"Blue hair, blue eyes? I remember the only blue-haired Umamusumes in Tracen Academy are Hishi Amazon, Twin Turbo, and Mejiro Ardan, right?"
"But only Twin Turbo is still active; the other two have retired, haven't they?"
Obey Your Master pointed to the Umamusume standing next to Trainer Minamisaka, with long blue twin ponytails.
"Is it her? But I don't think she's very strong; I haven't paid much attention to her."
"No, the one from last night was much taller." Golden Crown Eagle glanced at her and shook her head.
"And those Hishi Amazon and Mejiro Ardan you mentioned, I remember them, but it's not them."
"That's strange then. Could she be a new student?" Obey Your Master was also somewhat puzzled.
"Definitely not. If a new student had that kind of strength, wouldn't she be famous by now?"
"But even if you made a mistake, someone who could beat you shouldn't be an unknown nobody. Could it be that my records are incomplete?" Obey Your Master looked puzzled, feeling that this shouldn't be the case.
"Could it be that she's not actually an Umamusume from Tracen Academy?"
"Impossible, she was wearing Tracen Academy's sports uniform."
"So what do you want with her?"
"She pretended to be weak and beat me last night, and then I asked her to fight again, but she kept refusing. She only beat me once when I let her win, and now she acts like she's invincible. It's infuriating."
Golden Crown Eagle recalled Sakura Baimu's behavior last night, and anger rose in her chest again.
"I'll make her pay! I'll show her the true strength of a Domain Umamusume."
"Heh, I'm interested too. When are you going to fight her again? I want to see it," Obey Your Master laughed.
"Soon. I'll make her come to me. I'll let you know when that happens."
Golden Crown Eagle chuckled, then stood up to leave.
But just as she was about to leave, she felt someone grab her shoulder.
She tried to pull away but found she couldn't break free. Startled, she turned around and saw the gray-haired Umamusume, who had been eating, staring at her with gray eyes.
"I'm asking you, how do you plan to make her come to you?"
"Her?" Golden Crown Eagle was momentarily puzzled, then realized what she meant. "You know that blue-haired Umamusume, right? What's her name?"
Oguri Cap didn't answer Golden Crown Eagle's question but instead said slowly in a calm tone:
"You can't do bad things."
"Bad things, ha." Golden Crown Eagle shook off Oguri Cap's hand, sneered, and didn't bother to explain.
However, she could tell that the two gray-haired Umamusumes beside Obey Your Master were both incredibly powerful Domain Umamusumes, so she didn't dare to be too disrespectful and simply prepared to leave.
"Don't do bad things, or you'll regret it."
Oguri Cap's tone was unusually calm when she said this, without any sense of threat, as if it were just a casual conversation.
"Hmph, Lord 'Monster' of the Ash Hair. What? Threatening me? You, a retired legend, are you planning to attack me, an active-duty Umamusume?"
Golden Crown Eagle scoffed at Oguri Cap's words.
Completely unfazed by Oguri Cap's warning.
"I won't intervene," Oguri Cap shook her head.
"Oguri's meaning is that since that blue-haired Umamusume you mentioned has already refused your challenge, don't deliberately force her to come out," Berno Light said to Golden Crown Eagle.
"Heh, you're quite worried about your friend, huh?" Golden Crown Eagle sneered again, then quickly left.
"…"
Oguri Cap and Berno Light watched Golden Crown Eagle's departing figure, both speechless.
After a long pause, Berno Light finally managed to squeeze out a few words.
"I was worried about you..."
Nearby, Tamamo Cross overheard their conversation and turned around curiously.
"Oguri, who are you talking about?"
"..."
Oguri Cap, hearing Tamamo Cross's question, fell silent.
She wasn't a good liar, so she could only respond to Tamamo Cross's inquiry with silence.
"Berno Light?" Tamamo Cross looked at Berno Light again.
"Oguri is talking about our old friends from Kasamatsu. Tamamo probably doesn't know them."
"Huh? That's strange. Besides you and Berno Light, you've actually produced other Central Umamusume members." Tamamo Cross exclaimed, then turned her gaze away.
"…"
Oguri Cap was silent for a minute, then leaned close to Berno Light's ear and whispered:
"Tamamo should know Sakura…"
"Shh—!"
Berno Light, hearing this, quickly put a finger to her lips, signaling Oguri Cap to be quiet.
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In the arena, Tokai Teio and Mejiro McQueen, still bickering, returned to where Sakura Baimu was.
Upon arriving, Tokai Teio, in a wronged tone, began tattling to Sakura Baimu:
"Trainer-san~ you saw that! McQueen was running in front the whole time, but the two American Umamusumes behind her were all focused on me, and she didn't even come to help me~"
"What does that have to do with me? I'm the Leading Umamusume!" Mejiro McQueen quickly explained.
"Look, everyone else is cooperating, and you don't even care that I'm being affected! You only care about the race; you have no team spirit at all!!"
"This... how should I help you in that situation?"
"You should kick mud at them!" Tokai Teio said.
"N-What are you talking about! How could a Mejiro Umamusume do something like that? Kicking mud—if word got out, wouldn't I completely embarrass the Mejiro family?!" Mejiro McQueen exclaimed in shock.
"McQueen, you could have kept a lower speed at the start. Help me draw some of their momentum, and then overtake them at the end!"
"But… how can that be! That would be throwing the race! Overtaking them at the last minute? A Mejiro Umamusume would never do something like that! If I did that, wouldn't everyone think I was deliberately bullying them?"
"But you have absolutely no team spirit, McQueen!" Tokai Teio retorted angrily.
"Because none of Teio's suggestions are acceptable! If you're stronger than them, you should go all out from the start. Deliberately throwing the race and then overtaking them at the end is so unsportsmanlike! Only they would do that; I wouldn't!"
Mejiro McQueen, with unwavering resolve, was determined to defend the image of the Mejiro family's Umamusume to the death, resolutely refusing to allow outsiders to trample on it.
"Shut up, McQueen."
Covering her face, Sakura Baimu interrupted Mejiro McQueen's conversation with Tokai Teio.