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The moment the trainer left me with a side by side running schedule, I immediately knew who would be happy to join me ♪
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“I'm so sorry, Vivlos. I have already planned a race with Gentildonna that day..”
“Whaa—?”
Big sis looked at me with her apologetic gaze, then back to her schedule, frantically searching for a free date…
“Oh! How about this day? I'm free—”
“But I’m not!!! That's literally the exam day of my class?”
Seeing me pouting, her ears seemingly fell small a bit as she continued searching for another day. But after all of her ‘free day’ suggestions, they collided with my activities.
“Onee-chaann, how about changing one of Gentil-san’s race to mine? Just one wouldn't hurt right?”
I cleared my sulking face with a smile, and as if my imaginary light bulb hinted at big sis from her struggles. She nodded without a second thought.
“That certainly would do it. Thank you Vivlos.”
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She forgot my schedule. Something she would 100% remember.
And—
What the hell with most of her mock races being with Gentildonna?! I know she told us to learn from our rivals and understand them.. Or maybe Gentil-san is hard to understand like a difficult math problem, which takes you days to solve.
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“Tachyon-san!! I feel like my sister is into her rival but I can't prove it at all!”
The door of the abandoned classroom got barged aside, the messy laboratory shown in front of me. Two seniors were having a chat with each other.
“Did I interrupt anything?” I lowered my voice as the black haired girl stared at me with her bright yellow eyes. She shook her head.
“No, you didn't. However.. you shouldn't really be asking that here.” The person to interrupt Cafe was the girl with an oversized lab coat, who was absolutely interested in my problem.
“Ah, easy, I also have the chance to test out this potion — the hand print potion ! What's special about it ? Like its name, this potion gives drinkers the ability to see colored handprints! Oh and those handprints tell the signature color of Uma musume!” Tachyon enthusiastically explained, while I nodded my head along.
“This experience was requested by Symboli Rudolf herself, in order to strengthen the academy’s security.” Cafe explained, but then got interrupted by Tachyon mid-sentence again.
“Yeah, unlucky me, it only worked on Uma musume, not objects, so it was a total fail—ACK!”
There was an unknown force causing Tachyon to suddenly jump and start squirming on the ground, allowing Cafe to talk again.
“As I was saying, this experiment was unable to keep up to the president's expectation.”
“Sounds interesting ♪ So how does it work practically?”
“G-great..! So you are truly interested in this potion! Let us three take it and see, shall we?”
“...”
Tachyon handed out three tubes of teal substance, looking like green tea. And in one sip, all of us consumed it all. Tachyon’s expression remained the same, while Cafe's didn't look so well.
“Tasted like pure sugar~♪” It tasted like how it looked, so I found no problem in it.
“Yes, as mindful as possible, these are easy to consume.”
“... What a disaster.” Opposite of our reaction, the black haired girl was totally icked out with the insane amount of sugar in this.
“Now.. Come here, Cafe” The brown haired girl pulled her companion close and pressed her hand hard on the other's shoulder. The moment the hand released, a cyan color was painted on.
“Wow—that's so cool! I can totally see it~!”
“Hmm, interesting, it seems like you have to press really hard for it to be printed on.”
“I see, the color was mostly based on the racewear too. Interesting. But not too soon.. To confirm my suspicion, Cafe, Vivlos, give me a hand.”
I lightly took her hand, instead of leaving any color, it left me confused.
“You have to press hard, like this.” The senior instructed me gently and gave her a tight handshake, it left a black, almost inky print.
“As expected, yours is totally black, it is quite bland, but it's you! And for Vivlos, I’ll take my guess on blue.”
“It must be easy to guess! Since blue is such a well-known color, almost like the celeb of the color world~”
I smugly gave Tachyon a wholehearted handshake to see exactly the purple blue on her free hand.
“Hmm, quite different from what I expected, it was not completely alike with the racewear. I will say it's more like your color.”
“Uh huh! But when does this potion wear off, Tachyon-san?”
“Oh about that, who knows? I usually just wait until it does.”
“Wehh?! It's fine though! I think I can indeed check if my sister is really onto something!”
Immediately, I sprinted off from the place after thanking them both, it should be big sis's break time now!
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As I walked, I caught her spotless walking out from the class, and so there went my hug to her.
“Vivlos? What are you doing here?”
She caught me in her arms, her tired face immediately changed to a welcomed expression. Big sis's calming air has always made me feel so happy, my tail subconsciously wagging as my arms wrapped around her harder.
“It's nothing~ I just want to hug my onee-chan!”
My smile blasted in content at how the purple blue from my arms wrapped around her body, as well as how it sat on my body, it was big sis's color! Unfortunately, such a sight could only be seen by me.
“I see, then.. What do you think about shopping after our mock race tomorrow? We can call Cheval too, if you want.”
Hearing such an offer from big sis, I couldn't help but squeak out of excitement, my ears stood tall as I nodded my head.
“Absolutely! We can ask Shuvachi to take us those new cuties from the claw machine! I want the plushies presented the three of us to be together!”
“It is settled then, if there's nothing, we will meet the next afternoon, alright ?”
“Mhm mhm! Goodluck with class~♪ Onee-chan!” I waved her goodbye as she turned her back to do her work again. My smile turned into a shocked expression.
Not only the purple blue print was on her back, but also a RED pair of hands was printed hard on her butt.. WHAT—?!!
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It was around 4pm, I started disguised myself as a bush with two little branches on my head.
“Her mock race would happen anytime soon.. But I haven't seen Onee-chan yet..”
“Hehehejs…. Look at them running! It's the purest form of affection… AHHAGSH they… wipe each other's sweat…”
Before I could turn to see who was whispering such downgraded things next to my ears, she gasped loudly when we touched eyes.
“V-v-v-v-v—” Seeing her stammered to the point her whole shaking body was like a drill machine to the ground, I helped her finished my punchline~
“Vivlos dayo~★”
“Ahahsgh AHH YES! THAT ! You are cute as ever Vivlos-chan!! Wait, why are you also a bush?” She scanned from the tip of my ears to the bottom of my feet, eyeing her confusion.
“Onee-chan should be here at any time, but I can't find her at all..”
“So they aren't around like the schedules? Verxina and Gentildonna? THEM?!! Oh god, I hope it's not like one of them got to deal with something bad, oh no my yuri senses are signaling badly with this lack of uma-pilled.”
“Digitan, tell me, what could possibly happen between them, pleaseee!!”
I grabbed and shook the pink haired girl hard, making incomprehensible noises.
“WAIT— I THINK I KNOW! My sister.. The back of her skirt was all red-ey this morning! .. WHAT IF SHE WAS BLEEDING OUT. ONEE-CHANN!!!”
“Oh no, don't freak out my umalings—” Without waiting for another second I sprinted like a missile to big sis's dorm, my worried thoughts raced against my running legs.
“Ahh—!!”
“Onee-chan!! Are you okay?!?” I kicked the door open, hearing her ragged scream. My eyes found her whole figure covered in the familiar red prints, while the other one, suspiciously Gentil-san shaped, covered in purple blue prints.
“Eh? TV Uma ?...” I stared at the scene for a while, more like I had already frozen on the spot. It took big sis a few seconds to realize and she signaled Gentil-san to stop, but the other seemed to pay no mind, which still displayed affection to her.
“Wait, Vivlo—”
SLAMS*
Truly shameless.
Vivlos here.. I have completely seen my sister differently.
I walked quietly from the dormitory back to the campus, traumatized from the scene back then.
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Suddenly all of my big sis's mock races that scheduled with Gentildonna were changed to mine, she looked at me, but her gaze was unable to stay in contact with mine.
“Vivlos.. I'm sorry..”
This was ironically her umpteenth apologies today, and she just kept following me around like a wet sobbing cat. I was mad, since it turned out that all of her “races” with Gentildonna turned out to be their intimate times with each other.
“Hmph! You two didn't even stop when got busted, were you THAT desperate for those kisses?!”
“Ahhh!!! Don't say it out loud— Vivlos, we can go to the cosmetics store right now if you want to!”
“Oh sure~ you can buy me the whole store in exchange for the apologies♪”
“Vivlos..”
“Then go back to your rival!!” I sulked at her hard, crossed my arms and walked away.
I spotted Cheval nearly and ran to her cheerfully.
“Shuvachi! Let's walk around—!!”
As expected, only Shuvachi is reliable! As I just finished my sentence, she turned around and a festive red color was printed at the front of her body.
“Why so suddenly..? Huh?”
I hate this family.. And their rivals..