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Join the ServerThe commotion grew even louder.
The fact that the weirdo was Agon’s leader, Ex, did not resolve any questions; instead, it only made them multiply.
“W-what is this?”
“Why is Ex here? Was he close with Pantheon?”
“Is he a guest?”
“No, but he looks sick, doesn’t he?”
“More importantly, didn’t he just push the security?”
While there were occasionally articles about security guards being overzealous with fans, no one had ever heard of an idol pushing a security guard.
However, the security guard who had been shoved back was still fallen on the floor.
“Ugh.”
“Hey, are you okay?”
“A few of you, come over here!”
Security converged on the main entrance.
“What on earth is going on?”
Reporters at the signing, including Reporter Jang, raised their cameras in unison even amidst the chaos.
They sensed that something was going wrong.
In other words, they smelled a scoop.
CEO Gu also watched the situation closely.
Ex’s sudden appearance.
The thickening smell of smoke.
He had to get this under control.
And as the person in charge of this venue, it was naturally his responsibility.
“MC-nim, give me the microphone.”
CEO Gu jumped onto the stage and took the microphone from the comedienne.
“Origin staff, start by opening the windows! Assistant Manager Yang, go out to the hallway and find where this smell is coming from!”
He quickly finished the instructions regarding the burning smell.
There were no announcements, and no fire suppression facilities like sprinklers were active.
Therefore, it likely wasn’t a major disaster.
“Security, go talk to that fellow Ex! Check if he’s drunk!”
Perhaps he was trying to cause a drunken ruckus.
But even so, Ex was alone.
Since there were multiple security staff members, they could easily suppress him.
Therefore, nothing major would happen.
‘But why am I so anxious?’
CEO Gu gulped.
Regardless of his inner feelings, the Origin staff and security members who received clear instructions moved quickly.
Staff members inside the venue opened the small ventilation windows located beneath the large panoramic windows.
The marketing team member passed by Ex and went out to track the source of the smoke.
The security guards, including the one who had been pushed but managed to stand up, slowly approached Ex.
“Everyone be careful, his strength is no joke.”
“His eyes look strange, too. Surround him for now.”
As the security guard said, Ex’s gaze was bizarre.
He looked dazed, and it was impossible to tell if he was even perceiving his surroundings.
“Team Leader, could he be on drugs?”
“How should I know what drug-addled eyes look like?”
“You used to be a cop. You bragged about it all the time.”
“I was actually a traffic cop.”
“Pardon?”
Receiving the dumbfounded looks of his subordinates, the Security Team Leader spoke.
“But look, we need to be careful. I can tell those eyes are more trashed than someone who’s just passed out from drinking.”
The semi-circular encirclement was completed.
Ex’s voice, muttering to himself, could be heard.
“Yes, you’re right. I didn’t want to do this. But I have no choice.”
“Like you said, I have to show them something. To do that, I have to create the opportunity myself.”
“Friend, I couldn’t have done it if you hadn’t cheered me on.”
“…….”
Tension hung among the security guards.
“Team Leader, he’s serious. It’s definitely different from being drunk.”
“Right? I told you I’m a former cop.”
The Team Leader cautiously tried to speak to him.
“Excuse me, are you alright?”
Ex moved his dazed eyes at the words directed toward him.
Roll.
However, his eyes were aimed far behind the Team Leader.
“‘Reveal yourself. Without any filters.’ Those are truly wonderful words.”
He didn’t even answer the Team Leader.
“I have to reveal it. I have to reveal that I am a flame.”
Bizarre words continued as the standoff between security and Ex deepened.
Beep—
At that moment, a report came through the event radio from the Origin staff member who had gone outside.
[CEO, it’s a disaster. Fire! There’s a fire on the floor below!]
Perhaps worried about causing a panic, the voice was urgent yet heavily suppressed.
However, in the venue that had become deathly silent because of Ex, those words were heard clearly.
“What? Did they just say fire?”
“Yeah, I heard them say there’s a fire over the radio.”
“A fire? Out of nowhere?”
Everyone had heard the transmission.
“Dammit.”
CEO Gu muttered, gritting his teeth.
He considered telling Assistant Manager Yang not to use the radio, but since everyone had already heard, it was better to find a solution.
“The floor below? Did you go there yourself?”
[It’s not just that, the stairs on both sides are on fire!]
The building was structured with stairs on the left and right and an elevator in the center.
“What about the elevator!”
[It stopped!]
What that meant was that every path to go down was blocked.
“What? For real?”
“What about the sprinklers? The announcements?”
People looked up at the ceiling, but both the speakers and the sprinklers remained silent.
Chaos raised its voice within the fan signing venue.
“This makes no sense! Why is there a fire all of a sudden?”
“Can we get out? What do we do?”
And in the midst of it, Ex laughed.
“Heh.”
The security guards felt a chill and asked.
“You, did you do this?”
“Heheh.”
It was a short laugh, but it was enough for an answer.
“This won’t do! Grab him!”
They had to catch him even if just to figure out the details of the arson.
The well-built security guards charged at him all at once—
“!”
For an instant, the security guards couldn’t believe their eyes.
They saw an illusion of black smoke rising from Ex’s body.
A twisted, black smoke filled with malice.
Ex charged forward, trailing the smoke.
“Gah!”
“Urgh!”
An incredible sight unfolded.
The trained security guards were sent flying all at once by a single man’s charge.
“Kyaaaaaa!”
“He’s coming this way!”
“His eyes are weird! It’s so scary!”
The fans gathered in the center screamed and scattered to the left and right.
Regardless of Ex being an idol, they felt an immense sense of unease from his appearance. They instinctively moved to avoid him.
“Everyone get up! Catch him!”
“Don’t let him get to the people!”
The security guards tried to stand, but their bodies wouldn’t listen after the massive impact.
“Heh, that’s right! This is it! Heh.”
Ex expressed an unknown satisfaction as he raced through the fans.
His speed was also far beyond what one would consider human.
“Get out of the way!”
“Where is Ex going?”
“He’s running toward the Origin CEO!”
Just as the fans said, Ex leaped onto the stage.
“MC-nim, hurry! Go over there!”
In the middle of the crisis.
The CEO quickly sent the comedienne down from the stage.
He was the one in charge.
No matter what happened, he had to resolve it.
He faced Ex with a courageous heart and opened his mouth firmly.
“W-w-w-what! W-w-w-what is this for!”
The words that came out were a bit different from his heart….
Even in this situation, he felt ashamed for looking a bit pathetic.
The reporters were filming over there, and he just had to stutter. He would have to ask them to cut that part out.
Provided he survived.
Ex reached out, ignoring the CEO’s question.
“No!”
“Leave the Origin CEO alone!”
People shouted, but.
Snap.
Ex snatched the microphone from the CEO.
“Huh? The mic?”
The CEO stared at Ex in disbelief.
However, Ex was also looking at the CEO with trashed eyes.
“Origin CEO. My friend is asking what on earth you are.”
“Hmm? Me? As you said, I’m the Origin CEO?”
“Not that. He says your body is covered in a terrifying energy. He says he’s never seen such energy before.”
“‘You’? You little punk.”
A terrifying energy?
Terrifying?
The only person he could think of in connection with such a word was Sun-woo.
Surely he wasn’t talking about Sun-woo.
“Anyway, I don’t know anything about ‘terrifying’ stuff.”
The CEO passed over the correct answer.
“Then get lost.”
Ex shoved the CEO off the stage.
Screams erupted from the surroundings, but the CEO wasn’t seriously injured.
After stumbling for a moment below the stage, he soon regained his balance and looked up at Ex along with the others.
Ex raised the microphone to his lips.
“I am a flame.”
Everyone stared at him at the completely unexpected words.
“I am a flame. Since you won’t recognize that, I have no choice but to show you personally.”
“To reveal myself without any filters, this is the only way left.”
“I will give my flame to you as a gift.”
Contextless words.
However, when connected to this situation, they were explanation enough.
“You—did you set the fire just to show us that flame?”
“That’s right!”
Ex answered vigorously to the CEO’s question.
“Out of a grudge against our company—no, against Pantheon?”
Since they had clashed at a music show once, the CEO wondered if that was the reason.
“Hmm? That’s not it.”
“It’s not? Then why on earth did you appear here?”
He said he didn’t come for revenge.
Then what was the reason he came here?
“I wonder? Why did he tell me to go here? Honestly, I hate Izm.”
“?”
Ex tilted his head.
It was as if someone else had told him to do it.
The CEO felt something strange in his expression and tone.
He asked to confirm his suspicions.
“Who?”
“My friend.”
“You’ve been saying that. Which friend?”
“I told you…, you can see him. He’s stuck right to me.”
Chills ran down the spines of the people listening to this exchange.
To those who couldn’t see spirits, it seemed like Ex was simply consumed by madness.
“The idol has gone crazy! What do we do!”
“He really did set the fire!”
Now the situation was clear.
Pantheon’s fan signing.
Right before the group’s arrival, a member of another group had committed arson in a fit of mental derangement.
And as clear as the situation was, the terror intensified.
“Then what? What do we do?”
“Can we go down? They said the elevator isn’t moving!”
“Kyaaaaaaa!”
The intensified terror brought chaos,
And chaos brought back terror.
The bigger problem was that there was no obvious way to resolve this situation.
They checked the fire suppression equipment, but nothing responded.
“Something went wrong in the disaster prevention room.”
The CEO looked at Ex, who had now started singing his own song into the microphone.
He had a tired voice until just now, but it had grown even worse.
The echoing, cracked voice sounded as if it were coming from the afterlife.
“Tsk.”
Staff and security moved in all directions, checking escape routes.
However, they couldn’t go down by normal means.
There was a descending lifesaver installed near the window, but it would take a lot of time for this many people to go down one by one.
The report had already been made.
Did they just have to wait for the fire trucks to arrive?
Everyone looked out the window in chaos and anxiety.
It seemed the flames were now visible from below, as pedestrians had stopped and were pointing up here.
Someone was holding a phone and shouting something.
People were gradually gathering below.
And among them, a van for celebrities was visible.
“Are our kids down there?”
The CEO checked his watch.
Yes, it was about time for them to arrive.
But they wouldn’t be able to come up. It was better if they didn’t come up right now.
The CEO looked up.
It was hopeless.
Utterly hopeless.
With all paths blocked, it was impossible for everyone to escape safely without external help.
But who could help, and how?
Suddenly, Sun-woo’s face came to mind, but what could even Sun-woo do?
The face of Sun-woo that came to mind became clearer and clearer, but even so—
Wait, why was it becoming clearer and closer?
“Hmm?”
At the moment the CEO let out a dazed sound.
CRASH!
A window where no one was standing shattered inward.
“What?”
Someone entered.
A single person walked in and slowly stood up.
“Is it you?”
It was unbelievable.
He had thought of it in his head, but even so?
Could Sun-woo truly have appeared here?
“Representative, you are truly beyond incompetent.”
“It really is Sun-woo?”
An arrogantly contemptuous voice.
That voice that was only warm to fans and treated the CEO like a rat.
The CEO suddenly snapped out of it.
“Sun-woo! How did you get in here!”
“Hmm? I jumped from the neighboring building.”
The CEO looked out past the window where the Demon God had entered.
No matter how much he looked at it, it was not a distance a human could jump.
But putting that aside.
“But what are you doing coming here!”
“Representative, do you still not know? Looking from the outside, the building was on fire and it was nothing short of chaos.”
“Of course I know!”
“You know? Then is it not natural for me to come?”
“What? Is that not a reason not to come?”
The Demon God knit his brows and stared at the CEO as if looking at an idiot.
“Representative, what on earth have you been blathering about?”
Am I an idiot?
Common sense was collapsing.
The CEO clutched his head at the sensation of his known world shattering—
“Not to mention you, Representative, the fans are also gathered here. If I do not come, who shall?”
Oh.
The CEO let go of his head.
“Everyone, be at ease.”
The Demon God smiled slightly.
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