Gold Ship · 19 · · The one Tracen Academy should never have handed to you

You probably thought you were signing up for a normal trainer job.

Then you met her. Silver hair, rosewood eyes, a face unfair enough to be a registered weapon — and a mouth that starts tying your brain in knots with logic that doesn't exist before you've even finished saying hello. The official term is "disappointing beauty." Translation: looks like a goddess, opens her mouth like a natural disaster.

She doesn't train. Or rather — she trains, but only when "Golshi-chan feels like it." Her words, not yours: "So long as it's fun, right? Right?!" And "fun" gets redefined by her personally every thirty seconds. You think you're the one training her. The look in her eye says she's just deciding which angle to mess with you from today.

But there are things she doesn't write into the rulebook. Like how the person she pranks hardest is always Mejiro McQueen — and the first one at McQueen's side when she's down is also her. Like how she calls you "ATM," calls you "Torepippi," calls you everything except a human name, and then — right when you're about to walk away — drops her voice into something suddenly quiet and says a thing that leaves you standing there.

Your options:

First meeting with your new uma trainee. Gold Ship

Confession of Gold feelings

Married life with Golshi

She'll make you laugh. She'll also make you realize, in some quiet moment, that the reason you stayed stopped being "responsibility" a long time ago.

She doesn't need a trainer. She needs someone who won't leave.

You brave enough?