Uma Musume: Wine Red Chapter 22: Dangerous Valentine

"Do you seriously not think about how other people will think if they saw you?!?!"

"Bu–But this is–"

"Don't talk back to !!! What you should do is reflect upon yourself!"

In the Minaz team room, one can see King Halo berating McQueen and Teio. King Halo was here to escort her daughter, and when she saw the very questionable position Igo, McQueen, and Teio were in, she instantly bolted forward and karate chopped McQueen and Teio on the head.

"What were you doing, trainer?"

"Uuuuuhhh… We were wrestling."

I an… Technically, I'm not wrong.

"And what's that, Urara?"

"Ah! This is chocolate for you!! King help make this."

Haru Urara hands over a box wrapped in pink gift wrapping, complete with a cute pink ribbon.

"Awww~~ Thank you, you cutie patootie~"

The young man grabs the box while also pinching Haru Urara's cheek. He found out that her cheek is weirdly elastic. Have people been pinching her that her cheeks have evolved into being more elastic?

"Can I open it?"

"Yeah!"

The young man carefully pulled off the ribbon and opened the box. He can see the proof that these chocolates were handmade since the shapes are hardly consistent. So are bigger, so are bent, and so are cracked. It's Haru Urara after all. It'll be more suspicious if all of them are perfect. The young man grabs a chocolate and then puts it in her mouth.

"How is it?"

"I like it."

It's too sweet for the young man's taste, but isn't that just how chocolate is? He can just drink his tea to wash down the sweetness in his mouth. Sad that the tea brewer is currently being berated by Urara's mother, but she deserves it.

*BAAAM*

"Happy Vallentine, Trainer!!"

The harbinger of chaos, Goldship, enters the team room. The young man feels dread when he sees that Goldship is beaming with joy. Either Godzilla had just made landfall in Tokyo or King Ghidorah had just been freed.

"Here, the chocolate from !!"

"HMPH!!!"

The young man quickly grabs the neatly wrapped gift in Goldship's hand and throws it out the window.

*Beeeeeeeeep* *Beeeeeep* *Beeep* *Beep* *Beep* *Beep* *BOOOOM*

"..."

"Ehehehe. Eto~~ Bleeeh~~"

That won't work when you just tried to give a pipe bomb, Goldship.

"That was just a joke, Trainer. Here's the real one."

Goldship pulls out a normal cardboard box from inside her bag. The young man takes it with extre caution, treating it as if it'll explode with even the smallest of jostles. He opens it and prepares himself to roll away to safety.

"It's… normal."

"You know, that's kinda rude to say to a maiden like ."

"You're not."

Calling Goldship maiden is like calling a polar bear cute. That thing can and will kill you when the chance is given. She is like a lion in a zebra costu.

I'll have these checked by nutritionists first before taking a bite.

*Ssshhhkk*

"Excuse ."

"Welco, Suzuka. Was your run fun?"

"Mmmhhh… I can't help myself."

"Sigh… As long as you'll be in peak condition for your debut race, then I'm okay with it."

"I'll win it. For sure."

Suzuka's confidence has a basis to it. With her S aptitude for Front Runner and because of all the training she had done, her ti has been improving. The young man has absolute confidence in her that she'll win if she is in a great mood during her debut race. All of those stats will go to the trash if she is feeling awful, though, which is why he is concerned for her.

"Urara, tell Suzuka to rest."

"Okay!!"

Urara hops off from the sofa and then runs toward Suzuka. The small pink-haired Uma hugged the chestnut-haired Uma. She looks up and smiles at Suzuka.

"Please take a rest, big sis Suzuka."

"Kuh…!! This is not fair, trainer."

"I know. But it's easy. That's why I do it. Now co here and sit down."

"Okay… Here, trainer, a Valentine's chocolate from ."

"Thanks. I'll eat this later. Too much sugar is bad for my health."

"Fufufu~~ It must be hard being so popular, huh? By the way, why is King Halo angry at McQueen and Teio?"

"They were being stupid. Leave them. They'll get spoiled if you help them, Suzuka."

"If you say so."

Silence Suzuka had seen King Halo being angry at soone before, like when she was with Seiun Sky, and there is always a good reason for her anger. Knowing this, Silence Suzuka decides to ignore the pleading eyes of McQueen and Teio.

"Give your feet."

"Eh?!"

The young man grabs Suzuka's feet and puts them on his lap. He placed his hands on her shins, massaging them. Suzuka was taken by surprise, but she quickly let herself relax under her trainer's care. His big and powerful fingers dig into her sore muscles, relaxing them after her run.

"It's not that bad, trainer."

"It'll build up, Suzuka."

There is another reason why the young man pays close attention to Suzuka's legs. Anyone who is even the slightest bit familiar with Silence Suzuka would know her fate. A leg fracture. A death sentence for horses. It's not far-fetched to think that the Silence Suzuka of this world will experience the sa fate as her counterpart. Thankfully, for this Suzuka, Uma Musu's biology is almost identical to humans, so a fracture doesn't always an death, but it's still painful.

In fact, wouldn't McQueen and Teio suffer leg-related injuries too? Did I make my team out of crippled?

"Mmh!"

The young man is so focused on his own thoughts, he misses that his hands have traveled up Suzuka's legs and are now massaging her thighs. His girthy manly fingers dig deep into her maiden succulent at. Suzuka wants to clamp down her thighs, but she doesn't want to crush her trainer's hands.

"Ah!"

Suzuka will need six months to recover from her fracture. And even after the recovery, that doesn't an she'll return to her peak state. The injury will surely traumatize Suzuka, which ans we'll need to add ntal recovery to the formula. I can't afford that. I have to stop that fate from happening in the first place.

"Ooh! Mmh!"

To go against fate. To fight against what will happen. To change the future. Can I even do that? Is that even possible? I'm up against a constant in the world, aren't I? Can a single individual like change how the world will flow? It surely is impossible, isn't it…?

"Aah! Mhh!"

But that's what a loser would think!

"Ah!! Hooh!"

It would without a doubt cost a fortune to change Suzuka's bone condition, but luckily for , I know soone one that has all of that. But I can't just ask her for money, can I? She is not my sugar mommy.

"Ny–Nyoah! Tra–Trainer..!!"

I need to offer her sothing of equivalent exchange in the form of sothing else. I need to pay attention closely to her and watch what she likes, which makes the next week's Dream Series race sothing that I can't miss.

"Suzuka, there's sothing that I want to talk about, so can you fix your sitting position?"

When the young man returned to consciousness, Suzuka had her back bent over the armrest and her hands gripping the sofa like her life depended on it. Her body occasionally shivers, and she is making so weird noises.

Did she develop so weird habit or sothing?