"Oguri! Oguri! Slow down! I can't keep up! Your injured leg isn't healed yet! You can't run like this now—"
"Bang!"
Ignoring Tamamo's anxious pursuit from behind, Oguri Cap, who had just had her cast removed yesterday and had barely recovered her daily mobility, was now enduring her pain and unconsciously running with her head down towards the only designated destination in her mind, in a wretched posture.
And just as she was limping but at a speed that was enough to leave Tamamo behind, she rushed into the emergency department of the hospital at the first moment. Due to the consumption of her stamina and the faint pain from her leg along the way, the pale-faced her panted as she scanned the area and finally turned her gaze to a figure of a dazed, scarred horse girl slowly standing up on the side.
This horse girl, she naturally knew. Her good friend, Fujimasa March. The two of them both knew that she was the one who had accompanied him to Iwaki, and also the one who had notified her and Tamamo of this bad news.
"Fujimasa, what happened to him?!"
She went forward and grabbed her shoulders. At this time, the anxious Oguri had even forgotten to control her strength. She had even faintly bruised the shoulders of the dazed her, who had no uninjured parts from her face to her feet.
But this time, she had no time to care about her own strength. And even Tamamo, who was the most understanding on the side, had forgotten to care for anyone in her urgency. She immediately pushed her aside, tiptoed, and vigorously shook the battered her, asking anxiously, "Fujimasa! Answer me! What on earth happened to him? What happened? How did you two end up like this?!"
"Trainer..."
However, under her efforts, the always-dazed Fujimasa's pupils finally regained a bit of light. But the moment she came back to her senses, under their gaze, she saw her cover her face and cry, and then intermittently explained the cause and effect of all this...
It turned out that when she was accompanying him to Iwaki and had rented a car locally, planning to go to the hot springs and negotiate with the owner about booking the entire place, his identity had been recognized by the staff of the local car rental association. After all, as a hot topic person during this period, his name was particularly familiar to the horse girl fans.
But the problem also came from here. His name was posted on the internet by this staff member. In a short while, the news of the "notorious" him appearing in Iwaki had attracted a lot of attention. And among them, her fans accounted for the majority.
And among them, there were naturally some who had a very bad impression of him and would do extreme things.
The reason why his reputation had fallen to this point, even he himself did not know. It was probably because her decline from the altar this year, during her recuperation period, there had not been any new stars worth paying attention to in the Japanese horse girl world. Her discussion rate was still very high, especially her comeback a month ago, which had made everyone full of expectations.
However, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. And the rebound brought by this was all directed at him. Her fracture and recuperation, under the deliberate guidance of some news, had just proved that her recuperation situation was not smooth. And in this situation, the remarks that she was forced to run in a race by him also became more and more intense.
Under this premise, some people could even sneak into Tracen and give him a death threat. Naturally, there were also people who were so fanatical that they lost their reason and, in the name of "justice," did extreme things for their "idol"...
"Trainer... to get to the hot springs faster, he didn't rest at all after getting off the train... he rented a car and drove up the mountain in the suburbs... I could see he was a little tired, but I could also see he was very anxious. I thought it would be fine..."
The extremely pained Fujimasa, when the tragic scene of yesterday appeared in her mind, was already trembling so much that she couldn't control herself. The regret in her tone, even if they couldn't see her face, they could imagine how wretched her expression was.
"But... I didn't expect... a car to suddenly rush up from the bottom of the mountain—I didn't have time to remind him."
"Those people originally wanted to block the road and intimidate him... but he wanted to avoid them and subconsciously turned the steering wheel. Our car hit the guardrail on the mountain road... what happened after that... I don't know anything..."
"When I came back to my senses, he was already unconscious... I... I..."
The sobbing Fujimasa was swallowed by self-blame and pain in her heart. And at this moment, even the strongest horse girl could not bear to witness the tragic scene of her trainer still being in a life-threatening situation... even if she herself was covered in scars, it could not alleviate the guilt in her heart by half.
Now, with his coma, all her strong outer shell was shattered. She could only hold her head in pain and squat down helplessly, repeating the last words she could say over and over again:
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I didn't take good care of him... I could have helped him... I had a chance..."
"You—we—"
However, the anxious Tamamo Cross, at this moment, her pretty face was a mixture of red and purple. The strong pain in her heart made her chest heave violently. For a moment, as if having lost her ability to think, after pacing back and forth a few times, her bloodshot eyes stared straight at the hospital door.
"Those bastards, those bastards! How dare they do this! How dare they do this to him!"
"No! I can't swallow this! I'm going to find those bastards! I'm going to tear them to pieces one by one!"
Not knowing how to vent her anger, she immediately rushed out the door. She was going to find the culprits who had put him in danger now. The helpless her, in a state of confusion, went to find the objects that she would definitely not regret after retaliating against.
And at this moment, unlike the her who had rushed out of the hospital, Oguri Cap was unexpectedly calm. After emptying her mind, she silently came to her and squatted down. After a long while, she finally asked her only question:
"...Fujimasa, tell me, where is he now."
...
Under the guidance of her and the doctors in the emergency department, she finally, in the intensive care unit, saw him, who was intubated and surrounded by many doctors, still in a coma.
She walked forward without a word. Some of the young doctors on the side wanted to stop her but were stopped by the older doctor. And even if these doctors only showed their eyes, it was enough for anyone to see the pity in their hearts and the meaning of "don't disturb them."
Just like that, without any obstruction, she silently squatted down by his hospital bed. She subconsciously held his slightly cold hand and unconsciously used a little more force... as if she wanted to use her slightly higher body temperature as a horse girl to drive away a trace of cold for him...
This became the last thing she could do for him.
"Kitano... it's me, Oguri. I'm right here. Can you hear me?"
"If you can hear me... please... respond to me a little, okay? I... I know you're very tired, but... without your response, I'm very scared... please don't let me be so scared, okay?"
Her slightly trembling voice, her gaze was fixed on his face. However, after she had repeatedly whispered in his ear several times, she noticed his eyes, which were half-asleep, struggling to open a little... and the slight touch of his fingers from his hand that she was holding...
This was the limit of what he could do. And even the slight movement of his fingers made the tearful her unable to help but shed tears. She was unwilling to let go of his hand, and after getting a response, she used a little more force, her tone incomparably relieved as she said softly:
"Thank goodness... you haven't left me yet. It's really good..."
"I knew you wouldn't be willing to abandon me... Kitano... Dad... I knew you wouldn't abandon me."
After who knows how long, this title appeared from her mouth again. She did not know which title he felt more deeply about in his heart... and this also made her heart even more tormented at this time.
Because to this day, she found that he had completely figured out her temper. He knew how to comfort her, how to make her feel more joy... but she had never really told him her inner feelings from beginning to end.
They were really like a father and daughter. The father's selfless love, without asking for anything in return, was all given to his beloved daughter. And the daughter, from beginning to end, took her father's doting for granted. And it was only at this point... that she didn't even know what to say to comfort her "father."
The tearful her, who was at a loss for words, the only thing she could do now was to pour out all her unwillingness to part and her attachment to him in an almost-flood-like emotion... she didn't know if he needed it. She only knew that if she didn't say these words from her heart now, she might never have the chance again.
"Kitano... Dad... don't leave me. I can't live without you. No matter what, I can't lose you..."
"Please... don't do this to me, Dad... Dad..."
She knelt on the ground, repeating these words incoherently over and over again, as if she wanted to compensate him all at once for what she owed him.
And in her palm, his half-asleep fingers, which were slightly moving, were as if he was ruffling her beautiful hair as before. Even though he was not conscious, he was still trying to comfort her emotions—this was as if it was an action engraved in his bones. Whenever he saw her in a low mood, he would have this subconscious reaction.
Just as she did not want to see him sad, he also did not want to see her in a low mood... they were both trying their best to make the other happier, but they had both forgotten that their happiness needed to be maintained by both of them...
And his action seemed to have indeed given the now-on-the-verge-of-collapse her a trace of reason... slowly, breaking free from her emotions, the tearful her, in a daze, suddenly thought of something. She suddenly looked up and turned her bright and spirited gaze to him.
"No, I won't let you leave me."
"Kitano, I know you are also reluctant to part with me. I know you want to see me win the race, right? You are afraid that my future path will not be smooth. You hope I can avenge my shame, right?"
"So, Kitano, before I win the next race—I won't let you leave me. I will go and run. No matter what G1 race it is, I will run!"
"Before I win the race, you are not allowed to leave me... I want you to watch me, watch me win the victory for you. I want to see you... for me, smile again."
"Yes, that's right. Only in this way can you not leave me. Only in this way..."
For a moment, as if a drowning person had grasped the last lifeline, her expression, from the initial despair, seemed to have finally appeared a glimmer of hope—and there was only this last glimmer of hope.
And he, who was still in a semi-conscious state, but when he heard her murmur, his eyes, which were struggling to stay open, seemed to have widened slightly. The trembling of his fingers also became a little more violent. He seemed to be stopping, stopping her from doing such a thing that would destroy her own body.
She certainly knew that he could not agree with her current idea. But as she herself had said... to let him continue to live, she would do anything, no matter how much it went against his philosophy, no matter how angry or reprimanding he would be after he woke up. She could no longer care about that now.
She just wanted him to live. Everything after that... as long as he could recover, let alone scolding her, hitting her, she would willingly bear it.
What she was afraid of was that he would not even have the ability to scold her or hit her... she wanted to change all this. She wanted to do the last thing she could for his life.
"I will win. I promise you, Kitano, Dad. I will let you see the day I win the race."
"So, before I win, you are not allowed to leave me... I will definitely come back to see you with the trophy of victory!"
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