"Honeeeeey~~ I'm hooomeeee~~~~"
"I don't even… know where to begin with…"
"Maybe a kiss on the cheek for your hardworking husband, McQueen."
The young man returns to the inconspicuous house while carrying stuff with him. McQueen wouldn't be having a massive headache if the stuff he is bringing home were normal stuff. All of them look completely like something a lunatic would bring home. A tub of 90% enriched uranium, a barrel of normal uranium to dilute the enriched uranium, and some more minerals McQueen has no idea about.
"Please… Please explain your game plan, trainer. My sense of normality is slipping."
"The computer needs two nuclear power plants to run. Sadly, there is only room for one nuclear power plant in the basement, so I decided to make a large battery to store the power."
"Oh no!! My sense of normality is slipping even more!! Aaaahhh!!! Someone, please save me!!!"
"Tch! Tch! This is why Teio is my favorite!! She can keep up with my stupidity."
"Yeah!!"
"Because she is so stupid, everything slides off her smooth brain."
"Hey!!! You're so mean!!!"
"Anyway, off I go building the power plant in the basement. Do me a favor and make lunch for me."
*Creeaakk* *Click*
"Aaah!! My brain!! My brain!! I can feel my common sense being destroyed!! Teio!! Help me!!"
"That's your fault for having a functional brain, McQueen. Just turn them off when you are around the trainer."
"President Rudolf…"
"Let us stop thinking and reach enlightenment. Only by then can we understand the world for what it is."
"Aahh!! The Teio virus is contagious!! Everyone will turn into a moron!!"
"Hey!!! Stop being mean to me!!"
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Why did their wits points go down? Did something happen while I was down there?
"Does Tracen have home education lessons in the curriculum? You girls ought to pay more attention so you will improve your cooking."
When the clock strikes 2 o'clock, the young man climbs out of the basement after building the power plant and battery. He comes out to the sight of the umamusumes losing a lot of their brain cells.
Maybe I should ask them to join me earlier so they can use their brain.
"We could not cook outside of the home education, trainer. We eat in the cafeteria, remember? They don't allow students behind the counter after Senior Oguri aTtEmPtS to help them."
"I can only imagine how that would end. You ought to take better control of your fellow students, Rudolf."
"Do you believe there's a being capable of getting between Oguri Cap and food?"
"Fair point."
"Talking about Senior Oguri, I love reading her story in the Cinderella Gray manga. Prez also looks super cool trying to intimidate her when she first transferred from Kasamatsu."
"I don't remember ever trying to intimidate her like that, though… I remember greeting and helping her get used to Tracen. I wonder how I am in this world for people to see me like that."
"Do you want to visit your grave?"
"..."
"This world's version of you's grave. Sorry, I should've specified that bit."
"How about your work, trainer?"
"It's done. I just need it to charge up enough power. I predict that it will need four to six days. So we're free up to then."
"Great!! Can we visit this world's version of Prez?"
"Let's check if it's open to the public."
The young man quickly does some light research on Symboli Rudolf's burial site and whether it can be visited. At a glance, what he found doesn't necessarily put a smile on his face.
"Seems like there is no specific burial site for you. But you do have an exhibition at the JRA museum since you are in the JRA Hall of Fame."
"I see… Where is that located?"
"Tokyo Racecourse."
"Tokyo Racecourse… Perhaps we should. A museum full of the greatest racehorses might help us understand more about this creature. I have seen them through the internet, but seeing one might be good."
"Then we can visit Goldship if that's what you wanted."
"What? Goldship is still alive?"
"Yeah… You girls didn't research her?"
"No, we mostly focus on ourselves. Why did you? Does Goldship have anything to do with what's going on?"
The young man remains frozen. McQueen's question hit him in his blind spot. For all these girls knew, he had been spending each second here researching how to return to their homeworld. In their minds, any information he has right now has something to do with returning home, including Goldship's status. The young man's knowledge of Goldship came from before his death, and not from any research afterward.
She can't be quite perceptive if she wanted to, huh?
"Not necessarily. I was just wondering if she is also a nutjob in this world."
"I see…"
"How about we go tomorrow? I want to tell Miss Mirai about the nuclear power plant and battery in her basement first."
"Shouldn't you ask for permission first before building something like that?"
"Do I look like a question-first-action-later kind of man, McQueen?"
"Sadly enough, no."