“...” Echo Eclipse looks deadpanned on the stage, and everyone is excited to watch her perform her winning concert.
“...” She tilted her head, wondering why she was here. It was a quick series of events for the st 10 minutes,
Kazuo saw this and slowly turned his head toward Rudolf, who also had a deadpanned look and lifeless eyes. He started sweating because he had left Echo Eclipse to her device while training, but he doesn’t even know if she practised dancing or not.
“Um… Why am I here?” Echo spoke to the audience surrounding the stage, surprising them. She looked at them with a serious, yet head-empty face, genuinely asking the question.
“...”
“...”
“...”
“Isn’t this your winning concert?” said one of her female fans.
“Eh?”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“Ah.” She pces her fist on top of her palm, finally remembering that winning a concert is mandatory after each official race. She honestly glossed over the Symboli Rudolf winning concert because she was daydreaming of running.
She turns her head toward the staff with a bright smile.
“Is there a guitar I can use?”
“...”
“...”
Kazuo snapped out of it and faced Echo Eclipse in shock; he didn’t know that Echo Eclipse was able to py an instrument. Symboli Rudolf chuckled and shrugged, and she thought that this was the right move for an uma sponsored by the Symboli Family.
The staff shook their heads; they hadn't prepared any instruments for the debut-winning concert, and they only expected the winner to use pre-recorded music.
“Oh.”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“Is there American hip-hop music you can put on then?”
“She’s going to do something stupid or something amazing… I can’t tell which one.” Rudolf said while squinting her eyes in slight suspicion. Kazuo chuckles at the Symboli Rudolf expression.
“...”
Meanwhile, Bizen Nishiki is trying to contain their ughter as Gold Way watches in shock and amusement. How could Echo Eclipse be a completely different person when on race compared to her everyday life?
The staff looked at each other, and after a minute, they shook their heads at Echo, confirming that there is no American hip-hop song currently at their location. Echo Eclipse was thinking of doing breakdancing for her winning concert since she was a dancer in her past life, but it looks like not.
So she chose the most pusible choice she could’ve picked.
“...”
She simply walked away from the winning concert.
“...”
“...”
Seeing this, Nishiki couldn’t contain her ughter and howled out loud while Symboli Rudol facepalmed.
“HAHAHAHAHAHA! NO WAY! HAHAHA-” She was swiftly muted by Gold Way.
“Pardon us.” She spoke before dragging the twitching, ughing Bizen Nishiki.
All of the audience looks at the stage in daze, before realising what the winner just did. The reporters quickly ran toward Echo Eclipse's direction to get an interview, but she disappeared. And in the distance, a van is driving away from the racecourse.
“...”
“...”
“You’re going to learn dancing from now on.”
“Eh?”
Echo Eclipse responded, confused; she thought she had chosen the best option at that time. Making her tilt her head at Rudolf's words.
“...”
“...”
“Okay?”
“Mh.” Symboli Rudolf nodded in satisfaction.
“But can’t I just solely run?”
“...”
“...”
“...”
“No.”
“Aw…”
Symboli Rudolf is having a severe headache right now, but at least she is gd that Echo Eclipse knows when to be obedient or not.
Time went by, and it is currently the next day. The director is holding the newspaper with a wide, proud grin. On the front page of the newspaper, it’s solely dedicated to Echo Eclipse.
The Second Emperor was Born! May 4th 1984, A legend was born on the Tokyo Racecourse. Echo Eclipse won by over 16 lengths from the second pce! Who is this racer, and where did she come from?
According to the public data, she is fro…
..
.
Her fans have been calling her the “Unbounded Wind” ever since she showed her capacity at the final stretch of the race. Will she continue to dominate the remaining race she will be in, or was this a fluke?
Written by Peter Barakan. (A/N: Yes, this is a real reporter's name from 1984 in Japan.)
The director is humming in satisfaction; she has known about Echo Eclipse’s potential ever since a trainer from the Hokkaido Branch of Tracen Academy recommendation arrived. Looking at the photo on the front page, she can see the smile on Echo Eclipse's face as she runs the final stretch.
“Good! Looks like she is enjoying herself!” She huffs with a big smile before unfolding her fan, which says “Umazing!”
She flips to the next page, which is dedicated to Echo Eclipse again. But this time, it’s all about the time she simply walked away from the winning concert because there was no guitar or American Hip-hop song present at the racecourse.
She went stiff before smiling wryly.
“All umas that have the potential of the triple crown champion are always unique…” She said before pcing down her newspaper.
“Ah, youth!”
Meanwhile, in a certain cssroom. Everyone is celebrating Echo Eclipse's win while Bizen Nishiki is still ughing at the memory of yesterday.
Echo doesn’t get why they are celebrating her win, not realising that she’s basically the css mascot. Wouldn’t running be more fun and exciting than celebrating?
It’s not even morning, so there isn’t a mandatory css either. Yet she has somehow been kidnapped from the track to the cssroom for the party, despite all of that. She is happy because everyone around them is celebrating and happy.
While they celebrate, Echo looks at her status.
[Name: Echo Eclipse
Track Affinity: [Dirt: A] | [Turf: S]
Running Affinity: [End: E] | [Late: C] | [Pace: A] | [Front: S]
Distance Affinity: [Sprint: A] | [Mile: A] | [Medium S] | [Long: B]
Speed: 258 (E: Amateur)
Stamina: 257 (E: Amateur)
Power: 270 (E: Amateur)
Guts: 212 (E: Amateur)
Wits: 268 (E: Amateur)
Zone: —
SP: 200]
She really likes the training equipment they have here in Central Tracen Academy, since she could solely focus on stat by training with equipment that is specialised in that part. Plus, some stats can also increase other stats at the same time, but at a lower rate.
“Hmm… Which one should I invest in…” She mumbled around a carrot that was somehow in her mouth, and she snapped back to reality, realising that her friends noticed that she was daydreaming again and was feeding her carrots.
“Nom… Nom…” Carrots are delicious…
“Nom Nom…”
“Nom…”
“N…”
…
..
.
Anybody seeing her would have a hard time believing that she won with such a record; she is just being spoiled by her cssmates right now. As for Symboli Rudolf? She is training hard on the track because she knows she will eventually have to race against Echo in next year's Japan Cup.
‘Use 200SP on Stamina, ’ Echo thought while eating. The reason why she chose stamina? It’s simple: if she has more stamina, she can run longer.
Really.
“Waah! Everyone! Stop feeding her!” One of the cssmates yelled because they had noticed steam being emitted from Echo Eclipse's entire body. Gold Way brows burrowed at this.
‘What…’ Gold Way wonders how Echo Eclipse operates. ‘Looks like I'll have to write down another anomaly discovered.’
“Mh?” Echo Eclipse tilted her head, not feeling discomfort at all. If anything, she feels more vigorous. The 40+ increase in stats adjusted and modified the Echo Eclipse body barely in a second. What should’ve been a few more weeks of exercising to increase up Stamina by 40 was done in less than a second.
Everyone stares at her in shock and awe, but that swiftly ends due to a certain girl's stomach growling.
“I’m hungry…” They stared at Echo Eclipse once again before ughing; they chose to forget about the steam emitted from Echo Eclipse's body. The world of umamusume has always been supernatural after all; most of them have already encountered ghosts or bizarre situations.
Even without the ghosts or bizarre situations, the existence of the Goddesses proves it even more. That is why every single legend mentioned being called to a pce near the Goddess's statues and was inspired and improved their body and affinities.
