Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
51. Student representative general election (6)
The 4th quarter went in a completely different direction.
Perhaps because it was the last match and the last quarter, no one spared any strength.
If the coaches wanted to steal the leading streak from the opposing team they would request time-out to cut their flow.
There were already two time-outs declared since the 4th quarter started.
“It seems that class 0’s seniors-nim plan to do something.”
Kim Yuri, who used the time-out to share ion drinks with the children, pointed behind the basketball goal.
As if they reserved that ideal place as group somehow, the 2nd year class 0’s senior bastards occupied the seats behind the goal post.
“The fight reached its peak right now!”
“The 1st year ace shooter is working diligently, so us seniors should do something.”
“Yeah, it’s time for us to move for the Eungwang School’s victory!”
Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol seemed to be taking out something one after one.
I heard that not a long time ago they tried to raid the chairman office and were severely scolded by Jegal Jaegeol, and so were quietly watching the exchange matches, but I guess they were itching a bit seeing the last match.
‘… It doesn’t seem like they will do anything to harm our school, so let’s leave it alone for the time being?’
The game unfolded.
As the remaining time decreased, both team’s plays became fierce.
Soon, because of Eungwang School’s foul, the Military Academy’s Highschool department was given a free throw.
When the opposing team’s power forward took a position and was about to shoot.
Suddenly the 2nd year class 0’s bastards stood up from their seats.
“Take it! Deadly move, free throw defense!”
“Court’s guardian god teach Jegal-nim summoning!”
Perhaps each one of them took out a piece, an enormous panel depicting Jegal Jaegeol’s face appeared.
From the perspective of the shooting athlete, suddenly twenty pieces of an enormous face popped out in the audience seats.
Swish!
His concentration disturbed perhaps, the ball hit the ring and jumped off.
The 2nd year class 0’s bastards went into an uproar about Jegal Jaegeol and their victory.
“How about that?! That was teacher Jegal Jaegeol-nim’s dignified appearance!”
“We got it!”
The fans disturbed free throws, whether it was NBA or KBL.
Of course, fans were strictly banned from directly harming athletes’ eyes with shooting lasers and such.
But it was a common occurrence for fans to wear absurd clothes and make eye-drawing performances in the audience seats to cause a distraction.
As if they didn’t think that the Eungwang School’s crazy bastards would come to the 3rd match to suddenly interrupt the free throw, the Military Academy’s Highschool department athletes laughed in absurd, even while flustered.
“Don’t lose!”
“We can also do things!”
There was a movement under the Eungwang School’s goal post.
It seemed that the buzzcuts were switching their positions.
‘… I know those bastards!’
Behind the goal post were bastards, who in the past rode tiltrotor and came to Hongcheon County Gari Mountains and beat up Tao Sihu.
I guess those guys were also trying to do something.
When Eungwang School was given a free shot and our team’s point guard was about to shoot.
After raising the cheering flag of the Military Academy’s Highschool department, they suddenly played the song of ‘Naejang Mountain’s Saint’ from Playlist.
At the same time as the rap part started, a buzzcut wearing a monk robe made out of a towel, appeared behind the flag and started lip-syncing.
The cover of the rap of ‘Naejang Mountain’s Saint’ showed at Playlist, with a serious face, the awkward monk robe, perfect lip and body moment, were all excellent.
It seemed that bastards, who were friends with Tao Sihu, were all lunatics exactly like him.
Swish!
Because Eungwang School’s guard point burst out laughing, we lost a free throw.
The next person to get a free throw because of a foul was Yu Sang-hun.
It looked like the Military Academy’s Highschool department’s cheering team was nervous about Yu Sang-hun, who had a 100% success rate in the free throws until now.
It seemed that Jang Namuk, who was at the cheering squad position, was hesitating if he should stop them from interrupting the free throw.
But seeing the 2nd year class 0’s senior bastards preparing the enormous autostereogram[1] which would display the words Jegal Jaegeol, while their attention was focused on preparing for the next move, he chose to remain silent.
“I guess they’re prepared even more for this time!”
“Even the entire audience exploded.”
It was hard to see, because it was behind the cheering flags, but it seemed they were going to do something great.
The ‘Boooo!’ poured out, especially the 2nd year class 0’s senior bastards made the loudest noise.
Did They[2] forget about the free throw interruptions they were doing a moment ago and will do in the future?
Yu Sang-hun coolly raised his hand, as if saying ‘it’s fine’ and calmed down the Eungwang School’s audience.
And the Military Academy Highschool department’s secret free throw interruption strategy unfolded.
“Heliosphere![3]”
The cadets with extremely short hair opened their eyes wide and took on the heliosphere poses.
As if some bastard used a superpower wave, a halo sparkled behind them.
Even I couldn’t take my gaze off of those shining heads for a moment.
But Yu Sang-hun shot without a hesitation.
The basketball, which left Yu Sang-hun’s hands drew a perfect line and passed through the ring.
“It went in!”
“Got it! I guess he didn’t laugh even when seeing this!”
The score changed thanks to the successful free throw and the audience shouted Yu Sang-hun’s name.
“Look at that.”
Han Yi, who opened the commentary video with the subtitles, suddenly showed us a hologram.
On the hologram, Yu Sang-hun was shooting a free throw.
The children, who saw the screen, were amazed.
“Whoa, what is that?”
“Wow…!”
Not only Han Yi, but people, who were watching the basketball commentary video delivered by the Broadcasting Club, were making noise.
I didn’t say anything, but was also surprised.
‘Yu Sang-hun shot a free throw with his eyes closed!’
After successfully closing his eyes and succeeding in the throw, Yu Sang-hun’s movement became noticeably better.
The change in attitude of Yu Sang-hun, who especially avoided head-on confrontation with Tao Sihu, was eye-catching.
As if the athletes in the court felt that Yu Sang-hun’s condition became better, the passes were steered towards Yu Sang-hun and the cheering squad guided chanting of Yu Sang-hun’s name.
Entire Eungwang School’s audience, including our class children, stood up and cheered.
“No!”
“That fucker again!”
According to Maeng Hyodon, Yu Sang-hun caught a ball, Tao Sihu clung to him like a shadow.
Because Tao Sihu showed the ‘what is that’ defense again today, Yu Sang-hun’s scoring ability fell almost by half.
Yu Sang-hun, who suffered from Tao Sihu’s blocking a few times, avoided the head-on conformation and passed the ball to other athletes.
But this time, Yu Sang-hun attempted to break through and shoot.
Before, Yu Sang-hun faced him one on one out of frustration and bank shot.
‘… It was close. Because Tao Sihu’s blocking, his shooting form was ruined!’
The ball passed Tao Sihu’s hand and headed towards the board.
And…
The ball thrown by Yu Sang-hun hit the ring, rolled around it and then was swiftly sucked through the net.
“It went in!”
“Eungwang School reverses the game again!”
The gym rumbled with the shouts from Eungwang School’s side.
Much taller than Yu Sang-hun team members, they roughly brushed his sweaty head or patted him on the back.
After that, Yu Sang-hun’s fierce attack continued.
Even though he couldn’t coolly throw like he wanted, because of Tao Sihu, he pierced that annoying defense and shot a few more times.
And the remaining time decreased with Eungwang School leading.
30 seconds remaining until the match’s completion.
The Eungwang School’s cheering squad members guided the Eungwang School’s audience to countdown together.
Because the Military Academy Highschool department didn’t give up until the last moment, they shouted numbers one after one with nervous hearts.
At last, the number reached single digits.
“3! 2! 1!”
Beep!
Whoaaaa!
The beeper announcing the match’s end cried out loudly with the audience’s shouts.
The staff, including the Basketball Club’s coach and the reserve athletes, who were sitting on the Eungwang School’s bench, ran towards the athletes.
Yu Sang-hun, who was confirmed as an MVP, was buried among the athletes and almost couldn’t be seen.
“We won! We won!”
“Did we win just now?”
Our class children also shared the happiness of victory together.
Maeng Hyodon was awkward among the class girls like before, but right now, he frantically exchanged high-fives and sung the school song, as if he didn’t think about it.
Soon after the athletes calmed down and lined up, the Military School’s principal, wearing a uniform, appeared holding a championship cup.
The Military School’s principal encouraged each of the Military School’s cadets, who bowed their heads, and then approached the Eungwang School’s athletes.
After the Military School’s principal shook hands with each of the Eungwang School’s basketball team athlete and put medals on them, he at last handed a championship cup.
Clap-clap-clap!
After the basketball captain held and showed off the championship cup, the audience sent generous clap and cheers.
After the award ceremony, the basketball team flocked to their coach, hugged the trophy and threw it into air.
Next one to be thrown into air was Yu Sang-hun, who had a victory medal and MVP medal, and seeing that scene, Yu Sang-hui finally burst into tears.
After other cheering squad members soothed her, Yu Sang-hui nodded and smiled again, but I felt a sense of incongruity.
That sense of incongruity was felt from Tao Wonu, who was standing upright.
‘…Strange.’
Tao Wonu wasn’t looking at Yu Sang-hui.
Looking now, today Tao Wonu had an appearance worthy of the Student Council’s president from PMH, which I knew.
‘Why is Tao Wonu not corrupt today?’
While I fell into thoughts, the athletes headed to the cheering squad.
They gave it to the cheering squad members, asking to show the trophy cup, and everyone happily showed off the trophy one after one.
Lastly, the Eungwang School’s basketball athletes expressed thanks to the audience and the cheering squad, and then left to prepare for the closing ceremony.
Tao Wonu didn’t act corruptly until the very end.
* * *
The priest tied with the kotodama realized that he would be dragged to the tiger den and never see light again.
Because of that, before he lost his consciousness, he prayed to the Demon God of Greed he served.
— Almighty Avaritia of Greed, the faith of Your servant[4] is tested right now.
Because he couldn’t overcome the desire to ‘see’ and to ‘share what he sees’, he opened his 3rd eye and shared his vision with other Demons.
The Demonic priest couldn’t not transmit the fact that the crow mask, who used kotodama, was at the Tiger’s side.
Even if he would lose all his divinity and Demon God’s blessings that he piled up until now, and his eyes.
— Please guide me so I can prove my faith.
Then he heard the Demon God’s voice.
— My priest is greedy.
The Demonic priest knew that it would be the last time Avaritia sent down their voice.
Just after that, he lost consciousness thanks to Hwang-ho’s attack, but the Demonic priest wasn’t even a bit regretful.
Because even though he lost the divinity connected to the Demon God and blessing, and the altar crumbled, his ‘Eyes’ remained.
And that dying wish was transferred.
“I thought you went somewhere, because you suddenly disappeared.”
In the laboratory, where poisonous fog disappeared.
Priest of Invidius walked into the deepest greenhouse.
Seeing the altar, with miasma and demonic energy, the priest of Invidius guessed what happened to the priest of Avaritia.
“Hahaha! As expected, it was it, eh? You were caught, huh?”
Not long ago, because of a human, who didn’t seem like a human, one of the Frozen Otherworlds, which priest of Invidius owned, was broken.
Recently, he was looking forward to how priest of Avaritia would execute the commission, and was observing it, but his Eyes were suddenly cut off, he disappeared and the human’s festival went without a hitch.
The priest of Invidius, whose mood was down before, seeing this dead greenhouse, felt delighted.
The essence of the Demon God Invidius was ‘envy’.
The body of the priest serving Invidius always trembled with envy.
But now, at the thought that all things that he saw right now became his, he freed himself from that envy for just that moment.
Not a long time passed before he found what he wanted.
“It’s here, eh!”
On the tree, that rot entirely down to its roots, hung a purple eyeball.
*~*~*
[1] autostereogram — a popular name ‘magic eye’ is used for it.
[2] They — Jo Uisin used a polite word for people, so I guess he addresses anyone, who is his senior, politely, even when he calls them bastards?
[3] Heliosphere — while being also used as a scientific term, it’s also a name of the Dragon Ball’s move ‘Solar Flare’
[4] servant — a bit of an old word for a servant ‘종 (jong)’ was used here. It’s a homonym of a bell (instrument), end and paper. Also apparently a posthumous title.
Translator’s note: I’m actually very curious why demons are so obsessed with ‘Seeing’, I don’t think it was explained until now…
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