Red Tiger left the mansion early without getting a wink of sleep.
Although he has become weaker, there’s no way that a 5,000-year-old tiger could suffer mental fatigue from losing one night’s sleep.
But he did.
‘Pungbaek, Usa, Unsa… Who knew those names would come up again.’
It is unimaginable in the modern day when the age of the myth is clearly over and the world of God and man is already divided, but a long time ago, gods once chose to live among humans.
The Son of God, a mix between heaven and humanity, decided to live on earth, and there were three gods who gave up their powers and position to follow him.
Those three gods were Pungbaek, Usa, and Unsa, who conducted the rain ritual and harvest ritual with the Son of God.
The three had literally given up a lot of their power and their position as gods, and it wasn’t an easy decision for them.
The gods who followed the Son of God died as they tried to protect him from foreign enemies.
No, to be precise, they were thought to be dead.
‘At that time, it was Blue Tiger and his disciples who protected the Son of God and Silver Tiger. While Blue Tiger was blocking the foreign enemies, he told the other two to run away.’
When the foreign enemies summoned darkness and covered the whole sky of Korea, the Son of God became unable to exert his power.
On the other hand, Silver Tiger was already weaker than the foreign enemies from the start.
While Blue Tiger and his disciples bought them time, Silver Tiger and the Son of God were able to escape.
However, Blue Tiger’s defensive line eventually collapsed after the continuous attacks from foreign enemies.
With Silver Tiger’s wisdom and Yellow Tiger’s help, the Son of God survived, but Silver Tiger and Blue Tiger were seriously injured and many of Blue Tiger’s disciples died.
At this time, Pungbaek, Usa, and Unsa were also known to have died.
Pungbaek and Usa call the wind and rain with a whimper.
Unsa summoned the dark clouds with a gentle smile.
That was all that came to his mind, but Red Tiger felt a terrible sense of longing.
‘How did my friends accept Jo Euishin’s story so calmly?!’
He understands that Yellow Tiger locked himself on the fifth floor to organize his thoughts, but he doesn’t understand why White Tiger was so calm.
According to Yellow Tiger, the three will make it rain on Eungwang High which would result in a disaster.
Thinking of the three made Red Tiger’s mind dizzier.
“Hello?”
It was only the voice of his family that brought him back to his senses.
In front of the entrance exclusively for faculty members, Kim Shinrok, who hid his true face with a skill, greeted him.
Kim Shinrok was scheduled for a half-day of work today as he will be going to the association, and Red Tiger promised to escort him.
“…Is there a problem?”
Kim Shinrok asked carefully.
Pungbaek, Usa, and Unsa died before Kim Shinrok was born.
Perhaps Kim Shinrok hasn’t even heard of those three.
Still, Kim Shinrok needs to know in advance if they would really be involved in an incident one day in Eungwang High.
Red Tiger wanted to be the one to tell his son about the three.
“Why don’t we have a drink in the mansion later in the evening? I’d like to talk about my old comrades.”
Kim Shinrok’s eyes widened at the mention of “old comrades”.
All the people that Red Tiger considers as old comrades were from the age of the myth.
Kim Shinrok couldn’t hide his shock and excitement when he heard that his respected father will speak to him about those old days.
“I don’t know about Yellow Tiger, but White Tiger will be free so we can have him join us.”
“Alright!”
Kim Shinrok responded brightly to the unexpected suggestion.
Red Tiger looked fondly at his son.
With the mention of White Tiger, the one who practically raised his son, Red Tiger suddenly felt emotional.
“You can prepare snacks that you like. Your favorite dried persimmon dish would be good.”
“…Yes!”
Kim Shinrok hesitated for a moment but decided to follow his father’s suggestion.
Even though he was on his way to torture a trashy human being who was involved in the manipulation of a mere high school student, his steps as he walked to the association were bright and cheerful.
With the thought of his friends and his son, Red Tiger regained his composure.
***
Student representative Yeom Junyeol.
That combination hasn’t been used in this world, nor in the PMH game, but it matches too well.
My excellent, nice, sincere, and caring student is a candidate to be the student representative for Korea’s most prestigious high school!
Of course, Do Wonwoo wasn’t so bad himself, but unfortunately, he has the con of being quite ugly.
‘Kwak Gyugu was supposed to be the next representative inside the game.’
In the game, Yeom Junyeol wasn’t even nominated for student representative since he was studying abroad for a short time.
Although there were requests for him to come home for a while and participate in the elections, Yeom Junyeol didn’t want to run for a position with such an insincere attitude.
As a result, Kwak Gyungu was recommended as a candidate.
‘Having Kwak Gyungu as representative isn’t so bad either.’
Kwak Gyugu wasn’t lacking in terms of skills, grades, and personality, and he actually worked faithfully in the student association since his first year.
He also had a good relationship with the teachers and the other students.
According to the students at that time, Kwang Gyungu’s appearance was deceiving.
People often confused him for a teacher whenever he wore casual clothes ever since his freshman year.
Still, appearances are often reliable for people, and so the election in the game was almost certain to be won by him.
‘The story only got complicated because of Choi Pyeondeuk’s intervention.’
Choi Pyeondeuk and his associates abhorred student autonomy.
In the game, the chairman was negligent, and when Jegal, head of the school affairs department, was removed in the first semester, things got messy.
The teachers chose their classes according to their preferences, and there was still a sense of being organized, but the same wasn’t true for the students.
In particular, the student association was only deeply involved in school matters way back fifteen years ago, when the representative was Sung Gukeon.
Teachers like Choi Pyeondeuk want to rule the school according to their will, but they can’t do that if smart and excellent players are on their way.
That’s why Choi Pyeondeuk got himself involved in the student elections.
‘I did my best to help my playable character though…’
Although that student had a fragile disposition, he had a good reputation among the students and teachers because of his sincere personality.
As a result, he was nominated as the student representative, which will, later on, be intervened with by Choi Pyeondeuk.
At that time, Choi Pyeondeuk and his followers were gaining influence, and he used all kinds of negative strategies to shift the tide against Kwak Gyungu’s reputation.
‘Moon Saeron also thought that that was the ugliest election in the history of Eungwang High.’
There was a time when Kwak Gyungu almost changed his mind about running for student representative thanks to Joo Soohyuk, but it went in vain.
Before he became a student at Eungwang High, back when Kwak Gyungu’s light skill was activated, he unexpectedly became a delinquent.
He didn’t like what his light skill was.
There was one incident where Kwak Gyungu bought a box of soju and drank it inside the dojo, and he was hit by his father with the soju box that he bought for doing so.
During the election period, Choi Pyeondeuk used the editorial department of the school to spread Kwak Gyungu’s drinking incident and used that to urge him to resign.
‘My playable character took courage after all that happened to him… Thanks to that incident, a special ability woke up inside him.
My playable character, who was about to get played by Choi Pyeondeuk, took a bottle of liquor from his father’s collection, drank it, and posted a photo of him on the general bulletin board of Eungwang High.
Kwak Gyungu was punished for that behavior back when he wasn’t a student in Eungwang High yet, but now that he is doing it again, he wasn’t punished at all.
He wanted to show that image to everyone.
Year Two Class Zero participated in the messy fight that Choi Pyeondeuk unilaterally started.
‘Protecting the newspaper department that does its best to stay neutral with every incident, punishing the editorial department for perpetuating rumors about Kwak Gyungu…’
Thanks to my playable character’s resilience and the help of Year Two Class Zero, Kwak Gyungu was able to fairly win the elections.
Choi Pyeondeuk and his followers tried to mess with the ballot box at the last minute, but they were stopped by Do Wonwoo and Oh Hyeji.
They were careful not to damage their role of being neutral in the general elections, but they didn’t let Choi Pyeonduk’s atrocious attempt at messing with the ballots pass.
Since two students from conglomerate families caught him in the act, Choi Pyeondeuk’s had to retreat.
After everything, Kwak Gyungu became the student representative and remained in position until he sacrificed himself for Joo Soohyuk.
Of course, none of those things will happen this time.
‘Yeom Junyeol recommended Kwak Gyugu as a candidate for vice president of the student association. Looks like this world won’t see Kwak Gyungu become the student representative.’
Kwak Gyungu has always been someone who doesn’t like to be in the spotlight.
Perhaps he would be a good running mate for Yeom Junyeol.
‘Unless there’s something unexpected that would happen, Yeom Junyeol will be the student representative, the student council president will be Cheon Dongha, and the Jiikhoe chairperson will be Gye Idam. The problem is the president of the general club…’
The game didn’t draw much attention to the general club presidential election, but it was quite a mess as well.
The general club president is a position that students tend to avoid since it has a lot of work, but at that time, candidates stood up for something that needed to be done.
There was a suggestion that time to let freshmen and sophomores vote too instead of only the club presidents, and there was a debate on the general forum over the sudden suggestion to change the voting guidelines.
Moon Saeron conducted deep coverage of that mess.
‘In the game, Moon Saeron was swayed by the fake news that surrounded the student representative elections, but this time, she could finally do a proper coverage.’
It made me happy that my playable characters would be able to do what they want to do.
“Euishin, what’s wrong? You have your suspicious face on. Ah, I mean it as a compliment!”
I’m not sure if it was really a compliment, but that was what Saeum of April said.
“Yeah, thanks. I was looking at the announcement for the student elections…”
Saeum looked happy after he heard that Yeom Junyeol would be a candidate for student representative, and he said Yeom Junyeol would make for a good representative.
I haven’t said anything about Yeom Junyeol myself, but it seems like he made a good impression on Saeum.
We talked about the elections for a while, but the topic eventually switched to Playlist, Dokgo Miro, and the exchange match.
It seems like sports and entertainment programs are more interesting for high school students after all.
“Oh, right. Who’s going to watch the basketball game today? Euishin will surely watch, and who else…?”
“Me and Geurin.”
Song Daesok suddenly spoke after Saeum.
Unlike me who’s already decided to watch all the basketball games, the others tried to change up the matches that they’d watch every day.
Today, Saeum, Geurin, Daesok, and I were in the same group.
“Then do you want to go eat something after the game?”
“I want to.”
“If Geurin goes then I’ll go too.”
“I wanted to eat corndogs when I heard the others talking about it last time… I want a red pepper corndog and rice cheese corndog.”
With that, the other kids began to discuss what to eat.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to join them.
I thought of what I was supposed to do today as I waited for the right time to tell the others that I won’t be able to join them.
Later in the evening, I will be meeting the two candidates for the next student representative, Yeom Junyeol and Cheon Dongha.
