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Chapter 18: Never Forget the Dream You Began With

At Tracen, I’m an Expert at Doing Time

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Would her real Trainer be this same person?

The stream remained filled with cheerful conversation.

Zhou Yu’ang and Silence Suzuka smiled at each other.Full novel: At Tracen, I’m an Expert at Doing Time — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠

Only Special Week stood beside them, blankly watching the Trainer and horse girl.

The happiness of others could not always be shared.

She found them unbearably noisy.

Perhaps she should not have been standing there.

Perhaps she belonged beneath the car instead.

“Special Week.”

At that moment, Zhou Yu’ang turned toward her.

“Ah!

Yes!”

Special Week immediately nodded.

She looked nervously toward Zhou Yu’ang while secretly glancing at Silence Suzuka.

Suzuka stood quietly beside her Trainer with her usual graceful manner.

However, she had moved even closer to Zhou Yu’ang.

It was as though that place had always belonged to her.

She and her Trainer were inseparable.

“Silence Suzuka has returned safely.

Let’s go celebrate.”

Zhou Yu’ang extended one hand toward Special Week.

Silence Suzuka’s ears twitched.

She did not interfere.

Her hand already held Zhou Yu’ang’s other hand.

“Huh?

Oh.

Understood.”

Special Week foolishly placed her small hand in Zhou Yu’ang’s.

He held both horse girls’ hands and led them away.

One looked confused and uncertain.

The other raised her head with complete happiness.

Thus, Zhou Yu’ang departed while holding a horse girl in each hand.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Wait!

Why are you holding Special Week’s hand too?!

The pink-haired girl, who had been repeatedly dying and reviving beside her desk, suddenly returned to life.

No matter how she examined the scene, it looked suspicious.

Wasn’t holding Silence Suzuka’s hand enough?

Why did he need to hold Special Week’s?

Did he intend to marry her as well?

Wouldn’t that mean—

“Was I supposed to abandon Special Week there?”

After Zhou Yu’ang left while holding both horse girls, the story event ended.

The game returned to the main interface.

A notification appeared.

Great Escape Acquired

Woohoo!

He had always wanted to slaughter everything in the third year with Great Escape.

Unfortunately, in the original game, Suzuka could only obtain it after the Autumn Tenno Sho during that final year.

Otherwise, her career would contain almost no difficulty.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Ah… Well…

Admittedly, abandoning a horse girl would have been inappropriate.

Still, something about Special Week’s situation felt problematic.

Also, this Trainer had declared that he wanted to marry thirty horse girls.

Surely he was not planning—

After hearing Zhou Yu’ang’s forceful justification, the viewers found themselves unable to argue.

A Trainer holding one horse girl’s hand while abandoning another would indeed seem improper.

But holding one in each hand while leaving also looked…

Strange.

Discussing the oddness no longer mattered.

The story had returned to ordinary career gameplay.

“Trainer, our promise will continue forever, won’t it?”

Silence Suzuka waved and smiled from the main interface.

She looked as though they had already survived years of hardship and become a comfortable married couple.

The career still needed to be completed.

Zhou Yu’ang rapidly advanced through the remaining turns.

Everything became easy afterward.

Silence Suzuka and the Support Cards cooperated wonderfully.

He never missed a valuable rainbow training.

Great Escape also allowed her to slaughter the generic opponents appearing throughout the career.

Invincible.

What else could be said?

Invincible!

After dominating the third year, the career approached its conclusion.

Only the final Twinkle Series events remained.

Silence Suzuka continued using Great Escape throughout them.

Watching her lead from beginning to end delighted every horse girl in the audience.

Horse girls naturally loved the sensation of crossing the finish line first.

The career had been completed perfectly.

Zhou Yu’ang purchased the remaining skills and ended the run.

The conclusion screen displayed a racetrack.

Silence Suzuka ran beside the camera and waved toward it.

“Trainer, I’m so glad I met you.”

Speaking of this camera angle… with another horse girl…

Zhou Yu’ang remembered that every career ended with the horse girl running extremely close to the camera.

Certain horse girls…

For example, the Narita Top Road released during the game’s second-and-a-half anniversary.

She possessed enormous headlights.

During that running animation, they bounced continuously.

Other horse girls did as well.

Silence Suzuka, however…

It was better to appreciate her legs and face.

“All right.

That completes one career.”

Zhou Yu’ang addressed the audience and continued through the results.

After watching the full career, the horse girls understood the gameplay much better.

Zhou Yu’ang possessed years of prison experience.

The horse girls themselves, however…

Their blood pressure would probably increase dramatically.

Another screen appeared.

The inheritance-factor results.

The Three Goddesses had optimized this system as well.

They included the factor-reroll function that had only been introduced long after the original game’s release.

“These are called factors.”

They were among the most malicious mechanics in the entire game.

Countless players had suffered because of them.

Uma Musume was extremely unusual.

In most games, once a player obtained a character, they could begin developing that character permanently.

Uma Musume did not work that way.

The character obtained from the gacha was merely a seed.

Possessing her allowed the player to begin a career with that horse girl.

Every completed version entered a storage area called the Hall of Fame.

That version was finalized permanently.

Whenever the player began another career, they needed to start again from the original undeveloped seed.

Each result differed because of countless random events.

Like a roguelike, many runs collapsed so badly that the player had no choice but to restart.

To create stronger horse girls, the game needed a system that carried previous results forward.

Inheritance factors provided the illusion of gradual accumulation.

Every completed horse girl received a set of factors.

Blue, red, and green were fundamental factors.

White factors represented additional inheritance. This chapter is updated first at g.com.

Blue provided attributes.

Red provided aptitude.

Green transferred the character’s unique skill.

White included ordinary skills, stat bonuses, and all kinds of miscellaneous effects.

Blue factors were the most important.

A one-star blue factor granted one point in the relevant stat.

A two-star factor granted twelve.

A three-star factor granted twenty-one.

One-star factors were extremely common.

Two-star factors were uncommon.

The probability of obtaining a three-star factor remained in the single digits.

Ordinary training relied upon nine-blue inheritance parents.

That meant the parent possessed a three-star blue factor, and both of its own parents also possessed three-star blue factors.

Selecting two nine-blue parents provided eighteen blue stars at the beginning of a career.

Eighteen blue stars granted a total of 126 starting stat points.

Additional inheritance occurred every April.

At those moments, the parents’ factors poured even more stats into the trainee.

Using eighteen blue stars was basic procedure.

Playing without them felt terrible.

Blue factors were only the foundation.

Players also needed red aptitude factors.

White factors were essential for top players optimizing tournament horse girls.

Thus, players needed not only to grind competitive horse girls but also to grind high-quality inheritance parents.

Whenever a tournament began, casual players repeatedly trained a group of barely acceptable entries.

Top players first spent enormous time grinding parents.

Only afterward did they use those parents to train their tournament competitors.

It was imprisonment layered upon imprisonment.

After Zhou Yu’ang explained the system, someone immediately commented.

[Tracen’s Madoka Higuchi]: Isn’t this mechanic excessive?

Was the developer stupid?

Why create such a prison?

Luck would gradually widen the difference in player experience.

Grinding inheritance parents also sounded unbearably painful.

[Tracen Crown Prince]: Doesn’t this mean that enjoying the game properly requires enormous effort?

“It doesn’t matter.

Only horse girls will play this version, and you don’t need to compete so intensely.

Love is enough.”

Leave the imprisonment to the Trainers.

Therefore…

He would dominate this private server belonging to the horse-girl world!

He also wanted to sit firmly at number one in Class 6.

Zhou Yu’ang quietly entertained that ambition while displaying Silence Suzuka’s factors.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Exactly!

Love is enough!

Are those Silence Suzuka’s factors?

“Yes.

As you can see, the blue factor is two stars… Acceptable.

At least it isn’t the initial one-star result.”

Zhou Yu’ang sighed at the two-star factor.

Three stars truly were difficult to obtain.

Still, it was not a serious problem.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: That means this factor contains the strength created through the effort you and Silence Suzuka shared!

Next time, you and Suzuka will become even stronger!

The pink-haired viewer and several other horse girls smiled.

The Trainer and horse girl would gradually become stronger through repeated careers.

It demonstrated both the principle that effort produced results and the bond between them.

Before the viewers could celebrate for long, Zhou Yu’ang poured cold water over them.

“Although factors provide stat bonuses during future careers, a horse girl cannot use herself as her own inheritance parent.

Therefore…”

How could someone become their own ancestor?

Every horse girl could act as another horse girl’s parent within the game.

Only the same horse girl could not inherit from herself.

Thus, the bond Zhou Yu’ang and Silence Suzuka created could only appear during the training of someone else.

“When I train another horse girl, Silence Suzuka will stand behind me and push me forward.”

Zhou Yu’ang unreservedly delivered a sentence that made every horse girl’s vision darken.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Wait.

You mean this factor created by you and Silence Suzuka is useful only when you train a different horse girl?

“Exactly.”

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Then what happens to you and Silence Suzuka?

Doesn’t that mean Suzuka—

“Silence Suzuka is a woman from my past.”

Zhou Yu’ang suddenly delivered an extraordinarily scummy statement.

The comments exploded.

[Unbreakable Glass]: ?

[Invincible Seaside-sama]: What kind of statement is that?!

[Tracen Pun Master]: Although the game system works that way, your phrasing is rather…

[White-Eyed H-Manga Sensei]: Scumbag!

[Festival Girl]: That feels extremely cruel!

[Maternal Demon]: You and Silence Suzuka had already progressed so far together.

[Grade-Skipping Genius Girl]: Why would you say that?

[Hates Flashbulbs and Lunatics]: You bastard!

Watch your language!

[Tracen’s Madoka Higuchi]: Disgusting.

[Tracen Crown Prince]: Huh?!

Is this cheating?!

“This can’t be real!”

I became a woman from his past?

Silence Suzuka recoiled in panic.

She stared at the Trainer avatar with the A on its face.

A mixture of emotions filled her chest.

She had already become so fond of that Trainer.

Yet now…

How frustrating!

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Tama-dammit!

Isn’t that NTR?!

Damn it!

You can’t do that!

You can’t abandon Silence Suzuka and use the factors you created together to raise another horse girl!

If you throw Suzuka away like that, I’ll blast you apart!

“Aaaaaaah!”

As someone who loved pairings, the pink-haired horse girl could not endure the stimulus.

She felt herself dying.

She hated NTR more than anything.

Pure love was the righteous path!

“Thinking about that playboy secretly finding twenty-nine other horse girls behind Silence Suzuka’s back makes me sick… No.

He’s going to deceive thirty horse girls in total!”

“I can’t merely watch!”

She stood and clenched her fists while staring at the Trainer avatar.

If she had not known it was merely a screen, she might have punched it and shattered the display.

Then the opening theme of Kamen Rider Ryuki would begin playing.

“If he truly keeps his promises, he will find thirty horse girls and begin his path as a scumbag.”

Many horse girls would cry.

She could never tolerate anyone making horse girls cry!

“I’ve decided!

I’ll save every horse girl I can!”

Even if she could only prevent one horse girl from being defiled by that playboy, she would act!

“Everyone, I know you’re anxious, but stop being anxious!”

Seeing the viewers approach detonation, Zhou Yu’ang immediately tried to calm them.

“My relationship with Silence Suzuka happened inside the game.

As I explained, she won’t remember me after another career begins.” Visit g.com for the full chapter.

“More importantly, the real Silence Suzuka has never spoken to me.”

Zhou Yu’ang comforted the viewers.

They needed to distinguish the game from reality.

“Besides, I’ll always love Silence Suzuka.

I could never forget her.”

Zhou Yu’ang circled the main-interface Suzuka with the cursor.

“Just as I said at the beginning, if I saw Silence Suzuka in reality, I would immediately want to propose.”

Not a single username resembles Silence Suzuka.

She clearly isn’t watching.

That means I can say whatever I want!

Zhou Yu’ang immediately began producing classic statements.

“My desire to marry thirty horse girls does not conflict with my love for Silence Suzuka.”

“Why couldn’t Silence Suzuka be one of those thirty?”

“Without question, I would never abandon her.”

He did not know whether she would become his first wife.

She would certainly become one of his proposal targets.

However…

Would he really ignore the invincibly adorable Oguri Cap and propose to Silence Suzuka first?

Was he stupid?

That would also reveal that the man inside the identity box was him.

He should acquire several horse-girl wives before approaching Suzuka.

Oguri Cap’s debut era came far earlier than Silence Suzuka’s.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: Damn you!

Why is your mouth always filled with “thirty horse-girl wives”?!

[Hates Flashbulbs and Lunatics]: You idiot!

Do you possess no shame?!

“If you lack even the courage to speak your dream aloud, how can you possibly achieve it?”

Ridiculous.

It was his body.

Could these viewers stop him from doing whatever he wanted in reality?

Zhou Yu’ang nearly laughed while reading the comments.

“I’ve held this dream since childhood.

I told my parents when I was still in elementary school.”

Zhou Yu’ang remembered the day several years after he arrived in this world.

On his first day of elementary school, he saw a living young horse girl.

Her adorable appearance filled him with excitement.

When his parents picked him up after class, they noticed where he kept looking.

During dinner, his parents asked why he had been staring at horse girls.

His head was still filled with the horse-girl wives from his previous life.

In a moment of excitement, Zhou Yu’ang declared his ambition.

“I’m going abroad, entering Tracen as a Trainer, and marrying thirty horse-girl wives!”

He regretted it immediately.

That was not something one should tell one’s parents.

It sounded like a child suffering from an attack of idiocy.

After hearing it, however, his father burst into laughter.

“My son Yu’ang possesses the bearing of an emperor!”

“He alone shall establish an entire clan!”

His father shouted several other things Zhou Yu’ang could not hear clearly.

Zhou Yu’ang became irritated.

His parents obviously thought he was joking.

Then his father began teasing him.

He claimed that tests performed within the family had revealed Zhou Yu’ang to possess the once-in-ten-thousand-years Innate Horse-Girl Hopping Sacred Physique.

If Zhou Yu’ang became a Trainer, he would never suffer the same miserable fate as certain Trainer relatives in their family.

Zhou Yu’ang nearly laughed.

His father was clearly amusing himself after hearing a child say something ridiculous.

Now he was inventing physiques from a cultivation novel.

What?

Could Zhou Yu’ang dual-cultivate with horse girls like a powerful expert from a pleasure sect?

Afterward, Zhou Yu’ang stopped discussing the dream with his parents.

One only shared such ambitions while temporarily insane.

As for now?

Several of his future fiancées might already be inside the comment section.

Why shouldn’t he warn them early?

[Tracen Pun Master]: 9

This Trainer was extraordinarily bold.

Rudolf rubbed her chin and considered where she could locate such a person.

Wait.

If he had told his parents about the ambition, she could arrange home visits.

They merely needed to ask each Trainer’s parents whether their son had ever said such a thing.

“However, so much time has passed that they’ve probably forgotten… Ahem.

In any case, today’s broadcast has nearly reached its conclusion.”

Damn.

Had he accidentally revealed too much?

Zhou Yu’ang attempted to conceal the mistake while noticing the Three Goddesses standing nearby.

He decided to end the stream and rest.

He had once trained five horse girls in a single day without becoming tired.

But this game mode exhausted him far more than the mobile version.

“The next broadcast will be… three days from now.”

There was no need to stream continuously.

He needed proper rest.

Training horse girls in reality was far more entertaining than raising them inside a game.

When Zhou Yu’ang announced the end of the stream, some horse girls immediately said goodbye.

Others were reluctant to leave.

A third category existed as well.

The kind who wanted to arrange an offline fight.

[Horse Girl Enthusiast]: AT!

Do you dare tell me where you are?

As long as she existed, he would not be permitted to harm horse girls!

[Hates Flashbulbs and Lunatics]: A Trainer like you requires a proper education!

Air Groove drew a deep breath and prepared to take enforcement action.

She absolutely needed to locate this man!

Unfortunately, as long as Zhou Yu’ang stopped revealing clues, no one could raid him offline.

“You want to dox me?

Sorry.

Impossible!”

Zhou Yu’ang prepared his closing statement.

“In any case, today’s stream ends here.

I’m Mysterious Trainer A, but everyone can call me AT.”

“I’ll see you again in three days~”

He clicked casually.

The broadcast ended.

The screen became completely dark.

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