Yes.
Every single one of the Mejiro family's seven sisters—every last one of them—was a fan of Radish Teacher.
That was perfectly normal. With Radish Teacher's online fame, you could say every horse girl knew about him.
People even called him—
"Cyber Nasse Eishin."
With that in mind, all the sisters except Takamine began giving each other… a strangely complicated look.
How to put it…
They were all Radish Teacher fans, and they'd all held the same thought:
In this house, only I understand how good Radish Teacher really is.
But now, they'd suddenly discovered their sisters were Radish fans too?
And even worse—
Even Takamine-neesan, the iceberg lotus of unattainable elegance, was also a Radish fan?!
In the suffocating silence, Mejiro Ryan forced a laugh, trying to smooth things over.
"Man… I really didn't expect everyone to watch Radish Teacher too."
Mejiro Zenshin lit up immediately and rode the wave. "Right?! Right?! We're all Radish fans!"
"I seriously thought I was the only one in the family who watched him."
"How could that be~? Radish Teacher is amazing—I followed him waaaaay earlier."
"…Then why didn't you recommend him to us?" someone shot back.
"I wanted to keep him all to myself—no, wait, you didn't recommend him either?!"
Great.
Ryan had tried to calm the room down, and somehow managed to escalate the conflict instead.
Truth was, every one of them had considered recommending him to the others…
…but once you really thought about it, such a treasure of a streamer was better enjoyed alone.
And—what a coincidence—every one of them had reached the exact same selfish conclusion.
Tap. Tap.
At that moment, Mejiro Ardan clapped her hands twice, and everyone immediately shut up.
As the second sister, Ardan was usually gentle and soft-spoken—but in serious situations, she carried the authority of an older sister.
She looked at Takamine and asked gently, "Takamine-neesan… has training not been going well lately?"
The sisters immediately sat upright.
This was the important issue.
As for why Takamine was staring sadly at a chat with Radish Teacher… they could ask later.
…Or just secretly read the chat logs.
Takamine didn't turn around. She only gave a quiet "Mm."
"I've revised the training plan three times. Data comparisons, course analysis… everything I could prepare, I prepared."
Her voice was calm, but there was a faint emptiness threaded through it.
She turned. Moonlight traced the beautiful line of her profile. Those eyes—normally sharp and unwavering—were covered by a rare haze.
"But."
Takamine paused, fingers unconsciously brushing the window frame.
"When I'm standing alone at the track before dawn, looking at an empty course… I'll suddenly stop."
"Everything is perfect. The workload, the rhythm, the goals… and yet I keep feeling like… something is missing."
"Even though I never used to feel this way…"
McQueen held her teacup and quietly exchanged a look with Mejiro Bright.
McQueen's ears twitched.
She remembered seeing Takamine last week when she'd passed by the training grounds.
Takamine had run a flawless set like always, drawing quiet admiration. Nothing looked different.
But afterward, she hadn't checked the data right away like she usually did.
Instead, she sat alone on a bench, staring for a long time at the distant silhouettes of other horse girls talking with their trainers.
Bright, meanwhile, remembered the night before last.
She'd gotten up for water and noticed the study was still lit.
Through a crack in the door, she'd seen Takamine staring blankly at complicated graphs on the monitor—fingers hovering over the keyboard, yet not typing a single word for ages.
And besides the data…
There had also seemed to be a chat window open.
Bright hadn't been able to read it.
Even Ryan recalled something.
Back when she'd invited Takamine to do core-strength training together, Takamine—rarely—hadn't refused immediately.
After a moment of silence, she'd asked:
"Ryan… do you usually design your own supplementary training menu?"
Ryan didn't currently have a trainer she fancied either, so she'd nodded.
Takamine had only nodded back and left without saying anything else.
Now that Ryan thought about it, Takamine's eyes that day had seemed… dim.
The sisters formed a blurry guess in their hearts—but nobody dared to say the answer out loud.
Sis is thinking about a man—no, a TRAINER!
They'd all seen Takamine's steady competence at family gatherings, handling everything with practiced ease.
They just hadn't expected the ironclad eldest sister to end up like this too.
But then the sisters immediately hit a wall.
Because…
None of them had trainers either!
As daughters of the Mejiro family, plenty of trainers had extended invitations.
But when it came to choosing a trainer, the Mejiro sisters were even more stubborn and demanding than the average horse girl.
So the result was exactly what you'd expect:
The whole family was still being handled by the shared coaching staff.
Thankfully, reforms had been made due to the trainer shortage—
Horse girls were now allowed to compete normally as long as they passed their rookie debut race, even without a personal trainer.
Otherwise, they'd still be stuck doing nothing but school training.
And as for Takamine…
Her obsession with "running" alone proved she wasn't just difficult.
She was likely the hardest-to-satisfy horse girl—not just in the Mejiro family, but possibly among all horse girls.
"Are you just too tired lately?" Ardan asked softly, moonlight gentle in her voice.
"This weekend, no one has any plans. How about we all go to that hot spring inn in the countryside? I remember you like the atmosphere there."
The proposal instantly drew unanimous approval.
They were so on board that they'd already mentally committed to going—and started planning in real time.
Takamine listened to her sisters chattering away, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.
Ardan walked over, sat beside her, and gently took her hand.
She didn't speak.
But her warm gaze said everything:
It's fine. Family is here. As for what you want… let it come naturally.
Bright scooted over with a grin. "Then we should do a morning run together! Like when we were little!"
"Agreed." Ryan gave a thumbs-up. Her abs looked even more sharply defined in the moonlight.
"This time we race to see who spots the first dandelion on the roadside!"
Takamine looked at their shining eyes.
After a long while, her expression finally softened into a small smile.
"…Alright."
Because the moment she learned Radish Teacher was a trainer, that long-suppressed yearning—the desire for someone truly like-minded—had started to loosen its grip.
Ardan wasn't wrong.
Let things happen naturally.
If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.
If it belongs to me…
Then it will become mine.
And if she ever found out who Radish Teacher really was—then even if she had to use the full power of the Mejiro family—
She would make him her trainer.
But…
There were so many training institutions out there.
He couldn't possibly just happen to be working at Tracen, right?
…Right?
No way. No way.
…Right?!
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