With the help of Symboli Rudolf and Air Groove, Tokai Teio easily left the racecourse and arrived at the Tracen Academy of this world.
In the Student Council room, Symboli Rudolf first arranged accommodation for Tokai Teio.
"You'll stay at my villa for now."
Compared to arranging her in the dormitory, Symboli Rudolf felt it would be better to keep Tokai Teio under her own eyes for better care. Back then with Mejiro McQueen and Gold Ship, it was truly out of helplessness—one was a soul transmigration, and the other was a demon king who wouldn't listen to discipline; they gave her no chance to make arrangements.
But Tokai Teio was different.
Symboli Rudolf understood from some of Tokai Teio's words that this child had a very good relationship with the "self" of that world.
Since that's the case, there shouldn't be any problem for her to temporarily take over the role of an 'elder' here, right?
Thinking of the President's villa near the dorms, Tokai Teio nodded and agreed: "No problem!"
Hearing Tokai Teio's unhesitating answer, Symboli Rudolf's mood finally relaxed.
It seemed there really was no problem.
"By the way, President, can I walk around the academy?"
Tokai Teio thought of Mejiro McQueen and Gold Ship. One must know those two could 'open doors' near her. If she were beside the President when those two found her, she wouldn't be able to explain it clearly. McQueen probably wouldn't be so tactless, but the Demon King beside McQueen had to be guarded against. So she needed a chance to be alone, a chance to contact those two; otherwise, she really couldn't rest completely easy.
"As long as you don't do bad things..."
Symboli Rudolf and Air Groove hesitated for a while but still granted Tokai Teio permission to move freely within the academy.
There were no shameful secrets in the academy anyway.
Moreover, even if it's a different world, Tracen Academy should be the same.
The only thing to worry about was whether Tokai Teio would use [Tokai Teio]'s identity to do something.
But this point shouldn't be a worry.
Through brief interaction, both Symboli Rudolf and Air Groove discovered that Tokai Teio was a good child.
Although due to strength issues, she was indeed wilder than the [Tokai Teio] on their side.
But this wildness was different from the Demon King's arrogance.
Tokai Teio's wildness should be called confidence—confidence deep in her bones. This temperament wouldn't make people feel repulsed.
"Absolutely not. I'm just curious about the differences between this world and my world."
Tokai Teio said with a smile.
"And I also want to make contact with the 'me' here."
Symboli Rudolf nodded.
Her expression looked calm, completely unaffected by this sentence.
"Is that so? Then remember to come to the Student Council to find me at 18:00 to go back together."
Tokai Teio gave a thumbs up: "No problem!"
She left the Student Council dashingly.
Judging by her expression when leaving, she didn't seem to have any unease about coming to another world at all.
Inside the Student Council room, Symboli Rudolf and Air Groove were alone temporarily.
"Do you have any thoughts on this Teio? Air Groove."
"Even if you ask me, I really don't have any special thoughts."
Although she knew Luna wanted to get some opinions from her, Air Groove frankly gave her own answer.
"Although the personality is somewhat different, my only feeling is the thought that she is indeed Tokai Teio too."
Yes, Tokai Teio and [Tokai Teio] were different, but in some places, they were no different. For example, the point of being close to Luna wasn't affected by the different worlds. Even facing a Luna from a different world, the intimacy revealed in that Tokai Teio's movements seemed very natural.
"Is that so?"
Symboli Rudolf suddenly felt somewhat frustrated.
"That means I'm inferior to the other me..."
Air Groove hadn't expected Luna to have such thoughts.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because the two Teios are the same, that means the gap in Teio's strength is caused by the different me."
Air Groove felt somewhat speechless seeing Symboli Rudolf's mood suddenly drop.
She never expected that Luna would have such a fussy side.
"If you think that way, why don't you learn from the other you and make up a set of 'President's Quotes' for our [Teio] here?"
"...Thank you for your suggestion," Symboli Rudolf thanked seriously, "but please don't suggest again."
That stuff was simply social death.
She completely couldn't understand how the self in the other world endured it.
And regarding those so-called quotes, she highly suspected whether Tokai Teio arbitrarily misinterpreted the other self's words and recorded them.
"Let's say hello to the members of Team Spica first. Although I'm a bit sorry for that child's little scheme, some small surprises should be avoided."
Symboli Rudolf took out her phone to call Trainer Okino.
Although she could also message [Teio] directly, this matter should prioritize telling the Trainer.
Air Groove commented: "If that child knew you turned around and sold her out, I wonder what interesting reaction she would show."
Symboli Rudolf didn't respond to Air Groove. As the Student Council President, she naturally couldn't leave this matter alone just out of a desire to watch the fun.
On this point, presumably, that child Teio would understand her too.
At Tracen Academy, Tokai Teio strolled around a few famous spots and soon discovered that Tracen Academy indeed had no differences.
The only biggest difference to speak of was that not many Horse Girls who had mastered skills could be seen in this world's Tracen Academy. Clearly, her world became like that because this world started upgrading, but she hadn't expected the original world to still be this weak?
No wonder [Tokai Teio] could win so easily in the Satsuki Sho.
She, who could win originally, won even more easily after mastering the power of skills.
"Clearly you could win without using the Teio Step; do you like this move that much?"
Tokai Teio couldn't quite understand.
If wanting to show off, there were simply too many moves to utilize; there was no need to force herself to use the Teio Step.
Just passing by an empty classroom, her movements stopped.
"You guys finally came."
The classroom door opened, but inside wasn't the scene of a classroom interior, but that small room of the System Space.
Mejiro McQueen and Gold Ship, also wearing Tracen uniforms, walked out.
"Mn, we saw you with the Student Council President earlier, so we didn't appear."
"That really helped a lot."
Tokai Teio knew this was definitely a decision made by Mejiro McQueen; after all, that Demon King wouldn't consider others' thoughts.
Gold Ship's eye twitched, suddenly staring intently at Tokai Teio.
"You guy, you aren't badmouthing Ore-sama (The Great Me) in your heart, are you?"
"How could I."
Tokai Teio smiled.
As expected of the Demon King, this perception was indeed scary.
"But what on earth are you doing? You've already cleared the level; why didn't you return directly but ran to this world instead!"
Gold Ship's question was also what Mejiro McQueen wanted to ask.
Mejiro McQueen was also waiting calmly for Tokai Teio's answer at this moment.
Hearing this, Tokai Teio sighed somewhat helplessly.
"Come shake hands; you'll know the reason this way."
What other reason?
It was just an itchy hand for a moment. But that feeling was really impossible to refuse. Think about it: you've never been able to refuse the system's power, and suddenly one day you find you can refuse—in that situation, wouldn't you really want to try it? Tokai Teio felt exactly that way back then.
So she refused the system's teleportation.
Which resulted in having to figure out a way to 'open the door' back herself.
Gold Ship snatched the first handshake.
Instantly, a massive 'current' rushed straight into her brain; experiences from Tokai Teio constantly impacted her consciousness.
Although under the system's protection, neither her consciousness nor spirit would suffer any damage, the feeling of being impacted was too uncomfortable.
Gold Ship finally understood at this moment why Mejiro McQueen hadn't bothered to fight her for this priority order.
She had only shared with Mejiro McQueen once, but because she possessed Mejiro McQueen's previous experiences from the start on her side, that sharing only gave her Mejiro McQueen's recent experiences. The impact was too weak, leading her to misunderstand the feeling during this process.
"That means, that guy raced against me and beat me while enduring this state before?!"
Gold Ship gritted her teeth, her expression becoming somewhat distorted for an instant.
Tokai Teio quietly retreated near Mejiro McQueen, preventing this Demon King from suddenly erupting and hitting people.
Although her current strength wouldn't lose to the Demon King, and was even stronger.
But the strength gap was too slight; if they really fought, the outcome was hard to say.
Next was the sharing between Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen.
Compared to Gold Ship's performance, Mejiro McQueen's expression was much calmer.
Tokai Teio and Gold Ship, seeing this, had to admire that this guy's facial expression management was truly good; even her ears and tail didn't change.
"Hmph, idiot. So you couldn't return immediately because of this reason."
After knowing the reason Tokai Teio couldn't teleport back immediately, Gold Ship launched a mockery as expected.
Mejiro McQueen was also speechless: "..."
Although Tokai Teio's personality was better than Gold Ship's, in her eyes, she was another problem child.
Why are all my 'clones' problem children!
And Tokai Teio, who had taken the opportunity to return to the System Space and retrieve her authority, didn't take Gold Ship's ridicule to heart at all after hearing it.
After all, she knew very well that if Gold Ship had this experience back then, the other party would definitely have made the same choice as her.
The only one who might make a rational judgment was probably Mejiro McQueen.
But Tokai Teio always felt that Mejiro McQueen was too honest when dealing with system matters.
Although Mejiro McQueen's thought was just "avoiding trouble," wasn't this too easily controlled?
But indeed, doubting the system's intent and origin was completely unnecessary.
Because their existence could be said to be created by the system.
"Alright, thank you for coming to find me. But what do you plan to do next? Confess to the President and others of this world?"
"Laughable. Why should we confess our matters to these fools?"
Gold Ship completely couldn't understand Tokai Teio's thinking. Did this guy, fused from inheriting hers and McQueen's souls, trust others too easily?
And ultimately, she and McQueen were both 'villain-like' characters, right?
Why did the fused Tokai Teio turn out to be such a 'righteous' guy?
"No, I think maintaining the status quo is fine. We will also pretend it's the first time meeting you."
Mejiro McQueen chose to support Gold Ship on this matter.
Concerning her biggest secret, she hadn't even revealed it to her family in this life, so how could she possibly reveal it to people of this world?
"Alright, then you guys better disguise well."
When Tokai Teio said this, she glanced at Gold Ship.
Gold Ship's face sank instantly.
This guy, sure enough, her wings have hardened, and she doesn't take me seriously anymore!
However, she didn't rush to argue with Tokai Teio, because such things were meaningless.
Hmph! Hyper-Acceleration, huh? She actually came up with something interesting, idiot!
Although creating time abilities in a race was too fantastical.
But this world wasn't a serious ordinary daily life world anyway.
And judging by the system's ability to create worlds, the power of space-time definitely exists.
Then comprehending the power of time isn't an inconceivable thing.
Moreover, although the effect of this move is powerful, the restrictions are too great.
Can Tokai Teio use it for more than 1 second?
This isn't even as good as the Overload Mode she comprehended when running against McQueen back then.
And Mejiro McQueen was puzzled: Why didn't I comprehend Hyper-Acceleration?
Both were Flow, yet it seemed only Tokai Teio comprehended a new move in this state.
Horse Girls in other worlds didn't have such miraculous experiences either.
And regarding the principle of this move, even Tokai Teio herself couldn't understand.
Even after completing the sharing, they currently couldn't figure out what this move was about.
The miraculous degree of this move was not inferior to [Gold Ship]'s special technique at all.
Or could it be, this move is actually Tokai Teio's special technique?
Just that this guy hadn't noticed all along, and used it under the Flow state?
Mejiro McQueen highly suspected this might actually be the truth.
Ultimately, it is natural for Horse Girls with stronger talent to be born with some special techniques.
As "Unit 0" created by the system, she only had the prototype's talent, so not having special techniques was natural.
But judging from the situations of the later Gold Ship and Tokai Teio, these two guys seemed to possess innate special techniques.
Gold Ship's [Demon King Aura] was undoubtedly an innate special technique.
Then Tokai Teio's [Hyper-Acceleration] should be the same.
After all, Tokai Teio's prototype itself possessed the innate special technique [Teio Step], which was enough to prove the strength of this body's talent.
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