"Dear, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. I'm just… feeling under the weather."
The next morning, the young man still felt the burning hatred in his heart. He crashed into his bed last night with a heart full of anger, expecting it to calm down the next morning, but to no avail. His hatred of the 3 Goddesses still burns bright as ever—No, brighter than ever.
It's to the point his [Truth Seeing Eyes] and [Uma-Siren] are activated all the time. He knows it would be detrimental to his own health, but his anger clouded his judgement and forced him to do anything to improve his trainees.
The young man's change in demeanour didn't go unnoticed by his wives. The personality change is like day and night from the man of yesterday. They simply refuse to chalk it up to a swing of mood, as he is not known for something like that.
"Rudolf, what happened last night? You were with him, right?"
"Ah… Uuuhh…"
Rudolf remembered what the young man told her last night, about how she cannot tell anyone about their whole ordeal or run the risk of pulling the other into the mess. She knows better than to go against what the young man told her or face his wrath. She had a glimpse of his anger when he was repairing the time machine. She doesn't want it to fall onto her at full power.
"We took a small night walk with Teio and McQueen, but that's it. I don't remember him being this angry though…"
The first part of that answer was full blow lie, but the latter was an honest answer. She doesn't remember the young man being this angry when they parted ways last night. If anything, he feels sorta melancholy with the death of his other world's parents.
"You both slept with him, no? Shouldn't I be asking you what happened to him?"
"He came back looking like that. We can't get anything from him. We hope that you can shine some light."
"There's no need to worry for me. As I said, I'm just under the weather. Just give me some time to recover."
"Then act like that and sit down with us. You wouldn't recover as much if you keep pushing yourself like that, dear."
"I don't feel like it."
"Sigh… For the love of the Goddesses… If you don't sit down now, I will cut your source of income."
"Since when did you become such a bitch, Ramonu?"
"Ever since you became a brat, darling. Now sit down."
"Sigh… I'm training my umamusumes. Are you blind?"
"You have been doing so since the start of the year, and you did so while being an asshole, so why are you being a brat now?"
"Someone is being a nagging hag."
"You better listen to me then, child. Sit down."
"..."
"..."
"I'm going to kiss Rudolf in front of you."
"I'll repay that ten times over."
"Sigh… I'm just making sure that my trainees are training properly, especially McQueen since Kikuka Sho is in two months. Since she has the two crowns, most, if not all, of the participants will be crown killers."
"His logic is sound, Ramonu. It will most likely be one versus all."
"Did you scout someone that causes you worry, darling? It intrigued me to know which umamusume scared you. You look hungry while looking at me, but this umamusume managed to strike fear into your heart."
The bitches that rule this world, Ramonu. Those are the assholes that strike fear into my heart. You couldn't possibly reach them as you are now. No one unless I purposely trained them to be.
"Are you afraid of your assistant? Did her title of the Phantom Triple Crown make your legs quiver?"
"Ooh~~ The ScArY mAn is afraid of a combination of words. Do you need me to sleep with you tonight, coward?"
"Someone stabs the Monster with a carrot."
"Dear, as a veteran, I can assure you that Tachyon still couldn't reach the level of a true Triple Crown. She had the potential to be one, but the Triple Crown doesn't only come from pure statistics."
"Ooh~~ Look at me~~ I'm the EmPeRoR~~ I cAn JuDgE oThEr BeCaUsE I aM tHe StRoNgEsT~~"
"...He can be really annoying, huh?"
"Have always been, Rudolf."
"Besides, if you worry about me, then help my trainees train. I can stop worrying about them if they become strong enough to contend against any of you."
"We already did. Plenty, in fact. Any more of a joint training session will be bad for both of our images, dear. People will accuse us of having favorites while accusing you of being handed your wins by us."
"I don't… care about what others think about me."
"But we do. The win your trainees gained through their sweats and tears should be acknowledged as theirs, not ours."
"Jealous people will always be jealous regardless of everything."
"Yes, but it's best to lower the number in any way possible. You might not be affected by people's rumors, but your trainees certainly do."
"Sigh… Mental maturity should be taught in school."
"I don't believe I have to say this to you, but put more trust in your trainees, darling. They will reciprocate your trust in them by winning. Trust them as you have always done. That's the kind of trainer they trust after all."
"..."
The young man casually glances at McQueen with his [Truth Seeing Eyes] and compares her to the 3 Goddesses. To say that there is a gap in their stats is a complete understatement.
"Not yet…"