Xingyun Liuge made a special trip to France and took the Grand Prix de Paris.
Perhaps because the race was restricted to the Classic year, plenty of horse girls did not dare come witness Xingyun Liuge's power for themselves. The field should have had fifteen runners, but in the end only six actually showed up. The runner-up was beaten by a full fifty lengths.
It was the sort of result that could only be described as heartbreaking to hear about and painful to watch.
The second-place finisher cried loudly and without restraint. She was an outstanding horse girl of this generation and had originally planned to aim for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe—
but then she ran into Xingyun Liuge in this race.
Now she no longer dared call it her goal.
Seeing the girl cry so miserably, Xingyun Liuge naturally did not hold back her concern. She loved horse girls who cried.
The French horse girls, however, did not seem particularly grateful.
Still, Xingyun Liuge did not mind in the slightest. If anything, she wanted the French horse girls to dwell on how overwhelming she was and then all flock to Britain for the King George.
A race of that scale ought to be lively.
Besides, French horse girls had been inclined to run in the King George anyway.
From their point of view, if they could go into British territory and seize the King George, it would feel unbelievably satisfying.
Because then they could say, with all the sarcasm in the world:
"Oh? Why is the winner of the King George a French horse girl? I almost thought it was the King of France Stakes."
That would feel far better than winning the Japan Cup.
Looking at the horse girls around her, all wearing eager expressions, a French horse girl with brilliant golden hair—bright as the sun itself—could only wave her hand helplessly.
"Wait, aren't we here for the King George? Why are you all trying to make me go say hello?"
Faced with the expectant looks around her, Glory found herself developing a headache. Just because she had won last year's Japan Cup, did they really need to put this much hope on her?
Mototo was already frighteningly strong, and even she had lost to Xingyun Liuge. And now they wanted Glory, already knowing all that, to go provoke Xingyun Liuge?
Impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Glory waved both hands again, trying to calm the others down.
"I think a proper horse girl should at least know how to control her emotions."
Don't be so agitated. If they were already this wound up now, what would happen once the actual race began? Wouldn't they just walk straight into the opponent's calculations?
Besides, if they all wanted to "teach Xingyun Liuge a lesson" so badly, then why not come run in the King George or the Arc themselves? What was the point of piling all the pressure onto her alone?
While Glory was being pressured by her own people, Xingyun Liuge was over on the other side "fiercely" pressuring her own.
"One more set of tile-breaking drills. Move it! Dragging your feet like that and you still want to become strong horse girls?"
Xingyun Liuge cracked her riding crop through the air and barked the order without mercy.
Cui He, Daiwa Scarlet, and Donna were all but collapsing. At her words, they struggled to stand, but their whole bodies were shaking so badly that it was obvious they had little strength left.
Agnes Tachyon, meanwhile, looked even worse. She had simply collapsed flat on the ground and refused to get up.
Which was not exactly surprising. On the surface she might not have done much, but behind the scenes she had committed the most little stunts of anyone.
Things like slipping "Agnes Tachyon's special secret formula" into the carrot juice.
Things like quietly prying open doors under cover of night.
Things like suddenly revealing her "battle underwear" in the middle of asking for guidance.
In short, everything she did made it look as though she were far too eager to jump straight into horseplay. Xingyun Liuge had decided this girl was simply too idle, so she had drafted a special training regimen just for her.
The result was that Agnes Tachyon now slept like an infant the second her head touched the pillow and could barely get up afterward—
which, frankly, was exactly what she looked like right now too.
The strange thing was that Agnes Tachyon never complained. She never cried that it was hard or tiring. She simply endured it all in silence, as though she were genuinely enjoying it.
Xingyun Liuge had begun to wonder whether this girl was a masochist.
After all, what other reasonable explanation was there?
Well, to be fair, there was one. Xingyun Liuge was simply choosing to ignore it. In her view, repeatedly pushing her body to the edge of collapse in pursuit of the ultimate speed was basically the same thing as being a masochist anyway.
Because Agnes Tachyon truly did enjoy it.
Another half hour passed before the day's training finally came to an end.
According to the recent routine, after washing up, Master Xingyun would give the girls a full-body massage to work out the exhaustion accumulated from these brutal sessions, and only then would they be allowed to rest.
Their muscles were as hard as stone. If they were not properly massaged, the fatigue would genuinely ruin their racing careers. Xingyun Liuge was a good teacher. She was not about to stand by and watch them head for disaster. She still wanted to see the horse girls she had personally put through the grinder grow terrifyingly strong and win trophy after trophy.
But today felt different.
Barely able to remain upright, Donna still stepped forward and spoke first.
"Lady Xingyun, the King George opens this week. Unlike the Grand Prix de Paris, the opponents you'll face there will be older horse girls from all across Europe. If drilling us ends up affecting your own training plan, we'll feel terribly guilty. Please focus on your own preparations."
Daiwa Scarlet had reacted a beat slower, but she immediately rushed to add her own plea.
"That's right, Lady Xingyun. While you're training, we'll keep up with our daily work, supervise each other, and help each other out. We absolutely won't fall behind—and we won't let anyone else fall behind either!"
Donna and Daiwa Scarlet exchanged a look, and in each other's eyes they saw burning fighting spirit.
The message in that look was plain enough:
I'm not giving up. And I'm definitely not losing to you.
Seeing how fired up they were, Xingyun Liuge put her hands on her hips and sighed in satisfaction.
"Good. That's the spirit."
All those massages had not been for nothing. It seemed that she had successfully implanted the spirit of drawing one's sword into these girls.
There was just one problem.
The girls were saying they wanted her to focus entirely on her own training—but she could not find anyone willing to run a training race with her.
Neither the British nor the French horse girls were willing to face her in training anymore. They were too wary of her strength.
Was it because she had been going a little too wild in her recent races?
If so, then the King George almost felt secured already. At that point, maybe it would not matter whether she trained or not.
…A joke, of course. Xingyun Liuge did not actually think that.
If the other horse girls were truly afraid, then they would not have all gathered around London in the first place. It was not as though they had all traveled there just to run some unrelated minor races.
Obviously, the situation was exactly as Elizabeth had said: they intended to hide their strength and their tactics, then give her a "surprise" at the King George.
She had clearly been cast as the final boss.
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