Like a country bumpkin entering the city, Special Week knelt on the seat with both knees, going “wow” at everything outside the window, her tail wagging happily behind her, more excited than a puppy.
On the other side, Black Knight sat upright in her seat, maintaining a motionless state, just acting mysterious and deep.
Although she occasionally glanced at the scenery outside, she didn’t show any extra expression.
Black Knight and Special Week were like complete opposites—one so quiet you’d think the air would freeze, the other acting like she had ADHD not long after boarding.
This situation made Feiyuan-sensei start thinking about whether she could try to get Black Knight and Special Week to become friends.
After all, if these two little ones’ personalities could complement each other…
Wouldn’t that be perfect?
It could make Black Knight a bit more cheerful, and make the seemingly always silly Special Week a bit more steady.
Perfectly solving both their personality problems.
That would be great.
On the other side, Black Knight, who looked like she wasn’t thinking about anything, was actually pondering where to place the somewhat troublesome Screaming Shriek template, and how to use her.
After thinking it over, Black Knight felt that now that she was being forced onto the stage, the sneaky development style couldn’t keep up with demand.
To truly grind points quickly now, what she needed wasn’t to have some template holed up in a school studying!
Taking advantage of the fact that local races in remote areas had almost no spectators, avoiding direct confrontation with the protagonist team, she should participate in races as quickly as possible to grind points and reputation, then gradually become a local star, and gradually surround the Central tracks with numerical superiority.
Finally, with the advantage of many templates, she could pincer the protagonist team with multi bread cheese sandwich!
Using the fact that they came from all directions so they wouldn’t be suspected, secretly coordinating during races!
United against the protagonist like in a BOSS battle, and finally successfully defeating the protagonist, or dragging the protagonist into the fold.
A perfect plan!
Black Knight thought, even feeling like a little star should pop up in front of her eyes to show how clever she was.
By the way, her Little Kangbai-chan template was currently heading to participate in that eating contest recommended by Oguri Cap.
After she went to Central, she might even get to watch a show of herself watching herself.
“Oh! My stop is here!” After who knows how long, Special Week suddenly snapped back to attention upon hearing the announcement.
According to her adoptive mother’s instructions, if she wanted to go to Tracen Academy… this was the stop, right?
Yeah, probably.
She remembered it being this stop.
But just in case, she might as well get off first.
After all, if she missed the stop, she’d have to run back, which would be too troublesome.
“Huh? This…” Special Week couldn’t remember, but Miss Feiyuan-sensei, who had once raced in Central, immediately remembered.
Wasn’t this still one stop away?
Her adoptive mother clearly said the next stop.
Had this child been so excited she mixed up her memory?
She was about to call the other back, but then Feiyuan-sensei thought—it was just one stop off anyway.
Letting Black Knight and Special Week go explore Central together, build up their relationship, communicate a bit—wasn’t that good too?
Thinking that, Miss Feiyuan-sensei not only didn’t stop Special Week from getting off at the wrong stop, but instead grabbed Black Knight, who hadn’t reacted at all, and dashed to catch up with Special Week.
“Wait, Little Week! We’ll go with you.”
“Huh? Um, weren’t we going to a race?” Seeing Feiyuan-sensei bringing Black Knight over, Special Week tilted her head, a little confused. Find the original chapter at g.com.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. The race doesn’t start until tomorrow anyway. Today I was just bringing this child to find a place to stay.” Feiyuan-sensei smiled, briefly saying something half-true, half-false.
It was indeed true they needed to find a place to stay, but that didn’t stop her from taking the two little ones to explore Central either.
Hmm… but speaking of which, she hadn’t been to Central in a long time.
Hopefully she still knew the way.
“Besides, your adoptive mother asked me to look after you. Let us take you along.”
“Oh! Okay!” Special Week was naturally very happy to hear that.
Who wouldn’t be happy with friends accompanying them?
—Even if they weren’t very familiar yet.
“Then, Little Black, come along!” Special Week waved at Black Knight, telling her to keep up.
“…Oh.” What the heck is “Little Black”?
Black Knight complained inwardly, always feeling this Uma called Special Week was a bit of a dummy.
What was up with that?
But before she could snap out of it, she heard a bang.
Looking up, she saw Special Week bent over at the ticket gate, looking very uncomfortable.
She’d probably been hit by the ticket gate door.
Black Knight sighed—great, this girl really was a dummy.
Probably one of those characters in anime and games specifically in charge of comic relief.
Then Black Knight turned to Miss Feiyuan-sensei, wanting her to explain to Special Week how this kind of ticket gate worked.
But she saw Miss Feiyuan-sensei standing in front of a security guard, asking: “Um, because this thing wasn’t here back when I used to be around here, so how do I get through? Can I just step over it?”
“Uh, no, you need to tap it with a ticket.”
“Oh!” Miss Feiyuan-sensei looked like she understood, then held her paper ticket against the gate.
“Weird, why isn’t anything showing up?”
Smack—Black Knight slapped her own face.
She felt this three-person group should just turn back.
After all, two of them were dummies, and the only brains was a silent person.
How was this group supposed to go anywhere?
No way.
Go back and stay wherever it’s cool!
…
After countless hardships and various explanations, the security guard and Black Knight finally made Feiyuan-sensei and Special Week understand how to operate it, and the two successfully came out from the other side of the ticket gate.
“But, you’re going to Tracen Academy, right?” Looking at the three Umamusume present, especially the two who were clearly young girls, the security guard immediately guessed their general purpose.
“Yeah! But actually, it’s just me…” Special Week nodded, but then glanced at Black Knight beside her and scratched her head awkwardly.
She was still a student who needed to enroll, but Black Knight was already a strong Uma about to compete.
“I see—but Tracen Academy is at the next stop.” The security guard glanced at a map nearby and used his finger to indicate the distance between Tracen Academy and here.
“Huh? Th-this is… did I remember the wrong stop?” Special Week looked and realized she really had gotten off at the wrong stop.
This wasn’t good.
“It’s fine! This distance is totally runnable.” Feiyuan-sensei patted Special Week’s shoulder, indicating she shouldn’t be so pessimistic.
“Besides, you can try racing Black Knight along the way.”
“Huh? Can I?” Special Week turned to Black Knight, waiting for her answer.
“Mm.” Nothing else to do anyway.
A race was fine.
But she remembered Central had a rule that Uma’s max speed was 60, right?
So she couldn’t go all out.
“Oh right, but there’s a race being held nearby recently. Do you want to go watch?” The security guard suddenly remembered there was a race about to be held nearby.
He’d wanted to go watch too, but unfortunately he had work.
So he definitely couldn’t go, but these two kids might be interested in that race.
After all, he heard that Silence Suzuka-san was also participating.
Two newly arrived Uma would definitely be interested in that race, right?
“Oh? Perfect. Then may I ask where it is?” Feiyuan-sensei thought this was great.
It would let Black Knight get familiar with the race environment.
A nice surprise.
“Mm, it’s right here.” The security guard pointed to a spot on the map.
It wasn’t far from Tracen Academy, and might even be on the way for Special Week.
“Oh, the location looks good.” Looking at where the security guard pointed on the map, Feiyuan-sensei rubbed her chin and smiled, then turned to the two girls: “Since the destination is confirmed, how about you two race? Black Knight, Special Week, you two have a race.”
“Huh? A race?”
“…Whatever.”
“Yeah, that’s right. Starting from this station, run all the way to the track. See who gets there first.” Feiyuan-sensei nodded.
This distance was just right for her.
After all, for Umamusume, wasn’t running the best way to communicate?
As long as they ran once, the other would definitely understand!
Let this race kick off the perfect friendship between Little Black and Little Week!
“R-race against an Uma who can compete?” Special Week glanced at Black Knight.
It was hard to imagine that she’d just started on the path to her dream, and now she was about to race an Uma who could already compete.
“No objections.” Black Knight definitely had no objections.
It was just another test of her template anyway.
And this road… her other template was on the way to the eating contest.
On this route, she could drop by and watch herself eat a big meal.
Comfortable.