The night had fallen completely.
The modern indoor training field only had a few dim emergency lights, which divided the enormous space into intersecting zones of light and shadow.
Cold air, cold synthetic track.
Just like Narita Taishin's heart at this moment: cold to the point of almost silence.
She was still kneeling right in the center of the track.
She was no longer crying; she simply stared fixedly into the infinite darkness, her eyes empty and expressionless.
Her worldview, her pride, the cold philosophy she relied on to survive and isolate herself from the entire world... everything had been reduced to an irreparable ruin during the cruel "simulated race" from a moment ago.
This place was the personification of silence, solitude, and despair.
This raised the deep sympathy readers felt for her and their expectation for the "savior's" arrival to its peak.
"Creek—"
The door to the training field opened slowly.
A ray of light, like a sharp sword, pierced the darkness.
Kaito entered, silhouetted against the light.
He did not carry any treatment instruments, nor a towel, nor massage oil.
He only held a huge and ornate classical full-length mirror.
He made no noise, arriving silently in front of Narita Taishin.
He placed the enormous mirror upright right in front of her.
Then, he sat cross-legged in front of her, behind the mirror.
The polished mirror fully, clearly, and relentlessly reflected her current appearance... completely defeated and miserable.
In the mirror, she saw herself: drenched in sweat, hair messily stuck to her cheeks, her face streaked with tears, and her gaze lost like that of a beaten dog.
Narita Taishin instinctively wanted to avoid that glaring reflection.
But her body was too stiff to move.
"Do you see it?"
Kaito's voice came calmly and softly from behind the mirror.
"The person in the mirror"
"She suffers and is in despair, because the 'world' she has always believed in has collapsed"
"You have always been obsessed with the 'limit of talent', you believe you can never become a bright 'Sun', like Symboli Rudolf"
Kaito paused and then said something she didn't expect.
"You're right"
A slight expression appeared in Narita Taishin's lost gaze.
Confused, she looked at herself in the mirror.
"But..."
Kaito's tone changed, his voice becoming sharp.
"Why do you have to become the 'Sun'?"
"The sun has its brilliance, but a lone wolf has its own fangs!"
"You weren't born to imitate anyone or to surpass anyone!"
"Your mission is to exhaust all the potential of the unique existence that is * Narita Taishin *!"
"It is to personally touch that stage called 'The Limit', a view that belongs only to you and that others can never reach!"
"That is not a cold ceiling designed to bring you despair!"
"It is the most magnificent and solitary goal of your own path!"
These words exploded like thunder that created a world within Narita Taishin's chaotic mental ruins!
He didn't deny her previous way of thinking; on the contrary, he offered her a completely new and superior dimension she had never imagined.
For the first time, a flame called "thought" and "hope" reignited in her lifeless eyes!
Kaito stepped slowly from behind the mirror.
He knelt in front of her, leaning on one knee, and looked her directly in the eyes with unprecedented seriousness.
"Your body is much more honest than your stubborn mind"
"It yearns for a breakthrough, it yearns to reach that limit! But your damn 'rationality' has been desperately holding it back!"
He extended his hand, offering her a devilish invitation.
"Now, do you dare... to temporarily abandon your ridiculous rationality and give me total control of your body?"
"I will take you to see it"
"To see what kind of landscape that 'limit' you've always feared really is"
Narita Taishin looked at his extended hand, and then looked at her wretched self in the mirror.
She knew it.
This was her only and last chance.
After a long and suffocating silence.
Trembling, she placed her small cold hand into Kaito's warm and seemingly enveloping palm.
Kaito did not take her to any massage table.
Instead, right there, he had her lie face down on the cold track that had witnessed her defeat.
Then, he began a completely new and extremely dangerous massage technique that he had never performed on anyone before.
[Extreme Potential · Forced Activation Technique]!
This massage was no longer simply a form of comfort and enjoyment.
Kaito's technique became extremely aggressive!
With a powerful and irresistible force, he forcibly broke through the deepest muscle groups and neural pathways that had become inactive and atrophied due to her prolonged self-limitation!
"Ugh—!"
An intense and unheard-of pain, as if her bones were turning to dust, instantly spread through her entire body.
That made her let out a repressed and painful groan!
But—
Barely a few seconds later, the surge of extreme pain slowly receded.
A surge of extreme pleasure, more turbulent, more impetuous, and more maddening, erupted like a volcano dormant for a thousand years from the depths of her body!
"Ah—!"
She felt every cell in her body screaming! Cheers! Singing!
That incomparable pleasure of conquest, of personally breaking the chains and tearing down barriers, was ten thousand times! A hundred million times! more intense than any simple and passive comfort!
"Feel it!"
Kaito's massage continued.
His voice, like an incantation, resonated in her ears, guiding her gradually fading consciousness.
"This is your limit calling you! Accept it! Enjoy it! And then…"
"Pass it!!!"
Under the double and extreme stimulation of body and mind, Narita Taishin's consciousness gradually blurred.
She felt she was no longer kneeling on the cold path.
Instead, she had transformed into an authentic and solitary Wolf Queen.
Standing in an infinite desert, dotted with stars and covered in white snow, facing the enormous and bright full moon...
She let out a resonant and primitive newborn moan.
Howl!
The moment her spirit reached its climax, the cold system message rang out at exactly the right time:
[Ding—!]
[Mental barrier completely shattered!]
[Congratulations, host! Target [Narita Taishin], trust level has reached 100%! Target completely healed!]
[New special bond passive skill acquired: Heart of the Lone Wolf LV1 (Effect: When you or your bond partner are in adversity or fighting alone, all skills receive a minor but critical boost!)]
When it was all over.
Kaito was exhausted, breathing with difficulty and on the verge of fainting.
Narita Taishin, however, lay stretched out on the floor like a mass of bone-less mud.
But her face reflected unprecedented satisfaction, as if she had been reborn, accompanied by a smile of fulfillment.
Slowly, she turned over.
She looked at the man who had made her experience both hell and heaven with a completely new, slightly wild and fascinating gaze.
Then, she actively used the last of her remaining strength.
She crawled toward Kaito.
And pinned the man, who was still panting, to the floor.
She buried her face in the crook of his neck, declaring her "payment" with a hoarse voice full of extreme possessiveness.
"You... let me see the landscape of 'The limit'..."
She lifted her head and stuck out the tip of her pink tongue to lightly lick her dry lips.
"Now..."
"Now it's my turn to let you experience the way a 'wolf' gives thanks"
She no longer had any hesitation or rationality.
All that remained was the most primitive, instinctive, and fervent desire for the man who had completely conquered her mind and body.
On the cold and hard track.
Under dim and ambiguous lighting.
The solitary Wolf Queen voluntarily offered everything she had to her master.
(The entire intense "thank you" process, full of spontaneity and a contrasting tenderness that was enough to make the entire training field tremble, is omitted here).
…
The next day.
Kiryuin Aoi looked at the latest training data report in her hand.
Her eyes, normally full of logic and calm, now reflected infinite shock and horror, as if she had witnessed a deity.
Narita Taishin's speed in the 100-meter dash... had increased by 0.37 seconds out of nowhere!
This figure, a "miracle" capable of completely changing everything in an elite race, caused her gaze toward Kaito to change completely from the initial "disdain" to "awe", "fervor", and even... a hint of "desire" that she herself had not yet perceived.
Meanwhile, at Kaito's "Harem Cabinet Meeting".
A draft of the "Basic Harem Law", personally drafted by the "Main Wife" Symboli Rudolf, on "How to deal with the increasing number of new members and effectively consolidate the central status of the elders' faction", was undergoing a fierce and explosive debate.
…
At the same time.
A luxurious private jet, coming from the United States, landed slowly at Narita International Airport in Chiba.
A blonde Uma, with an exuberant figure and a personality as bright as the California sun, walked down the boarding bridge while calmly chewing on a cheeseburger and wearing modern aviator sunglasses.
In front of the countless camera flashes that had come to meet her, she extended her arms with enthusiasm and wildness, announcing her arrival in the country with a vibrant voice.
"Japan! I'm here!!!"
"God's Hand (Kami no Te)! The Burger Uma is here!!!"
The world challenger, with the scent of burgers and sun... has officially arrived.