Anjing Zhen did not really like topics like "Guess what?"
In the Shining Series, variables could be said to be the greatest factor in competition.
Many times, a horse girl who had performed excellently in previous races and enjoyed overwhelming popularity might be in poor condition on race day, or encounter some other accident, and very likely lose a race everyone had expected her to win.
Conversely, it was equally possible for an unfavored contestant to overperform during a race and pull off an upset.
Besides that, there could be sudden downpours, changes among the competitors, unforeseen tactics and strategies... In short, races were inherently full of uncertainty.
As a Horse Girl Trainer, uncertainty made him feel unsettled, and he did not like that feeling.
Whenever he encountered something that required guessing, he generally chose not to guess, or simply investigated it directly.
Yet at this moment, he suddenly felt that uncertain things were not necessarily bad.
Male Trainers were not allowed into the horse girls' dormitory, and aside from classes, he normally did not go to their classrooms either.
He had never cared about such things before, but now he realized that aside from training, races, and matters related to them, he did not know what Kitasan Black's daily life was like at all.
Following Kitasan Black all the way to this gym—or perhaps ever since last night—he had discovered another side of Kitasan Black's thoughtfulness.
This thoughtfulness differed from the care she had shown him when he was injured before the New Year.
When he had been injured, what he felt was her overly enthusiastic concern and her open, unconcerned attitude toward a lone man and woman being in the same room, without fussing over trivialities.
The thoughtfulness he felt now was a meticulous attention to detail that