Chapter 76
Chapter 76
Translator: Penny
Chapter 76
Penalty: Visual impairment for 3 hours.
Visual impairment during sleep? This hardly qualifies as a penalty. It seems the System is showing some rare flexibility.
Soon, despite my eyes being open, my vision went dark. I closed my eyelids and drifted back to sleep.
"Aaaah! Ghost! Long-haired ghost!"
Not long after, Kim Dobin's scream jolted me awake.
The culprits who had caused a commotion the previous night, claiming they were paralyzed by sleep paralysis and waking up all the members at dawn, were now screaming and panicking about the same ghost again.
This time, three out of the five members had experienced sleep paralysis simultaneously. It made me wonder if there really was something going on, but since it hadn't appeared to me, I couldn't care less.
Since I wouldn't be able to see anything even if I opened my eyes, I used the noise as background music and drifted back to sleep.
In this respect, the penalty was far better than that damn coughing up blood.
No, it was practically a reward.
"I'm seriously terrified of how he can sleep so soundly through all this chaos and paranormal activity without even opening his eyes."
"Hyung would probably sleep just fine even in a haunted house-themed room."
Seo Yehyeon's voice, sounding utterly exhausted, and Ryu Jaehee's voice, full of admiration, faded into the distance.
When I woke up the next morning after a deep sleep, the lodge door was open.
I nodded to Manager Hyung, who was asking if we were okay, and stretched languidly.
Finally, we were escaping the Haunted Mountain Lodge.
My Idol Real Cam - Reve Episode
- Hello, this is Dobin.
The screen showed Dobin wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a gray hoodie with the hood pulled up.
With a serious expression, Dobin explained the ingredients and benefits of sports drinks before adding sugar and salt to a water bottle and vigorously shaking it.
- Only the lucky ones will get to drink this sports drink.
- Lucky ones? LOL
- I tried making this after seeing it in a science book, and it genuinely tastes like sweet sweat. Don't even think about comparing it to Pocari or anything like that.
- Dobin's at it again.
The screen transitioned, showing the members gathered in the practice room, with Dobin wearing a proud smile.
- Ta-da! The "Wear Your Christmas Gift for a Day" Challenge!
Yuje, earbuds in, flashed a V-sign at the camera.
Yehyeon, wearing a cashmere scarf over his tracksuit, nodded beside him.
- Yes, that's how it went...
- Yehyeon Hyung, why the long face? Don't you like your gift?
- I've said this ten times already, but no matter how I look at it, this is a fashion disaster. Clothes should always be worn in matching sets.
Yuje retorted nonchalantly, "What's wrong with it? It suits you perfectly."
- This is exactly what I mean by "doesn't match."
The camera panned to Eden, who was wearing a snapback with its front divided into yellow, red, and green sections, turned backward.
A yellow smiley face was stamped not in the exact center of the snapback's front, but slightly to the left.
- It really doesn't suit him at all.
- Getting a bit of cognitive dissonance here...
- Jaehee, didn't you buy that?
- Eden Hyung always wears those dark snapbacks, so I got him a bright one as a gift, hoping he'd try something different for once... I didn't realize it would look this bad on him.
Yuje scratched the back of his head and confessed the truth.
- You don't have to wear the scarf during practice, right...?
- You can take it off during practice. But there's a condition! You have to wear it during breaks!
- Can I take off my snapback and Negative Ion Bracelet too?
- Hyung, are you really upset about the gift...?
- Of course not. How could I be upset about a gift from our youngest member?
- Oh, Sweet Leader!
- But your face looks like you hate it, lololol
- Can't you just wear it backwards?
- Seriously, the more I look at it, the more it screams "Youngest's style" and has nothing to do with Yoon Leader's style.
Dobin set down eight water bottles, including one filled with homemade electrolyte drink, in the corner of the practice room. He smiled at the camera.
A brief clip showed Reve practicing the choreography.
- What's this? I've never heard this song before. Is it a new track?
- That's from Gayo Big Match's special stage.
- Oh, you're right! It's "Watch Out"!
- Yehyeon really couldn't keep up back then, but he nailed the main stage without a single mistake. It's truly...
└22 I can only imagine how hard he must have practiced. It's so moving ㅠㅠ
-10-minute break!
Eden, who had announced the break, immediately walked over to the water bottle station and grabbed one.
-Ah, as expected.
-Can the Leader survive the random draw?
-Ugh, what is this?! Hey, Kim Dobin!
Eden twisted open the bottle and took a swig. As soon as the water hit his throat, he frowned and called out to Dobin.
-Dobin getting called out right away, LOL!
-How did he get picked on the very first try?! LOL!
-Puhahaha! Eden Hyung got the special bottle!
-What did he even get? How can the water taste both salty and sweet at the same time?!
"That's an electrolyte drink. Kim Dobin's special blend."
"Hey, spill it! How many of these eight bottles contain that special electrolyte drink?"
"Two."
"So I just beat a one-in-four chance to drink that?"
"I thought you'd get serious and ask if it was funny, but you're surprisingly chill about it."
"Eden's subtly harmful to his younger members."
After resuming practice and taking two more breaks, the eight water bottles were all reduced to similar levels.
"They're not even finishing one bottle before grabbing another at random, hahaha!"
"Eden opened two water bottles and got the electrolyte drink both times, lol!"
And then came the third water bottle.
"Let's actually drink some water this time."
Eden, who had been speaking with grim determination while gulping down bottled water, immediately lowered the bottle, his face contorted in a grimace.
- It's another ion drink!
- Hyung, your win rate is 100% right now. Can you actually see it? The owner of the Emperor Eye?
- What are you talking about? I don't want to drink this! If I could see it, I would have avoided it! And what's this Emperor Eye thing anyway?
- Muggle weebs getting publicly executed.
- Can't understand, can't accept. ㅋㅋㅋ
- Seriously though, what's up with Eden's luck...? He's the only one drinking all these ion drinks.
- Could it be because of this?
Yehyeon pointed to Eden's wrist. As the camera zoomed in, the bracelet hidden beneath his sleeve came into view.
It was the negative ion bracelet he'd received as a Christmas gift.
Negative ions, ions...
Eden muttered, glancing back at Yehyeon with a skeptical expression.
Talk some sense.
Hey, what's the harm in trying? Just take it off once.
Yehyeon has a surprisingly quirky side, huh? ㅋㅋㅋ
So, you're saying the negative ion bracelet attracts ions, and because of some irresistible cosmic flow, Yoon Leader only won ion drinks?
Eden removed the bracelet and handed it to Hajun, who was standing beside him. With a serious expression, he picked up a bottle of mineral water.
As he opened the cap and took a swig, Eden's face twisted in surprise.
Huh? This time it's just plain water.
What? Is it actually because of this thing?
Yehyeon pointed at the Negative Ion Bracelet on Hajun's wrist and shouted, "It's just a game of chance, right? You could win regular water one out of four times!"
After taking the bracelet from Hajun, Yehyeon put it on his own wrist, solemnly chose a bottle of water, and poured it into his mouth.
Pfft! Ugh, what's wrong with this water? Yoon Eden's been drinking this and calling it an ion drink all this time?!
Yehyeon immediately spat out the water and coughed.
"What the heck?!"
"Is it really just a coincidence that I won the ion drink as soon as I put on the Negative Ion Bracelet?"
"It's just probability, I told you. He doesn't seem to seriously believe in it."
Whoa, what's this? Hyung, let me try it once too!
When Dobin, who had taken the Negative Ion Bracelet from Yehyeon, also won an ion drink, public opinion increasingly leaned toward the theory that Reve was manipulating the results.
-Did Reve just mark the ion drinks to stage this whole thing? ㅋㅋㅋ
-But Eden grabbed one without hesitation. If they were marked, he would have checked for the mark first, right?
-This is seriously unbelievable. The Negative Ion Bracelet was already exposed as a scam!
-This isn't rigged, is it?
-I'm starting to get scared now...
-It's the curse of the ions! The curse of the ions!
-Youngest member, did you buy this on a secondhand marketplace? Did it actually come with a curse attached?
-Wow, this is so unfair! I bought it from the official website!
The commotion ended when Hajun, wearing the Negative Ion Bracelet, drank plain water instead of an ion drink.
- We just had terrible luck.
- Maybe Hajun Hyung is immune to curses?
- Yeah, like he has a positive ion constitution or something.
- Seriously, Eden Hyung? You're believing in the Cursed Bracelet theory too?!
- What the heck? LOL, figures. LOL
- But the odds so far have been way too absurd to ignore.
- Why is Eden suddenly siding with Dobin, who's been going on about curses?
- Shocking Twist!
White subtitles appeared on the black screen, followed by Eden, holding the Negative Ion Bracelet and sitting at his desk with a camera set up like Dobin in the opening, earnestly revealing the truth.
- Actually, the youngest member keeps nagging me about why I never wear the Negative Ion Bracelet whenever he sees me...
- But this bracelet isn't really my style.
- As soon as I chose the sports drink and took a sip, I started planning. I decided to turn it into a Cursed Bracelet and seal it away forever.
- I crushed the sides of the water bottles containing the sports drink. That's how I kept getting to choose it.
- The first two times I picked it were genuine coincidences, though.
- Jun... Hajun almost ruined my plan, but Dobin helped me pull it off.
- I knew it... ㅋㅋ The odds were insane!
- Was this the Leader's master plan? ㅋㅋ
- So that's why the guy who usually hates anything about curses sided with Dobin! ㅋㅋㅋ
- But Yehyeon Hyung and Dobin choosing the sports drink while wearing the bracelet must have been a coincidence, right...?
- Yeah, right. Curses don't exist in the real world.
- Then I'll seal this bracelet away for now.
Eden dangled the bracelet he was holding, then tossed it into a desk drawer and slammed it shut.
- Creepy fact: Eden wore that bracelet and chose an ion drink 90% of the time, excluding the two times he deliberately manipulated the results.
- Seriously, is there something to this thing?
- I bought a negative ion bracelet and tested it with my younger sibling.
The screen faded to black, showing Eden waving at the camera one last time before the next week's preview appeared.
Next week!
- We're currently stuck at the dorm due to the heavy snow...
- We're currently stuck at 'beep' due to the heavy snow.
Dobin, looking grave, muttered into the camcorder.
The second location was censored with a "beep" sound.
- Wow, they're finally tying up all the loose ends.
- It's not just loose ends, it's a prequel, isn't it?
- I don't want to get used to this kind of thing...
The camera shook violently, capturing nothing but a vast expanse of pure white snow.
The scene shifted, briefly flashing through a colorful, unidentified room and a display case filled with slightly eerie dolls and props.
Dobin's chilling voice echoed as narration:
- This time, it's a real disaster.
- And of all places...
- At 'Beep-'
- Aaaaaah!
With someone's scream as the final sound, the screen went black, ending the trailer.
- A disaster? Could this be why Eden couldn't make it to From last week?
└ Where doesn't have internet these days? He probably just didn't feel like coming. Lost his original intent, lol.
- Next week's episode is already shaping up to be epic!
📝 Translator’s Note:
You may notice that certain lines or phrases in this novel appear both in their original Korean (or Hanja) form and in English translation.
This is intentional — these phrases are classical idioms, divine titles, or poetic expressions that carry layered meanings.
To preserve their original tone and authenticity, the raw text has been kept for reference, while the English interpretation is provided right before or after it. This helps convey both the literal and cultural nuance of the original work.
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