"Can you not hug my arm too tightly? You're cutting off my blood supply, woman."
"Eh~~? Are you sure? Don't you like having your arms between my bosoms?"
"Yes, but I also don't want to be an amputee."
The pair walks into the darkness. The young man was expecting to meet with the 2 small umas who entered before him, but he was taken by surprise when he saw nothing but an empty hallway with blue fire torches on either side. Unknown to him, his assistant's device drops pairs randomly into a dark dungeon.
"This sure is troublesome. We have to go quickly and save my angels, Arianda."
"Mmmhh… You never act like that with us. Do you like little sister more than older sister, Igo?"
"I like cute ones."
"Am I not cute?"
"You're more sexy than cute, Arianda."
"Aaaww~~ Thank you."
"Sad that you haven't married yet."
"You can always be an option."
"Don't joke around. You know mom doesn't like that."
"But don't you get excited when doing something prohibited?"
"Depends on what it is."
"Fufufu~~ So hardheaded, are you? This is why it's so fun around you~!!"
"Hey!! Don't lean on me!! You're heavy!!"
The big sister threw her entire body onto the little brother and hugged him tightly. Her arms slither around his body, while she presses her cheek against his. The young man was so used to Arianda's skinship that he couldn't register her fingers digging into his meat.
"Please walk on your own. We're slowing down!! My angels might need me."
"I also want to be your angel, you know?"
"Then make my wish come true and get off of me."
"Mmmhh!! Fine…"
The older sister finally let her brother go once he started shrugging her off. She was clearly frustrated, but she didn't want to piss off her little brother. She followed her brother down the hallway until they met a junction with 3 wooden doors in front of them.
"Do you know where to go? She is your trainee after all."
"Hmm… Eeny… Meeny… Miny… MOE! Right one!"
"You don't know her too well, do you?"
"Shut up."
The young man grabs her sister by her wrist and pulls her to the right door. He quickly barges through the room and enters a large room. It's a room befitting of royalty. Hell, even the divine. Especially considering who was sitting at the throne on the opposite side of the room from the door.
"YOU!!!"
"Hello~~ Long time no see, cutie~~"
The umamusume sitting at the throne was none other than Darley Arabian, one of the three Goddesses. Igo could never mistake one of the targets of his anger. The entire reason he is walking down the path of revenge in the first place.
"Aradian!! GO!!"
"Nuh uh~"
Before the young man could turn around and look at her older sister, she was already wrapped up by tentacles.
"Aradian!! Answer me!!"
"I can answer in her place if you want, cutie. She said, Ah~~ ah~~ These tentacles are groping every part of my body~~ Ooh~~ Igo~~"
"You bitch!! Katon: Gokakyu No Jutsu!!!"
"Fufufu~~ Adorable~~"
The dark-red-haired Goddess stood up from her seat and walked forward. She doesn't do anything and lets the fireball consume her. As if to mock the young man, the Goddess walked forward through the smoke without a single scratch. Not even her clothes were damaged by the massive fireball.
"Come now~~ That can't be the only thing you managed to acquire, no? Let's have some more fun."
"Bitch!!"
"Entertain me more, and maybe I'll pull one of the tentacles that pushing its way through your sister's body."
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"BIG BROTHER!! Huh?! Where is he?"
"Hmm? Is this a pocket dimension?"
"A what?!? Oh my Goddesses! Umamusumes in Central can just do that, huh? No wonder they're so amazing!!"
The next pair, Equinox and Kyree, entered the pocket dimension. Equinox was hoping to surprise her older cousin and hug him from behind, but she was taken aback when she entered a dungeon.
"Then our goal is to find Big Brother!"
"Easier said than done, kiddo."
"Big brother, wait for me!!"
Equinox ran with all her might down the dungeon hall, leaving Kyree behind. She doesn't need to worry about her big sister, as she knows that the tomboy could catch up to her regardless of how fast she is running. She is her big sister after all.
"BIG—what in the hell?"
The girl keeps running until she enters a massive room. To her surprise, inside the room was a turf racetrack for umamusume. She knew that the racetrack wasn't just any ordinary racetrack, as it was completely different than most local racetracks she had run in before. The racetrack feels grand, as if she were standing in front of a massive crowd from all over the world.
"Big sis… Big sis?"
Equinox looked back to see if her big sister was there, but to her surprise, not only wasn't she there, but the hallway she came from wasn't there either. In its place was a plaque with an engraving that said, 'Be the fastest, and the way forward will open. Admit your defeat, and this hall will open once again.'
"The fastest? Who am I running with?"
As if to answer her question, smoky figures began appearing on the racetrack one after another. Some of them, Equinox can recognize, like Symboli Rudolph, Deep Impact, and Sunday Silence. While some are a complete mystery to her. But the fact that they're standing with the great means those unknown umamusumes must be powerful too.
"Alright!! This is gonna be fun!! I thought it would be boring, but Central definitely knows how to entertain people!!"
The black-haired Uma walked forward with a big smile on her face, resembling a certain young man. She cracked her neck, stretched her arms and legs, before entering the racetrack.
"This will be easy."
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"Oh me~~ Where are we?"
"Huh? A dungeon?"
The last pair entered into the same dungeon hallway as the two pairs before them. McQueen quickly steps forward, trying to make herself look dependable to her future sister-in-law.
"This is a haunted house, so that means there will be scary things happening as we walk down the attraction."
"Fufufu~~ This should be fun."
McQueen slowly walks down the path. She herself isn't particularly immune to horror, but knowing everything here is fake helps her build up confidence. Why would she need to be afraid of things that she can kick?
"Don't worry, Miss Brinda. I'm sure my classmates wouldn't go overboard."
"Fufufu~~ I don't mind being a little bit scared."
The pair continues walking down the hallway. There was so little going on that McQueen let her guard down, which caused her to step onto a particular stone slab.
"Uh oh…"
McQueen could only utter one phrase before a trapdoor opened beneath her and caused her to fall down.
"KKKYYYYAAAAAA!!!"
*THUD*
"Ugh!! Ow!!"
That Tachyon!! Why did she build this?!? I'm not paying her that money!!!
Alright!! Better return and meet up with Brinda once again!! I can't let her be alone, or else someone might catch her eye!!
With renewed determination, McQueen stood up after falling for what seemed like 5 seconds. She was about to storm out before she noticed where she was.
Wait… This looks familiar…
McQueen frantically looked around and confirmed her suspicion. This room was a replica of her grandmother's office in their main villa in Hokkaido.
"How…? How can they know their grandmother's office so well?!"
The distress in McQueen's voice was clear. How can she not? A stranger had just replicated one of the most important places for the Mejiro Family. Not even she herself can remember all of the details, and yet some strangers did.
But that panic would be dwarfed by what comes next.
"You have failed, McQueen."