I only have one year to live, so I must become a legendary horse girl!

In most cases, even if the trainer explains a lot, once the horse girl enters the arena, she will easily enter a stage where she relies solely on instinct.

In the context of instinctive racing, no matter how good the tactical arrangements are, they are of little use, and no matter how much pre-match preparation is done, they are all pale and powerless. Moreover, this situation has become the mainstream content in most cases.

Over time, for trainers, although on-field tactics are still a subject that needs to be studied, they are becoming less and less important.

There is no point in learning this, since you are not that smart anyway.

Is this probably a reflection of their mentality? In short, after hearing what the Secretariat said, Gotham Carol became quite helpless.

Of course, this is not the end yet, the Secretariat has not yet finished the second half.

"However, there are still some pony girls who can execute such tactics, such as your own Donna and the lovely Xiaofen. Although such pony girls are not the majority, there are still quite a few. However, most trainers will not help pony girls develop race plans."

"So, Miss Xingmu, a ponygirl with considerable intelligence, must have developed a distrust of those who helped her formulate her plan due to their incompetence. Therefore, in her bewilderment and despair, she chose you, who was important to her and exceptionally reliable in this regard."

The Secretariat explained the reason clearly, and then, as if to popularize science, he complained to Gotham Carol about everything about the trainer in a rather helpless and melancholy tone.

For example, the trainers of today are even more so than those in their time. They only focus on physical fitness and don't care about anything else. They only require running methods but don't cultivate the ability to adapt to changes.

No matter how instinctively horse girls run, at least we should understand how to train and teach horse girls beyond their instinctive running, right?

Moreover, this aspect is most prominent and serious among Japanese trainers!

These guys even firmly believe that the theory of bloodline is everything for horse girls, and they will snatch up all the horse girls with excellent bloodlines. The rest, the horse girls whose parents are not so famous, are thrown aside. Unless they are horse girls with considerable achievements and performances, they will not even look at them!

Gotham Carol curled her lips on the other end of the phone. This was the first time she heard Secretariat complain endlessly...

Sure enough, the girl on the other end of the phone was quite concerned about such things.

In fact, Gotham Carol was the same. After knowing it, she also clearly realized what happened to Xingmu.

This child is fighting alone now.

Chapter 219: The wolves were trampled underfoot.

Xingmu was of course fighting alone, or rather, the entire atmosphere of the Japanese competition field actually advocated fighting alone.

After finishing the call with the secretariat, Gotham Carol returned to Mejiro Castle and immediately went into his room to collect information on this matter.

It was true. Originally, she just followed the basic knowledge she had learned and the teachings of the brave dancer, combined these two points, and used her own competition experience to help the horse girls in the team prepare various competition contents.

At most, she would spend a lot of time investigating and designing the content of the competition, but she really didn't have much understanding of the real ecology between horse girls and trainers.

In other words, following my current whim, I've made up for some of the relevant content in Gotham Carol.

Then, she showed an expression that she couldn't describe.

How to describe what she saw?

In short, this was the first time she knew that Japan wasn't such a bad country when it came to ecology?!

In short, for Uma Musume, results may be the most important thing. Under the promotion and guidance of this aspect, Japan and Europe have developed two completely different schools of thought on how to compete for excellent results.

What are the most obvious, or most irreconcilable, contradictions and differences between the two schools?

Yes, do you want to fight alone?

It was only at this moment that Gotham Carol clearly realized something that made her laugh and cry.

It seems that, in competitions like the King's Championship, she did encounter one of the tactics that has been almost wiped out in Europe in recent years?

Wolf pack tactics.

What exactly does this term refer to? Simply put, a trainer will send two or more horse girls from his team to the same game, and then before the game starts, he will select a "protagonist" from his team.

What is the role of the protagonist on the field? It is to give her all to get the first move, no matter whether it is a breakout or anything else. As long as she can get the first move, it means victory for the entire team.

Now it’s easy to understand, right?

She is the protagonist of the team, but there will be multiple horse girls from the same team participating in the game.

So, completely different from the protagonist of the team, what are the responsibilities of the other horse girls participating in this game, those children other than the protagonist?

They will become the sharpest swords and the most powerful spears in the arena. They are responsible for only one thing...!

That is to help the team's protagonist defeat all possible obstacles, block all threats, sacrifice one's own achievements to allow the team's protagonist to achieve the predetermined goal... to devote oneself.

This is the so-called wolf pack tactic, where the protagonist is the alpha wolf and the rest are guardians. It is a tactical choice that will do anything to win, even to the point of being crazy enough to make people disgusted.

Gotham Carol took a deep breath, rubbed her brow and leaned back in her chair, thinking.

It was after she became a horse girl… no, it was after she became the trainer of several young horse girls, and after she had truly witnessed the persistence of active horse girls, and even retired horse girls, in their pursuit of victory, that she truly understood what victory meant to horse girls.

Victory and being first are everything to Uma Musume. If it's on the track, then everything else except first place, even the feelings for loved ones, should be put aside for the time being, right?

Anyway, Gotham Carol has heard of many rivals who have a good relationship in private, even sleeping in the same bed, but are still so violent on the field that they want to tear each other apart.

Or perhaps, she herself has had such a moment?

Who is the person on the Arc de Triomphe who sacrificed his life and burned himself for victory and to win everything?

Anyway, there was even a period of time in Europe where the wolf pack tactics were everywhere in the stadiums...!

The reason is simple. Gotham Anthem actually has a clear idea. After all, this kind of teamwork model is indeed easier to win the championship, win honors and prize money, especially when the first team uses this tactic...

This is Pandora's box. Even if the first person won't use it a second time, any team that has witnessed the wolf pack running on the field for the first time will be wary, doubtful, and thoughtful, and then, driven by the desire for victory...

Become the second team to truly use such tactics.

This kind of thing went on for a very long time, and even expanded to a very large scale. When did it gradually decrease, and even started to wither recently?

Maybe it was when the Brave Dancer suddenly appeared and trampled any running wolves under his feet with his own excellent wisdom and powerful stats?

From the Brave Dancer defeating the Wolves, to her Gotham ode turning the Wolves into Joker tactics...

I feel a little embarrassed when I say this. It was only after such a long time that I found out about the relevant tactics of Gotham Anthem.

It turns out that she had casually kicked a bunch of wolves to death in Europe back then.

Ah ha ha……

In comparison, unlike Europe, Japan emphasizes the heroism of Uma Musume.

In other words, it's a completely solo battle - even if the horse girls on the same team have a good relationship, once they meet on the field, the sparks may even be more intense.

Of course, in order to avoid a situation where both sides suffer losses, trainers of almost all teams will arrange for their horse girls to avoid colliding in the same game as much as possible.

In a sense, in this regard, the culture of horse racing girls in Japan is even better than that in Europe?

I don't know how to describe Gotham Ode.

It may be because Japan is further away from internationalization, and the overall marketization is more scattered, so compared to the situation where victory is everything and only one move is absolute, and the entire team pursues the supremacy of strength, Japan has more sparks of dreams.

If we really have to face each other on the field, I will definitely defeat you mercilessly!

I want it all: leaving you behind and taking the next step!

Perhaps it is because of this kind of content that Japan is much better in this regard.

This wave, this wave is because Ura's promotion of marketization is too useless, which has led to the Japanese competition retaining more of the original flavor of Uma Musume, the so-called color of chasing dreams.

After realizing this, Gotham Carol's expression became strange.

what is this?

The worse the ura, the better the ura?

Gotham Carol came to a conclusion that made her laugh and cry, but to be honest, she actually preferred this aspect of Japanese culture.

Although from the perspective of pursuing victory, the wolf pack tactics are undoubtedly better than fighting alone, after all, the experience and actual age are far beyond the appearance of the type. Gotham Anthem can clearly understand the mood of those who use the wolf pack tactics.

But even so...!

If it was a wolf pack tactic used in a team match of several on several, then of course there would be nothing to say, but if such a thing appeared on the battlefield of Uma Musume, it would be despicable.

The reason is very simple. For any horse racing girl, as long as they fail to get first place, it will lead to sadness and sorrow. These cute and tender children, no, for the real original horse racing girls, even if they reach the level of Rudolph Symbol or even old guys like Secretariat, they will still be sad because of any failure to get a move, right?

Gotham Carol clearly remembered what Maruzenski-senpai had revealed to her during a casual chat, which could explain Rudolph's past as a symbol of strong competitiveness.

As for the Secretariat, the most essential source of her seeking him out was not just the anticipation of a hearty battle, but also the two of them were destined to have a battle for the Dream Cup in the future.

From this we can see that for Uma Musume, as long as they can still run... there is no reason to give up the fight for first place!

So, yes, for Uma Musume, the wolf pack tactics are really quite cruel...

Suppress the nature of the horse girl and let the supporting characters sacrifice for the protagonist, even if the protagonist can get first place... but if this is based on an impure victory, will the child who got the first move really be happy?

Perhaps the moment of making a winning move is joyful, but what about the aftermath? Is it enough to be happy only in that moment?

She couldn't accept the so-called wolf pack tactics, which was so absurd and went against the nature of horse girls...!

Gotham Carol looked at the ceiling, lost in deep thought. To be honest, compared to the cruelty brought by the wolf pack tactics, she felt that the almond eyes at this moment were more worthy of pity.

After all, regardless of how effective the wolf pack tactics are, it at least means that the horse girl who implements such tactics will not be alone, but what about Xingmu?

If she had someone she could talk to, she wouldn't have found herself, right?

This child is lonely, or rather, she has to be lonely and has no time to stop being lonely...?

So, who was the reason and root cause that made her become like this?

First of all, Xingmu is definitely not a lonely child, and Gotham Carol can clearly confirm this.

If she was truly so withdrawn that she couldn't socialize normally, then Xingmu wouldn't have called her, right? So, what was the possibility that a girl who wasn't withdrawn, who could even be considered sunny and cheerful, couldn't find anyone to confide in among a group of horsegirls?

Don’t have the time or the leeway?

Maybe Xingmu will secretly try his best to hone himself in order to win the game...

So, who is the culprit who makes her try so hard to escape death as if she is being chased?

Gotham Carol suddenly felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

So, I brought this upon myself? Oh, this is really...

There might be some deviations, but it's pretty close, right? After all, it was him who caused Ura to fall so hard... Although he totally deserved it, anyway, speaking of Ura, Gotham Carol suddenly had a new idea.

Since Xingmu can be regarded as Ura's last fight, then, after failing in the first two battles of the Three Queens' Crown, can Ura, who is watching nervously from behind, really sit still so easily?

It was hard to say about Gotham Carol, but she probably felt that it was unlikely. However, after all, she had no more information about such things, and for a moment she could only fall into helpless contemplation.

As the wild father of the entire ura, Gotham Carol can see everything without any hidden content, but relatively speaking, as the person who can actually be regarded as the highest-ranking person in an organization, it should be quite simple to query any information under normal circumstances, right?

It's a very simple thing. Just turn on the computer, log in to the internal website, and search for information. At the very least, you can go directly to ura instead of using the internal database to see the content you want.

Generally speaking, this should be the process, right?

but!

But, but the organization that Gotham Carol wants to investigate is Ura!

Why do you say that?

It's simple. Who could have imagined that in a world with smartphones and even fully intelligent robots, a complex and large organization would still primarily handle documents and work using paper, faxes, and text storage, rather than directly uploading them to computer files?!

Gotham Anthem was going crazy thinking about this. Not to mention searching on the website, even if he raided Ura's headquarters directly, he would most likely not find the content he wanted.

The reason is simple. They could have just taken the documents away in advance, or simply not kept them at headquarters, and let the person in charge take them home. That's all possible, right?!

Gotham Carol suddenly remembered that he had once secretly lamented Ura's incredible abilities while mocking them, but now...

I can't laugh now.

Because Ura's "simplicity" and backwardness in this regard really created a big problem for her.

Once upon a time, could you have imagined something like this? Could you have been left here lamenting the backwardness of ura?

In fact, Gotham Carol had urged Ura to quickly adapt to modern society and switch to electronic office work, but it was obvious that if her urging had been effective, she wouldn't have had to launch such a desperate challenge, and would have been forgiven long ago...

In fact, Gotham Carol is very clear about his current feelings towards Ura. After the end of the Japan Cup, the settlement can be regarded as complete. Now the name of Japan's Gotham Carol is simply a rising new god, and Ura is like a rat in the sewer.

Even at this moment when Gotham Carol was lost in thought, Ura might have been insulted to some extent by Ultimate. So if Ura was willing to be obedient and become more humanized, Gotham Carol would have restored the international status of the Japan Cup long ago.

But the thing is, when it comes to anthropomorphism, Ura never disappoints...

Helpless, Gotham Carol could only stand up and finally made a decision.

It seems that we can only seek external assistance.

"How about going out and trying the saltiness of ura?"

Chapter 220: It's like kicking an overly fat dead dog and knocking yourself down

Since we are seeking external assistance, the person who provides help must be someone who has a considerable understanding of ura.