Debut or Die - Chapter 250

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A Fatal Illness if I Don’t Debut – Episode 250
Kim Rae-bin’s camcorder recording, which had maintained a serious yet spirited tone, grew strangely subdued.
[Cam: Phew… it’s now 9 PM.]
[Cam: Three hours ago from now]
[Cam: All the lights in the Villa went out.]
And on the screen, the lights throughout the house suddenly extinguished.
[!!!!]
[Kim Rae-bin: Is everyone alright?]
[Cha Yu-jin: Hyung!]
[Sudden blackout]
From that moment, the episode’s atmosphere shifted dramatically.
[Ryu Chung-woo: First, let’s not move and adjust to the darkness.]
[Testa confirming each other by smartphone light]
[But then]
[Someone… is missing?]
[???: Ugh!]
[Park Moon-dae: Hyung!]
What had been a lighthearted survival adventure suddenly took on an eerie tension.
Moreover, cross-interviews began to be inserted.
[Sun Ah-hyun: Suddenly, I heard Bae Sae-jin’s scream…]
[Park Moon-dae: We were startled. Everyone must have been shocked.]
The format carried the unmistakable scent of a horror film.
-Sudden thriller vibes lol
-Wow, what is so scary?
-Did the power really go out? That’s intense
-Is Bae Sae-jin hurt?
The infrared camera panned urgently. And then…
It captured Bae Sae-jin sprawled in an absurd position, as if about to tumble over.
[…??]
[Sae-jin seems fine…]
His physical comedy briefly restored a variety show atmosphere, but it didn’t last long.
The infrared camera drew closer.
[Shiiit]
[Ryu Chung-woo: Yes. There was a strange door behind the cabinet.]
[Park Moon-dae: But from what I could see at the time… there was no space behind it.]
[Park Moon-dae: …So there’s no way through. Except down to the Basement.]
The Basement door they discovered was zoomed in on screen, accompanied by an eerie silence.
-What
-Oh my god that’s terrifying
-Who is the owner of the villa? Why is something like that hidden?
-The atmosphere is creepy lolol
-Is this rigged?
Testa hesitated and stepped back from the door.
The interview cut back in.
[Lee Sae-jin : Wasn’t it a bit unsettling? (bitter laugh)]
[Bae Sae-jin : Something felt off….]
And the perspective shifted to that very night, with Cha Yu-jin unraveling the ghost story.
[Cha Yu-jin : Moon-dae hyung! Please speak Korean!]
[Park Moon-dae : (help me)]
[Cha Yu-jin : (in English) …so basically, a mad doctor in that house’s basement performed a frontal lobotomy….]
[Park Moon-dae : Once upon a time in America, there was a house haunted by the ghost of a doctor.]
[Lee Sae-jin : Moon-dae, the lengths don’t match?]
[Ryu Chung-woo : Mm.]
At the time, the atmosphere had been warm and amusing enough, but the edited footage conveyed something different.
It was rendered as if they were forcing laughter, like a foreshadowing of something to come.
The viewers grew uneasy.
-What’s with that basement door
-Let’s quickly block that door with the cabinet again.
-Why are they just leaving it like that
-Wait, are they still without power?
-Where did the healing show go, everyone’s too invested
With that lingering unease, the scene transitioned to the next day.
And finally, Testa appeared, split into teams and beginning their search for the circuit breaker.
[Q : I heard Sae-jin was the first to suggest something?]
[Bae Sae-jin : (ears turning red) I just mentioned the fuse box….]
[Bae Sae-jin : Yes, well, it felt like we had to try something. …The feeling was strange.]
As the interview ended, Bae Sae-jin’s tense face filled the screen.
And finally, as they found the circuit breaker and entered the basement, Bae Sae-jin’s words continued to be highlighted.
[Bae Sae-jin : Why would someone go out of their way to build a villa like this on a deserted island…?]
[Suddenly, silence on the staircase]
Nooooo! T_T
-Ah, don’t do that, why are you
-The Production Team is messing with us, just tell us already
-Sae-jin was paid to do this anyway
The tense faces of the members captured by the infrared camera slowly passed across the screen.
And they arrived at the basement.
In the dim light of a flashlight rather than infrared, what the members discovered was….
[Lee Sae-jin : …That’s not blood, is it?]
[Blood?]
[!!!!]
The frozen screen warped and distorted, expanding and contracting repeatedly, while an eerie sound like a child’s laughter played as the BGM.
[Kyaaaaaaah!!]
Testa on screen shrieked in absolute panic, unleashing every imaginable scream and reaction.
The viewers, caught up in the moment, flooded the comments with their own screams, shouts, and suspicions.
[Ding!]
[????]
The lights in the Basement flickered back on.
Inside the deliberately filtered, bright and pristine cellar, all five members of Testa huddled together as one trembling mass.
But one of them, noticing their surroundings and confusion washing over their face, quietly peeled away from the group.
Then they trudged over and opened the freezer.
A cute housewarming sound effect burst out.
[Ding-a-ling!]
[☆Meat Party☆]
[The True Identity of the Blood the Members Saw↘]
A crude arrow moved annoyingly across the screen, while a glittering, vibrant rainbow CG shimmered brilliantly above it.
[Park Moon-dae : ….]
A wistful BGM played over the blank expressions of the dazed idols….
And the merciless Production Team proceeded to close-up and replay each member’s previous reactions one by one.
[Cha Yu-jin : (dazzling English)]
[Kim Rae-bin : (silent scream)]
[Bae Sae-jin : I told you something was wrong!! Ahhh!!]
[Lee Sae-jin : Get up, right now get up…!]
[Park Moon-dae : (falls over)]
[~List of Fishermen Who Caught Themselves~]
Interview clips of the five members covering their faces in shame flashed by.
[Park Moon-dae: …I was somewhat startled. It wasn’t really scary though.]
[Hahahahahaha]
Finally, Park Moon-dae’s interview—where he tried to play it cool—came with an outright laughter caption.
And the viewers laughed mercilessly as well.
-Hahahahahaha
-Of all people, only the scaredy-cats went down there lol
-Ah Park Moon-dae, stop pretending you weren’t scared~~ The interview won’t help~~
-I mean, it was scary enough—a sudden blackout on a Deserted Island.. But you guys are definitely scaredy-cats
Hahahahahahaha
Even after the other two members arrived, the editing relentlessly worked to make the five members—now drowning in self-deprecation—the source of everyone’s laughter.
[Sun Ah-hyun : I found the circuit breaker…!]
On screen, footage of Ryu Chung-woo and Sun Ah-hyun operating the breaker switch and high-fiving appeared with a dim, atmospheric effect.
[
We’ve vanquished the scary blackout, so rest assured, members!]
-Perfectly hilarious how only the non-scaredy-cats were conveniently missing lol
—This is… the fault of that palm that tore the team apart like that… the fact that Testa is the root of all evil.
hahahaha
-I should have shared the archery master’s and X’s prince. (gum smile)
Besides, Testa was incredibly embarrassed at first, but ultimately lit up the moment they saw the meat.
They eagerly hunted down the frozen chicken and practically danced, and the raw, unfiltered reactions doubled the laughter.
—The kids are so cute
Hahaha oh no oh no hahaha
You really gave it your all, haha.
As they climbed the stairs with the meat, a comment slipped out.
[Bae Sae-jin : …At least there’s no camera.]
[↑ There was]
[PD : We were originally planning to do a treasure hunt, but that happened there…]
[Testa, blessed by the variety show fairy]
[Thank you for your sincerity…☆ by the Production Team, stranded and broadcast ruined]
They emphasized once more that nothing had been manipulated.
Thus, the broadcast wrapped up cleanly, maintaining laughter all the way to the end and delivering the closing remarks perfectly.
[※The Villa owner is an elderly couple with a romantic dream of returning to farming※]
[※We sincerely thank the Villa owners for their generous understanding of this broadcast and the remarks made※]
And with Testa enthusiastically filming a mukbang while cooking samgyetang, this episode concluded warmly and refreshingly.
Naturally, the moment the broadcast ended, viewers’ reactions exploded.
—Insane, Big Jae-mi
—First time laughing in a while
—Watch Testa’s Island Stranded quick, it’s so fun
I thought you were living on the Island, when did you change your name lolol
-Did Testa really get an entertainment fairy? Oh, it was so funny haha.
Moreover, the Production Team didn’t forget to tease plenty of previews.
Since it hadn’t been revealed yet how they came to rescue the Production Team, they stretched out this cliffhanger to aim for high viewership in the next episode.
And the preview itself looked incredibly entertaining.
Testa rescuing chicks, Testa preparing a flashlight, and even Testa putting on hiking boots and high-fiving.
[Ryu Chung-woo : Wow, what is this exactly?]
[Lee Sae-jin : I never imagined a shoot like this would happen! Haha!]
Survival and adventure, exploration.
A bright, activity-filled preview that seemed to pursue more genre-specific entertainment capped off the episode.
Because Testa appeared vibrant and joyful, it also adequately offset any corners where this episode might’ve received criticism as a ‘sadistic format’.
[Testa goes to rescue the Production Team?]
[Just how grand will the Production Team’s gratitude healing become!]
And ultimately, by highlighting just how magnificent the healing Testa would enjoy after this stranded ordeal, they also emphasized that the ‘healing segment’ remained.
Plus, the excited Testa’s SNS uploads kept rolling in.
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Crybaby King, next up Scaredy-cat King Moon-dae (photo)
(bursts out laughing)
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└Stop it, Lee Sae-jin
└Stop it, Park Moon-dae
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Hello, Reviewer. This is Sun Ah-hyun.
(photo)
This is a scented candle I made. I was debating whether to bring it on the island trip but ended up leaving it behind. After watching today’s broadcast, I’m a bit regretful. Do you think it could have helped when the members were scared?
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└No hyung, I wasn’t scared!
└Eugene, if you lie, horns will grow on your butt
└(tiger emoji) I don’t have any!
Thanks to that, the fans got swept up in the energetic variety show vibes and momentarily forgot their complaints and worries. The members looked genuinely happy, after all.
And while waiting for the next episode, they excitedly speculated about what would happen.
-Kim Rae-bin definitely jumped out first to save the chicks, judging by the editing
-Why do they need a flashlight again? Could it be something at night… or another blackout?
-They might wear hiking boots when going to rescue the Production Team
└Or they actually went hiking lolol
└lololol insane
By the way, that last guess was correct.

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“Refreshing.”
“…Yes.”
I sat on a rock, trying not to gasp for breath.
The morning air was nice, but it seemed like I was just short on oxygen from moving my body.
I turned my head. Ryu Chung-woo muttered softly in admiration.
“The view is nice.”
True to his words, the Villa, the Coastline, and the sea and land beyond looked quite picturesque.
It made sense. We were at the Mountain Peak.
‘Damn it.’
I never thought I’d actually go hiking.
I recalled the content we’d done after rescuing the Production Team.
Since the waves remained fierce even after the rain stopped and the boat couldn’t set sail, we’d done several activities connected to the disaster theme.
‘The helicopter vegetable delivery was pretty entertaining and looked good on camera.’
I never expected that handing out hiking boots would lead to an actual hike.
I slightly regretted passing the note to Kim Rae-bin during the last treasure hunt.
‘I didn’t know the punishment would be like this.’
Of course, it didn’t seem like a punishment for this guy.
I glanced sideways at Ryu Chung-woo.
“….”
His expression looked quite at ease.
Whether it was thanks to the mountain climbing, the gloomy and oppressive feeling that had seemed to linger since the accident appeared to have lifted somewhat.
‘…Ryu Chung-woo has been through quite a lot too.’
I found myself thinking I should be more considerate going forward.
Since it seemed we’d passed the point where he might explode if touched, it wouldn’t hurt to engage him in conversation and treat him better.
“Have some water.”
“Ah, thanks.”
I quietly sipped the warm scorched rice tea with him.
However, just before descending, I hadn’t anticipated this conversation would happen after the drone camera pulled away.
“So, Moon-dae. If you’re okay with it… what if we visited the members’ homes during this Chuseok break instead of the Dormitory? Ah, our place would be fine too.”
What?

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