Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 23.1
Between the limp pieces of shredded balloon, a slip of paper fell. The staff quickly picked up the paper, unfolded it, and showed it.
“Congratulations. We will give you a room upgrade coupon.”
So that’s how it worked.
It seemed Cha Jeongwon had also grasped the whole thing in one go.
“Winning the suite room didn’t just happen out of nowhere, then.”
“What do you mean it didn’t just happen out of nowhere?”
Wondering if he might share something he didn’t know, Ha-on looked up at Cha Jeongwon seriously. Ha-on also knew Cha Jeongwon’s story, but since he didn’t know his own fate entangled in it, it was natural that he wanted to know.
As the time Cha Jeongwon kept his mouth shut grew longer, Ha-on’s lips dried up completely. In addition, the staff who had been tactfully pretending not to listen was also subtly curious.
“Promotion.”
“Ah, so…”
“It’s to attract customers. The suite room I received was a lucky break rather than lucky, too.”
At Cha Jeongwon’s reaction, Ha-on smacked his lips.
If that were the case, he had nothing to say.
Ha-on smacked his lips again and changed the subject.
“Doesn’t that somehow… look like bursting a gourd left behind by a swallow?”
Watching the paper slip folded inside the balloon pop right out the moment it exploded, such a picture came to mind. Just like in old folk tales where splitting a gourd made treasures pour out and goblins pop out from inside, it felt like the prizes to be received burst out all at once according to their fortune today.
“Senior, shall we try doing that?”
“Not really.”
Cha Jeongwon didn’t even spare a glance at those balloons. He looked ready to just leave.
“They say first place is a dinner voucher.”
“So?”
When he retorted as if asking what on earth that had to do with him, Ha-on was rather left at a loss for words. Then, he suddenly came to think about the human named Cha Jeongwon again.
Unlike ordinary people who hoped for luck, he was accustomed to misfortune. He probably couldn’t think at all about winning an event like this.
“We can do it for fun.”
“It’s not fun.”
At Cha Jeongwon’s indifferent answer, Ha-on ended up shrugging his shoulders.
To say it’s not fun when they haven’t even started yet, it makes one feel upset.
Even while thinking that, his eyes couldn’t leave the box.
He knew that most were duds. In the first place, that kind of thing didn’t usually go well even for ordinary people. Relying on a small probability, it’d be great if it went well, and if not, so be it.
“Senior. Just try it once.”
Ha-on lightly tugged on his sleeve.
“It’s because I want to eat a lollipop. Even if it’s a dud, they give you candy, don’t they?”
Cha Jeongwon barely shifted his gaze. After looking down at the lollipops once, he looked at Ha-on again.
“Spending ten thousand won just to eat one candy, that seems like more of a loss.”
“When you buy it expensive, it tastes even better.”
As Ha-on kept pushing, Cha Jeongwon turned his head as if telling him to do as he pleased.
Ha-on nagged Cha Jeongwon, who was standing still with a smiling face.
“You have to pay.”
Cha Jeongwon stared at him with eyes showing he couldn’t understand, but Ha-on spoke as if he had a plausible justification in his own right.
“I bought the tteokbokki, didn’t I?”
So you should cover this, Senior.
Holding onto a person who wasn’t interested in the first place, he even told him to pay money. It was a truly brazen posture.
Cha Jeongwon pulled out his wallet without playing hard to get twice. It seemed he thought it would be much easier to just give it and be done with it.
The staff received the paper currency containing cash, looked at it, and smiled brightly.
“Thank you. I’ll give you five darts. You’re the guest who will throw them, right?”
If it was the guest, it was naturally Cha Jeongwon. However, the person in question was pulling his hands back.
“What are you doing? You paid money, so you should throw it away.”
“You’re the one who wants to do it.”
At Cha Jeongwon’s answer, Ha-on acted as if he were genuinely surprised.
“Then are you going to buy me everything I ask you to buy? Are we that close? Earlier while eating tteokbokki we talked about getting along well, but it wasn’t to the point of taking care of each other like that…”
At Ha-on’s fuss, Cha Jeongwon let out a short breath like a sigh and held out his hand.
“Please give them to me quickly.”
As if he had been waiting, the staff handed over the darts. Five darts with red and blue feathers gathered neatly in his hand. They were light and smooth, as if they could fly anywhere at any moment.
“You can target the balloons anywhere. Every time one pops, there’s a slip of paper inside. I’ll check your rank with that.”
The balloons attached to the board shook minutely.
Someone’s luck hung on those round balloons, so to speak.
As Ha-on raised both fists to cheer for Cha Jeongwon, he pointed at his wrist at a sudden thought.
“You took off the bandage.”
When was it that they went to the emergency room? As he was counting the dates, Cha Jeongwon rotated his wrist as if to show off.
