Taiki Shuttle had to admit one thing at that moment: in all her years dominating the short and mile distances, she had never seen a horse girl with such an explosive start.
To use an analogy from Taiki Shuttle's home country, if a normal horse girl was like an automatic weapon that needed the safety off before firing, then Huiyi was like a Western gunslinger, firing eight shots in half a second.
"Interesting! A talent I've never seen before—!" Taiki Shuttle's competitive spirit from her racing days was rekindled. Although her start couldn't match Huiyi's speed, her trump card was not in leading the race.
Once her speed stabilized, she chose to maintain a slight acceleration and follow behind Huiyi, keeping a distance of about two horse lengths.
After all, Taiki Shuttle was a senior who had completed her Twinkle Series, and her stamina was enough to dominate mile races. Huiyi was no match for her in any aspect.
The result was obvious. During the turn, Huiyi once again demonstrated the confidence her double purple rings on the curve gave her. In the blink of an eye, she was overtaken by Taiki Shuttle's fierce momentum. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't close the gap by even half a length. In the end, Huiyi almost braked with her face at the finish line.
"Aha—!! This is just bullying—!! What am I supposed to compete with such an experienced senior with, my head?!" Sometimes Huiyi's mentality was strange, always switching between caring about winning and not caring.
At that moment, she thought, if she lost to a horse girl of the same year, she could just laugh it off and admit she wasn't as good. But losing to Taiki Shuttle, who was several years her senior, made her feel an inexplicable sense of grievance.
Looking back on it later, Huiyi found it very strange.
After all, considering her soul... an old auntie who had been beaten down by society so much shouldn't feel wronged about this, right? In the end, she could only blame the Three Goddesses—the elements they had engraved into the instincts of horse girls when they created them.
"Seeing your beautiful start suddenly brought back my fighting spirit from my racing days~ So I forgot you were a horse girl who had just debuted. Sorry!" Taiki Shuttle also realized she had been a bit inappropriate during the practice and proactively went over to apologize to Huiyi.
Her hands clasped together and rubbing back and forth, she looked very sincere. Paired with her constantly twitching ears, it was impossible to stay mad at her. Huiyi wanted to say something, but in the end, she just let out a light sigh, sat down on the ground, and turned her back to Taiki Shuttle.
She sat on the ground mainly because she was too tired to stand. Resting her chin on the back of her hand, Huiyi then lay back on the grass and asked, "Can I take this as a compliment, Taiki-senpai?"
"YES! You know, in short and mile races, the start is very important—! And your start is already more than competent. Even among all the opponents I've faced, only you could make me feel threatened at the start," Taiki Shuttle said, sitting down next to Huiyi, her voice filled with happiness.
Kitahara also walked over from the other side of the training ground, followed by Nishino Flower holding two sports drinks, which she gave to the two horse girls who had just finished running.
"Taiki Shuttle, what do you think Huiyi can achieve in the end?" Kitahara asked Taiki Shuttle, while crouching next to Huiyi, rolling up her pant leg, and pinching her calf.
"Hiss—! Kitahara, what are you doing!" Being pinched like that, Huiyi flinched and almost kicked out.
After a moment of thought, Taiki Shuttle replied, "Huiyi, if her aptitude is really only for short distances... she should be able to dominate Japan's short-distance races, right? Maybe she could even try the short-distance races in Hong Kong or Australia?"
"Huh?" Still reeling from the pinch, she heard Taiki Shuttle praise her so highly. Huiyi's eye twitched slightly. "Don't... don't flatter me like that. The level of short-distance racing there would wipe the floor with me."
"I just want to make money—! Not challenge myself."
"No! Huiyi, you can't be so defeatist! As a horse girl, you have to have a glorious and grand goal!" Taiki Shuttle suddenly grabbed her shoulders and started shaking her.
Kitahara pinched here and there, then suddenly asked, "Huiyi, do your legs feel sore like before?"
"Hmm? No, I'm always growing. Right now, I feel like I could run 1300 meters with horse girls of my year!" Huiyi proudly puffed out her chest. It wasn't for nothing that she sometimes took the initiative to train.
Hearing this conversation, Taiki Shuttle's mind raced. She asked uncertainly, "So... Huiyi's aptitude is constantly improving?" This was different from what Taiki Shuttle knew. Normally, a horse girl's distance aptitude was fixed!
Except for training maniacs like Mihono Bourbon who literally grinded their aptitude up... she had never heard of such a thing.
However, the reality was, Huiyi's relaxed demeanor and Kitahara's leniency didn't seem to have that kind of intense training.
Nishino Flower took over the explanation, and Kitahara pulled Huiyi up.
"That's right, Huiyi is a gifted horse girl. Taiki Shuttle probably can't imagine, but when she first enrolled, she could barely run a thousand meters. Now she can handle thirteen hundred."
"What?! Is this kind of growth even possible for a horse girl—!" Taiki Shuttle let out a strange cry, then covered her mouth and looked around to make sure no one else had noticed before lowering her hand.
Nishino Flower nodded lightly. "Mmm-hmm, but it also has a lot to do with how seriously Huiyi takes her training. When it's time to play, she doesn't think about training at all. It's an enviable attitude towards life~"
"Guh—! Thank goodness... thank goodness I didn't have to face an opponent like this back then." Although Huiyi wasn't outstanding in terms of aptitude and running technique right now, from Taiki Shuttle's rich racing experience, she could tell that Huiyi would at least shine brightly in one area.
On the other side, Deep Impact had also lost to Tokai Teio. But unlike Huiyi's crushing defeat, she had only lost to Teio by two lengths in a 2000-meter training race, which was a monstrous result for an undebuted horse girl.
"That was close~ I acknowledge your strength! Deep Impact is really strong," Teio said, wiping her sweat, her eyes filled with admiration for her junior.
Teio suddenly felt that time was passing by a little too quickly. In the blink of an eye, she had gone from the stage of her two-crown victory to being a senior guiding junior horse girls...
Crack
A faint cracking sound was heard. Deep Impact, still basking in the glow of the praise, turned her head to see Huiyi furiously drinking a sports drink.
But she didn't seem to realize that she had just bitten the bottle's opening in her mouth.
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