Everything had gone fine, but halfway through her night run, Bourbon suddenly collapsed.
Training failed.
The moment he saw Bourbon fall, Zhou Yuang's heart skipped a beat.
[Weird-Crying Half-Immortal]: Huh?!
[Am I Doomed?]: She fell!
[Uma Musume Fan]: Oh no!
[Steal Your Trainer]: Her mood and stats are going to drop!
"Bourbon!"
Zhou Yuang hurried over to help her up. Beside him, Sunday Silence watched in bewilderment. She had seen Zhou Yuang check Bourbon over just moments ago.
How could this have happened?
Rice Shower was just as surprised. She stopped training.
Concern drove Rice Shower over to check on her opponent. She didn't want anything worse to happen to Bourbon.
"Bourbon? Are you okay? Should we go to the Infirmary?!"
"...She twisted her ankle."
Zhou Yuang looked at Bourbon's reddening ankle and felt a headache coming on. He shone his flashlight on the spot she had just run across and found that her footprint looked strange.
The beach was right by the sea. The tides and passing tourists could leave the sand uneven.
He poked the footprint and found the sand there far too wet. Seawater and loose sand had given it the feel of a swamp.
Maybe someone had gotten the urge to play a game of burying people in the sand earlier.
"She stepped into a patch of quicksand and fell... Good thing she wasn't running fast."
Otherwise, he would have had to count on a certain kind of cushioning some Uma Musume lacked.
A sprained ankle was lucky. If she had dislocated it, Zhou Yuang's blood pressure would have gone through the roof.
"Training... failed."
Bourbon's expression darkened as she looked at her swollen ankle.
She didn't care about the injury itself. She cared that her training had failed.
Now she would lose training time.
"...Bad