Skilled at Doing Time in Tracen

That wasn't love. It was just doing whatever she wanted and dumping a pile of inexplicable things on someone else.

Take all that incense she had filled his office with. Acting on a whim like that was just making a mess.

"Love is giving someone something they want too. Remember what you did before the kidnapping? How did he react? Did he actually accept it?"

Zhou Yuang explained everything to Kunpu Uro, talking through her problems step by step. As she remembered how her trainer had reacted before and after the kidnapping, large tears rolled down her cheeks.

"First, you absolutely cannot act on every whim. Your parents will put up with it because they love you. Your trainer will put up with it because he's responsible for you. But while loving parents may accept you unconditionally, a trainer won't."

"If you want to be your trainer's girlfriend, then show him you're a young woman who can sit across from him and talk. Meeting as equals is the best way to understand each other. Think it over. I'll give you time."

"And the law is only the bare minimum of morality."

Seeing her cry, Zhou Yuang knew she needed a moment. He pushed himself up from the table and prepared to head to the other room.

The outcome no longer depended on him as mediator. It depended on the people involved.

He believed the Uma Musume would calm down after hearing all that. What happened next would depend on her trainer.

Air Groove hurried over to support Zhou Yuang, afraid he might fall.

After Air Groove helped Zhou Yuang out of the room, some of the Uma Musume started whispering again.

Gossip was in their nature, after all.

"Did you hear what he just said?"

"Who didn't? And did you