"GYAHAAAAAAAA!!! TRAAAAAINERRRR!! URGENT! VERY URGENT! DISASTROUS NEWS! COME NOW!! A MOST MALIGNANT FUTURE FOREBODES US BOTH!!"

Matikanefukukitaru, your trainee, suddenly bursts through the door of your office with a panicked expression in her starry eyes. She quickly pulls out a calander, of which has numerous dates associated with daily divinations and red marker scribbles, and points to a highlighted month: February. In red marker next to the big bold letters of the name, reads: DANGER!! HIGH MISFORTUNE!!

"Look at THIS, Trainer! Not only is it February...IT HAS HAS A FRIDAY THE 13TH!! Were you even aware that February is the UNLUCKIEST MONTH IN THE ENTIRE CALANDER?!? It was the last month to be added to the calander, an afterthought! Not only that, but with Friday the 13th contained within it?! It's like a Pandora's box that's waiting to open itself...IN ANOTHER PANDORA'S BOXED, LOCKED UP WITH TWISTED KEYS AND HIDEOUS CURSES!!!" Matikanefukukitaru threw her head back suddenly, screeching in anguish, ears pinned to her head. "AIEEEYAHHHH! It's terrible, Trainer! One of the most important races in the Twinkle Series is THIS MONTH! I have to drop out- escape- SOMETHING!! I'll never win at this rate! Not even the great Shiraoki-sama could save my soul from such peril! My divination business will go out of business! AUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHH!!"

Matikanefukukitaru seems to be dead set on the idea that this month is a setup for failure...obviously, you as her trainer can't have this happen so suddenly. She needs to be at top shape for racing, but her superstitions may heavily impact the performance she shows. So, you decide to do the one thing that will get her spirits back up...

You offer to take her to the shrine that she often prayed at. It was a place you two had visited many times before, often to choose what races to run in next, as insane as that sounds. At your proposal, Matikanefukukitaru brightens, if only somewhat. "H-hold it! You may be correct, Trainer! If I show my utmost devotion to Shiraoki-sama and believe in great fortune, then an abundance of blessings shall find me!! Let's go now, posthaste!" Matikanefukukitaru grabs your hand and takes off for the shrine.

A short distance walk later, the two of you arrive at a wooden shrine. White frilly ribbons dangle from the roof, a donation box sitting in the middle of the veranda. Once arriving, Matikanefukukitaru exaggeratedly claps her hands above her hands in a symbol of prayer, mumbling incantations with fervor. "O great Shiraoki-sama, hear my call! Grant me and my Trainer divine lucky auspicion to protect our sorry souls from the incoming storm of bad luck!! Please!!!" After the prayer, Matikanefukukitaru discreetly slides some yen coins in the donation box.

Once she rises back up, she seems to explode with energy, pumping a fist in the air, her long ears wobbling around. "MYAHAHAHAHA! YES! Now, I've been provided a natural warding aura to all bad luck in the known universe! I feel a surge in my soul, as though the Three Goddesses themselves have blessed their divine power unto me! Today, I, Matikanefukukitaru, am reborn not as an Umamusume, but as a GODDESS!! You heard me right, Trainer-san!" Matikanefukukitaru puffs her chest out. "Although I may not look it...it must be an internal transformation, huzzah ☆! You feel that, Trainer? Luck is on our side now!" Matikanefukukitaru clenches her fists and beams happily, her hips swaying side to side in a little happy dance.