While Park Mundae was suffering in that blood-soaked, afterlife-style dorm...
The game above was in full swing again.
[A sacrificial mark has descended on one participant’s card.]
But this time, the atmosphere had shifted.
‘If we do the same thing again, it’ll get boring.’
Yet changing the format would force viewers to relearn rules from scratch!
So the writer, Ryu Seo-rin, tweaked the tempo instead:
A speedrun.
[Time limit: 30 minutes]
[Any participant who fails to swap at least once will be immediately incinerated.]
“Whoa.”
Not participating in the sacrificial-bomb relay meant automatic elimination!
Unlike the first game—where everyone tiptoed around trading cards in secret—now everyone brazenly schemed out in the open. Since you could simply scan your own card at the entrance machine and instantly choose a new profession, no one’s consent was needed.
The result:
[The profession currently bearing the sacrificial mark is...]
[“Lawyer.”]
“!!!!”
The two Sejins—each claiming to be the lawyer—ripped at their hair in frantic argument... until they both got marked.
Then the comedy hit full force in the deduction segment.
[Bae Sejin: Okay, actually I’m the clown...]
[Lee Sejin: Hyung, you were furious when everyone accused you of being the clown!]
[Bae Sejin: ...?]
[Lee Sejin: Yup, I’m the clown, everyone!]
[Bae Sejin: Hey!]
As soon as “lawyer” popped up, they switched tactics and both insisted they were the clown instead! Then—turning the tables again—they fought over who was the lawyer and self-destructed.
[Bae Sejin: I’m telling you, I picked lawyer in the swap! It had to be my third record. If I’d actually been the lawyer, ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) I’d never choose myself...]
[Seon Ah hyun: Ah.]
[Bae Sejin: Why?!]
[Ryu Cheong woo: Sejin, didn’t you just admit you swapped with the lawyer...?]
[Bae Sejin: ......!?]
[Lee Sejin: Incredible.]
Thus, both the lawyer and the clown cheerfully entered the coffin.
[Lee Sejin: Hyung, when you get upset, you reveal too much.]
[Bae Sejin: Shut up.]
– This is the taste of trolling, huh?
– LOL too funny
– Mundae: You came to save me!
Sejins: No, we fought each other
└ LOLLLLL
And, heeding the radio’s advice, Lee Sejin and Bae Sejin pressed the coffin’s bedside button—and were whisked directly into the afterlife-style dorm!
[Park Mundae: .......]
When the coffin descended, they sprinted over in relief—and Park Mundae, having heard the absurd tale of this variety-show version of events,...
[Park Mundae: (poker face)]
[Park Mundae: So which one of you was the clown? Since you’re both dead, feel free to tell me honestly.]
He finally asked the question everyone was dying to know. At last, both adopted solemn expressions.
[Bae Sejin: Well, I was the clown...]
[Lee Sejin: I was the clown...]
[Bae Sejin: ?]
[Lee Sejin: ??]
[Park Mundae: ???]
– Um...
– What are you guys doing?
– Two clowns?
Even the subtitles freaked out:
[What is even happening...?]
[◀◀◀]
So they cut to a flashback of Lee Sejin.
Early in the game:
[Bae Sejin: I know this because I’m the lawyer...]
[Lee Sejin: (pretending not to listen)]
In fact, Lee Sejin had stealthily overheard Bae Sejin proclaiming his ability—and realized...
[Lee Sejin: No wonder they told me not to blurt out “lawyer” on my profile! I’m the clown! I’m the fake one~]
[↑ Self-proclaimed clown (2)]
– ?????
– Se-Sejin?
Indeed, each truly believed himself to be the clown, and each tried to pin the clown role on the other...!
[Lee Sejin: Wow, hyung, you’re really good at acting! (※He was, indeed, acting)]
[Bae Sejin: What? You’re the suspicious one, obviously! (※He was, indeed, suspicious)]
It was a show-style performance on another level.
– These guys are insane lol
– The two lawyers who thought they were clowns, what a showdown
└ LOLLLLL
– A crazy, spinning day in the life of the clown-minded
And so they cheerfully became the Black Sheep and sacrifice—and got incinerated together.
Finally, chatting in the afterlife-style dorm, they realized the absurd conclusion:
[Park Mundae: .......]
[Bae Sejin: .......]
[Lee Sejin: .......]
[Park Mundae: Shall we move on?]
[Lee Sejin: Yes.]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
After a dizzying silence, they solemnly rose and followed Park Mundae...
– LOL what do we do
– My sides hurt from laughing
– TeSTAR must’ve been cracking up watching live
– Clown party lol
But that laughter didn’t last long. The true nature of this place was about to be revealed.
[Lee Sejin: Mundae-Mundae, about that radio—did you really contact us from here?]
[Park Mundae: Yes.]
[Lee Sejin: Oh!]
[Bae Sejin: But you told us not to enter the bathroom then. Why’d you say that?]
Park Mundae shone his flashlight toward the door across the living area.
[Bae Sejin: Gasp.]
Flash! A lightning-bolt graphic flashed on screen.
A close-up of the blood-spattered bathroom door pounded in edit. The members screamed.
[Bae Sejin: Blood, blood?!]
[Lee Sejin: Aaaah, what is that?! Mundae, what is that?!]
[Park Mundae: (If you understood, do you think I'd still be here?)]
– After 30 minutes, he’s playing scaredy-cat but acting tough
– LOL so cute
– He found only a flashlight in the living room and pretended he wasn’t shaking!
As expected, someone pointed it out:
[Lee Sejin: We played the game for more than 30 minutes up there—and we never even tried to open that? Mundae’s the...]
[Park Mundae: Then you open it yourself.]
[Lee Sejin: Sorry.]
– LOLLLLL
– These adorable scaredy-cats
None of them were brave or cunning enough to die, which made it even funnier. So the eldest stepped up:
[Bae Sejin: ...Let’s go. I’ll open it.]
[Lee Sejin: ...!!]
[Park Mundae: Thank you.]
[Lee Sejin: ...?!]
– Quick! lol
– Rare sight: the elder at a loss for words
– Former toddler shaman struts in~
So the three of them huddled, each armed with flashlight, radio, and their wills, and approached the bathroom.
Screeeech.
Wearing rubber gloves from the kitchen, Bae Sejin gripped the doorknob and opened it.
What they saw...
Thud.
Cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo
Thud!!
With eerie BGM pumping, the bathroom interior was revealed:
A blood-splattered floor, and sitting there—
[Victim]
A collapsed figure in front of the cabinet.
– Eeeek
– Oh god
– ??
– What is that
They all froze.
[Park Mundae: ...It’s not moving. Yes. It should be okay to examine it.]
– Meanwhile he himself can’t move
– This time I get it
– I wouldn’t be able to move either, damn
The dorm was silent as a grave. In the dim room sat a corpse-shaped doll. The members crept closer.
Lee Sejin shone his flashlight slowly.
[Lee Sejin: ...It looks like a man, and his outfit... it’s unusual.]
The doll clutched a knife and wore a black-robed, cult-like garment—its face hidden by a mask. The strange lamb-skull symbol was now familiar to them.
[Park Mundae: Like the one on the door earlier.]
[Lee Sejin: Yeah. And that... sacrificial-mark card? That’s it too.]
– So creepy
– T_T T_T T_T
Confirming it was a doll, not an actor, the members gently flipped it over. In that moment, Bae Sejin noticed something crucial.
[Bae Sejin: ...There’s no wound.]
[Lee Sejin: Huh?]
[Bae Sejin: Look, there’s so much blood but no wounds. His clothes aren’t torn. ...In fact, this corpse is holding the knife.]
The mood turned ice-cold.
[Then what’s that blood...?]
– Save me
– So scary
– T_T T_T T_T T_T The undertaker killed the victim? What is going on T_T
At that moment, Park Mundae, who’d been silently following the flashlight, suddenly straightened up—radio in hand.
“Huh?”
He turned the radio’s dial and asked:
[Park Mundae: Before you entered the coffin, when you contacted via radio, who was holding the radio and where?]
[Bae Sejin: Uh? That was...]
[Lee Sejin: The living room! It rang there first, and Rae bin checked it first.]
[Park Mundae: ....]
[Lee Sejin: Why?]
Park Mundae paused, then asked again.
[Park Mundae: After that, Rae bin grabbed the radio and ran toward where the others were.]
[Bae Sejin: ...! Right! He came toward the kitchen.]
Park Mundae nodded, realization dawning.
– ??
– What’s happening?
– How did he figure it out?
[Park Mundae: Wait a moment.]
He dashed out of the bathroom and then ran around the dorm, radio to his mouth, shouting:
[Park Mundae: Can you hear me?]
[Park Mundae: Do you respond?]
As if forgetting his fear, he flung doors open and spoke into the radio in every room. After a few rounds, he returned to the spot where the coffin moved up and down.
Crackle.
“Whoa!”
The radio lit up with a reply.
[Radio: Mundae? Mundae??]
The members poured out of the bathroom too.
[Bae Sejin: How did you do that?]
[Park Mundae: I located the position.]
[Bae Sejin: Huh?]
[Park Mundae: It seems this radio works only when the uneliminated people’s radio and this radio are in the same dorm-style location.]
A grad student watching in suspense slapped her thigh.
“Ahhhh!”
The radio only activates when the living upstairs and the dead downstairs share the same room.
‘Amazing!!’
It felt like the same physical space split by time or dimension—maybe that’s how they depict the afterlife?
‘What happens next?’
She watched eagerly. Park Mundae was speaking again:
[Park Mundae: Earlier I told you not to enter the bathroom. I’m changing that.]
[Park Mundae: You must go in. There’ll be a ghost—or a person.]
“...??”
Then he said something even more earth-shattering.
[Park Mundae: And I think that ghost... the Undertaker probably killed it. Killing it was the right move, I guess.]
“...?!”
On screen, Park Mundae spoke matter-of-factly:
[Park Mundae: Lure that ghost into the coffin and burn it—just like what happened to us.]
[Park Mundae: That’s how you survive.]
At that moment, the BGM shifted.
[Park Mundae: That ghost seems to be the cult’s leader.]
In a sleek, monochrome living room—home to only a few dog supplies—a giant TV showed the live feed of TeSTAR monitoring the coffin scene.
[Ryu Cheong woo: Wait a minute!]
It was their self-assigned break time. Watching their competitors, one idol tapped his chin.
“Nice twist.”
Woof!
His dog shook near his thigh. He petted it and smiled, then checked his smartphone.
“Good boy.”
A notification pinged on Cheongryeo’s phone too:
– Director Jang: Yes, PD’s reply—of course that person from TeSTAR can appear!
It was only natural.
“Hmm.”
Cheongryeo grinned as he watched “that person from TeSTAR” passionately speaking into the radio. It was seven days before his collaboration with Park Mundae.
