"Lil' Tama, didn't sleep well?"
"Mm…" Tamamo Cross yawned. "Last night I kept thinking about some really weird stuff."
Morning—Tracen Academy's track field.
Oguri Cap and Tamamo Cross ran side by side. For horse girls, an easy five-kilometer jog was nothing; they could chat the whole way through.
"Is it about your trainer?" Oguri Cap's face turned thoughtful. "Takayama Gamu?"
Tamamo Cross didn't hide the fact that she was preparing to sign with Takayama Gamu.
"Yeah." Tamamo Cross nodded, the information she'd dug up online yesterday resurfacing in her mind.
"Isn't it way too over the top? Do people that talented really exist?" she started complaining.
"Developed anti-gravity devices, proved parallel timelines exist, derived a special equation that converts antimatter into matter, even proposed using a light-quantum computer to predict the future…"
"When did technology advance this far? I feel like my entire worldview just got shattered."
And what was even scarier was that a research genius like that chose to come to Tracen Academy as a rookie trainer—and was even willing to take her as a trainee…
Even the kind of short fanfics Agnes Digital wrote wouldn't dare fantasize this hard, okay?!
Oguri Cap listened silently to Tamamo Cross's rant, looking at her with the same blank, slightly dazed eyes as always.
She had no idea what Tamamo Cross was talking about.
But it sounded pretty amazing…
Suddenly, Oguri Cap seemed to remember something. Her expression turned serious—almost solemn.
"Lil' Tama," she said.
"Can he build a machine that makes food instantly delicious?"
"That has nothing to do with physics! No—if a machine like that exists, it probably just has a chef stuffed inside it!"
"…I see."
Oguri Cap drooped in disappointment.
"Eh—Is that Vice President Air Groove, and Vice President Narita Brian?!"
As they neared the academy gates, Tamamo Cross spotted two horse girls standing there.
"What a serious aura…"
It felt like they were about to charge in the next second and arrest some delinquent horse girl.
That wasn't Tamamo Cross's imagination.
The two student council vice presidents had been dispatched by Symboli Rudolf to welcome a freshman who had been skipping school for a long time this term.
"Skipping school and not showing up to enroll… this isn't an ordinary horse girl."
"Could be a troublemaker like Gold Ship."
The two of them stood at the main gate holding a photo—of the expressionless horse girl Gaia.
Time ticked by until the clock's hand reached seven. Air Groove sent a message to Rudolf.
"She still hasn't shown up. Should we contact her guardian?"
At the same time, on the solid wooden desk in the student council office, Rudolf's phone buzzed faintly. She glanced at it—but didn't check the message.
"I hope you'll have a wonderful three years at Tracen Academy, Gaia," Rudolf said, focusing again on the horse girl holding a whiteboard in front of her. "Your situation is indeed special. If you encounter any problems in your school life, you can always come to us for help."
Horse-girl Gaia silently nodded, then lifted a marker and wrote on her board:
"Thank you, President."
"⌓‿⌓"
"Would you like someone to show you around the campus? Every year, some new students get lost," Rudolf offered.
"Ichimu told me how to get there."
Watching Gaia leave, Rudolf finally picked up her phone.
"If she can't speak freely… no wonder she developed an aversion to school," Rudolf thought quietly.
Horse girls were the Three Goddesses' favored children. Their physical abilities were, on average, three times that of ordinary humans—and their looks were flawless.
With the Goddesses' blessing, congenital defects shouldn't exist.
Rudolf couldn't help but feel a bit of sympathy.
Poor child…
"Hm?!"
Seeing Air Groove's message on her screen, Rudolf fell silent for a moment.
Gaia didn't come?
After messaging Air Groove and Narita Brian to return, Rudolf propped her cheek on one hand and thought.
Tracen's back gate was usually closed; students entered and exited through the main gate.
Did they miss Gaia?
Impossible.
The sapphire embedded in Gaia's chest glowed—it was too eye-catching to overlook.
Rudolf looked out the window. Tracen Academy's perimeter wall rose an imposing eight meters high.
…Did she climb over the wall?
"What a strange child."
"We'll have to keep a closer eye on her."
Rudolf's expression turned a little helpless.
Because Tracen Academy didn't have internal surveillance cameras, Takayama Gamu chose to transform into horse-girl Gaia inside his training room and head straight for the student council office.
As for the two horse girls Rudolf had stationed at the gate to greet her…
He had absolutely no idea.
"Not a bad start," Takayama Gamu thought as he walked toward the middle school division of Tracen.
After Rudolf realized horse-girl Gaia couldn't speak, she became much gentler—and even let the long-term truancy issue slide.
"Now all I have to do is enter the class normally… and keep a low profile."
Reaching the door, he double-checked that he hadn't gotten lost, then knocked.
"You must be the new student, Gaia. Come in."
The teacher was a middle-aged woman who didn't look particularly strict.
Then, just as Takayama Gamu expected, he went up to the front and gave a brief self-introduction. Aside from a small stir when the class learned he couldn't speak, everything else went smoothly.
"Alright, Gaia—please sit next to Mihono Bourbon."
"Yes. Instruction received."
A chestnut-haired horse girl in the back-left of the classroom answered in a voice that sounded almost robotic.
"Hello."
"U´꓃` U"
Sitting in the seat to Mihono Bourbon's left, Gaia wrote on the whiteboard.
"I am the cyborg horse girl, Mihono Bourbon." Mihono Bourbon stared at Gaia. "Gaia—recorded."
What a strange kid… is she a robot?
"Are you a robot?"
"•᷄ࡇ•᷅"
"Yes. I am a cyborg horse girl." Mihono Bourbon puffed out her chest, expression firm.
Robots have to go to school too?
She seems pretty intelligent… I wonder how she compares to Paal. But wait—didn't I look this up before? In this world, robots should still be at the stage where they can barely walk properly. So is Mihono Bourbon some kind of special model?
I'm curious.
"Who is your developer?"
"Dad… and Mom."
"Ahem, ahem!" The teacher at the podium cut off their very obvious exchange. "Alright, everyone—we're continuing the lesson now!"
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