Air Groove’s mood was terrible.
Perhaps because of her family environment, she had always lived within strict boundaries.
Never disgracing her family and never betraying her mother’s legacy were the principles guiding her life.
That morning, Air Groove had intended to remain quietly inside the student council room and help President Rudolf complete their work.
Then an unexpected stream appeared.
A strange avatar resembling something from the chibi spinoff began making incomprehensible statements.
It forcibly dragged several horse girls into a broadcast they could not close.
The suddenness was disturbing.
However, time outside the stream had stopped.
The horse girls could therefore treat it as an additional period of rest.
The problem lay in the streamer’s words.
“I tama-damned well intend to marry thirty horse girls!”
The moment Air Groove heard that, her blood pressure skyrocketed.
Tama-dammit!
What an appalling man!
That would be bigamy!
Air Groove distinctly remembered the law.
Ignoring several exceptional countries, most nations enforced monogamy.
And this man intended to marry thirty horse girls?
He was no ordinary Trainer.
Heavy-handed intervention was necessary!
After hearing his dream, Air Groove immediately planned to arrest him offline.
As vice president of the student council, she needed to protect Tracen’s atmosphere.
She would do everything possible to prevent horse girls from falling into the clutches of evil.
If she could protect even one, she would do so.
During her search, Air Groove discovered that Tracen’s Trainers all possessed their own strange talents.
Some were filthy.
Some were foolish.
Some looked thoroughly disreputable.
Others were simply idiots.
The one who left the greatest impression had talked endlessly.
He had rambled like an overprotective father about the brilliance of his horse girl.
Listening had given Air Groove a headache.
Why were Tracen’s Trainers all so hopeless?
Inspecting the building floor by floor presented no difficulty.
Air Groove worked efficiently.
Although she did not locate the shameless AT, she discovered that several offices were completely unacceptable.
Some were filthy.
Other desks were buried beneath horse-girl possessions.
Air Groove began suspecting that several horse girls at the academy were also behaving improperly.
After completing the fruitless search, she prepared to leave.
Then another Trainer approached her.
He possessed a perfectly ordinary face.
Nothing about him deserved attention.
Yet this adult man pressed his palms together and bent toward a student.
“Please.
You’re from the student council, aren’t you?”
“You can’t ignore this.”
“What happened?”
The student council mainly managed horse girls.
Tazuna would be more appropriate for problems involving Trainers.
Air Groove intended to listen and then offer brief guidance.
She was not some cold and heartless horse girl.
Every action needed to serve as an example.
She could not betray her identity as the Empress, as vice president, or as the daughter of that horse girl.
“My trainee has recently been acting… strangely.”
The ordinary-looking Trainer relaxed slightly when Air Groove agreed to listen.
Still, he remained cautious.
“Strangely?”
Air Groove became curious.
Was this a psychological problem related to adolescence?
That was something she could help resolve.
“Recently, my trainee has been extremely strange.”
“She keeps restricting me.”
“She refuses to let me do this or that.”
“What exactly does she forbid?”
Air Groove frowned.
Perhaps the horse girl merely believed the man’s lifestyle was too careless.
Maybe she had prohibited cigarettes or alcohol.
Air Groove did not rush to judgment.
She could scold him after hearing whether the forbidden behavior genuinely deserved condemnation.
Zhou Yu’ang stood nearby because he happened to overhear the conversation.
He did not know whether to leave or approach.
Simple curiosity was not his only reason for remaining.
Humans naturally enjoyed gossip.
However, listening secretly was impolite.
Learning someone’s private matters without permission could be deeply offensive.
No one wanted strangers casually discovering their personal problems.
Zhou Yu’ang remained because he noticed a horse girl standing around the corner.
He did not recognize her.
She stood half-hidden behind the wall like Tachibana-senpai.
The horse girl stared intensely at the Trainer speaking with Air Groove.
Could that girl be—
Zhou Yu’ang examined her.
She was watching Air Groove and the ordinary Trainer.
Her ears had flattened almost completely.
A horse girl’s ears and tail revealed emotion.
In reality, horses pinned their ears backward when angry or preparing to attack.
Their ears were vulnerable.
They instinctively protected them during conflict.
Thus, flattened ears often signaled aggression.
That horse girl was furious!
Seeing her anger increase, Zhou Yu’ang immediately walked toward Air Groove and the Trainer.
“Excuse me for interrupting.”
“Are you discussing the previous inspection of prohibited items in the Trainers’ offices?”
Zhou Yu’ang spoke loudly enough for the horse girl around the corner to hear.
Horse girls possessed sharp ears.
However, how many angry people listened to reason?
“Mr.
“Huh?
Who are you?”
The ordinary Trainer jumped when Zhou Yu’ang suddenly approached.
Air Groove’s ears drooped when she saw the man who became unbearably talkative whenever his trainee was mentioned.
Is he the kind of person who speaks endlessly about everything?
Wonderful.
Not only was he fussy, he might also be a chatterbox.
“Wait.
I’m currently—”
“I understand this is sudden.”
“But please remain quiet for a moment.”
“There’s a horse girl behind the corner.”
Zhou Yu’ang lowered his voice and described the horse girl’s hair and ear accessories.
The ordinary Trainer immediately panicked.
“What?”
He instinctively prepared to turn.
Zhou Yu’ang had anticipated that reaction.
Like a close friend beginning a conversation, he placed one arm around the Trainer’s neck and prevented him from looking back.
“Don’t turn around.
She’s still watching.”
If he turned nervously now, even a reasonable explanation would sound like guilty denial.
She probably believed his conversation with Air Groove represented disloyalty.
Zhou Yu’ang looked toward Air Groove and raised one finger to his lips.
“Air Groove, please cooperate.”
“Cooperate?”
Air Groove became confused.
The ordinary Trainer’s back faced the horse girl.
Air Groove, however, could see her directly.
She immediately spotted the furious girl in the distance.
Air Groove was not foolish.
She understood what Zhou Yu’ang was attempting.
“What are you planning?”
Something was wrong with that horse girl.
Air Groove instinctively sensed danger.
However, the Trainer who had suddenly interfered also seemed suspicious.
“Don’t look over there.”
“Continue discussing your problem.”
“Sir, your conversation with Air Groove appears to have created a misunderstanding for your trainee.”
Zhou Yu’ang felt the gaze burning into his back.
He remained calm.
Even if a human could not defeat a horse girl, the girl would not attack him immediately.
“I…”
The ordinary Trainer’s scalp tingled.
He had no idea how to respond to the stranger who had suddenly appeared.
However, the newcomer did not seem hostile.
He was actively helping.
He had even asked Air Groove to cooperate.
“Continue explaining your problem.”
“Quietly.”
“All right.”
“My trainee recently began forbidding me from looking at other horse girls.”
“As you know, Trainers need to study the running styles of many horse girls in order to prepare training programs and race strategies.”
The Trainer gritted his teeth and began complaining.
He also explained the origin of the problem for Zhou Yu’ang’s benefit.
His trainee had already debuted and achieved several respectable results.
After helping her win several graded races, the horse girl began trusting him even more.
Several days ago, she handed him a letter.
It was a love letter.
“Did you reject her?”
Zhou Yu’ang became curious.
He also observed Air Groove’s expression.
It was spectacular.
“No.
I thought she was joking.”
The ordinary Trainer looked bitter.
His expression was equally impressive.
“She said she wanted to become my bride after growing up.”
“I laughed and told her that sounded wonderful.”
“Idiot.”
Tama-dammit.
Did he understand what he had done?
Air Groove covered her forehead and sighed.
Tracen’s students were generally emotionally immature middle- and high-school girls.
For an adult Trainer, treating them like children was understandable.
But what were horse girls?
They were emotional beings.
Promises and affection possessed extraordinary importance to them.
What did he think would happen after agreeing so casually?
“You treated something like that as a joke?”
Air Groove wanted to curse at him.
Everything that happened afterward was his own fault.
Even a human girl would naturally begin identifying herself as his future wife after he accepted her confession.
If his lifestyle appeared unfaithful, controlling his behavior was hardly unexpected.
“Um… Has she done anything genuinely excessive?”
“As long as neither of you crossed a serious line, the problem can still be resolved.”
Zhou Yu’ang remained calm.
The situation was not hopeless.
This colleague might even marry an adorable horse girl several years later.
“She has.”
“She constantly forbids me from smoking or drinking.
That part doesn’t matter.”
“But Trainers need to review recordings and study other competitors.”
The moment he looked at another horse girl, his trainee became jealous.
At first, she merely prohibited him from staring at other horse girls’ legs.
Then she stopped him from looking at their faces.
Eventually, she forbade him from speaking with other horse girls entirely.
“She also filled my office with her belongings.”
“She brought in aromatherapy items.”
“Then she covered my desk with gifts…”
His young fiancée clearly possessed high Exclusivity.
The man smelled strongly of many different fragrances.
Humans might find the mixture pleasant.
Air Groove’s unnatural expression probably resulted from the complexity of the scents.
Did the horse girl’s family operate an aromatherapy business?
Perhaps she merely wanted to improve the mood of both herself and her Trainer.
However, it was equally possible that she intended to mark him.
A horse girl’s sensitive nose would detect her preferred fragrance and recognize him as already claimed.
Such behavior appeared constantly in strange fan stories.
Zhou Yu’ang developed a headache.
Was this world secretly governed by cursed fanfiction logic?
Would his own horse girls eventually develop problems?
“This is clearly serious.”
“Allowing a horse girl to behave like this would damage Tracen’s atmosphere.”
The horse-girl police officer Air Groove immediately delivered a declaration of justice.
It seemed Tracen itself was still relatively normal.
“Then you’ll handle the situation?”
Zhou Yu’ang looked toward Air Groove.
If the student council intervened, everything might resolve safely.
The Trainer would also be freed from his current suffering.
Assuming student council intervention actually worked.
“To be precise, the student council will handle it.”
“Thank heavens.
Please help me.”
Hearing that, the ordinary Trainer sighed in relief.
Zhou Yu’ang still felt the situation would not be so simple.
He hoped he was wrong.
“Don’t worry.
The student council will speak with her later.”
“I should leave now.”
Air Groove had no intention of lingering.
She still needed to return to the student council.
The stream had distracted her from her responsibilities.
This was not an excuse.
Air Groove was genuinely busy.
“Wait.
I’ll leave with you.”
The gaze striking Zhou Yu’ang’s arm from behind felt increasingly intense.
He decided to depart with Air Groove.
The other Trainer could manage the rest himself.
Air Groove did not answer.
She simply began walking.
Zhou Yu’ang followed immediately.
He could have completed the performance by walking beside her and gesturing theatrically while discussing irrelevant matters.
However, doing so might make Air Groove suspect him of being an exceptionally cunning Trainer.
The ordinary Trainer watched the man and horse girl leave.
He sighed.
Then he remembered that his trainee remained nearby.
He turned around in terror.
A beautiful face greeted him.
It was also the face that had prevented him from sleeping peacefully for several days.
“Trainer… what were you doing with that woman and that man?”
The sweet voice made his face turn white.
“We were… discussing the student council’s inspection of prohibited items in Trainer offices.”
“Speaking of which, my office is filled with all those fragrance sachets.”
“The academy might issue a warning.”
The Trainer explained nervously.
The mountain of gifts covering his desk had already made him lose his appetite and sleep.
The horse girl’s expression did not change.
She had heard Zhou Yu’ang’s loud statement earlier.
Still, she continued staring intently at her Trainer.
She reached out and patted the back of his collar.
Zhou Yu’ang’s arm had rested there.
She leaned closer and sniffed.
Then she frowned.
The smell was not unpleasant.
However, it belonged to another Trainer.
She disliked that.
This horse girl preferred the scent of her own aromatherapy and the natural smell of her Trainer.
“I understand.”
“I won’t leave those fragrances on your desk anymore.”
She smiled.
Just as the Trainer relaxed, her tone changed.
“But throwing them away would be wasteful.”
“How about this?”
“Trainer, let’s move everything from your office into your home together.”
“Huh?”
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