"Your favorite entertainment streamer is here, selling my dignity but not my body. Don't forget to tip! Trying to expose this crappy map depends entirely on whether your teammates have a clue. Look at us, getting pushed between points E1 and E2 like a couple of dogs on a leash."
The ash-haired horse girl was perched on her chair in a peculiar crouch, her pajamas rumpled. The controller in her hands clicked and clacked furiously as her eyes darted between the game screen and the live chat.
[GrassForRice:Our streamer gets it. Must feel great for a pro like you to be farming noobs. Just one shot per potato in this cave.]
The room's curtains were drawn, the only light emanating from the screens. Suddenly, the door was pushed open. A horse girl with long brown hair and a white diamond-shaped mark on her forehead walked in. "Hakki-nee-san, it's time for dinner," she said.
"Huh? Oh! Dia-chan, I'll be right there!" Hakki Byakku responded, then immediately hit ALT+F4, quitting McDonald's Kitchen 2042. She spoke into her microphone, "Alright folks, your streamer is logging off to eat. The stream might be on indefinite hiatus because I'm heading off to Tracen Academy."
[TracenGarbageCan: Wait, is our streamer going to become a horse girl racer?]
[MasterOfTiptoes: No way, you just play games all day. Have you ever even trained?]
Hakki formed a 'V' sign under her chin and flashed a grin with all eight teeth showing. "Who knows, you might see me on the racetrack someday! But that's a story for another time. See you around!"
With that, she ended the stream. Barefoot, Hakki walked to the full-length mirror and tidied her messy ash-grey hair.
It had been seven or eight years since she'd crossed over into this world. Hakki had grown from a seven-year-old filly into a sixteen-year-old young woman, albeit one who was a bit of a shut-in and disliked exercise.
She had arrived with a system called the "Love Master." Simply put, it wanted her to form relationships beyond mere intimacy with the main characters of the Uma Musume world. But what kind of person was Hakki Byakku?
She was the type of rebel who, if you told her to eat, would jump into a reservoir to catch fish and drink water instead. So, Hakki had always treated the system's missions as background noise.
Her arrival in this world had been miserable. All alone, she ended up spending the night at the entrance of a police station. While fast asleep, she was found by the passing Mr. and Mrs. Satono. When she awoke, she was staring at an unfamiliar ceiling, with the two sisters, Satono Crown and Satono Diamond, looking down at her.
And so, Hakki Byakku came to live with the Satono family, who even helped her get a legal identity.
Back then, the sisters were very young. Hakki's mature soul in a young horse girl's body led the innocent Satono sisters to believe she had endured some heartbreaking tragedy that forced her to mature. They never once considered that Hakki was just naturally shameless and carefree.
[Win the affection of the Satono sisters and build a deeper emotional bond.]
That was the mission the Love Master system had given Hakki eight years ago. To this day, her progress was only at 40%. For years, she had holed herself up in her room, pretending to be a horse girl deeply wounded by hardship. In truth, she found the system utterly depraved for telling her to make moves on such young girls. It was inexcusable.
But now, it was time to drop the clumsy act!
She, Hakki Byakku, would be a student at the Central Tracen Academy starting tomorrow!
The life she had hoped for these past eight years was finally here. Enter Tracen, make her debut, win the Triple Crown undefeated... challenge every top race in the world with absolute invincibility and become the number one horse girl...
...Yeah, right! Hakki scoffed at the thought, remembering her own bizarrely poor physical condition. A horse girl who took one minute and ten seconds to run a kilometer and then threw up? What kind of joke was that? Even the Satono family's maid and part-time trainer couldn't help but shake her head at Hakki's stats. What hope did she have?
She chose to go to Tracen simply to see the famous horse girls in person. Another reason was to get the "Tracen Academy" brand on her resume. Even if she just graduated, the prestige would make finding a job a breeze. And in the worst-case scenario, Hakki could always go back to living off her fans' donations!
Lost in thought, Hakki tidied her clothes, slipped on her slippers, and went down from her attic room to the family dining table.
After her last dinner with the Satono family, Mr. Satono gave her a bank card for daily expenses. Without dallying, Hakki dragged her already-packed suitcase into the night and set off for Tracen Academy.
Burning with impatience, she arrived at Central Tracen only to find the iron gates locked.
"Miss Hakki, you should have listened to Mr. Satono and waited until morning," the driver said, draping a coat over her shoulders. Hakki just ushered him back into the car.
"I'll just wait here till dawn," Hakki said, wiping her runny nose. "I can check out the night market."
Before the driver could reply, she shut the car door. He watched her bright ash-colored hair disappear into the night, leaving him alone with her suitcase at the school gate.
It wasn't until the next morning, when Secretary Hayakawa Tazuna opened the gates, that Hakki returned, sporting heavy dark circles under her eyes. The driver who had brought her had them too; he'd stayed up all night, worried she'd get into trouble. To this day, he couldn't understand why Hakki Byakku was so insistent on arriving at night. But seeing that she was now safely entering the school, his mission was complete. He could finally go home and sleep.
"Are you the new student, Hakki Byakku?" Tazuna identified her at a glance. The dark circles that greeted her when Hakki turned around immediately told Tazuna this was going to be another troublesome child.
"Ah? Uh... yes... that's me," Hakki mumbled, not fully awake. The consequences of an all-nighter at an internet cafe playing StarCraft and chatting with fans were a dazed look and blurry vision. With a strained smile, Tazuna helped Hakki with her luggage and led her towards the dorms.
Hakki Byakku was a late enrollee. Tazuna wasn't sure of the specific reason, but looking at her, she guessed it might be due to her health. Worried, Tazuna escorted her to the Ritto Dormitory.
Downstairs, they saw Fuji Kiseki basking in the sun. Tazuna handed off the task of settling Hakki in to her.
"This child is the late enrollee, Hakki Byakku. Miss Fuji Kiseki, could you please help her get settled? I have some work to do for the Chairwoman, so I must be going," Tazuna said, rushing off.
Hakki let out a huge yawn. The vibration of her phone in her pocket dispelled some of her sleepiness. She opened it to see her stream administrator pinging everyone in their group chat.
[PureAshLikeIce:@everyone The streamer has enrolled at Tracen! Should we bet on whether she can win her debut race? I bet she can't. If she wins, I'll eat a cilantro and houttuynia zongzi!]
[PureAshLikeIce has been muted for 1 day by the group owner iEatLemons]
[iEatLemons:All you do is try to organize gambling rings to scam free food. If I told you which debut race I was running, wouldn't that just be doxxing myself? Nice try!]
Hakki immediately muted that user herself. All this guy thinks about is trouble, now he's organizing gambling... She sent a quick message to the group and then went silent. It was time to meet her new roommate!
I wonder which horse girl I'll get as a roommate at a time like this...? Gold Ship? Or maybe Gentildonna...? After all, people are still talking about the Ruler of the Century's End from two years ago. By my calculations, it should be Gold Ship's era, right?
Fuji Kiseki was a bit puzzled to see Hakki Byakku suddenly perk up, but she carried her luggage up to the fourth floor, handed her the key to room 318, and said, "Here's your dorm key, keep it safe. It's a real pain if you lose it. Your roommate is probably still asleep. New students have a lot of free time these first few days."
"Okay! Thanks, Fuji-san, I appreciate it." Hakki took the key and pushed open the door herself. Inside, a black-haired horse girl was wrapped in her blankets, fast asleep. To her surprise, Hakki's bed was already neatly made.
Did my new roommate make it for me? I should thank her properly later. How should I introduce myself?
While Hakki was imagining their first meeting, the system suddenly popped up. On the affection panel, which had previously only shown Satono Crown, Satono Diamond, and Kitasan Black, a new name appeared with an affection level of 10.
Deep Impact: Affection 10 [Stranger]
Huh? What's this horse girl's name? Deep Impact?
Hakki rubbed her eyes and checked again. The name was, indeed, Deep Impact.
Which meant... the black-haired horse girl currently snoozing in her bed was the one known in Hakki's previous life as the "Pinnacle of Japanese Horseracing"... the undefeated Triple Crown winner who went on to win seven G1 races... Deep Impact?
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