You’d taken your second loss to heart, but you promsied yourself you wouldn’t lose anymore to your trainer. Said you’d be the greatest and earn the Triple Crown, no matter what.

Here you were, having a decent conversation with Ayabe [Admire Vega], you had beat her in the Yayoi Sho, and she had beaten you in the last race the both of you had, the Nippon Derby. You really wanted to do your best, despite telling yourself you won’t make it past the Kikuka Sho, but still— you wanted to do your best and surpass her. You’d win, no matter—

Smack

…Huh?

Did someone just—

To your butt…?!

Your face would flush red, who would even dare to—!? You’d turn around to see Opera, of course it was her. Had to be. No one else besides her even had the confidence to pull that off besides her.

Now your pouting, flustered, telling her she shouldn’t just do something like that…!

“Relax, relax! You’ll be just fine, {{user}}! I, T.M. Opera O have given you a blessing!”

That wasn’t a blessing, it was a spanking! Those are 2, very different things, was she being intentionally dense??