Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
47. Loser Resurrection Match (3)
Recently Seong Gukeon’s sleep time significantly decreased, because he was engaged in the September’s regular session of National Assembly and confirmation hearing for the candidate of the Otherworld Ministry’s minister.
As a Player, Seong Gukeon had outstanding endurance when compared to other national assemblymen, but Seong Gukeon was stubbornly adhering to the promise ‘I’ll make sure to be the biggest contributor in the SR rank or higher otherworld conquest at least once a week’.
He said SR rank or higher, but Seong Gukeon frequently conquered SSR rank otherworlds.
Each time the aid staff saw a bit injured Seong Gukeon examine documents, their insides exploded.
“…”
The hand of Seong Gukeon, which was shuffling paper documents, stopped.
Seong Gukeon searched a few times through the device, and then opened his mouth.
“Do you remember Gwangli Elementary School’s incident?”
“Yes, it was the first investigation You commanded after being elected as an assemblyman-nim.”
“Do you know what kind of punishment those teachers received?”
“As there were many teachers connected to big and small malpractices, from ten of them, eight received only warnings, and it ended on that. I remember that after the matter cooled down, the remaining two had the positions they were removed from given back to them, and after receiving pay cuts they were transferred to a different area.”
Jeon Muyeong spoke with a bitter tone.
It wasn’t their first crime, it was just the first to be discovered, but they were treated as first-time offenders.
The reason they received soft punishments was because there were many parents and students, who wished for a favorable treatment for them as they were teachers.
There were many people who didn’t even receive punishment.
They were people who were difficult to judge with the power of law.
“All teachers connected to that incident, except one, all retired or are absent from work without leave for different reasons.”
Seong Gukeon showed Jeon Muyeong the personnel documents he requested from several elementary schools.
There was also an elementary school in Eungwang District and an elementary school that was outside of Seoul.
He knew that Seong Gukeon was sharpening his knife to report them if an incident, where he could exert disciplinary action according to letter of law, occurred again, but seeing it with his own eyes was surprising.
‘Even while this busy, You are checking how those teachers are living, huh?’
With Seong Gukeon revealing the incident as a trigger, the teachers scattered to several places, and the incident itself was forgotten after four years.
If Seong Gukeon didn’t have so much interest in this case, it would be difficult to find those same teachers straight away.
“Looking at the news, it seems that the teachers were swept in mysterious incidents.”
Seong Gukeon opened an article on the hologram with the picture of a trash landfill attached.
According to the article, the teacher, who was showing symptoms of depression, was discovered in the middle of the trash landfill after going missing.
“It can’t possibly be an accident, correct?”
“There is no way this was an accident.”
“Then someone has interfered?”
“The opponents are civil servants and their number isn’t small. It would be difficult to handle in a short period of time without getting noticed, even if a pretty good pro Player team was involved.”
Seong Gukeon pressed his forehead because of a headache.
He hated to acknowledge it, but one candidate came to mind.
‘No way, did Jin people interfere?’
* * *
Debut itself wasn’t difficult for Dokgo Miro.
Dokgo Miro was Han Yi’s friend and one of the people, who protected the divine realm.
If Hwang Jiho just put his mind to it, he could mobilize the Ho tribe and Hwang Myeong Group to raise the video views and help her get through the death match, and even if she dropped from Playlist, he could make one of the agencies accept Dokgo Miro.
If she couldn’t be active in front of a camera, she could be active as a singer for sound sources only, and reign as a top of music charts by hoarding sound sources.
‘However it would have no meaning.’
Dokgo Miro crashed the gangsters after catching them for no profit.
And she had no reason to fix elementary school assailants.
It didn’t seem like a king, who couldn’t stand injustice, would be pleased with the crown made from money.
‘I have to help Dokgo Miro, so she can stand before the camera.’
Additional investigation materials of Jeok-ho included the trigger for Dokgo Miro acquiring camera phobia.
When he turned over the cloud photo book of students enticed by the teacher who seemed the worst, he found thousands of Dokgo Miro’s photoshopped pictures.
From the looks of it, with the teacher, who was annoyed at the promising Player not giving up her idol dreams, in the center, the students also participated in the atrocities.
Dokgo Miro was exposed to the evil intent behind the camera lenses at a young age for a long time, and she instinctively turned away from cameras, triggered by that matter.
‘If she wants to become an idol, Dokgo Miro has to understand that there are not only people with evil intentions behind the camera, but also people who will become Dokgo Miro’s fans.’
For the sake of that, she had to show a good appearance in front of a camera and survive the death match.
But because of the fear of cameras, Dokgo Miro’s ability to detect recording devices was outstanding.
When considering the divine skill of Dokgo Miro, who avoided all recording devices in Gwangli Police Station, I guessed that a pretty good camouflage technique wouldn’t be able to deceive Dokgo Miro’s senses.
‘Then rather than a pretty good camouflage technique, I should use the best hiding ability.’
Jeon Muyeong’s Gwangrim ‘Time Without Traces’ could deceive even the eyes of Jin people and higher beings.
Without an arrangement from a higher being related to shadows[1], Jeon Muyeong’s Gwangrim couldn’t be seen through.
But its weakness was that as the energy efficiency was the worst, it couldn’t be used for long.
“As expected, Uisin is great! I had no idea at all!” [2]
“Heuk, where did vice president come from?”
“Where were you up till now? Did Han Yi detect him?”
“… No.”
At Min Guerin’s question, Han Yi also shook her head with a surprised face.
Naturally, Han Yi, with her outstanding Presence Detection skill, fraud character Hwang Jiho, and Dokgo Miro had no idea at all where I was or what I was doing.
“You…”
Dokgo Miro was about to say something to me, but she couldn’t continue any longer.
“Encore!”
“Isn’t that a Playlist mission song? Please sing another version!”
Excluding us, there was a pretty enthusiastic group of Eungwang spectators that couldn’t be less than ten.
Eungwang School’s students, who were familiar with class bell tradition, were used to performances and gave a good response.
“Then the next one’s going to be an MR version! Lena-ah, Uram-ah! You worked hard!”
Dokgo Miro was dazed by the support of strangers, she experienced for the first time, but ended up singing next song, swept by Kim Yuri’s host abilities.
I also activated the Gwangrim again and recorded the next song, and the next next song.”
As if someone posted a promotion post on the Eungwang School general bulletin board, students flocked riding air boards, and the audience gradually grew.
Occasionally there were people, who tried to use the device video recording function to capture Dokgo Miro, but Hwang Jiho stepped out and dealt with them.
There was no student, who fought back against the lunatic, who shouted ‘Filming banned!’, while laughing.
The Gwangrim’s time limit ran out when the dance version was sung, so I couldn’t record it, but the gathered audience was at least three digits.
After sending Kim Yuri a sign about the completion of recording, Kim Yuri, who naturally took on the role of coordinator, ended it.
“Then we’re going to finish this stage with the last encore song.”
The audience, who took the front seats from the beginning, requested the violin and piano version.
“Then the violin and piano version…”
“Um, it seems difficult.”
But Kwon Lena shook her head.
“After the first performance ended, Uram went to the infirmary saying he thinks he will faint…”
I thought Mok Uram went somewhere, but I guess he voluntarily went to the infirmary before fainting.
“Didn’t that fucker also faint the last time? Why is he like that?”
“Is he sick? He looked healthy when carrying baggage.” [3]
“Who notifies about fainting? The problem doesn’t seem to be the body but the head.”
Among the sharp ideas, Song Daeseok with his last comment was the closest to the real answer.
Finally, we decide to use MR ballad version for the encore song.
The version was different, but as it was sung several times, even the students who didn’t know the song memorized it, and the last song ended up as crowd singing.
Even the class children sang along a bit, but only Han Yi, who didn’t hear the notes, couldn’t sing along.
Even so, Han Yi watched Dokgo Miro’s stage to the end.
* * *
There were several videos, but with the class children’s unanimous agreement, the first video was submitted to Playlist.
When compared to other videos, the audience was small and the stage was less prepared, but it was thanks to the violin and piano live accompaniment and Dokgo Miro’s voice singing the song alone being cool.
The following day after the video submission, The Playlist straight away released the video links of the two people in the death match.
BJ LocalBean sung a personally arranged song in his personal room, where he usually did livestreams.
Dokgo Miro made a street performance with the class children in front of the Eungwang School.
The two videos became hot topic, but Dokgo Miro caused such a shock even articles were published.
[It’s her singing right? She sings too well;;]
[She sings really well…]
[She cheated. Why is auto-tuned performances so good these days? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[It’s Dokgo Miro’s voice, but not Dokgo Miro’s singing?]
[At first glance I thought she is passing on someone’s back but suddenly a ballad is a bit ㅋㅋㅋㅋ it’s too obvious]
The first half of the shock was negative.
As Dokgo Miro suddenly displayed her abilities, there were people who thought it was strange.
But it couldn’t be helped when Dokgo Miro, who was said to endure only thanks to her academic background, showed off such abilities.
There were even people, who said they would prove she was cheating and extracted the sound source from the video to personally do sound analysis.
However, the video I took was clumsy but real.
And the witnesses, who saw the real thing live, appeared one after another.
[Post-impression of the performance I personally saw at that time.]
[Dokgo Miro live was freaking awesome… (ID O)]
[I’m Eungwang School’s student and will tell the story of Dokgo Miro busking]
[Video couldn’t be taken because of some kind of lunatic, but I made a sound record. I uploaded the file recorded with my device.]
[I also have a sound recording from thatㅎㅎ Since only Miro’s solo version is circulating around I’m also uploading the sing-along version.]
The Eungwang School’s students, who heard Dokgo Miro’s sing on spot that day, published their post impressions together with their student ID and school uniform certification one after another.
As it wasn’t just one, but dozens of Eungwang School’s students’ post impressions and certifications, their beating-up power was strong.
The public opinion was that ‘To bribe just a few Eungwang School’s students to see hallucinations with stocks, money or items, one of the world’s top 10 Pro-Player teams would have to be mobilized’.
As a result, the initial cheating controversy became one of the key points which brought people’s attention, and the video views rose as if to pierce the sky.
‘It’s going to catch up to Naejang Mountain’s Saint’s video views.’
Among the Playlist’s video clips, the one boasting the highest number of views was ‘Naejang Mountain’s Saint’ free style rap battle with a jury member.
But death match’s videos’ views rising curve was no joke.
It was thanks to Dokgo Miro’s singing being amazing, but there were many key points receiving attention besides singing.
One of such key points was the story and performance of the class friends, who, when their class friend fell into the danger of elimination, secretly prepared Dokgo Miro’s busking in front of the school.
[Doesn’t the kid playing the violin look like the kid, who appeared in Kwon Jane’s ‘sea wall’?]
[That’s that superpower violin ㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s right!]
[The face wasn’t shown, but violin color and height look exactly the same.]
In the video, only Mok Uram’s thick fingers playing the piano appeared, and Kwon Lena’s platinum violin and back silhouette in school uniform were captured.
I made sure not to show class children’s faces, but it seemed that people in-the-know recognized them.
“It’s okay. Everyone knows the fact that during the training camp only a person from 1st year class 0, class 1 and class 2 could appear in Saeron’s video. Among them, I’m the only one from the String Club, so it will come out soon anyhow.”
Luckily, Kwon Lena responded calmly.
And not long after the video was published, I was contacted by Kwon Lena’s family.
[Kwon Jane] Uisin-ah, I want to obtain the original recording of the video with Lena.
Didn’t Kwon Lena also say she wanted the original recording of Kwon Jane’s video?
As expected, the two of them were family connected by blood.
Then the day of live broadcast when the death match results were announced came.
*~*~*
[1] shadows — reminder that ‘Traces’ in ‘Time Without Traces’ also refers to shadows.
[2] “As expected, Uisin is great! I had no idea at all!” — This is naturally Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
[3] “Is he sick? He looked healthy when carrying baggage.” — Sawol Seeum’s sentence.
Translator’s note: Ah, Seong Gukeon… have you ever considered… um… resurrection?
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