“Ugh… Wall…?”
Come to think of it, seeing the wall brought back old memories.
Was it middle school…?
Back then, the school sports day was in full swing.
Our class hadn’t prepared for some events.
Jump rope and jegichagi (Korean shuttlecock kicking) were the main ones.
My friends suggested putting the star students in the main events and sent me out for jegichagi.
Back then, my friends were busy because it was sports day…
And I didn’t have many friends.
So, I practiced jegichagi alone, facing the wall.
It was a bit lonely, but I got pretty good at it.
So, I even thought, ‘Maybe I can shine.’
Of course, I was a disaster in the actual event.
To think this memory would come back to me now…
I turned my head towards the timer.
[00 : 57]
[00 : 56]
“Wh- What…?”
Less than a minute left.
More rushed than I imagined.
First, I need to get back the jegi I threw.
‘Ah… Why did I throw it…’
It’s too late to regret it now.
There were already countless jegi scattered around.
More than anything, there were too many people around.
[Rustle… Rustle…]
There were so many jegi around that I couldn’t find mine.
“Agh… Seriously…!”
[Thud. Thud!]
First, I decided to go somewhere further away.
[Thump… Thump…]
I could feel my heart beating fast.
Quickly… No time.
[Thud… Thud…]
[Bang!]
“Ah…! I’m sorry!”
“Hey…! I’m in a hurry too, what are you d- Eek!”
The man looked at the timer and his face quickly turned pale.
[Rustle… Rustle…]
“Haa… Where is it…”
Circle… Triangle… Star…
There wasn’t a single crescent moon shape on the ground.
[Rustle… Rustle…]
“Please… Please…!”
[Thud-]
I heard something fall behind me.
“Here it is…!”
When I looked at the ground, there was a twisted jegi.
I don’t know if it’s mine… But I have to try.
[Thud. Thud!]
I ran and turned my head towards the timer.
[00 : 23]
“Eeeek!!”
My face turned pale when I saw the timer.
[Thud! Thud!]
“Haa… Haa… Quickly…”
When I got near the wall, I quickly lifted my leg.
I tried to remember the feeling from when I was a kid.
“Hoo… Let’s go…”
[Tap…]
“One…”
[Tap…]
“Two…”
[Tap…]
“Three!”
[Tap…]
“Four…!!”
[Thud-]
I got past the dreaded third kick… But it fell.
No time to hesitate. I picked up the jegi again.
This time, I put the space between the wall and my leg a little closer.
[Tap…]
“One…”
[Tap…]
“Two…”
[Tap…]
“Three! Ah…!”
[Tap…]
The jegi went the other way, but I barely kicked it up.
[Tap…]
“Five!!”
[Tap…]
“Six!”
[Tap…]
“Seven!!”
[Whoosh-]
[Thud-]
“Seriously!!”
If the third kick was the curse before, is the seventh kick the curse now?!
My lucky number has turned into misfortune.
I glanced at the timer.
[00 : 05]
“Crazy!!”
More rushed than I imagined.
I quickly picked up the jegi and started.
[Tap…]
“One…!”
[Tap…]
“Two…!”
[00 : 04]
[Tap…]
“Three…!!”
[Tap…]
“Four…!!!”
[00 : 03]
[Tap…]
“Fiiive…!!”
[Tap…]
“Haa… Six!!”
[00 : 02]
[Tap…]
“Hngh…! Seven!!”
I managed to get past the dreaded seventh kick.
‘I can do it…!’
I can do it in time!!
[Tap…]
“Eight!!”
[00 : 01]
[Tap…!]
“Nine!!! Last… No!!”
[Whoosh-]
The jegi bounced strongly off the wall and flew high.
I kicked it too hard…!
I’m going to miss it at this rate.
I ran, but my foot barely reached.
‘At this rate…’
[Tap…!!!]
[00 : 00]
Someone’s foot kicked the jegi high into the air.
I glanced over and saw Yujin.
“Yujin…?”
[Plop-]
“I guess jegi isn’t really for me… Hehe…”
[Player 456 Passed]
[Game Over]
‘Uwaaaaa!!’
Anyway, I couldn’t hide the joy that overwhelmed me when I passed the game.
I barely managed to hide the overflowing excitement on the outside.
First, I was curious why Yujin was here.
“So… Why were you here, Yujin…?”
“Well… I’ve hardly ever played jegi…”
“It’s hard for me to even do it twice… Hehe.”
“So, I was going to give up and was watching you, sunbae, and you looked like you were in a hurry?”
I roughly guessed.
Anyway, she saved me, so I was very grateful.
[Swish-]
“Thank you so much… Yujin…! I almost lost my dick if it wasn’t for you…”
“Aww~ It’s nothing~”
“And I’m embarrassed… Hehe…”
Yujin was blushing.
I wondered if Yujin was the one who gave me the jegi back then.
“Were you the one who dropped the jegi behind me earlier, Yujin?”
“Huh? I only kicked the jegi for you instead…”
Then Yujin looked at my hand and said in surprise.
“Sunbae! Blood!”
Ah… I must have hit the wall too hard.
I quickly let go of my hand.
Haa… Either way, I passed the second game, so it doesn’t matter.
[Bang-!]
“What!?”
Then a gunshot rang out from far away.
Ah… This… I saw it in the first game…
[Thump! Bang! Pow!]
The room became a mess of people running away.
“Sunbae! Let’s get out of this room quickly!”
The surroundings were not visible due to the smoke from the gun.
It was the smoke that rose from around when the man turned into a woman.
[Thud! Thud!]
Yujin grabbed my hand and ran.
“Haa… What to do with this situation…”
“At this rate… Won’t my dick be cut off by a stray bullet…?”
[Whirr-]
While I was running with Yujin in anxiety, the ceiling was slowly opening.
[Tss-]
When I looked up at the ceiling, I saw suspicious gas leaking out.
‘This… I’ve seen it somewhere…’
“Y- Yujin!”
When I turned my head forward again, Yujin was collapsed there.
[Slide- Thud!]
“Haa…! Ugh…”
I barely managed to carry Yujin on my back.
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
I had to escape from here.
[Tss—-]
“Agh…”
Then my vision gradually began to blur.
[Thump-!]
…
“Ugh…”
“You managed to pass.”
When I woke up from the bed, it was the auditorium.
When I turned my head, Seongho was there.
‘Ah… Come to think of it…’
I quickly looked around, but Yujin was not there.
“Sungho… Do you know where Yujin is?”
“Ah… Just now, the broadcast said that they took the first and second round losers separately.”
Come to think of it, the game didn’t end with just one loss.
But when I thought about it that way, something was strange.
If the eliminations were divided, it would be normal to gradually modify them instead of making them women from the beginning.
But why did they make them perfect women from the first elimination?
From the second elimination onwards, is there really a ‘punishment’?
I was a little doubtful.
“By any chance… Is there a punishment for the second elimination?”
“Um… I don’t know.”
[Thoong-]
Then I heard the sound of the door on the stage opening.
“Seongho! Go!”
[Bang!]
When I approached the stage, I saw women wearing masks and yellow clothes like before.
They must be the losers this time.
There seemed to be at least dozens of them.
[Thud-!]
The losers were thrown into the auditorium as they were.
“Haa… Surely my body…”
“Haa… If I knew I was going to kick jegi…”
The surroundings were filled with voices of lamentation.
Then the mask in the middle began to speak.
“Participants who have passed the second game.”
“Congratulations.”
“We will show you the results of the second game.”
[Click-]
I could see an orange number being newly added on the right.
[76 : 262 : 118]
“So far, out of 456 participants, 262 were eliminated in the first round…”
“And the remaining 118 were eliminated in the second round.”
Then one of the women next to me hurriedly began to speak.
“Where did Yunseok go!”
“The second round losers will be shown soon.”
Show…? What…?
Shouldn’t they just be brought to the auditorium?
Then the mask in the middle took out the remote control and pressed it, and the surroundings darkened.
“Yujin! Look over there!”
When I turned my head towards the direction Seongho was pointing, the monitor screen had changed.
I could see women tied up in suspicious iron machines.
When I looked at the upper right corner, Yujin was there.
“Wh- What are you guys trying to do!?”
“We are currently in a special room to carry out the ‘punishment’ of the second round losers.”
“Then let’s start slowly.”
Then I could see green tentacles slowly flowing out of the surrounding machines inside the monitor.
From the beginning, tentacles… Something was strange.
[Slurp… Sizzle…]
The tentacles slowly began to touch the bodies of the losers.
It was like… They were looking for something.
I looked at the camera in Yujin’s direction.
[“Hyaat!? Hngh… Haaa…”]
[Slurp… Slurp…]
The tentacles continued to touch Yujin’s body.
“Yu… Yujin…”
Everyone could only watch the monitor screen in a daze.
[Sizzle… Swish!!]
[“Oop… Oop!!”]
The tentacles seemed to have found the desired area and entered Yujin’s mouth.
At the same time, other tentacles went inside Yujin’s skirt and clothes and wriggled.
[“Hwaaa…”]
“The ‘punishment’ is gradually coming to an end.”
As soon as the mask finished speaking, the tentacles caressed Yujin faster and faster.
[Slurp… Sizzle…]
[“Hwaaa… Hwaaang…! Hwaa…”]
[Sizzle… Sss…]
The tentacles came out of her mouth and clothes and were absorbed into the machine as if all the work was finished.
“The punishment has been completed. Then we will transfer them to the auditorium.”
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
Before long, dozens of masks carrying the losers came out from inside the door.
The masks carefully laid the losers on the beds.
Afterwards, the masks that had transferred them disappeared into the door.
“Then I’ll go in due to time constraints.”
As the mask in the middle was about to finish, Sungho, who was in front of the stage, hurriedly stepped forward.
“J- Just a moment…! Is voting possible?”
“Voting is always possible.”
“Then we will start voting tomorrow as planned.”
[Thoong-]
[Bang!]
[Thud. Thud!]
“Yujin…!”
As soon as the door closed, Sungho and I ran towards the bed where Yujin was.
[Snap-]
“What on earth happened to you…”
Fortunately, Yujin’s appearance had not changed much.
The only change was that her clothes had changed from yellow to orange.
Honestly, Yujin felt like a junior from my college days…
And she had a kind of innocent side, so I wanted to take care of her more.
“Hoo-ah…”
Just then, I saw Yujin’s eyes slowly opening.
“Hoo… It doesn’t seem like anything major happened.”
[Rustle…]
“Oppa…?”