Chapter 55 – Buying Lottery Tickets (2)
“Mister! You just bought a lottery ticket, right?”
But looking at the innocent, cute eyes of the high school girl looking up at me, I couldn’t help but relax my frown.
Cute!
She was cute when I saw her from afar yesterday, but she’s even cuter looking at her up close like this!
My once petty heart swells again.
Well, it is strange to be called “Oppa” by a high school girl I’m meeting for the first time.
I thought maybe my looks were a 50, so it could be possible, but no way.
“I did, but is there something you need from me?”
“Ah… well, it’s…”
Rummage, rummage.
The high school girl suddenly started rummaging through her purse.
“Here!”
Fumble, fumble.
Then, she took out some money from her purse and handed it to me.
“?”
One 5,000 won bill and one 1,000 won bill.
A total of 6,000 won.
“Um, mister… could you, um, buy a lottery ticket for me?”
“A lottery ticket?”
I had a feeling she might ask, but she’s actually asking me to buy a lottery ticket for her.
I’ve heard a lot of stories about students asking people to buy cigarettes for them, but I never thought I’d be asked to buy a lottery ticket.
“Hmm. Minors aren’t supposed to buy lottery tickets.”
“That’s why I’m asking you like this.”
The high school girl bows her head.
Well, I don’t mind buying it for her. I might as well ask her what I’m curious about.
“But what are you going to do with the lottery ticket?”
“Isn’t it obvious? I’m aiming for the jackpot!”
The student’s eyes sparkle.
This young one is already full of greed for money?
“Can’t you ask your family to buy it for you?”
“Ah… my mom and older sister don’t like lottery tickets. They say it’s a waste of money…”
“Hmm. Your family is very wise.”
That’s true.
It’s all about luck.
Lottery is only for those who are meant to win.
That’s what I learned after wasting over 100,000 won.
“Pfft… you bought a lottery ticket too, mister. If it’s a waste of money, why did you buy it?”
The high school girl pouts her lips and points to the paper I’m holding in my hand.
“Ah. This, well, I bought it calculatingly. Calculatingly. It’s a lucky number that’s guaranteed to win.”
Since I actually entered the numbers I got through the Luck Tracker, I could say that.
“Pfft. Calculating, he says.”
The high school girl openly mocks me.
This brat?
“Then, can you tell me those calculating numbers too? Please? Think of it as saving a pitiful high school girl…”
“Wow…”
Calling herself a pitiful high school girl. Amazing.
Seeing my expression, the student’s face turns slightly red and her cheeks puff up.
“Hmph. If you’re not going to do it, give it back. I’ll just ask someone else.”
“Okay, okay. I’ll do it. But didn’t you ask someone else to buy a lottery ticket yesterday too?”
“Huh? How did you know?”
The high school girl’s eyes widen.
“I saw you yesterday when I was coming out of the department store. You were getting a piece of paper from some woman. Are you buying 6,000 won worth of tickets every day?”
That’s over 40,000 won a week.
Is she super rich?
“Ah… no way. Not every day, but every Thursday and Saturday.”
“Thursday and Saturday? Why?”
When I asked curiously, she giggled.
“Did you know? The days with the highest lottery jackpot winning rate are Thursday and Saturday!”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes. So I always buy them on Thursdays and Saturdays.”
I tilted my head.
“But today is Friday? Why are you buying it today?”
“Ah. Well… I was originally going to come tomorrow, but my mom said we’re going to my grandma’s house tomorrow, so I had no choice but to come today…”
“Hmm. I see.”
I nodded.
I think I’ve asked most of what I was curious about.
“Anyway, you want me to buy 6,000 won worth, right?”
“Ah. Just 5,000 won worth is fine! You can keep the 1,000 won. It’s a thank you fee. I’m nice, right?”
“Pfft. A thank you fee? How can I take a kid’s allowance?”
It’s not like I’m getting an errand fee from my parents.
The high school girl puffs up her cheeks.
“I’m not a kid, you know?”
“You are a kid, that’s why you can’t buy a lottery ticket yourself and have to ask me?”
“Ugh… honestly, I think high schoolers are all grown up. Middle schoolers are still kids, but high schoolers should be allowed to buy lottery tickets as they please.”
The high school girl pouts her lips and grumbles.
When she was in middle school, she probably thought only elementary schoolers were kids. I’m sure of it.
“Okay, okay. High schoolers are all grown up. Anyway, I’ll go buy it.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you!”
The high school girl bows her head.
“Oh, right. Please buy it automatically!”
If you say it that loudly, everyone will hear you. I chuckled and went back inside the lottery store.
‘Hmm. While I’m here, should I make a few more first-place winners?’
I sat down and pondered.
I thought it wouldn’t hurt to increase my money a little more.
I was worried that it would be too suspicious if one person won multiple first-place prizes, but after searching online, I found that there were quite a few people who had won multiple first-place prizes.
[Lottery first place, one person sweeps 5!]
[Lottery first place, 4 winners from one store!]
Come to think of it, there are actually people who manually buy multiple tickets with the same numbers.
I decided to sweep about 3 first-place prizes.
If I really wanted to, I could win like 10, but that would be too suspicious…
I filled out two more first-place tickets.
Three first-place prizes should be enough money.
And since it would be too suspicious to have too many first-place numbers, I also copied the losing manual numbers I bought earlier, two more times each.
“I have 1,000 won left…”
I looked at the 1,000 won bill the high school girl gave me, which was still in my hand.
‘Her name is Yoon Dajeong…’
That’s what it said on her name tag.
It’s kind of amazing that I saw her again after yesterday, so I thought I should give her a small gift.
‘First place is too much.’
If I give her a first-place ticket, the amount of prize money I’ll receive will be greatly reduced.
That’s absolutely not happening.
‘Second place is worth tens of millions of won, and third place is about a million won.’
I hesitated between second and third place, then decided to write down a third-place number and bought it along with the other lottery tickets I had purchased.
“These and 5,000 won automatic, please.”
“Hehe. Looks like you needed more. I hope you hit the jackpot!”
I left the lottery store.
“Ah, mister! Did you buy it?”
“Yeah. Here you go.”
I handed two pieces of paper to the high school girl named Dajeong.
She took the papers and tilted her head, looking at the ticket with the manual 1,000 won written on it.
“Oh. What’s this?”
“That’s the lucky number I told you about. I bought it with the 1,000 won you gave me. The other 5,000 won is automatic, as you said.”
“Heh~ is that so?”
“Who knows? You might win.”
When I said it lightly, she nodded.
“Hehe. Thank you. This is the first time someone has given me a ticket with manual numbers.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. About 7 or 8 out of 10 people just give the 1,000 won back.”
Well, I guess so.
It’s not a lot of money, so it’s kind of awkward to take it.
“There must be a lot of nice people. Or maybe it’s because I only ask young people who look nice.”
“Young people who look nice?”
“Yeah, I’m kind of scared to talk to older men. So I always ask women or young men.”
She asks women or young men, and she’s scared to talk to older men.
But why is she calling me “Mister”?
Well, whatever…
“Then, I’m going.”
“Ah, okay, thank you. I hope you hit the jackpot too, mister!”
“Pfft. Yeah… you too.”
I know the first-place numbers.
When I was leaving, I saw the results of her automatic 5,000 won ticket, and they were all losers.
Poor thing.
Is she also one of the unlucky ones like I used to be?
“Bye!”
The high school girl named Dajeong said goodbye and ran towards the bus stop. A bus must have arrived just in time, as she boarded right away.
I watched her back for a moment.
Her looks and figure were not as pretty as Delia or Sujeong, but she had a different kind of cute charm.
‘Well, I can always increase her looks and figure stats.’
And I already thought her looks were around 50.
If she had been in the same class as me when I was in high school, I wouldn’t have been able to say a single word to her.
Well, I went to an all-boys middle and high school though.
I smiled faintly as I watched the bus leave, and then I headed back to my studio apartment with three first-place winning tickets.
******
“Lucky numbers…”
Yoon Dajeong sat on the bus seat and looked at the ticket with the manual numbers written on it.
It was the first time she had talked so freely with a man she had just met. And an older man at that.
Most of the time when she asked for a favor, it would just end after a few words.
‘He was pretty handsome too…’
After only seeing the boys at school, seeing a handsome man who looked like a college student and dressed well, it felt like he was a different species.
And for some reason, the things he said sounded charming too.
“I wonder if I’ll win.”
The numbers he wrote down manually.
He didn’t seem like someone who bought lottery tickets often, but I had a good feeling about it.
“Hehe~.”
I also had a feeling that we would meet again.
‘If I win first place, my mom and older sister will be more comfortable…’
It would be really great if I won.
Dajeong put the ticket in her wallet and looked out the window with a happy smile.
******
“What time are we leaving tomorrow?”
“Hmm. We’re supposed to be there by 11, so if we leave here at 10, that should be enough time.”
I asked while eating dinner that Sujeong and Delia had prepared.
“Then we should start getting ready at 9. But… is it really okay for me to come?”
“W-what are you talking about! Of course! Or… do you not want to see my parents?”
Sujeong’s eyes looked pitiful.
“Of course not. I even bought clothes for it.”
“Then…?”
“You said you’re staying over. Is it okay to suddenly bring your boyfriend to your parents’ house and have him sleep over?”
Should I pack some underwear to change into?
Sujeong’s face brightened.
“Ah. It’s okay. My parents are obsessed with me having a boyfriend, so they’ll be happy if you come.”
“Oh, really.”
But when I thought about it the other way around, I quickly understood.
What if I suddenly introduced Sujeong or Delia as my girlfriend to my parents and brought them home?
Oh.
I think they would let them stay for a year, not just one night.
…My situation with Sujeong is a bit different though.
“Anyway, that means we can’t do anything naughty tomorrow?”
“H-huh? Is that how it works…”
Sujeong’s face suddenly became gloomy.
Of course, I plan to do it.
Doing something naughty secretly at my girlfriend’s parents’ house while avoiding their eyes! Isn’t that the perfect cliché!
Just thinking about it makes my dick hard.
But I pretended not to know and said to her,
“So, should we do it a lot today?”
“Ah, yes… Master♥.”
We quickly finished our meal.
