Chapter 82
Chapter 82
Translator: Penny
Chapter 82
A certain Ms. Lee, a casual fan of Reve, found herself pondering over a link sent via messenger by her classmate Jun, a die-hard Reve fan who had originally introduced her to the idol.
It was for My Idol Observation Camera - Reve Edition, a show she had abandoned after just one or two episodes, finding it dull.
Jun had been hyping it up, claiming this time it was genuinely hilarious, but since he had also insisted the first two episodes were entertaining, she remained skeptical.
After all, wasn't it true that any idol you liked was inherently interesting just by showing their face? Her friend had clearly lost all objectivity.
Still, with some free time to kill, Ms. Lee decided to click the link, figuring she might as well give it a shot.
Unlike the other episodes, which rarely exceeded 100,000 views, this one boasted a surprisingly high number.
Maybe it really is funny...?
As the video started playing, Reve was the first thing I saw, gathered around a cafe table.
[My Idol Observation Camera: Day 1 Meeting]
- Let's just go to the beach.
- Winter beaches are boring.
- Then how about the mountains?
- I still think the beach sounds better.
The word "Beach" scrawled on the whiteboard gradually zoomed in, transitioning to a scene of Reve frolicking on the shore.
- Catch me if you can!
- Do we really have to do this ourselves?
- We've already drawn in the sand and dipped our feet in the water, Dobin Hyung. This is all that's left. Besides, we can't just ask the Hyungs who are strolling along the beach with those bored expressions to do it.
[Reve Having Fun at the Winter Beach!]
"Ugh, this is seriously boring."
Where exactly is the "fun" supposed to be? A certain Ms. Lee's devotion and patience weren't deep enough to keep watching scenes of Reve walking along the beach, not even getting in the water, just making eye contact with the camera.
Ms. Lee exited the video screen and sent her friend a five-minute-long, brutally honest review.
Her friend's frantic reply came back immediately:
[ Please just keep watching! That's the most boring part. It gets so much better after that! ] 10:30 PM
[ Think of the beginning as a kind of fake-out. Seriously, it's way more fun if you go in blind! ] 10:31 PM
[ I'm just telling you this so you don't give up! ] 10:32 PM
Trusting her friend, Ms. Lee replied that she'd watch for just ten more minutes and resumed the video.
Thirty seconds after where she'd stopped, Reve suddenly appeared, getting into a car.
Wasn't the theme supposed to be the sea...? Can the beach scene really end after just five minutes?
Whether A certain Ms. Lee was flustered or not, the sea receded further and further.
A brief scene showed them diligently shopping at the supermarket.
Hajun and Yehyeon's attempts to secretly add their favorite snacks to the cart while avoiding the others' eyes, only to get caught, provided a lighthearted moment of laughter.
As the car sped along the mountain road and finally stopped in front of the dilapidated pension, the sky had already grown dark.
Dobin, who had taken the key, flung the door open, and simultaneously, something pure white pounced on him.
- Aaaah!
- Something unidentified suddenly jumped out!
Leaving the nearly tearful Dobin behind, Eden casually poked at the life-sized doll hanging from a rope.
Its grotesquely smeared eyes and mouth were meant to evoke terror, but Eden seemed completely unfazed.
- What's this? Just a doll.
Can't we just go home? I already want to go back to the dorm...
But Dobin, led by the hand, reluctantly entered the pension. Seeing the ghost picture frames hanging on the wall, he let out another thunderous scream.
We said we were going to the beach! No one mentioned a haunted house!
Are you sure about that?
The screen rewound to the very first scene: the meeting at the cafe.
Dobin raised his hand enthusiastically and suggested, [ How about a haunted house? ]
You're too scared for that! Hyung doesn't want to carry you out of there unconscious.
How-about-a-haunted-house?
The audio replayed in slow motion, then cut back to the scene inside the pension.
My Idol Observation Camera: meticulously capturing every detail, even the smallest suggestions!
As A certain Ms. Lee watched Dobin suffer under the weight of his self-inflicted misfortune, she smiled. Another message arrived from her friend, a die-hard fan of hers.
[ If you hadn't paused, you'd be at the pension entrance scene by now. ] 10:42 PM
[ There are two parts that genuinely seem haunted. ] 10:43 PM
For A certain Ms. Lee, a connoisseur of the occult and horror, this was the ultimate content.
[ 15:23 and 21:01 ] 10:45 PM
After noting the timestamps, A certain Ms. Lee resumed the video.
The screen showed the Reve members cautiously opening each terrifyingly decorated room.
There was the member who opened a closet only to be forced into an embrace with the ghost inside, and the one who carelessly lifted a blanket to discover a bloodstained doll, collapsing to the floor in shock. But Dobin's reaction was the highlight: when Seo Yehyeon pointed, Dobin's gaze followed instinctively, and he immediately tumbled backward in terror.
Though overshadowed by Dobin's reaction, Yuje's response was equally dramatic.
This moment officially cemented the Maknae Line's reputation as the biggest scaredy-cats in Reve.
Yehyeon, trying to act nonchalant, flinched before his eyes met the Ghost Picture Frame on the ceiling. He let out a shrill scream, completely abandoning his pretense of composure.
In contrast, Eden and Hajun, known as the Peer Group, remained remarkably calm no matter what popped out.
Their lack of fear was evident. Even A certain Ms. Lee, who was used to Eden's ASMR jokes, was genuinely impressed by his composure.
The 15-minute, 23-second mark, as pointed out by a friend, was the part where Yuje and Dobin entered the room they had chosen.
Even viewed through the screen, the room—decorated like a shaman's shrine—exuded an eerie, terrifying aura.
At 15 minutes and 23 seconds, Ms. Lee barely managed to swallow the scream that nearly escaped her lips when she saw the scene on the screen.
The smoke from the incense on the screen had formed the shape of a screaming face. The resemblance was too clear to dismiss as mere coincidence.
She quickly replayed the video, but the smoke had already dispersed into the air as if nothing had happened, and the Reve members reappeared on screen.
- Oh, if there had been dust on it, it would have felt even more realistic, like it had been abandoned for a long time.
- It's scary enough as it is...
Fortunately or unfortunately, the Reve members were too busy admiring the tangka paintings on the walls and the ritual offerings on the miniature altar to notice the eerie phenomenon.
Seeing how Dobin reacted to every rustling sound, it seemed better for him not to know.
If Dobin had seen that, he would have fainted for sure.
Since everyone except Eden agreed they couldn't sleep in the room, the Reve members brought blankets and pillows from the room and spread them out in the living room.
- Hyung, I can't go in there! I swear I'll get cursed if I go in!
- Cursed? What curse? There's no shaman here.
Thanks to Dobin's stubbornness, Eden had to enter the shaman-themed room and retrieve the blankets.
Eden tried to tell a ghost story but was stopped by the Maknae Line. Yehyeon, after checking the windows, warned that the snow was getting serious and worried about being stranded.
- I keep thinking a ghost will crawl out of the grandfather clock! Like it'll crouch next to me while I'm sleeping and whisper the clock's ticking into my ear!
"Just become a horror movie screenwriter. You'd win an Oscar, easy."
After the sudden chiming of the grandfather clock caused a brief commotion, everyone quickly drifted off to sleep, exhausted.
A soft, tinkling music box lullaby played in the background, overlaid with the sound of sobbing.
"Is that sobbing coming from somewhere?"
"Still, Reve sleeps so soundly..."
"Aaaah!"
"Aaaah!"
Two figures bolted upright simultaneously, screaming. Yehyeon and Yuje were drenched in cold sweat.
At the exact same moment, the 21 minutes and 1 second mark mentioned by their friend arrived. This time, A certain Ms. Lee, having found nothing, sent a message and received an immediate reply.
[ "(My Idol Ghost.gif)" ] 11:21 PM
[When they screamed, the Ghost Picture Frame suddenly started shaking on its own.] 11:22 PM
Rewinding the footage by ten seconds confirmed that the frame was indeed shaking on its own, captured clearly on camera.
The frame wasn't even in focus; it shook while the camera was recording the entire living room, making it difficult to dismiss as manipulation.
- What was that? What's happening?
- What's wrong?
- Aaaah! The Cabin Killer? A ghost?!
[The members start waking up one by one after hearing the screams!]
The remaining three members rubbed their eyes and groggily sat up.
- No... I was having sleep paralysis... A long-haired ghost in a red dress was choking me...
- What? Jaehee, you too?
- Hyung too?
Yehyeon and Yuje, clutching their blankets and trembling as they stared at each other, were abruptly jolted back to reality by Eden's cold words.
-Isn't that just a typical ghost from your imagination? It's just a nightmare your imagination conjured up.
-But how could they both have the exact same nightmare?
[The atmosphere suddenly turned icy.]
The screen showed the three who couldn't bring themselves to sleep, juxtaposed with the two peers clumsily pulling their blankets back over themselves.
Dobin shook Eden, who was pulling his blanket up to his neck again, and whimpered, "Hyung... I think there really is a ghost... I've been hearing sobbing since earlier..."
"Ugh, it's clearly a recorder. You saw one installed in the room too, right? Enough already. Let's just go to sleep, please!"
"But what if it's not a recorder? We don't even know if there's a real recorder in this living room. I seriously can't sleep until I see a real recorder with my own eyes..."
"Aish, what a fate."
Eden sighed, half-opened his eyes, threw back the blanket, and sat up.
"Surprisingly, Eden is actually listening to everything Dobin says."
It seemed true that he usually gave in to the other members, as long as it wasn't about music.
"And so began the treasure (X) recorder (O) hunt."
"↙ The recorder is this way"
An arrow and subtitle appeared, pointing beneath the sofa. As the production team intended, the Reve members didn't even consider checking under the sofa, instead searching all the wrong places.
- Isn't it standard to hide these things behind picture frames? Huh, it's not there.
- Maybe it's in the fireplace? Ugh, the dust...
The three cowards only halfheartedly searched the obvious spots under the dim lighting, while the Peer Group actively investigated the places where the recorder might actually be hidden.
But even they didn't think to check under the sofa, so the recorder remained undiscovered until the end.
Eventually, Reve gave up on finding the recorder and spent the entire night wide awake, the sound of sobbing serving as their background music.
The fast-forwarded footage showed the sky outside the window gradually brightening until it was fully morning.
"I'm used to exercising in the morning... I should at least go for a light walk."
Yehyeon awkwardly addressed the camera installed in the entryway, only relaxing after the sun had fully risen. He glanced at the other members sprawled on their blankets and continued,
"Looks like no one wants to join me."
As Yehyeon hastily shoved his shoes on and opened the front door, his expression suddenly turned serious.
"The door won't open."
"What?"
EMERGENCY SITUATION
Reve Isolated in Dorm Due to Heavy Snowfall?!
The genre had suddenly shifted from horror to survival drama.
📝 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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