While rowsing various posts, Zero came across an interesting one.funny enough, it was about herself.
"Does Absolute Zero count as an Undefeated Triple Crown?"
The content in the post was something that she often sees, that her first debut race was a failure, that her Undefeated Triple Crown qualification should be revoked.
However, amusingly enough,none of the replies below the post actually engaged in the topic, just wishing instead to see the original poster wear women's clothing for the heck of it.
Theoretically speaking, her not counting as undefeated triple crown is sort of true. But first of all, facts needed to be set: her debute race was considered an absence that made her unable to run it, and to some, it may count as a failure to be eligible for the undefeated title.
Yet by speaking facts here, what had caused her absence was due to the failure of the workers of the racecourse, which due to their negligence, had caused her starting gate to malfunction and not open, leading eventually to a scandal, rather then a fault of her own. If it or she had escalated further, who knows how exaggerated the rumors might have become.
Thankfully to them, Absolute Zero had no desire of escalating the situation and as such, the sequence of events was fairly simple in how it was handled. With the joint decision of the academy, the organizer, and herself, that debut race was deemed as a "absence".
It made it so the debute race neither counted as a victory or a defeat and since the requirement for an Undefeated Triple Crown was [No failures before the Kikka Sho], it was naturally still towards the title.
Of course, this was only confirmed after she had finished the Kikka Sho, but by then, she had already shown such a cap in talent and strength, that the organizer was unwilling to offend the association, Zeeo and the academy over something that could be resolved with a simple statement. So, it was handled quietly.
Back to the post, the reason why some still called her undeserving of the title was because people with ulterior motives deliberately ignored this statement for her why her first debute did not count and at the same time trying to spread false information.
Imagine it though, those people, who after seeing the sheer dominance Zero had displayed, would still tattle on that she didn't deserve it. Well that didn't matter any more.
Thankfully the most public of them were basically dealt with by the Uma Musume who had ran with her and their families.
After all, it would be sheer lunacy to doubt that Zero, who had created such a large gap in her second debut race, would have lost that first debut race. It's worth noting that the overall evaluation of her opponents in her second debut race was even higher than in her first.
There it something to say about how Uma Musume act when they race. To some, they see the innocence as naivety, but can you call it that when it is their nature to be kind and innocent.
Hence, To each other, before and during a race, they are rivals. They run, chasing their dreams, to make it to the top, yet, even when they loose, crying at the feeling of defeat, they can't stop but to admire the winner, who like them, raced with everything they had.
Most Uma Musume treat the world with pure goodwill and the few mischievous ones don't harbor any true malice towards each other or towards others.
This is why she loves Uma Musume so much that she can connect with Agnes Digital on a deeper level.
So now, when she sees such things being posted online, she just smiles and ignores them. Most understood her situation enough that instead of treading those who disrespect her by just clowning on the poster and never taking it seriously.
But even so, some people still enjoy it and Zero can't be bothered to care. After all, she doesn't run for those people.
That aside, that wasn't the only thing going in the reply section of the post. Zero can see a few occupational bizarre fanfics in the replies, some even faining seriousness about said fics.
Of course, some content was too early for her, a terrestrial life form, to accept. After reading it, she casually reported it.
She is currently sitting at home, having already left the hospital. As for why she was able to leave the hospital so early was due to said hospital being a private one. They had already signed confidentiality agreements with her and any leak of news was also immediately suppressed. In others' eyes, she had merely gone out at some unknown time and returned this morning.
Given the frequent and how many rumors were about her whereabouts, no one would suspect at what exactly had happened. Her injuries were mostly healed, but it would still take some time for a full recovery. So now, she was currently browsing her phone and enjoying her rare leisure time.
"Munch munch... gulp gulp..."
Well, it would be more quiet if not for the two gluttonous individuals next to her, eating their fill. She looked with a regretful gaze at the two gray-maned creatures and the girl with an extremely strong maternal aura, constantly serving them food.
Super Creek, an Uma Musume secretly called Big Creek by Trainers, a woman full of maternal affection. As for why she's called Big Creek... well, what else would it be imply? It's because she was big in... Certain areas.
Zero looked at her own front armor, a perfect streamlined shape conforming to aerodynamics. Then she looked at the other person, a massive mountain range.
Can that size really run? Those with slightly less then ideal figure would have this thought upon seeing her.
While Super Creek's own appetite was fairy large due to her size, but compared to those two, it's quite small. Super Creek had already ate her own fill a bit ago, now devoting all her attention of feeding her "babies".
If it weren't for her own stomach being a bit full from just eating, Zero was ninety-nine percent sure she would have been hugged by the other party. Thankfully that wasn't the case so she was left free to read those bizarre fanfics.
Zero should note, she herself has the skill [Hourmand], the an advanced form of [Hydrate], which can replenish a significant amount of stamina. However, even with her standard appetite turning into Gourmand, she couldn't eat that much.
The funny thing is, the principles behind this skill is to store the energy from food eaten normally in the body in some extremely unscientific way (because it's not converted into fat), and then directly convert it into usable stamina when needed. However, it's not without limits; after all, you can't just store an unlimited amount of energy and then accelerate non-stop throughout a race using only that energy.
Even if Zero can accelerate throughout a long-distance race, it's by relying on her super-high stamina and grit which were obtained through continuous training and a large well of number of blue skills.
While this skill can store a lot, the amount of stamina it can replenish is not that much in terms of costs effectiveness. (TL: why dont you have swinging maestro).
Oguri Cap is doing exactly that, eating so much that her stored energy is already full. But that's not the problem Zero is having a hard time comprehending. No. It's something more simple...
Where does all that energy go!? Why doesn't she stay fat?!
Today, on her way back, Zero happened to run into the trio who were coming over. She learned that they were going to her place, and while Digital may have a spare key to her house, its probably better that she joins them to let them in then Digital. That and she did owe them a big meal yesterday.
Of course, she did remember to send a portion of the food and a wristband that could monitors one's health to Agnes Digital. Only then did she return to find the current situation and decided to just sit down and relax.
Hmm? Why send Agnes Digital that kind of wristband you may ask? It's fairly obvious what kind of situation you can find Agnes Digital in, mostly on the ground with blood coming out from her nose or mouth while having the most Blissful expression on her face.
It's basically meant to prevent her from actually dying of excitement in the monitoring room while watching the Uma Musume interact. As soon as the monitor detected even a slight problem in her health, the entire house will sound an alarm, prompting everyone present to go on the rescue.
Honestly though, Zero would have liked it it Agnes Digital had met the others rather then moving directly to her new room in the house room and settled in.
In her words, "If I miss an important scene because I wasn't there, that would be disrespectful to all those adorable horses."
Honestly, to Zerp... It make perfect sense considering she herself also claims to love all Uma Musume and can't compare to herself to the devotion by Agnes Digital.
It's worth noting that Zero once had a simulated training session with Alice Digital. Even with the use of her personal skill, Agnes Digital chased behind from a distance based on her affection, only slowing down later due to insufficient GUTS. Honestly it scared the daylights out of Zero from the intense gaze she felt from behind.
It is said that after finishing her classic three-year races, Agnes Digital even went abroad to interact with Uma Musume all over the world, winning various championships while observing local Umas. Later on, she chose to return home and retire for a greater cause. I.E: make novels, fanfics and the whole lot.
Even her own trainer became her work's number one fan and also gave up their trainer profession to become her responsible editor.
Agnes Digital a very impressive person, in every sense of the word.
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I'm a newbie translator and wanted to add more uma fics for more people to read. if there are any errors, multiple of the same text or sentence, let me know.
The credits and orginal story is: 传奇马娘想好好谈恋爱 and belongs to: 起始之