The place Urushihara Tōru was hurrying toward was Tracen Academy's library.
Even as the top student of the trainer course, there was no way he could have memorized every last piece of knowledge related to horse girls.
If anything, the more deeply one studied the field, the more keenly one felt the extent of one's own ignorance.
And so, now that he had more or less grasped Urara's situation, Urushihara Tōru needed to properly study up and address her problems head-on.
For a late-blooming horse girl, perhaps the hardest problem of all was how to endure until the day her talent finally bloomed.
Repeated defeats would mercilessly batter her confidence, and a long stretch of stagnation might even twist the very love of running that lived in her heart.
Which meant that before Urara's true talent arrived, he had to find some way to help her maintain the right mindset.
How?
The answer was simple.
She just had to win.
Urushihara Tōru told himself not to view Urara as some overwhelmingly powerful superstar just because she had appeared in the anime, but instead to treat her as a horse girl of ordinary talent…
Well, all right. Maybe not entirely ordinary, if you looked at it from a negative angle.
Still, it did not matter.
He was a trainer with cheats. Wasn't leading his own horse girl through difficult times only natural?
On the way to the library, Urushihara Tōru had already formed a rough idea.
Since this was a world that revolved absolutely around horse girls, naturally it had researched them to an extraordinary degree.
Generally speaking, scholars in this world believed that a horse girl's ability could be divided into five core attributes:
Speed, stamina, power, grit, and intelligence.
Speed was self-explanatory. It referred to whether a horse girl ran fast or not.
More precisely, in the world of horse girls, speed referred to a horse girl's maximum velocity.
Stamina also needed little explanation. It was simply whether a horse girl had enough endurance to sustain her running.
Power, meanwhile, sounded a bit abstract to outsiders, but for horse girls it was just as important.
Power represented a horse girl's acceleration.
If he had to explain it using a concept that electric-car marketing in his previous life loved to talk about, then power was basically the horse-girl equivalent of a car's zero-to-one-hundred acceleration: how long it took to go from a standstill to full speed.
Horse girls were not fast enough to literally hit one hundred kilometers per hour, of course, but calling it something like "zero-to-sixty acceleration" worked well enough.
Naturally, a horse girl's power was not measured in time, but as a concrete attribute value.
The higher the power, the stronger the acceleration.
Horse girls who excelled in this area naturally held an advantage in race starts, acceleration out of corners, and final bursts.
As for grit—an attribute that sounded a bit too much like pure spirit-on-paper to outsiders—in the world of horse girls, it was an actual scientific factor.
When a horse girl's stamina was insufficient to finish a race, grit could, to a certain degree, compensate for that lack and let her keep running to the end.
At the same time, grit also influenced a horse girl's competitive drive.
The less willing a horse girl was to lose, the higher her grit tended to be, and the stronger her determination to overcome difficulties and surpass rivals.
And then there was the final category: intelligence.
Unlike the "IQ tests" that people in his previous life had loved to obsess over, a stricter name for this attribute would really be something like running IQ.
Not "running IQ" in the sense of a gaming term, but literally a kind of running quotient.
That was to say: a horse girl's perception, understanding, and response to all kinds of situations during a race.
Things like when to accelerate, how to distribute stamina more effectively on slopes, or how to seize the one available opening when boxed in by a pack.
So a horse girl with high intelligence was not necessarily smart in the everyday sense…
And vice versa.
As for Urara's current condition, it was this:
Her speed was poor.
Her stamina was average.
Her power was decent.
Her grit was excellent.
And her intelligence… at the very least, it was enough.
Did that sound hopeless?
In truth, it was pretty hopeless.
For a horse girl, low numbers in other areas could still be fixed.
But low speed? That was the one thing that was really hard to save.
Still, Urara had not yet undergone any systematic or scientific training. A weak foundation was understandable.
If she had been perfect already, then what was the trainer even for?
To stand at the finish line as decoration?
Once he arrived at the library, Urushihara Tōru began mentally planning out Urara's training program while searching the shelves for books that matched it.
Fall in Love with Running: How to Improve a Horse Girl's Speed Attribute?
Borrowed.
Horse Girl Sports Technique and Training
Borrowed.
Explosive Spirit! (Specialized Short-Distance Training Series for Horse Girls)
The title was a little strange, but he borrowed it anyway.
I Woke Up to Find Every Horse Girl in the World Had Slowed Down a Hundredfold, Except Me
What kind of bizarre book was that?
How had something like that made its way into Tracen's library?
Raising an eyebrow, Urushihara Tōru finally realized that at some point he had walked past the trainer section and into the shelves meant for horse girls.
No, wait. Did horse girls at Tracen really like reading stuff like this?
Just as he pulled that book out, intending to take it back with him for a good, thorough, highly critical reading, he suddenly heard an inner voice.
I really can't reach it… What should I do? Should I jump for it? But that wouldn't be very appropriate in a library, would it?
Following the direction of the voice, he saw a pair of enormous horse ears twitching.
They were really huge.
Even among all the horse girls he had met so far, those ears were on the larger side.
Looking lower, he saw a small horse girl standing there, gazing up at a certain shelf.
As a trainer, how could he possibly ignore a troubled horse girl right in front of him?
"Were you trying to get this one?"
Without hesitation, Urushihara Tōru walked up beside the petite, big-eared horse girl, followed her line of sight, took the book off the shelf, and asked in a soft voice.
"I was—eh?!"
Even though Urushihara Tōru had consciously kept his voice down, the small horse girl's tail still sprang upright in an instant.
A horse girl's ears and tail were both parts of the body that easily revealed her emotions.
And in a situation like this, it meant the horse girl had entered a state of alert.
"Don't be nervous. I'm just a passing trainer."
Urushihara Tōru pointed to the shining G on his chest.
"I-I see… hello?"
The small horse girl still sounded a little tense, but her tail had already lowered again.
The identity of a trainer inspired an instinctive degree of trust in horse girls.
"Hello to you too."
Urushihara Tōru gave her a friendly smile, then pointed to the book he had taken down from the shelf.
Sneaking a glance at it, he saw that it seemed to be a picture book titled The Magician Who Brings Happiness.
"So, is this the one you wanted to borrow?"
"Yes."
When the petite horse girl nodded, Urushihara Tōru handed the book over to her.
"If this happens again next time, don't hesitate to ask someone nearby for help. No one would refuse a request from such a cute horse girl."
"Thank you, Trainer…"
The small horse girl lowered her head, making it hard to see her expression clearly.
Cute…? Me?
Judging from the content of her inner thoughts, she seemed like a rather insecure little thing.
But hold on.
That petite frame. Those enormous ears.
Why did she look so familiar?
Had he seen this horse girl somewhere before?
"Ah!"
The instant a scene flashed through his memory overlapped perfectly with the instant the small horse girl finally summoned the courage to lift her head.
This horse girl was—
"Rice Shower!!!"
-------
April Special Days *Sale 20%*
patreon.com/RuneA
-------
I, Herta's Fiancé, the Universe's Number One Male Fist (114 Chapter (Simulpub-Full) )
Zenless Zone Zero: I'm a Succubus in Sixth Street (400 Chapter)
Reborn in Type-Moon, My Sister is Aoko Aozaki (254 Chapter)
MyGO!! A Story Voiced by Me (140 Chapter)
BLEACH: Blade of Purification (158 Chapter)
Konoha: Starting the Game as Yoriichi (400 Chapter)
My Real Job is Spying on Konoha, but I'm Also its Hokage (140 Chapter)
The Pinnacle of the Navy! Starting from Being Captured by Garp (172 Chapter)
Watching Yu-Gi-Oh! short videos is making the veteran players lose...(80 Chapter)
Uma Musume : The Trainer Who Just Wants to Live (261 Chapter) (Ending)
Zenless Zone Zero The Random Kamen Rider (200 Chapter)
Genshin Impact: It All Began With Me Being Stepped On by Arlecchino (120 Chapter)
Naruto: I Can Synthesize Summoning Beasts (96 Chapter)
Demon Slayer: The Great Swordsman's System, Disciple of Yoriichi (140 Chapter)
My Wife is a General, but I'm an Emanator of Abundance! (160 Chapter)
Type-Moon: My Nine-Fold Path (140 Chapter)
Uma Musume: They're Peeking at My Diary, and All of Tracen is Panickin (Ending)
The Wild History of Type-Moon world (70 Chapter)
Reborn in Conan, But I Refuse to Be the Bad Guy (80 Chapter)
Ruan Mei is begging me to go back? But there's no going back anymore (140 Chapter)
Just a Slacker at Tracen Academy (165 Chapter)
Survival in Blue Archive (70 Chapter)
Kimetsu no Yaiba: Doma Wasn't Hated Today, Either (100 Chapter)
The Vibe of This Chat Group is a Little Off (100 Chapter)
Heartbreak Simulator: I Broke Them and Made Them Cry (80 Chapter)
The Talentless Trainer Doesn't Want to Restart (80 Chapter)
A Journey Starting as a Quincy (80 Chapter)
Uma Musume: The Master of Romance Obstruction (80 Chapter)
Uma Musume: You Can't Be a Hero Without a Little Chemical Enhancement (40 Chapter)
Honkai Impact 3rd Your Boyfriend is Really Amazing (40 Chapter)
Warhammer 40K: My Fiancée, Fulgrim (180 Chapter)
Classroom of the Elite: Trying to Capture Me! (120 Chapter)
Genshin Impact My Named Senji Muramas (150 Chapter)
A Chef, the Vice-Captain of the Rocks Pirates? (160 Chapter)
Naruto : My Uchiha Girlfriend is Too Tsundere (130 Chapter)
Type-Moon: Reincarnated in a Lostbelt, I Became the Alien God (90 Chapter)
The Way These Horse Girls Look at Me Is Terrifying! (160 Chapter)
Naruto: Tsunade's Deskmate (130 Chapter)
I Just Want to Live a Normal (50 Chapter).
Genshin Impact: A Hundred Confessions? It's Just a System Task (70 Chapter)
OnePiece : Starting as a Veteran of the Roger Pirates (60 Chapter)
Uma Musume : I Have Special Horse Taming Techniques (190 Chapter)
Uma Musume : My other self is a Horse Girl (130 Chapter)
Jujutsu Kaisen : All Affection Stats Maxed Out (200 Chapter)
Satou Kazuma's Decision to Live by Swindling, Starting from Re:Zero (60 Chapter)
Bleach : Ichigo! Take Over the Soul Society (89 Chapter)
Crossover Anime: The Master of Plagiarism with a 'Love Obstacle (140 Chapter)
Arknights Succubus Nurturing System, But I'm a Quiet Office Worker (90 Chapter)
Genshin Impact: Using My Personas to Break the Hearts of Players (50 Chapter)
One Punch Man : i am King? (150 Chapter)
Genshin: My Stats Are Irresistible (70 Chapter)
Naruto: Master of Dream Fulfillment! (70 Chapter)
Why Are All My Chat Group Friends Spin-Off Characters? (130 Chapter)
Arknights : Batman System (30 Chapter)
Chat Group: Swapping Bodies with the Bad-Ending Herta from the Start (80 Chapter)
DanMachi: Why Did My Dungeon Turn Into a Soulslike Game? (130 Chapter)
Losing Money on Uma Musume...What Do You Mean You Actually Won? (120 Chapter)
I'm Gotou Hitori—Who Are You? (40 Chapter)
Were You Ever Even a Uma Musume? Stop Making Things Up! (78 Chapter)
Moon Project: A Full-Time Love Adventure for the Lobotomy Corporation (75 Chapter)
The Leisurely Days of the Hyuga Main House (65 Chapter)
Arknights : A Draco Surviving in a Matriarchal Terra (189 Chapter)
Arknights: What if My Luck Is Too Good? (135 Chapter)
Honkai: The Romance System Only Shows Up After I Marry Mei (55 Chapter)
Arknights: Who Are You Calling Repressed, X?! (145 Chapter)
The Chat Group Only Arrived After I'd Cleared the Game (102 Chapter)
Gojo Satoru Flat-Out Refuses to Admit He's a Supporting Character (40 Chapter)
Chat Group Isn't Supposed to Be Like This! (30 Chapter)
If You're Moriarty...then Who Am I? (140 Chapter)
Uma Musume: Since I "Can't See," They Take Turns Stealing My Underwear (50 Chapter)
Arknights: Why Are All My "Brothers" Girls? (54 Chapter)
Danmachi: Start Training Haki (59 Chapter)
Emiya Shirou's Rebirth (30 Chapter)
I Can Get Stronger Just by AFK'ing—So I Joined a Chat Group (50 Chapter)
Endfield: I Can Always Pull Out One Yuan (65 Chapter)
Limbus Company : I Started a Company in Project Moon (50 Chapter)
Lobotomy: Do Cooks of Alley 23 Dream of Bloodfiend Knights? (50 Chapter)
DanMachi: Freya Familia's "One-Blade Shura" (60 Chapter)
DanMachi: Emiya, the Great Hero Becomes the Protagonist (90 Chapter)
TYPE-MOON: One Special Instance Every Week (40 Chapter)
From Danmachi: The Abundance Apothecary (70 Chapter)
Lord Shadow Descends on DanMachi (90 Chapter)
Fuse with Me, Exusiai! (41 Chapter)
Honkai: Star Rail — After I Die, I Forge Their Madness (60 Chapter)
DanMachi: The Last Zeus Familia (95 Chapter)
Endfield: Arknights Heroic Spirit Summoning (75 Chapter)
Toyokawa Family Finances (105 Chapter)
Starting From DanMachi to Become Stronger (90 Chapter)
DanMachi: My Familia Is Made Up Entirely of Heroines from Every World! (75 Chapter)
Arknights: My Intel Refreshes Daily (110 Chapter)
Digimon : I Never Meant to Do Evil, Even Though I Wasn't Chosen (40 Chapter)
Miss Holmes Could Never Be the Losing Heroine! (40 Chapter)
Takayama Gamu at Tracen Academy (40 Chapter)
Legendary Trainer Takes on MYGO (40 Chapter)
Arknights : Yandere Game: The Operators Have Come Knocking (100 Chapter)
Arknights: This Dating Sim Is Seriously Wrong! (120 Chapter)
Arknights : Ch'en Hui-chieh, I'm Done Being the Good Guy! (50 Chapter)
Type-Moon: Wasn't This Supposed to Be a Family Simulator? Why Am I the Family Heirloom? (40 Chapter)
Honkai: Star Rail : The Trailblazer Only Wants a Peaceful Life (45 Chapter)
Arknights: The Unlucky Dad? But I've Got the Chronicle of Time! (55 Chapter)
The Wheelchair War God Is Speedrunning Hogwarts (50 Chapter)
DanMachi: The Elemental Blaster of Orario (45 Chapter)
Playing Honkai in Star Rail (30 Chapter)
As an Alien, I'm Solo Leveling in Warhammer 40K (30 Chapter)
Arknights: A Symbiote's Survival Guide (70 Chapter)
My Yu-Gi-Oh! Deck Is Built Entirely from Stuff I Picked Up (30 Chapter)
I Can Hear the Thoughts of Uma Mutsume (30 Chapter)
Dead-Men Chat Group: Winning the Resurrection Bracket (40 Chapter)
Zenless Zone Zero: Saving the World While Falling in Love! (40 Chapter)
Demon Slayer: My Breathing Techniques Can Be Leveled Up (50 Chapter)
If there's a particular novel you're enjoying on Patron, please give it a 'like' so I know to focus on it