Didn't this feel a little predetermined?
Zhou Yuang rubbed his chin.
"But doing those things? Bourbon, could you stop speaking in riddles?"
I've had enough of deciphering this. Speak plainly!
"Of course I can answer, but before that, Master must answer a question of mine."
An equivalent exchange. They would answer each other's questions.
Even people who held nothing back from each other would ask how the other felt.
Naturally, Zhou Yuang had no objection.
"Then I'll answer Master's question first."
Bourbon openly offered to answer first, seemingly unconcerned that Zhou Yuang might back out of his end of the deal.
"Before Uma Musume are born into this world, their souls are said to come from another world."
[Blue Rose Quality Inspector]: Huh?
[Faded First Heroine]: Why bring this up?
[Tracen Cold-Joke Master]: Let Bourbon finish first.
"Because that other world established its course long ago, its destinies arrive one after another with the birth of Uma Musume. Those Uma Musume who bear names that competed in that world will naturally become connected through the intertwining of fate. Sometimes this is because their names share a part, and sometimes it is because of relationships in that other world."
Bourbon explained slowly, recounting a theory that had long circulated in the Uma Musume world.
"And since fate follows them, countless hardships will also answer its call. If those events repeat themselves again and again, the result will be endless suffering."
If Uma Musume had to endure the same suffering as their historical counterparts in every training run, it would amount to nothing more than repeating tragedies.
That was why Zhou Yuang knew that a trainer like him had to prevent the Uma Musume's suffering.
Thanks to their training runs, Uma Musume like Silence Suzuka and McQueen would come to understand the