A Spy Game?

Seeing Anjing Zhen like this, Daiwa Scarlet nodded slightly. Then, changing the subject, she said with a hint of pride, "But since this blockhead of yours has finally caught on and realized he should proactively care about what others are thinking, I can give you a suggestion."

"What suggestion?" Anjing Zhen snapped back to his senses, his eyes lighting up. Agnes Tachyon also looked at Daiwa Scarlet with interest.

"Of course, you should use a more interesting approach—one better suited to Almond Eye!"

Smiling, Daiwa Scarlet pulled out her phone, tapped through it for a moment, then turned the screen toward them. "Look!"

After exchanging a glance, Anjing Zhen and Agnes Tachyon both looked at the screen and found a photograph.

In the photo was a Horse Girl wearing a black top hat and a black little suit, along with a pair of small dark sunglasses. A KISS lollipop stuck out of her mouth, and she held a large camera in her hands. Her outfit was playful, yet also somewhat mysterious, as though she were about to do something shady.

Looking at that Horse Girl, Anjing Zhen found her somewhat familiar. "That's—?"

"It's Teio!" Daiwa Scarlet said with a smile. "Before that final Arima Kinen, she barely trained for an entire year because she was recovering from her injuries. When she decided to return to racing, she had to start many things over from scratch, so her Trainer assigned her only the most basic tasks at the time.

"But Teio is a genius. Even after being delayed for so long, the basics were still easy for her.

"After finishing her tasks, she couldn't sit still and pestered her Trainer to give her more to do. He had no choice, but he also knew he couldn't suddenly increase her training load,