What McQueen Can Do

[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: McQueen could get that angry?

[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: Even the gentlest Uma Musume got angry sometimes.

Uma Musume were innocent, but that didn't mean they never felt anything negative. Nogami Zenkyō had been one example.

Her anger had come from sheer trauma and fury at a future without hope.

McQueen was different. They had struck a nerve.

McQueen could take any criticism directed at her now, but she could never accept Zhou Yuang, who had nothing to do with it, being treated this way.

[Rice Cake Fatty]: This...

Even McQueen was startled by the version of herself on the screen. Looking like a villain in a movie made her a little uncomfortable.

[Bewitching Dark Bay]: Nothing to be ashamed of. Good. Keep it up.

Good. Keep it up!

Takamine rarely smiled, but McQueen's response had earned one.

What was wrong with acting like that to protect the Uma Musume with whom he was Mind and Body as One?

"That's what love should look like."

There was nothing shameful about changing for love. As long as that love was returned, any hardship was worth it.

"How am I supposed to keep that up?"

McQueen's ears drooped in distress at Takamine's comment.

Am I supposed to talk to everyone with that expression every day?

I'd go from an elegant, gentle young lady to a villainess!

[Fierce Little Horse]: Never mind how she's supposed to keep it up. Aren't those reporters going too far?

Some people would do almost anything to grab attention.

People generally called them trolls or clowns.

One profession had gradually gained a bad name because it was full of people like that: journalism.

The dormitory was only a short distance away. McQueen could have made it through the day without incident, but the reporters had