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The petite loli horse girl was sitting behind the table, on which lay today's homework.

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The screen in front of her was playing the annual awards ceremony for Japanese sporting events.

It was obvious that Hikari Satomi was doing her homework while watching the live stream with great anticipation.

Genko from the north wasn't here. After all, even if they were close, they wouldn't do homework together or sleep together.

"Ugh, so much homework today..."

"Hopefully, we'll see Miss Xuezhui win Best of the Year!!"

"Although Ms. Yuki's 4GI in a single year is impressive, and she still has an undefeated triple crown, there's no need to elaborate on how formidable the senior Shin'o is in international matches."

"Hopefully, the winner of the Player of the Year award will be..."

And the next moment.

The horse races that have become Japan's best representatives of the year are... Yoishiro Oyuki and Kamitaka!!

When you hear the host's last sentence clearly.

When she heard two names at the same time in one award, one of them was her favorite and most admired horse racer, Hercules!

In that instant, Hikari almost dropped the pen and paper in her hand because she was so excited.

"Phew... It's actually [Double Kings]?"

"The last time the two kings were at it, Xiao Bei and I, and even Miss Zhui Xue, weren't even born yet."

"In this situation, URA, and indeed all the official organizers of events around the world, would absolutely not allow it easily."

"Is it really an exception that they're tying for the Best of the Year award just for Miss Xuezhui and Senior Shenying?"

In other words, was Yoshiro Tsurugi, in her classic years, already on par with Japan's GAT Shin'yō?!

To some extent, this is another positive development for Xiaobai Zhuixue.

After all, there is more than one triple crown winner.

However, he is the only GOAT in international competitions.

This juxtaposition only makes people look forward to the future, to the external battles that Xiaobai and Zhuixue will face.

Perhaps, in external battles, Yoruichiro Tsurugi might be able to rival Shin'yō?!

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Time: The next day.

The snow-white-clad girl is running on her own private training ground.

But only a short time passed, and I was far from feeling physically tired.

But Xiao Bai suddenly stopped chasing the snow.

[(Normal Lead Hesitation): Makes a runaway horse hesitate at the end of the race, slightly reducing its speed.]

Skill!

In training, Xiao Bai Zhui Xue has mastered a new skill.

"So fast..."

She looked at the perceived skill effects, but wasn't very interested.

Here comes the second "gate technique" besides the [(Exclusive to the King of Battle)].

In Xiao Bai Zhui Xue's opinion, let alone the second option, even the third and fourth options wouldn't be of much help to him in the short term.

After all, Xiao Bai Zhui Xue is no longer in the early stages of the New Year of the Horse or the Classic Year, when he lacked skills and had to use whatever skills he had.

Now that we've entered the Year of the Horse, truly outstanding racehorses have already designed optimal skill usage tactics based on their own running style.

Good opera has probably already established its domain, and may even master other exclusive skills and multiple legendary skills in the future.

In comparison, this meager, unsystematic gate technique is of little use in such a high-level GI competition; it's only suitable for smurfing in some GII competition.

After all, while gate techniques may seem impressive, using them can be quite taxing on racehorses.

Most of the gate techniques have limitations. Some require specific running patterns for Xiaobai Zhui Xue, while others only restrict escape or pursuit horses.

If you painstakingly sacrifice a lot of your physical strength to open all the gates in the stadium, wouldn't that be the same as having no gates at all?

Therefore, the comprehensive requirements for gate techniques are extremely high, or one must have a wide range of skills like her "King of Troopers".

If she develops a wide range of skills, creating a rich "skill sea," then she can easily outmaneuver opera singers by unleashing two, three, or even four barrier techniques that restrict the flow of the performance. That would be incredibly effective.

The result will certainly be extremely surprising.

In either case, the demand is very high and cannot be met in the short term.

That's why Yoshiro Tsurugi didn't use his gate technique at the Arima Memorial; he'd rather save his energy for sprinting.

As for now, the two gate techniques that Xiao Bai Zhui Xue currently possesses are still far from enough.

We still need to keep working hard. Once we learn more gate techniques, we'll eventually be able to draw some powerful ones, or even those that can form a tactical system.

In short, the main theme is a promising future!

"However, besides enhancing charm and improving the potential of future generations, the [Passive Astronomer's Charm] also makes it easier for me to learn gate techniques..."

"Looking at it this way, the passive skill of this quarter's rewards seems quite terrifying?!"

Charm, potential for future generations, easy-to-learn gatekeeping techniques—these are all benefits, but they all seem a bit far-fetched.

The feeling has passed.

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue sat to one side, picked up her phone, and took a short break.

"By the way, let me see last night's awards ceremony and if there's any recent news."

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue first opened her social media account to take a look.

As soon as it was turned on, I noticed

—【Xiao Bai Chasing Snow (Followers: 6023233)】

"So... that's six million followers?!"

"It's faster than I expected."

You should know that all the hard work she put in to win those GII intermediate bounty tournaments and GI junior bounty tournaments only earned her a few thousand or tens of thousands of followers.

Unfortunately, with so many battles, it's impossible to gain followers as frequently as it was at the beginning of the year.

The number of tourists visiting Japan is limited.

As a result, the number of fans increased by hundreds of thousands, even close to a million, just one night after the awards ceremony.

This level of reward is comparable to winning a regular GI championship!

"As expected, taking the biggest slice of the cake, the award for best of the year, was definitely the right thing to do."

He's getting closer and closer to becoming a million-follower hat-wearing god!

Next up, the sword points to the little lizard hat!

174. The strongest in Japan, renowned throughout the land! A new mission has arrived.

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue knew that five or six million fans was usually the peak of the strongest female racehorse racers in the regular generation.

After all, there are only so many people in all of Japan. And since Japanese horse racing can't be broadcast overseas, the number of fans in the millions is already quite exaggerated.

But that's not the limit yet. There's still a long way to go before reaching Xiao Li Mao's level. Xiao Li Mao has more than ten million followers, not that few.

After all, it's been retired for many years, yet it still manages to peek onto the URA official website's best-selling merchandise list every day, which makes a certain white pony quite envious!

As the "most popular person in history" and the "GOAT of popularity", Lily's popularity has reached a level that is unprecedented and will never be surpassed.

Tens of millions of fans? That's the level of a historically popular star, but it only reaches the threshold for challenging the Little Cheese Hat.

It's not uncommon for triple crown winners to grow from millions to tens of millions of followers by the end of their careers, but they can still be significantly outpaced by Lillard's hat-trick.

"Let's start by catching up with Narita Shirahito's senior, Rudolf, who is a symbol of his millions of fans."

"Then, I'll challenge the unprecedented 20 to 30 million fans of the senior Little Chestnut Hat!"

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue silently set a goal for himself.

Then, she quit the social media platform.

Instead, they logged onto the official website of the Japanese event.

The reunion of the two kings after decades! A miracle has occurred.

Unbelievable! "Nightfall Chasing Snow" and "Divine Eagle" tied for Best of the Year!

This is not only an unprecedented or unparalleled awards ceremony featuring two kings, but also an event you absolutely cannot miss!

"Is Xiaobai Zhuixue determined to take her talent to Europe and America next year? Can she maintain her undefeated winning streak until the end of this year?"

A minor upset: Racer Noutou, who had no major prizes to her name, finished second in the GII race!

Sure enough, as soon as she opened it, Xiao Bai Zhui Xue saw many articles written by reporters from different news media, most of which were related to herself.

But suddenly, when Xiao Bai Zhui Xue saw a news item in the back row with very few clicks and comments and hardly anyone paying attention, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"No... huh?"

She saw the news about the famous general's raging waves, and her reaction was much more intense than when she saw the news praising her.

Because Xiao Bai Zhui Xue knew that these news stories were nothing more than trying to ride the wave of popularity.

If I were to lose one day, the related news would probably become…

—A major upset! The dark horse opera will snatch the undefeated triple crown from the jaws of defeat!

—A stunning upset! Renowned player Nutao successfully defeats current top player Xiaobai Zhuixue!

Therefore, what is truly important are the formidable opponents who could lead to your defeat, as well as the tactical arrangements for the match; these are the things that truly deserve close attention.

And the name "[Famous General's Wrath]" is clearly within Xiao Bai Zhui Xue's high-intensity surveillance range.

After all, this racehorse girl had titles such as "the unluckiest girl at the end of the century" and "the second-in-command at the end of the century" in the original timeline.

The reason she's called "the unluckiest girl in the century" isn't because she's bad at the game, nor because she lost badly.

Rather, it's because she is very strong, extremely strong, so strong that she repeatedly pushed herself to the limit only to be narrowly defeated by good opera.

This perfectly illustrates Kobe's famous quote: "Second place is the biggest loser."

Therefore, Xiao Bai Zhui Xue was extremely concerned about this extremely powerful opponent from the ancient horse year.

"I just saw her latest competition record at the end of the year."

"The renowned athlete Nu Tao, ranked in the twenties, just suffered a crushing defeat, finishing in eleventh place in a race that wasn't even the lowest-level GI (Grade 2) 2000m competition."

now……

—[GII·Nikkei New Year Cup]

—[Runner-up - Renowned General Nutao]

GII level!

Second place?!

Dude, this team went from a crushing defeat in the P-level in December to now in January, which isn't even a full month yet, and they've already gotten GI runner-up?

Even cheating wouldn't be this rampant. You could play a hundred games in Ulala over several years and still not achieve the same improvement as you did in just 20 days.

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue stared wide-eyed, as if she had seen a ghost.

Is this in the Jeongdeok River?

In less than a month, a mere twenty days, he went from an unknown roadside nobody to a potential GI runner-up with the potential to be among the top in the GI competition.

This is simply a carp leaping over the dragon gate!

"Has the late-blooming general Nu Tao finally turned the tables and shown her gradual ascent to the peak?"

Xiao Bai Zhui Xue then couldn't help but sigh.

Indeed, it was the right decision not to embark on a distant expedition in the first year of the Year of the Horse.

If you don't defeat the top-tier champions, Raging Waves and Great Opera, then going to Europe will only make you look like a roadside horse that gets kicked to death by the kings of Europe and America.