I'm in Teresin, dedicated to playing badly

"Mr. Shinji, why did you move away without saying a word? My mother and I looked for you for a long time afterward."

Especially Zhou crossed his arms and puffed out his cheeks, looking like a pufferfish.

"Trainer Kitahara, thank you so much for your help back then. I wanted to give you something in return, but when I went to find you, you had already left..."

Little Chestnut Hat's expression didn't change much, but there was curiosity in his eyes.

Faced with their questioning, Shinji Kitahara apologized with a wry smile, then repeated what he had said to the other trainers earlier.

"That's it..."

Special Week and Oguri Hat looked at the eclipse, which had already finished its second round of food, and had completely lost the desire to compare. All that remained was a deep understanding and sympathy for Kitahara Shinji.

Both of them were horse girls with enormous appetites, and they understood better than anyone else how difficult it was to feed such a horse girl, not to mention that, judging from Eclipse's behavior, her appetite was even greater than theirs combined...

That must have been tough, Mr. Kitahara.

After hearing Shinji Kitahara's explanation, Special Week immediately forgave his departure without saying goodbye. Then, as if remembering something, his gaze swept over the trainer's nameplate on his chest.

"Is Mr. Shinji currently a trainer at Tressen?"

A bad feeling resurfaced in his heart, but Kitahara Shinji managed to maintain a calm demeanor and nodded.

"Yes, I just joined this semester."

"That's it."

She nodded, then asked, "So, do you have any sense of responsibility now...?"

"Have."

Shinji Kitahara didn't dare let her continue and interrupted her directly: "Besides, there are already two, and there are no plans to add more at the moment."

But to his surprise, upon hearing his answer, Zhou did not show any disappointment; instead, his eyes lit up.

"Eh? Two people in charge? So you've already assembled a team?"

......What's happening?

Looking at Special Zhou's face, Kitahara Shinji suddenly realized that he might have misjudged her intentions.

And the next second, his premonition came true.

"Well, my professionalization (Note 1) has only just begun, and I don't plan to debut yet. I'd like to join a group to train first, and I've been struggling with this lately..."

Especially Zhou looked at him with an expectant expression.

Kitahara Shinji: "..."

Why does he talk so much!

Fortunately, although he already has two people in charge, Shinji Kitahara has not formed any team.

After all, as a matter of common sense, even if a rookie trainer who barely passed the test suggests the team's attitude, the chairman would probably not approve it. There's no need to deliberately slack off; just tell the truth.

But just after he finished explaining his situation to Special Zhou, saying that he didn't have a team and couldn't let her join, Eclipse, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke up quietly.

"Although we haven't formed a team yet, I think you could try submitting an application; maybe you'll get approved?"

Shinji Kitahara paused for a moment, then turned to look at her after realizing what she meant.

"Eclipse, you—"

However, before he could finish speaking, Oguri Hat, who had been silent for a long time, also raised his hand.

"Um, Trainer Kitahara, I'm also planning to debut next year and I'm looking for a team to join. If it's possible, can I apply to join your team too?"

Chapter Seven: Pain, it hurts so much

There are many types of contracts between trainers and racehorse girls, the two most common being the role horse girl and the team horse girl.

Among them, the contract for being a horse girl is a rather serious one, with not only very complicated and strict rules, but also very strict responsibilities and requirements.

Moreover, once the contract is signed, unless something unexpected happens, the two must remain partners for the three years following Ma Niang's debut, sharing both glory and hardship. It would not be an exaggeration to say they are of one mind.

It is also a high-incidence area for horse jumping accidents.

But the team's horse girl doesn't have so many requirements.

To draw an analogy, the team's horse girls are basically similar to club members.

Although they are nominally in a trainer's team, the trainer is not actually responsible for them. Whether they follow the trainer's requirements or not depends entirely on their mood. They can easily switch teams and join based purely on their own preferences.

Human energy is limited, and even the best trainer can hardly train multiple horse girls at the same time.

Not to mention that, in addition to training, the relationship between the trainer and the trainer is also a problem. The trainer is at risk of pelvic fracture if he is in charge of just one horse girl, so what about multiple horse girls... have you ever heard of being torn apart by five horses?

Therefore, experienced veteran trainers often form teams, with themselves taking charge of one or two roles while the rest are the team's horse girls.

The veteran trainers are mainly responsible for their own assigned horse girls and do not devote too much effort to the team's horse girls, only providing the most necessary guidance. The rest of the work is left to the new trainers who join the team.

New trainers can not only accumulate training experience during the process, but also gradually get to know and become familiar with the female horses in the team.

When the time is right, new trainers can find a suitable team member to confirm their role, become independent from the team, and officially begin their trainer career. They can then go on to build their own team, and so on.

"But the problem is, I'm a rookie trainer!"

Outside the chairman's office, Shinji Kitahara looked utterly devastated.

"So why was a new trainer's application to build a team approved? Is Treson so short of trainers that they don't even bother to review applications anymore?"

He had already said all that in the cafeteria, so he couldn't very well refuse Special Zhou and Little Chestnut Hat's application to join the team.

However, he wasn't too worried at the time.

Logically speaking, a new trainer like him, who barely made it in and has only been on the job for less than a day, would definitely have his application to form a team rejected, thus dissuading them from even considering joining.

But the result was that his team's application was approved very smoothly.

As for the reason?

"Permission granted! Trainer Shinji Kitahara, I have received many reports about you from the local Teresa region. I have faith in your abilities as a trainer, so please continue to strive for excellence!"

That's what the short chairman said, and it seems like he's been paying attention to him for a long time.

After that, Special Week and Oguri Hat happily joined the team.

The eclipse seemed to be in a good mood, whether because its scheme had succeeded or for some other reason.

The only unhappy person was probably Shinji Kitahara himself.

Looking at the four bright names in his team, he felt even more that his future of giving up was bleak.

Is it really that hard for me to just coast along for three years?

He sighed, put the team files into his bag, and looked at the three people behind him with different expressions.

"Let's go to the training ground."

Unlike the Emperor of the East Sea and the Eclipse, although the two of them are nominally his assigned horse wives, they are actually completely beyond his control, and even if he tries to control them, they probably won't listen.

Special Week and Oguri Hat, although they are the team's horse girls, will listen to him. Even if they are slacking off, they still have to fulfill their necessary duties as trainers.

First and foremost is the aptitude test. Although I've done the test for them before, that data is from several years ago, so it definitely needs to be updated to make it easier to develop a training plan later.

Change equipment, warm up, and then start the test.

Speed, endurance, strength, resilience, intelligence.

Due to time and space constraints, there weren't many tests that could be done. Shinji Kitahara only tested their most basic attributes, and then his expression became increasingly melancholy.

What is this?

Although I already knew that Special Week and Oguri Hat were both quite famous Uma Musume girls, the former was known as the 'JP Grand Admiral' and the latter was known as the 'Monster with Ash Hair'.

But your stats are way too damn high!

Speaking of which, as a transmigrator, he actually had a horse racing girl breeding system.

As long as the other party verbally agrees, you can access all their information. In the first few years, he relied on this system to solve problems that even veteran trainers couldn't solve.

But now, he rarely uses this system anymore.

As for the reason?

To put it simply, although the system can display various attributes of Uma Musume, it can only give a general evaluation, and the description of the problem is rather vague.

Now, after interacting with countless horse girls, he can basically determine their attributes after a short ride, and he can directly quantify them with single-digit accuracy. He can also see through all sorts of problems at a glance, often even more clearly than the system.

So he gradually used the system less and less, since it wasn't as good as his own device.

It was precisely because of this ability that he easily confirmed the two women's strength as racehorse girls.

Although the orthodox transformation has only just begun, and should theoretically be the weakest period in Uma Musume's life, the speed and power these two have unleashed are enough to rival that of the peak orthodox Uma Musume.

Once they reach the pinnacle of their true potential, their strength will undoubtedly increase significantly, and their attributes will likely reach a terrifying level.

This is partly due to their own talent and hard work, but it is also because of some adjustments he made for them when they met a few years ago, which gave them even greater strength than they were originally destined to be.

In the original storyline, Special Week and Oguri Hat already had impressive records, placing them among the top-tier horse racers. But now, after their power-ups...

He didn't want to be too rude, so he asked the other horse girls to prepare for turbo boosts.

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, there is also the East Sea Emperor in his team. Although the basement is terrifying, her strength as a racehorse girl is not much less than the basement's reputation.

Aside from Eclipse, who has never verbally agreed to let him see his stats and has never run at full speed, and whose strength remains a mystery, his team is a dream team. With just a little practice, they could easily wipe out the enemy.

If this lineup were given to any other trainer, they'd probably be ecstatic, but in Shinji Kitahara's hands...

He couldn't sleep either.

But not out of surprise, but out of fear.

What a joke! He just wanted to be a quiet slacker!

If this lineup were to be taken out and used to wreak havoc, who knows what the media would say about him? At the very least, he'd be hailed as a prodigy trainer of the Empire.

Once he becomes famous, countless horse trainers will try to recruit him as their trainer, especially those with powerful families behind them, who are unlikely to let him go.

It hurts, it hurts too much.

I just wanted to quietly drift along for three years, why is it so difficult?

My heart was bleeding, but I couldn't stop working. After completing the tests, I started writing the training plan.

Zhou and Xiao Limao curiously went over to see what he had written.

The eclipse remained quietly standing to one side, staring at the air in front of it, lost in thought.

And it was at this moment that a familiar and energetic voice rang out.

"Good afternoon, trainer."

Having just finished his studies, the Emperor of the East Sea arrived at the training ground and immediately spotted Shinji Kitahara, greeting him cheerfully.

After greeting him, she noticed that two figures had appeared beside Shinji Kitahara.

She unconsciously narrowed her eyes.

"Trainer, who are these two?"

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Chapter 8: How did Treson become like this!

Although he was asking Kitahara Shinji and the other woman who they were, the Emperor of the East Sea actually knew their identities.

Special week, and also Oguri Hat, two transfer students who transferred to the Treson main campus a year ago.

On its very first day there, it managed to bankrupt Tresson's prized cafeteria, leaving the staff with a huge psychological scar.

In terms of performance, although they are said to be quite talented, they are just starting out in the professionalization process and have no plans to debut yet, nor are they being paid attention by any trainers.

However, although he knew about them, they were still unproduced horse girls, and the Emperor of the East Sea had not had much contact with them, so he was not very familiar with them.

She was just a little curious as to why these two people were here and why they were surrounding Shinji Kitahara.

"Your Majesty, you have arrived."

If it were the usual Shinji Kitahara, he would definitely be startled by the sudden appearance of the Emperor of the East Sea, and thus become more vigilant.

But right now, because his mind had just been overwhelmed by the attributes of Special Zhou and Little Chestnut Hat, he was in a state of utter despair and had no energy left to be wary of the East Sea Emperor.