Still, it made sense. After the revelations on the livestream, it was hardly surprising that classmates and younger students they knew had turned out to be victims.
Perhaps some Uma Musume watching the livestream would investigate their own trainers afterward and discover problems too.
"Yes, I asked afterward. He still very much wants to race me, but his trainer won't agree."
Faced with the seemingly invincible Rudolf, the Uma Musume named Bizen Nishiki had never lost heart. He had always wanted to challenge her.
And the reason he couldn't keep taking Rudolf on... his trainer must have dragged him off to scrape together prize money after realizing that challenging her was getting them nowhere.
Rudolf had complicated feelings about this rival. After all, he couldn't beat her. If she kept clinging to him, people would start talking.
So she had wanted to speak to Bizen Nishiki's trainer, only to...
"I stumbled across a secret."
Rudolf had stumbled upon a private conversation between that trainer and someone from that organization. The trainer had been furious, while the other trainer had simply reassured him that he only needed to wait a while.
After all, just like in King Halo's personal story, an Uma Musume might only have one trainer in her lifetime, but a trainer would hardly have only one Uma Musume throughout their life.
An Uma Musume only had a few races over a few years of active competition to prove herself, but a trainer could scrape together results little by little, slogging away for a decade or more before finally making a name for themselves.
An Uma Musume couldn't dodge an entire era, but trainers had all the time they needed to wait one out.
Just as Rudolf had begun to feel angry about this, the trainer offering reassurance had