"Thank you for showing me the way," she said with a smile to Ansho Suzune after putting her suitcase down in an empty room.
"It's nothing. After all, it's not every day we get a transfer student. Of course, I have to help."
"Besides, you stood up for me," Suzune said. She seemed to be a very shy girl; a simple thank you from her could make her cheeks blush.
"By the way, I saw so many empty rooms while we were looking around. How many people are in our school right now?" she asked, opening her suitcase and making her bed, chatting casually.
"One, two, three, four..." But the sound of counting coming from behind her was unsettling. A drop of cold sweat trickled down her forehead. Don't tell me there are only single digits?!
"Including you, that's six!" Seeing Suzune confidently hold up the number six, she couldn't help but twitch her lips.
"Oh, wait!" Just as she was about to be disappointed, Suzune exclaimed and started counting again from the beginning. Could there be a change?! Even though she had already guessed that there would be very few people here, she still felt a strange sense of anticipation. Even breaking into double digits would be good.
Under her expectant gaze, Suzune finished counting. She confidently wiped her nose and showed her a number. "Including the teachers, there are nine!"
Celestial Weave said nothing, just turned her head and silently continued to make her bed. What was I even expecting?
"Besides the principal and you, who I've already met, who are the others?" She had already wanted to end the topic, but seeing Suzune still standing at the door, looking at her expectantly, as if she wanted to chat, she could only ask helplessly.
"The three from before... the blonde one is Minamino Sumire, the tall one with the nice figure is Nishimoto Makikusa, and the one with the twin-tails is Kobayashi Kaze."
"Mhm... mhm." She nodded along as she organized her luggage. She didn't really care about them that much.
"There's one more horse girl. She debuted successfully a few days ago and went out to find a trainer. She was the first of us to debut successfully, and she's the strongest among us—"
"And her name is?"
"Oguri Roman."
"What?" Hearing the name, she immediately thought of the similarly named Oguri Cap and stopped what she was doing. "What's her relationship with Oguri Cap?"
"I don't know. But she's always admired her and wants to be a horse girl who goes from the countryside to the central circuit, just like her."
"She's really amazing. She even went out to look for a trainer because she didn't think the ones here were good enough."
Hearing this, she went over the current staff and student body of Kasamatsu Tracen in her mind. Seeing that she only had the teachers left to meet, she asked, "What about the teachers besides the principal?"
"Hm? There are no others. Uncle Haihara teaches all the culture classes himself. The other two are trainers."
Two? The principal only mentioned that his daughter was a trainer, but not the other one.
"One of them is Trainer Sato, Ken Sato. He doesn't have many requirements for us and doesn't even show up for training much. Most of the time, he's just helping Uncle Haihara with paperwork."
She nodded. Then the other one must be the principal's pride and joy, his daughter. She should be different from this Sato, maybe a stricter trainer.
"The other one is Trainer Haihara, Chizuru Haihara. She's the uncle's daughter. I heard she used to be a trainer at the central academy."
"Mhm... huh?" She paused, listening to her words, and then asked, "That's it?"
"That's it." Suzune shrugged helplessly. "Chizuru-nee is either watching anime or sleeping every day. I rarely see her at the track. Even when Uncle Haihara forces her to come, she just watches for a bit and then slips away."
Hearing this description, she felt her temples throb. Now she understood why Oguri Roman had gone out to look for a trainer. These two were truly one more unreliable than the other.
Sighing, she closed her empty suitcase and put it away. "I still have to go to the principal's office to finish some paperwork. I'll see you later."
"Oh, then I'll go back to cleaning."
Hearing this, she raised an eyebrow, stopped her from leaving, and asked, confused, "They bullied you like that, and you're still going to clean?"
Suzune scratched her cheek, embarrassed. "Actually, it was my turn to clean today. Didn't you hear me say that before?"
Her eye twitched. Then why did you look so scared and speechless earlier?
As if reading her mind, Suzune quickly waved her hands. "Actually, they didn't bully me. I'm just not used to them."
"Not used to them?"
"It's just that they're always talking about manicures and makeup, things I don't understand at all. Sumire even dyed her hair blonde. They have this... aura of fulfillment that makes me a little scared to approach them." Saying this, her voice was tinged with a bit of self-doubt.
"And I'm the only one who's always studying race equipment. They must think I'm a loner."
Just as she was beginning to question her own hobbies, she suddenly felt a warm touch on her head. "You're not in the wrong."
Looking up, she saw that it was Celestial Weave, patting her head and looking at her with an encouraging expression. Just then, a beam of sunlight came through the dormitory window, shining on her back and making her seem to be enveloped in a dazzling light. The hand on her head felt as warm as the sun, and Suzune was a little dazed.
"Don't worry about not understanding what they're talking about."
"To be able to organize so many different kinds of equipment so clearly, and even make someone who knows nothing about it like me understand."
"Someone like you is already amazing enough."
Smiling at her, she waved goodbye and went to the school building, leaving Suzune standing there, dazed, muttering to herself, "I'm... amazing?"
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