"Festa, can we talk? About the tactics for the upcoming Japanese Derby..."
"Sorry, I suddenly remembered the candy I sent to the dorm. I don't want Sirius to eat it all. I'm leaving first."
"..."
Several days had passed since the Satsuki Sho. However, Kitano, who had taken Gold Ship's advice and was planning to talk to Nakayama Festa after her mood had stabilized, had been repeatedly and sternly rejected by the panicked her.
In these few days, he only felt that she was like a mouse that had seen a wildcat. Her training was also more silent than usual, as if she was afraid of attracting his attention. Even just him calling her name seemed to make her tremble all over.
What should I say... although the trembling and always-cautious her was a bit cute, he did not want to maintain such an awkward relationship with his first charge. In the end, with no other choice, she had to ask the one who knew her personality best besides himself—Gold Ship.
"Mm, so you want to get closer to Nakayama-nee. I understand~"
After a day of training, he had left her alone in the dormitory and asked her about Nakayama Festa's problem. It's just that this youngest sister of the Gold Family, upon hearing his words, first showed an interested expression, and in the next second, she pretended to be sad and sobbed:
"So that's how it is... sniff, I was still hoping you would like me. I didn't expect to lose to her in the end."
"Sniff, sniff, Kitano-chan, don't worry. I will bless you and her. Just remember, when your child has a full moon party, please don't send me a plate with the child's photo printed on it. Otherwise, I will be heartbroken, sniff, sniff, sniff..."
"...Although getting closer is not entirely correct, but seeing that you're not nervous at all, I think you must have a way."
And he also smiled and looked at her embarrassing acting, which could win a Golden Broom Award. He knew very well that when she could still talk侃侃 and even act, it meant that everything was still under control. If even she had to show a focused expression, then the matter might be really tricky...
But recently, he had only seen her show such a serious expression once after she lost the Satsuki Sho. Clearly, winning against Tokai Teio was indeed a very difficult thing for her. But in terms of interpersonal relationships, he felt that she had not yet encountered a conflict she could not resolve.
As expected, after her acting was seen through by him, she also returned to normal. She crossed her arms over her chest, a confident expression on her face, and immediately said:
"It's simple. You just need to go to Agnes Tachyon and get a tube of the truth serum that sold very well in Tracen, and drip it into the water she's going to drink for training tomorrow. Don't you often get medicine from her?"
"Spare me. Every time I go to see her, she has to draw a tube of my blood, always saying it's for comparison and to collect more data."
However, Cafe had told him the truth. In fact, Tachyon would immediately record every piece of data on him. But what was strange was that every time she recorded a day's observation data, the next day his tube of blood would disappear without a trace, so much so that recently, she had tried her best to complete all the data on the first day—and even before the experiment, she would always hold that tube of blood, and even had to have it in her line of sight when she went to the toilet.
And recently, as his body gradually recovered, it had also greatly interested her. She wished she could follow him around and draw his blood all the time. He really didn't want to see her for a short period of time, lest his arm be full of unhealed pinpricks...
"Mm... you're not willing to use truth serum, are you? I understand."
And Gold Ship, upon seeing that he did not want to use this external means, also lowered her head slightly and fell into deep thought. And in a place he could not see, her eyes quickly switched between wine red and faint blue—as if two souls were arguing in one body.
But in the end, it was the faint blue-eyed Gold Ship who gained the upper hand. After returning to her usual brown eyes, she looked up again, her face still looking as if she was wholeheartedly considering for him, and immediately suggested:
"Then let's try to trick her out! You go wait at the training ground. Then I'll go find her and say you're giving us two some special training. I should be able to trick her out."
"At that time, I'll be deliberately late for a while. Then you can talk to her about whatever you want—remember, I'll only be fifteen minutes late. Don't take too long."
"That's feasible..."
After thinking for a moment, he also felt that her method was more likely to succeed. Fortunately, he usually gave her a lot of special training, and it was her who was conveying the message. He believed that she would not be suspicious.
At least, compared to the truth serum, which might cause an extreme reaction from her afterward and lead to a longer cold war between the two, this plan seemed much more peaceful.
"Heehee, then you wait first, Kitano-chan. We'll meet again at the training ground at six in the evening~"
"Mm, I'm counting on you, Gold Ship."
Watching her leave the dormitory, he was relieved in his heart, but also rarely and relaxed and lay down directly on his soft bed. After a long silence, he couldn't help but murmur to himself:
"Gold Ship... speaking of which, this child is really different from the Gold Ship I knew in the game. She doesn't seem to be the type to be particularly clingy to her trainer, right? Why is she so obedient to me? I'm not her groom from before her transmigration..."
"I've slowly gotten used to such an obedient Gold Ship. What on earth is the reason for this... I can't figure it out."
...
And at this time, what the muttering him in the room did not know was that the moment she had just stepped out of his dormitory, her usual brown eyes were immediately occupied by wine red. The next second, he only heard her say in an extremely low voice, extremely low and crazed:
"What are you doing?! Aren't you just pushing my Kitano-chan to her? You clearly know that I will absolutely not give him to her!"
"You bastard, are you on her side? Her being able to live has nothing to do with you, right? Don't you just need to ensure that Stay Gold is fine?"
"—You fool, do you think that with his personality, if you stop him like this, he will find a chance to guide her?"
And in the next moment, he saw her originally wine-red eyes, as if changing faces, turn into the faint blue color of the racetrack before. And "Gold Ship's" tone also changed from the initial crazed anger to a much calmer one.
The one from a second ago was like a willful and spoiled child. The next second, she was like a mature and intellectual young lady. The faint blue-eyed Gold Ship also murmured to herself in reply:
"That guy is the type who, once he enters his heart, will be on his mind for a lifetime. If you try to kick her away, I believe the next one to be kicked away will be you. You'd better not cause me any trouble."
"Tch... who said I was going to kick her away? I just hope he can go to the North Pole, the Eiffel Tower, Mars, or my home with me..."
The wine-red-eyed Gold Ship also said casually as if she didn't care. However, she seemed to have noticed the silence of the faint blue herself. After a brief silence, she couldn't help but ask seriously:
"By the way, what on earth is going on with her? Is she, like you, someone of his?"
"...No, in my previous travels, I did not find any connection between her and him—at least from my birth, I have no impression of this."
The faint blue Gold Ship also shook her head. She was actually thinking about this problem now. However, no matter how much she searched her memory, she could not find any interaction between Nakayama Festa and him before, which could make her, this extremely vigilant sister, open her heart to him, and even frequently have the strange idea of "not being worthy of him"...
"Perhaps... she is using him as some kind of spiritual sustenance."
"Sustenance?"
The two different Gold Ships, at this moment, seemed to have reached a consensus on a problem. And what they did not know was that at this very moment, the person they were discussing was also troubled by the same problem.
...
"Hah!"
Suddenly, the napping Nakayama Festa was violently awakened from her bed. She was panting heavily, and cold sweat was constantly dripping down her hair. Clearly, she had just experienced a particularly terrible nightmare for her.
All of this was because she had once again dreamed of the woman she had seen at the Satsuki Sho. This time, her senses were clearer than ever before. She felt that her dream self was not human, and she also sensed that her dream self probably couldn't even speak, more like a beast.
She dreamed that she had become a four-legged beast. Every time she tried to stand up, she would startle the people who were leading her. Fortunately, she couldn't stand in that posture for long and would eventually return to a four-legged standing state.
And that wasn't the worst... the worst was that her dream self could only get food from a trough, and most of the food she got was only grass, a large amount of grass. Only occasionally, when she was training in her dream, would she occasionally get some sugar cubes or carrots, things that seemed to be for humans.
But all of this was not the reason that had awakened her. The reason she had awakened was because she had dreamed that the woman, who felt very much like him, who was particularly close to her... seemed to have disappeared one day.
What replaced her was a person she had accidentally seen in her dream, who seemed to be her father. She still remembered that that person had patted "her" particularly long cheek, and while shedding heartbreaking tears, had said in a choked voice:
"Nobuko only left you... she only left you... Nakayama Festa."
"So, please, you must recover. Let me, this father, in this way, comfort the spirit of my poor daughter in heaven..."
She... died?
That woman who felt exactly like him, died?
Until she realized this, her blank brain's first reaction was that she could not accept this reality. Fortunately, she had awakened from this dream. Everything was just a dream. The person who was most important to her had not died.
But all of this was too real for her... both the woman in her dream and the real-life him, whose time was short... their fate, their death, everything seemed to have been scripted by the Three Goddesses long ago. They were destined to leave her one day...
The woman named "Nobuko" in her dream had forever left the dream self. Then what about the real-life him... would he also, like her, leave her?
"No, he won't..." She clutched her head and murmured, numbing her beating heart. "I remember that in the dream... it seemed to be after the Classic Triple Crown, right? And now, that guy is still very energetic. His time should still be sufficient. Living for a year or two should be very easy, right? How could he die?"
"No, it won't happen... it's just a dream, just a dream..."
As if having found a reasonable excuse, she, while panting heavily, still couldn't hide her sorrow. Just because everything that was happening around her now was too consistent with everything in her dream.
Her dream self had not achieved anything in the Classic Triple Crown, and after that, the woman named "Nobuko" had died.
Her real self had already lost one Satsuki Sho... if she still achieved nothing like her dream self, what would happen to him? Would all of this happen again?
She couldn't figure it out. She couldn't distinguish between reality and the dream, but the voice in her heart was telling her one thing—
Go and change it. Do your best to change all of this. This tragedy cannot happen again. It is not allowed to happen again.
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