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Chapter 17: Liars Must Swallow a Thousand Needles

At Tracen, I’m an Expert at Doing Time

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[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Hooray!

No Bad End!

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[Unbreakable Glass]: Wonderful.

[White-Eyed H-Manga Sensei]: This story qualifies as classic hot-blooded heroism… I’ve never drawn an all-ages book like that, but I could try.

[Invincible Seaside-sama]: I was going to say something else, but celebrating is better.

Hooray!

[Maternal Demon]: Hooray!

[Grade-Skipping Genius Girl]: Hooray!

[Tracen’s Madoka Higuchi]: Why have all of you begun repeating the same word?

Can’t you celebrate normally?

“I’m so glad she won.”

Seeing her on-screen self escape unharmed, the real Silence Suzuka sighed in relief.

She smiled while looking at the equally happy version of herself.

Then both Suzukas saw Special Week carrying Zhou Yu’ang toward the winner.

Neither could continue smiling.

Something about the scene felt wrong.

“Trainer!

I did it!”

As Special Week carried Zhou Yu’ang closer, Silence Suzuka bounded toward them like a young deer.

She noticed that Special Week had not put him down.

Her brow furrowed.

“Um… what exactly are the two of you doing?”

“Special Week, you can put me down now.”

Seeing Special Week’s flushed face, Zhou Yu’ang patted her shoulder.

Surely Special Week had not awakened the horse instinct to carry humans.

In reality, the original Special Week initially hated chestnut horses.

Later, that dislike expanded toward other horses as well.

He remained exceptionally affectionate toward humans.

Perhaps an animal raised and bottle-fed by people had begun believing itself human.

The current Special Week, however, was simply an enormous fool.

“Oh!”

Special Week responded and reluctantly lowered Zhou Yu’ang to the ground.

Then she watched Zhou Yu’ang walk toward Silence Suzuka.

Suzuka approached without hesitation until they were nearly touching.

“I did it.

I came back, Trainer.”

Silence Suzuka extended her gloved hand.

Boldly, she took Zhou Yu’ang’s hand and linked her little finger with his.

“Welcome back.”

Zhou Yu’ang unreservedly stroked her head.

Silence Suzuka’s ears rhythmically slapped against his hand.

The Trainer and horse girl were both perfectly willing.

Only Special Week stood opposite them.

Through the narrow gap between their bodies, she could be seen staring helplessly with wide eyes.

“Um!”

Special Week finally raised her voice.

Not only Zhou Yu’ang and Silence Suzuka but even the horse girls watching sensed that something was wrong.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Um… Something about this feels wrong.

“Trainer, you made Spe carry you earlier, didn’t you?”

Before Special Week could speak, Silence Suzuka began questioning him.

Previously, she had resembled a confused young bride.

Now she looked like a newlywed wife.

She stared at the man before her with a quietly reproachful expression.

“I’m grateful, but didn’t that place Spe in a difficult situation?

Many horse girls will probably gossip about her.”

Silence Suzuka spoke in a tone implying she was only worried about Special Week.

Every viewer agreed that the concern deserved attention.

“Indeed.”

The real Silence Suzuka nodded.

She shared the same worry.

However, why did the look in her on-screen counterpart’s eyes feel slightly unusual?

“That? New chapters come out on g.com first.

Just tell me whether it worked.”

Zhou Yu’ang shamelessly placed his hands upon his hips.

He looked like a debater who had revealed decisive evidence.

“Besides, I’m human.

I can’t run at horse-girl speeds, and there weren’t any vehicles nearby.

Relying on her was perfectly reasonable, right?”

Horse girls possessed roughly three times the physical ability of ordinary adults.

Normal humans needed to remember that.

Unless someone had severe brain damage, they would not deliberately enter a physical conflict with a horse girl.

“Because Spe runs quickly?”

Silence Suzuka looked uncomfortably at Zhou Yu’ang’s posture.

“Exactly.

Spe runs quickly.”

Would he have needed her if he could run faster himself?

“But I’m faster!”

Silence Suzuka was an idiot.

Specifically, she was a running idiot.

Whenever the topic involved running, she became an endearing fool.

She completely ignored Special Week standing beside them.

Even when Spe repeatedly exclaimed, “Huh?

Huh?” Silence Suzuka kept staring at Zhou Yu’ang.

That tone and declaration of confidence sounded suspiciously like an implication.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: I can’t take it anymore.

I’m going to die.

[White-Eyed H-Manga Sensei]: I think the person above requires emergency treatment.

[Tracen’s Madoka Higuchi]: She’s probably exaggerating for the joke.

No one actually dies merely from seeing a pairing.

The comments remained harmonious and filled with irrepressible laughter.

The real Silence Suzuka also laughed.

Then she looked toward her in-game self.

She appeared to understand what the other Suzuka intended.

“Trainer, next time… would you let me carry you while I run?”

Silence Suzuka looked seriously at Zhou Yu’ang and reached for his hand.

“We can return to that place.

Then I’ll carry you.

I actually wanted to tell you something before the race.”

She had originally intended to say it earlier.

Zhou Yu’ang had stopped her.

This time, she would not allow him to escape the subject.

She intended to communicate her feelings completely.

“I still want to see scenery no one else has ever seen.”

“But my feelings have changed.”

“If possible, I don’t want that scenery to belong only to me.”

Her hand moved within Zhou Yu’ang’s.

The girl hooked her little finger around his.

“Trainer, share the scenery at the very front with me.”

“And afterward… would you share everything else with me too?”

Her life, for example.

Silence Suzuka raised her head.

Her eyes looked at Zhou Yu’ang with immense expectation.

She had gathered the courage to say what she had wanted to express before the race.

Just as when she chose Great Escape, she felt no regret.

“I… sure.”

Share what, exactly?

Zhou Yu’ang wanted to ask for clarification.

But he was not an idiot.

Whether he overthought the statement or asked directly, Suzuka and the comments would produce an enormous reaction.

More importantly…

Looking into Silence Suzuka’s eyes, he could not refuse.

It was not merely because Silence Suzuka was a horse girl and Zhou Yu’ang was a Trainer.

He genuinely liked Silence Suzuka.

He had always considered her one of his wives.

Now she was practically delivering an indirect confession.

How could he reject that?

If he refused now, would her mood fall permanently to rock bottom?

I swore that I would marry thirty horse girls.

Would a Trainer with that dream reject something like this?!

Before studying abroad in Japan, he had declared the same ambition to his parents back home in Seres.

His promises to others needed to be fulfilled.

His promises to himself also needed to be honored.

Only then could he call himself psychologically healthy!

“Trainer… I’m so glad that I met you.”

When the person she loved agreed, Silence Suzuka gave Zhou Yu’ang a sweet smile.

Her small hand moved gently, just as Zhou Yu’ang’s had when they first made the promise.

“Now we’ve made another promise.”

“Anyone who breaks it has to swallow a thousand needles.”

[Unbreakable Glass]: Wonderful.

Does this mean they can reach the perfect ending now?

[Tracen’s Madoka Higuchi]: Unless something goes wrong, probably.

[Maternal Demon]: I feel like we should prepare celebratory red-bean rice.

[White-Eyed H-Manga Sensei]: Speaking of which, where did Horse Girl Enthusiast go?

Did she genuinely need an ambulance?

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: No need.

I’m fine.

I merely died once just now.

[Festival Girl]: You died once?

Is it truly that terrifying?

[Invincible Seaside-sama]: She’s obviously lying.

Dead people can’t speak.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: I genuinely died, but my soul remembered that I still needed to witness such sweetness, so I had no choice but to revive.

I’m in excellent condition now.

Extremely goo—

[White-Eyed H-Manga Sensei]: She died from sweetness again.

How tragic.

[Hates Flashbulbs and Lunatics]: What kind of nonsense are you two even discussing?!

“This… doesn’t seem bad.”

The real Silence Suzuka shyly watched her on-screen self and the Zhou Yu’ang standing opposite her.

He truly was an excellent Trainer.

She glanced down at the densely written notes she had taken.

Even if she trained independently with those instructions, she might win several graded races.

If she met him in reality…

Perhaps she really would fall for him, exactly as the other Suzuka had.

A Great Escape runner who could not escape the Trainer who taught her how to use Great Escape.

That did not sound unpleasant.

She watched the screen with expectation.

Would her real Trainer be this same person?

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