Chapter 274 - 274

Chapter 274

My sad prediction that I could fill my stomach with lemons became reality.

"Ah. Aaaah! This is a really famous actor, but what's his name, ah, aaaah!"

Starting with Yoo Min-ha, who couldn't guess the name of a famous domestic actor that I know.

"...Ah!"

"Hurry, hurry! Let's start again!"

"I'm sorry......."

Ji Yoon-chul, who was a trusted axe, made a mistake on the fourth try, and the third attempt also fell through.

Fortunately, the cast of also made mistakes in the elephant trunk and character quizzes, and the opportunity came our way again.

"Okay! Yu-bin, please this time! You can do it!"

"You are a god. You will win every game of rock-paper-scissors in the future, and no one in the world can stop you. You are a man who can conquer the world if you just raise your hand. Do you understand?"

"Ah, ah, I understand!"

The fourth attempt, which reached the last runner, Heo Yu-bin, without any problems.

Like a coach who gives a player a fighting spirit right before a fight, Kang Si-yoon held Heo Yu-bin's cheeks tightly and did everything he could to brainwash him.

That time, we lost the fight between fist and paper, and our fourth attempt also flew away in vain.

"....."

"....."

"....."

"Guys, pay attention to the runners in front of you. They all seem to be mentally exhausted."

"Hahaha, we're okay! Hahahaha! No~no problem! Hahaha!"

With the successive failures, the runners in front of me, Chae Eun-gyu and Kang Si-yoon, were gradually losing their smiles.

Even if you split the first and second attacks to give yourself some time to recover your stamina, doing the squats and sit-ups would inevitably cause fatigue.

In my case....... I was gradually losing the feeling in my tongue.

"Someone should get Karis some water. Karis, are you okay?"

"Oh, yes. I'm okay for now."

"Don't you think your face is getting paler? Are you really okay?"

"I'm really fine."

"Hey, PD. If you have any kind of stomach protector, please bring it to Karis and Sungyoon. I think it's necessary for the protection of the players."

I'd like to say that I enjoy sour tastes and that there's no problem, but I can't go that far and lie.

Because I'm really crushing lemons for the team's victory.

I learned how to swallow the flesh without touching my tongue in order to avoid the sour taste as much as possible, but no matter how I ate it, the sour juice from the lemon kept coming up my nose.

Still, I felt a little sympathy because I wasn't the only one who felt this pain.

"Ugh! Ugh!"

"Hold on! Hold on!"

"Sungyoon, please! You can do it!"

"I, I can't do it! How long are you going to fail!"

Shin Sungyoon, the lemon in charge of the team, was also gradually succumbing to the accumulated destructive power of the lemons.

This fate where he could only blame the next runners.

I made a pitiful expression while looking at Shin Sungyoon's mouth, where saliva was flowing out.

Yes. I know that feeling of the salivary glands exploding very well.

Thank goodness the stomach protector the production team gave us was somewhat offsetting the pain.

Now the opportunity has come to us again.

"Attention, everyone."

"Yes!"

"We have to succeed now for real. Do you all understand?"

"Yep!"

Song Hyung-bin called Yoo Min-ha and Heo Yu-bin and cheered them on again.

Now we really have to succeed.

If we fail miserably even on the fifth try, the game's victory might go to the team.

I took a deep breath and repeated my brainwashing.

'I'm a lemon-eating machine. I'm a lemon-eating machine. Lemons are the enemy; lemons are the devil's army. I have to win no matter what. I can't lose. What's sour about it? Never lose.'

The moment I filled my head with these thoughts, Chae Eun-gyu, who had reached the realm of a god, started kicking the jegi alternately with both feet.

"Wow!"

"The speed is crazy! It's really fast!"

Chae Eun-gyu, who had reached the realm of a god, whose feet came out to greet the jegi before it even fell from the air.

He cleared 10 in an instant and made a surprised expression.

"Why is this working so well?"

"Eun-gyu found a hidden talent!"

"No, really, I just did it as if I was lifting normally, but this worked."

Kang Si-yoon followed suit and filled his quota like a player before doing a sit-up, using all his remaining strength.

That meant it was my turn again.

Without thinking about anything else, I put the lemon in my mouth and chewed it.

"Don't you think his expression is getting scarier the more you look at it?"

"His pupils are dilating in real time."

"You really have great tenacity, Karis."

I swallowed the lemon at a speed that was so unwavering that even the opposing team said it was amazing.

Song Hyung-bin and Ji Yoon-chul also did their part cleanly without making a mistake this time.

"Ahhhh! Senior Kim Tae-in! Senior Kim Tae-in!"

"Enough! Yu-bin, please!"

"It's time to win now. For real!"

After passing Yoo Min-ha, the only one left was our last runner, Heo Yu-bin.

Heo Yu-bin stood in front of the PD with a blank smile on his face.

"Rock, paper, scissors!"

The emotion of that moment was truly indescribable.

Finally, Heo Yu-bin's scissors beat the PD's paper, and we finished the relay game after five attempts.

"Ahhh!"

"Wow!"

"Good job, good job!"

After confirming victory, Heo Yoo-bin ran straight toward us.

Then, as if reenacting the old World Cup, he hugged me tightly.

In a panic, I hugged Heo Yu-bin and used my arms to lift him high into the sky as if I was putting him on an airplane.

"You worked hard, Yu-bin."

"Hehe! I'm sorry for making you eat lemons!"

Honestly, I'm a little full and about to feel sick, but it doesn't really matter since we succeeded in our mission.

That's it. Now it's the cast of 's turn.

If the cast succeeds in their fifth attempt just like us, the one with the faster time wins, the production team added.

Ji Yoon-chul, who was sitting next to me, wiped the sweat off his forehead and spoke briefly.

"If we go for a record, I feel a little uneasy......."

"After all, we didn't finish very quickly."

"......Should I have jumped rope faster? It's a shame."

"But for now, just watch with peace of mind. There's no such thing as absolute in this world."

And fortunately, my words were not wrong.

"No, hyuung! Why are you getting this wrong!"

"What do I do when I suddenly can't think of anything! I want to get it right too!"

"I told you, we have to change the order of this! Wow, how can you get it wrong here every time?"

In the end, the team exceeded the 5th attempt, and the first round victory went to us.

With this, the members were one step away from the penalty.

"We'll change the tape and go for lunch!"

The first round was finally over.

It seemed like all the members had used up a lot of energy.

At least now that it was lunchtime, I thought we could eat and recharge energy.

"Gwawaung. Gurur, gurur?"

"What the hell is this!"

I shook my head at the sound of Song Hyung-bin's exclamations from behind me.

The 'Speak with Your Body' game unfolded with pork ribs on the line.

The winning team received a generous 10-person portion of pork ribs.

The losing team had to share 3 portions among 7 people.

Far from recovering our energy, we were losing even more strength here.

"You get it, hyung? This is really easy!"

"What the hell is easy about this?"

The theme of the 'Speak with Your Body' game was a movie title.

In fact, you shouldn't use onomatopoeia, but the production team didn't even point out how much of a communication error we had in the middle.

Soon, Yoo Min-ha patted my back.

Turning to him, I received a message that I had no idea what this gesture was.

"Kwawawak! Meow? Kwaa!"

"..."

Yoo Min-ha roared loudly like a lion for a moment, then shrank down like a cat.

I reached out my hand as if asking for more of the other gestures, but all I got in return was a fantastical collaboration of the lion and cat over and over again.

"What kind of movie is this-."

"No time! Hyung!"

No, I should know what kind of movie this is and then turn around!

I swallowed dry saliva and tapped Ji Yoon-chul on the shoulder, who was now supposed to guess the correct answer.

'So, I don't know how to interpret this!'

Ji Yoon-chul asked me to explain the title with sparkling eyes.

But I couldn't think of anything at the moment.

A movie with a lion and a cat? Isn't that something that only appears in documentaries?

Even if it was a documentary with only lions, I wouldn't know. I couldn't figure out why a cat was in it at all.

I had no choice but to repeat the same movements that I had learned from Yoo Min-ha to the youngest.

"Kwawang!"

I got down on all fours and roared like a ferocious lion.

"Nya......ang?"

I stood up again and opened my innocent eyes like a cat.

I thought I had done my best and acted with all my might, but laughter erupted from all directions.

"Karis, look at Karis! Hahaha! Isn't the lion too realistic?"

"He works really hard too.... Jongwoo hyung, watch and learn. Even idols put everything down like that, what are you doing?"

"I'm doing my best too."

The moment I crawled on all fours, Ji Yoon-chul made a confused expression as if he had no idea what was going on.

"It's okay, Yoon-chul! I'm completely fine, so just guess the name!"

"W-what kind of movie is this?"

"Hurry up and guess!"

"...Tears of Africa?"

"Wrong!"

As expected, Ji Yoon-chul seemed to have the same thoughts as me.

As the name of the classic documentary came out of his mouth, we ended up only getting one question right.

I got this wrong even though I crawled on all fours.

I couldn't just let it go like this, so I asked Yoo Min-ha to explain the unidentified movement.

"What movie was that lion from earlier? Why are there lions and cats at the same time?"

"That's exactly what I heard from him! What on earth is the correct answer?"

The title that came out of the mouth of Heo Yu-bin, the first runner, was beyond imagination.

"The title was 'The Lion King'! I properly described the lion cub growing up to become a kingly lion!"

"Eun-gyu hyung completely screwed up in the middle of this."

"Kang Si-yoon too.... Hey, why did you change the order!"

"No, wasn't it supposed to be a lion and a cat together?"

"Oh my...."

That was 'The Lion King'.

I'm really dizzy.

This time, the seniors in the entertainment industry gave us three servings of pork ribs by answering the four questions without any favors.

Looking at the serving that really made one cry, Song Hyung-bin lowered his head down.

"I still can't forget Kang Si-yoon's cat in my head......."

"But honestly, didn't we really follow along well?"

"The order is wrong, the order!"

"You're right, hyung. Honestly, if the cat description came first, it could have gone all the way to Lion King."

"Wow, look at Karis' shamelessness."

I thought we would just finish eating a few pieces of rice and pork ribs, but the cast of warmly shared three servings with us, saying that it was too much for them. Actually, I couldn't eat much because I was full from the lemon.... Well, it was okay because the members enjoyed it.

While we were all eating pork ribs together and recovering our energy, Jung Moo-hyuk, who had been showing considerable interest in me since earlier, spoke to me.

"Karis, you said you're from Estonia, right? But you speak Korean really well. How many years have you lived in Korea?"

"It's been about a year now."

"How did you learn Korean?"

"Um....... I taught myself through various novels and webtoons."

"He only looks at the ones with really long titles."

Kang Si-yoon pointed out the secret I had been trying to tell while chewing on pork ribs.

"What did you say you were reading before? You said you read something about the Shield Knight."

"That's not a novel in Korean. The novel I found interesting was....... ."

"What, what? What's the title?"

"It's . It's a web novel you can read on Nobles."

I never thought this topic would come up on a terrestrial TV show, and even on a weekend variety show.

I unintentionally made a fool of myself this time, confusing Jung Moo-hyeok.

Thankfully, he changed the subject to a more comfortable area and sorted things out.

"Do you exercise? You're in great shape, do you do anything special?"

"Well, I work out at the gym all the time. Other than that, I don't really have time to enjoy any special sports....."

"Hey, when you have time, let's play baseball together. It's really fun when the kids who are good at baseball get together and do it. We don't just play catch, we also play fungo! We go to the baseball field! What do you think, it'll be fun?"

"Haha....... When we have time."

"Good! Very good!"

Jung Moo-hyuk slapped me on the shoulder with a very satisfied expression.

I could instinctively feel that his arm strength was no joke, perhaps because he enjoyed playing baseball.

'You seem to be the strongest person I've seen in recent times.'

And soon, I had a chance to test my physical strength against Jung Moo-hyuk.

It was none other than cockfighting.

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