At Tracen, Good at Doing Time

The trainers who relied on Front Runners to slaughter the competition were also called Front Runner fanatics by trainers who favored other running styles.

But do you still remember the golden age of Water Driver and Valentine Bourbon?

Which Front Runner powerhouse is still Marvelous Sunday now?

Huh? White North and Black?

That's only for middle-distance races. Where are there so many middle-distance races nowadays?

The game has four distances and two surfaces!

Sprint, Mile, middle distance, and long distance!

Dirt Track is mainly Mile and middle distance.

How many powerful Front Runners are there?

Sprint: Mayano Top Gun. Mile: Silence Suzuka. Middle distance: Water Suzuka and White North. Long distance: Christmas Daiwa. Dirt Mile: Copano Rickey. Dirt middle distance: Golden Crispy Chicken.

This was the value of being a Front Runner fanatic! Our Front Runners were simply the best!

Where did this damn game get so many powerful Front Runners from?! (angry)

Still, the other horses weren't without a chance to win. Front Runners were simply more consistent, while the others might get boxed in.

[Invincible Lord of Seaside]: Front Runner? What's a Front Runner?

"It's a skill. It activates at the start, and an Uma Musume who has it will charge at the very front of the Fifth Pack, just like Silence Suzuka. Her running style changes from Front Runner to the even more aggressive Front Runner."

Zhou Yuang explained patiently, while the Uma Musume in front of the screen listened attentively.

"However, it's very difficult to obtain. You need six consecutive wins in graded races, followed by a Tenno Sho Autumn victory in both seasons."

[Unbreakable Glass]: Huh? Winning Tenno Sho Autumn in both seasons?

[Motherly Demon]: Isn't that requirement too difficult?

Winning even one G1 in real life was incredibly difficult, let alone a top-level race like Tenno Sho Autumn.

Winning it in both seasons was practically impossible.

"Although that's true, this is a game."

Zhou Yuang explained. With games like this, you naturally had to clear the requirements.

If you couldn't get past them, it wouldn't be a game.

"Winning is easier than it is in reality. The difficulty of the Uma Musume game definitely can't compare to Gallop Racer or Derby Stallion."

[Uma Musume Fan]: What are you talking about? I think I just heard something interesting.

Damn it, he had accidentally mentioned horse-racing games from the real world.

But those games were about horse racing, not Uma Musume. If the Uma Musume saw actual horses, their entire worldview would probably collapse.

Still, it was rather interesting.

In the future, he could tell them some stories about real-world horse racing. That might create a lot of fun.

"Ahem, let's focus on the game. Next, we'll figure out how to obtain Front Runner."

Zhou Yuang reached out and continued clicking, explaining the wonders of the Front Runner skill at the same time.

Outside the screen, Silence Suzuka began to feel a little tempted as she listened to Zhou Yuang.

Words like "slaughtering the competition," "powerful," and "invincible" tugged at Silence Suzuka's heartstrings.

Damn, there's actually such a cool running style?

If only I knew where this trainer was. Should I find him in the real world and make him my trainer?

Maybe she could run just as happily as her in-game self.

[Tracen Version Higuchi Madoka]: I have a question. Since this is a game, couldn't you have simply told Silence Suzuka to use Front Runner from the beginning? Why did you have to talk to Ms. Silence Suzuka like that?

From that tone, it seemed the Uma Musume weren't all completely without wariness.

That was fine. He could explain it while he was at it.

After seeing a certain game enthusiast speak up, Zhou Yuang began explaining as well.

"Right. According to the concept of a game, players can act like gods and freely control the characters and event choices available to them. But everyone saw what happened earlier."

Games were very simple.

As a hero, a player could swagger into a villager's house and smash, rob, and loot it. They could also decide on a whim to slaughter an entire species of monsters.

They could even act like a Paradox Interactive player and casually commit war crimes.

That was a player's right. But from a moral perspective, it was still vile behavior.

On the other hand, refusing to harm a single NPC, helping NPCs and earning their gratitude, and building a better home were also things a player had the right to do.

Whether they followed the path of kindness and became a good person or chose to become a villain was entirely up to the player.

As a trainer in the game, he could naturally choose everything for the Uma Musume.

However, Zhou Yuang still remembered that he was a trainer in the real world.

A trainer's job wasn't merely to lead an Uma Musume to victory. They also had to act as a qualified elder and guide her away from the wrong path.

Those viewers weren't merely viewers. They were also Uma Musume who knew little about the world outside Tracen.

Still, they're viewers too. They're here to have fun, not to listen to a lecture.

Zhou Yuang organized his thoughts and decided to explain the matter to them as quickly as possible.

Some things had to be said, but there was no need to explain them in tedious detail.

"This Silence Suzuka isn't merely a model for an event. Everything that happened before proves she's no different from a living person, so I want to treat her properly. She's also an Uma Musume, and as her trainer, I absolutely can't ignore her thoughts."

Zhou Yuang gestured for the Uma Musume before him to look at Silence Suzuka, who was practically identical to her real-life counterpart.

Her ears and tail moved from time to time. Steam rose from her body, and she could even converse with him like a normal person.

"Just like the promise I mentioned earlier, I respect her thoughts. Since she chose her own path, I'll keep my promise and accompany her along the path she chose."

It wasn't like this was Peak Cup. The time hadn't come yet.

"Even if it's a game, you can't treat it as mere play. You have to take everything seriously. Taking things seriously doesn't guarantee success, but not taking them seriously will most likely lead to failure."

[Tracen Version Higuchi Madoka]: Are you stupid? It's only a game. For all you know, when you start it next time, she'll just be some passerby.

"But promises are meant to be kept. Even if she forgets everything the next time I play, whether it's a game or reality, I'll definitely keep my promise to an Uma Musume... No, I'll keep my promise to anyone."

Zhou Yuang promptly added that last part. He didn't want to become a hypocrite.

[Tracen Version Higuchi Madoka]: ...

The Tracen branch of Madoka didn't say anything. She merely sent a string of symbols to express her speechlessness.

She couldn't think of anything to say, but the other Uma Musume began sending comments.

[Uma Musume Fan]: That statement... Excellent. Keep it up! If you continue like this, I'll become your fan!

You should be a fan of Uma Musume, not a fan of trainers.

[Motherly Demon]: I feel like this trainer would make a great teacher... By the way, Mr. Trainer, do you have time to educate preschoolers? There's a kindergarten at my home.

Wait a second! Are you sure you want the trainer to educate preschoolers instead of going there as one?

[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: Speaking of which, Mr. Trainer, have you taken responsibility yet?

What are you, some old geezer from the Student Council, planning to do?!

As one comment after another appeared, Zhou Yuang felt that responding to them individually would be difficult.

The more he read, the more of a headache he got. Some comments made Zhou Yuang even more embarrassed.

Some viewers were saying that their own trainers should learn from his attitude. Had he unknowingly raised the standard for his colleagues?

No, he had to take care of this too.

At the very least, I'm a guidance-focused streamer who specifically started a radio show to resolve problems between Uma Musume and trainers. How can I just sit by and do nothing?

The Uma Musume's emotions and values had to be properly cared for, and the trainers' futures had to be protected indirectly as well.

Most trainers were strangers to him, but they were still colleagues. He had to help them to some extent.

If a trainer got into trouble because of this, it would become a serious problem for the entire training profession. Helping others was also indirectly helping himself.

"Stop praising me. I'm not some good trainer. Don't you remember what I told everyone when I started streaming? What's my dream?"

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: Marrying thirty Uma Musume. Why would you bring up such a disgusting idea?

Empress stared at the strange-looking trainer avatar before her with confusion.

If he didn't mention it, everyone would probably think the trainer before them was actually a good person.

"Exactly. Marrying thirty Uma Musume. How did you not realize that this was all for increasing the viewers' affection?"

Zhou Yuang dug a hole for himself, then decisively jumped into it.

A storm of question marks immediately appeared across the screen.

[Uma Musume Fan]: Do you want to listen to what you're saying?

Somewhere in front of a screen, a certain person had nearly died from imagining a pairing between this sort of trainer and a quiet, adorable Uma Musume.

But those words had angered her back to life.

Damn you! Why?!

[Unbreakable Glass]: Then, Mr. Trainer with such lofty ambitions, what exactly are you planning to do by saying this?

[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: You definitely wouldn't say that if you wanted to increase your affection. This is completely unnecessary—no, you're cutting off your own escape route.

"Would there really be someone who had such a bold idea and was still this stupid?"

A certain Student Council president rubbed her chin while looking at the Mysterious Trainer A before her.

She had guessed at one possibility, but she didn't say it aloud.

If she did, the things that came next would be harder to handle.

Exposing someone was much more fun when done secretly.

What if this guy is like a rabbit and has three burrows?

Or maybe he's like some Italian mafia boss who's incredibly good at hiding his identity.

"You've only seen me talking. You haven't seen me doing anything. Anyone can make a statement."

Seeing the question marks on the screen, Zhou Yuang finally felt at ease.

It was always good to give the Uma Musume a little warning. After all, the "illnesses" found among racehorses were far more numerous than those found among ordinary people.

On the day he started working, Zhou Yuang had personally witnessed an Uma Musume shout something like, "I wish I'd never met you," at her trainer.

"You can know someone's face without knowing their heart. A gentleman is judged by his actions, not his thoughts. If we judged people by their thoughts, there would be few perfect people in this world. Don't let yourselves be fooled by certain people who loudly proclaim pretty words while putting on a sanctimonious act."

Zhou Yuang saw that the Uma Musume were still sending question marks, so he continued arranging the races as he spoke.

"Choosing a trainer is your decision, but don't get too carried away. Carefully determine who's most suitable to be your trainer."

Zhou Yuang didn't want to put pressure on trainers who already had Uma Musume. That would be hurting people.

But putting pressure on trainers who wanted to take responsibility wasn't a problem.

In the mobile game's story, Tracen had an extremely excellent matching system.

Trainers would emerge from the teams of other trainers and then be paired with Uma Musume.

It could be called destiny. When the right people met, they would eventually come together despite all sorts of difficulties.

By then, both sides would definitely value their relationship more. When they looked back, they would surely smile and reminisce about every little detail of the past.

True destiny couldn't be stopped.

"By the way, I saw some comments earlier telling their trainers to learn from me. Don't think like that. Perfect people don't exist in this world, and neither do saints. You can ask your trainer to become a little better, but don't force them to do this or that. That's very impolite."

[Hates Flashes and Manic Guys]: Are you, perhaps, lecturing us?

Air Groove quickly realized what was wrong and became somewhat displeased.

She knew better than anyone that she needed to improve herself, and she was more proactive about it as well.

But she had suddenly come across this livestream and then been lectured out of nowhere. She was extremely unhappy.