Symboli Rudolf on the side narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze fixed on the spreading Chilling Aura, her thoughts fluctuating.
“Two!”
Maruzensky was still smiling, as if she had already anticipated something.
“One!”
Sirius Symboli and Miho Shinzan’s bodies suddenly trembled.
Their previously focused minds abruptly scattered, simply because the biting Chilling Aura assailing them from all directions suddenly enveloped them.
“Go!”
Polaris Absolute Speed pushed off with her right foot, and her entire body shot forward at an extremely fast speed, instantly pulling several horse lengths ahead of those behind her with her extraordinary acceleration.
Sirius Symboli and Miho Shinzan both paused for a moment, then, realizing what happened, quickly started running in close pursuit.
“Oh?
Is that…”
“That’s right, that’s Polaris’s unique aura interference at the start of a race.”
Maruzensky explained, glancing slightly at Symboli Rudolf.
“Even I’ve suffered from that move.”
Symboli Rudolf secretly noted it down, then thought for a moment and continued:
“Speaking of which, her starting acceleration is excellent.
To be able to reach that speed in such a short time, combined with the aura interference…”
“I’m afraid in future races, it will be difficult for any Uma Musume to get out of the gate ahead of her and take the lead position.”
Polaris Absolute Speed still used an escape strategy this time, or rather, a grand escape strategy, because she went full speed from the start and had no intention of slowing down at all.
Chilling Aura automatically drifted backward, and Sirius Symboli and Miho Shinzan felt their bodies becoming stiffer, knowing that maintaining their current speed would only accelerate their stamina depletion.
Keep in mind, it had just begun!
If they ran out of stamina and lost speed, they would truly have no chance of catching up and winning.
“Damn it, what’s with this continuous cold?
Is it caused by Polaris’s aura?”
Sirius Symboli looked at Polaris Absolute Speed, who was getting further and further ahead, then glanced back at Miho Shinzan, who was right behind her.
Gritting her teeth, she finally chose to accelerate, attempting to catch up to the blue-haired Polaris Glacier ahead.
“If Polaris pulls too far ahead, even with excellent final strides, it might be difficult to catch up.
Here, it really is…”
Seeing this, Miho Shinzan, who was slightly behind, her eyes flashed with thought, keenly noticing that the influence of the cold was gradually weakening as the distance from Polaris Absolute Speed increased.
“The further away, the weaker the effect.
A chase strategy is probably the most appropriate way to deal with the cold.”
“But if that’s the case…”
She cast her gaze forward, noticing the blue-haired Polaris Glacier’s condition; her breathing wasn’t at all erratic, as if maintaining her current speed was nothing to her and she could sustain it for a very long time.
“Polaris Absolute Speed’s speed is not slow at all, and she seems to have plenty of stamina.
Although my final strides are decent, I still feel like I don’t have much confidence in even catching up.”
“What should I do?”
The three entered the bend one after another.
Maruzensky, watching this scene, suddenly spoke:
“Although I didn’t think they could win against Polaris before we started, seeing the current situation, I still feel a bit emotional.”
Symboli Rudolf didn’t respond; her brow had unconsciously furrowed.
She was clearly putting herself in the training field, thinking about how to break through that layer of Chilling Aura.
After passing the bend, Polaris Absolute Speed felt a sense of liberation.
Her body’s center of gravity instinctively lowered, and her speed began to increase.
“What?!
You can still accelerate, Polaris!”
Sirius Symboli, who was behind, saw this, and her pupils suddenly constricted.
The distance between them did not close; instead, it widened further.
At the same time, due to accelerating while enduring Chilling Aura, her stamina was already largely depleted, and a bad premonition gradually emerged in her heart.
She glanced at Miho Shinzan behind her, and seeing her unhurried expression and pace, she quickly understood her opponent’s approach.
“I see, saving energy for a final sprint.”
However, Miho Shinzan herself was not as relaxed as Sirius Symboli thought; her so-called chase strategy was, after all, only a reluctant attempt.
With the stamina she saved, there was a high possibility of catching up to Sirius Symboli later, but to catch up to the blue-haired Polaris Glacier at the very front…
“Not on the same level…Polaris Absolute Speed…so strong!”
Such a thought emerged in Miho Shinzan’s mind.
If there was still a glimmer of hope of overtaking before Polaris Absolute Speed accelerated, then now, she had to admit that the other party and herself were completely not on the same level of existence.
Is Polaris Absolute Speed really in the elementary division like herself?
Did she really just start formal training yesterday, as she said?
With this kind of strength, even participating in major races, participating in G1 races, would be completely sufficient.
Gritting her teeth, the fighting spirit in her eyes suddenly surged anew, and at the same time, a thought also deepened within her heart.
“I want to catch up, I want to catch up to that figure!
I’m not going to give up just like this!”
On the bend before the final straight, Sirius Symboli, as expected, lost speed.
Having not undergone extensive training, she truly had no more stamina left at this point.
From now on, she could only rely on sheer grit.
Just then, a figure rapidly burst out from the outer lane, overtaking Sirius Symboli in one swift motion and sprinting towards the front.
“Oh, oh, here she comes.
Whether you can catch Polaris is up to you.”
A smile appeared on Sirius Symboli’s lips.
She thought that she had been careless this time and hadn’t found a suitable way to deal with that chilling aura.
“But next time, I definitely will…”
Shifting the view forward, Miho Shinzan was breathing heavily, striving to catch up.
However, the reality was that Polaris Absolute Speed, who had passed the bend first, accelerated once again, and even performed a second acceleration on the final straight.
Any hope of overtaking, at least at this moment, was completely nonexistent.
The gap widened further, and she finished the parallel run with a complete lead.
The atmosphere around them was somewhat silent.
Miho Shinzan lay directly on the ground after crossing the finish line, gasping for air, while Sirius Symboli had almost jogged across the finish line at the very end, leaning on her knees and also breathing heavily.
Most of the Uma Musume who had watched the entire race were now focused on Polaris Absolute Speed, their gazes filled with either curiosity or fighting spirit.
In response, the blue-haired Polaris Glacier showed no reaction, merely tilting her head slightly to look at the sky, her thoughts stirring.
“It’s a pity I didn’t experience the feeling of being closely pursued like last time when I ran with Maruzensky.”