"Then come train once you've healed."
The training plan displayed on Takayama Gamu's laptop looked… deeply ominous—like something torn straight out of a manga. And yet Tamamo Cross still decided to give this wild, sky-high sort of training a try.
It was an extremely risky choice.
But just as Takayama Gamu believed Tamamo Cross could win, Tamamo Cross was willing to believe in Takayama Gamu's methods.
After parting with him, Tamamo Cross left Kyoto Racecourse and rode Tracen Academy's bus back to Ritto Dormitory.
"Ogre… I'm home."
She opened the dorm door. Her roommate—another countryside ash-gray horse girl—was stuffing something into her mouth.
"Lil' Tama…"
Her cheeks bulged like a chipmunk hoarding nuts, her voice muffled. But in the blink of an eye, she swallowed everything.
Oguri Cap stared at the bandaged wound on Tamamo Cross's leg.
"Your leg?"
"It's fine. Just a surface scrape—It'll heal in a few days." Tamamo Cross waved a hand with swagger, then clenched her fist. "My next race is still waiting for me."
Oguri Cap nodded blankly.
"Lil' Tama… you should rest properly."
"Mm. Don't worry."
Tamamo Cross sat at her desk, opened the laptop issued by Central Tracen Academy, and tried searching Takayama Gamu's name on the school forum.
In the end, inside an internal trainer forum, she found a centralized discussion thread pinned by an administrator. The title read:
"Perfect Score on the Theory Exam, an Unprecedented Theory Genius, a Seventeen-Year-Old PhD in Quantum Mechanics, an Unbelievable Cross-Domain Talent, the Alchemical Star—TAKAYAMA GAMU!!"
Tamamo Cross tilted her head, staring at the screen.
This… is not the vibe, tama.
…
Inside Central Tracen Academy's student council office, Takayama Gamu handed Tamamo Cross's trainee-relationship application form to the horse girl before him—
A red-brown-haired girl with a crescent-like streak of white at her bangs, radiating an imposing presence.
Symboli Rudolf—Student Council President of Central Tracen Academy. The "Emperor" at the pinnacle of Japan's horse girls, second only to Chairwoman Akikawa Yayoi in terms of authority within the school.
"Tamamo Cross… that's the girl who applied for low-income family assistance, isn't it?" Rudolf said.
Her gaze swept over the contract. Her face remained expressionless, but her violet eyes carried a restrained, uncomfortable majesty.
So Tamamo Cross's family situation is that bad?
Takayama Gamu filed the information away in silence.
"Failed to place in both her turf debut and dirt debut. Finally debuted by winning an unvictorious-class race. And today's dirt-condition race ended in a withdrawal due to an accident."
Rudolf reviewed Tamamo Cross's latest electronic profile, her tone tinged with regret.
"Trainer Takayama Gamu—can you tell me why you chose this child?"
Both hands rested on the solid wooden desk. Her words were gentle, yet firm—giving him the same feeling as Commander Ishimuro back in XIG.
"Because I analyzed Tamamo Cross's training data and found that she's a horse girl with considerable potential," Gamu replied.
Standing in front of the desk, he instinctively moved to pull out his laptop and show his analysis—only for Rudolf to raise a hand and stop him.
"Trainer Takayama Gamu—normally, for a genius trainer like you, the student council would proactively introduce a few horse girls with promising potential."
"But we didn't."
Rudolf's expression hardened. Sunlight streamed through the window behind her, casting a glow over her Tracen uniform and adding to her authority.
And Takayama Gamu stood in the very center of the office, as if being put on trial.
"Tracen Academy must be responsible for every student we have."
"I'll admit it—your training methods differ drastically from conventional horse-girl training. It's difficult for us to evaluate how feasible your plan truly is."
"So we did not proactively assign students to you."
Her pale violet eyes remained fixed on the boy before her. Even she had to admit it: he was a rare genius in this world.
Gravity-chamber training. Wind-tunnel simulation for running-form adjustment. Body-model mimic analysis. Liquid-nitrogen cryo recovery…
The methods he'd submitted—methods he wanted promoted throughout the academy—completely overturned everything they knew about training.
If being one step ahead of ordinary people made someone a genius, then Takayama Gamu was, without question, a madman so far ahead that ordinary people couldn't even touch the outline of his shadow.
And precisely because of that, they had to be careful.
Behind a training plan this advanced might lie earthshaking results… or unknown harm to the horse girls.
"Trainer Takayama Gamu," Rudolf said, raising one finger. "I want to confirm three things with you."
"First—why did you abandon research in quantum mechanics and choose to come to Tracen Academy as a trainer?"
Takayama Gamu lowered his head, thought for a moment, organized his words, and answered:
"Because I had a dream."
"A dream?"
"Yes." Gamu nodded. "In that dream, I saw three horse girls whose faces I couldn't make out. They asked me to help more horse girls find happiness."
"I think those three horse girls must have been the Three Goddesses, so I came."
"That's… quite a reason," Rudolf sighed.
Horse girls possessed an intuition for detecting lies. And her intuition told her: Takayama Gamu was telling the truth.
No wonder he'd gotten full marks even in the interview section overseen by Chairwoman Akikawa Yayoi.
"Then the second question."
Rudolf cleared her throat lightly. Her gaze sharpened—serious, cutting.
"In your eyes… what is Tamamo Cross?"
"Is she a trainee worth devoting everything to—someone you'll advance with, win or lose?"
"Or is she a pitiful test subject you'll use to verify whether your training methods are correct?"
The Emperor's words carried a harsh edge, like a blade-cold wind.
"Tamamo Cross's current results aren't good. If your methods help her grow, then naturally it proves your methods are more advanced."
"But if Tamamo Cross continues to sink under your training—or is even injured—you could simply push the blame onto Tamamo Cross. After all, she's just a countryside ash-gray horse girl. It's normal for her to be slow…"
"Is that the mindset you have, in applying to become Tamamo Cross's trainer?"
The Emperor's pressure poured from Rudolf without restraint. If there was even the slightest crack in Takayama Gamu's heart, he would be crushed under it.
And then Rudolf would drive him out of Tracen Academy.
But the one standing before her was Takayama Gamu—
A genius with a hint of pride, but one who would absolutely take responsibility for his actions to the very end.
"I don't believe ash-gray horse girls can't run fast. Tamamo Cross is a horse girl who can win G1s. I believe my analysis is correct," he answered, meeting her gaze with eyes impossibly pure.
"If because of me, she misses a victory that should have been hers—or if she's injured because of my training—I'm willing to take responsibility."
"Even if that responsibility lasts a lifetime."
"Then there's no problem," Rudolf said, withdrawing her formidable aura and offering a faint smile. "I'm looking forward to Tamamo Cross's future performances."
"Now—your third question?"
Rudolf reached into a drawer and pulled out a photograph.
In it was a horse girl with a glowing blue triangular crystal embedded in her chest, her deep pale-yellow eyes fixed forward.
"When will your younger sister, Gaia, be enrolling?"
"Gaia, she…" Gamu began.
This was the greatest crisis Takayama Gamu had faced since coming to this world.
Because—
He was Gaia!!
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