Chapter 104: The Great Fan Service

The Demon God’s call that it was time to wake up.

Ji-ho opened his eyes.

Silence rushed in even before the light.

Including the members sleeping right next to him, everyone was in a deep sleep.

From EXI member Kwak Su-eon seen over there, a highly unpleasant blue-green energy was spewing out.

And right in front.

The one casting an exceedingly dark shadow even amidst the intense lighting.

Sun-woo.

Pantheon’s Demon God also stood arrogantly, emitting a dark and ominous Aura from his entire body.

His presence could not be ignored usually either, but right now it was a status that seemed like it would appear in a myth.

And around the stage where blue-green and pitch-black energies were swirling, dozens of—

“Sun-woo, your photos?”

“Ah.”

That was right.

Dozens of photos of smiling Sun-woo were still emitting light….

Ji-ho frowned.

When did he take those?

Didn’t he hate it when taking them?

“D-Do not mind the photos…. Right, the fans must have attached them. The choice of photos is truly. I shall give a strict warning.”

For Sun-woo, his tongue was long.

Seeing Sun-woo hurriedly waving his hands and making excuses, Ji-ho finally regained a bit of his senses.

The first question he had to ask came to mind.

It was also the most important question.

“Sun-woo, is this reality?”

Is this entire sight reality?

How am I supposed to accept this?

Sun-woo’s answer followed immediately.

“It is not the time to mention trivial matters.”

“Ugh.”

He choked.

“Is this trivial to you?”

However, Sun-woo paid no mind and pointed at Kwak Su-eon.

“Right now, that is the urgent priority.”

Kwak Su-eon’s condition did look bad.

Even to Ji-ho who knew nothing, the blue-green energy was wavering unstably.

“Because it is right before running wild, it probably cannot perceive its surroundings well right now. Do not draw attention and get up carefully. Now is the time for you to play an active role.”

“Me? Really me?”

“Ji-ho, exactly you.”

Ji-ho gulped and carefully raised his body.

Don’t tell me, don’t tell me, was that ‘nonsense practice’ Sun-woo made him do recently for this?

“That shameful practice was for this moment?”

“Shameful? You can do it.”

“What if I don’t want to? Don’t you consider that possibility?”

“Why wouldn’t you want to? When I am telling you to?”

He didn’t consider it at all.

He looked as if he hadn’t even considered the word consider.

Sun-woo was Sun-woo.

“Execute it.”

“Haa….”

While living with Sun-woo, one experiences all sorts of nonsensical situations.

But for some reason, it feels natural. When I come to my senses, I am even inside it.

Still, this situation today is truly surreal, though.

“Got it.”

“Ji-ho, you can do it!”

“Will you be quiet? I’m going to focus.”

“Insolent. But I shall be quiet.”

Ji-ho closed his eyes and took a long breath.

And began.

The practice Sun-woo steadily made him do even amidst the recent busy schedules.

Namely, [Acting].

“Ah, aah…. I ended up waking up. Where is this place?”

Not [Acting] but [Foot Acting (Terrible Acting)]….

There was no other robot.

Even for a robot, it was quite an old model.

Ji-ho suppressed his urge and sequentially continued the lines.

“S-Scary. I want to run away from here.”

“Should I go that way?”

“Ah, my foot—”

He pretended to trip and fell toward the evil spirit.

Thud.

No matter who looked, it would be blatantly obvious he fell on purpose.

“…….”

Ji-ho just buried his face in the floor and didn’t lift it.

I just wish I could fall asleep like this. I wish I could sleep deeply and forget everything.

Only Sun-woo was satisfied.

‘So what role does this foot acting even play?’

Only then did the question arise in Ji-ho.

And the answer flowed out not from Sun-woo but from Kwak Su-eon.

– Oh? Ooh? This human?

The evil spirit Deprivation, whose surroundings didn’t enter its eyes because it was right before running wild.

It was losing its reason and its very existence was becoming distorted.

Even to such Deprivation, Ji-ho, who appeared ‘accidentally tripping’, caught its eye immensely.

– To think there’s a human with such a body! It is a truly covetable body!

“What?!”

He said something chilling to the fallen Ji-ho.

Possession constitution.

A body far too suitable for spirit possession.

Unable to defeat the Demon God, it was driven to the point of running wild and dissipating.

But what if it transferred to that body? It would be able to exert even more powerful strength.

To the possession-type evil spirit Deprivation, Ji-ho was a body it could not pass by.

That human’s vessel itself is different.

No caution remained in its reason right before running wild.

– I will enter!

The blue-green energy spewing from Kwak Su-eon’s body headed toward Ji-ho all at once.

Truly an instant.

The blue-green energy transferred as if Ji-ho was sucking it in.

“Ji-ho. I always feel this, but you truly have an amazing possession constitution.”

The Demon God nodded, admiring that sight.

“Euehh—, this feels not so—”

– Kuahahaha! Human, show me your flaws! And I shall live there!

Ji-ho’s and Deprivation’s languages crossed almost simultaneously.

“Ji-ho, you can endure it, right?”

“Huh? Y-Yeah.”

– ????

Deprivation dug further inside to rummage through Ji-ho’s flaws.

The conversation between the strong enemy and the host was somewhat strange, but it just had to find a gap in his mind.

Deeper, further inside, it entered into his mind.

And what it faced there was—

– What?

The smallest innermost part of Ji-ho’s mind.

That place realized as a space.

It was like a small sanctuary.

Simple yet warm light seeped in from the ceiling.

A small spring of water anyone could drink from welled up.

Cushions made of dry grass were placed so that anyone who visits could sit and rest.

Clearly, there were many gaps and cracked marks in this place.

However, this space was solid not with hardness but with warmth.

– How can this be? The decisive gap? Where is it?

Deprivation felt stifled.

Having come out of Kwak Su-eon’s body, Deprivation was merely blue-green smoke.

The inner mind of the human it thought was merely a possession body was more solid than imagined.

If it stays here like this, it will melt and disappear.

– No, I know! There is definitely a huge gap related to Kang-yul here.

It was information seen and heard while possessing Kwak Su-eon’s body.

Therefore, it can be certain. There is definitely a gap.

– Huh?

Having finally found that gap, Deprivation trembled in shock.

The gap exists.

And a huge one at that.

However, above that gap was a huge—

– Photo?

The Demon God’s photo was attached….

The one who walked through a night darker than deep night and stood beside him.

The one who promised to be together with Ji-ho who pledged revenge.

His photo covered the gap neatly like wallpaper.

Deprivation felt that the gap was beyond the photo.

However, it also felt that it could not cross that single photo.

– T-Then, what about me?

Did it enter a place to be dissipated?

And at this time.

The Demon God’s whisper was heard through Ji-ho’s ears.

“How is the sight inside? It must definitely be excellent. If it is Ji-ho, it would be so. You have shared Aura with me for a long time, and your own core has become strong.”

It seemed the Demon God could not see all the way inside here.

Deprivation was about to say that his photo was here, but stopped, thinking the enemy would be pleased.

“It is the end. Now the time for dissipation has come.”

– A-Ah! No…!

Both Deprivation’s resistance and running wild were all blocked.

Not in Ji-ho’s inner mind but in his physical body.

The blue-green energy was sucked out and gathered between the Demon God’s hands.

It was clumped together into a small size, about the size of a soccer ball.

“So? Who is the one that made you into an evil spirit?”

– Do not dissipate me! Then I will tell you everything! Please do not dissipate me!

“Huuuum.”

The Demon God tilted his head.

Leave this be? That doesn’t appeal to me?

To such a Demon God, Ji-ho, still lying on one side, was seen.

“Ji-ho.”

“What now?”

“Hmph.”

The Demon God smiled mischievously.

“Did not Deprivation enter you for a moment. Are there any memories that flowed out by chance? Since it hasn’t been long since it became an evil spirit, I imagine there would be memories of that time?”

“Ugh. Is what I saw really real?”

It was real. Ji-ho saw Deprivation’s memories.

“I don’t think it knows anything.”

“Hm?”

“Someone did visit. But they always wore a hoodie pulled down deep. It couldn’t see their face either.”

“Eh.”

– No! No! There is a clue to guess!

Deprivation shouted urgently, but.

“Having a star-shaped tattoo on their hand?”

True to Ji-ho, who had excellent observation skills, he did not miss the details.

– …….

The Demon God looked down at Deprivation.

“There’s nothing more to say, right?”

– Please have mercy!

“I do not use mercy for forgiveness.”

Then where?

Even in this moment, Deprivation was curious about that, but there was no opportunity for a question.

Clap.

The Demon God’s two hands closed as if clapping.

A very easy motion.

But a motion that dissipates an existence.

The blue-green energy fluctuating inside his hands shattered at once.

The end of the evil spirit was ultimately dissipation.

Now the fight is over.

Deprivation’s Domain began to collapse.

It was time to return to reality soon.

“Ji-ho, you have worked hard.”

He did not forget to commend Ji-ho before returning.

“So, is this really reality?”

“I told you it’s trivial. You will forget everything after a deep sleep.”

“Really?”

With a somewhat unconvinced expression, Ji-ho looked around, then.

“It’s a slight shame.”

He said like this.

A bizarre and unfamiliar experience.

However, a quite exciting experience as always when together with Sun-woo.

“Will there be something like this again?”

“Hmph.”

The Demon God just smiled.

***

Right before returning to reality.

“Huuuum.”

The Demon God absorbed Deprivation’s spiritual energy through the Authority [Spiritual Feast].

The spiritual energy harbored by a quite powerful evil spirit.

Because that amount was at a considerable level.

Creeeeak—

A cracking sound is heard from the chains.

‘Oh? Now?’

Having continuously thrown signature questions to gather fandom devotion all this while.

In addition, Deprivation’s spiritual energy was added.

Even so, this unexpected moment.

Clang!

With an exceedingly welcome sound, another thin chain snapped and fell away!

‘How unexpected.’

The Demon God was full of joy.

As the chain snaps away, a portion of the bound power returns.

That power circulated through every corner of his existence, strengthening all aspects of the Demon God.

‘With this much power, I could manifest one more Authority.’

The Demon God clenched his fists and relished the power.

Until now, he had manifested Authorities related to food, water, sleep—namely, survival.

Will he form such an Authority for the fans this time too?

In this moment when the Demon God’s choice wasn’t finished.

– Bzzzt. Bzzt.

The distortion of space and time unravels, and reality returns as if rewinding a tape.

“Hmph, then shall I direct this side first.”

The Demon God quickly picked up Kwak Su-eon.

With a strong popping sound, the wall of space and time broke.

They returned to the stage at the point Kwak Su-eon had intruded.

There was a slight gap in time, but that was buried.

The people who had been lying asleep inside the Domain woke up here in their exact postures from original reality.

Actually, there wasn’t even the sensation of waking up.

Just a sensation of a momentary pain passing through their heads.

Because even that wasn’t felt properly as their attention was drawn to the intrusion in front of their eyes.

“Uwaaa! Who went up!”

“I said it’s an EXI member.”

“Catch him! Go up right now—, huh?”

On the stage.

Just before, there had been an intrusion.

Inside the camera angle, the Demon God was gently holding Kwak Su-eon.

Kwak Su-eon himself, as if bewitched by something, was held in the Demon God’s arms having lost consciousness.

Intense lighting for the song.

And the Pantheon members stopped exactly in their choreography postures.

In between them, the Demon God holding the intruder was smiling arrogantly and ominously.

A far too intense image.

Even amidst the unprecedented intrusion, the audience and staff all stared at the Demon God.

‘I have decided what Authority to form.’

Deprivation’s inferiority complex gave a good hint.

‘And to settle things here, a special service will be needed.’

I’ll have to overdo it slightly, but.

Not just fans, I shall service everyone here.

‘Be grateful.’

The Demon God released the Authority.

***

“What’s happening right now?! An accident?”

“Isn’t that EXI’s Su-eon, why on the stage?!”

“Did Sun-woo block him?”

Inside the sub-control room.

Chaos was erupting around PD Park Chang-su and in his in-ear.

The problem was that the PD himself, the general manager, was in complete panic.

A major accident unprecedented in music show history.

Why did it have to be when I am the director.

With only these thoughts circling, his mind went blank and he couldn’t take any measures.

The ringtone and vibration went off simultaneously.

The internal phone was the Variety Department Director, the cell phone was the Chief Producer (CP) in charge.

PD Park Chang-su picked up the receiver first with sweaty hands.

– What’s going on right now! Park Chang-su! Are you crazy?

I’m not crazy, but I’m going crazy.

Park Chang-su closed his eyes, waiting for the verbal abuse that would pour out next.

To him, who had given up everything like that.

The Demon God Sun-woo’s voice was heard from the in-ear he hadn’t managed to take out.

– I shall specially service you.

And Park Chang-su, having received this great fan service, opened his mouth.

“Director-nim! I will handle it! I just have to settle it, right!”

– W-What?

“I’m hanging up because I’m busy settling it!”

Park Chang-su put down the receiver with good spirit.

“I can do it. I can do it.”

An unknown confidence surges up from his heart. I can do it. I will settle it.

It was so.

The Demon God’s great Authority.

[Confidence Boost] had activated.

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