"IT'S NOT FAIR!!! McQueen got to sleep with trainer!!! It's not fair!! She is cheating on the cheat line!!"
"It's not my fault that trainer doesn't see you as a woman, Teio."
"What does that supposed to mean!??!"
"Rudolph, silence the children, please. I'm cooking our breakfast."
"Children, be quiet. You're distracting your father."
"The legendary Igo Heita firmly grabs the handle of the ladle in his right hand as he stirs the soup inside the cooking pot clockwise at one meter per second."
"And can you also get the perverted future woman? The intensity of her stare makes me feel naked."
"Miss Mirai, can you please not stare too intensely at my husband?"
The next morning has come, and it's safe to say that the fact that her love interest and her love rival were sleeping together didn't sit well with the Monarch. She has been throwing a hissy fit ever since she woke up.
"Sigh… Just say that you are sorry and get this done with, McQueen."
"What? But I'm not sorry. Why should I be sorry for Teio being a slowpoke?"
"I'M NOT!! You're just cheating!!"
"There is no such thing as cheating in love, Teio. Just admit that you couldn't keep up with me. I beat you in any kind of race!!"
"GGUUUHH!!! Just you see!! I'll beat you and show you that you're nothing compared to me!!"
"They have a very healthy relationship, huh?"
"I wonder what your standard for a healthy relationship is, dear?"
The young man has finished cooking their breakfast and has plated meals for his children, his wife, and the owner of the house they're staying in. The breakfast meal wasn't grand or anything like that–it was homey. Something that unconsciously helps the stranded umamusumes with the mental burden of being alone.
"The legendary Igo Heita can cook, too… They didn't mention this in the archive. Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete…"
"Please stop for a moment, Miss Mirai. You need to eat before going to work, no?"
"Ah… To be gifted food by THE Igo Heita… All those years of hard work finally paid off!!! I can now die happily!!"
"Please don't do that before we return to our world."
"Please don't do that, period."
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"Sorry that you have to leave your home to us. I make sure that these brats don't destroy your house."
"No! No!! I'm glad that I get to host the main character of the Crimson Golden Generation in my house!! There's no greater joy for me!!!"
Mirai was a functioning member of society in this world, unlike the newcomers, so she still had to go to work. Normally, one would be extremely nervous to leave one's house to a bunch of people that one had just met, but that is what it looks like for the young man's side. On the other hand, she has studied them for her entire life. They are not nobody to her, they are her heroes.
"See you later~~"
*Vrrrooooom…*
"Alright, what do you girls want to do today?"
"Eh? Wasn't it your job to tell us what to do, trainer?"
"I want to dissect the time-traveling device, but I don't want any of you to even lay a finger on it. To do that, I need to keep you brats entertained."
"How rude!!"
"Look, you girls are all brawn and no brain. Do you think you'll be of any help in dissecting the machine?"
"No…"
"See? I'm not being rude, just realistic. Rudolph, can I task you to keep these two company?"
"Don't worry, dear. I'll make sure nothing will get in your way."
"Good. This is our only ticket to go back, so I tolerate no stupidity unless it comes from me."
With those words, the young man left the umamusumes to their own devices as he dove back into the basement to engross himself in the task of dissecting the extremely complicated machine.
"So, what's next, Prez? Trainer seem to be serious about not wanting any distractions. I think he might hate me if I enter the basement without any actual good reason."
"Yes, he is. Do you girls want to watch an anime about us?"
"Eh? There's an anime about us? Let's go!! I want to watch how amazing I am!!!"
"Well… Considering the Cinderella Gray manga we read yesterday… I think it's more like this world's interpretation of us, Teio. Regardless, I'm still intrigued by how they handled my character."
"They probably made you a sly cheater who selfishly steals others' trainers."
"Your jealousy is shining bright, Teio. It's not my fault that you're slow."
"GUH!! LET'S SEE THEN!! Prez!! Let's watch it now!!"
"Alright~~"
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"The Spica trainer is Special Week's trainer, right?"
"Yeah, but I don't remember a team by the name of Spica in Tracen. Hmm… Goldship is also in that team, but in reality, she is in Team Minaz, right?"
"Perhaps this anime takes inspiration from this world's version of us!!"
"Hmm… Doesn't seem like it. For example, Special Week and Goldship aren't active simultaneously. This is especially apparent with McQueen and Goldship as the latter is the former's grandson."
"SHE IS MY WHAT?!?!?!"
McQueen was about to pass out when she heard the fact. The crazy weirdo who is always up to something is her grandson…
"WAIT!! GRANDSON!?!? NOT GRANDDAUGHTER?!?!"
"Yeah… Apparently, we are all males in this world…"
"I… I guess that is less surprising than knowing that we are animals. But still, Goldship being my grandson is something that I could not accept. I would never want her to be my family!!"
"That's a little bit harsh, McQueen. But I wonder what my relationship is with everyone in this world."
"Apparently you are my son, Teio."
"I'm Prez's son!!! Hell Yeah!!!"
"Good for you, Teio. Talking back to the anime, perhaps this has something to do with the future from Miss Mirai's time?"
"Hmm… She left her book here. Do you girls want to read it?"
"Will it… affect the future?"
"..."
"..."
The umamusumes freeze in place. They may not be the smartest beings in the world, but they know that there are consequences to every action. The action of reading future events might sound harmless to them now, but it could have unprecedented butterfly effects on their future. Maybe their future would differ from what they read. Maybe the future will go exactly as it is written. The gap in their knowledge makes them freeze.
"Should we?"
"Gulp… Should we ask trainer first?"
"But trainer said not to bother him, right? Will he get angry at us if we do that?"
"... But… What if it has a disastrous consequence for us? What if it's some sort of forbidden knowledge that will destroy us?"
"Hmm… I'll ask him. You girls stay here and wait, okay?"
"Okay~~"