"But at this very moment, Latifah surges up along the inside, while Goodbye Halo charges in from the far outside! The two are neck and neck as they overtake Winning Colors together!"
"Over the final six hundred meters, these two horse girls—who had stubbornly held to their own rhythm all this time—now rise as one, as if by unspoken understanding, to challenge the tyrant in the heavens!"
The announcer's roar was nothing short of stirring.
If one ignored the fact that he had practically skipped over the temporarily faltering Winning Colors—and barely mentioned Risen Star at all—then his commentary really was enough to set the blood boiling.
With that impassioned voice, he told the viewers gathered around televisions and radios, and the audience filling the stands:
Even if Winning Colors has momentarily fallen back, we still have Goodbye Halo, another American horse girl bold enough to draw her blade! She, too, carries the hopes of American racing!1GaL2
In an instant, the cheers for Winning Colors were drowned out by the cries rallying behind Goodbye Halo.
Her popularity had never been much lower than Winning Colors' to begin with, and now that Winning Colors had temporarily dropped back, the neutral spectators were naturally drawn to Goodbye Halo's sudden charge.
Not just casual fans—even some of Winning Colors' diehard supporters had begun shouting for Goodbye Halo. Whether or not Winning Colors still had the stamina for another push, they were willing to lend Goodbye Halo their voices.
After all, who could resist a horse girl who, on the final stage of the American Triple Crown, fought her way forward with everything she had just to snatch the winner's throne from Xingyun Liuge?1GaL2
Latifah, by contrast, received far fewer cheers.
And most of those came from men in white headscarves.
It could only be said that sheer sportsmanship, by itself, was barely enough to move people. Compared to cheering for a foreign runner in the middle of the race, the crowd would rather save their tears until after the hot-blooded girl had lost.
If Xingyun Liuge had not crushed the American horse girls with overwhelming strength, her own treatment would probably have looked much the same as Latifah's.1GaL2
And it was precisely because of that that Xingyun Liuge eased off on Latifah—just a little.
Feeling the gale surging up from behind and hearing the rolling thunder draw closer and closer, Xingyun Liuge slowly closed her eyes.
That did not mean, however, that she intended to deal with these two the way she had dealt with Brian's Time.
Brian's Time was a senior to many Japanese horse girls, and she had been on the verge of touching the threshold of a Domain. That was why Xingyun Liuge had pressured her, then defeated her cleanly and decisively.
But these two had already awakened their Domains, and they were even better suited to middle-distance races than Brian's Time was. If Xingyun Liuge dragged this out into another drawn-out clash, it would stop being interesting.1GaL2
She intended to crush them both together with the strongest offensive move she currently possessed.
Xingyun Liuge drew a deep breath and allowed the two horse girls to close to within a single horse-length.
And at that exact instant, the silent expanse of the cosmos above suddenly lit up—so brightly that for a heartbeat, several of the racers felt as though the long night had ended and dawn had arrived.1GaL2
Seeing that, Goodbye Halo nearly cried out in shock.
How could this be?!
Xingyun Liuge had already spent plenty of stamina while dealing with Brian's Time, and after that she had fought genuine all-out battles against both Risen Star and Winning Colors in succession.
So how did she still have so much stamina left?!
Was she some tireless monster?1GaL2
Then came a crackling zzzt.
A brilliant arc of electricity burst from Goodbye Halo's bangs, swelling almost instantly into a dazzling spear of lightning that stabbed straight for Xingyun Liuge's back!
A sharp, almost fishy tang spread through the air—the unmistakable sign of oxygen being turned to ozone beneath the force of lightning.
Goodbye Halo had not come here just to make up the numbers.
She had come here to win.1GaL2
This was the perfect chance to backstab Xingyun Liuge.
Latifah hesitated for a moment and missed that opening—but by that same stroke of fortune, she also ensured that Xingyun Liuge stuck with her decision to keep "holding back" on her a little.
Without the slightest warning, the three protective planets around Xingyun Liuge suddenly began orbiting faster. Invisible, alien ripples spread out from her center, while golden motes drifted in from every direction.
They passed effortlessly through the dangerous zone where raging winds and roaring lightning clashed, gathering around Xingyun Liuge.1GaL2
Even the lightning spear paled before that radiance.
As though embarrassed, it dissolved without warning—reduced to ionized particles, then swept into the host of light particles, becoming part of that elegant yet savage colossal being.
Both horse girls could see it clearly now:
That immense entity opened its vast draconic maw, filled with blazing light—
No, not merely light. It was the radiance of stars from every corner of the universe!
Let alone the Solar System—why, even the Milky Way itself was no more than a fragment of the light that maw had gathered.1GaL2
There was no doubt about it:
This was holy brilliance fit to split heaven and earth apart—
and also a force of terror they had absolutely no way to resist.
It seemed to let out a low sigh, or perhaps chant a single ancient syllable from the language of the void.1GaL2
"!"
It was as though the Milky Way itself had descended into the mortal world—
a splendor belonging solely to the stars, dazzling yet not blinding, magnificent yet never inelegant, poured down from the heavens!
Yet what arrived first was not that light.
What came before it was the "cry" of the stars' birth—the ripple born just ahead of that radiant descent.
In the stunned eyes of the horse girls, space itself began to fracture like glass struck by overwhelming force, breaking layer by layer!1GaL2
Crack. Crack.
The two of them felt it with perfect clarity:
Under that overwhelming pressure, their Domains were splitting apart, screaming in agony as they shattered.
Wherever the ripples reached, their Domains first froze in place—
then their very mode of existence was mercilessly deconstructed and pulverized—
until at last that brilliance, shining at the absolute peak of radiance, came crashing down in full!1GaL2
The spectacle was so vast that even Secretariat, along with the Triple Crown winners who had come specially to watch, were profoundly shaken.
All of them had seen great storms in their lives.
But never anything with a form of expression this outrageous.
It genuinely looked as if the entire racecourse might be destroyed by this single strike.
After only a brief moment of shock, Secretariat barked out an order:
"The medical team!"1GaL2
A Domain was the manifested form of a horse girl's spirit. If it were struck with truly destructive force, there was no guarantee it would not harm the horse girl herself.
No—more accurately, it was highly likely to damage the brain, and in turn inflict devastating harm upon both body and mind.
If an accident really happened, how could they possibly answer to those girls' families?
Cold sweat broke out across Secretariat's body at once.1GaL2
But this was not destruction.
Nor was it an explosion.
Rather, the entire spatial zone had been forcibly silenced and reformatted. The two girls' Domains were compressed back into their most basic particles and forcibly taken offline.
How could Xingyun Liuge possibly seize victory by actually hurting other horse girls?
She had merely wanted to make them cry, that was all~
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