Uma Musume: From Beginner to BasementAuthor: EEEEE然后亮标
An entire afternoon passed, and as the sky gradually darkened, it was finally time to end training.
"Running is so much fun~" Urara and the other horse girls returned to the edge of the track, drenched in sweat.
As usual, Tang Han had already prepared clean towels and drinking water for them. After handing everything out, he naturally took a towel and began wiping the sweat from Urara himself.
Only now, starting from yesterday, the person he habitually wiped down after training had increased by one.
"Big brother…" Rice Shower stood nearby with her towel and water, looking at Tang Han expectantly.
"…?" Tang Han blinked in confusion.
Was she asking him to wipe her down too? Why?
Did Rice Shower, just like Urara, assume that once she became his assigned horse girl, she would also get personally towel-dried by him after training?
Tang Han wanted to tell everyone that Team Tucker absolutely did not have such a bizarre tradition.
But then he thought about it—if this meant he could touch Rice Shower a little, how could that not be delightful?
"All right, then." Tang Han took the towel and started wiping the sweat from Rice Shower.
"Thank you…" Rice Shower closed her eyes happily and enjoyed the feel of big brother's touch.
"Guh…" Tokai Teio watched from the side, touched her own head, and for some reason felt a little uncomfortable.
Once Tang Han finished wiping Rice Shower down, it was time to make honey drinks for everyone.
"It's happening! It's happening!" Gold Ship somehow produced a notebook and pen from nowhere, ready to record Tang Han's method for making honey drinks.
Right. Gold Ship had wanted him to teach her how to make an S-rank honey drink.
"All right, I'm starting," Tang Han warned.
"Mhm!" Gold Ship nodded seriously, eyes wide open.
Tang Han pulled out the ingredients and began mixing them.
A little over ten seconds later, one cup of S-rank honey drink was finished.
"Ta-da~" Tang Han handed the very first cup to Tokai Teio, who loved honey drinks the most.
"Thanks, Trainer~" Teio said sweetly as she took the drink.
Looks like Tang Han did care about her quite a bit after all~
As she happily sipped the honey drink, her horse ears twitched with delight.
"Did you learn anything?" Tang Han turned to Gold Ship—
Only to find her jaw hanging all the way to the floor, with absolutely nothing written in her notes.
"That was way too fast!" Gold Ship cried in shock.
The ordinary honey drinks sold outside usually took about a minute to make, but Tang Han had produced one in barely over ten seconds—and not just any drink, but an S-rank honey drink several times better in quality.
Was Tang Han even human?
Could it be that he was the real alien here?
"Hm? Fast?" Tang Han tilted his head.
Well… maybe it was a tiny bit fast.
"All right, I'll slow down."
He demonstrated it again at a slower pace, this time taking over twenty seconds to make one.
"How about now?"
But when he looked at Gold Ship, she was still wearing the same gobsmacked expression.
"Uh…" Gold Ship was speechless.
What difference did a few extra seconds make? She still couldn't follow the pace of the ingredients at all. There was no way she could learn from that.
Tang Han really was the alien, wasn't he?
"Huh? Alien?"
Gold Ship's thoughts suddenly took a sharp turn.
It was true that Tang Han kept his whole body covered up and deliberately hid what he looked like. That did leave open the possibility that he really was an alien. Maybe under those clothes he even had four arms.
Should she find a chance to knock him out and see what he really looked like?
Seeing Gold Ship space out like that, Tang Han immediately knew she hadn't understood a thing.
"This is the recipe ratio I worked out. Here, you can have it." He handed Gold Ship the notes he had used while learning to make S-rank honey drinks.
At this point he could already make a honey drink on a whim, so the notes weren't all that useful to him anymore. He might as well give them to Bro Ship and strengthen their friendship a little.
"Got it." Gold Ship accepted the notebook.
"Urara, Rice Shower, let's go."
Tang Han still had something he wanted to do privately for Urara and Rice Shower—a little special extra coaching—so he took the two of them and left first.
After Tang Han walked away, Gold Ship quietly leaned toward Mejiro McQueen and whispered into her ear,
"McQueen, lend me that anti-pervert baton on your butt."
"No!"
McQueen refused without the slightest hesitation and glared at Gold Ship.
"And…"
"That's my waist!"
Urara and Rice Shower sat on chairs, took off their shoes, and lifted their little feet.
If anyone ever tells you that a horse girl's feet smell after running, please slap them twice, because they are lying to you on purpose.
A wonderful lifeform like an Uma Musume could never smell bad under any circumstances. Even after sweating from hard running, their feet would still be soft and fragrant—why, you could probably use the foot-washing water as a topping for rice.
At that moment, Tang Han was crouched on the floor, one hand on each girl, massaging their feet.
"Ahahaha It tickles so much Ahahaha~" Urara laughed happily, her body trembling.
"Mm…" Rice Shower blushed all over and covered her face with her hands, peeking through her fingers at Tang Han.
That was right. The thing Tang Han had wanted to do privately for Urara and Rice Shower was to massage their feet to help them relax.
If it had been any other horse girl in front of him, Tang Han would absolutely never have massaged their feet.
Because in all the weirder stories out there, massaging a horse girl's feet was a fatal move. Stimulating a horse girl's feet would drastically increase her affection, making it extremely easy to end up in a basement.
But if it was angelic little Urara, Tang Han wasn't afraid. He was even willing to learn the relevant techniques just to massage her.
As for Rice Shower…
How could a big-brother-type possibly not massage Rice Shower?!
Massaging the legs after training could effectively ease accumulated fatigue, relax the muscles, and improve training efficiency for the next day.
Tang Han had known for a long time that massage had this kind of benefit. But before, he hadn't had a training room of his own. If he wanted to massage his assigned horse girls, he would have had to do it in full public view—and if Tokai Teio and the others found out and wanted to join in too, that would be a disaster.
That was why he had only started secretly massaging Urara and Rice Shower in the training room today. The whole point was to avoid attracting outside attention.
Tang Han carefully and earnestly massaged them for ten full minutes, and by the end he was exhausted.
He didn't actually know professional massage. He didn't understand the techniques. If he had that kind of knowledge, his efficiency would be much higher, and he wouldn't end up this tired.
Tang Han thought that if only there were a book that could teach him, that would be perfect.
Lucky: Boss, I happen to have a book.
Tang Han: Oh? Let me see.
Ding. Obtained book: "Massage Techniques: From Feet to XX."
"…Right. It's that old bro again."
From the title alone, Tang Han could already identify the author. It had to be the same guy who wrote From Trainer Beginner to Basement.
After he finished massaging Urara and Rice Shower, Tang Han pulled out the book and skimmed through it.
The first chapter introduced the pressure points on an Uma Musume's body and what effects came from pressing each one.
The later chapters explained massage techniques for the feet, calves, thighs, waist, back, arms, and shoulders—also in great detail, with different methods and techniques for different body parts.
As for the chapters after that…
Not suitable for children. Best not to be shown.
Tang Han: By the way, I've actually always been curious—who exactly is that old bro?
Lucky: Boss, some things really are better left unknown.
Tang Han: …
What, was that old bro supposed to be him or something?
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