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Join the Server“Huh? We didn’t do the wrong motion, did we?”
“Probably not. How could we explain it any better than this.”
Tae-young and Yoon-seo said this.
“A water ghost. There’s no way such a thing exists.”
Ha-gyeom shrugged.
“Right? Ji-ho?”
He sought agreement from Ji-ho, the most realistic among the members.
“R-Right?”
At the mumbling answer, Ha-gyeom tilted his head, but Ji-ho unnecessarily looked elsewhere.
Lately, Ji-ho felt that unrealistic things like ghosts could possibly exist.
He didn’t know the reason, but it had been like that since finishing the album activities.
More precisely, since returning from SBC.
“I think my body is weak these days.”
“Really? We should eat something delicious later.”
However, it was lightly passed off as a drop in stamina-.
The truth is out there.
“Sun-woo Hyung isn’t coming out quickly.”
Anyway, the four of them waited for Sun-woo to surface from the water.
“…Why is it taking so long?”
They were surprised by the scale of the weir being larger than expected.
It was about the size of a decent playground.
“The time limit is passing by.”
The filming staff informed them.
The time given to each individual was 20 minutes.
They had to catch as much seafood as possible within that time to eat abundantly.
The scene of seafood disappearing one by one from the seafood stew pot came to mind.
““Sun-woo?””
The members desperately called out to the Demon God.
***
And at this time, at the very bottom of the weir—
‘Found it!’
The Demon God’s eyes were shining.
Contrary to the members’ expectations, it was there.
A water ghost, of all things.
‘So that is how they move.’
Water ghosts originally tend to stand straight up underwater.
Maintaining a vertical position while swaying slightly.
Also, to grab people passing above them, they often held both hands up.
It looked exactly like the members’ gestures.
The Demon God kicked his feet and quickly approached the water ghost.
Soon, the water ghost also witnessed the Demon God.
– Kkyaaack!
It screamed as soon as it saw him.
A slightly cloudy day, so the light shining in was weak.
Receiving that light, an existence emitting an ominous Aura from its entire body.
A lofty existence with shining eyes was reaching its hand toward the water ghost.
– Kkiieeh—! Don’t come! Don’t come!
“You are seafood, but because it is a game.”
The Demon God was resolute.
Properly conveying his intention even underwater, he grabbed the water ghost by the hair.
– Let go! I will leave this place! Let go!
Originally, water ghosts are bound earthbound spirits underwater, so they do not leave their designated spot.
However, occasionally there were individuals that moved within a specific area like this.
Leaving it alone would do no good.
A water ghost is fundamentally an evil spirit.
Shouldn’t the members enter here right now.
“If left alone, will you not harm people anyway?”
– N-No! I will turn over a new leaf!
The water ghost became polite before he knew it, but it didn’t work on the Demon God.
He was a Demon God who wouldn’t have let it go even if it was polite from the start, so what use was it now.
“Turn over a new leaf? Then ascend immediately.”
– Kkieeh! I don’t want toooo!
The Demon God kicked off the bottom and headed upward.
‘Playing together, is it not easy?’
Even if it was his first time playing such a game, he was indeed the Demon God.
He could easily accomplish it.
“Pah-hat!”
With a triumphant feeling, he shot up out of the water in a single breath.
“It’s Sun-woo!”
“What did he catch?”
“It won’t be a water ghost, right!”
“It could be.”
“Look! It is a water ghost!”
Oh right, humans can’t see it, can they?
Still, the Demon God shook the head of the water ghost he held in his hand.
– Kkyaaah! Outside the water! If I go outside the water!
If you go outside?
– I dissipateee—.
Like a vampire exposed to sunlight, the water ghost melted away.
“What? Why is the water ghost here so frail?”
The Demon God ended up a little flustered.
Why melt? Shouldn’t you resist and fight!
“Umm. It melted. I definitely brought it.”
The Demon God waved his empty hand, filled with a sense of unfairness.
On the other hand, the Pantheon members looking at that face were dumbfounded.
“It seems Sun-woo is speaking sincerely?”
“Y-Yes, surprisingly.”
“It was an empty hand from the start.”
“Really? But something—. No. I guess my body really is weak.”
The members looked at the staff.
How is the ruling made in this case?
“Ding! Not a water ghost. It was seaweed.”
“What?! You say it is not?”
The Demon God was dumbfounded.
“I clearly saw through it, though?”
Saw through it, you say. What?
Seeing the dumbfounded Demon God, the members were even more dumbfounded.
Eventually, Yoon-seo spoke blankly.
“Sun-woo Hyung, there’s no way we would have asked you to find a water ghost.”
“Is that so? But your gestures were exactly that.”
“If you find it, how do we eat it?”
“I thought there was a shamanistic recipe. Like putting in a lot of salt.”
Humans say they chase away miscellaneous spirits with salt too.
Then wouldn’t cooking be possible as well?
“Is it no good because it is salty?”
Of course, it wasn’t a problem on that level….
“Guys.”
Tae-young called the members.
“It seems Sun-woo knows the minds of his ‘subordinates’ as he calls them well, but when playing like this, he doesn’t know other people’s minds well.”
“I guess so.”
Everyone nodded.
Actually, they felt it normally too.
Like Sun-woo’s jagged common sense, his empathy and understanding also had significant ups and downs.
“How can he be like that?”
“Character.”
“I know that, but.”
“What do we tell him to do now?”
The members fell into deep thought.
What should they say to Sun-woo?
Meanwhile, the Demon God was also in a slightly bewildered situation.
The ghost exorcism brought about by misunderstanding and coincidence ended just like that.
‘It was definitely a water ghost? Does this mean I must think deeper?’
Around the time this question arose.
Having come to a conclusion, the members shouted from over there.
“Sun-woo, try thinking from our perspective!”
The Demon God ended up receiving a truly insolent demand.
“Another’s perspective? I have never done such a thing?”
“That’s why you should try! Fighting!”
“I can do fighting well, but.”
Living as an existence of lofty status, he had guessed much of the inner thoughts looking down from above.
However, to guess their inner thoughts in a setting where they play together with no ulterior motives like this, it feels truly awkward.
But the game continued.
“Next question! The four members on the water, please look. Sun-woo can stay above the water if he wishes.”
The staff flipped the sketchbook and showed it to the members.
“Sun-woo! You have to do well this time. Watch us carefully!”
“You cannot speak. Please explain with gestures.”
The Demon God focused more than earlier and looked at the members.
‘Right, shall I give it a try.’
All four puffed up their cheeks as much as they could.
They blew air into their cheeks while reading the room, perhaps mindful of the camera next to them.
‘Round? Is it something round?’
This time, the members’ gestures split.
Placing their hands under their chins and wiggling ten fingers were Yoon-seo and Ji-ho.
Flailing arms and legs flexibly was Tae-young.
Pouting his lips out was Ha-gyeom.
‘Round, with several somethings attached below, and sticking out forward—’
A kraken.
It’s certain.
‘The giant octopus monster that rules the sea!’
The Demon God instantly put on an arrogant face.
Shake shake shake—
Just seeing the Demon God’s face, the members shook their heads simultaneously.
‘Hm?’
The bewildered Demon God.
However, at the members’ head-shaking, he comes to think again.
‘They wouldn’t have known I was going to say kraken. Then they only saw my expression. How did my expression look?’
How do I look to others.
In a context unrelated to worship or troop management, such thinking was unfamiliar to the Demon God.
When he even tried to recreate his expression from earlier—
‘It is a cool expression overflowing with confidence.’
He got stuck here.
Because even the Demon God’s ego is excessive.
‘It’s cool, so what? It’s cool, so what do you want me to do?’
But his thoughts did not stop.
‘Reduce the confidence?’
‘Then reduce the answer?’
A nonsensical leap of logic.
But creativity is originally like this.
‘Ah? Smaller than the giant octopus monster kraken? Is it not just an octopus?’
The Demon God reached it—.
Starting from an insolent demand, passing through an excessive ego, he reached it through a leap of logic.
Of course, the process was somewhat strange, and it wouldn’t have been bad if he had thought of an octopus from the start.
Anyway, he reached it.
“O-Octopus…?”
““!!!!””
The members’ gestures stopped exactly. No matter who looked, it was definitely the correct answer!
“Wait for me!”
The Demon God disappeared into the water.
“Sun-woo did it.”
“Sun-woo Hyung did it!”
“As expected of Sun-woo! I knew he would do it!”
“Now we just have to wait— Uwaack!”
The last was Ji-ho’s scream.
Because the Demon God didn’t just stick out his upper body, but shot up completely above the water.
They thought that no matter how much it was Sun-woo, they would have to wait quite a while, but that wasn’t the case.
Furthermore, in a short time, he appeared holding as many as four octopuses in his hands.
“Look! Octopuses!”
“Correct!”
““Sun-woo! Good job!””
The Demon God realized.
Because they are small and fragile humans, I just have to think in a small and fragile way for them.
Empathy and understanding.
It’s somewhat strange, but still empathy and understanding.
“Give the next question!”
From then on, it was an unstoppable momentum.
“A Beholder with tentacles attached to a round body! I mean a sea urchin!”
““Hurrah for Sun-woo!!!!””
“A long and agile giant sea snake! I mean a cutlassfish!”
““Sun-woo knows a lot of seafood? You’re good!””
“It is thanks to Yoon-seo feeding me normally!”
This afternoon, Pantheon’s seafood stew pot was abundant.
Because it was a pot overflowing with the Demon God’s empathy and understanding. Even if slightly distorted, it was empathy and understanding.
***
Pantheon gathered in the villa courtyard.
They sat at a long dining table covered with a tablecloth.
Don’t tell me, by any chance, a eating game this time too?
Anticipation rises.
Team Leader Oh Dae-ho, who took charge of hosting the evening, spoke from off-camera.
“It’s an eating game in the evening too.”
““Uwaaaah!!!!””
Pantheon let out a shout.
“Because the CEO-nim told me to feed you well. You digested well during free time, right?”
After finishing the seafood stew meal, they had free time.
They spent it fruitfully playing, with naps, walks, light sports, and even board games.
An age where metabolism is active.
No matter how large the amount of the afternoon’s seafood stew was, digestion was complete.
“I like it! Something delicious! Something delicious!”
Ha-gyeom panted first.
Seeing that sight, Oh Dae-ho smiled.
“Hm? Something is strange, though?”
“Pardon? What would be so?”
The honorifics for hosting sounded even more slippery.
The Demon God narrowed his eyes and pointed to one side of the courtyard.
“What are those things?”
A large spinning wheel.
And a large cloth dice.
“Fufufufu, because we have to take care of fun too.”
Oh Dae-ho let out a dark laugh resembling someone’s.
The material-gathering game at the weir was originally a competitive game, but it was slightly modified upon Yoon-seo’s suggestion.
This time, they hadn’t heard the contents of the game yet.
“Now, this game is!”
Spin the wheel to choose Jeju’s famous foods. There is also ‘Dud!’.
Once the food is decided, roll the dice to decide how many people will eat. There are numbers from 1 to 5 to match Pantheon’s headcount, and also ‘Dud!’.
The chances given are two per person!
It was this kind of content.
“What? Is this not far from feeding well?”
“Because if you spin well and throw well, you eat well.”
Oh Dae-ho looked somewhat excited.
‘Guys, I have no grudge against you.’
Here, guys meant Tae-young, Yoon-seo, Ha-gyeom, and Ji-ho.
‘I’m thinking of showing Sun-woo who’s boss. Fufufufu.’
He only has a grudge against Sun-woo.
Oh Dae-ho, who had normally suffered at the hands of the Demon God, was attempting revenge!
When playing a game to decide who eats when the number comes out small.
‘I will play tricks, Sun-woo. There is nothing as painful as not being able to eat something delicious right in front of your eyes!’
And the Demon God also noticed things like this amazingly well.
“Team Leader? You seem to be harboring not-so-good thoughts?”
“No way!”
But this time, Oh Dae-ho also smoothly slipped away.
“Now, shall we begin?”
A fast progression to avoid the Demon God’s interrogation.
“Starting with the leader, Tae-young!”
Tae-young looked back for a moment, then nodded.
It’s not a competitive game.
It’s ambiguous to call it a cooperative game, but anyway, they bear the results together.
‘If this is also playing together, then it’s playing together.’
With this thought, he stepped forward and spun the wheel.
Whirrr—
The wheel spun with an exciting sound.
‘Dud!’ is also seen—
And an unidentified penalty space covered by paper is seen too—
“Tsk, it’s meat noodles!”
Dodging all those spaces, jackpot!
“Team Leader? Did you not feel somewhat disappointed just now?”
“No way.”
There are some doubts, but they pass it over in the joy of eating something delicious.
Tae-young clenched his fist and showed it.
The members also cheered wildly.
Meat noodles, Jeju-style banquet noodles rolled in anchovy and pork broth.
It was an extremely good food to stimulate the appetite in the evening when they were slowly getting hungry.
“May everyone be able to eat together!”
With Tae-young’s wish, the dice went high up into the sky.
Thud. Roll roll. It rolled on the floor.
“Five!”
The number was a whopping five!
“Tae-young Hyung, amazing!”
“Excellent!”
The rejoicing Pantheon, and,
‘Yeah, well, it can happen once.’
The disappointed Team Leader Oh Dae-ho.
With conflicting reactions, meat noodles were carried over onto the dining table.
The scent of meat spread faintly from the clear broth.
The noodles were chewy, and savory flavor seeped out from the pork.
Mmm, mmm, Pantheon was engrossed in the meal, even forgetting reactions.
“Now, have you eaten it all? It’s tantalizing because it’s a small bowl, right?”
““Yes!!””
As the Team Leader said, the meat noodles came out in dessert-sized bowls.
“Still more!”
“We can eat much more!”
“Next is Yoon-seo!”
The wheel spins.
On a board where duds and penalties were situated in between—
“Grilled black pork!?”
The Team Leader’s bewildered voice.
Following noodles, a proper main dish came out.
“Ahem, hem. Try rolling the dice!”
Yoon-seo took a deep breath and rolled the dice.
“Five! It’s five this time too!”
“Huh?”
The Team Leader opened his eyes wide.
Five two times in a row? It’s a possible probability, but isn’t it too coincidental?
“Hmph. Have you not been with this body for a long time. The things you do will go smoothly.”
Letting Sun-woo saying useless things again flow past his ears.
The Team Leader avoided the camera and tried throwing the dice. Wondering if it was made wrong.
Dud! A dud came out perfectly fine.
“Team Leader, it is because you harbor not-so-good feelings.”
Oh Dae-ho violently shook his head while looking at Pantheon, who had already lunged at the meal.
‘No way. The third time won’t work.’
And.
“Omegi tteok! The number is five!”
““Waaaaah! Ha-gyeom did well!””
“Uh-uh?”
The Team Leader was bewildered.
Appetizer, main meal, and even dessert, Pantheon was making sure to eat it all.
‘This game turns out like this?’
Faces feeling good with satiety from eating well.
Setting aside the other kids, even Sun-woo—
“Hmm, not bad.”
T-That, what an arrogant compliment!
“…Shall we continue?”
The Team Leader, whose mean-spirited prank was frustrated, proceeded with the game again with a slightly downed voice.
However.
A short while later, Team Leader Oh Dae-ho’s face became so bright.
Because Pantheon failed after that?
No.
“Dombe meat! The number is five!”
“Waaaaah!”
“Bing tteok! The number is five!”
“Uwaaaah…”
“Duruchigi! The number is five!”
“Uuuuh…”
“Sea urchin porridge! The number is five!”
“Ugh.”
Pantheon, clutching their seemingly bursting stomachs, were rolling on the floor.
“S-Stop…”
Things going too well was a problem too.
Everyone ended up eating nine meals together.
“Uuu…, Sun-woo, it’s the last turn.”
“Hyung…, I can’t eat anymore now.”
The Demon God with an uncomfortable expression stepped forward.
“Something is strange. Ugh—”
And.
The wheel and dice were unyielding.
“Spicy braised cutlassfish! The number is five!”
Oh Dae-ho shouted, overflowing with joy.
“Make it spicy! Please make it very spicy!”
“What?!”
The Demon God’s complexion turned pale.
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