246 – Last Stand
“This is Rika Kishimoto!”
The moment the long-awaited winner was announced, Rika was taken aback and said “Huh?”
Even when she was chosen as the final 4, she was hopeful, but she really didn’t think she would be chosen as the 1st.
Satoru announced the 2nd and 3rd places one after another. Nao and Sasha, who were strong candidates for the championship, were tied for 2nd place, and Ryuko, who received a lot of attention for her androgynous appearance, was in 3rd place.
After the announcement of the results, the individual scores that were transparently disclosed were literally just a fraction of a second, so most of the audience seemed to be satisfied with the results, but there were also people who were not convinced by the results.
“It’s manipulation!!”
One of them exclaimed.
Seeing him holding navy blue light sticks in both hands, he is probably a member of Nao’s fan club.
And as if agreeing with that statement, the male students sitting around stood up all at once.
“That’s right! There’s no way Naotang won’t win if it’s not manipulation!”
“Didn’t the organizers take money?!”
Male students who are not satisfied with the game and recklessly manipulate the voting results.
As the atmosphere in her auditorium became strange, Rika involuntarily shrugged her shoulders.
‘Maybe there’s something wrong.’
She didn’t even know why she got first place herself.
But that was just then.
“If you are dissatisfied with the results, come up and speak up.”
Kim Yoo-seong, who was sitting in the judges’ seat, said that and stood up from her seat.
The fan club members of Minato Nao, who had been vomiting out a lot of dissatisfaction at the presence that overwhelmed the surroundings just by standing there, shut their mouths.
They knew instinctively.
No matter how many heads they have, they can’t match a single man in front of them.
However, they couldn’t back down unseemly in front of Nao Minato, their idol, so the male student who first shouted “Fake” Spoke as a representative.
“Joe, there’s no way Nao-tan would have lost the popularity vote if it weren’t for manipulation! Didn’t he give you preferential treatment just because he was close to Rika Kishimoto?!”
This is an absurd speculation.
Because no one thought that the judges’ scores would affect the voting results in the first place.
Although it was said that the rankings are nominally determined by the judges’ scores + the number of votes from the audience, in most cases, the winner is decided only by the audience’s vote.
That’s why Satoru, who was in charge of the MC, said that he was surprised that the results were overturned at the end.
Kim Yoo-seong, whose head was slightly heated, immediately tried to refute his words, but it was the vice president who was watching the situation by her side who moved one beat faster than that.
“Ah, mic test.”
Suddenly grabbing the microphone Satoru was holding, the vice president said that and asked a male student under the stage.
“I’ll ask if you’ll excuse me, is that Satoshi Gojo from Class 2-E?”
Then the male student who had just been angry answered with a puzzled expression.
“Yes? Uh, yes.”
Looking down at such a male student, the vice president shone his glasses.
“You look wondering how I know your name. It’s simple. As a student council officer, I memorize all the names of students in this school.”
The vice president’s eyes lingered on Ryuko standing in the corner of the stage for a moment before leaving, but few people in the auditorium noticed it.
“Without going anywhere, Gojo Satoshi-kun suggested that some illegal activity was taking place in the tournament hosted by our student council. Is that correct?”
“Yeah, by the way.”
“Can you take care of that?”
“…….”
The air suddenly became heavy.
On the topic that just a moment ago, she seemed to be going to the end, but when the topic of responsibility came up, a male student named Satoshi Gojo shut her mouth.
It’s because he realized that he couldn’t beat him even if he died and woke up with his lack of words.
“It doesn’t matter who you like, but using that as an excuse to cause harm to someone you know is usually called a nuisance. And all the students gathered in this auditorium are the ones who suffer because of that irresponsible word. .”
While saying that, the vice president slowly approached the student, Satoshi Gojo, and lowered his glasses slightly as he warned.
“So if you’re going to squeak nonsense, get out of here right now, kid.”
“Hey! Sorry!”
At the vice president’s firm order to celebrate, the male student ran out of the auditorium with pathetic screams.
As the dissatisfied people, who had lost their focal point, shut their mouths one by one while paying attention to the surroundings, the vice-president, who had a satisfied look on his face, smiled broadly at Satoru who was behind him and spoke.
“It’s over, go ahead.”
“Oh, yes.”
It was Satoru who thought that he would never give up on him even later.
***
The awards ceremony immediately followed after the jaguar birds disappeared.
Nao, who was next to Rika, who was still on the podium with a puzzled look on her face, suddenly spoke to her.
“Rika-senpai.”
“…Huh?”
“Don’t take too much of what happened just now. Sometimes there are fans who are too devoted, and I find it difficult for me too.”
After saying that, Nao smiled bitterly, then looked directly at Rika and said.
“My fans shouted that the results of the competition were fabricated, but it’s not a fluke that you beat me. I said earlier, right? You can’t hear it in vain. I think the reason why the senior was able to win this tournament is because of the charm that the senior has. His liveliness that makes you feel energetic just by looking at it. It’s a charm that I don’t have. Are you a little jealous?”
Rika couldn’t find a place to look at her compliments that made everyone who heard her feel ashamed, and only rolled her eyes.
To Rika, Nao spoke in a low voice.
“Even though I lost this time, I will never lose next time. Seeing this, I’m aiming for senior Yooseong quite seriously.”
“What?!”
Surprised by Nao’s words, which were almost like her declaration of war, Rika involuntarily looked at her with her eyes wide open.
It seemed like he was trying to show that he was able to afford it, but from Rika’s point of view, who knew about Kumiko’s harem plan, it was regrettable that she seemed to be confused.
‘Should I also inform you?’
The fact that Kim Yoo-seong, whom she is aiming for, has already taken over.
So Rika impulsively opened her mouth.
“Hey, Minato-san.”
“I’m a junior, so please call me to come out comfortably.”
“Yes. Then come on, would you like to exchange a line address with me?”
“A line?”
“Couldn’t it…?”
When Rika said that and cried a little, he came out! She groaned, then took out her smart phone and pressed the screen hard.
“Originally, I didn’t tell anyone, but since you’re a senior, are you telling me specifically?”
“Thanks. Nao.”
After successfully exchanging her line address with Nao, Rika received the award with a thoughtful look on her face as if nothing had happened at the awards ceremony that had just begun.
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Unknowingly, her encouragement may have been helpful, but her first gloomy expression had long since disappeared from her face.
***
After all competitions are over,
“Damn it! I sold a man’s pride, and I’m third! I’m third!”
Ryuji, who seemed to have reached the sage time belatedly, shook his head and shouted.
Knowing the background of Ryuji, who could have been aiming for 1st place while receiving overwhelming support from the audience for his neutral appearance, became 3rd place, I tapped him on the shoulder and said.
“Do you want to know why you came in third place?”
“You! Do you know something!?”
“Of course.”
I pointed to the vice-president, who made it possible for this tournament to be completed successfully.
“The vice president already knew that Ryuko wasn’t a student at our school.”
“…!”
Ryuji has a belatedly enlightened expression.
This guy, coveted for the prize money, participated in the contest pretending to be a sophomore, but the vice president, who memorized the names of all the students in our school, saw at once that it was a lie.
“That’s why the vice-president gave you a very high score. That’s why you came in 3rd place.”
“Damn it! If I had known this, I wouldn’t have participated!”
Ryuji, who threw away his pride as a man and struggled to win the tournament prize money, was given a prize of 20,000 yen.
Of course, if you’re a high school student with a tight wallet, this is a huge sum of money, but for Chiaki, who helped out for this tournament, and Ryuji, who had promised half the prize money from the start, all that was left was 10,000 yen.
In other words- Ryuji sold his male pride for 10,000 yen.
“Damn it!
Ryuji cried out to the sky, perhaps realizing the cruel reality belatedly.
Mahes, who was floating behind Ryuji’s back, gave him a thumbs up saying that he had a good viewing today.
… Maybe this guy is the worst one.
***
After all the tournaments, on the way back to the student council room, Sojiro Akagi thought.
‘Did they say Ryuko?’
She was the first girl I saw at school.
Perhaps outsiders who came to the school for the cultural festival participated for fun.
Her white hair reminiscent of her eyes, her slender and elongated model figure, and her slightly small breasts are her flaws, but I liked them because they look like a pitiful Japanese doll.
‘If there is a chance, I’d like to meet you again.’
Balgre-
Sojiro Akagi, 18 years old.
For the first time, a spring breeze blew in her heart.
What a pity
Its a trap