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Chapter 9: Some Girls Are Racehorses, While Others Are Workhorses

[Option 1: Of course]

[Option 2: Sorry, I can't]

"An option popped up?"

Well, no wonder the story never skipped before. So this was where an option like this appeared.

Unfortunately, he had entered the game himself this time, so he had no way to see the Three Goddesses and ask them about it.

Those three goddesses were such pranksters. Unless you asked them, they never told you anything in detail.

[Uma Musume Fan]: This expression! Ah! So adorable! I'm dying!... Trainer A, you'd better not reject her! How could you reject such a cute Uma Musume?

[Unbreakable Glass]: Is she trying to imitate the Uma Musume she admires? Finding a trainer would certainly make it easier for them to spend time together.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Come to think of it, something feels strange. Why do I feel like something's off?

[Uma Musume Fan]: What's strange about it? An Uma Musume found her idol and became a fan. What's wrong with joining the same trainer's team?

[Festival Girl]: Exactly. What's so strange about that?

[Invincible Lord of Seaside]: Right?

[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: Isn't this kind of thing common? She simply wants to have the same trainer as her idol Uma Musume.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Think about it. An Uma Musume admires another Uma Musume, then joins that Uma Musume's team.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Even if she only wants more chances to interact with her idol, contact with that trainer is unavoidable.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Suppose—I'm just saying suppose—that the trainer also treats that Uma Musume kindly. As time passes, her infatuation with her idol gradually fades through daily interaction, and she begins to take her idol for granted.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Meanwhile, she gradually comes to depend on the trainer's care. After spending a long time with the original Uma Musume, what happens if the trainer grows bored with his life?

[Flawless Red Goddess Lord]: Wouldn't that be the seven-year itch?

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: Exactly. People always grow tired of the old and favor the new. In other words, the trainer might have poor self-control.

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: This newcomer looks innocent, but because of that innocence, under the indulgence of the trainer and her senior... Or perhaps because she came from the countryside and has only a vague, immature understanding of such things, she might eventually approach her senior's trainer...

[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: You mean this junior will join her senior's team because she admires her, then steal her senior's trainer because she doesn't know any better?

[Invincible Lord of Seaside]: Huh?

[Festival Girl]: What? Something like that can happen? What kind of Uma Musume would do that?!

[Uma Musume Fan]: Th-this... Could this be... NTR?! This is NTR!

[Uma Musume Fan]: Shut up! Stop talking! Don't say another word! Hmph... Aaaaaah!!!

[Uma Musume Fan]: I finally found a CP I could ship. Sure, that trainer's earlier comments were a little excessive, but I could ignore that and still enjoy it. But... whenever I think about what that guy said, I feel like Silence Suzuka really is going to get NTR'd!!!!!

The pink-haired girl in front of the screen let out an indescribable CP-fan shriek.

Her nail-polished fingers kept scraping across her scalp. Her head hurt a little, but her heart hurt even more.

She was an Uma Musume fan who loved Uma Musume.

She was also a fan who loved Uma Musume CPs.

Her range of preferences was extremely broad. Whether it was Uma Musume girls cuddling up to each other or trainers cuddling up to Uma Musume, she supported it all.

In other words, this DD queen was also a CP queen.

She wasn't a white-river otaku, nor was she an Uma Musume who hated girl-on-girl relationships.

She simply enjoyed the Uma Musume girls' elf-like cuteness, as well as the harmonious and friendly scenes between them and the people around them.

She had sworn that she would love every friendly and beautiful CP equally, no matter what it was.

But reverse NTR between Uma Musume... Anything that would make an Uma Musume shed precious little tears afterward was absolutely forbidden!!!

She felt happy when the Uma Musume girls were happy, joyful when they were joyful, and angry when they were angry.

She also felt sad when they were sad. Whenever she saw an Uma Musume suffer after losing a race, she would sob uncontrollably.

If an Uma Musume were NTR'd by another Uma Musume... she would definitely explode!

"You're kidding, right? What is this? How scary."

Silence Suzuka was startled by some of the comments in the chat.

At the same time, she turned to look at Special Week on the screen. Special Week was constantly rubbing her hands together, looking like a little beast begging to be taken in.

Perhaps because of the earlier conversation, Silence Suzuka felt that something seemed off about Special Week's violet eyes.

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: The one who draws lewd manga and the one having a fit! That's enough already! You two idiots!

The Empress gritted her teeth in front of the screen. Just looking at everyone's hysterical behavior gave her a headache.

Since everyone in front of the screen was an Uma Musume, that meant they were all students.

That person who had started spouting weird comments right away clearly needed someone to straighten out her brain!

Just don't let me catch you!

Otherwise, she would punish her severely and make her copy Tracen Academy's rules a hundred times! A hundred times!

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: This is obviously just a normal Uma Musume joining a team. Then the trainer forms a team, and later another Uma Musume joins because of the senior. That's how Tracen gets another team.

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: Most of Tracen's teams were formed this way!

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: To use that streamer's earlier words, it's because you're wearing yellow-tinted glasses that everything you see looks yellow!

"To be fair, she's right."

Watching those comments, Zhou Yuang nearly didn't know how to respond.

What was wrong with Tamamo's imagination? Why was it so vivid?

And you, the young lady who draws manga—if you keep talking like that, I'm going to conquer you, then invite you to my wedding with your sister!

"Everyone, let me state this clearly. There is no NTR in this Uma Musume game!"

Once the chat started getting carried away, the streamer had to answer.

Besides, the vivid imagination of certain young ladies seemed likely to have an unavoidable negative influence on some of the younger Uma Musume in the Livestream Room.

As a trainer, he had to correct the bad ideas in certain Uma Musume's heads and make them realize as soon as possible that some things were wrong!

"And besides... just as that audience member who sounds like she's from the Student Council said, quite a few teams are formed when a trainer and an Uma Musume gradually build a reputation, attracting junior Uma Musume who join out of admiration."

Zhou Yuang refuted them righteously, hoping all the Uma Musume present could maintain a healthy mindset.

They shouldn't see an Uma Musume interacting with a trainer who already had an Uma Musume and immediately assume it was NTR.

If the Uma Musume here were negatively influenced, what would happen?

They would blow up whenever they saw their own trainer interacting with another Uma Musume, then grow angry and commit yandere acts such as kidnapping and imprisonment!

How many trainers and Uma Musume would end up on the wrong path then?

As a man of justice, he absolutely couldn't stand by and watch Basement tragedies happen again and again!

Besides, some of them might become my own Uma Musume in the future.

Helping others was helping himself, so Zhou Yuang continued trying to persuade them.

"This is perfectly normal. Don't treat it like something worth worrying about!"

"If every Uma Musume thought that way, then the concept of Uma Musume teams wouldn't exist in this world."

After hearing Zhou Yuang's explanation, quite a few Uma Musume realized the problem.

"But aren't you a trainer who wants thirty Uma Musume wives?"

In front of the screen, the Uma Musume with the ID [Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher] was typing the words she wanted to say on her keyboard.

But the moment she finished typing, a notice popped up on the screen: "You have been muted and cannot send comments temporarily."

"Muted?!"

The Uma Musume leaned back in surprise, then stared at the words she had typed on the screen.

Was it because she had stirred up trouble, or had she hit some hidden nerve?

"Maybe what I said earlier really was a little..."

She reached up and rubbed her head of glossy black hair, thinking over what had happened.

Wasn't she just someone who stirred up trouble?

She had stayed up all night drawing manga yesterday, so was her brain subconsciously filling in the plot of her own work?

But that trainer's earlier words had practically made him the public enemy of every Uma Musume at Tracen!

If that trainer hadn't said those things... But wasn't someone who held those thoughts without saying them even more dangerous?

"Is this guy a good person or a bad person? He said earlier that the Three Goddesses had acknowledged him, didn't he?"

Why would the Three Goddesses acknowledge a trainer like this? Did they approve of those thoughts too?

Who exactly was this guy?!

"But now I've been muted. I can't say anything at all or ask him questions. It's just like being a young lady who said something outrageous and got silenced by justice... Hmm!!!"

Were you a young lady?

She turned to look at her family mansion, which was even larger than Tracen Academy.

I think I am.

"So... I might be able to become the heroine of a manga too?!"

The Uma Musume who had stayed up all night working on her manga suddenly thought of something, then clutched her head with both hands.

"I said something that made him angry, then he stuffed a ball gag into my mouth, and next... next... Nooooo!!!"

That guy would definitely find her, discover evidence that she drew all kinds of R18 doujinshi, and then come to her in person.

He would say things like, "You wouldn't want your family to know you do this, would you?" and "You're the young lady of that family, yet you do things like this. Your family will be so furious that they'll disown you and throw you out onto the streets," wouldn't he?

Whether her family found out or she was threatened, she would eventually be forced to do all sorts of things.

"Either that scumbag trainer who wants to marry thirty Uma Musume will use me as a plush toy, or he'll marry me and then, every night..."

The manga-artist Uma Musume whimpered as she crossed her arms over her chest and curled up in her seat.

Her trembling eyes stared at the screen, terrified that the paper figure in front of it would suddenly crawl out, shout, "I'm taking you home to become my XX," and drag her into the screen.

"Hey, isn't that girl overthinking things a little?"

Outside the game, Godolphin propped her cheek up with one hand and looked helplessly at the Uma Musume curled into a ball.

"Who told you to mute her?"

Baye folded her arms and spoke casually.

"But if I hadn't muted her, Lamb-kun would have gotten dragged into the uproar."

Darley understood the situation quite well, but Baye immediately argued back.

"He's a trainer. As a trainer whose job is to guide Uma Musume toward victory and growth, if he can't even handle something like this, what kind of trainer is he?"

Baye's stern expression made Darley feel as if she had been criticized. Fortunately, Godolphin stepped in as a mediator.

She reached out and poked Baye's cheek.

"All right, let's watch the stream... Ah, he accepted Special Week."

In the game, Zhou Yuang directly accepted Special Week's application.

After explaining everything, he noticed that some Uma Musume in the chat were apologizing, but he couldn't see the manga artist anymore.

Zhou Yuang found it strange. Why hadn't she jumped in to say something just now? Surely she hadn't become depressed from being criticized?

But the stream was what mattered. Zhou Yuang chose to accept, and Special Week clasped her hands together in delight.

She bowed to Zhou Yuang to express her gratitude.

Then, a new interface popped up.

[Extra Support Card Appeared: Special Week (Dusk Is an Enchanting Color) Has Joined Training]

"An intrusion?"