episode_0190

I’m not particularly afraid of the dark.

but….

‘I don’t see any staff members…’

Director Jeong clearly said that this was courage training.

Normally, if it’s courage training… isn’t it something that suddenly pops out of the darkness and scares you?

That’s not really scary, though… .

Um… what should I say…? Anyway, it’s not that scary, but it’s a bit weird.

“Okay, then, Rookies members, please form groups of two!”

My head started spinning quickly at the mention of making a plan.

‘First of all, I think Hyejeong and Yujin would be afraid of things like this, so I don’t think I can rely on them… .’

Just by looking at it, it seems like Na Hanna, Yoo Seol, and Park Yoo Jung wouldn’t be afraid of something like this.

That was when I was thinking of avoiding Lee Hye-jeong and Seo Yu-jin.

“Then how about we split up and go separately?”

“… … !”

If I went to Bangdaero, I would have to go with Seo Yu-jin, who looked like a coward.

“Okay, wait a minute…!!”

Startled by this, I raised my hand and stopped Park Yu-jeong from speaking.

“Why, Sister?”

“Uh, we… . Instead of doing it the way we did, why don’t we try organizing it in a different way?”

“… … ?”

Seo Yu-jin clung to my arm as if she was upset by my sudden suggestion and asked,

“Why, Sister? Do you not want to hang out with me?”

“No, that’s not it… .”

As I was stroking and comforting Seo Yu-jin, Park Yu-jeong, who was looking at me suspiciously, asked me.

“Sister, are you saying that because you’re scared?”

“Are you scared? What? Me? No? No way.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

“… … .”

…this.

I was so offended that I ended up exaggerating and answering on my own.

Because of that, all the members were looking at me with suspicious eyes.

The only fortunate thing was that as the silence grew longer, Director Jeong offered an alternative.

“If you have trouble deciding, how about drawing lots?”

At Director Jeong’s suggestion, we decided to select the groups by drawing lots.

And my partner is….

“Who drew a circle?”

“Me, me… !!”

It was none other than Yoo Seol.

It’s a story that seems like it would not be scary at all to anyone who sees it…

“Sister! It’s me, it’s me! We’re in the same group!”

I pretended not to show it on the outside as much as possible and cheered inside.

**

Group 1 Park Yoo-jung & Na Hanna

Group 2 Ha Ye-rin & Yoo Seol

Group 3 Lee Hye-jeong & Seo Yu-jin

After sending off Group 1, 20 minutes later, Group 2’s Ha Ye-rin and Yoo Seol-do finally received the order to depart from Director Jeong.

“Okay, Yerin and Seol, please go now. You haven’t forgotten the mission, right? You have to find and bring back three Rookies albums from three abandoned houses. The mission sheet you see when you arrive at the abandoned house will tell you how to find the albums.”

“Fighting, sisters!”

“Have a nice trip!”

Yoo Seol and Ha Ye-rin slowly moved forward with the support of Lee Hye-jeong and Seo Yu-jin from Group 3.

As soon as we left base camp, darkness filled the surroundings.

Gulp.

Thanks to that, Yoo Seol, who was leading the way holding a flashlight, couldn’t help but feel nervous.

But there was someone who looked a hundred times more nervous than Yoo Seol.

“… … Yerin?”

“… … Yes?”

“If you do that, my sister won’t be able to walk because it’ll be uncomfortable.”

Yoo Seol’s height is a little under 160 cm and Ha Ye-rin’s height is a little under 175 cm.

It was difficult for Ha Ye-rin, who was 15cm taller, to walk because she was practically hanging on to Yoo Seol’s back.

At this, Yoo Seol looked puzzled and asked Ha Ye Rin… .

“… Yerin, are you scared?”

“No?”

Shiver shiver.

Ha Ye-rin answered with her body.

At this, Yoo Seol laughed in vain and took Ha Ye Rin’s hand and walked forward.

“Yerin, ghosts aren’t real and even if something does appear, it’s probably just the staff in disguise anyways so what’s there to be afraid of?”

“No… , it’s not scary… .”

At Yoo Seol’s words, Ha Ye-rin hesitated and then answered.

“I don’t like it when something suddenly pops out and scares me, and then I get goosebumps all over my body, my heart pounds, and I get confused… , so… .”

“… … .”

Don’t we usually express that as being afraid of that?

I guess Ha Ye-rin didn’t want to say she was scared because of her pride.

At this, Yoo Seol became playful.

“Then, Yerin. You just don’t like this kind of thing, but you’re not scared of it?”

“That’s right.”

“Actually, I’m afraid of this kind of thing, Unnie. Won’t you take the lead instead of me?”

“… … !”

Before Ha Ye-rin could say anything, Yoo Seol handed the flashlight over to her and pushed Ha Ye-rin forward.

Ha Ye-rin, who had taken the lead unexpectedly, looked at Yoo Seol with a sad face, but… .

“Sister… .”

“Why? You said you weren’t scared?”

“… … .”

Yoo Seol had no intention of looking at Ha Ye-rin like that.

Then, Ha Ye-rin stood in front, crying and eating mustard… and soon, the two were able to reach the first abandoned house.

“Here is… .”

“Yeah, I think it’s the first place?”

The first abandoned house was a house that had collapsed so badly that it looked like the base camp of the Rookies.

The doors were all torn off and half of the roof was blown away, making it look like the house had been bombed.

It was at that time that the two people were nervously examining the exterior of the abandoned house.

“Gyaaa-!!”

“… … !!”

The two people flinched at the same time at the sound of a scream from afar.

The two soon realized whose scream it was.

“… No way?”

“… I think so.”

Na Hanna and Park Yu-jeong must have visited the second abandoned house by now.

This was Na Hanna’s scream among them.

Na Hanna, who is usually so indifferent, screams like this… .

Because of this, the two of them couldn’t help but become more and more nervous as they approached the abandoned house.

At that moment, something caught the two people’s eyes.

“Huh? That… .”

“Is this a mission? Let’s pick it up.”

The two found a mission sheet lying on the ground at the entrance of the abandoned house and read it… .

[The person holding the flashlight goes into the bathroom and stares at the mirror for 30 seconds. The other person should remain in this position.]

“… … .”

“… … .”

It just froze.

In particular, Ha Ye-rin was caught trying to sneakily put the flashlight she was holding into Yoo Seol’s back pocket.

“… Yerin-ah. What the hell are you doing.”

“Oh, sis… . You were the one holding the flashlight originally… . I’m returning it.”

“Hey, you were holding it from the middle. Get in quickly.”

The two argued over who owned the flashlight, but in the end, Ha Ye-rin won over Yoo Seol’s logic and went into the abandoned house.

‘Ah… I really hate it… .’

Ha Ye-rin walked cautiously, her posture unsteady.

Then I discovered a bathroom that had a much more sinister atmosphere than the other places.

I really didn’t want to go into that bathroom… but I had to…

Hayerin slowly went inside and found a broken mirror written on the mission paper.

‘Do this for 30 seconds… .’

There are times when I feel that way.

It feels as if there is someone else in this space besides myself.

Feeling this, Ha Ye-rin carefully checked the bathroom to make sure no one was there.

And only after I was sure that I was the only one in the bathroom did I start staring at the mirror.

The mirror didn’t seem to have anything special about it other than the fact that its edges were broken, but Hayerin still didn’t let her guard down.

‘Something will pop out of the 100 percent mirror…! 100 percent…!’

There must be a reason why they tell you to look in the mirror for 30 seconds.

Hayerin had a gut feeling that something would pop out if she looked in the mirror.

And then….

‘If you want to come out, then come out.’

I gritted my teeth and stared at myself in the mirror.

No matter how scared I was… I felt like I gained more courage as I waited with my mind firmly set.

however….

chin.

The crisis came from an unexpected place.

“… … .”

I stared into the mirror for about 10 seconds.

Ha Ye-rin, who felt a strange sensation from below, slowly lowered her head.

Then what she saw was….

“… … .”

It was a white hand that suddenly appeared from somewhere and grabbed her ankle.

**

1 hour later

“It was more fun than I thought, right?”

“Yes, this is my first time doing something like this and it was so much fun!”

Surprisingly, the group that showed the least fear during the courage training was Group 3, which included Lee Hye-jeong and Seo Yu-jin.

Instead of the screams from Groups 1 and 2, the two people from Group 3 returned to base camp after completing their courage training while feeling pure fun and thrill.

“Hmm… ?”

“Oh my… Are you okay, sisters?”

Those two people were met at base camp by other members who looked completely exhausted.

Of course, the most serious of these is… .

“Yeah… , It’s okay. I guess you two weren’t scared?”

“… Yes, we were fine. But what about Yerin unnie… ?”

“Ah… , Yerin is over there… .”

“… … gasp.”

“Yerin isn’t dead, is she…?”

It was Ha Ye-rin, lying half-dead in the corner of the room like a corpse.

“Sister… !”

“Yerin…! Are you okay?”

“… … .”

Despite the two people’s questions, Ha Ye-rin just stared at the wall with blank eyes as if she had been greatly shocked by something.

“Yerin? … Why is Yerin like this? Why aren’t you talking?”

“We don’t know either. He’s been out of his mind like that since a while ago.”

At this, everyone’s attention turned to Yoo Seol, who was in the same group as Ha Ye-rin.

As everyone looked at Yoo Seol curiously, she laughed and said, as if she had imagined what had happened earlier.

and….

“Hehe, when we were doing the courage training earlier, there was Yerin… .”

“Sister… !”

Only then did Ha Ye-rin, who had been staring at the wall, come to her senses and stop Yoo Seol.

“Don’t say… .”

“Hey, you want to say something?”

“If you say… .”

“What will you do if I tell you?”

“… If you tell me, I’ll hate you.”

“Then I shouldn’t say it.”

At Ha Ye-rin’s threat, Yoo Seol smiled again as if she found it cute and shrugged her shoulders at the members.

“Yerin told me not to say anything.”

“Ahh… .”

“There’s nothing I can do. Everyone, check it out on the broadcast.”

“… Don’t even watch the broadcast. I’ll check all your phones.”

That was when Ha Ye-rin was threatening the members.

“Hey everyone! You worked hard!”

Director Jeong, who secured much more screen time than expected thanks to Ha Ye-rin, returned to base camp smiling happily.

Ha Ye-rin ran towards Director Jeong like that.

“Thanks to you all, I’m really… .”

“Director Jeong… !”

Then she grabbed his shoulder and said earnestly.

“Please edit… .”

“Yes… ?”

“Are you on your way back after checking the footage…? Please edit my part… .”

In response to Ha Ye-rin’s heartbreaking request, Director Jeong tilted his head as if he knew nothing and asked.

“Which part do you want me to edit… . Are you talking about the part where Yerin cries?”

“Gah… ! T, if you say that… !”

At Director Jeong’s shocking remark, Ha Ye-rin quickly covered his mouth, but she couldn’t take back the words that had already left her mouth.

At this, Ha Ye-rin turned around with a red face… .

“Ahahahahaha-!! Did you cry, Unnie?”

“Haha! Yerin is cute~”

“Kekeke, 19 is the perfect age to be scared of ghosts.”

“Ah~ So that’s why Yerin unnie sleeps hugging Yujin every day because she’s scared of ghosts~ Ahahaha-!”

The members were already holding their stomachs and laughing out loud, teasing Hayerin together.