Fifteen minutes later, Shinji arrived at the door of the Chairwoman's office.
He knocked and entered.
Besides the expected Chairwoman and Tazuna, there was also an acquaintance of his inside.
The student council president, the emperor of Tracen, Symboli Rudolf.
Normally, he would probably blink a couple of times, realize what was happening, and then, while saying "I won't disturb you," "I'll be going now," he would stealthily try to retreat. At the very least, he would start thinking about how to start slacking off.
But today was different.
He completely ignored Rudolf's presence. After pushing the door open, he walked straight to the Chairwoman and got right to the point.
"Chairwoman, may I ask what you meant by the message you sent me earlier, saying that Black Forest is related to the horse girl hunting groups?"
"Hold on! The specific situation is rather complicated. Sit down first," the Chairwoman said, pointing to a chair on the side with her fan. After he sat down, she began to explain the whole story.
It all started after Tazuna returned and Tracen was preparing to take action against Black Forest.
After Tazuna returned, especially after that meeting, the Chairwoman and Tazuna had a simple discussion about how to deal with the Black Forest matter next.
Considering that Tracen was, on the surface, an academy, and that an abuse of its great power could easily lead to bad associations, despite all the small tricks Black Forest had pulled before, the Chairwoman and Tazuna had not intended to go too far. Although a lesson was definitely in order, they had not thought of uprooting it. If they were to completely eliminate every organization that opposed them, who knows what the outside world would think of Tracen. Appropriately leaving some opposing voices was actually beneficial to Tracen's operations. And, for the same reason, Tracen had also tolerated the existence of many radical horse girl rights protection organizations that opposed them. Anyway, as long as they didn't take any actual action, a few curses would actually help to vent emotions and maintain stability.
But the problem is, perhaps because of the pressure from their long-term failures, Black Forest, in order to stabilize morale, had continued to try to pull some small tricks even after Tazuna returned. And small tricks would have been fine. The Chairwoman could have just treated it as a mosquito buzzing in her ear.
But the problem is, while taking small actions, the radicals in Black Forest, perhaps because Tracen had been attacked many times before but had not retaliated, felt that they were not as ridiculous and terrifying as the outside world said they were. They had taunted that Tracen was just a paper tiger that could only deceive little horse girls, and had even issued a threat, boasting that it would be best not to let students and trainers out of the campus in the future...
Although everyone knew that this was just talk, and that after that, the trainers and horse girls of Tracen had not encountered any problems even when they were active around the Black Forest headquarters. So far, only he had been unlucky enough to be blocked by a few not-so-bright horse girls, and even this had happened before the threat was issued.
But some things, you just can't say.
The safety of trainers and students had touched Tracen's bottom line. Forget Tracen, as soon as this statement was made, even the major horse girl families paid their respects to Black Forest, admiring their courage of a newborn calf not fearing a tiger, and then silently lit three sticks of incense for them in their hearts.
And similarly, after hearing this threat, the Chairwoman and Tazuna's side also directly changed their minds, threw the original plan into the trash can, and then switched to a more direct one.
Contact the government, define the organization, threaten security...
Information blockade, public opinion control, street blockade...
Gather manpower, mobilize security, and then, under the name of destroying an illegal organization, directly dispatch the main campus security team for armed suppression.
The preliminary preparations took about two days, and then the surprise attack was over on the third day. The next two days were spent cleaning up some of the small fry who were not present at the time, as well as some finishing and on-site cleaning work. In total, it took less than five days.
As for the effect, almost all the members of Black Forest, whether radicals or moderates, were caught in one net. Only the leader of the moderates and a small number of cadres escaped in the chaos and are currently missing. But they probably won't dare to cause trouble anytime soon.
And after the incident was over, the captured members were divided into two groups by race. The humans were handed over to the police department to handle, while the horse girls were all taken back to the main Tracen campus and sent to the confinement room.
However, although it was called a confinement room, it was actually more like a juvenile detention center or even a prison. As an independent entity outside the government, fully responsible for horse girl-related matters, although Tracen was theoretically a school, its nature was more like a horse girl shelter. Not only did it have the authority to manage the horse girls on campus, but if there were any horse girls who committed crimes outside the campus, they would also be sent here for judgment and punishment.
So that's why, after being attacked in the alley before, Teio had directly called the student council over. Because anyway, even if they had called the police, after the police understood the situation, they would still have to contact Tracen to come and clean up.
And after bringing the horse girls of Black Forest back to the confinement room, the next step was naturally to investigate the context of the matter, and by the way, to carry out punishment and re-education work on them.
However, although it was called punishment, it was actually not severe. The reason was not that Tracen was showing favoritism to horse girls or anything, but that according to Tracen's post-mortem, although these unlucky children had lofty ambitions, their slogans were earth-shattering, and they even dared to threaten Tracen, their actual actions had never succeeded even once, let alone caused any actual harm.
The most vicious incidents were the two attacks on him, and the former had been knocked out by him and sent to the Chairwoman, becoming a breakthrough for information on Black Forest. After re-education, that horse girl had also understood her mistake, had apologized to him through a video in the confinement room before, and he had also accepted it. She was still receiving punishment in the confinement room and would probably not be released until next month.
As for the latter... since Eclipse had made her move, they had been lying in the Tracen hospital until now and had not been discharged, and it seemed that they had all been left with varying degrees of psychological trauma.
All minors, plus attempted crime. This couldn't be sentenced too heavily even for humans.
But this was only one of the reasons.
Another reason was that, after Tracen's investigation, every single horse girl in Black Forest was one of those who had been left out due to the mistakes of the URA and the census bureau.
It could be said that the reason Black Forest appeared, and the reason these horse girls had become like this, the statistics bureau and Tracen's side, who had not fulfilled their obligations and responsibilities, had to bear at least thirty percent of the responsibility. And of the remaining seventy percent, a large part had to be attributed to those who had used them.
"Trainer Kitahara, you have had contact with many horse girls. You should know that it is in their nature to be close to and trust humans," Tazuna said. "Especially for horse girls during their full-fledged development, because of the rapid growth of their bodies and strength, their minds will also become unstable due to this drastic change. And anyone with a heart just needs to guide them a little during this period to achieve the effect they want."
"Although I had also initially thought that the formation of Black Forest was just an accident caused by the mistake of the statistics bureau, in my subsequent investigation, I found some strange clues at their base. Out of curiosity, I followed and investigated those clues, and then I found that behind Black Forest, there has always been a force that has been restraining and guiding them."
"They first traveled around, looking for those scattered horse girls during their full-fledged development. Then, after finding them, they would disguise themselves as all sorts of identities, and through small favors, showing goodwill, and even self-directed plays, they would try to shape their own image and win their favor. Then, after winning their favor and becoming familiar with each other, they would start to instill the idea that running is a restraint, and that Tracen is using horse girls. Then, they would start to try to let those horse girls who had believed their words come into contact with the words and members of extreme horse girl rights organizations."
"While further deepening their thoughts, they also took the initiative to build bridges to bring the two together. While the ideas further merged and deteriorated, it also laid the foundation for the formation of the organization later. Because of the mistakes of the statistics bureau and the URA, we failed to discover this situation, so we were not able to stop it."
"Finally, they took advantage of the time when I led my team away from Tracen to carry out the mission issued by the URA, turned over the chess pieces that had long been buried, and then gathered them together, trying to use them to deal with Tracen."
"Those guides did not expect them to succeed. As long as they could cause some trouble for Tracen and force us to divert some of our attention to them, relaxing our control and surveillance of other areas would be enough. And then, that force could take the opportunity to carry out their activities, which is..."
Tazuna paused, and then uttered those three words.
"Horse girl hunting."
Silence.
Shinji's index finger tapped on the armrest of the chair, and then he looked up at Tazuna. "So, how does Tracen plan to deal with those horse girls in Black Forest?"
"Because this is essentially the result of our mistake, all the losses they have caused will be compensated by Tracen. And after that, after our punishment and re-education work on them is over, we will conduct an assessment on them, and then, according to the results of the assessment, we will send them to local Tracen academies in batches or let them stay at the main campus."
He had no dissatisfaction with this handling.
As someone who had wandered for many years and had had contact with countless horse girls, he knew better than anyone how easy it was to fool this creature, especially when you are a human.
It wasn't that they were stupid. In fact, most of them had an intelligence comparable to humans. But the problem is, as Tazuna had said before, they are very easy to trust others, especially those who show them goodwill.
Especially for horse girls around the period of their full-fledged development, because of the rapid changes in their bodies and strength, their minds are already in the most unstable period of their lives. What they will do is largely not out of their own will, but the guidance of the people around them.
So that's why Tazuna had said that this situation was mainly the responsibility of the statistics bureau and Tracen. Because they should have been responsible for recruiting these horse girls and guiding them onto the right path through education. And now that they had allowed Black Forest to form, it was already a very serious work mistake.
But you can't blame Tracen for everything.
The URA, as the superior of Tracen, although fully responsible for horse girl-related matters, had never thought of interfering in human affairs, so of course they couldn't touch things like population statistics, and had handed them all over to the relevant government departments. And because of the mistake of the census bureau, forget Tracen, even the data the URA had received was wrong. Let alone taking any action or preparation, they had even only discovered the surge in the number of horse girls after they had noticed something was wrong and sent people out to confirm the situation.
Now, the URA, which had always disliked interfering in human affairs, had even begun to consider whether to send people to supervise the work of the census bureau in the future—mainly because this mess was a bit too big.
After thinking for a moment, he spoke again. "So, have you found the people who were guiding them from behind?"
Tazuna shook her head. "No. They acted very cautiously, and their guidance and influence were not deep. And they also did not participate in Black Forest. After guiding them to gather and form, they left, and they also cleaned up their tracks very well before leaving."
"Then how did you investigate these things?"
"Tracks can disappear, but memories will not, especially a horse girl's memories." As she spoke, Tazuna narrowed her eyes. "Perhaps in their eyes, the time they spent in contact with the horse girls to plant their pawns was just some insignificant little interlude in their lives that would soon be forgotten. But what they don't know is that horse girls will often remember those memories they find beautiful for a long time, even if they are just small, insignificant memories in the eyes of an ordinary person."
"Especially those who are more simple... I mean, those with a simpler mind, might even treat them as one of their most precious memories, and the memory will be particularly clear. If it weren't for this, their guidance wouldn't have had such a great impact on them, and some even still firmly believe it to this day..."
Shinji tapped on the armrest of the chair and very naturally took over the conversation. "And then, after discovering that they had been deceived and used, that would probably become one of their saddest memories, right?"
Tazuna nodded and did not speak, her eyes gradually turning cold.
Then, after another period of silence, he looked at the Chairwoman behind the desk. "So, Chairwoman, why did you call me here? It can't be just to tell me these things, right?"
Seeing him look at her, Akikawa flicked her fan and said seriously, "Unpleasant! Although that force behind the scenes has temporarily ceased its activities, they will definitely start to act again. Tracen cannot just sit by and watch, so we need the assistance of an expert in this field, which is your help, Trainer Kitahara."
Hearing this, he was taken aback. "An expert? Chairwoman, are you mistaken about something? I'm no expert..."
The Chairwoman flicked her fan, directly interrupting him. "Objection! I have been paying attention to your information since the early years, and then I found that among the horse girl hunting incidents counted by the URA, your name was mentioned in the mouths of ninety percent of the survivors, and your name was in the case files of nearly eighty percent of the incidents..."
"No, Chairwoman, I'm not trying to say I didn't participate in those things."
He showed a wry smile and said helplessly, "What I want to say is, I'm really not an expert, just simply unlucky."
"I have no means of tracking them, let alone any special countermeasures. It's just that no matter where I go, I always run into them very unluckily."
"It's like they're chasing me."
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