"You did great, Suzuka."
"Mmmh…"
After the race, team Minaz gathered in the changing room. The red-haired young man has placed his hand on the chestnut-haired umamusume to console her after she finished third.
"You were fighting all by yourself out there. It's not hard to see how you were overwhelmed."
"Is that so?"
"Yes. Teio wickedly uses her subjects as a shield to conserve her stamina. She is an evil monarch who treats others as tools. A villain of the highest degree. Unlike her, you're a lonely traveler who believes in her own strength."
"Mmmhh…"
"You're too kind of an umamusume. Too pure. Makes me want to corrupt you."
"Mmhh~ Trainer~"
"HEEEEY!!! WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!?!?!"
"What is it, Teio? You're ruining the mood."
"I'm sorry for ruining the mood!! Why did you talk as if I wasn't here?!?!?! HHMMPPHH!!!"
"Look! I'm trying to console Suzuka since she lost. You win, so you can go run off and be happy."
"THAT'S RIGHT!! I WON!! SO WHY AM I BEING TREATED LIKE A VILLAIN!?!? Beside!! If treating anyone as a tool is a sin, then you're the most sinful of us all!!"
"I never said that I was a saint, did I? I was simply throwing the attention to you, so I don't get the flak, Teio."
"MMMMHHHH!!! I'M THE WINNER!! WHY AREN'T YOU SPOILING ME?!?! Do you want me to lose?! Is that it?!?"
"I'll expel you from the team if you lose."
"What's the difference in treatment?!?! McQUEEN!!! Trainer is being mean!!"
"Sigh… Trianer, can you stop teasing her? She is going to cry, you know? She did win a G-one. Doesn't that help with your financial situation?"
That's kinda doesn't matter after Ramonu gave me her black card, McQueen. I'm actually kinda afraid to gain more because the tax men might come for me.
"Alright… Alright… Come here. I guess you're my PogChamp."
"That's more like it!!"
The young man grumpily opens his arms toward Teio, which the latter capitalizes on by hugging him from the front. She rubs her face on his chest and makes sure to smell his stench.
"SSSSSNNNIIIIFFF!! OOOOHHH!!! That's the good stuff!!"
"The hell did you teach her, Tampon?"
"Why do you always think it's my fault if your trainees are behaving weirdly? Have you seen yourself in the mirror?"
Just because I've used them as guinea pigs for my new product, made from your sweats and in the form of white powder that they have to snort, doesn't mean anything in this case.
Nope! I'm innocent here!
Do you have no heart, demon lord?
Get fucked!! You're just a figment of my imagination!!
"Ahahaha… Yeah… Teio is weird, right guys?"
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"Ahahaha…"
"A corpse is talking."
"Wait, McQueen!! That is so rude of you!! And why do your eyes look like Rinnegan?"
"I'll give you the right to deal with her, McQueen. I do not need fifteenth place in my team."
"Don't worry, I'll clean this filth up."
"WWWWWAAAAAAA!! YOU GUYS ARE SO RUDE!!! UUUWWWWWAAAAA!!! WHAT DID I DO WRONG?!?! It wasn't my fault!! The umamusume next to me was picking a fight!!!"
"That doesn't mean you should fight her!! You ended up in fifteenth place out of sixteenth!! What were you thinking?!"
"Sigh… I can't advise Teio since she won this one, and she did everything right. I can't advise Goldship, either, but that's because she did everything wrong."
"Sniffle~~ You're such a meanie~~"
"Sigh…"
At least trainer returns to his former self. Perhaps this is what Goldship was aiming for since the very beginning?
"By the way, trainer, where's Urara?"
"Do you know about the animal known as a quokka, McQueen?"
"Where is this going?"
"Remember the boomerang Urara threw at Stay Gold earlier. Yeah, Dream Journey doesn't like that. So I did what Quokka does with its baby when it encounters a predator."
"I feel like I wouldn't like the answer."
"That's right! I throw Urara at Dream Journey and run away!!"
I changed my mind. Maybe the depressed trainer isn't so bad after all. At least that man is kinder to us.
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"Ahahahaha… I got second place."
"That's because you don't use everything in your arsenal."
"Hahaha… You think too highly of me, Orfevre. By the way, who is that in your arm?"
"Her name is Haru Urara. She is the umamusume that threw the boomerang at you earlier. It was because of trainer Igo Heita."
"Heeyyooo~~"
"Hello, cutie. You're cute, so I'll forgive you. Why are you with Orfevre anyway? Why are you not with your trainer?"
"Trainer told me to distract Orfevre and Dream Journey as he ran away."
"Fufufu~~ Trainer Igo Heita and I are more alike than I initially thought."
"I've been saying that, Dream Journey. You should try to get along with him more."
"I'm looking forward to talking more with him. I'm sure he will accept me. I shall make sure of it."
"What are we going to do with this?"
"Why don't you play with her, Orfevre? She seems to like you."
"Yaaaaay~~~~!!!!"