Even though Luocheng had expected that he might eventually return, the realization still made the world spin.
Coming back meant becoming invisible again.
He released the horse girl and let out a long sigh.
“Yo~ Trainer.”
Outside the teaching building, a soft green figure approached.
Seiun Sky wore her familiar relaxing smile.
“What’s today’s training?”
“Sky…”
Luocheng opened his mouth.
Right.
He had already signed Seiun Sky in the other world.
Apparently, the connection between the two worlds really did exist.
After forming a contract with Sky there, he had gained command authority over her here.
Luocheng walked up to her and stroked her head.
He gently rubbed her soft ears.
Throughout the entire thing, Seiun Sky merely blinked at him, waiting for instructions.
“Just two days ago, you were secretly following me around…”
Without thought, a person was only a body.
Luocheng could barely connect the Seiun Sky standing before him with the girl who had shared cake with him yesterday.
“I’ll give you your training assignment this afternoon.
Go relax for now.”
“Yes.”
Seiun Sky nodded and turned away.
Luocheng watched her go, frowning.
“Sky!”
She stopped.
“Do you remember yesterday?”
No answer.
Seiun Sky simply stood there.
Several seconds passed.
Having received no recognized instruction, she resumed walking.
As expected.
She still couldn’t answer questions outside the system.
But something else was different.
Luocheng hadn’t used the phrase “Today’s training is—” before telling her to go relax.
Yet Seiun Sky had understood him.
His command format had changed.
Luocheng went searching for Teio.
Eventually he found her inside the Student Council room, sticking close to Symboli Rudolf.
“Trainer!”
The instant she saw him, Tokai Teio ran over with a bright smile.
For a heartbeat, that innocent expression made Luocheng think Teio had “come alive.”
But just like a greeting animation being triggered, the smile disappeared after a few seconds and her expression returned to normal.
“Teio, do you remember yesterday?”
Again— nothing.
“Do two sets of push-ups on the floor.”
Tokai Teio immediately dropped down and started.
Luocheng stared.
His commands no longer needed activation phrases.
Perhaps this was one of the consequences of clearing the story segment.
The horse girls’ “intelligence” seemed slightly improved.
Luocheng looked toward Rudolf and Air Groove and tried issuing instructions to them.
A translucent box appeared.
[Not in a trainer-trainee relationship.]
Right.
He had another contracted horse girl now.
Agnes Tachyon.
Luocheng went to her laboratory.
The room remained filled with research equipment.
But something was different.
A sheet of paper had been placed prominently on the wall.
On it were the words:
Investigate the connection between the two worlds.
Exactly as Tachyon had promised.
What Agnes Tachyon did in that other world had synchronized into this one.
Even her game-state counterpart continued researching Luocheng.
He approached the girl scribbling notes at her desk.
“Tachyon.”
“Guinea Pig.”
Agnes Tachyon responded.
“What is today’s training?”
It was clearly another fixed character line.
But what she was doing in the background directly related to him.
“I’ll tell you at the training grounds this afternoon.”
“Yes.”
After answering, she automatically ignored Luocheng and returned to her experiment.
He didn’t disturb her.
What should he do now?
The Debut Race scenario had ended.
When was the next race?
Luocheng returned to his office and took out the Uma Musume Trainer’s Handbook.
That book could only be found in the game world.
He opened Tokai Teio’s section.
After the Debut Race, her next competition was the Wakagoma Stakes in December.
More than three months away.
Another hundred days.
Luocheng stared blankly at the page.
Another hundred days…
He had already spent more than a hundred days here once.
He had finally been allowed to live normally for a while.
And now he was facing another hundred days of this?
What would he become by then?
But that was how Uma Musume racing worked.
Train for months.
Race once.
Then train for months again.
Was he destined to remain nothing more than a “player”?
…
Back in the office, Luocheng studied Teio’s stats.
Every major stat had already passed 170.
During the month when he had trained her without the game system, she had not fallen behind.
Her values had risen steadily.
Apparently, game logic continued functioning even while he was in reality.
Training really was just a matter of arranging the right combinations.
Seiun Sky’s growth was much slower.
Many days only produced three or five points.
Maybe that was because he hadn’t reached Seiun Sky’s actual training arc yet.
Her growth values were still being suppressed.
The Uma Musume Training Handbook seemed impossible to finish.
It felt thin in his hands, yet he could turn pages endlessly.
Large sections were blank.
Were those simply unused pages?
Or would new characters appear in the future?
Luocheng stretched and ordered Seiun Sky to sit on his lap.
Compared with Teio, Sky was slightly taller.
When seated there, the top of her head fit perfectly beneath Luocheng’s chin.
As a body pillow, her size was ideal.
Her faint floral scent made him relax almost immediately.
Teio was softer.
But in pure comfort—
Seiun Sky won.
Maybe he should just carry this giant green cat everywhere from now on.
Speaking of that— the old command he had given Tokai Teio still seemed impossible to cancel.
Whenever Luocheng slept beside Seiun Sky, Teio would appear.
Even at night.
Two nights ago, Luocheng had been asleep with Sky beside him when he woke in the middle of the night and found Teio standing there.
Her blue eyes glowed eerily in the dark.
Luocheng nearly died of fright.
In the end, all three had slept together.
The two girls seemed almost linked.
Or rather— pseudo-linked.
If Luocheng took Teio somewhere, Seiun Sky would secretly follow.
If he took Sky somewhere, Teio would openly appear beside them.
That corresponded disturbingly well with their behavior in reality.
Luocheng had also discovered that Affection increased in the real world.
After several weeks there, he returned to find that Seiun Sky’s Affection had reached the heart-icon stage.
Her heart was lighter than Teio’s.
Teio’s, meanwhile, had somehow deepened into a rich rose-red.
It almost appeared to be beating.
“Sky, when are we going fishing together?”
Remembering one of their previous conversations, Luocheng spoke without thinking.
A window immediately appeared.
[Special Event Triggered: Fishing]
The expression of Seiun Sky sitting in his lap suddenly became vivid.
At the same time—
Tokai Teio’s face turned bright red, looking as though she were about to explode.
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