Chapter 55
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 55
Chapter Title: Gwigo Lodge Special Reactions (2)
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"Can't wait for the next episode."
"Hurry up with the next one!"
Baek Si-woo, who had been tearing into his chicken, grabbed the remote and hit the next episode button right away.
Soon, the next episode started playing.
[Gwigo Lodge Special Episode 2]
After a quick recap of the previous episode's highlights, subtitles began popping up one by one to signal the start of part two.
[Manwol's Boys, back together after a break.]
[What game awaits them this time?]
The screen showed us standing in a line, listening to the PD.
[Did you all get some good rest? Lunchtime's coming up soon, so everyone's probably starving, right?]
[Here's the lunch you'll be eating!]
With some goofy sound effects, the PD's voice listed off the menu items.
[Thick-cut pork belly, doenjang jjigae, kimchi from last year's batch, ssam veggies, and for dessert, some refreshing persimmon punch to cleanse your palate.]
Baek Si-woo, watching the broadcast, set down his cola and said,
"Ah. I was seriously starving at that point."
"I nearly collapsed. I'd run so much that the salad from breakfast almost came back up."
He chatted with the members, then focused back on the screen.
The broadcast sped through the lots drawing and game rules explanation.
[The game you'll be playing from now on is hide-and-seek. You'll do it right here inside the lodge.]
[Who's it?]
We all knew what was coming next without even seeing it.
"Euaaaack!"
On screen, Cha Jae-hyun screamed in shock at a ghost that jumped out suddenly.
"Ahem."
Seeing it, Cha Jae-hyun embarrassingly hung his head.
That's when it happened.
"Huh?"
"What's that?"
A chat window popped up on the side of the screen.
- So cute
- Look at Cha Jae-hyun freaking out lololol
- I wanna be that ghost
- Sooooo Cute!!!
"Why's a chat window suddenly up?"
Among us with baffled looks, Song Yu-bin showed his smartphone screen and said,
"It pops up when you tap the chat room icon here."
"No way. So this is live reactions?"
"It's not just old chats?"
Song Yu-bin peered closely at his phone screen and said,
"It's live chat for sure. Since it's premiering live right now."
"Oh, really? Let's watch the chat too. I was curious what the fans think of this."
He worried a bit about weird comments, but the chat was clean.
'Well, yeah. Self-con is content only fans watch anyway. Anyone who'd track down the live schedule just to drop hate comments would have to be a total psycho.'
[Now you've each been assigned your food. Got it?]
[Who's got the thick-cut pork belly?]
[Me.]
My quietly raised hand was surrounded by members swarming like bees.
[How fast are you in the 100-meter?]
[Uh, around 14 seconds?]
- Oh
- Ooo
- 100m in 14 seconds?
- Is 14 seconds fast?
- Can we see our boys run today?
Then my voice asking Cha Jae-hyun came through.
"Jae-hyun hyung, what about you? 100-meter time?"
[I'm like 13 seconds? I was on the soccer team back in the day.]
At Cha Jae-hyun's answer, the chat started buzzing again.
- 13 seconds?
- Wow, why are they all so fast?
- Expected that from Cha Jae-hyun lol
- Soccer team skills ㄷㄷ
The next scene...
[Eun Lettuce!]
[What?]
[What's your 100-meter time?]
[Ahem... Uh....]
Eun Hae-sol's thoughtful face got a close-up, followed by the members' expressions as they watched him, one by one.
In the tense air, Eun Hae-sol's voice rang out.
[About 26 seconds?]
Shocked faces of the members popped up on screen one after another.
[What? There's someone that slow?]
The chat reactions were the same.
- ?
- 26 seconds?
- You're kidding, right?
- No way this happens in real life
- Lmaoooo 26 seconds
- Eun Hae-sol's nickname king today lol Eun Lettuce Eun Perilla Eun Chicory Eun Anteater
Seeing the chat, Eun Hae-sol silently munched on his chicken.
As he did, Cha Jae-hyun muttered under his breath.
"26 seconds... I still can't believe it."
"There were circumstances..."
"No circumstances justify that. What kind of school life did you even have?"
Then the screen showed Baek Si-woo tapping my back.
"Hey, Jeong Daesam!"
"Why am I Jeong Daesam..."
Under our exchange, a thud sound effect hit with subtitles.
[The fate of the thick-cut pork belly...]
[Rests with Jeong Daesam!]
Followed by an explosion of laughter in the chat.
- Jeong Daesam lololol
- Go Daesam!
- Thick pork → Daesam? His name suddenly feels so friendly lololol
- Jeong Daesam sounds like my uncle
- Feed our boys please
Staring at the incoming chats, I rubbed my brow and muttered.
"My first-ever nickname is Jeong Daesam..."
At my reaction, Baek Si-woo smacked his knee with his fist and yelled,
"You ignoring the nickname I just gave you? The fans all say it's friendly and cute!"
"Yeah, sure. When you have kids, name 'em Daesam, okay?"
"Shut it, Jeong Daesam."
What an unstoppable guy.
I shook my head and turned back to the screen.
By now, it showed us running around after the game started.
Cha Jae-hyun, Baek Si-woo, and Song Yu-bin searching the first floor for talismans, intercut with me and Eun Hae-sol heading to the second floor.
'I was only on the second floor, so I didn't know what went down on the first. Wonder how it was.'
Then the screen showed the three steeling themselves.
[Hyung. Let's definitely send them off properly.]
[Yeah. Even if a ghost shows up, we won't ditch each other and run.]
[Hyung. You don't trust us? We've been together for years. When it comes to loyalty, it's me, Baek Si-woo.]
My eyes met Baek Si-woo's then.
Watching the screen, Baek Si-woo just stared off elsewhere without a word.
'What's with him?'
On screen, the three seriously hunted for talismans.
Scenes of rummaging drawers and checking meticulously behind cabinets showed the members deep in the search.
That's when it happened.
[Whiiiii―]
With the ghost's whistle, a black-haired ghost with hair hanging loose approached.
The first to bolt at full speed was...
"Whoa, big trouble. I'm out first!"
None other than Baek Si-woo.
Cha Jae-hyun, face-to-face with the ghost, screamed in agony.
"Hey! You said no ditching!"
Behind Baek Si-woo's fleeing back, a cut-in of their earlier convo played.
[Yeah. Even if a ghost shows up, we won't ditch each other and run.]
[Hyung. You don't trust us? We've been together for years. When it comes to loyalty, it's me, Baek Si-woo.]
Then Cha Jae-hyun's agonized yell.
"Hey, you traitor!!"
The next subtitle...
[Loyalty as thin as paper.]
- Paper thin lololololol
- Abandoned leader lololol
- Cha Jae-hyun so pitiful ㅠㅠ
- Baek Si-woo legit agile lol like a cat seeing a stranger
- That line was a death flag after all
Baek Si-woo, watching, chugged his drink like his throat was dry. He glanced around and said,
"No... Hyung. Survival instinct, you know? The living gotta live."
"What'd you say?"
"Nothing."
After the three scattered, the second floor scene came up.
Chewing chicken, Cha Jae-hyun asked,
"How was the second floor?"
"Don't even ask. It was no joke."
No sooner had I finished than the screen caught me and Eun Hae-sol standing there.
[I'll take this side. You get that one.]
Then noir-film-level eerie BGM played as I stood at the door.
[See you alive.]
After the BGM ended, a sweating emoji and subtitle popped up.
[Like he's heading off to war;;]
"Pfft."
"Keuk."
I silently chugged my drink.
'It was variety, so I hammed it up a bit, but they don't have to laugh that hard at it.'
Turning my head, my eyes met Baek Si-woo's, who was covering his mouth while laughing.
'Damn.'
Next, Baek Si-woo and Song Yu-bin fleeing from the ghost.
"Kyaaack!"
"Ghost! Don't come to me, go to him! Him! Him!"
"Si-woo hyung sold me out!"
"Go to him! Euaaaack!"
And just like that, the two friendly-like got eliminated.
[Baek Si-woo OUT]
[Song Yu-bin OUT]
Next to Baek Si-woo pretending nothing happened, Song Yu-bin grabbed a fry and muttered,
"Si-woo hyung. Didn't think you were like that..."
"Hey, man. Survival instinct—you can't fight it."
"Hyung. You keep bringing up survival instinct, but in movies, the guys obsessed with it always die first."
"Huh? No way?"
"Totally."
Watching the two bicker, I refocused on the screen.
The next scene...
'Ah. This part.'
It showed me entering a second-floor room.
The moment I opened the door, the blood-stained room interior filled the screen. Then creepy music box BGM flowed.
"Crazy."
"So freaking scary."
"Was there a place like that?"
Cha Jae-hyun wouldn't even look, head down, just eating chicken.
'It's been a while since filming, so it'd faded from memory... But thinking back, my spine still tingles.'
Then it showed me peering under the bed.
[Let's take a look.]
With a horror filter, dismembered mannequin limbs dangled into view.
"Ew...."
Even though I'd seen it once before, I grimaced without thinking.
"Gives me chills."
"Daesam. You went in there alone? I'd have passed out."
I glanced at the chat.
- Wow
- Eye contact with mannequin ㄷㄷ
- Thought it was a real horror movie
- This self-con? lololol
- Actual ghosts for real?
- Jeong Eun-ho's guts are insane ㅠㅠ
Next, frantic shots of me searching the room flew by.
[Nothing here.]
- Scared to death
- Where's the talisman lol
- Something's gonna jump out big time
- Hurry find it and eat boys ㅠㅠ
That's when.
[No way it's here?]
As I reached the picture frame, urgent BGM kicked in.
[Is the talisman really here...?]
- Yes there!
- Finally!! ㅠㅠㅠ
- Please please please
- Gotta be lololol
[Found it.]
Then, with a chilling whistle, a long-haired ghost shuffling forward appeared.
- No way
- Crazy crazy
- Run
- Thick pork in danger
- Does Daesam get caught?
The next subtitle...
[To be continued next episode!]
Signaling the end of part two.