Uma Musume: From Beginner to BasementAuthor: EEEEE然后亮标
No one had any objections to the name Team Tucker, so it naturally became the official name of Tang Han's team from that point on.
With the team name settled, the next step was afternoon training.
But before training began, everyone was curious about what the inside of the training room looked like, so they filed in one after another to take a look around.
Tang Han was the only one who stayed outside, too afraid to go in.
"Trainer Tang Han, aren't you coming in?" Tokai Teio stood in the doorway and tilted her head in confusion.
"I've already seen it, so I'll pass. I'll just wait for you out here," Tang Han said quickly, scrambling for an excuse and stubbornly refusing to go anywhere near the training room.
The room next door was still shaking. How was he supposed to dare go in?
And with Tokai Teio being the one inviting him, that only made it even harder to step inside.
So Tang Han simply crouched outside the door and began revising today's training plan. The main thing he needed to account for now was Gold Ship joining the group.
Gold Ship was also excellent at long-distance running. With her training alongside them, Urara's grasp of long-distance racing would improve even more.
Before long, Tang Han finished drafting the updated plan.
Once everyone had finished looking around, he handed the new schedule to Urara and Rice Shower, and then went with the others to the training field.
This afternoon, the sun was bright and the air was fresh—the perfect weather for running.
"Urara's gonna come in first!" Urara shouted happily as she charged onto the track.
The other horse girls refused to fall behind and rushed after her.
"Go, go, go oh!"
"Ohohohohoho! Let me show you all my first-rate running style!"
"Teio won't lose! I am the future undefeated Triple Crown horse girl, after all!"
"Hm… maybe I really should just tie him up and bring him home…"
It looked like everyone was full of energy today.
Standing at the edge of the track, Tang Han watched the hardworking girls from afar, feeling deeply gratified.
Then he stiffly turned his head and looked at the person beside him—Gold Ship, who had both hands lazily hooked behind her head.
"Bro Ship? Why are you still here?" Tang Han asked, eyes full of accusation.
"Master, let's play," Gold Ship replied, meeting his gaze. There was absolutely no sign that she intended to join the others in training.
"Hm?" Tang Han was baffled.
It was training time, and instead of training, she wanted to play with him?
"Training is boring. Let's keep doing riddles like before," Gold Ship suggested.
"Allow me to refuse." Tang Han shook his head.
Even though he was standing on the sidelines and didn't have to run himself, he still had to keep a close eye on his girls while they ran, judge from their stamina whether they should continue or stop, and adjust future training plans based on their improvement. It was important work. He did not have time to fool around with Gold Ship and her riddle games.
Besides, he had invited Gold Ship into the team so she could train alongside the others and give Urara more friendship training opportunities. Yet here she was, on day one, refusing to train and even trying to drag the trainer into slacking off with her.
Then again… it was Gold Ship.
That made sense.
But that also meant the new training plan he had just painstakingly revised for Gold Ship's加入 had gone to waste.
He needed to find a way to make Gold Ship obediently go train with the others.
"Bro Ship, how about this," Tang Han said. "Go train with everyone, and once it's done, I'll teach you how to make honey drink."
Gold Ship burst out laughing. "Hahaha, not going."
"Don't you want to learn how to make delicious honey drink anymore?"
"Then I just won't learn."
She crossed her arms, lifted her chin, and struck the pose of someone utterly unshaken.
"Right now, I only want to play riddles."
Tang Han: "…"
Wow. That was way too fickle.
"How about this, then?" Gold Ship proposed. "You play riddles with me, and I'll show you something nice to look at."
She tugged her collar down a little, exposing a hint of cleavage, and threw him a flirtatious glance.
Gold Ship was attempting to seduce Tang Han with her beauty.
Tang Han only gave a light chuckle.
"Do you really think that trick would work on me, Fickle Little Ship-Ship?"
He directly called out her username from the academy forum.
He had known all along that the clickbait post from before had been Gold Ship's doing—because the silver-haired horse girl in sunglasses dancing street-style in the video had obviously been her.
When she said she wanted to "show him something nice," it definitely was not anything erotic. Anyone who believed that deserved to get fooled.
Tang Han had fallen for it once. There was no way he would be fooled a second time.
Hearing her online handle exposed, Gold Ship looked surprised.
"So you clicked into that video too, huh? Hoho, filthy adult."
Tang Han immediately fired back, "That's just because you wear yellow glasses, so everything you see looks yellow to you. I clicked in because I genuinely wanted to see a horse girl dance. How did that turn into me being filthy?"
"It's obviously you who's filthy-minded. That's why you assume I am."
Gold Ship was taken aback for a moment by that line of reasoning, but quickly recovered.
"Not bad. That's a great answer."
Got it, got it. She'd use that line next time to prank McQueen.
But the real issue remained: she still really wanted to play riddles.
"Then let's do this," Gold Ship said.
"We'll have one riddle duel right now. If you win, I'll go train with everyone. If I win, you have to play riddles with me. Sound fair?"
"Fine." After thinking it over, Tang Han agreed.
At the moment, he truly had no better way to persuade Gold Ship to train. Since she had offered a solution herself, he had little choice but to accept.
He knew Gold Ship was strong in this area—but he wasn't weak either.
Back when they first met, they had kept pace with each other in riddle banter surprisingly well. Based on that alone, Tang Han felt their skill levels were probably about the same…
Very well.
Let him find out whether he, Tang Han, was better at riddles—or whether the alien horse girl Gold Ship was.
The duel began.
"What's the oldest goldfish in the world?"
"Fred, 41 years old."
"Where is a shrimp's heart located?"
"In its head."
The duel lasted about ten minutes, and the winner became clear very quickly.
"Uwaaaah…"
Gold Ship knelt on the grass looking utterly heartbroken. She was clearly crying her eyes out, and yet not a single tear fell.
Tang Han stared at her, the corner of his mouth twitching.
"You won. Why are you more upset than I am?"
That's right—the loser had been Tang Han.
In the realm of trivia riddles, he simply could not beat Gold Ship.
At the start of the match, they had been evenly matched, trading questions and answers back and forth. But the longer it went on, the more Tang Han came face to face with the limits of his own knowledge. In the end, he couldn't hold out and was effortlessly crushed by Gold Ship.
Gold Ship explained excitedly, "Because I've finally met someone who could last ten whole minutes against me!"
"My old opponents would lose after just a few questions. It was boring. Only you—only you managed to duel me for that long!"
"Gold Ship… Gold Ship is moved!"
"Master, you are my god!"
She dropped to one knee and saluted Tang Han in reverence.
As expected of Bro Ship. Truly, she was absurd.
"All right, I lost." Tang Han bowed his head in acceptance.
He was the sort of person who would honor a wager. Since he had made the deal, he would abide by it.
He had lost to Gold Ship, which meant he had to play riddles with her.
Tang Han sat down on the ground, ready to spend a long time enduring this guessing game with her.
But Gold Ship suddenly climbed to her feet and started warming up.
Tang Han was confused.
Did riddle games require warm-ups too? Or was this some kind of game where the loser got beaten up?
But once Gold Ship finished stretching, she turned and ran straight toward the training field.
That only made Tang Han more confused.
"Bro Ship, what are you doing? Didn't we say if I lost, I had to play riddles with you?"
"Hahaha, Master, you already did play riddles with me."
"Now Gold Ship-sama feels like running. Bye~"
She bounded onto the track and joined the group training with Urara.
Only then did Tang Han finally understand, and a wry smile appeared on his face.
Damn it.
He'd been tricked by Bro Ship again.
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