Chapter 83
Chapter 83
Translator: Penny
Chapter 83
The screen, which had been showing the pension, switched to an outdoor scene of heavy snowfall.
- What do we do, PD? The car can't make it up the mountain.
- This is a disaster. What are we going to do...?
- The snow that piled up overnight has made it impossible to reach the pension.
The footage showed the production crew and Reve's manager panicking as the car couldn't navigate the snow-covered mountain road.
The PD called Eden to explain the situation.
The voice on the other end of the line was surprisingly calm. No wonder he's the leader, I thought.
The scene shifted again, showing Reve gathered in the living room.
- We have to stay another night in this haunted house...? This is the curse of Haunted Mountain Lodge! The curse of Haunted Mountain Lodge!
Dobin clutched his head and screamed, while Eden clicked his tongue beside him. Hajun cautiously opened his mouth.
"The problem is, the groceries we bought yesterday were only enough for one meal."
"Don't worry, Hajun Hyung. We secretly added extra items while shopping at the market yesterday."
"So that's why you told me to start building the box while you went to pay. Where did you hide the extra groceries?"
"We kept them in our pockets and then slipped them into the back of the refrigerator after you finished organizing it."
"Thorough, so thorough."
"Eden Hyung, you're the last person who should be talking about thoroughness, considering how enthusiastically you cooperated."
Eden caught red-handed.
Hajun whirled around, but Eden feigned ignorance, looking away with a sly glance.
"We should light the fireplace in case the power goes out," he muttered, changing the subject.
After a serious discussion about preparing meals in advance, Reve quickly assigned roles.
Hajun headed to the kitchen to start cooking, while the others shoveled through the snow piled up along the path to the storage room.
Yuje, the youngest member, grumbled as he held a camcorder instead of a shovel.
- Huh, is this déjà vu?
- What part of this is giving Reve déjà vu?
- The story... rewinds five days.
As if rewinding a camera, the screen flashed backward, revealing Reve gathered in their basement dorm.
- Oh, finally vacation time!
- What are you guys doing for vacation?
- I'm going home to relax! I won't leave the house until vacation's over.
- I'm going to catch up with friends and set up some equipment in my studio.
- I should have stayed home like Dobin, probably.
- I think I'll have to stay at the dorm. Going back and forth to my family home would take up all my time.
- I'm only staying home for one day! The rest of the time, I'm going to be out and about!
Reve, brimming with excitement as he planned his vacation.
Reve, who had been chattering excitedly with a flushed face and a look of eager anticipation, suddenly shifted to a gloomy and dejected expression when the screen flickered.
In the ensuing silence, Eden spoke up as the group's representative.
- Hello, viewers. We're currently trapped in our dorm due to the heavy snowfall. The snow has piled up so high that we can't open the door. So, this is officially our "stranded" special. Or should we call it a "trapped" special?
The screen displayed text messages exchanged with their manager and a photo showing the snow completely blocking the door.
"Usually, in stories like this, we'd be trapped in a haunted mountain lodge. Instead, we're stuck in a semi-basement apartment."
Dobin sighed dramatically, feigning disappointment.
"Dreams do come true! ★"
The scene cut to Dobin screaming as a ghost suddenly popped out of a closet in a haunted house-themed pension.
Shots of a well-stocked refrigerator and a fully functioning boiler followed in quick succession, effectively undermining any sense of tension from the supposed survival situation.
"Let's change the title to 'Escape from the Isolated House' special!"
"A dustpan instead of a shovel?!"
"Are you serious, Dobin...?"
Dobin, having barely started digging, handed the dustpan to Eden. Eden's speed at clearing the snow was astonishing.
Eden finally escaped through the completed tunnel. The scene gradually faded out, showing Reve diligently shoveling snow in front of the entrance with a snow shovel borrowed from the community center, before returning to the three of them digging in the warehouse.
Reve, Turns Out He's a Disaster Survivor(?)
Come to think of it, he cleared the snow in front of our dorm like this too.
Wow, they're really tying up all the loose ends!
Loose ends? Isn't this more like a prequel?
Still, it seems like everyone's gotten a bit more used to shoveling after doing it once before, right?
I don't want to get used to this kind of thing...
The scene flashed through moments of them carrying firewood back and Eden diligently shoveling snow in front of the entrance.
The scene of their first and last meal together flickered by.
A world without the internet is truly boring.
No Internet Access
Until now, I'd been watching with amusement, but when the internet went down too, the reality of the disaster finally hit me.
Suddenly, the pension went dark!
- Did the power go out?
- Looks like it.
- Thank goodness we lit the fireplace earlier...
- Should we get more firewood? Anyone want to come to the storage shed with me?
The power's out too?! Are the production crew insane? What were they thinking bringing them here? What if something terrible had happened to my oppas?!
A certain Ms. Lee, who had already taken her Reve light fan obsession a step further, huffed with fury.
Eden was the first to rise, switching on his phone's flashlight. Yehyeon and Hajun followed suit, awkwardly getting to their feet.
The three elders gestured for the Maknae Line, who were cautiously lifting their butts off the floor, to stay seated. They went outside and returned with an armful of firewood.
- Wow, it's still snowing. We're not going to be stuck here tomorrow, are we?
- Hey, words have power, you know.
What fate awaits Reve...?
Yehyeon, who had placed firewood by the fireplace, pressed his palm against the floor and said with a serious expression, "The floor's freezing cold, probably because the boiler's off. We should add more blankets to avoid catching a cold."
"Come to think of it, I think there were blankets in the wardrobes."
"Which wardrobes?"
"The one with the ghost mannequin and the wardrobe in the shaman-themed room. I peeked inside earlier."
The scene shifted to the previous day, briefly showing Eden discreetly opening the wardrobe in the shaman-themed room while the other members huddled together, screaming.
- There might be blankets in the other rooms. Let's bring them all out. Even with the boiler on yesterday, the floor was still cold.
- I absolutely can't go. Don't take me with you.
- Dobin was already terrified.
Eden sighed heavily, picked up the camcorder, and stood up.
- If Dobin stays here, the four of us can each take a room and grab the blankets... What's this?
Eden stopped mid-sentence, noticing two hands gripping his sleeve. Yuje and Yehyeon were holding onto his clothes, smiling awkwardly.
- What is it?
- We're scared to go alone.
- ...Me too.
- Forced to take them along.
Faced with the prospect of being left alone, even Dobin, who was terrified, clung to them, and the entire Reve group moved together.
The first room they entered was Eden's—the one where he had hidden the ghost mannequin in the closet.
The power was out, plunging the room into darkness, but the five phone flashlights provided ample illumination.
To retrieve the blanket from the closet, they had to open it. The three cowards stood at a distance, their backs turned.
As Eden flung open the closet door, a ghostly mannequin, propped at an angle, greeted them.
With a swift tug, Eden pulled the blanket from beneath the mannequin's feet, sending it crashing to the floor with a loud thud!
- Oh, oh... I hope the mannequin isn't broken or shattered.
- It's cracked.
- Do I have to pay for it? No, right?
Thanks to Eden gently laying the cracked mannequin on the bed, the minor incident of Yuje, Dobin, and Yehyeon turning their heads at the sound of the closing closet and inadvertently spotting the mannequin on the bed was quickly forgotten.
Yuje and Dobin carried the blankets they'd retrieved from the first room into the living room. After collecting blankets from the second and third rooms, only Eden ventured into the final room.
Just looking at it makes my knees weak...
Wow, it's dark.
End of tough guy commentary.
Even as the eerie chime of the bell echoed through the room when he touched it, Eden remained unfazed. He opened the wardrobe and emerged with a thick, padded blanket.
He went in there alone? For real?
What, you think it's fake?
Eden chuckled and reached out to ruffle Yuje's hair playfully.
Hello everyone, Dobin here, back with season two of our survival special! We're currently stranded at Haunted Mountain Lodge—or rather, Haunted Mountain Lodge—due to a blizzard. This time, it's a real emergency, and we're stuck in a mountain cabin in the middle of a snowstorm.
Dobin whispered earnestly into the camcorder, making a scissor-snipping motion.
- Please edit this to the very beginning.
- Dobin's request went unfulfilled...
The Reve members had spread thick blankets on the floor in front of the fireplace and huddled together, wrapped tightly in the blankets.
- Doesn't this feel like we're at a campfire?
- I don't know about a campfire, but I'm cold and hungry.
- Patrasche, my eyes are getting heavy...
- Whine...
Isolated in a snow-covered pension halfway up the mountain, with the power cut off.
Even watching from the other side of the screen, the situation felt precarious.
The tension escalated further with the addition of the near-fight between Yuje and Dobin.
- Alright, alright... After shoveling snow and hauling firewood all day, I'm exhausted...
A certain Ms. Lee was impressed by Eden, who remained steadfastly asleep with his eyes closed, completely unfazed by Dobin's ghost-related commotion.
As dawn broke, the pension door burst open, and a group of people rushed inside.
The sound of the door startled the Reve members, who stumbled to their feet from their positions in front of the fireplace, now cold and dark.
-Guys, are you all okay? Anyone hurt or feeling sick?
-Everyone nodded in unison.
-A tearful reunion after 48 hours!
As the car carrying Reve drove away from the pension, the scene faded out, and individual interviews with the members began to play.
-Eden: I've had my fill of shoveling. What's with all this snow in February?
-Hajun: It was good for bonding with the members, but... I'll just leave it at that.
[Yuje: I have a fever. And there's definitely a ghost in this pension. We should probably hold an exorcism.]
[Yehyeon: Next time, please request a healing trip instead of a survival challenge.]
[Dobin: Could you at least give me a heads-up next time? I almost died of a heart attack...]
[Reve's Healing Trip: I promise you all~]
With the production team's promise as the final words, the video ended, showing a preview of next week's accommodation move.
When her die-hard fan friend asked what she thought, she immediately replied:
[ [I didn't realize it, but I guess I have a thing for fearless and reliable men.] ] 12:34 AM
And just like that, A certain Ms. Lee's ultimate bias was decided. It was a step from being a casual fan to becoming a die-hard fan.
[Congratulations! You've reached 100,000 fans!]
[Reward: Original Intent Score +20, Item Selection Ticket]
Finally, I'd reached 100,000 fans. Thanks to this, my Original Intent Score was more than sufficient, so I didn't need to push myself too hard with the Weekly Quest this week.
"Hey, why did our Fan Cafe membership suddenly spike? It's grown so much in such a short time."
I asked Ryu Jaehee, Reve's Siri and Bixby, who knew almost everything about the group. As expected, he immediately replied.
"It's all thanks to the 'Survival Special' episode of 'My Idol Observation Camera.' Word got around, and the YouTube replay has already hit a million views."
"Come to think of it, I was too busy to watch the broadcast. But why did it go viral? There wasn't anything special about it, was there?"
Aside from sleeping on a blanket in the living room due to the room's somewhat spooky decor and the hard work of digging, I'd actually had a pretty relaxing time. So I was surprised to hear this.
"Just watching the footage, it looked like the worst survival situation imaginable," Ryu Jaehee said.
Intrigued, I played the replay video on YouTube, only to find a jarring disconnect between my memories and the way we appeared on screen.
When were we ever isolated to such a severe degree...?
📝 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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