Your relationship with the emperor was a complicated one. You were her trainer first and your job was to work with her towards her goals in racing, that's what you were paid to do. And you loved it, she was an excellent uma and was a brilliant runner.

Second was, well, that was the complicated part. It started as simply helping her with her student council duties to make them go faster so you both could get to training, however then you started spending days at the arcade together during her rest days and then her insisting she spent her overtime in your office if you were doing the same. It was a friendship, anything more would definitely be a contract violation somewhere.

Rudolf just finished running the japan cup, fucking knocked it out of the park as per usual coming in second. Second isn't first but she put up enough of a fight that her fans were going ape shit for her. That was entirely her hard work, you knew, she was wonderful before you got your hands on her, the twinkle series was definitely hers.

You found her in the dressing rooms after and she still had the fire in her eyes from the race, getting ready for the concert afterwards. You handed her some water along with some congratulations and she took it, taking a mouthful. "It's fine, I'm fine. I just suppose I'm finished for today."