Grab the Regressor by the Collar and Debut - Chapter 454

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454. Housing Project (5)
【New Roommate Laser Survival Showdown!】
【And the Results Are!?】
There were no surprises.
【TEAM BLUE (Do-ha, Eun-chan): 1140 pt】
【TEAM GREEN (Ha-jin, Tae-hyun): 990 pt】
【TEAM RED (Si-woo, Yoo Gun, Ha-ru): 960 pt】
The gap between first and third place was merely 180 points.
180 points meant the difference of six headshots or nine body shots.
Even the score between second-place GREEN and RED teams differed by only 30 points—an incredibly close margin. The two evenly matched teams had their victory decided by the thinnest of margins in the final moments, largely because Yoo Gun fell for Ha-jin’s booby trap and surrendered two headshots. Do-ha from TEAM BLUE also benefited somewhat from being in the right place at the right time while Ha-jin, consumed by revenge, relentlessly targeted RED team alone.
Do-ha from TEAM BLUE had reaped some advantages while Ha-jin fixated on tearing through RED team in retaliation.
【PD: TEAM BLUE is the champion! Congratulations!】
With flashy CG effects, a close-up captured Do-ha and Eun-chan shyly exchanging a high-five.
Perhaps because they were the two least talkative and expressive members in the group, their way of celebrating victory was remarkably subdued. The Destiny members could only infer from Do-ha’s shoulders rising slightly higher than usual and Eun-chan’s subtle smile that “those two must have had quite a bit of fun.”
【PD: Now then, starting with first place, I’ll give each team the opportunity to choose their rooms and furniture in order.】
Though they could select furniture in tiers, the beds, desks, wardrobes, and other furnishings were all premium models that Joo Eun-seok from JDZ had carefully handpicked. It was only natural—they couldn’t give metal bunk beds to some members and old wooden planks to others when these were actual homes where the members would be living.
【Eun-chan: Hmm… How about this room, Do-ha?】
【Do-ha: I’m always coming and going from the studio in the early morning anyway, so being closer to the entrance would actually be more convenient. Should we go with this one?】
So ultimately, the true prize of this survival game was “room selection rights.”
Of course, there were slight variations in furniture colors and materials, and since the decorative items prepared as bonuses were limited in variety, a certain degree of “priority” was guaranteed… but.
【The Baebae’s Room, Completed This Way!】
【The members’ dormitory with all interior design finished will be revealed shortly!】
The perceptive production team boldly skipped over these minor details.
After all, they could just insert brief shots of the completed dormitory at the end as inserts, and there was still a long way to go.
By the way, the group name “Baebae” that Kwon PD had finally settled on after much deliberation was short for “portable battery.”
【PD: Then next, GREEN team, please make your selection.】
In truth, Kwon PD wanted to cut this entire “room selection process” as well. The probability of getting anything particularly entertaining from such selection scenes was slim.
Since they were considerate guys, the three-member team in last place would probably defer to let the others have the largest room, and the extent of conflict he could extract from this setup would be limited to choosing bedding colors or similar minor preferences.
【Ha-jin: Yes. We will…】
As always, “usually” that was how it went.
Usually.
【Ha-jin: We’ll take that largest room over there.】
【Yoo Gun: Wow, you’re a real devil.】
And the opposition was Kairos.
【Ha-jin: Sorry, but I haven’t even brought up the real main event yet.】
【Si-woo: …?】
Ha-jin flashed a sinister smile at the bewildered RED team, then pulled something from the front pocket of his tactical vest. Dan Ha-ru was the first to recognize what it was, and his face registered a “No way?” expression.
【Ha-jin: I can use this item now, right? I’m forcibly recruiting that roommate.】
【Tae-hyun: Trust me, I tried to stop him.】
What Ha-jin had pulled out was an unused item capsule.
And on the paper inside the capsule he unfolded, the words 【Forced Team Member Recruitment Right】were printed clearly.
Kang Ha-jin, with his confident demeanor, turned to face the RED team members with a wickedly sinister smile.
【Ha-jin: Surely no one would have dared to choose me as their roommate…?】
【Yoo Gun: …You’re the one who’s angry? Not the one who backstabbed the team?】
【Ha-jin: A good combatant shouldn’t express regret about tactical decisions made during operations.】
【Ha-ru: I think it would be nice if you had some qualities as a mature leader of a team, though.】
Kang Ha-jin brushed off Dan Ha-ru’s blunt factual assault lightly.
As if such words couldn’t hurt him at all, he let out a small scoff and simply raised his hand, flicking his fingers twice.
【Ha-jin: Sparkle.】
【Ha-ru: …?】
【Ha-jin: Come here.】
【Ha-ru: …Me?】
To Ha-ru, who asked again whether he was being pointed at, Tae-hyun beside him quietly nodded to confirm. Then Si-woo, facing the crisis of losing the youngest member—the only neutral ground between the three—opened his mouth in bewilderment.
【Si-woo: You’re passing up the chance for the two of you to use a large room comfortably, and you’re going to take Ha-ru and use it with three people? If it’s revenge, wouldn’t it be enough for us three to use the small room?】
【Ha-jin: Uh, I’m not that inconsiderate of a person.】
But the fact that he was taking Dan Ha-ru from this combination was already incredibly inconsiderate!
However, Si-woo, unable to say such things on broadcast, quietly bit his lower lip. The one standing beside him, Yoo Gun, seemed to be growing increasingly anxious as well.
Toward Ha-ru, who was still blinking in bewilderment, and the other two who were beginning to panic, Ha-jin flashed the most refreshing and irritating smile in the world and spoke cheerfully.
【Ha-jin: It seems I’ve chosen the correct method of revenge, doesn’t it?】
【Yoo Gun: Seo Tae-hyun! You’re really going to take Dan Ha-ru? You’re going to endure the Kang Ha-jin and Dan Ha-ru combination?】
【Tae-hyun: Um, well…. I was opposed to it at first….】
Tae-hyun, showing a troubled expression at Yoo Gun’s words, scratched the back of his neck with a bright smile that had once made him master the world.
【Tae-hyun: I realized that without Ha-ru, I wouldn’t be able to handle that hyung’s energy on my own….】
Using barbarians to control barbarians.
In other words, he was saying he had to sacrifice Dan Ha-ru to avoid Kang Ha-jin.
Dan Ha-ru, hearing those words, also grabbed his head as if struck by a bolt from the blue.
Dan Ha-ru, whose remaining life’s purpose was simply to live quietly day by day until he faded away, murmured forlornly as he looked at Kang Ha-jin, who was laughing confidently as if he knew everything about him.
【Ha-ru: That unnecessarily meticulous hyung….】
The RED team, having tried to catch one strong opponent only to receive triple the karmic retribution, fell into silent despair.
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Kairos’s 【Housing Project】was uploaded in two parts total.
Part 1 covered from the roommate selection psychology test that everyone knew about through the middle of the laser survival game, and Part 2 covered the remaining portion and results of the laser survival game, as well as the housing competition in a 【Kairos VS Production Team】format conducted back in the existing studio.
And in fact, the production team, who hadn’t expected Part 1 and Part 2 to take up such a massive volume, had hidden a massive content cheat key in this final Part 3….
【The production team selection to compete with Kairos members over housing today is!?】
【??: Hello~】
【??: Wow, there are way more cameras here than ours, right? Right? What’s with this camera count difference~? Is this a measure of popularity~?】
【??: Because we have more members than you.】
【Ha-jin: …?】
【Ha-jin: Seniors… why are you here…?】
It was the presence of special guests.
【PD: Today, the individuals joining us in this household goods conquest are none other than…!】
【PD: The sponsors who’ve so graciously provided today’s prizes~!】
【Ha-jin: (speechless)】
Kwon PD unhesitatingly deployed the trump card he’d been carefully saving for just the right moment—the “senior group” gambit.
It was perfectly timed, too; Yupia and Endway were currently in Korea, and before next year’s concert, we needed fresh material to push Today’s Kairos one more time in some form.
It had only been possible because Yupia and Endway had signaled their willingness to appear from the moment they offered products as housewarming gifts.
【PD: The products today have been provided by Yupia CEO Seo Tae-il, Nam Da-down, Kwon Sang-rok, and Endway’s Choi Yeon-woo and Park Woong!】
The Kairos members suddenly found themselves competing for household goods that their seniors had bought for them. Seo Tae-hyun, so startled his eyes went wide, protested with an aggrieved voice.
【Tae-hyun: If you didn’t want to give us the prizes, you could’ve just said so…!】
From the opposing team’s side, Nam Da-down, who’d been casually checking his one-shot, sent back a cheeky wink and countered.
【Da-down: What are you talking about, nephew Tae-hyun? We came here of our own accord to give you guys these products for free, didn’t we? Oh, but that air purifier looks really nice. It’d be the perfect size for Han-sol’s place, wouldn’t it?】
【Tae-hyun: I’m sorry, but I don’t believe you at all!】
For someone claiming to have come to give away products for free, Yupia seemed far too excited. Even Kwon Sang-rok, supposedly the calmest and quietest among the members, was quietly warming up.
Nam Da-down was openly scanning through the entire product lineup, chattering away to Seo Tae-il about everything he’d had his eye on!
【Yeon-woo: Well, we don’t really need anything for the dormitory. I just came because it seemed fun. But if I had to pick one thing… a robot vacuum? I’d like to take one and put it in the studio.】
【Park Woong: An air fryer. I came here just hoping for that one thing.】
【Yoo Gun: Why are you seniors even here at our content shoot, trying to furnish your own homes…?】
Just have the seniors buy it themselves!
I mean, all of this was bought with the seniors’ money in the first place!
The Kairos members’ indignant cries echoed throughout the set, but the more aggrieved they became, the more delighted the viewers watching were.
Moreover, the guests weren’t finished yet.
【PD: In place of Miro CEO Han Se-won and JDZ Director Joo Eun-seok, who couldn’t attend today, Manager Jung will represent Miro Entertainment, and Deputy Hong from the sponsorship department will represent JDZ.】
Not just wealthy celebrities, but two ordinary thirty-something civilians who genuinely needed household furnishings were brought into the competition!
Two sturdy adult men wearing masks that covered half their faces for privacy protection hesitantly stepped into frame. The Kairos members’ expressions grew even more dumbfounded as they suddenly found themselves competing against their manager and company employees.
Despite the difficult decision to appear on camera, Kwon PD shared one piece of good news with the two men to ease their tension.
【PD: By the way, whatever you win here, your superiors have instructed you to keep and use for yourselves.】
【Manager Jung & Deputy Hong: …!!!!】
【Eun-chan: Wait, really? Even the deputy…?】
【Ha-jin: Kwon Wook, didn’t you say there’s no space at home for a TV!?】
【Manager Jung: The refrigerator is about due for a replacement, though….】
【Ha-jin: Just ask us to buy you one!!!】
Regardless of Ha-jin’s bewildered protests, the eyes of the two ordinary citizens facing the opportunity to acquire expensive appliances for free gleamed with naked desire.
In this moment, everyone was filming a variety show, but Manager Jung and Deputy Hong were ringing the golden bell of opportunity.
This one shoot could transform our entire household!
【PD: Then, today’s final segment! Let’s begin!】
It was the most grand housewarming celebration Kairos-style could possibly be.

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