Episode 102. End of Month Rating (1)
Around dawn, when everyone is deeply asleep.
Under the light of a small lamp, white hands were busy writing a letter.
Square- Square-.
The sound of the pen nib scratching the paper echoed irritatingly in the stillness.
click-.
The white hand that finished writing the letter picked up a small bottle beside it.
What was inside was a yellow liquid.
The white hand sprayed the yellow liquid evenly over the letter he had written without the slightest hesitation.
After that, shouldn’t he bring the letter to the side of the lantern?
Then an amazing thing happened.
thru-.
The letters on the stationery disappeared one by one as the yellow liquid dried.
[…] Enclosed, please check.]
Even the very last line disappears completely.
Sarak-.
A white hand put another piece of paper on top of the letter paper and began to roll it together.
The thinly rolled letter soon entered a small cylinder the size of a little finger.
Busy hands began to meticulously seal the cylinder with wax.
Is there even a small gap?
It takes a long time to check it several times, apply beeswax, and harden it.
The white hand that had finished all the work now picked up something that was unknown whether it was a cylinder or a lump of wax.
The owner of the white hand left the lantern and went out the door.
How many steps did you take?
The owner of the white hand rubbed his eyes and ran into someone who came out.
“Ugh… Where?”
“To get some air.”
Having said that, the owner of the white hand walked lightly.
The owner of the white hand came out of the building and walked through the woods to the lakeside.
Sarak-.
He walked along the sandy beach in silence.
The slow, leisurely pace under the soft moonlight was the look of someone enjoying a night walk.
The place where the feet of this lightly walking person arrived was a small pond behind a large rock.
A pond formed when water from a lake dug into the island.
A white hand patted the surface of the pond and made a strange noise with its mouth.
“Chu chu chu.”
It’s like calling something.
And soon after, a small head poked out of the pond.
– Kurung?
Black eyes and round hair resembling a puppy.
and brown hair.
The creature was none other than a seal.
– Kwong!
The seal that came up to the pond saw the owner of the white hand and blinked in delight.
A white hand gently stroked the seal’s head.
– Hilly hills.
A seal enjoying being touched with a happy expression.
After stroking the seal for a long time, the white hand took out the lump of wax it had prepared and held it up.
The white hand carefully tying it to the chest of the seal so that it would never unravel.
“Please take good care of me this time too.”
As I said that, I tapped the bridge of my nose lightly, and the seal winked at me and dived into the pond.
The seals went out to the lake through the passage connected to the pond.
Chow-.
The guy greeted the lake with one big jump, then dived deep and didn’t come up.
After confirming that the seal had left, the owner of the white hand also left the pond.
Subuck- Subuck-.
After that, the owner of the white hand did not go back and walked along the sandy beach some more.
Like someone with a problem.
Like someone who has been on a long walk.
After spending time like that, I completely left the lake around dawn.
This was on the 30th of January.
* * *
The day after Goetz’s visit.
After eating with Thearesia for the first time in a while, Yuri left the rift.
The place he was heading to was the amphitheater.
An amphitheater with all the facilities of Cradle.
For this reason, the place where points were registered for the end-of-month evaluation was also located within the amphitheater.
According to Thearesia, it was called the [Capacity Evaluation Center], but the 1st and 2nd year competency evaluation centers were located at the north gate.
There were already quite a few people gathered at the competency evaluation center that I arrived at.
The place where 50 of them were most crowded was in front of the bulletin board.
Yuri’s footsteps also naturally headed there.
There was a large yellowed poster attached to it, as if it had been in the same place for a long time.
Yuri also jumped in among the crowd and read the poster pasted on the bulletin board.
Those were all rules about end-of-month evaluations.
* * *
1. Points used for evaluation at the end of the month are not refunded.
*However, from 1st to 10th, 1% to 10% of the registered points are additionally paid according to the ranking.
2. Points for evaluation can be registered only from the 1st of each month until one day before the last day.
*If not registered, it will be treated as 0 points.
3. Evaluation is made through points accumulated over a month, which can only be confirmed through the final ranking announcement on the last day.
*The cumulative points of others cannot be confirmed, and disclosure is prohibited even among jockeys. If violations of this are discovered, penalties will be imposed accordingly.
*Those who attempt or lead the point registration collusion will be severely punished accordingly.
*The final rankings will be announced on the north central bulletin board on the last day.
*The presentation time is 12:00 for the first year and 17:00 for the second year.
* In case of non-participation during the presentation time, the non-participant himself/herself shall bear the penalty.
5. Disadvantages occur for those in the lower ranks of the end-of-month evaluation, and the category of disadvantages may change depending on the circumstances of the cradle.
* * *
It was an unusually cradle-like reminder.
But Yuri saw that kind reminder as the last meal given to death row inmates.
This was because he knew that ‘exile’ was included in that category of disadvantage.
On the other hand, many jockeys who did not know exactly the category of disadvantage did not seem to be very nervous.
Leaving those people behind, what Yuri showed interest in was the item that started with ‘The cumulative points of others cannot be confirmed’.
Yuri laughed at this.
‘It’s fun.’
What that item meant was simple.
It was that until the final announcement of the end-of-month evaluation at the end of the month, it was unknown who registered how many points.
Regarding this, Yuri expressed it as follows.
“It’s not an end-of-month evaluation, it’s an end-of-month evaluation.”
If you can keep an eye out and predict who will register how many points, you will be able to rank in the rankings with fewer points.
It is said that if done well, the ranking can change quickly with a difference of only one point.
Yuri had a rough idea why Yoram had taken this approach.
‘It’s for collecting points.’
Obviously, a person with a good sense of humor will use the established rules to his advantage.
But no matter how well you use it, it’s never been easy.
In fact, this is a battle of notice, and after all, it was also a high-level information warfare.
How many points the other jockeys have.
Furthermore, what are their tendencies?
It was a job to figure out all of them and predict how many points the competitor would register.
How many people will be able to do this?
And a much easier way than that kind of headache was to press it with a point.
So that others cannot rise above me.
Or how to crush those who are trying to come up with a large amount of points.
If you have a lot of points, you can easily take first place.
In particular, it was really easy for Yuri, who had more points than all 50 points combined.
However, Yuri was not particularly reluctant to do that.
‘Because that’s what Yoram wants.’
What Yo-ram wants is not for jockeys to win by a narrow margin by fighting each other.
What they wanted was to make the jockeys register a lot of points through competition.
That’s why I made point registration completely confidential.
And if you overdo it with points due to the overheating of the competition… … .
‘There will be no points to use at the special sales shop that will open soon.’
Yuri thought so and looked around.
The faces of the 50th generation contemplating how many points to stake seemed too calm.
‘They don’t know about the special edition yet.’
Still, the most valuable thing that can be bought with points is 1,000 points, or 50 units, which are considered to be all of a few daily necessities.
That’s why.
Because I don’t know how to spend the points to make them more valuable.
Because you don’t know you have to save as many points as possible in this end of month evaluation.
It looks so peaceful.
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Maybe they will change from next month.
By registering points, raise the ranking and avoid expulsion, which is a disadvantage of the end-of-month evaluation.
Or, do you use a special edition where you can save valuable items with points?
I’m going to tear my hair out because of that kind of worry.
Of course, all of that did not apply to Yuri, who had a lot of points.
In terms of points alone, he is already the overwhelming No. 1.
Since that was an established fact, Yuri had only one thing to worry about.
‘How much do I need to register to be ranked first with the minimum number of points?’
While worrying so much, Yuri moved slowly.
‘First of all, the second place is unconditionally Poppy and Arin.’
If they can predict how many points they will register, they can get first place with the least number of points.
‘Didn’t they come?’
He looked around for Arin and Poppy.
But even dog poop can’t be used for medicine.
Things that usually pop up out of nowhere today didn’t show up at all.
While looking around, Yuri was able to find something else instead of Poppy and Arin.
‘That’s… … ?’
A glass that moved.
The place he arrived at was the [Hall of Fame] prepared on one side of the Competency Evaluation Center.
Yuri’s eyes widened when she saw this.
‘that… Is it gold?’
Several letters and numbers were inscribed on the huge gold plate.
Yuri skimmed through the explanation written under it.
‘Let’s see, so you’re saying that the 100 people with the highest scores of all time were selected by accumulating the end-of-month evaluations of the graduates for 5 years?’
On top of that explanation, the rider and name, the number of times it ranked first in the end-of-month evaluation, and finally, the accumulated points for 5 years were nicely imprinted.
Yuri read the name all the way from the bottom up.
Each of the names imprinted from the 100th place was very famous, but there was no name that Yuri knew.
After climbing for a long time, I finally found a familiar name.
10th/ 6th term/ Ralph Schnell/ Cumulative 1st place 60 times/ 98,193,954
“oh? Gomtang old man, did you do something?”
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Muchi’s grandfather.
When the name of the so-called old man Gomtaeng appeared, Yuri smiled happily.
Yuri raised her gaze straight up again.
After going up for a while, I was able to find one more little familiar castle.
3rd place/ 15th class/ May Winchester/ Cumulative 1st place 60 times/ 230,000,000
‘Winchester? Is that the Winchester?’
Yuri recalled what John had said.
[The child’s aunt consulted with me about the problem. About how I can get rid of my nephew’s punishment.]
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Maybe Thearesia’s aunt John was talking about at that time was that May Winchester?
Yuri’s gaze, which soon emptied that thought, turned upward again.
and atop the Hall of Fame.
There was a familiar name occupying the number one spot.
1st place/ 2nd period/ Johan Redner/ Cumulative 1st place 60 times
John’s name is so proudly occupied as if this is my place.
However, Yuri’s eyes were somewhat predictable.
‘Since the inspiration’s name didn’t come out even from 100th to 2nd, I thought it must have been 1st… … .’
What Yuri didn’t expect was none other than Yohan’s score.
Yuri, who stared intently at Yohan’s points accumulated over the past five years, finally spat out a word.
“under… You perverted old man.”