar old man lying in the same posture. Fuji Miracle, the Ritsuto dormitory manager, looked almost the same as he did in the morning. In the afternoon, he was still lying decadently on the chair, staring at the passing horse girls and the trainers who were dragged into the dormitory with lifeless eyes, without a trace of emotion.

Even when he saw the student council president Rudolph approaching him, he had no intention of standing up to greet him, and chose to continue lying there. His whole behavior was as if he had lost the meaning of life.

"Han..." Rudolph turned his head and looked at Tang Han beside him: "Why do you think the miracle turned out like this?"

"Ah?" The question symbolized by Rudolph left Tang Han confused for a moment.

Didn’t Fuji Miracle become like this because it met a hateful and unfaithful man?

But soon, Tang Han realized a possibility.

"Luna...could it be...this horse girl is also..." Tang Han asked cautiously as he faced the Rudolph symbol tremblingly.

"..." Rudolph Symbol didn't say anything, just looked at Tang Han seriously, then nodded slowly.

"OH....NO......" Tang Han held his head in pain after knowing the answer.

So Fuji Miracle is one of the ten horsegirls who got caught?!

Before, Tang Han had sworn in his heart that if he found the guy who made Fuji Miracle sad, he would tie him up next to Fuji Miracle and make her suffer for three days and three nights.

And the unfaithful man turned out to be me?!

In other words, the reason why the horses that kept jumping around day and night and the trainers were dragged into the horsegirls' dormitory was actually because of him...

"Poof!" The feeling of shame, coupled with the nutritious eel dinner he had at noon, caused Tang Han to become excited. In an instant, his blood rushed up and a sticky heat flowed out of his nose.

"?" Tang Han noticed that his nose was bleeding, so he took out a tissue from his pocket and reached into his clothes to wipe it.

Rudolph noticed Tang Han's actions and asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, just a little nosebleed."

Tang Han waved his hand, wiped the blood from his nose with a tissue, and threw the tissue into a nearby trash can.

Then, Tang Han lowered his head in shame, clasped his hands together, and sincerely apologized to the trainers who were still being tortured in Ma Musume's room.

"I'm sorry, my colleagues, you've suffered."

Although Tang Han wanted to rescue them from the devil's cave immediately, he couldn't do it for the time being. After all, Tang Han couldn't solve all the problems at the same time. Everything had to be done in a first-come-first-served manner. Because he had already promised Rudolph that he would solve the problem of the air tank first, so the matter of letting Ritsuto Dormitory Fuji Miracle return to normal could only be postponed.

Therefore, the trainers have no choice but to stay in the magic cave for a few more days...or weeks...or months.

"My apologies, my colleagues." Tang Han bowed to the Lidong dormitory and apologized sincerely again. Then he turned to Rudolph and said, "Let's go see the gas tank first."

Rudolph saw through Tang Han's plan and understood the principle of gradual progress, so he didn't say much and took Tang Han into the Lidong dormitory and to the gas tank room.

.....

However, not long after Rudolph symbolized Tang Han's entry, Fuji Miracle, who was lying dead, suddenly felt his nose twitch as he was attracted by a strange mellow fragrance in the air.

“This smell…”

The fragrance brightened Fuji Miracle's originally dazed eyes, and his heavy body was immediately filled with vitality.

She suddenly jumped up from the lounge chair that symbolized laziness. Her jumping horse ears made the sapphire pendant on her right ring, and the tail behind her also spun like an electric fan.

"He's nearby!"

"Sniff sniff sniff." Fuji Miracle looked around excitedly, looking for the location of the smell.

After carefully identifying the direction of the smell, Fuji Miracle's sight finally fell on a nearby trash can.

She ran over quickly, not looking for the person, but found a ball of blood-stained paper at the top of the trash can.

The handsome young man no longer cared about his image at this time. He held the blood paper ball in front of him with trembling hands and smelled it gently.

"Sweet carrot flavor, that's him!"

145. Air tank

Qi Tan, title [Empress], vice president of the Tresen Student Union, and Rudolph's symbolic right-hand man.

She has short, smooth hair that reaches her shoulders, a yellow bow tied on her left ear, a stern face, and light orange eyeshadow, coupled with her serious eyes, she looks like a queen who looks down on her peers.

Because his mother is a horse girl who has achieved countless great things and demonstrated her ideals, under the influence of her, Chiao also has his own firm belief, which is to do everything well, coordinate and balance, and become a role model for leading horse girls.

However, although she seems difficult to get along with, sometimes very strict, and speaks aggressively, she is actually a good senior who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She takes special care of new horse girls and often sacrifices her time and energy to help them.

The younger generations who are taken care of by Qi Cao all respect her very much and call her Sister Cao in private. In the hearts of the younger generation of horse girls, Qi Cao's status may be higher than that of the student council president Rudolph.

Unfortunately, after what happened that day, he became depressed and stayed in his dormitory room all day, living in a daze.

Her roommate's beautiful posture is described as follows:

"Since that day, Sister Qicao has become extremely fond of cleaning the room, to the point of being obsessed."

"As long as a leaf falls into the room from the window, or I accidentally spill a drop of ramen while eating ramen in the room, Sister Qi Cao will clean the whole room!"

"From the floor to the ceiling, from the toilet bowl to the window sills, not a single stain or speck of dust is allowed!"

"Also, Sister Qicao has recently become obsessed with embroidery. In just a few days, her embroidery has already filled half the room. In a few more days, there might not even be room to stand in the room."

From this we can see that Qi Cao’s mental state is very bad now. If she continues to be left alone, who knows what dangerous actions she will take.

Fortunately, the "culprit" who made the gas tank become like this, today, under the lucky entrustment, finally made up his mind and came to the door of the gas tank dormitory with Rudolph symbol.

"Hu...Hu..." Tang Han continued to take deep breaths, putting himself into a controllable state of tension.

After all, the person he is going to face next is a horse girl who has seen his horse mint in its heyday!

Junchuan Tezuna, who had only smelled Tang Han's scent, was already so scary, and now he had seen his appearance, smelled his scent, and heard his voice, so the level of danger would be even more terrifying!

So Tang Han used the adrenaline secreted by tension to continuously improve his various data.

Reaction speed up!

Escape power up!

Please help me!

Pelvic strength up!

After all the states were adjusted to the highest level, Tang Han nodded symbolically to Rudolph beside him.

"Yeah." After receiving the message prepared by Tang Han, Rudolf knocked on the door symbolically.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

"Qi Tank, are you there?"

The room was silent, no response.

But after a few seconds, the door was slowly opened, and a lonely-looking horse girl appeared in Tang Han's sight.

"President..." Qi Cao greeted Rudolph symbolically in a weak voice.

The student vice president who used to be decisive and energetic all the time has changed a lot now.

Dull eyes, dark circles, pale face, dull hair, drooping ears...

The decadent look was not as bad as the Fuji Miracle we just saw, but it was not much better either.

She didn't notice Tang Han next to the Rudolph symbol, and even if she did, she didn't want to pay attention to him.

"Qi Tank...are you okay?" Rudolph frowned and asked worriedly.

The state of the gas tank is much worse than last time...

"Not bad..." Qi Cao nodded slightly and turned back to his bed.

The appearance of the room was almost the same as what the beautiful posture described. The embroidery filled half of the room on the other side of the air tank bed, leaving only a small space on the bed, so people could only sit but not lie down to sleep.

Qi Cao sat in the only available space, picked up an unfinished embroidery from the ground, picked up the fine needle and continued to embroider.

What she was embroidering was a sunflower emitting warm light, and the rest of her embroidery was also based on this theme.

All sunflowers.

"That's not 'okay' at all..." Rudolph shook his head symbolically, knowing that Qi Trough was just showing off.

In order to relieve his anger, Rudolph suddenly came up with a good idea and suggested:

"Qi Cao, how about I tell you a few jokes? I've come up with some great ideas recently."

"No...I can't..." When she heard that Rudolph was going to tell her a joke, her whole body trembled and her ears drooped even lower.

"President, is there something you want to talk to me about?" Although he was already so depressed that he didn't want to care about anything, he still couldn't accept the cold joke symbolized by Rudolph, so he quickly changed the subject.

"It's nothing serious..." Rudolph held his chin up, his expression serious. "I just want to introduce someone to you. Don't get excited later."

"Okay." Qi Cao responded listlessly, raising his horse's ears slightly.

Just don't tell jokes...

"Yeah." Rudolph, who was unaware of the lethality of his jokes, thought the gas tank was very cooperative, so he nodded with satisfaction, spread his hand to Tang Han beside him, and began to introduce:

"His name is Tang Han, he's a freshman trainer and also a friend of mine..."

"Oh." However, Qicao didn't seem to be interested in who the man in black next to Rudolph was. She didn't even want to look up and continued to embroider with her head down.

"..."

Seeing that the Qi Tank's reaction was flat and non-aggressive, Rudolph and Tang Han looked at each other and decided to proceed to the next stage.

Rudolph took a symbolic step forward and blocked the door.

Tang Han took a step back and hid behind her.

"Ahem..." Rudolph coughed a few times and continued, "Actually, this trainer might know where the person you've been looking for is..."