Doing Time at Tracen Academy

Could someone's own parents really be that unreliable?

"Impossible... I remember my horse mom and my father being deeply in love..."

They must have been sweethearts from beginning to end. How could there have been a twist that ridiculous?

Air Groove wanted to argue, but the Uma Musume Doctor shattered her defense with a single sentence.

"Your mom was the one who made the first move."

Oh, thank goodness. I thought Mom was the one who lost out... Wait, she made the first move?!

Air Groove could almost hear something breaking. Her image of her mother had taken a blow.

Her mother was the person she looked up to. So why had she been the kind of Uma Musume who barged in and stole someone else's love?

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! My mother would never do that!"

Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could anything that absurd have happened?

Auntie, you're good friends with my horse mom. You visit our home all the time, laughing and chatting with her and Father. How could you slander her like this?

Of course Air Groove did not want to believe it. Like any other child, she had always seen her parents as admirable people.

The Uma Musume Doctor gave her a dead-eyed look and recounted what had happened back then. Her account sounded firsthand and was detailed enough to make Air Groove bristle.

"Why do you know so much about it?"

She still did not believe it and wanted to resist a little longer.

"...Because I was the one your mother stole him from. Ask her yourself if you don't believe me."

There seemed to be no light at all in the Uma Musume Doctor's eyes. It was frightening.

Air Groove was instantly left speechless.

She thought she heard something shatter across the floor.

The Uma