Gold City and TM Opera O stood side by side, like two brave knights attempting to rescue their "prince" (or rather, their possession) from the clutches of the mad scientist.
"Give him back to us!" Gold City demanded simply and directly.
"The performance time is over; it is time for my protagonist to take a bow and rest" TM Opera O said with elegance and force.
Faced with the two aggressive "control groups," Agnes Tachyon simply smiled with disdain.
"My experiment is in its most critical phase"
She adjusted her glasses; a strange light flashed in the lenses.
"Any interference from irrelevant personnel will be considered a blasphemy against science and will be eliminated"
As she spoke, she casually pressed a red button on the experimental bench's control panel.
"Hum—!"
A translucent, light blue energy barrier, filled with a sense of futuristic technology, suddenly rose from the floor like a wall, instantly blocking Gold City and TM Opera O outside, isolating Kaito and Agnes Tachyon inside the barrier.
"Lunatic!"
Seeing this, Gold City erupted in anger.
Without a word, she raised her leg and delivered a sharp and powerful flying kick directly at the energy barrier.
Bang!
The barrier emitted a violent and unstable flash, and all the lab lights flickered along with it.
TM Opera O, on the other hand, was less violent.
She narrowed her eyes like a shrewd director, quickly observing the energy nodes flowing through the barrier, searching for a theoretical way to turn the damn thing off.
"Futile struggles"
Inside the barrier, Agnes Tachyon completely ignored the chaos outside.
Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, she grabbed Kaito's hand and tried to lead him to a room deep within the laboratory, labeled as the "Sterile Bathroom."
"Come, my Assistant-kun, let's go to a quieter place, a place better suited for in-depth research, and continue our unfinished topic..."
Her voice was filled with barely contained excitement.
"In-depth research?! That bathroom of yours has a bed and weird restraints! I don't want to go!"
Kaito resisted in desperation, but in terms of strength, how could he be a match for an Uma Musume?
It was at that moment that an unexpected change occurred.
Gold City's persistent and violent attempts to break the barrier, combined with TM Opera O's incredibly precise critical operations (as she seemed to have instinctively shut down several non-essential power supply nodes), jointly led to a catastrophic consequence.
The energy barrier is overloaded!
With a loud crash, "Sizzle... Crackle... BOOM!", the blue barrier exploded directly after a blinding flash.
A powerful shockwave instantly swept through the entire laboratory, rattling the colorful flasks filled with various unknown liquids on the shelves, knocking them aside and sending them crashing to the floor.
Crash! Crash!
Red, yellow, and blue liquids flowed across the floor, quickly mixing and generating a disastrous chemical reaction.
"Poof—"
A thick, pink smoke, carrying the cloying scent of strawberry candy, rose abruptly from the floor and quickly filled the entire laboratory.
"Cough, cough... What is that smell?" Gold City coughed twice, choked by the vapors.
"Mm... So fragrant... My head... feels a bit dizzy..." TM Opera O also felt her body weakening.
And Agnes Tachyon, the culprit, instantly changed color upon inhaling the smoke.
She muttered to herself, her voice full of annoyance and a hint of... inexplicable excitement.
"Oh, no! This is the «Prototype 7, High-Potency Enchantment Pheromone», which I hadn't finished calibrating yet..."
Before she could finish speaking, the three top-tier Uma Musume present, without exception, began to show strange reactions.
Their eyes began to look cloudy and out of focus.
Their cheeks were flushed with an unnatural and seductive crimson.
Their breathing became rapid and hot.
Then, three pairs... no, six eyes, simultaneously and uniformly, as if drawn by a magnet, looked toward the only conscious and standing male creature in the room: Kaito.
That look... was no longer possessive, no longer scrutinizing, no longer investigative.
Instead, it was the most primitive and pure form of... desire, like that of a beast in heat!
[Nuclear Alert!]
[Nuclear Alert!]
[Host's safety is in danger!]
[Immediately abandon all your fantasies and flee the scene!]
[I repeat!]
[This is not a drill!]
Kaito's [Crisis Intuition] was no longer just sounding an alarm; it was playing the funeral march version of "Ode to Joy" directly in his head.
He looked at the three stunning beauties, whose breath was hot, whose eyes were glazed with desire, and who were slowly converging on him like apex predators.
Before his last vestige of sanity was completely swallowed by the cloying scent, he made the most decisive and wise decision since his transmigration.
Run!
He turned sharply, ignored the gasps and cries of his three "wives" behind him, and ran toward the nearest window with astonishing explosive power, achieving a miserable and desperate escape through the glass with a sharp breaking sound.