No matter what, Black Knight was ultimately brought by Feiyuan-sensei onto the path to Central to participate in her debut race.
Not just because she really couldn’t think of how to refuse Feiyuan-sensei—
—But also because Feiyuan-sensei and the principal had already reported her information to the Racing Association online, and had directly “helped” her choose a Central race.
So what was she supposed to do about this?
You already reported it, and now you’re coming to communicate with me?
This is more like a notification.
“Don’t worry. You’re excellent in every aspect. The debut race definitely won’t be able to stump you.” Miss Feiyuan-sensei looked like she had complete confidence in Black Knight.
Although there seemed to be some worry in Black Knight’s eyes, Feiyuan-sensei knew exactly how terrifying this little one was.
Her ability was absolutely not something ordinary Umamusume could compare to.
With that kind of speed, Miss Feiyuan-sensei had to admit that even compared to herself at her peak, Black Knight was still stronger.
Although she hadn’t done much training, Miss Feiyuan-sensei still felt that unless Black Knight ran into other prodigies, she would absolutely crush the debut race.
“Seriously, your talent is absolutely terrifying! At least, even I, Teacher Feiyuan-sensei, am jealous of your talent!”
So Teacher, were you an SR-level card before?
Black Knight thought to herself.
No wonder there were no students in this remote area—was it because the teacher’s own card base wasn’t high?
Although at this point one might consider the trope that experts like to live in remote places, if you thought about it carefully, you’d know not everyone living in a remote area was an expert.
—They might also just be broke, or currently being chased by the police for a cup of tea.
But anyway, maybe her luck in this regard wasn’t very good.
Miss Feiyuan-sensei and the others weren’t ideal hidden masters—they could only be described as having ordinary teaching ability.
“…I understand.” Black Knight didn’t dwell on it anymore.
It was just a debut race anyway.
Her Little Kangbai-chan template had also been a wash, but overall, most Umamusume probably didn’t have SS-level speed, so she should be able to win.
“Mm, then get a good rest tonight.” Miss Feiyuan-sensei smiled relievedly—that’s right, taking Black Knight to Central, helping her meet lots and lots of friends, that way she could definitely use friendship to break through the little one’s mental defenses!
Alright!
Go for it, Miss Feiyuan-sensei!
Find lots and lots of good friends for Black Knight!
For the future of the racing world, add a shining new star!
After Miss Feiyuan-sensei left, Black Knight lay on the bed and instead fell into a bout of worry—she never expected her multi bread cheese sandwich and internal-external cooperation plan would be declared bankrupt so soon after starting!
Her current main character was actually about to be forced onto the stage, completely different from her plan to develop quietly and sneakily in local races for a while, dammit!
“Huff… Forcing me to speed up my steps? Damn! As expected of the dog author—no, as expected of the Three Goddesses!”
The plan was disrupted.
It must be that the Three Goddesses had noticed her!
Then through something like world consciousness, they were screwing her over, forcing her to push all her templates up!
But did you think I’d just end like this?
I have the Super Many Smurf Accounts System on my side.
Although it might be a NetEase system, with this system, I can still keep producing templates.
Although splitting off a template makes it feel like I’m some kind of swarm consciousness, and who knows, one day I might end up with split personalities…
But as long as I have enough templates!
My multi bread cheese sandwich plan can still keep going!
“Huff—three thousand points total.” Picking up the little light ball and opening the system interface, Black Knight saw a fairly pleasing number.
Little Kangbai-chan’s race had provided her with about two thousand-plus emotion points, and afterward, online fans had created some more emotion points for her, so now she had over three thousand emotion points.
And it was still increasing.
Although not much, this was completely passive income.
Black Knight thought of the news online.
Although Little Kangbai-chan’s debut race result wasn’t high, her appearance was cute, so she did have some fans.
But wait—if these fans could create passive income for her… Black Knight suddenly thought of a path she’d never imagined.
She didn’t actually have to play the multi bread cheese sandwich routine all the time!
After all, going to Central to participate in races would definitely be seen by lots of people.
And the more people who saw, the more fans she’d get.
And fans’ love for her characters would all convert into passive income.
And with passive income, she’d have more characters and skills!
With more characters, she could form her own team, and then use her team to beat the protagonist like in a BOSS battle!
Thinking of this, Black Knight couldn’t help but snap her fingers, then summarized her new plan: “Perfect.”
But right now, just two templates definitely wasn’t enough!
So Black Knight had the little light ball open the gacha interface, preparing to draw a new template.
As for the remaining two thousand—that definitely had to be saved up!
What if another skill UP pool appeared, or a [Noble Birth] miscellaneous item UP pool?
Then she’d have to try drawing from those!
“So—come on! Redstone Wyvern!” Looking at the Redstone Wyvern UP pool still displayed on the screen, Black Knight held her breath, as if that could hold in her luck and keep it from leaking out, then tapped [Draw Once] with her hand.
The next moment, the familiar purple light lit up on the screen again, like Laozi riding an ox with purple qi coming from the east, kokodayo roaring—oh wait, kokodayo is white light, so never mind.
As if!
Why is it an SR again?
Not even a gold light!
I was hoping to establish a multi bread cheese sandwich branch!
An SR card would be done for if it ran into a slightly stronger Umamusume!
“But… Screaming Shriek? With this name, doesn’t she have sisters called Screaming Laugh and Screaming Scream?” Although it was an SR card, Black Knight still planned to treat this card well.
What was displayed on the system interface was an Umamusume with not-too-long black hair, strange black markings drawn at the corners of her eyes and on her cheeks, and a pair of dark red eyes.
Her hair slightly covered her eyes, making it hard to see her exact gaze, but the smile on her lips and cheeks, her barely visible eyes, and her hands held beside her cheeks with index and middle fingers raised—all of these made Black Knight have one thought upon seeing her.
Why does this kid look like she’s been completely broken?
But looking more carefully, she somehow felt this Screaming Shriek’s smile didn’t seem like she’d been broken, but rather like she was asking for a beating.
Even so, Screaming Shriek did look like a healthy girl with above-average looks, probably around 15 years old.
Although her chest development was a bit worrying, she was still way better than Little Kangbai-chan with her short little legs.
—At least she didn’t need to climb onto a chair to eat.
“This stat line… not bad.” After looking at her appearance, it was time to look at stats, and Screaming Shriek’s stats really made Black Knight feel they were great.
Although she didn’t have a single S, her overall stats were much better than Little Kangbai-chan’s.
She’d basically successfully gone from a background-character level to the level of someone who might get a few extra dozen seconds of screen time in an episode.
Huge improvement!
Next, look at skills—damn, this Umamusume’s situation was the legendary “Wang Si,” no wait, “charge to death”?
Her skills only boosted running speed, and the boost was big at that—50% running speed increase.
Even Black Knight needed to overtake ten Umamusume to get that much of a boost!
And looking closely at this skill effect, you could tell this Umamusume definitely had a lot of spirit.
After all, being able to do large-scale aura pressure meant she couldn’t howl it out without spirit.
This skill called [Terrifying Roar] had a really domineering effect.
At least among SR level, this effect should be pretty strong.
Large-scale aura pressure on enemies, while self is immune to aura pressure, and can also greatly increase her own running speed.
You could really say she’s a multi-role fighter. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
“Perfect. Her skills aren’t really suited for team battles either—so I’ll send her far away for local races.” Screaming Shriek’s roar didn’t distinguish friend from foe.
An existence like this could be kept, but wasn’t suited for team battles.
After all, one roar from Screaming Shriek, and Little Kangbai-chan would tremble three times—unless Little Kangbai-chan and Screaming Shriek became friends and activated Big Full Meal.
But if Screaming Shriek was the only one on the field and the rest were really all multi-role, then she could howl all she wanted.
Anyway, the one getting howled at wasn’t me, so I definitely wouldn’t be afraid.
………
The next morning, Feiyuan-sensei took Black Knight to the nearest train station.
Of course, neither of them took a car—instead, they chose to run to the station.
She didn’t know why cars in this world had such severe speed limits, causing those things to run slower than Umamusume most of the time.
And this race was actually suggested by Miss Feiyuan-sensei.
In fact, she’d always really wanted to know just how big the gap between her and Black Knight was.
It was just that before, she’d been busy organizing teaching materials and had no time to race.
Now, she knew—Black Knight seemed to have been holding back her true speed the whole time so Feiyuan-sensei could keep up, and she’d even run directly in front of her to block the wind.
The school was quite far from the station, but neither of them called for a stop along the way.
They both stayed quiet, conserving stamina.
After running like that for quite a long stretch, the two finally successfully arrived at the station before the train departed.
“Huff… huff…” Feiyuan-sensei gasped for breath, her whole body like a bellows.
Black Knight could even see her legs trembling a little.
“S-so amazing… huff, I’m also, huff, old, useless now…” Looking at Black Knight, who was only slightly panting, Feiyuan-sensei also unwillingly lowered her head.
But Black Knight looked at the side of Feiyuan-sensei’s face, where hair stuck to her skin from sweat, and after observing carefully for a while, suddenly felt this world really was 2D after all.
According to what she knew, this Miss Feiyuan-sensei was Principal Sukegahara’s Umamusume, and had eventually retired with him back to his hometown.
Logically, she should be an old lady by now.
But looking at her now—whether this face was even under 30 was hard to say.
“Okay, okay, you wait here. I’ll go buy tickets.” After panting for a while and finishing a bottle of mineral water, Miss Feiyuan-sensei finally recovered.
And now she remembered she hadn’t bought tickets yet.
“Mm.” Black Knight’s template just wasn’t suited for talking, so she found a seat and sat down obediently, waiting for Miss Feiyuan-sensei to come back.
But man, the countryside scenery was really nice.
Recalling the scenes she’d seen on the road, Black Knight really felt this place deserved to be called 2D.
The scenery and what you saw in 3D couldn’t compare at all.
Every scene was super beautiful.
And the Tracen Academy Little Kangbai-chan had seen was no exception—grand and tidy, completely unlike a 3D school.
At least in terms of bathrooms, it beat 3D school bathrooms by a mile.
So why did I go to the bathroom with that Gold Ship?
Black Knight suddenly thought about the consciousness controlling Little Kangbai-chan’s template…
Could it have been infected by Gold Ship’s stupidity?
“Ah, hello~” Just as Black Knight was thinking about all sorts of random things, someone suddenly called out to her.
She looked up and saw an Umamusume with short black hair, a few strands at her forehead still like highlights in white, and a pair of amethyst-like pupils looking at her.
“Excuse me, are you also going to Tracen Academy?” This Umamusume of unknown origin looked at Black Knight with some curiosity and some surprise in her eyes, as if Black Knight was something rare.
“No.” Black Knight’s expression didn’t change, her tone cold, as if she didn’t want to interact.
“Ah! Sorry, did I bother you?” Hearing that tone, this Umamusume was also startled and quickly prepared to apologize.
“Not at all.”
“?”
Looking at the Umamusume’s astonished face, Black Knight knew she’d once again successfully killed the conversation.