Rokuta sighed, a grimace on his face. He wasn't wrong; everything he'd seen so far implied they were well cared for and while he didn't like the idea of racing animals just for sport repeatedly like this, he couldn't tell if it was doing them any injury.
He'd been close enough to the stables they used in conjunction with the races to pick up on the noises, concentrating, and no, they were all... okay, if nothing else. A few of them seemed more whiny about having to work at all, but that wasn't ill-treatment.
"It looks like they're fine. They're not..." a gesture down at the race track and the kirin bursting down it to various cheers and cries and a grunt as he shook his head, "either of those things. They're animals, not divine beasts. I'm just not used to the name being attached to something else."
And at least the betting and the winnings from those went to charities - that was good, but Rokuta didn't much like it that it came from racing like this. If they wanted a race, why not have the people race?
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He'd been close enough to the stables they used in conjunction with the races to pick up on the noises, concentrating, and no, they were all... okay, if nothing else. A few of them seemed more whiny about having to work at all, but that wasn't ill-treatment.
"It looks like they're fine. They're not..." a gesture down at the race track and the kirin bursting down it to various cheers and cries and a grunt as he shook his head, "either of those things. They're animals, not divine beasts. I'm just not used to the name being attached to something else."
And at least the betting and the winnings from those went to charities - that was good, but Rokuta didn't much like it that it came from racing like this. If they wanted a race, why not have the people race?