Zhou Yuang had his own complaint. After Air Groove won, he had wanted to do what a trainer should, only for the scene to cut away as the commentator proclaimed her the Empress.
What kind of plot had the Three Goddesses come up with?
"I was going to congratulate her, then comfort Silence Suzuka."
[Uma Musume Fan]: Congratulate Air Groove first and comfort Silence Suzuka second? Scumbag!
"And if I comforted Silence Suzuka first, then congratulated Air Groove, you'd still call me a scumbag, right?"
[Side-Eyeing Lewd Manga Teacher]: No, but we'd say you knew Silence Suzuka needed comforting and still went to fawn over Air Groove after cheering her up.
That was what scumbags did: comfort the ex-girlfriend first, then go lavish attention on the new one.
Faced with a statement that sounded like a witch trial, Zhou Yuang had no answer.
If he kept explaining, he would only look like a scumbag making excuses.
Still, Zhou Yuang remained calm.
The moment he had wished to marry thirty Uma Musume, he had known he was a scumbag.
If even he thought so, how could he deny the Uma Musume the right to call him one?
"Wait, this is... oh, the open ground near Tracen."
Zhou Yuang looked around curiously. Flowers grew everywhere, and when he spotted Air Groove not far away, he recognized the place at once.
Tracen Academy was enormous. Besides all its teaching facilities and a racetrack, it had a forest and open ground behind the school.
In the URA storyline, the turf the Chairperson prepared for the all-distance URA race came from that land, as did the carrots for the carrot Hamburger Steak at the end of the story.
"Trainer, you're here."
Air Groove walked over from a distance, gardening tools in hand.
She handed him