"McQueen, what have mother did to make you resent me?"
"Huh?"
"Or is it your dad's fault?"
"Me?"
The day has progressed, and the sun has now moved closer toward the western horizon than the east. With the reddening sky above their heads, Mejiro McQueen is sitting in a gazebo in the garden with both of her parents.
McQueen, who has just woken up an hour earlier, feels like she is still dreaming after her mother threw her a fastball. She couldn't begin to comprehend why her parents would think she hates them all of a sudden.
"I understand that kind of topic might be embarrassing to talk about with your parents, but it's still an important matter to be discussing with us."
"Wait! Hang on!! Please let me think!!"
McQueen tries to review everything she knew that she didn't tell her parents.
Is it about my weight?!?! I'm gaining some, but it's usually burned off from training!!! I don't need to tell them something so trivial, right?!?!
"We understand that you are a growing umamusume. Your hormones must be in full swing. It's normal to make a mistake or two."
"I beg your finest pardon?"
McQueen's train of thought completely derailed, crashed into an oil refinery, and caused a major explosion, which heightened the tension around the world since that oil refinery processed 40% of the world's oil and eventually led to a third world war.
"I know an umamusume needs to secure a mate as fast as possible in case other umamusume are eyeing him, but you could at least consult with us on how to win him over."
"Huh?! Haaaah!?!? Huuuh!?! What?!?!"
"So tell me, how was your first night with your trainer? Did you take the lead or him?"
"Who are you?!? Where are my real parents??!?!
I know they're stupid, but they're not this stupid!!!
Tell me where you hid them, you imposters!!!!"
"Okay~~ Let us talk about this from the very start first. Also, McQueen, that last part was quite hurtful."
The father, who was as confused as her daughter, stepped up to defuse the situation. The man rocked a spiky crew cut with his deep rose-colored hair. His skin was pale white, as if he had not stood under the sun in years.
"Sigh… I heard from mother–"
"Grandmother Asama?"
"Yes! That mother that you have been betrothed to your trainer.
She blamed me because we could not properly greet you with celebration.
Sigh… Where did I fail at being a mother?"
"Huh?!? Grandmother said that?!"
Wait!!! Is this why she invited trainer in the first place?!?! Not to separate us, but to bring us together!!
But why would she invite him through Big Sis Ramonu instead of me…
Did they perhaps have something that I destroyed?!?!?!?
"Siiiiiiggggggghhhhhhh…"
McQueen pushed her palms against her face and let out a long, tired sigh.
I'm sorry… I'm so sorry… I don't know… I don't know that you were going to help me…
I thought that I… I thought that they wanted to separate me…
I'm sorry… I'm sorry for ever doubting you, Grandmother… I truly don't deserve to have you as my Grandmother…
"So when will you hold the wedding?"
"Mother!! I haven't graduated from Tracen yet!!"
"So, directly after graduation, yes? That's still so far in the future, so you should seek to claim your stake in him first. Have you bought him a ring yet?"
"N–N—No…"
"What are you doing?!?!?! Do you seriously think that a trainer can just be found walking down some random road?!!?"
"...yes?"
"You're wrong!!! Trainers can only be found in academies!!! They're a rare breed of men, and you should acknowledge that!!!"
"Wai-Wait!! Don't you think your trainer should have a word in this?"
"Huh?! What are you talking about, darling? Why should we care for what he has to say, as if a trainer has a human right anyway?
It is common knowledge that a trainer's entire existence is only to be bred with his assigned umamusume. The races are just to make sure that they are compatible, and if they are, the trainer has basically become the trainee's property.
Isn't that what happened to us?"
"Urk!!"
The father recoiled when the memory kicked in. He was just a clueless young man when he became Mejiro Aurola's trainer. He thought that he was the luckiest man on earth for having a trainee from the renowned Mejiro Family. Unbeknownst to him, she was the reason he is no longer a trainer, as she doesn't allow him to continue being a trainer after her era.
Guh!! This means that this vicious cycle would continue on forever!! Trainer as a trainee's property!!
No!!! I have lost the battle, but I can't let my junior fall into the same hell as I did!! The last thing a senior should see is his junior making the same mistake as he did!!!
I will save Igo Heita!! And then!!!
Perhaps then!!
Can a trainer finally stand against their trainee!!!!
"Darling~~~ You're thinking something bad, aren't you?"
"N–N–No!!!"
*Clink*
Before the husband could move, he was already handcuffed to Mejiro Aurola.
"I was being considerate by allowing you out of the basement while it was being cleaned, but I think the maids have finished cleaning."
"Kuhk!! No!!! I can not fall here!! Even if only one man gets to see a bright future, that is still one more than my generation!!
For the sake of future trainers, I will–"
*Crack* *Thud*
"Oh my~~ I didn't know your neck could bend like that, darling~~"
In one silent swoop, Aurola snapped her husband's neck while the latter was in the middle of a declaration of independence. The man's body fell lifelessly onto the floor, and his wife put him over her shoulder.
"Now, McQueen. Mother will reeducate your father in the basement if you need me.
And please don't hide anything from your dear mother. It's a mother's duty to support her daughter through every stage of her life."
"Yes, mother."