novelraw Chapter 30 : Chapter 30
Chapter 30 : Chapter 30
Chapter 30
I had no need to attempt a separate confirmation kill against Yoon Ji-ho.
Not long after Yoon Ji-ho collapsed, the Money Watch LCD lit up.
[You killed the opponent player during play.]
[Class President privilege activates.]
[You extorted ‘2.05 billion won’ possessed by Yoon Ji-ho.]
[Current balance : 2.325 billion won.]
I paid a fine of 50 million won that occurred while breaking the ballot box from my original balance, and then my balance increased significantly as the class president election prize of 250 million won and the money extorted from Yoon Ji-ho were added.
If it were now, even if I bought a ship fare, I could escape the game with more than 1 billion won in hand.
1 billion won. It’s pocket money.
It was a small amount that was nothing more than dirt under a fingernail compared to the target amount I set.
There was no way I could step back satisfied with 1 billion won.
Especially stepping back immediately after craftily declaring war against the organization?
I would decline to volunteer for such a pathetic act.
I returned to the central area of the playground where Bang Su-hyeok was staying.
“You managed to arrive in time.”
Bang Su-hyeok made a forced smile while leaning against the ballot box.
“I’m glad I barely managed to do my part. There would be no face for me if I were incompetent in a situation where I babbled that I needed a capable companion.”
For someone acting tough and posing, Bang Su-hyeok’s physical condition was not very good.
His face was covered in cold sweat, his complexion was pale, and his legs were trembling.
It was clear that it was a state where it was difficult to expect natural recovery.
Surely it would be a state where surgery is required.
In this state, making a fuss and worrying was highly likely to have an adverse effect on Bang Su-hyeok’s physical condition instead.
I chimed in nonchalantly.
“Well, since I thought Su-hyeok would have the grit to arrive on time, I didn't doubt it.”
“There’s no need to boost me up by force. It’s because I also didn't want to pay any more fines, so I ran desperately.”
“Because human intentions are always complex. No matter how you package it, the fact that it was an excellent buzzer beater for me doesn't change.”
Bang Su-hyeok tried to scratch his cheek with his index finger out of awkwardness.
However, his hand could not rise to the height where his face was and fell down.
It was that no strength remained to lift his hand.
“Anyway, a monster-like fellow. To think you really overwhelmed Yoon Ji-ho’s group alone.”
“Although the small fry were handled by Yoon Ji-ho at his own will.”
“No, you are amazing. So I look forward to working with you from now on…….”
Bang Su-hyeok’s body slowly collapsed downward while leaning against the ballot box.
Just before Bang Su-hyeok completely collapsed, I reached out my arms and supported the lower part of Bang Su-hyeok’s armpits.
And I lowered him slowly and took measures so he could rest in a posture leaning his back against the ballot box.
When the game ends, the organization members will appear and move Bang Su-hyeok.
They will carry out the minimum treatment acts to prolong life regardless of his will.
Because money remains in Bang Su-hyeok’s Money Watch.
Since people without a balance are left behind without exception, it was a great relief that a balance remained for Bang Su-hyeok.
“Being amazing is an overestimation. I’m not amazing. I just know how to decorate myself to look amazing.”
20 minutes left until the game ends.
Whether Bang Su-hyeok would be alive until then depended on luck.
It was not a part I could intervene in.
Therefore, I will do what I can do right now.
The homework remaining right now was the matter of Seo Ji-hye’s disposal.
Seo Ji-hye had already woken up from her coma, and it was after she witnessed the body of Yoon Ji-ho collapse in a distant place.
“That idiot, what did he mean by being a winning candidate? If you drop dead here, what should I do, who went all-in on your victory? Huh? What am I supposed to do!”
It was Seo Ji-hye who poured out resentment toward Yoon Ji-ho with a rough voice that contradicted her youthful appearance.
It was a tone where one could realize what it felt like to say that a voice smells of nicotine.
She naturally thought Yoon Ji-ho would win and went all-in, but it was the same as losing everything as soon as she placed the bet.
She was a woman who often revealed two-facedness even in the drama.
As the seasons flowed, she was a character who realized her duty as a teacher while getting involved with a high school couple, and eventually exited while showing a self-sacrificing aspect.
However, it was different in the script I wrote.
An early villain who exists together with Yoon Ji-ho.
That was the role Seo Ji-hye took in this script.
I approached Seo Ji-hye while letting Hwando hang.
The tip of the Hwando left a line on the playground floor while scratching the ground.
Skritch! Skritch-skritch!
Seo Ji-hye regained her sense of reality after hearing the sound of the ground being scratched.
The resentment and anger toward Yoon Ji-ho disappeared, and fear and terror toward me replaced that spot.
“W-Wait! Let’s make this clear! There is something to be repaid between Bang Su-hyeok and me!”
No matter what she babbled, my feet did not stop.
“…….”
I advanced silently while maintaining silence.
The silence reflected my indifference toward Seo Ji-hye.
Seo Ji-hye’s struggles continued.
“H-How about money? Or I’ll do anything! If you use my ability, you can satisfy your desires as much as you want depending on the case!”
“…….”
“If you can't believe it, experience it yourself! You’ll know if you experience it directly!”
Seo Ji-hye activated her ability.
“A-Ability activation!”
The ability to cast a hallucination on the opponent to make oneself appear as the person who loved them the most was activated.
At this very moment, one woman was reflected in my eyes.
A youthful face and messy clothing, a terrified expression.
It was undeniably Seo Ji-hye’s appearance.
I snorted with an absurd feeling.
“I expected it, but to think it really wouldn't activate. I was expecting it to activate a little bit though.”
Seo Ji-hye, the person who used the ability, also noticed.
That the ability did not activate at all.
Since her last struggle came to naught, it would be normal to despair, but Seo Ji-hye did not despair.
Rather, she seemed greatly shocked to have found out that I am an anomalous existence.
“I-It makes no sense……. This ability is an ability that unconditionally activates……. It might be possible if it's a person who has never loved another person once…… but the opposite can absolutely not be…….”
Slash!
Before Seo Ji-hye’s words could reach an end, the silver trajectory swept her neck.
[You killed the opponent player during play.]
[Class President privilege activates.]
[You extorted ‘20 million won’ possessed by Seo Ji-hye.]
[Current balance : 2.345 billion won.]
While Seo Ji-hye fell into the same state as Yoon Ji-ho, just right, the Hwando scattered into powder and fluttered as if evaporating.
I wiped the drop of blood hanging from my chin with the back of my hand while turning my back to Seo Ji-hye.
And I grumbled while habitually brushing my bangs from right to left.
“I ended up letting her babble useless things. Won't my image be ruined like this?”
I welcome becoming the protagonist of my life, but I don't want to become a protagonist with a pitiful story.
A protagonist is essentially meant to be special.
If you take a pitiful story as an identity, you end up becoming a ‘peculiar protagonist’ instead of a ‘special protagonist’.
I was painstakingly acting as a person with ordinary sensibilities normally, but because Seo Ji-hye talked without discretion, it was all found out.
At least some of the organization members who pay attention to this game will take notice of me.
I made a gesture of shooting a gun toward the camera that would be installed somewhere.
“I look forward to working with you from now on. Organization.”
Did they judge that continuing the game any further is meaningless.
Or are they trying to indirectly warn me that they are already paying attention to me.
Whichever it was, as if responding to my gesture, an announcement broadcast resonated from a distant place.
[Announcing to the surviving players.]
[As a result of the management's judgment, we deem further play to be meaningless and will issue an early termination ruling.]
[The Class President Election Game has ended.]
***
After the Class President Election Game ended.
Silence swept inside the control room.
Yoon Ji-ho’s elimination.
The fact that a prominent winning candidate was eliminated in only the 2nd round came as a shock to the dealers.
Furthermore, the person who eliminated Yoon Ji-ho was a 5th-rank ability user.
It wasn't that he barely won, he completely overwhelmed him unilaterally.
The person who broke the silence was November.
November talked to himself with a frivolous voice.
“Aaaah. This is why the ranking of ability lotto papers cannot be trusted. I should put an opinion in the report to be sent to headquarters that the standards for ranking ability ranks should be changed.”
For someone who believed in Yoon Ji-ho’s victory more than anyone else without a doubt, there was no sign of regret.
He was showing a side like a mobile game light user who immediately discards a favorite character selected with a light heart as soon as their performance becomes poor.
In fact, his hobby was also mobile games where gacha is the mainstream.
August, who usually argues with November, could not nitpick for this once.
“To be honest, it’s shocking. In this case, I can't distinguish whether Yoon Ji-ho failed to utilize the ability perfectly, or whether Lee Ju-seong utilized the ability 120 percent.”
The other dealers nodded their heads all at once and agreed with August’s words.
How to accept this protruding irregular name Lee Ju-seong; just understanding this sudden situation was overwhelming.
The gazes of the dealers gradually gathered toward January.
It was because they were curious about the opinion of January, the person in charge of this game site.
January took a deep breath, and then spoke calmly while exhaling slowly.
“I want to pay attention to other parts rather than Yoon Ji-ho’s defeat.”
“Are you saying we should look at it from a different perspective?”
“Bronze members, please replay the part where Seo Ji-hye used her ability on Lee Ju-seong at the end.”
The organization members wearing Copper Masks clicked the mouse a few times.
The appearance of Lee Ju-seong and Seo Ji-hye was reflected on the main monitor with the widest screen.
On the screen, the appearance of Lee Ju-seong and Seo Ji-hye was flowing as it is, but it was normal for Seo Ji-hye to be appearing as the image of another person in Lee Ju-seong’s eyes.
But…….
‘I-It makes no sense……. This ability is an ability that unconditionally activates……. It might be possible if it's a person who has never loved another person once…… but the opposite can absolutely not be……’
The video stopped at the part where Lee Ju-seong swung the Hwando.
January turned his back to the monitor and threw a question toward July as if interrogating.
“July, you were in charge of the recruitment of that friend. Could you tell us about his human relationships?”
“According to the investigation, he stayed under a single mother who runs a gukbap restaurant since childhood. After moving up to Seoul, he also dated three girlfriends.”
“Mother, or ex-girlfriends. It means it’s normal that the appearance of one of them should have been seen while hallucinating, right?”
“If it's correct that Seo Ji-hye exercised her ability properly.”
But in reality, Seo Ji-hye’s ability did not activate.
As if the existence of Lee Ju-seong itself is not satisfying the ability activation conditions.
They wondered if it was indeed a possible thing.
Because no matter how little, parents' love would have been poured in at the moment of birth.
January turned his head only slightly and glared fiercely at the screen that had stopped.
“Lee Ju-seong. Who on earth are you.”
Inside the monitor, an individual separate from the Lee Ju-seong the organization identified was staying.
It was the standard to refrain from hasty tricks against a mysterious existence.
January’s attitude in dealing with Lee Ju-seong was extremely realistic.
“Let’s dig into it slowly with more time. Deliver only objective content to headquarters as much as possible. I will prohibit mixing personal opinions in the report.”
January’s judgment was to not provoke Lee Ju-seong for now.
The dealers also considered it a desirable decision as field workers.
However, the judgment of the headquarters that received the report was different.
On the day the report was submitted, an instruction that was nothing but complacent dropped from headquarters.
[Headquarters delivers the top priority instructions.]
[Headquarters is feeling an intense interest in the subject Lee Ju-seong.]
[Collect as much of subject Lee Ju-seong’s ability data as possible. The deadline is ‘until Lee Ju-seong dies inside the game site’. We authorize the use of all means within the limits of following the rules to ensure that the subject cannot leave the game site.]