Chapter 110

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Translated by Sylph

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“They’re coming from the right. Let’s move by crawling.”

“…….”

No… do we really have to go this far?

However, Ryu Chungwoo had already begun to crawl with a serious face.

‘Crawling on the grass floor while wearing Hwarang clothes and even a wig….’

It was a terrible hybrid.

In the meantime, an arrow flew over his head and hit the wooden fence.

Pang!

Blue pigment was smeared on the wooden planks. Then, Ryu Chungwoo aimed his bow at the place where the arrow flew from with sharp eyes.

Of course, it was a toy bow for children.

Hwiik!

“Waak!”

“Out~!”

“Oh, what a shame!”

Two final dropouts of the team wearing orange headbands came out from behind the wooden fence with their shoulders covered in yellow pigment.

They were the ones who were shooting while sticking only their heads out from the top and bottom at the end of the wooden fence.

‘…He shot one and hit two.’

This was at the level of ecosystem destruction. It felt like watching a Diamond player slaughtering civilians in Bronze with a sub-account as a teammate.

“Three teams left. We strike from the left.”

Stop it already.

“…Hyung, how about waiting until the number of people decreases a bit?”

“Ah.”

Only then did Ryu Chungwoo realize that he had crossed the line and looked a bit embarrassed. He looked like an adult who had come to his senses after gritting his teeth and having a snowball fight among kids.

“Right… let’s wait behind there.”

“Yes.”

“Hmm, it’s fun to do something like this after a long time.”

Ryu Chungwoo had a somewhat refreshed face. Apparently, he was the type whose stress was relieved by winning such primal competitive content.

‘Does he not play RoR?’

He was someone who wouldn’t be affected even by insults about his parents, so it would be perfect.

Anyway, as Ryu Chungwoo suggested, we crawled behind the largest nearby wooden fence.

But before we even arrived, arrows started flying again. They were the guys wearing green bands on their heads.

‘Has that side already been cleared?’

Even four people were left.

‘I should just get hit and drop out soon.’

If Ryu Chungwoo eliminated about two more, it would be a good picture for that side to win and wrap it up.

However, the situation did not flow as expected.

“Danger…!”

“Heol!”

“Is it done?”

“Eueueueok!”

It was true that Ryu Chungwoo eliminated two more.

But right after that, he eventually dropped out as he was hit by paint, but he also eliminated the remaining one person from the other team in a mutual destruction fashion.

So, suddenly, only one guy wearing a green band and I were left, and a one-on-one match was established.

“…….”

“…….”

Is this for real?

The problem lay in the fact that the other side also knew they had to eliminate Ryu Chungwoo first, so they focused their fire on him, and Ryu Chungwoo also shot the guy who seemed likely to hit him first.

In other words, the two survivors were both the weakest of the camping meta.

The other side also seemed flustered as they missed their arrows while repeatedly saying ‘Uh, uh?’.

“……Heh.”

Suddenly it became a battle between weaklings.

At that time, Ryu Chungwoo, whose neck was covered in paint, quickly shouted.

“Moondae-ya, use me as cover and hit him quickly!!”

“…….”

Where did the implicit agreement we made earlier to take it easy go?

Anyway, I couldn’t show myself slacking off, so I lowered my body and aimed my bow appropriately.

“Heok!”

The funny thing was that in the meantime, the paint shot by the other side actually hit Ryu Chungwoo’s back.

‘Does this work?’

I released the arrow while feeling reluctant. It was a shot that I actually expected to miss.

It would probably pass over his head.

“…Uwak!”

“……?”

But this… it hit?

“Ah!! Seriously!!”

Of all things, as the last remaining guy raised his hand to pull out an arrow, it turned into a situation where he directly brought it to the arrow I shot.

How could such a thing happen?

“Waaaaaa!!”

“Moondae wins!!”

The guys who had been eliminated and waiting poured out and began to rejoice.

Ryu Chungwoo also smiled broadly and patted my back.

“Well done!”

“…Wow!”

I clenched both fists while looking at the camera. Since winning couldn’t be helped, let’s at least prevent an attitude controversy, damn it.

However, the MC, who rushed out from the commentators’ booth, delivered the good news.

“Ah~ TeStar Hwarangs! Disqualified!”

“……?!”

“Why!?”

“Eliminated Hwarangs should leave the battlefield immediately, you shouldn’t help the surviving Hwarangs!”

“…!!”

The victory thus went to the green band team.

“The winner of the color painting battle is…… Onyx!”

“Waaaaaa!!”

“We did it!!”

And the TeStar guys had the expressions of a raccoon whose cotton candy had been washed away.

“…….”

“Is it Chungwoo hyung’s fault?”

“Sorry…….”

“It’s okay.”

With Cha Yujin’s dejected answer, the filming of was finished.

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And failed spectacularly.

It wasn’t because of sadism or controversy. It was simply because it was terribly boring.

-It doesn’t catch my eye at all
-Please tell me when the TeStar cut version comes out
-The editing really has no sense
-The subtitles are so cringey, why is it so old? It’s so boringㅠ
-How can it be this tedious with that composition…? I really don’t understand
-Ryu Chungwoo is really showing crazy national athlete vibes with his amazing skills, but why can they only bring out this much flavor? Ah, damn, it’s frustrating

Because the editing and subtitles were too old, they couldn’t bring out the “byeong-mat” (absurd/sublime) flavor of the content at all.

Furthermore, because the promotion was not done provocatively, there was no word-of-mouth about TeStar before the broadcast.

It was because the production team was too conscious of the ‘Idol Olympics’ and focused only on the program format when distributing press releases.

Thanks to that, among people who only had a moderate liking for TeStar, there were quite a few cases where they didn’t even know TeStar was appearing.

-It would have been more fun if they just let the kids play with sheep in Daegwallyeong in their reality show
-All that’s left are the kids’ Hwarang outfits and Ryu Chungwoo’s proof as a gold medalist
-The TeStar cut version re-edited by a gold-handed person on WeTube is out (link)
└Heol, seeing it like this, it’s so fun
└Right, they shouldn’t have edited the kids not being able to get 1st place as a documentary, they should have done it like this. It’s much cuter and funnier ㅠㅠ

fulfilled its purpose by leaving only photos and videos of various idols dressed as Hwarangs to be used as good marketing materials.

And it ended lonely without being organized as a regular program.

However, separately, the stock price of TeStar, who appeared in this failed program, was continuing to rise.

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[TeStar’s Initial Sales are out]
: Closed at 780,000 copies (One-week trend summary table)
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-Wow crazy
-That’s insane
-But the momentum was really scary. If you enter a group chat, there’s always at least one TeStar profile picture
-The Idol Inc. hype should have worn off by now, but is this figure possible?
-They probably have almost no overseas volume, hmm…
└Some overseas group orders exploded (photo of receipt). Since they were so successful in Korea during their debut activities, word-of-mouth seems to have spread overseas too?
└Overseas fans notice these things like ghostsㅋㅋ
-They set up a lot of fan signing events, so it must have a big impact… Anyway, congratulations~
└Eh, TeStar didn’t set up that many fan signings. It’s about average…
└ㅋㅋㅋYeah~
-They should be included in the Big Three of boy groups. Honestly, among the Big Three, there are cases where digital scores aren’t as good as TeStar’s. If we only count domestically, isn’t TeStar almost the next level after V-TIC?
└No, they are not. I won’t accept overestimation
└Let’s stop playing Jenga
└TeStar fans never claim that TeStar is first-tier. We are just happy with the kids

Fans were still being cautious, but TeStar, who renewed their own initial sales record by more than 100,000 copies and was doing well on the music charts, had completely established themselves as a ‘successful idol’.

Thanks to that, they easily achieved 1st place on public broadcast with their first week’s performance.

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[The kids’ Music Gayo 1st place speech + encore video]
: Congratulations so much, guysㅠㅠㅠ
+The 1st place pledge was to sing while switching partsㅋㅋ cuties..
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-Congratulations to TeStar for 1st place♡ Our flight is forever♡
-Finally, we get to hear our name in the award speech!!ㅠㅠ
-Guys, thank you so much for chanting Loviewer every time you hold the microphoneㅋㅋㅋㅠㅠ
-Ah, Raebin says his speech so clearly. It’s so cute how proud he is. I love our rabbitㅠㅠ
-What’s this, why is Park Moondae good at rapping too?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Moondae-deng was so good that Yujin got excitedㅋㅋㅋ
-The chorus sing-along is really so warm and nice

Fans were continuing their pleasant fan life while enjoying the joy of their career-high, even while being nervous about whether something strange would happen due to the checks of other fandoms.

And it was around that time that , the game collaborated with TeStar, was released.

In fact, fans were not very wary of this game. It was because there were almost no elements in TeStar’s comeback activities that seemed to be related to this game.

-Apparently, they just made a game collaboration song based on our b-side song and that was it?
-The concepts are similar, but ‘Better Me’, which was used as a b-side song, has a bit of a dystopian feel, and the game is post-apocalyptic, so the vibes are a bit different. I think they just took a song with a similar atmosphere from the album and used it.
-It might be better not to give much meaning to the elements that appeared in the trailer
-The connection to the magical boy worldview is clearly the title song, Airplane, for sureㅇㅇ

The analyses from when the trailer first came out also withered away, decreasing as they were pushed back by the analysis of the ‘Airplane’ music video.

The atmosphere was similar when the game advertisement appeared.

It was because the advertisement was produced to the extent of photos of TeStar members promoting the game in the costumes from the trailer.

-It’s just at the level of game advertisements that other celebrities takeㅋㅋ Ha, I worried for nothing
-In honor of the loyalty of giving Chungwoo a sniper outfit, I plan to play it once
-I was surprised because the TeStar trailer appeared as an ad on WeTube. It was a game ad;; When I watched more, a game play video appeared

The reaction of game enthusiasts was also okay.

-Subway advertisement…? (eye-rolling emoticon)
-The black cows are ready to have their money sucked out
-I just lost my mind…
-You have to row when the water comes in. Manage the server well, factory bastards
-I’ll hold my breath until it’s released
-In the future, I will only purchase T1 fried dumplings for mandu
-They are pouring too much into promotion costs. Are these bastards by any chance going to split the game into DLC and do this bullshit?
└Then only death remains

They were welcoming the fact that the scale was growing for now, even while being anxious. It was because the probability that it wouldn’t fail immediately increased even if the company did something stupid.

-Please come out as a god-game
-If it fails this time, it’s impossible to recover. It’s a point where the big corporation might cut ties

-I checked the game play scene in the promotion video. For now, the feeling of the beta is alive. If they properly digest the influx of God-star alone, it will work this time
└Damn… please!!!

And the day the game was released.

Both the TeStar fandom and the game community were turned upside down.

* * *

“Oh, it’s done.”

Park Moondae’s first fansite master put down the video of Park Moondae as a Hwarang that she was editing for a moment and checked her smartphone.

The download of the game was completed, and the app icon was added to the home screen.

‘I’ve never played this kind of game… but I should try it at least once.’

Since Moondae advertised it, for one. She planned to contribute at least one download count and play count.

Of course, since she had no hobby of playing such games, she intended to turn it off after appropriately doing only the tutorial. She ran the application.

‘Let’s do it quickly and finish.’

After a short additional installation time, the tutorial began immediately.

[You have opened your eyes in 127 Section.]

And five minutes later. In the game, this college student meets a fellow character.

It is a boy in a black hoodie who uses a drone. Every time he controls the drone, his eyes glow purple.

“……!?”

It was the Park Moondae from the comeback trailer video.