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

"I look forward to hearing good news from you, but curfew at the Japanese school is almost here, so go back."

"Oh, I'll watch your game again. Keep up the good work."

Gotham Carol, who was on his way out, stumbled and then slipped away.

Secretariat didn't turn around. She just took out a bottle of red wine from under the table, pulled out the cork, and poured herself a glass.

"Chairman, I..."

"explain."

"She does look very similar to Bo Mu Liu Ge, but she's... much better?"

"Oh?"

"Although I didn't spend much time with Bo Mu Liuge, I could sense a sense of urgency from her running... uh, like she was being chased by the god of death. You know what happened next."

"But that child is different. Her running is like... a twilight song that can truly unleash her abilities without restraint."

The secretary turned around and looked at the assistant he had brought with him before coming to Japan, and smiled with satisfaction.

"What's wrong with that? Grace and honor, you know, I never thought this kid would be unknown—"

"Maybe she will be the second Mu Liuge of the new era."

Chapter 43, So he turned and walked towards Mejiro Castle

Three days after meeting Secretariat, Gotham Carol clearly felt something was wrong.

Her fame suddenly spread exponentially, like an explosion.

Obviously, she did nothing herself, but she had jumped from being a horse girl who had just finished the new Year of the Horse, a rival of the East China Sea Emperor and a person with a relatively good status, to becoming another undefeated genius of the new generation who was completely on par with the East China Sea Emperor.

Oh no, this is not right, right?

Her Gotham Carol is indeed undefeated in the New Year of the Horse, but she only participated in various small competitions. How can she be compared with the Emperor of the East China Sea?

In any case, Gotham Carol has indeed become completely popular from being a little famous.

Even when she occasionally visits the Internet, she can see a lot of news about her.

It's really embarrassing, especially the fact that some of the horse girls are so bold and crazy by taking advantage of their identities.

So, who did it?

Of course there is a reason for the inexplicable rise in popularity. It is definitely the invisible big hand behind the scenes who is fanning the flames.

So there is only one answer, that is, I met with the secretariat the day before his popularity started to explode!

Chairman, please don't move around. Damn it.

However, such things are not entirely bad. At least after Gotham Anthem has achieved its goal, its reputation in Japan will be quite bad, but at least it will be sitting at the same table with its previous life self.

Before that, if the fan base was large and influential, it could have saved a lot of trouble.

The Secretariat probably took what happened at that time into consideration and promoted her crazily to increase her fan base.

Well, it's not a bad thing anyway, and Gotham Carol can't do much about such things, so just follow the Secretariat.

With this idea in mind, Gotham Carol gradually increased her training volume.

After all, after entering the new year of the horse, the first stop on the racing schedule will soon begin.

Yasuda Memorial in June.

In March, the school season starts after the Chinese New Year. In fact, if you count on your fingers, there are less than three months left.

Even though it once dominated an era, Gotham Carol still exercised extreme caution.

She couldn't just run away at the beginning like she did before, so she could only take it slow.

If I continue to restrict myself like this, it would be really embarrassing if I fail due to carelessness.

Gotham Carol felt that he was too thin-skinned, so he decided to practice hard before doing that.

Oh, actually, regardless of the practice for the race, Gotham Carol also added another thing to the schedule - that is the practice for the winner's stage.

Well, although she is not really interested in the winner's stage, if it is at the Chrysanthemum Festival, she would give it a try.

Let’s just consider it as a perfect ending to the last stop of Bo Mu Liuge’s career.

Gotham Carol is working hard to practice singing and dancing in order to make up for what they didn't do in their previous life.

Of course, the one teaching Gotham's anthem was... the Sunday tranquility of Manchester Tea House.

And Aldan Mejiro, who seems to have a lot of free time and appears more and more frequently next to Gotham Carol.

But, how to describe it, um...

I don’t know if it’s Gotham Anthem’s illusion, but when they were practicing dancing on the winner’s stage, the distance between her and Aldan Mejiro would always get very close.

It was so close that she couldn't ignore it for a moment.

To what extent has it reached?

"Don't move. Stand still here. If you lose your balance, it will be very ugly, okay?"

Gotham Carol felt the arms around her waist from behind tightening and pressing down little by little, and then she felt the close touch from behind, and for a moment she felt like crying but had no tears.

Many people may envy and enjoy such a scene, but after experiencing it several times, Gotham Carol said that it is really not worthy of it.

Wow, where's the teahouse sister?

Come back soon, I can't bear it alone.

Fortunately, perhaps due to the long-awaited call of the Gotham Ode, the Manchester City Tea House finally appeared from the door, and along with it came Sunday Tranquility, who couldn't help but float in the air and laugh.

Gotham Carol, who had completely given up on arguing with the old man, quickly ran two steps and reasonably avoided Aldan Mejiro's attack range.

Then, the three of them left the practice room as usual and walked along the school street towards the cafeteria.

But well...

When Gotham Carol came to their senses, the team that originally consisted of only three people had changed without them noticing.

Walking on both sides of her were still Manchester City Tea House and Mejiro Aldan, but a little closer to her was Oguruma who was staring at her, and the East Sea Emperor who seemed a little unhappy for some reason.

Even the twin turbos would occasionally appear around their group in various places, and when they turned the last corner and were just one step away from the cafeteria, the last person also joined the current team.

It is Silent Suzuka.

Well, how should I say it?

Gotham Carol couldn't understand why. She was just an ordinary pony girl, not a big deal. It was okay that she knew people from Mejiro Castle and were hanging around, but the rest of them...

Are they all souls trapped by gravity?!

Gotham Carol, puzzled by this, vented all his anger on lunch.

So much so that after the meal she was so full that she couldn't walk and had to stay where she was.

As for who helped her back to the dormitory in the end?

It is a new universe that appeared behind everyone like a ghost at some unknown time.

If such a task was originally undertaken by her roommate's New Universe, then naturally no one could compete with her.

So after being surrounded by a group of people for a long time, Gotham Carol finally got out and had a chance to catch their breath.

Oh, the physical contact with Xin Yuzhou when he was supporting her?

It's so funny, is this as intimate as they usually are in bed at night?

Not even close!

Going up the stairs, the New Universe had excellent stamina, and the Uma Musume's excellent physique allowed them to climb four floors without any lag.

Then I walked across the corridor and opened the door——

But once again, I saw an unexpected person sitting on the bed in New Universe and reading a book.

Obviously, this is waiting for them to come back.

And who is that person?

Mejiro Mitsuaki who lives next door to them.

New Universe was quite proactive in letting go of Gotham Anthem and went to the other side. She lowered her head to look at the book and showed no sign of saying anything more.

After asking with their eyes, Mejiro Guangming and Gotham Carol finally revealed their purpose.

She came to ask what Gotham Carol thought about what she had said before.

This was the proposal that Mejiro Mitsuaki made to her after the chrysanthemum viewing ceremony.

To be honest, after that, Gotham Carol didn't really think much about the proposal, because her answer was that there was no way I could accept it anyway.

Regardless of whether it's dangerous or not, isn't this just serving as a substitute meal for yourself?

It would be better for her to go to Mejiro Castle and self-destruct now than to do such a thing.

So, in response to Mejiro Ming-yu's question, Gotham Carol's answer was to shake its head and refuse.

but--

The things about Mejiro Castle must always be faced. I really couldn’t find a good entry point before, but now, there is really no better way to go about it than to look at Mejiro McQueen’s physique, right?

Gotham Carol doesn't want to be its own substitute, but if it didn't go there in this capacity from the beginning, then it wouldn't matter, right?

"I won't be a replacement for anyone else, but if you want me to accompany Miss McQueen, then I can consider it."

That's what Gotham Carol said.

Besides, in fact, Mejiro McQueen wouldn't think of her as the same person she was in the past, right?

She had met Mejiro McQueen before under the winner's stage of the Chrysanthemum Shooting Competition, and at that time Mejiro McQueen showed no sign of admitting his mistake.

She seriously treated Gotham Anthem as a completely different, brand new person.

This shows that Mejiro McQueen's world is actually very clear. She knows clearly that Bo Mu Liuge has left and it is impossible for another living person to appear in front of her.

Of course, it could also be because she could see Phantom Liuge every moment of every day.

Mejiro Kouyou, who had just been rejected, didn't react for a while, but after hearing what Gotham Anthem said, he nodded seriously.

This is good, no, maybe this is better. If it is so obvious that McQueen is given a meal replacement, based on the child's current personality, who knows what extreme things he will do in response. A slightly gentler approach would be a better approach.

"So, Ms. Guangming, can you tell me what specific changes have taken place in Mejiro McQueen?"

So Gotham Carol continued to pursue the victory in this atmosphere and for the first time began to explore relevant information -

This is information that doesn't even have a clear context in the new universe.

Mejiro Kouyou's story is told very slowly, but to sum it up...

After returning from the Arc de Triomphe, the entire Mejiro Castle has changed.

At the beginning, everyone was actually still normal, just immersed in sadness - until the day when the voice of Bo Mu Liu Ge from the outside world came like a flood.

To be honest, everyone in Mejiro City knew that Bomu Liuge was just an outbreak point and fuse of the public opinion war. In essence, Bomu Liuge was just one link in it.

But once you are swept up, you are swept up. At that time, Mejirojo made a fierce, even extreme response to refute this series of insulting remarks.

then…

It was obviously just an emotional outburst, including the bombing of Mejiro Castle.

In short, a lot of things happened at that time, and Mejiro McQueen also "awakened" at that time.

The reason she said this was because she was speaking to the other people in Mejiro Castle.

"Since this is what Uma Musume is all about, there's only one option, right?"

Mejiro McQueen began to become silent and powerful. She trained alone, immersed in her own world, and gradually became extremely powerful.

She wants to use her absolute strength to replicate Bo Mu Liu Ge's achievements, and then use the highest stage to trample on the Japanese Uma Musume fan circle as a severe revenge.

But in fact, this does not solve any problems at all, it can only hurt McQueen herself, because how much does she have to pay for doing such a thing?

But how much will those Internet mobs have to pay?

Just by typing a few words, you can casually insult the glory that Uma Musume has worked so hard to achieve.

That's why Mejiro Mitsuaki secretly found Gotham Carol. She wanted to use any means to call back the cute guy who loved desserts and was familiar to Mejiro City from this state.

After hearing this, Gotham Carol felt helpless.