When he woke up the next morning, Kitahara Shinji didn't feel anything wrong.
Although he felt some burden on his body, because Hishi Akebono would often climb into his bed in the middle of the night, and even sleep in his arms, he was very used to this feeling.
But soon, as he became a little more awake, he suddenly realized that Hishi Akebono didn't seem to be sleeping by his side, but was in the room with a few little ones.
So where did the burden on him come from?
He lowered his head a little stiffly, and then Kitahara Shinji saw two small heads resting on his chest.
Nice Nature was fine, just half of her body was out of the blanket, her head resting on his chest, and she was still holding one of his hands.
But Sunday Silence's sleeping posture was not very elegant.
Especially since as a ghost she could phase through things at will, she simply clung to him like an octopus, and even her feet were phasing through Nice Nature's blanket.
Damn it!
Kitahara Shinji first shook Sunday Silence awake, but didn't expect this one to have a temper when she woke up.
After being shaken awake, she impatiently nuzzled him, and then there was no then. She didn't let go of him or have any intention of getting up.
As for Nice Nature, the rest was fine. Kitahara Shinji could find a way to carefully put her back in a normal position, but the hand that was being held...
Kitahara Shinji tried various methods, but couldn't break free from Nice Nature's small hand.
He could understand this situation.
After all, there was really a ghost sleeping by her side last night, and even until just now, her feet were still phasing through her blanket. It was very normal for her to be afraid and not dare to let go of his hand.
But the problem was, today was a training day, and everyone would be getting up soon. If they saw this scene, who knows what they would misunderstand.
So, after thinking for a while, Kitahara Shinji still shook Nice Nature awake and had her let go of his hand with a red face.
After that, she even took the opportunity when everyone was not yet up, quietly moved the bedding back to the bed, and cleaned up the extra scent of Kitahara Shinji from her body.
Although she also wanted to keep those things to declare her sovereignty.
But the problem was that in this training camp environment, if she really let others know that she had stolen such a big march, she would definitely be targeted. It was better to make a fortune in silence.
However, although she had cleaned up the strangeness, Nice Nature was still a little worried.
After all, there was a ghost she couldn't see moving around in the room. If she was seen, then maybe...
"'Friend' said, you don't have to worry. She will help you keep it a secret."
During the training interval, Manhattan Cafe found Nice Nature and relayed this sentence.
However, although she relayed this sentence, Manhattan Cafe didn't know what it meant, and she had also asked Sunday Silence with some curiosity, but the latter did not answer.
And hearing what Sunday Silence said, the last stone in Nice Nature's heart also fell.
Then, through Manhattan Cafe, she expressed her gratitude to Sunday Silence, and her fear of her instantly dissipated by more than half.
After that, because the strangeness was eliminated, and a few insiders were very tacitly not mentioning this matter, the daily life returned to peace again.
It was just that every night, Sunday Silence and Nice Nature would have a tacit understanding, one responsible for pretending to be scary and by the way, possessing, and the other responsible for pretending to be scared and then taking the opportunity to snuggle.
Of course, the two were also very tacitly not doing too much. Even after that, Nice Nature never held Kitahara Shinji's hand again, but just quietly enjoyed the feeling of sleeping together, while also closing the distance between them bit by bit.
And, Nice Nature was not a fool. After multiple contacts with that gloomy feeling.
Although she couldn't see or touch Sunday Silence, she slowly summarized a set of methods that could roughly determine her position, and realized that she might not be the only one stealing a march.
But she did not expose this matter, but instead secretly said that she would help the other party keep it a secret.
After all, Miss Hishi Akebono was right there. Nice Nature didn't expect to get a first place.
And after hearing Sunday Silence's story from Manhattan Cafe, she also realized that Kitahara Shinji might also be a, and possibly the only, 'first place' for her.
Plus the other party's identity as a ghost, after consideration, Miss Nice Nature felt that cooperating with the other party seemed not bad.
After all, the competition in the team was so fierce now. Without a teammate, Miss Nice Nature was really not confident that she could win against those wolf-like teammates.
And they were not the only ones who had formed a team.
Although the atmosphere in the team was strange, and everyone was wary of each other, in fact, not everyone felt that others were their competitors.
For example, Oguri Cap, although she would occasionally take some actions that seemed a bit excessive.
For example, licking cream, exchanging food, etc.
But the problem was that even she herself didn't realize why, and would instinctively try to avoid others' eyes and ears when doing these things, so up to now, no one thought she would join the battle.
El Condor Pasa was also the same.
Although her threat as a woman was great, the problem was that when she secretly wrapped her tail around Kitahara Shinji, she also didn't let anyone see, and has been a bystander so far.
Occasionally, she would even help Special Week, and is currently considered to be in Special Week's camp.
As for Agnes Digital, although she had been a little more intimate with Kitahara Shinji recently.
But because of her deep-rooted perverted attribute, and most of the time she was getting close to Kitahara Shinji under the guise of work and study, so not many people suspected her existence.
Not everyone had the level of eyesight of the elderly horse girl and Speed Symboli to be able to detect the owner of every mark in this large training camp environment.
What's more, Agnes Digital had a very outrageous point, that is, she didn't mind Senpai being close to other horse girls at all.
After all, although her feelings for Kitahara Shinji had undergone some subtle changes, her attribute of liking to ship horse girls had still not changed.
Although sometimes when she saw Senpai being close to other horse girls, she would feel a little bit of jealousy.
But when she found that no matter how many horse girls were around him, he still fulfilled his previous promises, and as long as she asked, she could get a reply and guidance immediately, and could even stay by his side 24/7.
The jealousy in her heart began to merge with the emotion of shipping horse girls, and slowly turned into some kind of indescribable pleasure.
Let alone monopolizing Senpai, she even wanted Senpai to be close to more horse girls.
This way, she could not only enjoy the happiness of being close to Senpai, but also be close to more horse girls, and even a strange sense of pleasure would flash through her heart...
Based on this reason, besides her daily interaction with Kitahara Shinji, she was also trying to help Agnes Tachyon, and was considered to be in Agnes Tachyon's camp.
As for Hishi Akebono and Tokai Teio...
These two had no camp.
The former needed no camp. Just standing there was enough to make everyone sigh in admiration and give up any thought of competing.
Growing up together, depending on each other, plus the speed that surpassed everything shown before...
How were they supposed to fight this?
Most of them had already defaulted to the fact that even if they successfully conquered this block of wood, Kitahara Shinji, they would have to share him with Miss Hishi Akebono in the future.
No, it couldn't be said that they shared him with her, but that she shared him with them.
And this kind of thing was not without precedent.
Because of the extremely unbalanced number of horse girls and trainers, although most trainers and their charges were in a one-to-one relationship.
But it was not without cases where several horse girls shared a trainer, a typical example being Mitsuo Taishi.
There were many reasons for this situation, such as the friendship between teammates, such as not being able to let go of the trainer, and such as everyone having discussed it from the beginning...
But these were not the main reasons.
The main reason for this situation was because the existence of horse girls was completely independent of the human gender ratio.
What kind of situation did this cause?
Well, if you exclude horse girls, the normal gender ratio between men and women in humans should be around 100:100, which can be matched perfectly.
And due to various factors, the proportion of women in this world was already slightly higher than that of men.
Then if you add horse girls, the difference in this ratio would be even greater.
And unlike normal human women, even if they were similar to humans, horse girls were ultimately different from humans in some aspects.
Although they were all details, the most trivial and problematic things in life were also details.
If a horse girl found an ordinary human partner, then those details would probably take a lot of time to grind.
Plus the horse girls' physical fitness far exceeded that of humans, it was difficult to guarantee that no accidents would happen during this grinding process, and the period would not be too short.
But trainers were different.
As a profession born specifically for horse girls, their understanding of horse girls was even more than the horse girls themselves.
Especially since the trainers were vetted by the Three Goddesses, their quality was quite guaranteed, and they were generally proficient in some horse girl-related skills, which could add a lot of fun after marriage, and they would have a lot of topics to talk about during daily chats.
So it has always been recognized among horse girls that the profession of trainer is the best choice for horse girls seeking a partner.
Plus the friendship of the sisters in the same team, although not many, it was not uncommon for them to jump on the trainer together.
However, facing this kind of 'good thing' of being able to have a beautiful girl harem like a protagonist, the trainers were extremely terrified.
As for the reason?
The profession of trainer was ultimately a white-collar job, and they would usually be a little weak due to the competition.
But a horse girl, especially a racehorse girl, was a proper athlete, and her own physical fitness far exceeded that of ordinary people, and she was at the age of the most vigorous energy.
One was already enough to exhaust them. A few more...
Let's put it this way, some trainers in Tracen would even actively seek pelvic fractures and treat the time of recuperation as precious breathing time, and would even refuse to take drugs that accelerated the healing of pelvic fractures.
So the trainer group chat was so calm about pelvic fractures.
Because you just can't be sure whether this pelvic fracture was an accident, or an artificial accident deliberately stimulated by some trainers through their understanding of their own charge.
As for Kitahara Shinji's side, because of Hishi Akebono's existence, they had basically given up the idea of monopolizing Kitahara Shinji.
But not monopolizing did not mean they could share with everyone.
If possible, they still hoped that the number of people sharing was as small as possible, and not sharing was the best.
Especially Tokai Teio.
As Kitahara Shinji's second charge, in fact, at the beginning, her feeling for Kitahara Shinji was not so much liking as a child's possessiveness towards a toy.
At the beginning, her feeling for Kitahara Shinji was like a toy shared with her by her new friend Hishi Akebono.
So when Special Week and Oguri Cap joined the team, she would have a little bit of emotion.
But at that time, she was also very clear that Kitahara Shinji was not a toy.
She and he were only charges in name, and strangers in reality.
So although she was a little unhappy in her heart, it soon passed.
But later, slowly, as time went by, the situation also changed bit by bit.
Getting to know, communicating, playing.
Bit by bit from strangers to friends.
Confrontation, student council, and night talk.
Tokai Teio began to find that this friend of hers was not as simple as she had initially expected, and his weight also began to increase.
Attack, Black Forest, Agnes Tachyon.
The incident caused by her made her feel guilty, and the appearance of Agnes Tachyon for the first time made her feel the crisis that her friend might be snatched away.
Trust, racing outfit, and the display of talent.
He never concealed his trust in her at any time, and the series of things with the racing outfit later continuously scored points on her already not-low affection.
Plus the ability he showed bit by bit at the end, and he had never forced her to accept his kindness because of this, and had even still firmly stood on her side, silently supporting her willfulness. It was very natural to be attracted.
And now, the bits and pieces of their daily life, the series of care before, the conversation between him and her that the president had revealed a few days ago, and that conversation in the corner in an embrace.
All of everything gathered together, and the balance in her heart instantly collapsed.
And the reason why she hadn't actively proposed a charge request to Kitahara Shinji until now was no longer because she was afraid of denying herself, but simply to respond to Kitahara Shinji's trust.
Because he said before that even without relying on a trainer, she had the possibility of winning the undefeated Triple Crown on her own, so she wanted to prove the correctness of his trust with practical actions.
And, besides Trainer-san, she still admired and liked the president, and wanted to follow in her footsteps in this way.
The president and Trainer-san were now the two ends of the balance in her heart, her only two spiritual pillars, the people she trusted and loved the most.
And just as Symboli Rudolf had said, Tokai Teio now was a bit like her when she was young. Her possessiveness was much stronger than others.
But unlike others, Tokai Teio's possessiveness was not directed at material things.
In fact, she was very happy to share various things with people. Even when Oguri Cap and Special Week were craving the honey special drink in her hand, she was willing to share some with them.
But although her possessiveness in material things was not strong, in another level of possessiveness, or rather, competitiveness, Tokai Teio was a bit heavy.
The reason why the former Tokai Teio had worked so hard was because she wanted to respond to Symboli Rudolf's trust in her, and at the same time, she wanted to get more praise, attention, and care through this.
So when Symboli Rudolf went to see other children, or even praised other children, her mood would visibly begin to decline.
Because this behavior would make Tokai Teio can't help but fall into self-doubt, thinking if she had done something wrong, or if she had made a mistake, and even in a certain sense, it was denying her efforts.
To give a simple example, it was like in a class, there was a student who would get a little red flower representing honor every week.
But one day, the class teacher gave this little red flower to someone else for some reason, then the child who was used to having the little red flower would definitely be unhappy.
And now, besides Symboli Rudolf, Tokai Teio had another reason to work hard, and that was Kitahara Shinji.
Of course, Tokai Teio, who was used to getting the little red flower, naturally also hoped that this new class teacher could also give all his little red flowers to her, and had no intention of sharing with others.
But for now, because this new class teacher had more students under his name, and they were all quite excellent, so for now, Tokai Teio could only take turns wearing that little red flower with others.
However, although the situation was like this, Tokai Teio was not particularly depressed.
On the one hand, she believed that as long as she could perform well enough in the future, she would naturally be able to get the little red flower from Kitahara Shinji's side, and she was still very confident in this aspect.
On the other hand, although she was a bit at a disadvantage on Kitahara Shinji's side for now, at least she had gotten all the little red flowers from Symboli Rudolf's side.
She even came to watch her train recently, which made her quite satisfied.
It was just that sometimes, during the training, she would look at the trainer-san and the president who were talking happily over there.
Although she knew they were talking about her, and she was a little relieved and happy after seeing that their relationship was no longer as stiff as before.
But occasionally when she looked over, she would still have thoughts like 'are they a little too close?', 'is their communication a little too frequent recently?', 'is their performance a little too intimate?' flash through her mind.
But soon, those strange thoughts were drowned out by more happiness.
After all, these two were the existences she trusted the most. It was difficult for her to have any doubts, and she believed even more that these two would absolutely not do anything to deceive or even betray her.
So, although she felt a little bit that something was not quite right, Tokai Teio also suppressed that slight sense of incongruity.
She was still focused on preparing for the race, preparing to get good results in the coming days through hard work, and then win more of the two's little red flowers.
However, she was focused on preparing for the race on her side, but on the other side, well...
There was indeed a race.
It was just that it was called the Sly Woman Tournament of the Kitahara Cup.
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