I'm in Teresin, dedicated to playing badly

"Although I didn't have time to prepare any safety measures because of the rush, Eclipse said she had special channels, so I wasn't too worried. But after that, I met with another woman, and she told me some ominous things..."

"Question! Who is the other horse girl? Is she a student at the academy? What did she say to you?"

Shinji Kitahara shook his head.

“She’s not the horse girl from the academy, so you probably don’t know her. As for her name… I call her ‘Shanish,’ which is a name I recently gave her.”

Shanish? What a strange name.

Akikawa Yayoi searched her mind for the name but couldn't find any relevant information, so she continued to ask.

"I'm curious! What did she say that made you so sullen, Trainer Kitahara?"

After a pause, Akikawa Yayoi added.

"Of course, if you, Trainer Kitahara, don't want to say, you don't have to..."

"It's alright. I brought this up to explain this matter, because it concerns you, me, and Treson..."

"However, before that, I want to point out that this matter might be a bit bizarre, and I hope you can prepare yourself mentally before you listen..."

"It's alright! Just say it."

Just kidding. Although she looks young, Akikawa Yayoi is, after all, the chairperson of Treson, and has seen and experienced far more storms than the average person.

Not to mention, besides being the chairperson, she is also one of the 'guardians of secrets' appointed by the three goddesses. She is one of the very few beings in this world who knows most of the 'truth' and has seen many things that even Kitahara Shinji has never seen. She doesn't think there's anything about Kitahara Shinji that could shock her.

Well, by the way, aside from the horse jumping incident I just mentioned, she really didn't expect that the eclipse would wait until now to jump, which simply defies her common sense.

Seeing Akikawa Yayoi's confidence, Kitahara Shinji, not one to hesitate, organized his thoughts and slowly began to speak.

"Simply put, Shanish told me that she organized the initial prototype of the 'black market,' and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her the founder of the black market..."

Upon hearing this, Akikawa Yayoi frowned, her tone changed, and she no longer used her usual strange sentence structure.

"So, she's the leader of the 'black market'? A horse girl is the leader of the black market?"

"No, it's not."

Shinji Kitahara shook his head.

“She is neither Ma Niang nor the leader of the black market. She only initially established the prototype of the ‘black market’, and afterwards, she didn’t really manage it, and the black market didn’t develop much.”

"As things originally went, even if the black market didn't disband on its own after she left, it couldn't have grown either, because it was just a random pawn she casually set up on a whim, and the organization's structure was extremely flawed. But the appearance of one person changed everything..."

"He identified the scum who were taking advantage of the black market, weeded out the bad elements, and inspired other black market members with his actions and spirit, uniting them together."

"And in the time that followed, he always took the lead and fought on the front lines, doing the hardest and most tiring work. It was through his efforts that the black market gradually grew and expanded. It can be said that he was the true leader of the black market..."

As the story unfolded, Shinji Kitahara's tone became increasingly strange for some reason.

But because this matter concerned the black market and Treson, and even the fate of the future world, Akikawa Yayoi didn't have time to pay attention to the change in his tone. After he suddenly stopped speaking, she couldn't help but ask him.

"Did that 'Shanish' give you any information about that person? Or did she mention any distinguishing features? If you need it, I can have Junchuan go with you to find him later..."

"No, no need to bother."

Shinji Kitahara spoke softly.

"No special features are needed, no searching is required, he is right here, right in front of you."

After a pause, looking at Akikawa Yayoi who was completely frozen in front of him, Kitahara Shinji sighed deeply and said helplessly.

"That guy, according to Shanish, was the one who single-handedly promoted the development of the 'black market,' the leader of the 'black market.'"

"it is me."

Chapter 283: The Incarnation of Malice

As for when Shinji Kitahara met Shanish again, it goes back a few days, or more precisely, to the night of the eclipse and the night his horse jumped.

Yes, it was evening, not afternoon. Even though things had come to that point, facing the eclipse that had already made up its mind, Shinji Kitahara had no room to resist.

But at least he felt that it was better not to start a party the first time he did something like this, so he spent some time coaxing Eclipse to delay the time her horse jumped, so that she wouldn't be seen by others halfway through the jump and cause unnecessary embarrassment.

After the intense activity that night, Shinji Kitahara slowly fell asleep with mixed feelings.

But before he could fall asleep completely, in a half-dreaming, half-awake state, the strange energy within him that had already become inexplicably active when the horse jumped did not subside after the jump; instead, it became even more active.

However, Shinji Kitahara was in a complicated mood afterward, so he didn't have much energy to pay attention to these details.

When he came to his senses, he was back in the white sea of ​​flowers, and the pure white horse was sitting quietly in front of him. After he arrived, she turned her head to look at him.

"Whose horse did you jump with?"

Seeing Kitahara Shinji looking completely bewildered by her question, the white horse girl explained.

"The power within you cannot be fully controlled by a human body alone. It must be combined with a horse girl to allow it to develop further and become a part of you."

"And this place, which can be said to be a domain built on your power, had already collapsed before. If you had not taken further control of your power, it would have been impossible for you to come here again. The fact that you have reappeared here means that you must have made a mistake."

Since he himself couldn't figure out what was going on with the power within him, and the other person didn't seem to have any hostility towards him, after a brief moment of thought, he chose to believe her words, and then sat down opposite her again to start talking to her once more.

Because he had been busy with the black market lately, Shinji Kitahara subconsciously brought up the topic of the black market with her.

However, at the beginning, Shinji Kitahara did not expect her to provide him with any help; she was more of a sigh in his spare time.

But to his surprise, after only a few words, the other party took the initiative to say that she was the initiator of the so-called 'black market' and that she also knew roughly about the current situation of the black market.

After that, she told Shinji Kitahara what she meant, and what he said to Yayoi Akikawa a few days later. After listening, Shinji Kitahara was also briefly stunned.

What?! The mole was himself?

After that shocking truth, the white horse girl told him something else.

“The ‘black market’ was never a market from the beginning. In the beginning, it was just an anonymous forum where people would occasionally exchange things, and that’s how it gradually got the nickname ‘black market’.”

"As for the members, most of them are people with extraordinary experiences and who suppress intense emotions."

"Take Hisadou Kazuya, whom you just mentioned, for example. Although he seems fine on the surface, he has never forgotten about the four-leaf clover incident. The guilt in his heart is still accumulating, and he has been taking psychiatric drugs in secret and occasionally goes to see a psychologist for psychotherapy."

"As for the others, although their experiences may be different, they are basically the same kind of people. I thought about bringing these people who are in the same boat together and creating a completely anonymous forum, which might give them a channel for relaxation and healing."

"What I didn't expect was that after this group started communicating, although it did improve their psychological and mental condition, perhaps because they had been suppressing their emotions for too long, those extreme emotions began to fester after they started communicating. Various overly extreme ideas gradually emerged among them, and they began to put them into practice little by little..."

"As for why I didn't intervene or stop it, one reason is that, as I said before, the world has been too comfortable and stable for too long and needs some change. And I myself am the biggest and most extreme changemaker, so I have no right to criticize them."

"On the other hand, I can assure you that no matter how crazy those people act or how extreme their methods are, their intentions and starting points are good, and even now, because of your existence, their thoughts have not changed, but have become even purer and more steadfast."

God, because of me, his will became pure and firm, so in the end he became the spiritual leader of that group, right?

Because the amount of information conveyed in the pure white horse girl's words was too great, Kitahara Shinji thought for a moment and decided to temporarily put aside the black market and digest the information he already had.

Moreover, besides the black market, he has an even more important and urgent problem that he wants to consult with her about.

"Let me process what I'm saying about the black market first. Let's talk about something else first."

After letting out a slight sigh, Kitahara Shinji looked at the pure white horse girl in front of him, his expression gradually becoming serious.

"Besides what you've told me before, what else do you know about solar eclipses?"

"For example, what is her relationship with the three goddesses?"

"And for example, just how strong is she?"

......

How strong is a solar eclipse?

Ever since Eclipse signed up for the Satsuki Prize and prepared to participate, this question has been on everyone's mind.

Although they had been on the same team for a long time, most of the horse girls around Shinji Kitahara had never actually seen Eclipse run, and the few who had seen it didn't know how to judge Eclipse's strength.

After all, since joining Treson, she has only attended two events and has never trained. There is a serious lack of data available for analysis. Even if you analyze the video of those two events frame by frame, at most you can only draw a general conclusion that "she is not weak".

It wasn't that no horse girl tried to invite Eclipse to a friendly match at the Satsuki-sho, not only to test her strength, but also because she was worried that she hadn't competed for too long and wanted to use this method to let her run more before the competition, so as to achieve a certain training effect.

Eclipse declined all such offers of concern and invitations from others.

She acted as if nothing had happened. Even though she was about to participate in the Satsuki Sho competition, and even though the outside world was questioning her as an intruder who suddenly joined the Satsuki Sho competition, she did not react at all. She still stood around the training ground every day, silently following behind Kitahara Shinji, watching the horse girls sweating profusely in the arena, without making any statement.

However, while the eclipse did not react, on the other hand, Neta, who had communicated with the eclipse privately and had already withdrawn from the competition, has been unusually busy these past few days.

The day after exchanging something with Eclipse, Nechika went directly to the other three members of the team who were going to participate in the Satsuki Sho and offered to give them special training.

Originally, when Necha said she would give them special training, the other three kids didn't take it too seriously. After all, Necha was practically a trainer on the team because of her chemistry with Kitahara Shinji, so extra training before a match was normal. But...

"Miss Excellent Quality, I think this is completely unnecessary..."

"Necha, don't come any closer!"

“Necha, it’s me! @￥￥%＃%＃……@￥……”

Faced with the three who had agreed to her special training, Neta presented them with a training method they had never seen before.

To put it simply, during these past few days, Necha stayed by the three of them's side the entire time they were training, and every minute and every second of the training was spent using his gate techniques to interfere with the three of them.

It was an absolutely hellish experience. The three people targeted by the internal party had been subjected to torture during training these past few days, as if they were being shackled and executed. Every minute and second in the training field was torture. The level of imprisonment during the training even made Alice swear at one point.

They were not unaware of the benefits of this kind of training; at least after a period of training, even if it was only for a few days, their ability to withstand pressure had significantly increased.

The problem is, there's only one steed in the whole world like Necha, with all those red twigs.

As for the other centaur girls, although most top-tier centaur girls will have one or two red skills, such as Dominance, their impact is quite limited. In addition, given their already excellent qualities, it is not difficult for them to resist, so there is no need for them to undergo this kind of special training.

Despite the ordeal, for various reasons, the other three ultimately chose to accept the training at Necha.

Then, the day of the competition arrived.

Just as Shinji Kitahara and Yayoi Akikawa were discussing the black market in a corner, the four female characters from Shinji Kitahara's team entered the arena one after another, and their appearances sparked a considerable discussion among the audience.

Although the four horse girls couldn't hear the specific content of the discussions in the audience during the race, based on some information they had gathered recently, they could roughly guess that the discussions were probably not very beneficial to their trainers.

Even after a while, the other participating horse girls noticed what was happening on their side and started whispering among themselves.

Although Shinji Kitahara has many friends in Tresenne and has helped many horse girls in the past, as a person, no matter how many friends he knows or how many horse girls he has helped, the number is ultimately limited.

Compared to the overall population, the number of people who know the truth is ultimately a minority, otherwise it wouldn't have turned out like this.

Faced with the surrounding discussions, the four female riders under Shinji Kitahara's name each showed different reactions.

Among them, the East Sea Emperor puffed out his cheeks, his anger undisguised, and silently told himself that he must win this game and vindicate his trainer, Sang.

Although Manchester Tea House's expression didn't change much, his eyelids drooped slightly, and his lips trembled occasionally, as if he were talking to someone.

On the other side, Alice narrowed her eyes, her gaze slowly sweeping across the venue, a dangerous smile playing on her lips, as if she were recording who was making outrageous remarks about her guinea pig.

As for the final solar eclipse...

She didn't say anything.

Even after stepping onto the field, she remained the same as always, with a calm expression and a serene gaze. Dressed in a similar final outfit to her usual attire, she stood alone on the field, gazing at the distant sky, showing no signs of tension in the competition, as if she were lost in thought.

"The solar eclipse... those people are so mean! They clearly didn't know anything..."

Eclipse did not respond to the Emperor of the East Sea's muttered complaints. She remained standing in place until the gate signal sounded before the start of the match, at which point she slowly withdrew her gaze.

Because it took a few seconds for Eclipse to look away, by the time she started walking, all the other female horses had already entered the gate, and the eyes of the audience in the arena were all focused on her.

Then, just as a new round of discussion was about to erupt in the audience because of her actions, Eclipse took a step toward the gate.

despair--

The horseshoe made a very faint sound as it touched the grass.

Logically speaking, such a faint sound, in a venue that is incredibly noisy for various reasons, would not only fail to cause a ripple, but would probably be drowned out by other sounds in the next second.

But strangely, after the eclipse took this step, the discussions and noise in the audience disappeared instantly.

As for the horse girls who were closer to her and participating in the competition, they suddenly seemed to be shocked by something, their bodies trembling for a moment, and then they subconsciously turned around to look at the source of the shock.

Then, they witnessed something beyond their comprehension.

Black mist is flowing.

With a calm expression, the horse girl, dressed entirely in black, walked forward, surrounded by an ominous black mist that continued to sink and spread outwards, staining everything it touched with an unsettling black.

And it wasn't just around her; in the far distance, around the female horses, around the stands and the trainers' stands, and even above the entire arena, wisps of black mist appeared and disappeared, gradually thickening as the eclipse progressed.

As the sunlight gradually dimmed, unease began to spread. Although it was already warming up, the people in the stadium all shivered involuntarily.

And this was only the feeling from the stands far from the racetrack. As for the female horses closer to her, their expressions gradually turned pale and their bodies began to tremble as she approached.

One reason was the terrifying sense of oppression emanating from the black horse girl behind them, while another reason was that after they came into contact with the black mist flowing from the Eclipse, various emotions began to ferment within them.

Sadness, pain, fear...