Chapter 3- One Million Yen Jackpot

Sachiko has to spend the day at the hospital as the doctors are screening for any other complications. UA also haven't sent her the keys yet so she can't leave anyway.

The next day, Sachiko wakes up at 10 a.m.

'If this keeps up, I'm gonna need to set an alarm for the entrance exam.'

"Nakamura chan, you're awake?"

"Yes." Sachiko replies the nurse.

"Doctor Ishikawa says you can get discharged from hospital today." She informs Sachiko.

"Oh okay. I'm waiting for someone from UA. After that, I'll get ready to discharge."

Sachiko replies.

After an hour of waiting, UA sent her the keys and address along with some money to help with her expenses.

"Finally, I can get out of this place."

Sachiko was glad to just get out of the hospital. As soon as she walked out of the hospital, she saw some shops nearby.

"I need to buy a phone and some clothes first."

Sachiko looks at the money UA gave and finds that it is about 10,000 yen. It isn't enough to buy a phone but she can use the money to buy necessities.

'Anyway, I want to make some money so that I can buy whatever I want.' Sachiko thought.

As if it is a coincidence, she happens to walk past a shop that sells scratch tickets.

As soon as she realizes that, Sachiko walks back to the shop.

"Hello, what can I help you?" A woman who seems to be the shopkeeper welcomes her.

"Hi, I'd like to buy three scratch tickets." Sachiko says with a smile. Even though she is confident that she can hit jackpot as long as the jackpot ticket exists in this shop, she doesn't want to alarm anyone by buying a single ticket and winning jackpot in a try.

"Which grade do you want?"

"Umm...whichever grade that has the most prize money?"

"Okay, it will be 1000 yen per ticket. The jackpot is one million yen." The shopkeeper replies.

"Alright, I'll take a look first."

"This way." The shopkeeper takes her to the ticket corner which looks similar to a phone box.

"This box is to ensure that people buying lottery tickets can't cheat by using their quirks. This sets an alarm to the police if someone activates their quirk."

"Interesting." Sachiko comments.

"Then, I'll leave you to choose which tickets you want."

"Okay." Sachiko nods and starts looking at the tickets.

'This one here is 5000 yen prize. Not bad.'

'This one is 0 yen. But, I should take one if I'm planning to get a jackpot.'

'This is 2000 yen.'

'And this one, 500,000 yen? This is a good one too.'

'This is 0 yen.'

'0 again.'

'Again, also 0.'

'Ah! Found it 1000,000 yen.'

Sachiko quickly takes the 1000,000 yen ticket and 500,000 yen ticket as well as five 0 yen tickets not to raise suspicion too much.

As for the alarm, she didn't have to worry since she wasn't using a quirk in the first place, but she made sure that the possibility of setting the alarm is zero.

After choosing seven tickets, she goes back to the counter.

"I ended up choosing seven tickets because I couldn't make up my mind on what I want." Sachiko says sheepishly.

The shopkeeper woman chuckles at her words and nods, "That happens to people a lot."

She takes the tickets and registers their serial number.

"So, are you a student? You look like you're the same age as my son."

"You can say so."

"Alright, that will be 7000 yen."

Sachiko gives the money to the woman and gets the tickets.

"Oh right, if I scratch here, I can redeem immediately?"

"That depends on the amount of money." The shopkeeper replies. "If the amount is like one million, you will have to wait a bit longer."

"Makes sense." Sachiko nods, then started scratching her tickets.

She scratches the 0 yen ones first.

Then, 500,000 yen one.

"It says 5...500,000 yen?" Sachiko acts as if she was surprised.

The shopkeeper takes a look at the ticket and she was amazed.

"It really is 500,000 yen. Young girl, you're lucky."

"Thanks. Now I really hope I get a million?" Sachiko says with a laugh.

"Good one. No one is actually that lucky....."

Before the woman can continue her sentence, Sachiki scratches the last ticket, revealing a million yen prize.

"Is...is it real? Did I really get one million?"

"I've never seen anyone winning two big prizes in a row..." The shopkeeper was dazed.

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Some time later, Sachiko walks out of the shop. As the prize money is 1,500,000 yen, she has to wait a day to receive money.

'I guess I'll have to survive with 3000 yen for now.'

With 3000 yen, she just decided to buy a set of cheap clothes and some food to eat.

Cup noodles and a few bottles of water cost around 1500 yen and she eventually bought a 1000 yen dress which left her with 500 yen.

'That's for transportation, I guess.'