Watching the horse girl stomp away with her face flushed red—silent on the outside, yet inwardly shouting, I'll make you regret this!—Urushihara Tōru finally let out a sigh of relief.
He had firmly refused her, saying that he had only come today to observe the situation and had no intention of signing a horse girl just yet.
To be honest, at the very moment he saw that girl win by using the strategy he had suggested, Tōru really had thought that maybe forming a contract with her wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
But a horse girl who wanted to do horseplay with her trainer?
Yeah, no. Better to refuse.
As memories surfaced of the tearful horror stories shared by upperclassmen from the academy's trainer course, Urushihara Tōru could not help but shudder.
Horse girls—beings who looked no different from ordinary human women apart from their horse ears and tails—held such an extraordinary level of attention in society for a reason.
And the most important reason of all was their astonishing physical ability.
A horse girl capable of running at speeds of sixty or seventy kilometers per hour would naturally possess terrifying strength as well.
In everyday life, that was usually not a problem. Horse girls were taught from childhood to control their strength, so incidents were rare.
But in situations jokingly referred to as "horseplay," there was no guarantee they could hold back quite so well.
As a result, stories like blood-soaked wedding nights, honeymoons spent in hospital beds, or shattered pelvises and crushed bones were practically common knowledge.
Urushihara Tōru did like horse girls, that much was true.
But the kind of liking he felt was absolutely not the sort that made him want to get romantically involved with the horse girl he was responsible for.
He was just a very ordinary horse girl nerd.
Well… perhaps calling himself a horse girl nerd was a bit exaggerated.
More accurately, in his previous life he had happened to watch an Uma Musume anime, been drawn in by the story, and before he could even learn much more about the franchise, he had one day dreamed of being kicked by three horse girls—one red, one blue, and one yellow. When he woke up, he was already in the world of horse girls.
Since he had come all the way to the Uma Musume world, and had not become a horse girl himself, then there was really only one path left open to him.
He would become a trainer.
In this world, horse girl trainers were elites among elites.
But he was not without advantages of his own.
He had cheats.
No—more accurately, his cheat had never once been turned off.
From the very moment he woke up in this world, he had possessed a passive ability.
He could hear the inner thoughts of horse girls.
Just like earlier. The reason he had been able to give that three-whatever horse girl such precise advice was because he had heard the thoughts of the horse girls present and made a sound judgment based on them.
Urushihara Tōru firmly believed that with this ability, combined with a horse girl's natural talent and hard work, victory would be the most natural thing in the world.
Of course, talented horse girls were not so easy to find.
According to official statistics, more than seven thousand horse girls were born in this country every year.
And of those, fewer than half—roughly three thousand—managed to pass the entrance examinations for the various regional Tracen academies and Central Tracen Academy.
Of those who did, only about half would ever manage to win even a single public race in their entire lives.
As for horse girls capable of winning a top-tier G1 race, calling them one in ten thousand would not be an exaggeration at all.
There had once been a very famous saying in his previous life:
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
But people often forgot the second half of that saying—
That the one percent was the most important part, even more important than the ninety-nine percent of hard work.
That same truth applied to horse girls as well.
Certainly, his ability to hear thoughts could not directly tell him how gifted a horse girl was.
But he possessed another foolproof path to victory.
He had watched the Uma Musume anime.
Though he had not had the chance to learn much more about horse girls, he at least remembered the names of the girls who had appeared in the anime.
And according to his understanding of this type of story, any horse girl who had a name and appeared in the anime—even if she looked like a background extra and only showed up for a moment—so long as she had her own character art, she absolutely had to be someone with an impressive track record.
Even if she was not a G1-level racer, surely she had to be at least G2 or G3.
Originally, Urushihara Tōru had planned to go straight for the anime's main heroine, Tokai Teio.
(Yes. He had only watched Season 2 of the anime.)
He believed that as long as he prepared in advance and made use of his ability, he could definitely prevent Tokai Teio's future of suffering three fractures and help her achieve her dream of an undefeated Triple Crown.
Unfortunately, by the time he shut himself away from all distractions and went through great hardship to obtain his trainer certification, Tokai Teio had already debuted.
In fact, she had already gone through the first of her three fractures.
Still, he had not lost heart.
He figured that even without Tokai Teio, any other horse girl with a name should do just fine.
But it turned out that all the named horse girls either already had dedicated trainers or simply looked down on him, a freshly certified rookie G-rank.
That was why he had ended up developing at least a little interest in that Triangle-whatever girl from earlier, who had not even had a proper name in the anime.
Who would have thought…
After finally making it to the world of horse girls, was he really not going to meet even one horse girl who had no trainer, did not mind that he was still a rookie G, and whose name he actually remembered?
Sighing, Urushihara Tōru headed toward the office.
He had not even made it halfway when he suddenly heard the inner voice of a horse girl.
I really want a trainer…
Who was calling for a trainer?!
Urushihara Tōru looked around for quite a while before finally spotting a wild—no, wait, a horse girl in Tracen Academy's school uniform crouched behind a hedge.
Even among horse girls, she was on the small side.
Her pink hair caught Tōru's eye almost immediately.
Hair colors among horse girls were certainly varied, but most still leaned toward browns, blacks, and silvery grays.
Pink was relatively rare.
And the moment he got a proper look at her face, Urushihara Tōru fell into thought.
He felt like he had seen her before, but could not quite recall the details.
Which meant… she had probably appeared in the Uma Musume anime as a background character?
"What's wrong, Mr. Trainer?"
The pink-haired horse girl noticed his stare and came trotting over with a light tap-tap-tap of footsteps, her cherry-blossom-colored eyes carrying a trace of concern.
"No, it's nothing."
Urushihara Tōru shook his head, then asked directly:
"May I ask your name?"
"Mine?"
The pink-haired horse girl blinked, then broke into a bright, cheerful smile.
"I'm Haru Urara. You can just call me Urara."
In that instant, Urushihara Tōru felt as if a bolt of lightning had flashed through his mind.
Haru Urara!
He knew that name!
This was a horse girl with a real name who had appeared in the Uma Musume anime!
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