Chapter 83 – Episode 83 Countdown

After Dohyung left the basement, the four people just stared blankly at the door, and no one said anything in particular.

In fact, it was the first time the four of them met again after graduating from high school.

Jia, Ji-sun, and Eun-ji in the other room had continued to keep in touch with each other even after graduating from high school, but the four of them had dispersed to different regions and were naturally forgetting about each other.

They were living their lives forgetting what happened in high school and whether they had bullied anyone.

But today, when I was kidnapped by Do-hyeong, forgotten memories arose.

“… First of all, it’s been a long time since we met. I never imagined we’d meet again in the same place.”

The silence in the basement was broken by Sujin’s voice. However, there was a hint of nervousness and fear of the iron plate in Sujin’s voice.

“What should I do now?”

“I need to get out of here quickly. I’m starting to settle in now!!”

In contrast to Dong-eun, who was thinking hard about how to escape, Ara shouted loudly in a voice full of frustration.

“Be quiet! We need to get our heads together now and find a way to get out of here!”

Sujin, who was the leader of the group just like in high school, took the lead and shouted this time too.

“First of all, there must be at least a small gap in this room that could allow something to escape. Let’s all spread out and search.”

“Ah Okay.”

As Sujin said, the four people searched the inside of the basement where they were trapped. But of course it wasn’t a shape that would create an escape hole.

Bang!

“Holy shit…”

Sujin pounded the wall with her fist in frustration when things did not go as she expected. So did the other three.

“Do I really need to burn my forehead there?”

When everyone was anxious because they could not find a way to escape, Dong-eun quietly opened her mouth.

“What? Are you crazy? How can you burn the flesh over there? You saw the meat cook in an instant earlier. If you get hurt here and don’t get proper treatment, that’s a big deal.”

“But that doesn’t mean there’s a clear way to escape! You can talk.”

Perhaps because Ara was a nurse by profession, she was startled by Dong-eun’s words and shouted. Because she knew better than the three people here how dangerous it was to touch bare skin with a heated iron plate and how painful it would be.

“I don’t like it… I’ll never do it to you, having my face, my pretty face, cut there.”

Of course, no one wanted to burn their face on a hot iron plate.

Although they tried hard to find a way to escape other than burning their foreheads on the iron plate, the four of them were unable to make any gains, and in the end, they were so exhausted that they had to sit and lean against the wall.

“But what should we do with our food? There’s no water here.”

“There’s no bathroom…”

The four people were despairing that there was really nothing in the space they were in.

The fact that they were trapped in a room with no doors or windows other than the door to the outside made them feel like they were in a prison, and it was hard to believe that what they were experiencing was real.

Sujin was kidnapped by a man she didn’t know who he was and now Minah can’t even remember his face, so she doesn’t understand why she has to go through this.

So the four people were trapped in the basement, unable to do anything.

But enduring it didn’t last long. It was difficult to stay still as my stomach was crying out for food and I was thirsty for water.

While the four people’s mouths were drying out, the door suddenly opened and Dohyeong came inside. And I looked around at the condition of the four people.

“What? You haven’t done it yet? I thought at least one person would have done it, but I’m disappointed?”

The four people who saw Dohyeong entering the basement glared at him with resentful eyes.

Ignoring the four people, Dohyeong opened the lid of the lunch box he was holding and began to enjoy the rice inside. He said it openly in front of four hungry people.

Growling!

As soon as they smelled the food in the lunch box that Dohyeong had brought, the four people’s stomachs began to churn even more.

“Hmm… For your information, if you apologize properly, I will give you food right away. People who can’t even apologize aren’t even humans, so there’s no need for me to give them food.”

When Do-hyeong said he would give them something to eat, the four of them felt cold for a moment. However, I could not overcome my aversion to burning my forehead on a hot iron plate.

Everyone has probably touched a hot object at least once in their life and suffered a burn. If you recall that experience, it is not an easy choice to make because you can indirectly feel how painful it is to press your forehead on that heated iron plate.

Dohyeong didn’t care if the four people burned their foreheads on the iron plate trying to apologize or died of starvation because they didn’t finish. Anyway, the four people brought here were destined to die the moment they were caught by Dohyeong.

The only difference is how long it lasts in pain or whether you starve to death.

Unlike the three people in the other room whom Dohyeong tried to take revenge on, he had no intention of letting them live in a painful hell for a long time.

After Dohyeong finished eating and saw that the four people had not moved yet, he laughed and left the room.

The four people who were watching that scene could do nothing but curse in their hearts as the scent of the food Dohyeong left behind made them even hungrier.

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Dohyeong came out of the room where the four people, including Sujin, were, and went into another basement room.

“Master, welcome!”

When Do-hyung came inside, Eun-ji greeted him with a warm greeting. When Do-hyung looked around, Ji-ah and Ji-seon, who must have been beaten by Eun-ji again today, were sprawled on the floor and staggered to their feet in surprise at the fact that Do-hyeong had come in.

“I was educating you appropriately today as well!”

Eun-ji justified bullying Ji-ah and Ji-seon in the name of education.

She suffered as much as what those two people had done to her, and even more.

Dohyeong didn’t like that look. Because Dohyeong’s goal was to make everyone suffer and live in a painful hell.

If Eun-ji continues to do things like this that would incur resentment towards the two and then pulls out palm time from the game box again, the relationship will now be reversed. You could say that Eunji almost kneaded the dough that day.

Dohyung thought that if he thought of Minah, he would have to cause her more pain, but now was not the time.

Anyway, Eunji is in Dohyeong’s hands. Dohyung thought there was no need to break Eunji in such a hurry and looked at the newly installed electronic signboard.

There were four large numbers 10 on it.

This electronic display board was newly installed in Eunji’s room on the day the four people were captured in another room, and is currently being used in the game.

“Um… But master? When does that number 10 start to decrease?”

“Well? I don’t know about that. But it will decrease someday, so don’t worry.”

“Yes, master!”

The game that Jia, Ji-seon, and Eun-ji are playing now is called Countdown 15 ★★.

Originally, number 15 was a different game, but Dohyeong converted it into a new game with magic. The game content was a very simple game in which Jia, Jiseon, and Eunji did not have to do anything special.

Simply, three people choose one of the four numbers 10 on the electronic display.

After that, it was a game in which the person who chose the number 10 last to become 0 would be punished.

However, if the 10 that the three people did not choose became 0 the fastest, all three would be punished by Dohyeong.

“I’m a little frustrated because I don’t see any signs of the numbers changing, master.”

“Well, that’s probably true for now. But that will change over time.”

Dohyeong smiled as if it was fun and looked at the electronic display board. Jia, Ji-seon, and Eun-ji couldn’t understand why Do-hyeong was smiling at that sight.

But from Dohyeong’s perspective, it was a very fun game. It is not random that the number 10 decreases.

That is, Sujin, Hyemin, Dong-eun, and Ara in another room are each assigned a number. If one of the four people puts his/her forehead on the iron plate to apologize and the machine’s number decreases, the number corresponding to that person will be displayed on the electronic display board. The structure was such that the numbers were decreasing.

The three people here probably can’t even imagine that the number 10 could be reduced in that way.

Currently, the number chosen by Jia is number 2, the number chosen by Ji-seon is number 4, and the number chosen by Eun-ji is number 1.

And the person each number is connected to is,

No. 1 Kang Soo-jin
No. 2 Park Hye-min
Number 3 Na Dong-eun
Do it 4 times

It was in order.

Since Do-hyeong said they wouldn’t play the next game until this one was over, the three of them just hoped that their numbers on the electronic display board would decrease first.

But since that was only possible if the four people in the other room hurt him, the number didn’t decrease that quickly.

After a day like that…

“Oh, the numbers are down!”

The number 10 that Eunji chose, 10, began to decrease. After hearing that, Ji-ah and Ji-seon quickly looked at the electronic display board.

They checked to see if there was any change in their numbers, but unfortunately, the other numbers remained unchanged.

On the other hand, Eunji felt very happy that the number she chose decreased first. First of all, the worst thing was that the number 3 chosen by the shape was reduced first, because if your number was reduced first, there would be no chance of you being punished.

“Hurry, quickly! Let’s get to 0!!”

Eunji looked at the numbers on the electronic display and shouted loudly.

Not knowing that Sujin was screaming in the other room and pressing her forehead against a hot iron plate.