novelraw Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29 : Chapter 29
Chapter 29
I thought of it when I saw the text stating that the ballot box would be replaced with a new one if broken.
If I bear the penalty, wouldn't it be possible to be elected even with one vote?
Of course, since I would have to pay a fine, it was a method I had held in reserve until now because it wasn't too late to mobilize it after trying other ways.
It was what one might call insurance.
I satisfiedly appreciated the faces of Yoon Ji-ho and Seo Ji-hye, who were stunned.
“Ah, there was one easiest way for you. Just admitting defeat and running away.”
There is one ballot paper that Yoon Ji-ho put in the ballot box.
In other words, if the voting ends like this, Yoon Ji-ho and I will be joint winners.
The prize money would decrease to 250 million won, and Seo Ji-hye would pay a fine of 50 million won as a penalty, but he can avoid a confrontation with me.
As a bonus, he wouldn't have to jump into the playground full of traps.
However, I added a few words to make it difficult for Yoon Ji-ho to run away.
“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. Even if you run away from me, losing 250 million won is the end of it. It’s cheap if you think of it as the price of your life.”
I used a clever speech technique, and I was curious if Yoon Ji-ho would notice it.
I packaged the prize money of the third vote as if it were money Yoon Ji-ho had already put in his pocket.
From Yoon Ji-ho’s perspective, it would feel like he was truly losing something.
Originally, whether it was stocks or gambling, the moment the thought ‘If only I put money in then……’ occurred, it was easy to fall into the illusion that one suffered a huge loss.
The keyword ‘loss’ served its role as a malicious code that broke Yoon Ji-ho’s emotions.
Yoon Ji-ho pulled the zipper of the waist bag hanging obliquely on his upper body.
Zip!
“What is this piece of trash saying from a while ago? Run away? Why should I do that against a guy weaker than me?”
The zipper of the waist bag opened and the contents were revealed to the outside.
Inside the waist bag, there were plenty of banknotes and coins from various countries.
Yoon Ji-ho took turns putting his hands in the waist bag and gripped coins full in his hands.
The sound of coins clinking informed me that Yoon Ji-ho had finished his combat preparations soon.
“I must have told you yesterday? Money or whatever, I’m going to tear you apart. I’ll end it right here without delaying any further.”
He held so many coins in his hand that one coin slipped through the gap between his fingers.
The falling coin hit the ground and bounced once.
As if flipping a coin as a signal for the start of a gunslinger duel in a western movie.
Simultaneously with the coin touching the ground, Yoon Ji-ho scattered the coins in all directions.
Ability to explode currency.
Coins of various kinds spread widely over the western part of the playground and exploded simultaneously.
K-boom! Bang! Ka-boom! Boom!
The hidden traps were caught in the explosion and broken.
Charred trap fragments flew randomly.
Smoke derived from the explosion spread thickly and covered the western part of the playground.
Yoon Ji-ho and Seo Ji-hye hid themselves using the smoke as a smokescreen.
Yoon Ji-ho’s laughter flowed from somewhere in the smoke.
“Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle! Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle, chuckle!”
While the unpleasant laughter was in charge of the battle background sound, an object the size of a fist soared from the smoke.
It was a coin purse that could be opened and closed using a snap button.
The coin purse drew a parabola, and when it reached the peak of the parabola, it was staying above my head.
After a while, a small explosion occurred inside the coin purse.
Pop!
He had mixed low-value coins inside the coin purse.
Since they were amounts that couldn't even reach a value of 1 won in Korean currency, such as the Vietnamese dong or the Indonesian rupiah, it was natural that the explosion power was weak.
That appropriate weakness was the kick.
Dozens of coins caught in the aftermath of the explosion scattered in all directions.
A rain of coins poured down as if covering my surroundings.
I tapped the ground with the toe of my right shoe and took a dash posture.
“I feel relieved that you didn't choose to run away. There is nothing as miserable as being ignored even when standing clearly on a stage.”
I started before the falling coins touched me.
My body leaned forward and acceleration was attached in an instant, and I left the spot where I was staying in the blink of an eye and headed west of the playground.
The sound of dozens of explosions overlapping was heard from behind my back.
Heat pushed in and heated my back, but I advanced without concern.
Advance, advance, advance. Only advance.
While running, I took out one of the remaining blood bags, held it in my hand, and burst it.
Ability to turn one's own bodily fluids into blades.
The flowing blood hardened and changed into a Hwando embracing chilliness.
While advancing to find Yoon Ji-ho, a paper plane popped out from inside the thick smoke.
It was a paper plane folded from a 50,000 won bill.
The paper plane landed near me while flying in an extraordinary trajectory, as if a seasoned captain was on board.
And it exploded.
K-boom!
I threw my body and barely widened the distance from the source of the explosion.
Since I couldn't completely escape from the explosion, my body flipped at will in the air.
Far from a breakfall, I fell to the ground starting from my back and the shock momentarily overcame my whole body.
However, because I was prepared to take some shock, the mental shock was nonexistent.
“A falling plane suddenly exploding…… it’s not even some hijacking plane terrorism.”
Throwing bombs applying origami continued.
This time, paper shurikens popped out consecutively from the smoke.
2 minutes left until the voting result is announced.
I planned to slash Yoon Ji-ho simultaneously with being elected as class president.
That way, I can extort the possessed money he has in its entirety.
I snapped my waist and stood up at once, then swung the Hwando roughly.
Slash! Slash!
Two flying paper shurikens were contained in one trajectory and split in half.
Just because a 50,000 won bill is torn in half, it doesn't take on the value of 25,000 won.
Damaged currency does not function as currency until it is exchanged.
In other words, the value the cut paper shurikens embraced was 0 won.
Snap!
The sound of snapping fingers flowed from inside the smoke, but currency that lost its value did not have a function remaining to respond to Yoon Ji-ho’s signal.
Until now, the explosion sound had covered the sound of snapping fingers.
However, only for this time, as the explosion did not occur, the sound of snapping fingers reached my ears clearly.
“What are you doing with damaged bills? It doesn't explode, man.”
The smoke was gradually becoming thinner.
Running through the smoke that was disintegrating, I put my hand in my pocket and took out a few scrap metals.
They were rusty spent batteries salvaged from a collapsed hardware store in the half-destroyed town.
I used my ability while tossing the spent batteries one by one.
Ability to turn scrap metal into traps.
While moving and exercising the ability, the smoke completely cleared.
The moment the surrounding situation came into sight.
I twisted my foot, stepped forward horizontally and applied brakes by my own strength. And I said while looking 15 meters straight ahead.
“Did you get stimulated after hearing you’re stingy? You’ve spread quite a lot.”
10,000 won bills were spread on the ground around me.
Estimating roughly, it looked to be worth 2 million won.
It was an amount that could easily tear a person apart without a trace if exploded.
Yoon Ji-ho, the person who spread the bills, was staying 15 meters ahead of me.
“Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle! You acted all high and mighty but you’re no match for me. What should I do because this is embarrassing? What to do~ what to do~.”
“What to do. I’m thinking of separating that dazed face and that pathetic body from each other though?”
“Sure, sure, keep holding out without admitting it until the end. Nothing changes because of that.”
Coinciding with Yoon Ji-ho’s mockery, Seo Ji-hye’s voice was heard from the rear.
“Ji-ho! I finished voting!”
At some point, Seo Ji-hye was standing next to the ballot box and waving her arm.
He had created a smokescreen to make Seo Ji-hye move separately, spread coins to pull me away from the ballot box, and intentionally informed his position to draw my attention so that I wouldn't be conscious of Seo Ji-hye until the end.
He had played several moves simultaneously to prevent Seo Ji-hye from receiving a fine.
He seemed to truly like Seo Ji-hye.
Yoon Ji-ho brought his thumb and middle finger together and stuck out his tongue long.
“He~y~ bye-bye~.”
Snap!
The sound of snapping fingers echoing cheerfully.
“……”
“……”
“……”
However, the result was silence.
Not a single bill spread around my feet exploded.
Yoon Ji-ho felt that something was wrong and continued to snap his fingers.
Snap! Snap! Snap!
“Eh? Why is it like this? Why won't it explode?”
He tried snapping his fingers anxiously with an expression as if his insides were burning black, but the result was the same.
The currency failed to respond to the signal Yoon Ji-ho sent and maintained silence.
Yoon Ji-ho, who fell into confusion, reached out his hand toward the bill that had fallen on the ground.
The moment his hand touched the bill…….
Zap!
“Aack!”
Sparks flew from the bill and a blister, which was evidence of a burn, swelled on the tip of Yoon Ji-ho’s finger.
The bill flipped as it briefly touched Yoon Ji-ho’s touch.
The bottom side of the bill was charred black.
Furthermore, several bills were completely on fire and burning vigorously.
I shrugged my shoulders and presented a shamelessness full of cattiness.
“Didn't you hear what I said earlier? I told you damaged bills don't explode.”
The trap made through rare items called spent batteries was an electrical trap.
Since I felt that Yoon Ji-ho was luring me, I had set them in advance right before the smoke cleared.
To damage the bills if by any chance they were spread out.
Because electrical traps are installed as if completely attached to the ground, I thought they would be installed under the bills even if they were in a state of being scattered.
As calculated, wires with electricity flowing were stretching like spiderwebs around me right now, and the bills caught on the wires were already damaged after receiving heat from the bottom side.
Good news broke out consecutively.
Whether the promised 3 minutes were all up, an announcement broadcast informing the voting results was heard.
[Announcing the results of the third vote for the Class President Election Game.]
-Yoon Ji-ho : 2 votes
-Lee Ju-seong : 2 votes
For Yoon Ji-ho, a total of 2 votes—1 vote for himself and 1 vote for Seo Ji-hye—were reflected as they were.
However, in my case, what should have been 1 vote had increased to 2 votes.
There was no need to think deeply about whose vote the remaining one was.
I turned my head and looked back. And I pushed up the corners of my mouth upon discovering the man standing next to the ballot box.
Grin.
“Su-hyeok, nice buzzer beater.”
Next to the ballot box, Bang Su-hyeok holding an iron pipe was leaning against the ballot box, and Seo Ji-hye, who fainted after being hit on the head, collapsed under Bang Su-hyeok’s feet.
Thick bandages wrapped tightly around Bang Su-hyeok’s belly, and blood that seeped out to the outside of the bandages.
Traces of him running with clenched teeth for me were evident in various places.
[The last vote has ended. The game will end in 30 minutes.]
There was no need to go as far as 30 minutes.
Because I’m going to end it soon.
I approached Yoon Ji-ho while running through the ash of the burning bills fluttering.
A blow delivered while surrounded by money that lost its value.
A silver trajectory as smooth as a crescent moon captured Yoon Ji-ho’s neck.
Yoon Ji-ho stepped back while grabbing his slashed neck with both hands.
While the overflowing blood soaked his hands, he tried to say something to me.
“……!” “……!”
I had neither the energy to speculate what he wanted to say, nor even interest in doing so.
I clicked my tongue with a meaning of deception toward Yoon Ji-ho, whose body was miserably collapsing little by little.
“Tsk, if you were going to pay-to-win, you should have done it boldly.”
Was he more annoyed because it was a correct statement upon hearing it?
Blood sprayed from Yoon Ji-ho’s mouth like a fountain, and as his body tilted forward quickly, his face hit the ground.
And without ever standing up again, he slowly cooled down just like that.