Episode 124
Finals (1)
Lee Young-woong, who went to the waiting room where the gold team would be, looked into the room and frowned.
There are a total of 5 people in the waiting room, but there is only one person he marked as the target, so there is no need to bother approaching everyone.
One person is enough to create a crack in the team.
When the number of participants is small like now, each one is precious.
It’s a simple logic. In war, 40,000 vs 60,000 people can often see cases where the former won.
4,000 vs 6,000?
There are still plenty of possibilities. It’s worth it.
However, when it becomes 400 vs 600, and when it becomes 40 vs 60, the words start to change little by little.
Assuming the same skill, every time a zero disappears from the number, the chances of winning for the side with the fewest numbers decrease exponentially.
There is no need to attack the ace of the team.
If only one of the guys who do one serving properly makes it out of focus, it will collapse in an instant.
He said there was no need to do it, but it wouldn’t be bad to stab Ace once in a while.
Lee Young-woong, who was standing against the wall, smiled and sent a text message to someone with his smartphone and put it back into his pocket.
On the screen of his smartphone that disappears into his pocket, it is clear who he contacted in white letters against a green background.
-Hyuk Kang-
Lee Young-woong, who has the experience of competing with his younger siblings in the succession competition, knows well what to do when dealing with weaknesses.
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inside the waiting room.
Kanghyuk was sitting in the corner, quietly wiping Yeriel’s blade with a cloth.
[…] … .]
As if the touch wasn’t bad, Yeriel accepted it while humming quietly.
Andrew and Taeyang Geum each do their maintenance, and Anya and Chevalier chat about how today’s game will be ‘creepy’.
Looking at them, Kanghyuk thought.
‘Don’t you feel any pressure? Or do you think this is a result worthy of your skills?’
Either way I envy you.
I am so trembling My breath is choked up to the bottom of my chin, and my chest hardens like a lump.
It seems like there is an invisible wall between them and you.
The moment she let out a small sigh and put Yeriel in the sheath.
-Wheein.
The smartphone vibrates in your pocket.
Looking up, the other team members were doing their own thing and didn’t pay attention to the slightest vibration.
is the sky
I secretly took out my smartphone and looked at the screen, and there was a text message from someone I was familiar with but unexpected.
-Lee Young-woong-
– Hyuk. It’s in front of the waiting room, so don’t talk to the kids, would you like to come outside for a bit? It’s kind of urgent.
His text urges Kang-hyeok to come out for a while.
I narrowed my eyes and tried to understand her intentions, but I couldn’t see them.
At most, it was difficult to include the content itself in such a short article, and he was openly hiding his purpose.
It’s not that there is no friendship at all.
At the beginning of the semester, I tried the same group during practice, and Lee Young-woong was one of the few people in the class who approached me friendly.
Kanghyuk got up from his seat and headed towards the door.
“Where are you going? There is not much time left.”
“Hold on to the bathroom.”
“… … Come quickly.”
I left behind the gaze of the golden sun staring at me for a while and came out.
The waiting room was deep inside the stadium, and it was quiet because it was controlled by people flocking to it from the final round.
Lee Young-woong was the only person nearby.
“Ah, Hyuk. I’m here? A long time.”
When I saw Lee Young-woong approaching me with a smile, it bothered me to see him in his hand.
An unknown document envelope.
It’s even convex to see if there’s something inside.
“uh… … , What are you in such a hurry for?”
“It’s nothing special, I have something to tell you.”
“… … What is this?”
Kang Hyuk stared blankly at the document envelope handed to him by Lee Young-woong.
Handing an unknown paper bag, Lee Young-woong smiles bitterly.
His smile also has no meaning.
“I want you to see it by yourself later and make your own judgment. It’s a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of It’s related to my classmate.
Receiving the paper bag shaking right in front of him, Kanghyuk looked down at it.
A brown paper bag without any patterns or explanations feels a little heavy due to something inside.
“What the hell is this to me… … .”
When Kanghyuk raised his head again. Lee Young-woong was already disappearing across the corridor as if he had finished his work.
empty hallway. Only the envelope given to him by Lee Young-woong was left in Kang-hyeok’s hand.
– Knocked up!
“hey! What are you doing! Come quickly, it’s time to start!”
Hearing Taeyang’s cry from behind, Kang Hyuk went back to the waiting room and put the envelope in his cabinet.
On the way to the stadium, Geum Taeyang’s dark blonde hair caught my eye.
The content of the team battle was no different.
Victory as always. However, compared to the preliminaries, the frequency of using Chevalier’s abilities increased exponentially.
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“great job! Sun!”
after finishing the 4th. I smiled and waved at Anya’s words, grabbed my things from the cabinet, and headed toward the dormitory.
These days, twists and turns of the story have begun to be seen everywhere.
Kang Hyuk’s lack of growth.
Chevalier’s poison that slowly fills up.
Even the lust to take advantage of me every moment.
I thought I’d solved a little bit of Anya’s emotional problem, but I’m dizzy when I see other things filling up.
However, the strange fun that comes with dizziness was constantly stimulating me.
What will happen if Chevalier’s poison bursts while the growth of the most important Kang Hyuk is slow?
what if i solve it?
What if it happens while you briefly go over to the demon realm according to the contract with lust?
If the Chevalier route is not progressed even a little, and the party dispatched from Europe is massacred, will there be a war?
I shook my head at the strange thought that kept popping up and erased it at once.
do not do that.
but i want to see I don’t know if there might be a rope I’m looking for between those routes.
I kept moving my feet while thinking about this and that, and before I knew it, I arrived at a park near the dormitory.
Don’t think it’s strange, go in and wipe your feet and go to sleep.
Because it’s the best when your head is hot.
-Jerbuck.
The gentle warmth of the night air swept across my face in time with the sound of footsteps.
You can hear the wind whistling through the branches of the trees.
The moment you turn a corner.
There was a person in the park that I thought there would be no one because it was evening.
Since it is near the dormitory, it would be difficult to have no people at all, but since I had a lot of thoughts, I hoped that no one would be there.
That’s why the moment you sneak out of the way.
“Golden Sun.”
When I hear the voice calling me, my gaze naturally goes there.
Standing there was Lee Kyu-tae, who served as the healer for Lee Young-woong’s team.
Healer within the family recruited by Lee Young-woong in the vacant position.
There are not enough characteristics to just pass by when you go down the street.
It was a face I had seen so often that I would forget it even if I had seen it just before.
I must have seen it somewhere, but where did I see it? It is certain that he is a servant of the Lee family.
But the atmosphere is strange.
His tone was withdrawn, like a snake in a surprise attack.
It is a voice that creates tension.
“… … What?”
I didn’t know what it really was, so I asked.
There was no reason why he would come to me.
There’s no way he’d voluntarily declare that he’s crazy and surrender in the final match… … .
“I won’t talk too long. Follow me.”
“why me?”
The guy’s words are absurd, so a laugh is built on its own.
The boy frowned.
Lee Gyu-tae, who seemed to be twisting and unable to keep his body still, seemed to be watching a person who was being chased by time.
“If it benefits you, it is beneficial, not a story that harms you. If you mess around like this… … .”
He looks around, biting his nails, as if he is so anxious.
“… … ‘Lee Young-woong’ may come. He shouldn’t know that you and I met.”
Interest in the name ‘Lee Young-woong’ began to circulate.
Because his story was one of the things I didn’t know.
It was Lee Young-woong who was reluctant to do something even before he started playing the game in earnest.
Anyway, where did you see Lee Gyu-tae… … .
“Oh yeah. let’s go.”
“… … Follow me.”
When the memory of him came to my mind, I accepted without question, and only then did Lee Gyu-tae, feeling relieved, take the lead in walking.
In addition to Lee Yu-ra’s family name, Lee Young-woong’s Lee family also belongs.
And Lee Gyu-tae… … .
… … Three generations of the Lee family, who are called nobles among nobles in modern times, were the third servants of the young boy.
Well, to be precise, I’m not even a Bocchan.
The place he followed was an alleyway with few people.
It is literally a place where no one can come because it is off the road connecting the main building and the dormitory.
As soon as it was confirmed that no one was around, the guy opened his mouth.
And the words that came out of his mouth were enough to arouse my interest.
“Golden Sun. I want you to win the final.”
“… … What? You must be Lee Young-woong’s team, but you know I say I want your team to lose?”
“… … okay. I hope my team loses in the final tomorrow.”
The guy who gave me a break for a while distorted his face as if he was in pain.
I could feel all sorts of emotions on the guy’s expression.
Guilt, pity, contempt for oneself.
I knew the story about Lee Young-woong’s younger brother to some extent.
It may not be the main story, but it was one of the larger side stories.
At times like this, I regret skipping the story about Lee Young-woong. If I only go this way, the information I have is too sparse.
We know at least that Lee Young-woong’s younger brother, who was pushed back in the succession competition, will eventually be completely crushed and meet a miserable end.
And Lee Gyu-tae is the younger brother’s side that he doesn’t reveal on the outside.
“… … I will not show my ability in tomorrow’s competition. I’d like to withdraw, but if I don’t participate, this is dangerous and that’s impossible. Still, I will cooperate with you as much as possible.”
I couldn’t help laughing at what he said.
Thinking of a formidable family affair that is incomparable to this side, I wanted to grab my stomach and laugh out loud, but I held back.
A situation where a pumpkin rolled in by a vine and ran away just shouldn’t happen.
“So Golden Sun. I want you to take a picture of Lee Young-woong.”
This nonsensical competition within Sega devours even the academy tournament and asks me to fix the match.
I twisted the corner of my mouth and said to the guy.
“What do I believe in and listen to you? To be honest, wasn’t your stake in the team almost non-existent?”
“… … okay. Compared to the other team members right now, I am shabby. but.”
That mindset that tries to crush others by grabbing them, even for the sake of the future of those they serve.
“That doesn’t mean I don’t have a share at all. This team has almost no ability to sustain combat without me. You have nothing special to do.”
I like it.
“I’ll jump into your sword myself, so you just have to accept it well.”
“Why didn’t you do that all along? To be honest, we weren’t a team worth putting out.”
Gyu-tae Lee sweeps up his bangs that cover his eyes.
I didn’t know because I usually don’t have a presence and hide it completely. guy… … .
“Because there is no greater drop than falling when you reach the highest point. And where can that team lose if it’s not in the finals?”
… … It has more dangerous eyes than you think. It is the kind of eyes that only a guy who has staked his life on something can do.
I grabbed the hand he held out.
Both hands shake up and down for mutual purposes.
Only high-ranking people can do it with money, so let’s try it too.
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[Hyuk-ah, how are you going to do that?]
“Let’s check it out first, shall we?”
[I’m a bit anxious… … .]
Returning to the dormitory that evening, Kang Hyuk and Yeriel opened the envelope that Lee Young-woong handed over.