"I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING."

Meanwhile Team Croissant:

"Tell me, how much did you bet on Croix Du Nord?"
"None matters for the heavens above have bet on me"

IIRC the total of Croix bets collectively was about 6 billion including the "If this happens and Croix wins" kinda bet. So Tabaru kinda indirectly caused the lite version of 12 billion incident.

RIP to that one or two guys who bet 100 million yen on Croix tho.

Rice Shower may have been the assassin back then...

But ever SINCE then, many more assassins have appeared to terminate the hopes of those that have placed their bets on some of the most powerful racehorses in the World...

"The rain rains down, rains down,
Drenching both mounts and men.
They must cross, [though] they will not cross.
Tabaruzaka."
—Tabaruzaka, an old Kumamoto folk song

1877.
Meiji imperialists sought to break the siege of Kumamoto Castle. They marched to a narrow mountain road towards Kumamoto, the Tabaruzaka pass.
The Satsuma rebels, led by Saigo Takamori, "the Last Samurai", intercepted them and a bloody battle broke.

Rain fell heavily, rendering the firearms useless.
So the combatants fought in old-fashioned melee.

The battle lasted for seventeen days.