“Hah… Hah… Master…♡”
“Give me your lewdness again today, Master…♡”
She was fawning over the masks as if her mind had broken down.
That was Number 64… definitely the man who attacked me in the third game.
“We attempted treatment on Number 64… but due to the side effects of being in cardiac arrest…”
“Number 64 is disqualified. We sincerely apologize for this matter.”
“And based on this incident, any acts of violence or murder are strictly prohibited.”
[Thump! Thump!]
“Seu… Seungcheol…! What on earth happened…!”
“Woof!”
Number 64… Seungcheol, was no longer here.
[Pat… Pat…]
“Disqualified Number 64 likes being petted on the head.”
As the mask petted Number 64’s head, she started to fawn over it, clearly enjoying it.
She… no, she seemed so used to this, I couldn’t even guess how many masters she’d been through.
“… Seungcheol.”
“If I hadn’t turned away from you back then…”
“If I hadn’t introduced you to the TS Game business card…”
“We wouldn’t have reunited like this…”
Number 218 sat on the floor and started sobbing.
He seemed deeply shocked by the change in his friend.
“Next, we will show you the results of the third game.”
[Click-]
As I turned my head towards the monitor, the number on the right started to rise.
This time, the added number was… red.
[33 : 171 : 222 : 23]
Contrary to expectations, the number of people eliminated in the third round was quite small.
“Now, we will begin the punishments for the second round of eliminations.”
Like last time, the screen on the monitor changed.
The screen gradually changed… and Number 63 was visible in the middle.
It seemed that Number 63 had also been eliminated in this game.
Number 63 had caused me a lot of trouble in many ways, so I watched her screen closely.
Her hands and feet were tied by a machine.
[Slurp… Sizzle…]
As I had seen before, green tentacles emerged from the machine.
As soon as I saw those tentacles… the trauma from the shuttlecock game came back to me.
[“Stop it…! I was wrong!! I’ll pay back my debt properly!!”]
It was quite a sight to see the very person who kept the game going saying such things.
[Sluuurp- Chluuurp~]
The tentacles entered her mouth.
[“Uuuugh…! Ugh!!!”]
[Squish… Sluuurp…]
Looking closely, I could see the tentacles inserting something into her mouth.
It looked like… a liquid.
It seemed that this liquid was being used to modify people.
[Droop-]
When the tentacle came out of her mouth, she gasped for breath.
[“Haa… Haa… Masters…! Stooop…”]
[“Whaaat…! I can’t curse…”]
The tentacles that came out of her mouth went inside her clothes and started groping her body.
[“Aah…! Stooop… Hngh… Haaah…!”]
As the tentacle explored her body, her face turned red and she started moaning.
[“Haaahng…! Haaht…! Aah…! Aaaaaah…!”]
As she moaned loudly, the tentacles were sucked into a machine that looked like a vacuum cleaner.
“Next, we will show you the third round of punishments.”
At the same time, the screen on the monitor switched to show people wearing orange clothes.
Like the second round of punishments, their hands and feet were tied to machines in a somewhat dark place.
However, if there was a difference…
They had machines that looked like VR headsets on their heads.
“Then… let’s begin.”
[Zhiing-]
As soon as the words were spoken, the VR device started to glow red little by little.
[“Hghueuk!? Hngh…”]
[Zhiiiiing-]
The machine made a sound like a computer overheating, and the eliminated contestants started to writhe.
[“Haaaahng…! No wayyy…!”]
[“Ahmkeot…! Haaah…!”]
Before I knew it, the expressions of the eliminated contestants had relaxed.
[“Aah…! Goood…♡”]
[Zhiing…]
The sound of the VR device stopped and the light disappeared.
“All punishments have been completed.”
“Now, we will transport the eliminated contestants.”
[Thump… Thump…]
As before, dozens of masked figures carrying the eliminated contestants on their backs walked out from inside the door.
The masks laid the eliminated contestants on the beds with their original numbers and walked back into the door.
“Ugh…”
Inside, I could see the first round of eliminated contestants, who were men but were now women.
[Thud-]
“Then, we will be on our way.”
“Please enjoy the next game as well.”
[Dooong-]
[Slam!]
The masks threw the first round of eliminated contestants down from the stage and disappeared.
Thinking about it again, the treatment of the first round of eliminated contestants was clearly different from that of the second and third rounds…
“Ah…! Come to think of it, Mr. Seongho…”
Even if it was Mr. Seongho, he would have been eliminated in the final round.
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
“Mr. Seongho!! Where are you?”
I looked around, but there was no one with the number ‘107’ on their left chest.
“Mr. Seongho!! If you can hear me, please answer!”
[Tap, Tap]
“I’m here.”
I tilted my head back and saw Mr. Seongho.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Seongho hadn’t been eliminated. He looked the same as ever.
“Ah… Mr. Seongho… I’m so glad… By the way, how did you pass…?”
“… Mr. Jiyoon. Follow me.”
[Grab]
[Thump… Thump…]
He suddenly grabbed my hand and started walking towards the empty space between the beds.
“W… Why are you doing this…?”
“…”
There was still no response.
[Click-]
“Ms. Jiyun…”
“Y… Yes…?”
“No matter what happens in the future, never get involved.”
He suddenly pulled me into a secret space and left me with ominous words.
Does that mean something will happen in the future…?
“I… I understand for now…”
I thought that Mr. Seongho must have something in mind.
I had received help from his plan in the vote, and I was also indebted to him.
…
“Hey…! You…! How dare you betray me?”
“Betrayal? Aren’t you the one who betrayed me?”
While I was eating rice on the bed, two people suddenly started fighting in the center of the hall.
One was a white-haired man, and the other was…
Ah… that Number 269… the gangster.
“Do you know how much I suffered because of you?”
“You said you would take responsibility inside the tent, but you eliminated everyone…!”
“Even my friend! Huh?”
It seemed that they were fighting over what had happened in the third game.
The third game was definitely harsh… it was worth fighting over.
“What, you’re all skin and bones! If it had been me, you would have been knocked out in one hit!”
“What…? Who are you calling skin and bones?”
“Haha… What are you talking about, being a man with such big breasts?”
Her face turned pale for a moment, and she started breathing rapidly.
It seemed that he had hit a nerve.
Saying such things to someone who had become a woman seemed to remind them of their trauma.
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
“Hey, hey, let’s stop fighting. Everyone’s upset, okay? Huh?”
“You guys too! Who was it that ostracized us just because we’re like this?”
“W… What…? You should be grateful it wasn’t tug-of-war…”
More and more people started to join in.
The argument that started with two people… had turned into a conflict between men and women.
“Who are you calling a female! You guys will be like that soon too…”
“What are you going to do about the fourth game after ostracizing us like that in the third game?”
“We’re not going to associate with you guys anyway!”
“You guys should form a team with people who smell like perfume!”
I didn’t expect the aftermath of the third game to be like this…
But you couldn’t kill people here.
The ban on violence had just been issued, so the argument was getting more and more heated.
“Haa… Never mind. You guys, be careful in your sleep.”
[Thump… Thump…]
Number 269 started to return to the beds with the other women.
“Sleep…? You guys should be careful in your sleep. You might get taken, you know? ㅋㅋ”
Ah… to provoke even in this situation.
If it was that gangster’s personality, he would really kill someone.
Should the gangster have been behaviorally modified instead…?
[It is time for lights out]
[Participants, please return to your beds]
When the announcement was made on the speaker, they surprisingly started to return obediently.
I was a little uneasy… but first, I had to prepare for the next game.
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
…
When I actually lay down on the bed, I wondered what the third punishment was.
There was no change in form this time either.
Was it mental modification, as I had feared…?
“Uwaaaah!?!?”
I momentarily got up from the bed when I heard a scream in the distance.
What… what’s going on…?
Smoke was rising little by little around me.
This smoke… I had seen it somewhere before.
“What… this… my chest…”
When I turned my gaze towards the direction of the scream, there was a white-haired woman there.
A slender figure, beautiful looks, large breasts, a familiar reaction…
I was sure that she was a participant who had just become a woman.
[Thump! Thump!]
The surroundings were filled with the sound of running, swinging swords, and stabbing.
The lights were off and it was filled with smoke and screams, so I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
[Shuffle… Shuffle…]
First, I got out of bed and started walking.
[Slash- Swish-]
“What on earth is going on…”
It was so chaotic that I couldn’t properly catch up with my thoughts.
[Thud… Thud…!]
“W… What is this…”
When the lights on the ceiling flickered, I started to see the surroundings little by little.
[Thump! Thump!]
“S… Save m… Uwaah!?”
[Swoosh-]
[Thud…]
“Ugh… Am I alive…?”
“What is this… Why is my body…!?”
Some women were running towards the men with pink swords.
And the men who were hit by those swords…
Had become women.