After Kitahara and Oguri Cap began training in a steady, by-the-book way, a few more days passed.
Su Luo was wandering around campus, thinking up a new money-losing plan, when someone stopped him.
"Are you Mud Bunny's trainer?"
The ones blocking Su Luo were the same "special" horse girls he'd seen on his first day by the training grounds of Kasamatsu Tracen Academy.
"A gyaru, a delinquent, and an evil bowl-cut girl??"
Su Luo's bizarre remark made the trio freeze on the spot.
"Who're you calling a delinquent, kora!"
"What the hell is an 'evil bowl-cut'…?"
"Gyaru…"
Seeing their different reactions, Su Luo blinked, thinking: Do you seriously have zero self-awareness? He cleared his throat.
"If you're looking for a trainer, you've got the wrong person. I'm just a normal investor. And I don't know any horse girl called 'Mud Bunny.'"
"Mini! Didn't you say this guy was Mud Bunny's trainer?"
The blond delinquent snapped unhappily at the "evil bowl-cut" beside her.
"I did see Mud Bunny meeting this guy over the last two days…" The bowl-cut girl looked aggrieved. She really had seen this man frequently taking Oguri Cap to all kinds of eateries around the academy.
"Hey—if you're not a trainer, why are you hanging around Oguri Cap?"
The side-ponytail gyaru who'd been playing on her phone the whole time raised an eyebrow.
"Because she's the horse girl I invested in, obviously."
Only then did Su Luo finally understand: the "Mud Bunny" these horse girls kept talking about was Oguri Cap.
Mud Bunny, huh…
Did Oguri Cap like rolling around in mud?
In his mind, he pictured Oguri Cap, goofy-faced, rolling around in the dirt.
…Yeah, that looked kind of gross.
But what Su Luo didn't expect was that the three horse girls burst out laughing after hearing his answer.
"With that kind of taste, you call yourself an investor?"
"Choosing that idiot Mud Bunny as your investment—you're so blessed!"
"…?"
A question mark slowly floated over Su Luo's head.
"So who exactly are you three? And why are you looking for me—or for Oguri Cap?"
"I'm Rudy LeMo. The short one here is Lady Mini. The one playing on her phone is Nolan Ace. As for why we're looking for you…"
Rudy LeMo—who, to Su Luo, sat firmly in the 'delinquent' category—spoke with a mischievous grin.
"Of course we were curious what kind of trainer that Mud Bunny could find Didn't expect we'd run into a premium weirdo like you instead"
"Yeah. If it were me investing, I'd definitely pick Marching Pace."
Nolan Ace chuckled. "Marching Pace is the best athlete in this academy. But you didn't invest in her—you invested in Mud Bunny instead. Your eye for talent is terrible!"
"Exactly—your eye is terrible!" Lady Mini echoed.
Terrible taste?
That's great!
Hearing Nolan Ace criticize his "taste," Su Luo had to use every ounce of willpower just to keep the corners of his mouth from twitching upward.
Man… these kids really know how to compliment someone.
"Well, I invested in Oguri Cap because I saw value in her as an investment~"
In Nolan Ace's eyes, Su Luo wore an awkward, crooked smile as he said that with utter seriousness. The three exchanged looks.
This guy's a freak, isn't he?
This feels kind of dangerous…
Yeah.
Nolan Ace surfed the internet a lot, so she knew a bunch of weird terms… Like the kind used for someone who could get cursed out and still laugh like this.
D—d… what was it again…?
Anyway, it wasn't a nice word.
"W-well, whatever. Let's just say this: investing in Mud Bunny won't end well! Just wait—your money's gonna go straight down the drain!"
After tossing that out, the three practically sprinted off like they were dodging the plague.
"Horse girls really are fast when they run away, huh."
Watching their backs, Su Luo couldn't help but marvel.
"But seriously… what were those three even here for?"
"Eh—wait… if it's those three…"
Suddenly, staring at their retreating figures, a bold plan flashed through Su Luo's mind.
He'd been thinking about a new money-losing scheme lately.
Sure, Oguri Cap's appetite had helped him hit a big chunk of his loss KPI—but her appetite couldn't stay that monstrous forever. Sometimes she'd have off days.
If she went all-out on eating all the time, Su Luo could lose about three million a month.
But if her condition was bad one day—or something unexpected happened—then at most he'd spend just a bit over two million on her food.
Very quickly, Su Luo realized that relying on Oguri Cap alone to reach his monthly target of losing five million yen wasn't realistic.
Even adding Kitahara's salary, that only brought him to 2.5 million.
So what about the remaining 2.5 million…?
As a seasoned investor, Su Luo immediately came up with an idea.
A foot spa!
Holy—opening a foot spa right next to Tracen Academy! I'm a genius!
Just think about it: those horse girls trained hard all day at the academy. Their feet would definitely need proper relaxation.
If he opened a foot spa next to Tracen, wouldn't he easily attract that special customer base?
That way, his investments would still be tied to the "horse girl" domain, and he wouldn't have to worry that the money he poured in wouldn't count toward his loss total.
And how do you lose money running a foot spa?
Even easier!
He didn't even need to open the shop next to Tracen—he could invest and open it inside the academy.
Su Luo had done his research: renting an 80-square-meter shop space inside Kasamatsu Tracen cost about 300,000 yen per month. If he rented a larger space, it'd cost even more.
Add renovation and hiring staff…
That budget would hit over a million in no time!
To lose money faster, he could even open the shop and then offer students insanely cheap discounted prices!
Damn it—this would be guaranteed losses!
As for who he'd hire to wash feet…
Su Luo looked at Nolan Ace and the others disappearing into the distance, the corners of his mouth curling up.
Wasn't there already a ready-made option?
In an academy this big, was it really possible he couldn't find a few foot-massage "masters"?!
"As long as the pay and benefits are high enough, there's no way nobody applies!"
"Bwahahaha—!"
On a small path in Kasamatsu Tracen, the man's strange laughter echoed—so unsettling that passing horse girls couldn't help but detour around him.
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