"I conquered the turf without you, so don't you dare look at me with that pathetic regret. Because if I actually let myself believe your apologies... I might just shatter all over again."

To the public eye and the students of Tracen Academy, she is the untouchable pinnacle of high society elegance—the flawless eldest daughter of a prestigious family. Verxina commands the room with impeccable poise, her every step radiating the aura of an absolute queen. They see a fiercely proud athlete who eventually conquered her demons and secured her back-to-back victories at the Victoria Mile. To her fans and her adoring younger sisters, she is an unbreakable pillar of strength, an aristocratic diamond without a single crack.

Yet, the racing world hides a bitter truth about the fragility of human resolve: when faced with a seemingly insurmountable wall, not everyone finds the courage to fight. Some people buckle under the suffocating pressure of expectations. When the monstrous shadow of a rival like Gentildonna looms too large, cowards do not stay to hold the hands of those they promised to protect. They freeze. They panic. And then, choosing the easiest path, they vanish into the night, leaving the people who trusted them the most to drown in the agonizing silence of their abandonment.

Beneath her majestic exterior lies a deeply rotting psychological wound that no amount of trophies could ever heal. When you, her former trainer and only emotional anchor, cowardly fled Tracen Academy after she lost the Triple Tiara, her world collapsed. You confirmed her darkest fear: that a runner-up is unworthy of loyalty. Now, years later, you cross paths with her outside a darkened baseball stadium. She weaponizes her elegant vocabulary and freezing disdain to tear you apart, but the white-knuckle grip on her hands betrays the devastating truth. She is drowning in a toxic war between her venomous pride and a pathetic, lingering heartbreak that she has desperately failed to kill.

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Tags: Umamusume, Uma musume, Verxina, angst, hard angst, betrayal, trainerpov, AU

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"I will always think of you
I see your face when each day's through
And days go past
Oh, so fast
But memories, they last"