Chapter 142 – Episode 142 Last Game (5)

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About an hour passed.

As soon as they saw that each other’s scores were increasing, competition sparked and they tried to quickly fill up the scores.

Now, rather than a game where you just have to get the highest score within the time limit, it has become a fight to see who can reach 100 points first.

Butterflies: 5
Cami: 6
Heavy: 10

It was Eunji who was currently running in the lead. Thanks to the video he uploaded while revealing his face, he received a lot of points from Dohyung.

Of course, Ji or Ji-seon in the other room couldn’t tell how Eun-ji got the points.

“Haa… Ugh…”

Ji-seon was holding her breath and holding back the pain she felt from her wound.

“Ugh… Fuck…”

The pain felt in her left finger made it difficult to move each of her fingers properly, but Ji-seon tried to endure her pain and continue self-harming her body.

Her own score is now 6.

After previously pulling out the fingernails, the remaining ones were the fingernails of the thumb, index, and middle fingers, and all the fingernails on the left were forcibly pulled out just moments ago.

‘Fuck… Only 3 points each? What a dog…’

Ji-seon cursed Do-hyeong in her mind as she endured the tremendous pain she felt in her left hand as best as she could. Regardless of whether your thoughts are read or not.

Ji-seon didn’t feel even more guilty thinking that Do-hyeong was doing this because he thought he didn’t reflect on himself anyway.

“Ha… Ha… Should I do my right hand now…”

Ji-seon looked at the three fingernails on her right hand that were still intact and muttered. It was very painful for her to just pull out all the nails on her left hand, and trying to pull out all the nails on her right hand was not an easy choice.

Still, Ji-seon couldn’t stop.

He should have gotten a high score now, solidifying his lead.

Now, just as I was about to pull out the nails on my right hand, Do-hyeong’s voice came from the TV.

“Kami, are you reflecting pretty hard?”

“Uh… Huh?”

Ji-seon, startled by Do-hyeong’s voice, turned his head in the direction where the TV was.

“Uh… Master?”

‘W-what is it? Are you suddenly talking to me? Why?’

Ji-seon was momentarily taken aback by Do-hyeong’s voice, but she tried to concentrate and listen, feeling that he might not be talking to her for no reason.

“Looking at the nonsense you’re playing, I feel like the difference in scores is going to get too big. The game should be played fairly. Instead of recklessly hurting yourself here, I’ll give you a special mission. If you succeed in it, you’ll get a high score.”

“Well, what about that…”

“It’s probably the only thing that would be good for you to do. I don’t think it would matter much if you did Butterfly or Heavy.”

Ji-seon became a little anxious, wondering what on earth Do-hyeong was trying to get her to do. Considering my experience so far, it was absolutely not in my interest for Do-hyeong to step forward and try to help me like this.

But what was more upsetting than that was the reality that he didn’t even have the strength to refuse Dohyeong’s offer.

“If you do this, I’ll give you 30 points.”

“3, 30 points!?”

Ji-seon was startled by the huge score that Do-hyeong suggested and ended up screaming without realizing it.

“Okay, 30 points. All you have to do is pass the mission I gave you. Then, I won’t lie. I’ll give you 30 points.”

“What… Can I do?”

Ji-seon asked Do-hyeong with a trembling voice. Clearly, Dohyeong didn’t think he would be asked to do something easy.

‘He’s probably going to make me do some shit. But you have to do it. The number 30 points is huge…’

Even though he had just pulled out a whopping 3 nails, he only got 6 points.

However, he said that if I complete one mission, he will be given 30 points, which is 5 times higher, so I had no choice but to do this. Moreover, isn’t 30 points equivalent to almost one-third of the target score of 100?

In order to get ahead of the score right now, I had to absolutely do the mission that Dohyeong had mentioned.

“Looking at you, it looks like you have a lot of intention to do it. Isn’t that obvious? Because you don’t want to die either.”

Ji-seon wanted to shout something at Do-hyeong’s tone that seemed to ridicule her situation, but Ji-seon held back and listened to Do-hyeong’s words.

“What you have to do is… Simple. Among the things prepared in the room, there will be something that looks like scissors. Look for it.”

“Scissors?”

After hearing Do-hyeong’s words, Ji-seon stood up unsteadily and looked through the items piled up in the corner of the room, looking for an object like scissors.

“Uh, is this it?”

Ji-seon found an object like scissors among the objects and carefully took it out and picked it up with his right hand.

It was not an ordinary school supply, but a pair of scissors with sharp blades used to cut leaves.

“Okay, I found it. From now on, with that… I’ll cut your Achilles tendons. Both legs.”

“… Yes?”

Ji-seon was surprised to hear Do-hyeong’s words.

Cut your own Achilles tendon.

Ji-seon, who had not studied properly, knew what would happen if she cut it. It is one of the important tendons that help a person walk or run, and if it is completely cut, it is one of the very important human parts that will make it impossible to stand up properly.

Even for someone who was active as a member of the national taekwondo team, asking him to cut his Achilles tendon was the same as telling him to completely abandon his life as an athlete.

Simply rupturing it is a serious injury, but cutting it off with scissors sounded like they were going to make it completely impossible to recover.

“B-but… If you cut it!”

“You don’t have to if you don’t want to. I don’t care.”

To Ji-seon, Do-hyeong’s words, which he answered as if nothing had happened, in contrast to his very serious self, sounded like the devil was talking to her.

“It’s your choice. It doesn’t matter to me if you earn points by pulling out fingernails like you do now. But… Think carefully about how many points you’ll get from that. And if you clear this, I’ll give you another 30-point mission. Then, what kind of mission will you get? “I’ll be waiting to see if you make a choice. I’ll just leave.”

“Now, wait a minute!!

Ji-seon urgently shouted at the voice of Do-hyeong, who only said what he wanted to say and then disappeared, but there was no reply, wondering if Do-hyeong had really gone.

“Fuck… Cut my Achilles tendon? With this?”

Ji-seon looked at the scissors in his hand and muttered.

Let alone whether I could cut my Achilles tendon with scissors like this, it was a difficult choice to make because I knew very well what would happen to me if I did that.

Pain is painful, but if you cut your Achilles tendon, you will probably be left with a huge disability in your body. Let alone becoming a member of the national taekwondo team, I might end up in a wheelchair for the rest of my life and not even be able to walk properly.

As soon as he cut it, he rushed to the hospital to get surgery, but he didn’t even think that Do-hyeong would do such a thing.

“Fuck… Fuck!! You fucking dog…”

Ji-seon looked alternately at the scissors in her hand and at her ankle.

Unlike a fingernail that can be pulled out and heal again, self-harm, which leaves a huge disability, was not an easy choice.

It may be possible to get points by harming yourself somewhere else without doing this, but as Do-hyeong said, you don’t know how much points you will get by doing something like that.

In the worst case, no matter how much you hurt yourself, you may not even be able to get over 30 points.

‘Would you rather… Commit suicide by stabbing yourself in the neck with this?’

Ji-seon was under great stress and even had suicidal thoughts, but as the moments she had endured until now passed before her eyes, she could not make the choice to commit suicide.

If I had wanted to commit suicide, I could have done it at any time. Nevertheless, the reason I didn’t choose suicide was because I had the hope that I would be able to get out of this someday, but I didn’t want to die now.

Ji-seon, who didn’t know what to do, noticed a number changing on the TV screen.

Butterfly: 35 points
Cami: 6 points
Heavy: 10 points

“Uh… Huh? 3, 35 points?”

Ji-seon was surprised to see Ji-ah’s score suddenly increase. It was surprising that the score did not go up little by little, but by a whopping 30 points.

“Now, wait a minute… 30 points?”

Ji-seon got a strong feeling from the all-too-familiar score and realized what it meant.

‘S-No way… Kim Do-hyung, this bastard… Didn’t just give me the mission?’

Ji-seon had no way of knowing what Jia had done to earn the points.

But because the raised score was so familiar, she couldn’t help but be suspicious.

Just as Dohyung gave himself a mission, he also gave Jia a mission, and Jia accomplished it.

‘Is this the same mission as mine? No, maybe they gave us different missions…’

Ji-seon, whose mind was confused by the sudden increase in her score, had to choose what to do.

In Ji-seon’s memory, Do-hyeong clearly said this. He says that if you clear the mission he gave you, he will give you the next mission and it is also worth 30 points.

I don’t know if Jia cleared the mission or not, but if she did, she would most likely be doing the next mission right now, which meant that Jia would get close to 100 points the fastest.

“Holy shit…What a piece of shit!!”

Ji-seon, who did not want to die, had no choice.

In the room where Ji-seon was, only Ji-seon’s distressed voice was heard.