When Zhou Yu’ang ended the broadcast, time resumed around the viewers.
The stream panel before each horse girl gained minimize and close buttons.
Many continued staring at the screen, reading old comments or speaking with one another.
Others closed it immediately and returned to their lives.
Silence Suzuka looked at the panel with extremely complicated emotions.
For the first time, she had learned how she should run.
For the first time, she had encountered a Trainer she genuinely admired.
Those two discoveries should have brought her limitless happiness.
Why, then, did she feel like this?
Good news:
She was the first horse girl.
Bad news:
She would not be the last.
“My thoughts are completely tangled.
I can’t organize them… Maybe I should run a few laps!”
Silence Suzuka originally intended to type something.
When she saw that the streamer had ended the broadcast, she worried that Zhou Yu’ang had left completely.
Would he still be able to see her message?
Forget it.
She could not understand the situation.
Rather than thinking, running a lap would make her feel better.
All right.
I’ll follow AT’s plan and run two thousand meters!
Silence Suzuka immediately stood.
She walked quickly toward the classroom door.
After reaching it, she stopped.
A teacher carrying textbooks approached.
“Silence Suzuka, where are you going?
Class is about to begin.”
Was there an emergency?
The teacher looked confused.
Realizing that class was beginning, Silence Suzuka’s face reddened.
“I’m sorry.
It was nothing.”
She bowed hastily and hurried back to her seat.
The other horse girls laughed when they saw her behave so impulsively.
Their laughter made Silence Suzuka lower her head.
Her face became completely red.
As expected, she was a running idiot.
Tracen’s bell rang.
Every student began class.
However, the horse girls who had watched the stream continued remembering the fascinating broadcast.
That did not mean they ignored the lesson.
They remembered what Zhou Yu’ang had said while teaching Silence Suzuka.
“Cause and effect operate at every moment in this world.”
“Effort does not guarantee a reward, but without effort you certainly will not obtain the result you want.”
“If you want victory, effort is necessary.”
“If you want to win races, you need to train properly and pay attention in class.”
“Even if you cannot dominate races easily, you can still improve yourself.
That will make it easier to attract an excellent Trainer.”
The relationship between Zhou Yu’ang and Silence Suzuka had inspired envy among many viewers.
They wanted a similar experience.
Preferably an even better one.
Because they had witnessed a concrete example, Zhou Yu’ang’s words remained within their minds.
These horse girls already looked forward to their futures.
Now their hearts had been stirred further.
They wanted to work hard so that an exceptional Trainer would notice them.
People often experienced the same reaction after hearing a profound saying.
They became motivated immediately.
One horse girl after another stared seriously at the blackboard and teacher.
Of course, most humans maintained such motivation for only several days before returning to their original behavior.
How long the horse girls remained diligent would depend upon them.
One fact was certain.
After class ended, they would not remain quiet.
Many rumors were destined to spread through Tracen that day.
At the center of those rumors, Zhou Yu’ang stretched.
The day’s broadcast had ended.
His own imprisonment was over.
Several horse girls still had no idea that the game itself was a prison.
Soon, horse girls would begin serving time as well.
Some would finally understand how much their princess-like behavior tormented Trainers.
Oh, right.
“When you distribute the game, don’t give it to the horse girls during lessons.
Release it at lunch or shortly before the end of the school day.”
He genuinely worried about their educational performance.
Zhou Yu’ang turned toward the Three Goddesses.
Before he could finish speaking, a long box resembling an enormous brick flew toward him.
Zhou Yu’ang reacted quickly and caught it.
The object nearly struck his face.
“Hey!
You could break my nose throwing something like that!”
Zhou Yu’ang weighed the large rectangular box and looked toward the Three Goddesses.
Darley blinked and responded to his complaint with a playful smile.
“We calculated the necessary force.
Your body isn’t particularly fragile.”
“I’m healthy by human standards, but I can’t compare with a horse girl.”
While arguing, Zhou Yu’ang examined the weight.
The box was not especially heavy.
Shaking it produced no sound.
Would opening it reveal something imprisoned within layers of plastic packaging?
“What is this?”
“Open it.”
Byerley gestured.
Without further hesitation, Zhou Yu’ang lifted the lid.
The contents nearly blinded him.
An entire collection of rings rested in orderly rows.
Their silver bands shone brilliantly.
Without question, they looked extraordinarily valuable.
“Five times six… Thirty rings?!”
After counting them, Zhou Yu’ang felt his scalp go numb.
Damn.
Had the Three Goddesses genuinely given him thirty rings?
He raised his head.
As the highest authorities in this world, the words of these three carried more weight than those of any national leader.
“Marrying thirty horse girls is your dream, isn’t it?”
“If you genuinely accomplish it, then it is perfectly natural for the Three Goddesses, who desire horse girls’ happiness, to grant our blessing.”
Darley casually waved and indicated that Zhou Yu’ang should accept the rings.
The Three Goddesses had decided.
He would become Tracen’s first Lord of the Rings.
“Exactly.
What’s wrong?
Were you planning to purchase them yourself?”
“In that case, perhaps we should place the rings inside the Support Card gacha…”
Godolphin rested one hand against her smiling cheek.
Her words made Zhou Yu’ang’s scalp tingle.
This woman was anything but harmless.
“No.
Thank you.
I appreciate the Three Goddesses supporting my dream.”
Excellent.
What did receiving thirty rings from the Three Goddesses mean?
They had approved his marriage to thirty horse girls.
The goddesses themselves had given permission.
Who would dare object now?
Only heroines with exceptionally high Exclusivity would become dissatisfied.
“Now that you have the rings, go propose to Silence Suzuka!”
Darley placed both hands on her hips and dramatically waved him forward.
The three of them desperately wanted entertainment.
“I should probably give the first ring to the horse girl who has already signed with me.”
The Three Goddesses had approved his dream.
That did not mean he should recklessly wave rings around.
That would be idiotic.
Their approval was not a divine command.
The horse girls themselves still needed to agree.
More importantly, something like this deserved solemn treatment.
Zhou Yu’ang considered the situation.
He obviously could not propose to Silence Suzuka immediately.
The real Suzuka did not even know him.
Tracen’s information network also could not be underestimated.
For horse girls, the campus was not especially large.
Tracen was certainly enormous by school standards.
But for young ladies whose family homes rivaled the academy in size and horse girls capable of running above seventy kilometers per hour, it was not truly expansive.
In ordinary horse racing, owners were all wealthy.
To participate in regional racing, one mainly needed enough money to purchase and maintain a horse.
Central racing was different.
A prospective owner first needed to prove that their account contained over one hundred million yen.
They also needed to demonstrate several consecutive years of high taxable income before receiving approval.
It was not merely a matter of obtaining a simple license, as Oguri Cap’s original owner once claimed.
Horse racing was fundamentally a wealthy person’s game.
Certain rich owners entered Central racing almost casually.
For example, that stubborn old fossil from the IT industry whom Uma Musume players disliked for withholding character rights—the one mockingly nicknamed Silver Coin Mannequin.
He paid tens of millions in taxes every year.
Once he realized he qualified, he began racing horses in Central as a hobby.
Translated into the horse-girl world, this meant that many Central Tracen students came from rich families.
Zhou Yu’ang was not exaggerating.
If someone threw a brick during a Tracen student meeting, it might strike a young lady whose family could send an entire platoon of identical black-suited gangsters after the attacker.
That was beside the point.
Tracen functioned like an aristocratic academy.
Its campus was enormous.
But news traveled rapidly among wealthy girls and horse girls capable of extreme speed.
Horse girls were also teenage girls.
There would be no shortage of gossip.
If he proposed to Silence Suzuka, the news would spread immediately.
Horse girls who had watched the stream would rush over to identify the person proposing to her. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
Once captured offline, Zhou Yu’ang might permanently lose his chance to acquire thirty horse-girl wives.
Proposing to Oguri Cap first would be safer.
“So the next stream is in three days?
I was hoping you would broadcast again tomorrow.”
Darley saw that Zhou Yu’ang was not completely foolish and did not object.
Sometimes intelligent people became victims of their own cleverness.
Plenty of brilliant strategists had fallen for empty-fort tactics.
One did not need to be stupid to overturn one’s vehicle.
Since Zhou Yu’ang intended to marry thirty horse girls, a battlefield of jealousy would probably erupt after he found his third or fourth.
Entertainment would arrive eventually.
They needed to harvest sustainably rather than exhaust the pond immediately.
Even if no dramatic conflict appeared, the situation would remain immensely entertaining to the Three Goddesses.
Like the indiscriminate horse-girl fanatic in the stream, they found happiness in horse girls’ happiness.
As for the girls entering a harem?
They did not care.
If the horse girls themselves agreed, what could the Three Goddesses say?
“Take proper care of Oguri Cap for now.
We’re leaving.”
“We intend to prepare additional game modes.”
Darley waved goodbye with the other goddesses.
Whenever something required work, they could simply make Zhou Yu’ang handle it.
The Three Goddesses were the freest beings in the world.
They were gods.
Their core philosophy was doing whatever they pleased.
“By the way, the Uma Musume game you streamed isn’t merely a game~”
Before they disappeared, Godolphin suddenly spoke.
“What?”
Zhou Yu’ang immediately stood.
He stopped paying attention even to the box of rings in his hands.
He wanted clarification.
The Three Goddesses disappeared with extraordinary speed.
By the time he attempted to question them, no trace remained.
“Don’t tell me the game connects with the real horse girls…”
Damn, damn, damn!
What if the in-game Silence Suzuka saw his face?
No.
From her perspective, she had only interacted with a man possessing an A-shaped head.
There was no need to panic.
Zhou Yu’ang became tense.
Did this mean he needed to behave cautiously during every future broadcast?
Then so be it.
If he was doxxed, horse girls would appear beside him and criticize his behavior directly.
If he did something especially infuriating, they might challenge him to an offline fight.
How could an ordinary human defeat horse girls with three times the physical ability of adults?
The result would be miserable.
He could hardly rely upon suddenly becoming superhuman.
“Living cautiously isn’t necessarily bad.
I can hide every day like the supposedly ordinary protagonist of a mortal-cultivation story.”
Zhou Yu’ang looked at the ring box with complicated emotions.
The rows of silver bands made his eyes blur.
He removed one.
It felt unexpectedly comfortable in his hand.
He did not know what material the Three Goddesses had used.
However, a divine gift was unlikely to be poor quality.
After closing the lid, Zhou Yu’ang placed the box on his desk.
He was not leaving.
The box would not disappear.
After considering everything, he decided to behave honestly for a while.
He could periodically investigate Tracen’s rumors before taking action.
Zhou Yu’ang took out paper and began writing Oguri Cap’s next training schedule.
Then he prepared to slack off.
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