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"It's coming from the right. Let's crawl and move."

"..."

No...did we have to do this much?

However, Ryu Chungwoo already began to crawl with a serious look

on his face.

'We're wearing a wig and Hwarang costumes while crawling on a

grassy ground...'

It was a terrible mix.

In the meantime, an arrow flew over our heads and hit a wooden
fence.

Thwump!

The wooden planks were stained with blue pigment. Then Ryu
Chungwoo pointed his bow and arrow toward the spot where the
arrow flew from with his hawk eyes.

Of course, it was just a toy bow meant for children.

Swish.

"Aah!"

"Out~!"

"Aww, so close!"
The two finalists from the other team wearing scarlet headbands
emerged from behind a wooden fence with yellow pigment on their
shoulders.

They were the ones who shot with their heads up and down at the end
of the fence.

'...He fired one and hit two.'

His skill was at a level that could destroy an ecosystem. It was like
being on the same team and witnessing someone, who was a diamond
rank in a video game, having a sub-account and slaughtering everyone
in bronze rank.

"Seems like there are three teams left. I'll strike from the left."

Please, let's just stop it.

"...Hyung, why don't we wait until the number of people reduces?"

"Ah."

Ryu Chungwoo finally realized that he had crossed the line and his
face looked a little embarrassed. He was like an adult who came to his
senses after having a serious snowball fight among kids.

"You're right... Let's wait behind that."

"Yes."

"Hmm, it's been a while since I've done something like this, so it's fun."

Ryu Chungwoo had a slightly refreshed expression.

It seemed like he was the type to relieve stress by winning in basic

competitive content such as this.
'Does he play LoL?'

It would be perfect for him since he doesn't get affected by trash talk
from toxic gamers.

In any case, I crawled behind the largest wooden fence nearby at Ryu
Chungwoo's suggestion. But before we could get there, the arrows
started flying again. It was the guys with green bands on their heads.

'Has the other side been cleaned up already?'

There were even 4 people left there.

'I guess now we can slowly get hit and get eliminated.'

I think the other side can win and finish just fine if Ryu Chungwoo
eliminates just two more.

However, things did not go as expected.

"Watch out...!"

"Oh my god!"

"Is it done?"

"Aack!"

It was true that Ryu Chungwoo eliminated two more.

However, right after that, he ended up getting hit with paint and got
eliminated himself, and the rest of the other teams were eliminated as
well.

So all of a sudden, with only one guy with a green band remaining, a
one-on-one match between us was decided.
"..."

"..."

Is this for real?

The problem was that the other side also knew that they had to
eliminate Ryu Chungwoo, so they intensely focused on firing at him,
and Ryu Chungwoo had also fired at the guys who seemed likely to hit
him first.

In other words, the two camper survivors were the weakest ones left
behind.

//TN: Camper/camping is a video game term for those players who hide
and wait until they survive at the end

The other side must have been taken aback as well and missed the
arrow while repeatedly shouting 'Oh, oh?'.

"...Haah."

All of a sudden, this became a fight between noobs.

At that time, Ryu Chungwoo, whose neck was covered in paint, quickly
shouted.

"Moondae, use me as a cover and quickly hit him!!"

"..."

Where did our silent agreement to do this moderately go?

Anyway, I couldn't show people that I wasn't trying, so I leaned down

and aimed my bow properly.

"Ugh!"
The funny thing was that in the middle of that, the paint they shot
really hit Ryu Chungwoo's back.

'Do I go for it now?'

I reluctantly shot the arrow. I didn't really expect it to hit. The arrow
would probably just pass over their heads.

"...Uwah!"

"...?"

But I... actually hit?

"Ah!! Seriously!!"

Of all things, the last remaining guy had raised his hand to pull out an
arrow, and he ended up putting his hand directly to the trajectory of
the arrow and got hit.

What's with all this?

"Waaah!!"

"Moondae won!!"

The guys who had been eliminated and were waiting ran out and
began to rejoice.

Ryu Chungwoo also patted my back with a big smile.

"Well done!"

"...Wow!"
I clenched my fists while looking at the camera. There's nothing I can
do about winning so let's at least block any attitude controversies,
damn it.

However, the MC ran out of the commentator's booth and delivered

some good news.

"Ah~ TeStar Hwarang! You guys are eliminated!"

"...?!"

"Why?!"

"The eliminated Hwarang should have left the battlefield right away.
You can't help the surviving Hwarang."

"...!!"

The victory went to the green band team like that.

"The winner of the coloring battle is... Onyx!"

"Waaahhh!!"

"We did it!!"

And the TeStar guys had the same expression as a raccoon after it
washed its cotton candy.

"..."

"Was it Chungwoo hyung's fault?"

"Sorry..."

"It's okay."
With Cha Yujin's withered answer, the filming of <The Great Battle of
Idol Hwarang> finished.

***

And <The Great Battle of Idol Hwarang> spectacularly flopped.

It wasn't because of any sadistic aspects of the show or because of any

controversies. It was just because the show was awfully boring.

- It doesn't catch my eye at all.

- Tell me when TeStar's part comes out

- The editing is really bad

- The captions are so cheesy, why are they so old-fashioned?

- How can it be so boring with that combination...? I really don't

get it.

- Ryu Chungwoo is giving a really unique and crazy national team

member vibe so why is this so bland? This is fucking frustrating.

The editing and captions were so old-fashioned that they couldn't

make any of the content interesting.

In addition, the publicity was not stimulating, so word of mouth about

TeStar did not spread before airing. It was because the production
crew was so conscious of the similarity with 'Idol Olympics' that they
focused only on the format of the show to distribute press releases.

Thanks to this, there were quite a few people who were TeStar's
casual fans who didn't know at all that TeStar was going to appear.

- It would've been more fun than this if they just let the guys go to
Daegwallyeong to play with sheep in a reality show.

- The only things left are the kid's Hwarang outfit and Ryu
Chungwoo proving to be a gold medallist.

- TeStar cut version re-edited by Geumson on WeTube (link)

└ Wow, it looks really fun watching it like this

└ That's right, it should have been done like this instead of

editing it as a documentary about the kids not winning first place.
It's really much cuter and funnier.

Only photos and videos of various idols dressed up as Hwarang

remained and were used as good sales data, and <The Great Battle of
Idol Hwarang> fulfilled its purpose.

And the show ended forlornly without becoming a regular program.

But apart from that, TeStar's value began to rise even after appearing
on this ruined program.
=========================

[TeStar's first-week sales]

: Closing with 780,000 copies (weekly trend summary table)

=========================

- Wow, that's insane

- It turned.

- The momentum is seriously frightening. If you go to a group

chat, there's at least one person with a TeStar profile picture.

- All the Idol Co. hype must be gone now, but this is still possible?

- They probably don't have overseas shipments, hmm...

└ Overseas bulk shipments exploded (receipt photo) During the

debut promotion, they were doing very well in Korea, so it seems
like word of mouth spread abroad as well?

└ Overseas fans noticed this like a ghost ㅋㅋ

- It must have had a big impact because there were a lot of fan
signs... Anyway, congratulations~

└ Eh, I haven't caught that many TeStar fan signs, it's just
average...

└ Haha yeah~

- It seems like they should be included in the top 3 male idols. To

be honest, among the top 3, there are cases where the music that
comes out isn't as good as TeStar. In Korea, isn't TeStar almost
next to VTIC?
└ Yeah no. I don't accept that.

└ Let's stop messing around

└ TeStar's fandom would never claim TeStar as number 1. We're

just happy for the members to be there.

The fans were still trying to save themselves, but TeStar, who updated
their initial first-week sales record with a difference of more than
100,000 copies compared to last time and was doing well on the music
charts, had completely established themselves as the 'popular idols'.

Thanks to this, achieving first place in the first week's performance

broadcast was possible.

=========================

[How the guys feel about winning 1st place on MusicGayo +

encore video]

- Guys, congratulations ㅠㅠ

+ 1st place promise is to change parts with each other ㅋㅋ

cuties...

=========================

- Congratulations on 1st place in TeStar ♡ Let's fly forever ♡

- We can finally hear our fandom name in the acceptance speech!!

- Guys, thank you so much for calling for 'Loviewers' every time
you held the mic

- Ah, Raebin speaks straightforwardly about his feelings. It's so

cute that he's proud. I love my rabbit.

- What the? Why is Park Moondae so good at rapping?

└ Moon Puppy was so good that Yujin is all excited

- The chorus is so heartwarming

Fans were nervous about whether something strange would happen

due to the checks of other fandoms, but they enjoyed the pleasure of a
career-high and continued to enjoy themselves.

And it was around that time that <127 Section>, a collaboration game
with TeStar, was released.

In fact, fans were not too wary of the game. This was because TeStar's
comeback activity had few elements that seemed to be related to this
game.

- I guess it's just that they made a game collaboration song after
the sub-song?

- The concept is similar but Better Me, written as a sub-song, feels

a little more dystopian, and the game is post-apocalyptic, so that
detail is a bit different. I think they just picked a song that's
similar to the vibe of the album.

- Maybe it would be better not to attach too much importance to

the elements in the trailer.
- The connection between the world of Magical Boy is obviously
in the title song Airplane

The analysis from when the trailer first came out had also withered
away and had been reduced due to the analysis of the 'Airplane' music
video.

The atmosphere was similar when the game advertisement appeared.

It was because the advertisement photo selected was of TeStar
members promoting the game in the trailer's outfits.

- It's just a game advertisement like for other celebrities ㅋㅋ I

was worried for nothing

- I'm going to play the game once for the loyalty of Chungwoo
wearing a sniper outfit.

- I was surprised when TeStar's trailer came out as an

advertisement on WeTube. So it was for a game advertisement;; I
looked into it more and saw the gameplay

The response from game enthusiasts was also good.

- Subway advertisement...? (Eyeroll emoji)

- They're ready to suck our money

- I just lost my mind...

- You have to row when the water comes in. Take good care of the
server, factory bastards.

- I'm holding my breath until the release

- From now on, I'll only buy T1 dumplings

- These bastards aren't gonna split the game into DLC because the
PR fee is too high, are they?

└ Then that's only death

Although they were anxious, they welcomed the expansion of the

board. This was because the probability that the company would not
go bankrupt right away even if it did something crazy increased.

- Please come out as a successful game

- If they fail this time, they can't recover. They'll be a cut-off for
the company.

- I checked the promotional gameplay scene and the same feeling

as the beta version was there. As long as they can handle the
influx from TeStar, they can do it this time.

└ Fucking... please!!

And the day the game was released...

Both the TeStar fandom and the gaming community had been turned
upside down.
***

"Oh, it's done."

Park Moondae's first homepage master checked her smartphone while

leaving the video of Park Moondae's Hwarang video she was editing.

The game <127 Section> had been downloaded and an app icon was
added to the desktop.

'I've never played a game like this before... I'll have to give it a try
though.'

First of all, it was because Moondae advertised it. She was thinking of
taking care of the number of downloads and plays.

Of course, she didn't have a hobby of playing games like this, so she
was just going to properly do the tutorial and quit. She launched the
app.

'Let's do it quickly and end it.'

After a brief additional installation time, the tutorial began

immediately.

[You opened your eyes in Section 127]

And five minutes later she met a fellow character in the game.
It was a boy in a black hoodie who used a drone. Each time the drone
was controlled his eyes glowed purple.

"...!?"

It was Park Moondae in the comeback trailer video.