Chapter 208
Second round, as the saying goes.
Unlike before, where everyone writes down the answer at the same time, the game proceeds in a way where the person who knows the answer raises their hand and takes the opportunity to speak.
The final two will be decided in a proverb round with a total of 10 questions prepared.
"After the proverb round, only the two contestants with the highest scores will advance to the final round. Good luck to the contestants, and let's start the second round. The proverb round!"
If you don't make it into the top 2 here, you lose.
The participants held their composure and looked calmly at the screen in front of them.
[๐พ๐พ์ด ๐พ์ ๐พ๐พ ๐พ๊ฐ๐พ : (metaphor) not being happy for the success of someone close to them, but rather being jealous and envious]
From the first problem, a proverb that is not normally used came out.
Na Ju-young, a second-year high school student brimming with enthusiasm, raised his hand but then stopped.
"Contestant Na Ju-young, will you take on the challenge?"
"Oh, no."
When he gave up the challenge, Hong Hyun-joo, the owner of the cafe next to him, tried.
"Was it my stomach hurt when my little brother rides a horse?" [๋์์ด ๋ง์ ํ๋ฉด ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ๋ค?]
"Oh, it was very close to being correct, but it wasn't!"
"Answer."
As Hong Hyun-joo unfortunately missed the correct answer, Karis' hand immediately went up.
Na Ju-young felt something strange. It was definitely a proverb he had heard somewhere, but he couldn't remember it because he was trying to say it as quickly as possible.
Unlike him, whose hands were slightly shaking, Karis gave the correct answer with a very confident look in his eyes.
"When my cousin buys land, my stomach hurts." [์ฌ์ด์ด ๋ ์ ์ฌ๋ฉด ๋ฐฐ๊ฐ ์ํ๋ค]
"Karis Participant, you are correct!"
Cheers erupted from the audience.
The older people were impressed by Karis' skills, exclaiming things like, "That guy is amazing."
And the Seleste members who came to the filming set of
"Honorary Korean Karis! Korean Master Karis!"
"Karis is amazing!"
"That kid is our kid! Our kid!"
The placards that the members had secretly made themselves over the past few days had perfectly written comments such as, "Wow! Karis speaks Korean better than me!", and "That hyung! Honorary Korean Karis."
Karis, who had not observed the members' hands until now, blushed slightly as soon as he looked forward.
'I prayed for that. I even asked them to come to the recording day in a good way. My wishes never come true.'
Karis had this resolution before coming to the
No matter what happens, today he will exert his full strength and achieve victory.
In order to change the team atmosphere, he would do his best to create screen time and use his unique character to create a topic of conversation.
It is natural that in this process, attention is focused on Karis. Karis also anticipated this point well.
However, he did not expect the members to act like they usually do on set.
"Our baby is so special! He's really so special! Where did such a treasure come from! Oh my!"
Kang Si-yoon even cried while holding the hand of a mother, who was sitting in the back seat.
He was so touched that he was pounding his chest as if he had really given birth to Karis.
The Mother smiled brightly as if she found this very amusing, but Karis' face, who was watching this scene, showed a rotten expression on his face in real time.
'Stop it, Siyoon!'
Karis' mentality was slightly shaken after seeing Kang Si-yoon's remark.
However, on the outside, he didn't seem very happy about solving the problem, and instead seemed to have a dissatisfied expression on his face.
'You're not happy at all?!'
Na Ju-young's head was filled with thoughts about Karis as he watched all of Karis' actions.
In contrast to him, who has been showing the worst performances in a row, Karis has been steadily accumulating points and solidifying his position as the number one player.
But still, he looks like he's not satisfied with something.
'How many more questions does that person have to get right before he's satisfied?'
Na Ju-young, who could only judge Karis by his appearance, began to feel even more anxious.
And other people were also gripped by this anxiety.
'What, do I have to show something?'
Cafe owner Hong Hyun-joo was obsessed with the thought that if things continued this way, she would barely get any screen time.
'I've definitely studied a lot of proverbs, but why can't I just say them?'
Elite interpreter Park Sang-ho continued to take short, deep breaths to regain his confidence.
"Next question. Please concentrate!"
At the voice of announcer Um Sang-yeon, the participants, who were each thinking different things, once again turned their gaze to the screen in front of them.
[๐พ๐พ ๐พ๐พ์ ๐พ๐พ๐พ : When something unexpected happens]
"Answer!"
"Ah, contestant Park Sang-ho was quick!"
As soon as the question arose, interpreter Park Sang-ho raised his hand.
A confident smile that suggests that a familiar question has finally been answered.
"A red bean sprouts in the middle of the night." [์๋ ๋ฐค์ค์ ํ๋๊นจ]
"That's correct!"
Beats everyone in reaction speed.
By accumulating points here, Park Sang-ho was able to make up for the slight fall behind in the first round.
And Na Ju-young, who was watching this, clenched his fist and bit his lip.
Because now there is nowhere to retreat.
As the thought of somehow making it into the final two took over his brain, his memory, which had been deteriorating, gradually came back to life.
"Pull out the bull's horn in one go!" [์ ๋ฟ์ ๋จ๊น์ ๋นผ๋ผ!]
"Go to the well and look for a needle!" [์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๊ฐ ์ญ๋ ์ฐพ๋๋ค]
"Even the moon wanes when it's full!" [๋ฌ๋ ์ฐจ๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์ด๋ค]
In the continuous attack and defense battle, Na Ju-young raised the pace by answering three questions correctly.
However, in the meantime, Karis, who was running in first place, maintained the gap by steadily solving both problems correctly.
With three questions left in the proverb round, Karis was in first place with a total of 800 points. Park Sang-ho was in second place with 500 points, and Na Ju-young and Hong Hyun-joo were tied for third place with 450 points.
Announcer Um Sangyeon glanced at the cue card and spoke in a meaningful voice.
"In this situation where the scores are very close together, there is still a possibility of a sudden reversal. This problem is especially worth 200 points."
A 200 point question. If Park Sang-ho, who is in second place, gets it right, he can catch up with Karis in one breath, and if Na Ju-young and Hong Hyun-joo, who are in third and fourth place, get it right, they can jump up to second place.
As announcer Um Sang-yeon said, it is truly a complete reversal.
The moment everyone's concentration reached its peak, the problem arose.
[๋ง๐พ ๐พ๐พ๐พ๋ฉด ๐พ๐พ ๐พ๐พ ๐พ๐พ๊ฐ ๐พ๐พ ๐พ ๐พ๋ค : If the other person is grateful for your words, they will be much more generous than you expected.]
The longest problem among those presented today.
The moment they saw the numerous blank spaces, the participants frowned and trembled with the hands they were about to raise.
'I have to get it right no matter what!'
This cry was echoing in everyone's heart.
Meanwhile, Karis von Walden unconsciously came up with the answer.
Thanks to the 'Foreign Language Magician' skill, his knowledge and command of Korean have improved significantly compared to others.
He could have shouted out the correct answer right here and gotten 200 points, but he decides to hold out for a bit.
Because he thought he should give other contestants a chance too.
'It'll be more fun if someone else guesses besides me.'
Yes, the idea of extracting interesting portions was strongly embedded in Karis von Walden's mind.
It's good that he answers all the questions with an overwhelming appearance, but if the show only progresses in this direction, it will be less tense.
If it's the final, then it's okay, but it's only the second round, and it's a little bit too much to use his ability.
With this mindset, Karis slowly lowered his hand.
Then he turned his gaze to the other contestants and started guessing who would guess correctly.
This is a gaze born of pure curiosity and interest.
However, for Na Ju-young, who had been paying attention to Karis' gaze all day and thinking only about his own ruined performance, it felt completely different.
'Why! Why are you suddenly looking at me like that?'
Na Ju-young glanced to the side and immediately met Karis' charismatic gaze.
He felt embarrassed because he was caught glancing at him for no reason, but his face burned even more because it seemed like he was looking at him with pity.
'Why, why are you looking at me like that! Is it because my, my, my score seems so insignificant? Is it pathetic that I don't know more proverbs than you do? Or, is it because of that Yongyong I wrote about earlier?'
Na Ju-young's head was filled with all kinds of delusions.
But then his reason spoke in a very small voice.
It's possible that Karis wasn't looking at him with a pity look, but rather, looking at him in a way that encouraged him to guess correctly.
If that's really the case... !
'I have no choice but to guess.'
He only gets one chance.
In order to advance to the finals, he absolutely must get these 200 points.
Na Ju-young lowered his posture and had no choice but to give up his pride.
From now on, I'll give up on trying to guess things myself.
He has to intercept the correct answer by eating the bean curds [benefits] that fall from the other two contestants.
Since everyone had a hard time taking on the challenge, announcer Um Sang-yeon gave a hint.
"I'll give you a hint. It's about buying foods that have some kind of correlation."
"I, I will answer."
Hong Hyun-joo immediately took up the challenge.
"If you are grateful, you go buy honey rice cakes and come back with hotteok...?"
"No!"
"Answer! If you are grateful, go buy onions and come back with cabbage!"
"No! Both of you have perfect letter arrangement, but the food is different!"
Okay. They picked up everything except the food.
Na Ju-young wrote the answers on his board and thought about what two foods would fit in the blank spaces.
Unable to stand by and watch, Um Sangyeon leaked the final, crucial hint.
"We grind the beans to make this."
"Ah, ahhh! Answer!"
And Na Ju-young, who had been waiting for this moment, finally got the answer right and stamped his feet.
"If you are grateful, go buy some beans and come back with some tofu!" [๋ง์ด ๊ณ ๋ง์ฐ๋ฉด ๋น์ง ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ฐ ๋๋ถ ์ฌ ์จ๋ค!]
"Participant Na Ju-young, you answered correctly! You successfully earned 200 points!"
A truly dramatic victory.
Na Ju-young spread his arms and looked up at the studio ceiling.
At this moment, he felt like he had the whole world.
In this way, Na Ju-young jumped up to second place with 650 points.
As for the remaining questions, Karis got one right and Na Ju-young got one right, so the final two were decided without any surprises.
"Contestants Karis and Na Juyoung will advance straight to the final round, the final word game round!"
Na Ju-young, who had successfully regained his confidence, looked at Karis with his shoulders straight.
Now that there were only two people left, they sat right next to each other.
'I'm confident in the word chain game. Yes, in the end, I guessed the difficult proverb right. I have a chance of winning. There's no way I could lose to a foreigner.'
With his mentality back, he became confident that he could defeat Karis at any time, just like before.
However, as if trying to gently step on Na Ju-young's nose, Karis was preparing a truly cruel card.
"The rules of the word chain round are simple. Two participants take turns playing the word chain game, and the one who fails to say a word within 15 seconds loses. The final winner will receive a prize of 5 million won and a chance to advance to the
Karis and Na Ju-young showed their will to win.
But soon after the game began, Na Ju-young felt that he had fallen into a serious trap.
"The best option." [์ต์ ์ฑ
"Deceit!" [์ฑ
๋ต!
"Brief history." [์ฝ๋ ฅ
"Yeok.....History!" [์ญ์ฌ!
"Death experience." [์ฌ๋ ฅ
"Yeok? Uh, um... Station." [์ญ๊ธฐ
"Energy." [๊ธฐ๋ ฅ
That's right!
Karis' trump card, keep pushing with the same words.
It may seem like a lethal method, but it is the best card that can appeal to your wide range of vocabulary while also making the other person look flustered.
Karis' strategic choice to show off knowledge and even entertain, which is not easily found in educational programs.
Na Ju-young, who was quite embarrassed, started sweating profusely, but soon found a way to use Karis' method against him.
"Dynamism!" [์ญ๋๋ ฅ
Saying a word that ends in reverse.
In this case, Karis will fall into the shackles of 'Yeok', and Na Ju-young will be able to take the right to attack.
But the moment Na Ju-young shouted 'dynamism', the corners of Karis' mouth slightly went up.
As if he had been waiting for this moment.
"Force." [์ญ๋ ฅ
"โ!"
A play that predicted that one would be counterattacked.
Na Ju-young, whose means of conversion had been turned into nothing, opened his mouth and was unable to react for a while.
"Ah, uh.... Head... wind." [์ญํ
"Wind force." [ํ๋ ฅ
"... Station officer." [์ญ๋ฌด์
"Dynamic." [์๋๋ ฅ
"... Huh. It's opposite." [์ญ์ง
"Intellect." [์ง๋ ฅ
Na Ju-young tried hard not to give Karis any words that did not end with 'ryeok'.
However, there were almost no words that started with 'yeok' and ended with a syllable that did not end with 'ryeok'.
Even if Na Ju-young occasionally escapes the shackles of yeok, after about two turns, Karis boasts an overwhelming vocabulary and puts back in a word that ends in yeok.
"Highly educated." [๊ณ ํ๋ ฅ
"Action power." [ํ๋๋ ฅ
"Nuclear power." [์์๋ ฅ
"Water power." [์๋ ฅ
"Propulsive force." [์ถ์ง๋ ฅ
Na Ju-young's spirit was slowly being eaten away from all sides.
Then, unable to overcome the pressure that was gradually squeezing him, he ended up making a mistake that should never be made against the experts of word chain games.
"... appearance." [์๊น์
"... At dawn." [์๋ฒฝ๋
"...."
Nyek.
The final weapon used to put an end to a word game.
Since there is no word starting with nyek in the Korean dictionary, Karis naturally took first place.
"The final winner is Karis participant!"
Na Ju-young, 18 years old.
A top student at one of the best foreign language high schools in Korea and a perfect scorer on the mock Korean language exam.
A crushing defeat from an idol member who came from Estonia.
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