Uma Musume: From Being Knocked Ten Meters Away

Chapter 412 A Date with the Northern Black Horse
Perhaps because he was too excited about traveling to Tokyo with Makoto Yasui, he quickly ended the video call after saying goodnight to Genkomichi in the north.

Staring blankly at the black screen, Yasui Makoto suddenly came up with an explanation for no apparent reason.

A date is an activity that involves meeting at a pre-arranged time and place, including meetings between friends or colleagues, or romantic partners.

This word is quite common in Japan, but thinking about it now, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

After the Lunar New Year, thanks to his mother's reminders and hints, he made a point of confirming that he actually had a rather good impression of the Northern Black Horse.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think that if they really went out together, it would be a rare date for just the two of them.

But before he even went to bed, while he was just washing up in a daze, he put these strange thoughts out of his mind.

Not only did I confirm my feelings for the Northern Black Horse, but I also realized that it was best to keep those feelings to myself for now, so as not to affect my training and competition.

On the other hand, he also realized that while he had confirmed matters of the heart, Northern Xuanju probably had no idea what emotions and love were all about.

No, perhaps it's not a matter of knowing or not knowing.

Rather, it was the seemingly carefree girl who probably had no concept of these things at all.

So just treat tomorrow as a regular date, and I also need to get some rest recently.

After finally falling asleep with this thought in mind, Yasui Makoto woke up to find that the trainer had woken up.

Sensing the anticipation of today's date from Northern Genko, he chuckled to himself, quickly washed up and ate breakfast, and followed the text message after greeting the person to Fuzhong subway station.

Before boarding the subway, he reaffirmed his high expectations for Northern Black Horse.

It's clear that the girl put a lot of thought into her outfit today.

She wore a cream-colored short-sleeved shirt underneath, with the neckline slightly open, revealing her delicate collarbone.

The hem was casually tucked into the jeans, revealing a few wrinkles at the corner of the shirt.

The outer layer is a maple red sweatshirt with distressed frayed edges on the cuffs and hem. The drawstring on the sweatshirt hood is tied into two unique bows that sway gently with each step.

The lower body consists of high-waisted straight-leg jeans, with dark blue legs and distressed details at the knees and hems, similar to a sweatshirt, clearly matching the top.

On her feet were red and white canvas shoes, with shoelaces tied in a unique bow, just like the drawstring on the hoodie.

The Northern Black Horse, dressed like this, has a natural feel to it, as if it has just finished its morning run but has been carefully dressed up. It is sunny and cheerful, and also has a warm and gentle touch.

I've never seen this kind of outfit before. From the moment I got on the subway to the moment I got off, I kept turning my head to look at it.

I didn't have any other thoughts; I just felt that this Northern Black Steed looked very good and couldn't help but want to say a few words of praise.

However, he hadn't found an opportunity yet, because ever since she met him, Beifang Xuanju had excitedly pulled out her little notebook and enthusiastically displayed the travel guide she had carefully prepared the night before.

When the two emerged from the Shibuya subway line, she closed her notebook and excitedly pointed to the right of the platform exit:

"...Anyway, let's start our date from the first stop!"

On the subway, Yasui Makoto had heard the word "date" many times.

At first, he was somewhat concerned about what others thought.

After all, she had already thought about it last night. Today, she and Beifang Xuanju were going out together, which would look a bit like a romantic date. She couldn't help but secretly look around.

But after watching a few times, he noticed that apart from a few curious passersby glancing over, some of whom recognized Northern Black Horse and excitedly came over for autographs, no one else reacted particularly strongly, so he let it go. Therefore, when he heard about the date again, he couldn't help but smile, then became puzzled:

"So... what do you mean by starting from the first stop...?"

"Of course it is... eh?"

Nodding as he subconsciously walked towards the right side of the platform, Kita Genko turned and looked at him with the same puzzled expression:
"Didn't we tell the trainer on the way here? The beverage shop at Shibuya subway station platform, that's the first stop on our date plan today!"

"Uh, this..."

Yasui Makoto was embarrassed for a moment, thought for a while, and finally honestly admitted:

"Xiao Bei... probably mentioned it, but... but there were too many things to talk about on the date, so I... didn't really remember them..."

As he tried to recall, he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a beverage shop involved in Northern Black Horse's dating plans.

If I remember correctly, there are about five or six such beverage shops, and each one seems to have some special drinks that you must try.

He hadn't really been to Tokyo much, let alone gone shopping. Genkobuchi had arranged so many things and talked so fast that he hadn't even remembered the last thing before he heard the next one, so he ended up remembering none of them.

Thinking of all this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly to himself:

"So, when I give her guidance, is this how she feels too?"

Unaware that his trainer was reflecting on his actions, Northern Black Horse paused for a moment, then patted his head in self-reproach:

"It was my oversight; the trainer wasn't familiar with this place... Well then!"

Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she reached out to take Yasui Makoto's hand. With her other hand, she patted her chest forcefully and said confidently:

"Trainer, just follow me today, I'll make sure you have a great day!"

After saying that, without waiting for a response, as if afraid of missing something, she took the hand of the surprised Yasui Makoto and walked in one breath to a beverage shop diagonally opposite the station exit.

This shop is not big and looks no different from the common milk tea shops and coffee shops on the street. There are not many customers queuing here.

Still feeling like he'd missed something, Beibu Xuanju arrived at the shop entrance with a mixture of trepidation and anticipation. He held up two fingers and said eagerly:
"Two cups of green juice, please. Thank you so much!"

After ordering her drink, seeing the clerk nod and start working, she excitedly turned around and said:
"Luckily we arrived early enough. The trainer probably doesn't know, but this shop's green juice is very famous. It's a pity it's limited and not available every day. If we had come later, it would have been sold out..."

She paused mid-sentence, then hesitated for a moment before saying:
"What's wrong, trainer? Is something wrong...?"

Although he wasn't looking in a mirror, seeing the shop assistants preparing a greenish-blue drink, Yasui Makoto felt that his complexion was probably also a bit greenish.

He knew about green juice, a unique Japanese beverage made from tender leaves of barley, sweet potato, and cabbage.

When I was little, I tried it once, at my mother's urging or instigation, and that was only once.

Because many people may like that flavor, but for him, the experience of drinking green juice that time was like eating grass, indescribable.

Looking at the green juice that the shop assistant had already prepared, Yasui Makoto unconsciously swallowed and thought to himself:

"So, shall we start our date with aoboshi juice? And all the drinks after that... will they all be this weird...?"

(End of this chapter)