Little Kita is in trouble!

Kitasan Black Is in Trouble!

Kitasan Black's extraordinarily fierce start left the entire venue speechless for a moment.

That was no ordinary Start Gate, pursued by Horse Girls for efficiency and smoothness. It was more like a savage beast, long imprisoned, erupting with primal force as it broke free of its chains.

Huge clods of turf exploded and flew beneath her horseshoes. The brute force she unleashed in that instant even gave distant spectators the illusion that the ground itself was trembling.

This violent scene was just as clear to the opponents right beside her.

Golden Lyric felt it most directly and intensely.

She was closest to Kitasan Black, and the first to execute the encirclement strategy.

Her intention had been to pressure inward the instant they left the gates, compressing Kitasan Black's room to start.

She had expected resistance.

But she had never expected such an unreasonable, tyrannical countercharge!

The fierce wind that boldly brushed past her side carried an unstoppable Determined Aura, nearly flattening the fine hairs along her neck!

"What—are you kidding me?!"

Golden Lyric's ice-blue pupils suddenly constricted, her heart seeming to clench violently.

The impact and pressure of that instant far exceeded any pre-race training, simulation, or prediction.

Kitasan Black's eyes—there was no desperate urgency to break through in them, only confidence so pure and absolute that it could crush everything in its path!

"Something's wrong with her today! This isn't her usual rhythm!"

Amid her shock, an intensely ominous premonition pierced silently into Golden Lyric's heart like an icy thorn.

The tactical confidence she had once held so firmly had developed an almost imperceptible crack from that opening collision.

A little farther out, Firearm Soldier also took in Kitasan Black's terrifying start in its entirety.

Her original plan had been to coordinate with Golden