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Chapter 494

While Park Moondae was suffering in the bloodstained afterlife(?) dormitory, the game was in full swing above.

 

[A sacrificial mark has been placed on one of the participants’ cards.]

 

However, this time, the atmosphere had changed a bit.

 

Doing the same thing again would be boring.

 

But if the format is changed, wouldn’t the viewers have to understand it from the beginning again? So what the writer, Ryu Seorin, changed was the tempo at which Speedrun began.

 

[Time limit: 30 minutes]

 

[Participants who do not exchange cards at least once will be immediately eliminated.]

 

“What the.”

 

If you don’t participate in the passing bomb game, you’re automatically disqualified! Unlike the first game, where everyone was sneakily exchanging cards like a covert operation, this time, everyone was openly using every trick in the book. Moreover, since you could choose a job to exchange for just by scanning your card at the front door machine, you no longer needed the other person’s consent. As a result,

 

[The current profession with the sacrificial mark is…]

 

[‘Lawyer.’]

 

[!!!!]

 

The two people with the same name, who were pulling their hair out and fighting over who the real lawyer was, were caught together. And then, the comedy explodes during the deduction part.

 

[Bae Sejin: Yeah, actually, I’m the clown…]

 

[Lee Sejin: Hyung, you got really mad when they called you a clown, though.]

 

[Bae Sejin: …?]

 

[Lee Sejin: Yep, actually, I was the clown, everyone!]

 

[Bae Sejin: Hey!]

 

As soon as the lawyer was revealed as a sacrifice, the two switched their stance and started claiming they were the clown! And this time, they fought again, each claiming the other was the lawyer, until they self-destructed.

 

[Bae Sejin: So, I picked the lawyer during the card exchange! It should be the third record. If I were the lawyer, I wouldn’t have chosen myself…]

 

[Seon Ahyeon: Ah.]

 

[Bae Sejin: What?!]

 

[Ryu Chungwoo: Sejin, it sounds like you just confessed to swapping with the lawyer…]

 

[Bae Sejin: …?!]

 

[Lee Sejin: That’s amazing.]

 

And so, the lawyer and the clown went into the coffin together.

 

[Lee Sejin: Hyung, you talk too much when you’re angry.]

 

[Bae Sejin: Shut up.]

 

-So this is what trolling tastes like.

-This is hilarious, lololol

-Moondae: You came to save me!

Sejins: No, we came to fight among ourselves

└Hahahaha

 

Thanks to Lee Sejin’s efforts, who didn’t forget the advice from the walkie-talkie, he pressed the button at the head of the coffin and was instantly transported to the afterlife(?).

 

[Park Moondae: …]

 

As the coffin descended, Park Moondae, who had received this absurd variety show-like story, ran over excitedly…

 

[Park Moondae: (Tibetan expression)]

 

[Park Moondae: So, which one of you was the clown? You can speak freely since you’re already dead.]

 

In the end, the question that would solve everyone’s curiosity was asked. And finally, the two of them opened their mouths with serious expressions.

 

[Bae Sejin: I was the clown, but…]

 

[Lee Sejin: I was the clown…]

 

[Bae Sejin: ?]

 

[Lee Sejin: ??]

 

[Park Moondae: ???]

 

–Huh?

-What’s going on, everyone?

-There are two clowns?

 

Even the viewers were collectively confused.

 

The subtitles were even like this.

 

[What’s going on…?]

 

[◀◀◀]

 

So, to explain, a flashback of Lee Sejin was included. It was early in the game.

 

[Bae Sejin: I know this because I’m a lawyer…]

 

[Lee Sejin: (Pretending not to listen)]

 

In fact, when Bae Sejin was eagerly talking about his job skills, Lee Sejin had already secretly listened and understood everything. And this is what Lee Sejin thought!

 

[Lee Sejin: No wonder the profile file said not to go around to talk about being a lawyer! I’m a clown! I’m the fake one~]

 

 [↑ Self-Proclaimed Clown (2)]

 

-????

-Se-Sejin

 

That’s right. Both of them thought of themselves as the clown while pushing the other as the clown…!

 

[Lee Sejin: Wow~ Hyung, your acting is really good! (※It is acting)]

 

[Bae Sejin: What? Anyone can see that you’re the suspicious one! (※He is suspicious)]

 

It was entertainment-style acting that burned their souls.

 

-This is crazy, lolol

-Two lawyers who thought they were clowns, fighting each other.

└ Hahahaha

-A day in the life of the crazy lawyer, spinning around in confusion.

 

And the story ends with them becoming black sheep and sacrifices, being burned together. In the end, the parties involved realized this conclusion while conversing in the afterlife…

 

[Park Moondae: …]

 

[Bae Sejin: …]

 

[Lee Sejin: …]

 

[Park Moondae: Shall we move?]

 

[Lee Sejin: Yep]

 

[Hahahahaha]

 

After a tense silence, they started to follow Park Moondae quietly…

 

-LMAO, what to do

-My stomach hurts from laughing too much

-Even TeSTAR laughed while watching the live broadcast.

-A clown party, lol.

 

However, the atmosphere that had everyone laughing didn’t last long. The true nature of this place was soon revealed.

 

[Lee Sejin: MoondaeMoondae~ About that walkie-talkie, did Moondae contact us from here?]

 

[Park Moondae: That’s right.]

 

[Lee Sejin: Ooh.]

 

[Bae Sejin: …But you told me not to go into the bathroom back then. Why did you say that?]

 

Park Moondae shone a flashlight beyond the door. It was to the bathroom opposite the living room.

 

[Park Moondae: Because the bathroom looks like that.]

 

[Bae Sejin: Gasp.]

 

Crash! An edited image of lightning flashed by.

 

The blood-splattered bathroom door was zoomed in with a thud, thud, thud sound effects. The members screamed.

 

[Bae Sejin: B-Blood?!]

 

[Lee Sejin: Aaaah, what is that? What is that, Moondae?!]

 

[Park Moondae: (Has a look that says, ‘If I knew, would I be standing here like this?’)]

 

-Having developed some tolerance, scaredy-cat Moondae pretends to be a veteran

-Lolol, so cute

-He just found one flashlight in the corner of the living room and pretended not to be scared!

 

And, as expected, a comment pointed it out.

 

[Lee Sejin: Seriously, we’ve been playing this game for over 30 minutes upstairs, and you haven’t even opened that? As expected, Moondae is the most—]

 

[Park Moondae: Then why don’t you open it yourself?]

 

[Lee Sejin: Sorry.]

 

–Hahahaha

-These adorable scaredy-cats

 

It was even funnier because none of the fearless or action-before-thinking members were eliminated.

 

So, the eldest stepped up!

 

[Bae Sejin: …Let’s go. I’ll open it.]

 

[Lee Sejin: …!!]

 

[Park Moondae: Thank you.]

 

[Lee Sejin: …?!]

 

-He’s ready, lol

-A rare sight of Big Sejin being speechless

-Former baby shaman making a grand entrance~

 

Thus, the three of them huddled together, each carrying a flashlight, a walkie-talkie, and their bodies(?), and approached the bathroom. The tall Lee Sejin had a flashlight, Park Moondae, who tested the walkie-talkie, had the walkie-talkie, and Bae Sejin, who took on the role of the action leader, was lightly equipped as a courtesy. And then…

 

Creak. Bae Sejin opened the bathroom door, wearing rubber gloves found in the kitchen. At that moment, it was visible.

 

-Gasp

 

Thud.

 

Thud, thud, thud, thud.

 

Thud!!

 

With a tense and eerie BGM, the inside of the bathroom is revealed. The blood-soaked floor and what sits on it.

 

[Victim]

 

In front of the bathroom cabinet, there was a corpse that collapsed while sitting.

 

–Eeeek

-Mommy!

-??

-Oh my gosh, what the heck

 

The members were all frozen.

 

[Park Moondae: …It’s not moving. Yes. I think it’s okay to take a closer look.]

 

-Yet, Park Moondae doesn’t approach

-This time, I understand

– I wouldn’t have moved either, damn

 

The dormitory was as quiet as a mouse. And there was a corpse-like doll in the dark. The members approached cautiously. Lee Sejin slowly moved the flashlight.

 

[Lee Sejin: …First of all, it looks like a man. The outfit… is quite unique.]

 

The doll was lying on the ground, holding a knife in its hand. Moreover, it was wearing something like a black robe as if it were part of a cult concept, and even its face was covered.

 

A mask?

 

The strange pattern with a lamb’s skull drawn on it was now familiar to the members.

 

[Park Moondae: It looks like the one that was on the door earlier.]

 

[Lee Sejin: Yeah. And our… sacrificial card? That symbol is the same, right?]

 

-This is so creepy

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

 

After confirming that it was a doll and not a costume actor, the members slowly reached out and flipped it over. At that moment, Bae Sejin noticed something crucial.

 

[Bae Sejin: …There’s no wound here.]

 

[Lee Sejin: What?]

 

[Bae Sejin: Look, there’s so much blood but no wound. The clothes aren’t even torn. …In fact, this corpse is holding a knife.]

 

The atmosphere turned icy cold.

 

[Then whose blood is this…?]

 

-Help

-Wow, this is terrifying

-ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ The undertaker is the culprit? Did the undertaker really kill this person? What is thisㅠㅠ

 

At that moment, Park Moondae, who had been silently following the flashlight’s beam with his head, stood up. He was still holding the walkie-talkie in his hand.

 

Huh?

 

Park Moondae turned the walkie-talkie and asked.

 

[Park Moondae: Before you came into the coffin earlier, when we were in contact with the walkie-talkie, who was holding it and where?]

 

[Bae Sejin: Huh? That is…]

 

[Lee Sejin: The living room! It rang in the living room, and Raebin was the first to check it.]

 

[Park Moondae: …]

 

[Lee Sejin: Why?]

 

Park Moondae was silent for a moment. But soon, he asked another question.

 

[Park Moondae: After that, Raebin took the walkie-talkie and ran to where the others were, right?]

 

[Bae Sejin: …! That’s right! Raebin came towards the kitchen.]

 

Park Moondae nodded in response, as if realizing something.

 

-??

-What?

-How did you know?

 

[Park Moondae: Just a moment.]

 

Park Moondae ran out of the bathroom and then soon started running around with a walkie-talkie, shouting.

 

[Park Moondae: Can you hear me?]

 

[Park Moondae: Can you hear me?]

 

As if forgetting the fear, Park Moondae opened the door and started calling out to every room in the dorm. And after repeating this process several times, it was when he returned to the place where the coffin was installed and moved up and down. Pssss.

 

“What the?!”

 

The walkie-talkie turned on, and a response came back.

 

[Walkie-talkie: Moondae? Is that you, Moondae??]

 

[!!]

 

The members also rushed out of the bathroom.

 

[Bae Sejin: How did you do it?]

 

[Park Moondae: I found the location.]

 

[Bae Sejin: What?]

 

[Park Moondae: It seems like this walkie-talkie… works if it’s in the same place as the walkie-talkies of the people who haven’t been eliminated.]

 

The graduate student, who had been watching the broadcast with bated breath, slapped her thigh.

 

“Ahhh!”

 

The walkie-talkie only works when the upstairs, which is still alive, and the downstairs, which has died and come down in a coffin, are in the same room.

 

Amazing!! It felt as if the two were in the same physical space but divided by time or dimension. Is that place the afterlife, and is that why it’s expressed this way?

 

So, what happens now?

 

The graduate student watched the screen with great interest. Maybe Moondae will talk about the corpse in the bathroom and give another warning to be careful.

 

Just then, Park Moondae started speaking.

 

[Park Moondae: I told you earlier not to go into the bathroom, but I’m changing my mind.]

 

[Park Moondae: You must go in. There will be either a ghost or a person.]

 

“…??”

 

And then Park Moondae said something even more shocking.

 

[Park Moondae: It seems that I… the ‘undertaker’ killed that ghost. It looks like it was the right thing to do.]

 

“…?!”

 

On the screen, Park Moondae spoke calmly.

 

[Park Moondae: Lure the ghost into the coffin and burn it, just like we did to the person who was eliminated.]

 

[Park Moondae: That’s the only way you’ll survive.]

 

At that moment, the BGM on the screen changed.

 

* * *

[Park Moondae: That ghost seems like the leader of a cult.]

 

It was in the neat, monochromatic living room. The only signs of life were a few pet supplies, and a huge TV for monitoring was installed there.

 

[Ryu Chungwoo: Wait a minute!]

 

And now, on the screen, TeSTAR was being broadcast, communicating via walkie-talkie in front of the coffin.

 

During the self-assigned break time, the idol monitoring his competitors tapped his chin.

 

“That’s an unusual attempt.”

 

Woof! A soft bark was heard near his thigh.

 

The man, who lightly patted the head of the dog reacting to his muttering, picked up his smartphone.

 

“Good boy.”

 

Buzz.

 

Cheongryeo’s pet dog, Kong, happily let out a bark before burying itself in its favorite blanket. And similarly, Cheongryeo’s smartphone buzzed.

 

-Manager Jang: Yes, the PD has replied. Of course, they said TeSTAR is available for the appearance!

 

It was to be expected.

 

“Hmm.”

 

Cheongryeo smiled as he watched ‘TeSTAR’ passionately communicating via walkie-talkie on TV. This was seven days before his collaboration with Park Moondae.

 

 

 

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