Uma Musume: From Being Knocked Ten Meters Away

Chapter 29 Write a song to gather fans for the competition

As Northern Black Horse hummed, Yamato Akagi nodded thoughtfully.

"I see. Trainer Yasui wants to use this method to boost Xiaobei's popularity?"

Yasui Zhen nodded and said:

"Maybe it's because her training data isn't good enough, plus I'm too young. Even though Xiaobei won her debut competition, her fan base hasn't increased much, and now it's only a little over 1.

“Registration has already started for this month’s conditional competition, and the requirement is 2 followers.

“Although the competition is still more than three weeks away, if the number of registrations is not enough, it will be quite troublesome to change the schedule, and you will have to pay the re-registration fee.

"I don't intend to affect the overall plan, so I can only use this auxiliary method."

Hearing this, Yamato Akagi nodded silently.

She had excellent training results before her debut and was well-known as a trainer.

His performance in subsequent competitions was also quite outstanding, with 12 championships and 8 runner-up titles in 4 career competitions.

With this kind of career, you don’t have to worry about fans or anything, but others don’t have it so easy.

Poor training results before debut, trainers who are not famous enough, losing key competitions, being too focused on a certain type of competition, and many other miscellaneous factors will all affect the number of fans.

The number of fans for many competitions is a strict requirement, and the more important the competition, the more so.

For races like the Takarazuka Kinen and Arima Kinen, fans need to vote directly, and only the horse racing girls with the highest number of votes can appear. There are no preliminaries like in most G1s.

In order to gain more fans, many horse girls and trainers will arrange other methods besides striving to get better rankings in competitions.

For example, participating in festivals, volunteering, interviewing programs and other activities.

Or they can organize street concerts, form a band, or collaborate with magazines or other parties.

These are all within the scope permitted by the URA Association and the Academy.

From the current perspective, Northern Black Horse’s training results are not outstanding enough, its trainer is not famous enough, and it is under some pressure in terms of the number of fans.

In order to deal with this, Yasui Makoto chose to write his own songs.

And in Yamato Akagi's impression, there have been trainers or horse girls who have thought about this in the past.

However, daily training and competitions take up a lot of time, and writing songs is not an easy task, so there are almost no people who can balance both aspects.

And if it is well written, it is fine, but if it is poorly written, it may even have the opposite effect.

So in most cases, trainers and horse girls who want to attract fans by singing basically find ways to spend money to buy some songs from the industry.

However, after spending some time together, Yamato Akagi felt that Yasui Shin was calm and had strong opinions. Even if the songs he wrote were not outstanding, they would not be too bad, so there was no need to worry.

What's more, Northern Black Horse has already hummed the rhythm and seems to be enjoying it, so it would be even more difficult to say anything to spoil the fun.

Thinking of this, Yamato Akagi said casually:

"It seems that Trainer Yasui is really attentive. This should be the auxiliary method mentioned on the first day we met, right?"

Without thinking as much as Yamato Akagi, Yasui Shin nodded.

“I’m still short of 1 fans, but this song should be enough.

"Xiaobei has great musical talent, so I think there will be no problem letting her sing this song.

"Of course, as I just said, if Xiaobei feels there's anything wrong with what I wrote, she can just revise it. I have no objection."

Northern Xuanju, who was humming a song softly, was startled.

"I don't think so... Although I haven't learned singing specifically from Grandpa and the others, I can feel that the song written by the trainer is very nice!"

"Really."

Yasui smiled.

"Then wait until tonight when we go to KTV, try singing, and then tell me what your friends think of it."

"Yeah! They'll be surprised that a trainer can write such a good song!"

Northern Xuanju nodded excitedly.

Yamato Akagi suddenly became curious, but also doubted her previous judgment. She knew very well that this junior's family was very talented in music.

Especially my grandfather, who was a frequent guest at the "Red and White Song Festival".

The Red and White Songs Contest is like the top G1 of the Shining Series, and all those who are invited to participate are the top singers in the industry.

As a frequent attendee of such events, it can be said that Kitagawa Genju's grandfather represents Japanese music.

With such a family background, even if she did not pursue a career in music but became a horse girl, Kita no Xuanju believed that good songs would definitely not be too bad.

...So, not only does he have amazing abilities in training, he also has an outstanding talent in music?
What kind of genius is this?

Out of curiosity and surprise, Yamato Akagi couldn't help but move closer to Kita no Xuanju and carefully examine the contents on the paper.

At the same time, she asked:
"If Xiaobei is praising it so much...what's the name of this song?"

"Oh, yeah, I was just busy looking at the lyrics. Let me take a look..."

Beibu Xuanju slapped his head belatedly and quickly looked at the top of the paper.

Then, she and Yamato Akagi murmured in unison.

"The song's title is… 'Fireworks'?"

……

At night, in a KTV box in Harajuku, a black-haired girl held up the microphone and sang a cappella with intoxication and deep emotion.

“pa tto hi ka tte sai ta
“ha na bi wo mi te i ta
"ki tto ma da o wa ra na i na tsu ga
“ai ma i na ko ko ro
"wo to ka shi te tsu na i da
"ko no yo ru ga tsu zu i te ho shi ka tta"

What she sang was "Fireworks" given to her by Makoto Yasui, and it was the climax at the end.

When the song ended, she raised the microphone, stepped sideways, bent her knees, and bowed to the opposite side in a rather elegant manner.

Across from them, two similar-looking horse girls looked amazed.

"Amazing... Whether it's your singing, Xiaobei, or the song written by your trainer, they're both amazing."

In admiration, Ri Jianguang applauded.

Satomi Kuroko, who was standing beside her, also applauded and said in disbelief:

"Your trainer... is he really 18 years old? And... is this song really written by him?"

"elder sister……"

Satomi Mitsuzu looked at him with some reproach.

"Ah, sorry..."

Bowing to Northern Xuanju, Satomi Crown clasped his hands together and said:
"I didn't mean anything else, I just... was really surprised.

"I don't understand music as well as you, Xiaobei, but I think writing songs must be a very difficult thing, right?

"At 18 years old... with such a good level of training, he can still write such an outstanding song...

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't believe it for a moment...

"Anyway, Xiaobei, you're a really good trainer."

"Hey, hey, it's okay."

After stepping down from the stage, Beibu Xuanju suddenly returned to her usual innocent look. She scratched her head and said:
“Actually, I was surprised too.

“When I first got this song, I just felt that the lyrics were good, the musical notation was fine, and the rhythm and rhyme seemed to be fine.

"When I sang it, it was so good that I couldn't believe it was written by a trainer."

"So, Xiaobei, you think so too..."

Satomi Crown was relieved for a moment, then felt incredulous again.

"Such a beautiful song must have taken a long time to write...your trainer is just trying to help you gather some fans?"

(End of this chapter)