He had heard of horse girls becoming idols for humanity.
After all, what they did was not particularly different.
But he had never heard of a Trainer making his debut and becoming an idol for horse girls.
“Wait.
What exactly are you three planning?
Are you sure this will even be entertaining?”
Was watching him serve a prison sentence by themselves not enough?
Did they intend to gather a crowd of horse girls and make them watch him suffer too?
One Trainer acting as the prisoner, surrounded by horse girls serving as wardens…
What kind of yandere horse-girl basement copypasta was this?
Zhou Yu’ang remembered that in his previous life, Cygames had originally tolerated adult content involving Uma Musume.
Then some idiot on Twitter shoved explicit and grotesque artwork directly into the faces of racehorse owners—including the owner connected with Seiun Sky and Nishino Flower.
The furious owner threatened to revoke the licensing rights unless Cygames intervened.
Terrified, Cygames prohibited sexualized artwork of the horse girls.
That one moron had ruined things for every player who wanted to see lewd content.
Deprived of that outlet, Uma Musume fans turned toward twisted, yandere-flavored out-of-character fan fiction.
These works became known as “strange documents.”
Stories and memes about Trainers being locked inside basements by possessive horse girls exploded in popularity.
“Of course it’ll be entertaining.
Don’t you have great fun playing the Uma Musume mobile game?”
Darley pointed at Zhou Yu’ang and adopted an expression of absolute contempt.
“You!
Go play Uma Musume—no, wait.
Go play Shining!
Excellent Girl!”
“Being watched by a crowd of horse girls while I play the mobile game still sounds much better than becoming an idol.”
Zhou Yu’ang crossed his arms and considered the matter.
The Three Goddesses, however, appeared dissatisfied with his answer.
“Do you remember your ultimate goal in life?”
Darley spoke with pretended profundity, like some worldly sage attempting to enlighten a confused youth.
“Go down to the pier and get some fries?”
Fries were genuinely delicious.
“Wrong!
Your brain told you to come to Tracen and acquire thirty wives!”
Darley, who feared nothing except a lack of entertainment, rejected his desire for fries.
Now that his left foot had entered Tracen, they would make sure his right foot entered a basement.
“As long as you debut according to our plan, obtaining thirty wives will be effortless.”
“Why?”
What, were they going to issue him wives as a reward for amusing them?
“Simple.
The horse girls support you during the day.
At night, you support the horse girls.”
Darley’s sentence plunged Zhou Yu’ang into deep thought.
That did sound like the life he yearned for.
Yet something seemed wrong.
“Wouldn’t that mean sleeping with my fans?”
Zhou Yu’ang pointed toward the fan count on the interface.
When all three goddesses nodded in unison, he retracted his hand as though struck by lightning.
Setting aside the strange looks in their eyes, attracting horse-girl fans as a streamer and then turning them into wives was profoundly improper.
And would horse girls truly fall in love with him merely because he livestreamed himself serving time in a mobile-game prison?
What part of this was reasonable?
“Wouldn’t doing such things be a complete failure of responsibility for an idol?”
“It’s fine as long as the fans consent.
Besides, how do you know you’ll be sleeping with them rather than the horse girls sleeping with you?”
Ordinary horse girls possessed roughly three times the physical ability of adult humans.
Uma Musume were outstanding athletes even among horse girls.
They also possessed exceptional resistance to toxins and alcohol.
How was an ordinary human supposed to defeat one?
Better to lie down and accept fate.
“Still, that doesn’t feel right.
For an ordinary idol, even dating is considered a betrayal of the fans.”
“Then why did you choose Oguri Cap?
The moment you entered Tracen, you should have recruited Smart Falcon instead.”
Darley rolled her eyes.
Smart Falcon was a pure and innocent girl who dreamed of becoming an idol.
Under Zhou Yu’ang’s care, she would undoubtedly live a spotless idol career before successfully changing classes at thirty and becoming a great shrine maiden.
Or perhaps a great shrine horse.
“Go make your debut!”
Byerley imitated Darley’s earlier gesture, pointing at Zhou Yu’ang like a general issuing an order.
Zhou Yu’ang nearly produced the sweat-smile emoji in real life.
Since all three goddesses had made their decision, he had little choice but to obey.
“What happens if I log off and get solo-killed by a horse girl?”
As a streamer, he was confident that some horse girls would genuinely become his fans.
Before joining Tracen, Zhou Yu’ang had already created an anonymous account on horse-girl forums and social-media circles.
Without showing his face, he used voice acting to host a late-night radio program that advised horse girls and Trainers on relationship problems.
He had accumulated a modest following and earned a little money.
Compared with working part-time at a convenience store, it had been far more comfortable and entertaining.
But this would be a livestream.
Some horse girls would inevitably become curious enough to seek him out offline.
Then matters would become rather dangerous.
Zhou Yu’ang looked uneasily toward his chibi avatar.
“Simple.
Just use a virtual model.”
Darley waved her hand.
The chibi avatar’s head transformed into a white bun with a large letter T printed across it.
“That’s rather ugly.”
Zhou Yu’ang complained.
Darley opened a customization screen.
He could create the model himself.
Now he had no choice but to spend several hours designing a face, then five minutes recording his debut video.
“So I’ll become a VTuber?
I livestream prison sentences, use the rewards from those prison sentences to raise horse girls in reality, gain fans, and improve my trainees’ real-world results… That doesn’t sound terrible.”
It was the kind of premise even manga artists would hesitate to use.
Only mass producers of disposable web novels would dare touch it.
“Exactly.
So choose a decent appearance for yourself… What are you doing?!”
Byerley, a rigid former warhorse, lost her composure when she saw Zhou Yu’ang dragging the character sliders in every direction and deforming the model’s face.
“At least make it look human!”
“Tch.”
He had been planning to create a model that would make every horse girl’s vision go dark—or perhaps light up.
“I can hear you.”
“Anyway, do your best, Zhou Yu’ang.”
The outwardly gentle Godolphin encouraged him, then joined the other two goddesses in criticizing every detail of his model.
The avatar inflated from two dimensions into three, transformed into an eldritch abomination, collapsed into a simplified crayon drawing, and finally became a slender figure with no facial features except a large letter A.
“What in Tama’s name is this?”
After offering so much guidance, Byerley stared at what was essentially the standard faceless Trainer from the chibi animation, except the letter on its head was A rather than T.
She genuinely could not take it anymore.
What had been the point of using a character creator?
“I’ll have opportunities to obtain new models later.
This will do for now.”
Every time he tried to create something ridiculous, the three honored aunties rejected it.
He could only settle for something relatively normal.
The other two goddesses did not intend to waste more time on the matter.
An interesting soul mattered more than a beautiful shell.
“Then start streaming.”
After confirming several system functions with the goddesses, Zhou Yu’ang activated the broadcast.
“Uma Musume—launch!”
There was no one else here.
He could behave however he pleased.
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