From Kitahara Shinji's perspective, ever since Manhattan Cafe joined the team, his life had returned to peace once again.
There was no movement from the Symboli family, and the matter of the Black Forest had come to a close.
Even Sunday Silence was very well-behaved. Apart from coming over to hug his arm and sleep every day at a set time, she made no other moves.
Except for Nice Nature, who now had to sleep by his side every day due to Sunday Silence's presence, there was nothing else to pay attention to.
And even with Nice Nature, it was only because of Sunday Silence's presence and her unstable aura that she was forced to sleep by his side.
Furthermore, she made no extra moves after that, nor did she end up sleeping on top of him like before. She always slept peacefully on her own side.
Although it was a bit awkward at first, after getting used to it, there were no problems.
So, after that, Kitahara Shinji didn't dwell on it too much and returned to his peaceful and stable life of slacking off.
Every day, he would spend at most two or three hours helping the horse girls under his name with some training plans.
The rest of the time, he would play on his phone, browse forums, chat in groups, and occasionally study Sunday Silence, as well as find opportunities to knead or rub Hishi Akebono.
However, although from his perspective, the current situation didn't seem to have changed much, in the eyes of others...
Needless to say, Nice Nature, ever since she started cooperating with Sunday Silence, has now stably obtained residency rights by Kitahara Shinji's side.
Although she was worried that Mr. Kitahara might be scared or resist, she did not take any more offensive actions.
But just sleeping together was already a huge step forward, putting her leagues ahead of others.
And with the joint cooperation of Sunday Silence and her, this matter has not been discovered by anyone to this day, so naturally, it will not cause a siege.
Although it was said before that due to the checks and balances of all parties, everyone had given up on their original plans and did not want to continue competing.
But the problem is, no one said you can't make a stealth move!
However, what Miss Nice Nature didn't know was that while she was complacent about her successful stealth move, other horse girls were also frantically making stealth moves in private in various ways.
First of all, there is El Condor Pasa.
Although Ms. El Condor has not yet joined the battlefield, and even plans to save Kitahara Shinji when he is in a critical moment.
But the problem is, her tail doesn't seem to think so.
Because of the Black Forest, Kitahara Shinji often had to talk about things with Ms. El Condor.
And often they needed to look at some documents together, so they could only sit next to each other.
And it was under this situation that Ms. El Condor's tail successively tried various postures such as wrapping around his arm, wrapping around his waist, and even trying to wrap around his thigh.
At the very beginning, both Kitahara Shinji and Ms. El Condor were a bit awkward about this situation and would deliberately avoid each other.
But after getting used to it, Kitahara Shinji also accepted this setting.
Especially after he saw El Condor Pasa and Hishi Akebono sitting next to each other, and when they were working seriously, her tail also wrapped around Hishi Akebono's small arm.
He felt that this behavior of Ms. El Condor might just be a simple habit, and gradually he didn't care anymore.
However, what he didn't know was that the moment his gaze moved away, Ms. El Condor's tail immediately withdrew from Hishi Akebono's side and twisted excitedly behind her.
Next is Special Week.
Although because there were many people, it was not good for Special Week to nestle in Kitahara Shinji's arms in front of others.
But unlike others, Special Week knew Kitahara Shinji's preferences very well. During this period, she was very sensible and did not show much intimacy with him, and even didn't let him rub her hair a few times.
This may sound a bit strange, after all, this would even stop her original progress, let alone making a stealth move.
But this was only on the surface.
In private, Special Week never concealed her desire to be cared for by Kitahara Shinji from him, often looking at him with pitiful eyes.
Occasionally, she would even make some cute and pitiful strange noises to attract his attention, but she never took the initiative to cross the line, nor would she actively ask for anything.
Because she wanted Kitahara Shinji to take the initiative to rub her.
Special Week knew very well that feelings are a two-way street.
If she wanted Mr. Shinji to accept her, then she couldn't always be the one actively asking for something.
Although she could probably guess that if she kept asking, if she really disregarded everything and pleaded with him to accept her in a way he could accept, then Mr. Shinji would probably have a hard time refusing her.
But she didn't want to do that.
Because in that case, she might be able to stay by his side forever and get her own happiness, but Mr. Shinji would probably be in great agony.
She wanted him to be happy too, so she adopted this method.
Mr. Shinji likes good children, so she will be an obedient good child.
Mr. Shinji doesn't mind her coquettishness and some small transgressions, so she will also not be polite.
And, taking this opportunity, she also tried to combine these two, trying to get Kitahara Shinji to take the initiative to dote on her.
Although the behavior is the same, and it seems that there is no difference.
But her request, and his initiative, are two completely different things.
Then, after a period of persistence, she also succeeded.
Thinking that such a good child probably wouldn't have any problems, Kitahara Shinji, who really couldn't stand it anymore, finally took the initiative to contact Special Week a few times in private, and rubbed Special Week hard a few times behind everyone's back.
Special Week enjoyed this very much.
And taking advantage of a few longer intervals between rubs, through the act of acting spoiled under emotionally excited conditions, she made some gestures that might make Mr. Shinji embarrassed.
For example, jumping into his arms and twisting, hugging his arm and rubbing, and pretending to be angry and lightly biting his neck...
Of course, she stopped at a taste of these behaviors, neither going deep nor lasting too long, so as not to cause his displeasure.
And since Special Week was like this, Oguri Cap was even more so.
Although she has not thought about it in detail so far, and has not realized what her situation is at all.
But just her instinctive actions were enough to make her not fall behind others in this Kitahara Cup.
In addition to the daily food exchange mentioned before, although Oguri Cap has not made any moves on the surface recently, she has been circling around Kitahara Shinji in private.
And just recently, she also found a new way to taste Kitahara Shinji.
That is to first buy some food to give him as a reward, and then after giving it to him, look at him with eager eyes, and then let him share the half-eaten food with her.
This way, on the one hand, she could indeed share a portion of the food with Trainer Kitahara as a thank you, and on the other hand, she could also take the opportunity to satisfy her own desires. It could be said to be a win-win.
And, during this period, there was one time when she bought some crispy little snacks with a lot of powdered seasoning, the kind that would have a lot stuck to your fingers after eating.
After eating her own portion and licking her own fingers, she directly turned her gaze to Kitahara Shinji's hand, and then once again re-enacted the scene that happened in the cafeteria at that time.
It was just that unlike last time when she licked, this time she directly held Kitahara Shinji's finger in her mouth.
While gently sucking, she stirred her tongue, and with the repeated movements of the tip of her tongue, she gently rolled off the powder of those snacks, which had an itchy feeling.
And afterward, of course, Kitahara Shinji also gave her a good lecture.
It was just that during the lecture, Kitahara Shinji suddenly found that she seemed to be staring at his face, and then suddenly realized that his mouth also seemed to be stained with some snack crumbs, and then ended the lecture in Oguri Cap's somewhat regretful expression.
It feels like the ones on Trainer Kitahara's mouth are even more delicious than the ones on his fingers...
Oguri Cap thought so, and vaguely felt that the long-lost feeling of an empty stomach had a sign of showing its head.
Next is Agnes Digital.
Because no one was on guard against her at all, and she also had the most reasons to have contact with Kitahara Shinji.
Normal work, training related, nursing study, and even in turn helping Kitahara Shinji with nursing and relaxation...
If it weren't for the fact that her perverted attribute was already deeply rooted in people's hearts, and she had never shown any exclusive behavior of tripping others up.
Then she would have long been listed as a first-level key concern, and her threat level would even be higher than Nice Nature's.
But the problem is, although she has a lot of contact with Kitahara Shinji during normal times, and recently feels that her performance is a bit intimate.
But because of the above reasons, no one would think that she has any bad thoughts about Kitahara Shinji.
In fact, let alone bad, her recent behavior of helping Agnes Tachyon has also been noticed by a few horse girls, which further confirms that she is just a simple pervert.
And speaking of Agnes Tachyon...
After that race, Agnes Tachyon also didn't have much contact with Kitahara Shinji for a few days.
But not only because of shyness, but more of regret.
And it wasn't just regret for not being able to confess.
After all, according to her review afterward, even if she had gone straight for it at that time, she would most likely have been rejected, and afterward, it might have made the relationship between the two awkward.
She regretted why she had made that kind of joke at that time.
After all, she was a smart person and had heard the story of the boy who cried wolf.
With such a move, I'm afraid that even if she really mustered up the courage to confess next time, she would probably be treated as a joke by him and ignored.
However, a few days later, she found that this matter didn't seem to be as bad as she had thought.
Because she found that although according to the attitude shown by Kitahara Shinji, even if she confessed now, she would be treated as a joke.
But by the same token, even if she secretly mustered up the courage and did some obviously transgressive behaviors with him in private, he would also treat it as her joke and just calmly respond with 'ah, right, right, right'.
Teasing, playing tricks, and even pinning him on the sofa and pretending to kiss him...
Although the last behavior led to a rather harsh flick on the head, and she was lectured for a long time, Agnes Tachyon had thus found her new exclusive track.
She didn't plan to just go for it and jump Kitahara Shinji when she had the chance.
After all, not to mention whether she could do this kind of thing now, just with Kitahara Shinji's nursing technique, I'm afraid that as soon as he puts his two hands on her, she would have to surrender immediately.
But not jumping him doesn't mean she can't let him get used to this.
And after getting used to it, and after more contact, she would have a greater probability of prying open the outer shell of this block of wood.
Then, when the outer shell is loose, she will definitely be able to get used to this kind of contact by then, and then directly attack and make up for it, letting him realize her feelings.
And because of the previous accumulation, even if she can't jump him directly, she can still be a big step ahead of others.
And it wasn't just them who were in action.
As for Manhattan Cafe, although she had indeed joined Kitahara Shinji's team, and currently had a certain degree of goodwill towards him because of her friend.
But on the one hand, she had not had much contact with Kitahara Shinji at the moment, and her goodwill had not reached that level.
On the other hand, she herself was a shy and obedient child.
Although she had also noticed some of the small actions of others around her, she just averted her gaze with a slight blush and had no intention of joining the battlefield.
But the problem was that she was not in a hurry, but someone outside the team was.
After noticing some of the actions of the horse girls in the room, Tamamo Cross became more and more convinced that Kitahara Shinji had been corrupted by this group of people, and also to a certain extent, realized the danger of his situation.
This made Tamamo Cross very anxious.
Not to mention whether he was being corrupted or not, Kitahara Shinji had helped her once a few years ago, and recently helped her adjust her plan, and even found her a job through his connections.
And up to now, because she hadn't even debuted yet, she had always been receiving his favors and had not been able to give him any return.
She had originally thought that after she debuted, won a race, and had money, she would buy some gifts and go to his door to thank him, and then do her best to provide some help to Kitahara Shinji.
But with the current situation, if this continued, she was afraid she wouldn't even have a chance to repay her kindness.
But the problem was, no matter how anxious she was, no matter how much she wanted to protect Kitahara Shinji, as an outsider, she could not just interfere in other people's team affairs.
In this struggle, Tamamo Cross's training state had a significant decline, and she would often cast her gaze towards Kitahara Shinji during training, with a hint of worry in her eyes.
And Tamamo Cross's so obvious strangeness naturally did not escape Koyoi.
It was just that Koyoi was not Tamamo Cross, and she didn't know why she was looking over, so she could only make a guess based on what she saw.
And from Koyoi's perspective...
Kitahara Shinji and Tamamo Cross had known each other before, and his ability as a trainer was also stronger than her own...
And when she encountered difficulties before, it was also Kitahara Shinji who helped her solve them, while she, Tamamo Cross's trainer, was just watching from the side...
What's more important was that these two got along very well. When they were together, they could directly start a crazy complaining mode, while she always laughed at Tamamo Cross for making a big fuss...
Then the result was very obvious.
Tamamo Cross longed to become Kitahara Shinji's horse girl, but because of her contract with her, she could not speak, so she was in a struggle.
After realizing this, it was impossible for Koyoi not to be disappointed.
After all, she and Tamamo Cross got along very well, and she was usually very attentive to her.
But now the other party's thoughts were obviously on someone else, and it was inevitable to feel a little sad in her heart.
But it was just a little disappointed.
After all, she had had more contact with Kitahara Shinji, and even if she had only seen the tip of his iceberg, she could realize the terror of his ability as a trainer.
As for her, up to now, she had just barely reached the edge of a senior trainer. Her talent and ability were not bad among the trainers at the Tracen headquarters, but they were also not outstanding.
And the reason why she was able to recruit Tamamo Cross and Super Creek was not because of her own strength, but the result of some other factors.
So, although she was unwilling, looking at Tamamo Cross's 'longing' gaze.
After silently watching her for a long time, and struggling in her heart for a long time, Koyoi finally made up her mind.
She was an adult and could not let her selfishness make the child struggle.
And Kitahara Shinji's ability was there for all to see. I believe that in his hands, Tamamo Cross's talent could also be fully developed, and not be buried in her hands.
As for after Tamamo Cross leaves, when Super Creek wants to find a 'child' to take care of, where can she find another victim to replace her...
Then Ines Fujin will have to work hard.
Koyoi thought so, but her heart couldn't help but give birth to an even worse thought.
That is, what if, what if after Tamamo Cross leaves, Super Creek also wants to leave because she has lost her 'child'...
Koyoi took a deep breath and suppressed the unease in her heart.
She knew this was possible, and she knew that this might be a huge blow to herself.
But she was a trainer, their trainer.
No matter what the road ahead was, she had to be responsible for their future.
This was her duty as an adult.
So, she took a step and walked to Kitahara Shinji's side. After hesitating for a moment, she slowly spoke.
"Um, Trainer Kitahara."
"What is it, senpai?"
Koyoi hesitated for a moment, then mustered up her courage and spoke seriously.
"If you have time tonight, can you keep me company?"
"I have some important things I want to discuss with you."
As her voice fell, the atmosphere on the training ground suddenly changed.
Even the sunlight seemed to have dimmed a little.
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