Uma Musume: Wine Red Chapter 175: Heaven's Path

"Everyone!! Please line up!! Please enter the bus one after another!!"

The day of the training camp has arrived. A large number of umamusus have gathered in the courtyard of Tracen Academy. A line of buses can be seen parking at the gate, ready to drive the umamusus to their camp location. The petite chairwoman and her secretary are standing just in front of the frontmost bus, ready to send them off.

"By the way, where are the trainers' buses?"

"Over there."

A red-haired rookie trainer asks his long, straight, black-haired senior about their vehicle to the train camp. The senior points far behind the buses for the umamusus, where a line of heavy armored buses waits for their passengers.

"If that falls into the ocean, we all will drown."

"It can transform into a submarine, so you don't need to worry."

"What the fuck?"

"The last ti, the rival schools stole a bus of our trainers. That was an annoying ordeal to solve."

"So it's not only our umamusus that we need to worry about, huh?"

Not only will the trainers be transported using heavy armored buses, but the Tracen PMC will also be escorting the trainers using IFVs, helicopters, and tanks. These are to ensure that nothing will harm the precious trainers of Tracen Academy.

"Every student has entered the bus, chairwoman."

"Thank you, Tazuna!! With this!!! I sent this year's batch on their rry way!! Make sure to co back stronger!!!"

With the words of the petite chairwoman, the first bus filled with Tracen's umamusus departed for the training camp's location. The umamusus who stay back wave their hands at their departing comrades. Wishing they would advance their relationship with their trainers and also their training, but mostly about their love life.

After the trainees, it's ti for the trainers to board the bus. The trainers are screened to make sure that nothing unwanted happens during the drive. It's not that weird for Tracen's trainers' bus to be hijacked, so the PMC needed to be as careful as they could.

"All trainers have boarded the buses, boss."

"Alright!! It's ti for the trainers to depart!! I leave my precious umamusus in your hands!!!"

The petite chairwoman waves her fan as she sends the trainers away. She would love to be with them, but she needs to take care of Tracen Academy.

"Let us await their return, Tazuna!"

"Yes, Chairwoman Akikawa."

"By the way, have you been running again? You look younger and healthier than in the past."

"Ahahaha… Do I look like that?"

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Inside the bus, the red-haired young man is sitting between Aoi Kiryuin and Riko Kashimoto. His eccentric nature makes it hard for anyone to bond with him, so only a select few are even capable of talking to him. Amongst them are these 2 trainers.

"Trainer Igo, do you want so?"

"Yeah! Thanks."

The young man can't be happier to be surrounded by beautiful won. He now understands those kings who have more than one wife. He is fighting the urge not to put his hands on their shoulders and pull them toward him.

"By the way, that's a cute outfit, Aoi."

"Ah!! Ahahaha… Thank you. I'm glad that you like it."

"On the other hand, wouldn't you get cooked if you keep wearing that, senior Riko?"

"I'll be wearing sothing else during the training. I only wear this for formal events."

"Eeh? Will you be wearing a cute or beautiful swimsuit?"

"A normal swimsuit. It's just a plain one. I don't see why I would need to wear anything other than a plain swimsuit."

"Eh? But you're pretty popular, though. Your fans would love to have a swimsuit picture of you."

"I don't… want that. I'm a trainer after all. My quality should be asured through my trainees instead of my body."

"Yeah, I guess that's a fair point."

Although I pretty much want to see her in a swimsuit. Even a plain one should do.

"It would take us around six hours to reach our destination. Should we play a ga to pass the ti?"

"Yeah, sure. There are sockets here anyway. I can charge my phone when it gets low."

And I'll do anything to gain brownie points with Aoi.

While the bus ran across the black asphalt, the scenery slowly changed from a tropolitan city to a mountainous forest. The concrete logs are quickly replaced by organic ones as they travel farther and farther from the city's heart.

For most academies, renting a whole beach as a private training ground is simply absurd. But that can't be said for Tracen Academy. Money from sponsors, money from races, money from the governnt, money from the alumni, Tracen has inco coming from all sorts of directions, which allows them to do what no other could without really needing to worry about their financial situation.

This, in turn, helped Tracen to stand out even more compared to other academies, which attract powerful umamusu, which would win races and attract sponsorship, which would enrich Tracen even more. This delicious cycle of growth has helped Tracen to sail when many paddle. There's even a rumor that the chairwoman is intending to buy an island purely to make it into a training ground.

"Is there even a truth to the island buying rumors?"

"Yes. Chairwoman Akikawa is insane sotis."

"She is going to cry if she hears you, Senior Riko."

"Don't worry, Tazuna told her that every day."

"Hahahaha… That sounds fun, doesn't it? Maybe next year we'll get to hold the training camp there."

An island where the trainers are stuck with their trainees and have nowhere else to go… Sounds good…