The Idol Who Returned from Hell Chapter 118

The rules of the dance mafia game were simple.

Two people designated as mafia through drawing lots had to successfully perform a specific move a certain number of times while executing choreography.

The remaining 4 civilians had to figure out which member showed suspicious signs while dancing, then win by catching the mafia in the final investigation.

Some MILLENNIUM who read the rules wondered if catching the mafia wasn’t too easy.

—Huh but since the CENTIX kids have a small number of members, wouldn’t they notice right away if they kept staring at each other?

—If it’s obvious moves, it seems like they’d get caught quickly lol these kids are really sharp

└Right, isn’t the mafia difficulty way too extreme?

└This is a game other idols did too, but when there were 7-9 members it was super chaotic… They never caught all the mafia even once lol but with 6 members, who knows

However, the 〈Weekly Idol〉 production team seemed to have anticipated that viewers would think this way, as they added slightly modified conditions.

[Since the CENTIX kids have quite a small number of members, we prepared a ☆special version☆]

[It’s the ‘Dance Mafia Game Roller Coaster ver.’]

“What’s the roller coaster version now?”

Song Ji-won, who still had plenty of room left in her alcohol tolerance, muttered while pulling another beer from the refrigerator.

She was familiar with dance mafia since it often appeared in NeoTube content.

But roller coaster version was a term she’d never heard in her life.

[The genius CENTIX’s debut song 〈Chronic〉 might randomly play at 2x speed!]

[However, there’s no way to know which section will speed up, right?]

[If the CENTIX kids get distracted looking at other members and mess up the choreography……]

[Wh-what if they mess up?]

It had the nuance that some terrifying penalty was waiting.

CENTIX getting collective pupil earthquakes was just a bonus in how cute it was.

[For members who mess up choreography, there’s very good food that gives energy.]

[You’ll need to eat lemons deliciously!]

[Le-lemons?]

[There’s one friend here licking his lips!]

[Bro-Brother, when did I lick my lips!]

—LMAOOOOOOOOO did Si-hyeok lick his lips?

—Senior Ma Si-hyeok’s suffering derived from reality continues

└After anchovies, now it’s lemons? LOL

└Why are they doing this to our Si-hyeok T_T

└If it’s Si-hyeok, he’ll probably eat the whole lemon while whimpering but his face will turn red despite his big build, so adorable

└Save me, there’s a weird pervert here

Both CENTIX and MILLENNIUM were busy teasing Ma Si-hyeok at the news that the penalty was lemons.

The moment when he won anchovies in reality must have been quite intense.

[On the flip side, the winning team between civilians and mafia will take home an incredible reward. Our CENTIX, have you ever been deeply moved by the development of modern civilization?]

[Modern civilization like smartphones?]

[That’s too modern. Going back to our ancestors’ times, you can see how innovative the invention of chopsticks was. Now, the winning team will receive a chopsticks and spoon set!]

[Wo-woah?]

No matter how much they’re called monsters, CENTIX are still firmly rookies.

So before coming on this major variety show, they must have been told to ‘react to everything.’

They were looking around wondering if they should be very happy about winning chopsticks and spoons as a game reward.

—Suddenly chopsticks and spoons??

—I can buy 4 chopstick sets for 2000 won at the Daiso in our neighborhood

└I’ll acknowledge it if they’re gold-plated chopsticks/spoons

└Honestly, it should be at least this level to brag about chopsticks lol

The viewers also had the nuance of not understanding why they’d give chopsticks and spoons, but Song Ji-won muttered while chewing on squid.

“The next game reward is probably going to give food, right? The kids who lose at dance mafia now will have to eat with their hands.”

It was a sound that her brain, with a bit of intoxication and having somehow brought out food from the kitchen, instinctively made.

For now, let’s enjoy watching the dance mafia since the reason for the chopsticks and spoon gift would be revealed later.

[CENTIX drawing their sides in order]

[The first mafia winner is… our youngest!]

[Yu Ha-woon: (Gasp!! Is it really me? Really? What do I do, I’m screwed!)]

Yu Ha-woon whose every emotion shows on his face. It was a position completely incompatible with the mafia role that required poker face & cunning.

The second mafia who appeared in this situation that could break the game’s balance was none other than Ryu Si-hwan.

[♬♩♩♪♬]

[The familiar boss BGM heard from somewhere]

[Human weapon mafia & harmless substance mafia combination born!]

—LMAO why did our Hwan-father get that BGM as a permanent fixture?

—The power of the human weapon already proven on the pressure point mat

—LOL one side looks like they’ll get caught as soon as they start and the other side looks like they’ll shut mouths with force even if caught

└He was definitely in the position of giving kind and gentle advice, but how did he become an other-world demon lord position LOL

└”It’s not that I’m wrong, it’s that you guys saw wrong”

—But Si-hwan is quite expressionless so he’d probably be really good at spy games like this

└It’s not quite, he was famous as the trainee with the least expression changes in 〈ISL 2〉 lol

MILLENNIUM expected Ryu Si-hwan’s hard carry, showing perfect performance on stage and in games.

[Mafia Mission: Please throw a total of 5 hearts until the end of 〈Chronic〉! Finger hearts, hand hearts, cheek hearts all fine]

The mission itself looked easy, but 〈Chronic〉 choreography had many hand movements, making it variable.

If they carelessly did a different hand movement alone and got caught, it would be game over.

[I opened my eyes wide! Everyone be careful!]

[No one will believe you, Brothers! (said the mafia)]

[Ahaha, in my opinion, they’ll just keep monitoring each other and keep messing up the choreography.]

Until this point, they didn’t know that Seong-hwi’s casually thrown words would become reality.

When 〈Chronic〉 sped up to 2x just 10 seconds after the intro started, the members were engulfed in chaos.

[Huh, huh?! This is way faster than I thought!]

[I’m watching from behind continuously! If you mess up, it’s lemons! Everyone prepare yourselves—.]

[Brother Seon-woo just messed up!]

[Hey, Ma Si-hyeoook! Are you going to do this from the start?]

[Brother blatantly stepped with the opposite foot from the beginning, what should I do!]

[(……Expected it but chaos appeared in 10 seconds)]

Members kept messing up their own choreography while rolling their eyes, and voices trying to report this to the MCs got louder, and while all this was happening, the accompaniment maintained merciless 2x speed.

However, in this chaos, there was one person who maintained a peaceful face alone while dancing and even performing missions.

[(Heart +1, +2, +3! 3 Combo)]

[Leader Ryu who succeeded more than half the mission even though the first verse isn’t over yet]

While Kang Seon-woo and Ma Si-hyeok were bickering next to him, Ryu Si-hwan instantly squeezed in finger heart-small hand heart-small hand heart backwards 3 combo.

He even showed the leisure of nodding to Yu Ha-woon who was confused about what to do on the opposite movement line.

Thanks to that, the youngest also succeeded with finger hearts twice while biting his lips tightly.

[MC! MC! You’re watching properly, right! Brother Seon-woo has accumulated 2 lemons!]

[I never imagined Si-hyeok would shout that loudly.]

[Me neither. Where did the kid who was doing military roll call until just now go?]

At first everyone was in chaos, but when the accompaniment returned to normal around the first verse chorus, they showed knife-sharp choreography as if they’d never struggled.

[☆Coolness explodes☆]

[Right, this is it, this! The monster rookie I knew looked like this!]

[Now, everyone seems to have regained their senses. Let me give you the lemon mid-count! First, our Seon-woo has definitely accumulated 3—.]

[Hey, no one else messed up except me?]

[Huh. Brother Seon-woo just messed up again.]

[Chae Ha-ru, even you’re betraying me!]

……Of course, except for the entertaining human Kang Seon-woo.

When the movement lines changed a couple times and the chorus passed, CENTIX seemed to regain stability again.

[At this time, the youngest throwing hearts again—?]

[And at that moment, Seong-hwi turns around]

[Yu Ha-woon: (Ahh……☆ I’m screwed…….)]

[Ahaha, Ha-woon, that’s not how you do hearts.]

At the moment Yu Ha-woon was identified as a likely mafia suspect by Seong-hwi’s amazing timing capture, ‘chaos’ burst out again.

[Hearts!! It’s throwing hearts!!]

[Brother Si-hyeok was also a bit strange until just now!]

[Wh-what did I do!]

[You kept twitching your hands when throwing hearts.]

[I was sweating because the 2x choreography was hard!]

[Huh huh, everyone’s messing up in groups now! We’re watching everything! Catching all the strange stuff!]

[Open your mouth, lemons are coming in!]

With Jung Hang-seok and Tycoon jumping into this chaos too, CENTIX’s fate seemed to be completely covered with the sour scent of lemons.

However, Ryu Si-hwan didn’t get swept up in this, didn’t even mess up choreography, and was performing missions.

—Woahhh Si-hwan just succeeded with hearts again

—He’s crazy lol they said just do it 5 times but he’s probably thrown like 8 now?

└At this level, he basically just kept throwing hearts blatantly LOL

└He really did throw them blatantly but everyone was busy finding members who messed up so no one paid attention to the leader LMAO

└SYSTEM: Hwan-father has acquired the ‘Stealth’ skill

—Leader Ryu is amazing, truly hard carrying alone lol

Thus CENTIX’s dance mafia roller coaster version came to an end.

Song Ji-won burst into laughter seeing the ‘lemon x8’ text displayed next to Kang Seon-woo’s name.

“How is Seon-woo going to eat all that by himself?”

Even during the following mafia investigation time, opinions were divided.

[First, Ha-woon is confirmed, right?]

[I saw it clearly. He blatantly threw hearts at me.]

[Ugh—!]

[Then who’s the other one? Ah, I couldn’t see anything! I was busy doing my own choreography because Ma Si-hyeok next to me kept shouting “Brother, you messed up!”]

[Brother, you know you still messed up 8 times even doing that?]

[Don’t stab wounds with facts, youngest!]

In the end, without any particular evidence, Ma Si-hyeok was identified as mafia, so victory went to Yu Ha-woon and Ryu Si-hwan.

[Wow, this gives me chills. Why didn’t I ever think to look at Si-hwan?]

[I made hand hearts three times right next to you.]

[Si-hwan, brotherrr! Brother is the best! Carry machine!]

[Ah…… But Brother, you didn’t mess up the choreography at all, right?]

[I didn’t mess up. That’s why I got even less suspicion.]

[That Brother is always too serious about games.]

The two who received chopsticks and spoons as victory rewards from Jung Hang-seok made troubled faces about where to use these.

[Our CENTIX, it was hard fighting each other, right?]

[Yessss!!]

[You burned energy too, so you’re hungry, right?]

[Yessssss!!]

[Then let’s move to the next game with this energy intact. Sweet meals will return to those who answer correctly, it’s ‘Random Play Quiz feat. Korean Beef!’]

[We’ll play the intro of a song. Then someone who knows the song raises their hand high and guesses what song it is~! If you just know the song, you can just eat rice, but if you also know the choreography, you can come out, dance, and eat Korean beef too!]

The moment the word Korean beef came out, Chae Ha-ru’s eyes, which had been slightly dying, instantly changed and got caught on camera.

A very simple structure where you could satisfy your hungry stomach if you got the music quiz right.

However.

[Wa-wait a moment. Then if someone who doesn’t have chopsticks and spoons gets it right—.]

[Hahaha! Now, everyone, you understand how important the previous mafia game was, right?]

“Oh my.”

Song Ji-won blinked repeatedly while tearing off squid legs.

Why is this actually real?