So even if Agnes Tachyon really had found some way to get intimate with Xingyun Liuge, Sirius Symboli had no intention of acknowledging it.
In the end, everything depended on what Xingyun herself wanted. What if she had been forced into it? What if she was actually extremely dissatisfied with Tachyon's behavior?
No one had the right to use intimacy as leverage against any horse girl. No one.
If anyone really did that, it would be no different from tearing up all pretenses and making an enemy of her. And who in their right mind would openly antagonize a freshly crowned Triple Crown winner?
Besides, it was not even certain that Agnes Tachyon had done anything with Xingyun Liuge in the first place. How could they presume guilt like that?
No matter what had happened, they had to abide by the principle of innocent until proven otherwise.
So Sirius Symboli did not hesitate. She used brute force and peeled that shameless horse girl off Xingyun Liuge's back.
And then everyone heard it—
A faint but unmistakably awkward sound:
Grrrrrlll...
Tachyon's stomach had growled.
Without missing a beat, Agnes Tachyon crossed her arms over her chest and announced the truth with utter composure.
"I'm hungry. When are we eating?"
Her expression, her tone—if someone had walked in at that moment, they might have thought she was the internationally renowned Triple Crown winner.
"...?"
Her sheer righteousness left Sirius Symboli genuinely dazed for a moment. She set Tachyon back down almost automatically, then scratched the back of her head, utterly unable to understand how this woman could beg for food with such dignity.
Did she not know how to feel embarrassed?
And this was in front of everyone.
Not everyone here was Japanese, either. Some were from Hong Kong, some from the UAE. They had all heard it. They had all seen her humiliating display. There was absolutely no chance this story would stay quiet.
Agnes Tachyon clearly did not care. She was already used to loudly announcing she was hungry whenever the need arose.
But just because she did not mind did not mean someone else could shrug it off so easily.
Daiwa Scarlet felt a searing heat spread across her face, so intense it bordered on despair. She lowered her head until it looked like she might bury it in her own chest.
This extended trip abroad had been so peaceful that she had nearly forgotten just how catastrophically humiliating her Tachyon-senpai could be when she really let herself go.
Scarlet's mindset shattered on the spot.
Seeing her like that, the still-young Cu River gave her hand a little tug and said with complete seriousness:
"Stay strong. We'll get used to it."
Although Japanese often omitted the subject of a sentence, Cu River was a Hong Kong horse girl, so why was she speaking like that?
And even Japanese horse girls, who were long accustomed to omitted subjects, would still have been baffled by a sentence like that the first time they heard it.
It was the kind of thing that made every Japanese person want to cry out in confusion:
Who am I supposed to know the subject is?!
If you did not know the subject, then of course you could not possibly know what the sentence was supposed to mean.
Daiwa Scarlet's brain was in complete disarray. In the end, she could only interpret it as:
Is this little girl trying to comfort me? Is she telling me to slowly get used to Agnes Tachyon's capacity for making a fool of herself?
That did make a certain kind of sense. Agnes Tachyon was her senior from the same family line. They would be living together for a long time. Naturally, over time, Scarlet would grow accustomed to Tachyon's embarrassing behavior.
Xingyun Liuge, however, clearly saw it differently.
She helpfully explained, "Cu River probably means: Miss Daiwa, stay strong—we'll all get used to it."
In other words, Agnes Tachyon would almost certainly continue embarrassing herself in the days to come. And in time, everyone around her would become numb to it. Once that happened, Daiwa Scarlet would finally be able to relax.
The moment that explanation landed, Daiwa Scarlet's mouth fell open.
That was not what she had thought at all.
How could anyone arrive at that interpretation?
And yet Cu River gave the tiniest nod and an equally soft "Mm," making it clear that Xingyun Liuge's reading was exactly correct.
Scarlet's jaw nearly unhinged.
She felt as if she had just witnessed telepathy between two lunatics. To instantly understand a sentence that had omitted the subject entirely—what kind of brain wiring did that require? How extraordinary, or perhaps how bizarre, did your thought process have to be?
Daiwa Scarlet could not understand it in the slightest.
She was simply overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, Sirius Symboli felt she had just stumbled upon a crucial blind spot.
Xingyun Liuge was surrounded by many horse girls. Quite a few of them were voluptuous, and she had even embraced some of them intimately before. But who had ever said that meant Xingyun Liuge must prefer full-figured women?
What if her true type was actually someone small and slight?
That would neatly explain why she had kept the mostly silent Cu River by her side. It would also explain why Xingyun could instantly understand the girl's peculiar way of speaking.
The only problem was that this line of thought skirted dangerously close to criminal territory.
Cu River had not even entered her classic year yet.
Still, Xingyun Liuge did not seem to be making any special moves toward her, so she was presumably still holding firmly to basic moral boundaries.
In that case, Sirius decided she would simply have Rudolf go looking for petite, fully grown horse girls instead.
The world was vast. Surely such women existed somewhere.
After all that chaos, Agnes Tachyon received a piece of news so crushing that it nearly turned her to ash.
Because they had expected to rendezvous with Maruzensky and the others, Daiwa Scarlet had not prepared dinner at all.
Worse still, the flight had been delayed.
Maruzensky's group had originally been supposed to arrive at the villa over an hour ago.
But now?
They had only just landed in London.
And just taking the train from London to Surrey would take over half an hour, not even counting all the other details and transit time involved.
Agnes Tachyon went rigid with horror, her whole body practically turning grayscale on the spot.
She had run her heart out, and now there was not even a single hot meal waiting for her?
Was she seriously going to starve to death here?
She had only just become even more convinced that Xingyun Liuge was the correct horse girl, the one meant to reach the true limits of speed—and now she was supposed to die of hunger?
No.
Absolutely not.
Agnes Tachyon frowned and immediately decided to resume begging for food.
But who understood Agnes Tachyon better than Daiwa Scarlet?
The moment Scarlet saw that tiny motion, she knew exactly what this impossible senpai was about to do.
She did everything she could to stop her.
"Don't, Tachyon-senpai!"
Tachyon might not care about losing face, but she certainly did. Scarlet had no intention of dying of embarrassment again.
Unfortunately for her, Daiwa Scarlet was simply not faster than Agnes Tachyon.
Just when despair was creeping fully onto Scarlet's face, a strong white finger pressed against Tachyon's lips and cut her off before she could speak.
Xingyun Liuge blinked at the girls and soothed them with a smile.
"Honestly, what would you all do without me? Fine. I'll cook tonight."
After all, there was hardly anything edible in Britain to begin with.
So tonight, she would conquer this culinary wasteland herself.
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