Labyrinth Exploration 101 - Chapter 74

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Labyrinth Exploration 101 Episode 074

Die With a Smile(4)

─Seol Ha-woon : Those bastards. They’re Labyrinth People.

Seol Ha-woon’s deduction that Jin Ho-seung is a Labyrinth Person. The evidence is weak. Just the fact that he’s left-handed. But if all of Jin Ho-seung’s party members are left-handed, and if they’re inside the Labyrinth, there’s no harm in being suspicious.

Lee Si-ah immediately checked Jin Ho-seung’s PR video.

[ Hello, I’m Jin Ho-seung. I’m a warrior. Ah, of course, as you can see, I’m not exactly burly, but these are practical compressed muscles… ]

It was only a few dozen seconds of video, but he was definitely right-handed!

Goosebumps rose on Lee Si-ah’s forearms. She spread this fact on SilTalk and various communities.

[ Hello! My name is Kelvin… ]

Meanwhile, Mitamnan switched to an advertisement.

“Ah, seriously, are these guys crazy?!”

Lee Si-ah pulled at her hair. The viewers were also quite angry.

-Ah, please open the door quickly

-How many damn ads are there

-Open the fucking door before I smash the mid-roll ads

-Fucking Kelvin bastard always showing up, do you want to die?

Lee Si-ah nervously bit her nails while checking the reactions to the posts she had just written.

│Jin Ho-seung Right-handed Video│

─Holy shit, this is insane, it must be real

─So Seol Ha-woon just felt something suspicious in that moment?

─His senses are fucking amazing..

─The movement technique is just different. Really different.

┗ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Seol Ha-un’s footwork is really different from everyone else’s because he’s limping.

┗That’s why it’s really different

─I was going to go check it out but the server crashed lol don’t they work at the broadcasting station?

Already hundreds of comments were spreading to various other communities and SNS.

│It’s Jinho Seung’s personal PR video ㄷㄷ He’s right-handed after all..│

│Right-handed Jin Ho-seung│

│The reason Seol Ha-woon only looked at left hands│

Then the advertisement ended.

Back to immersion in the live broadcast.

─Lee Jun-ho : …So. How are we going to confirm it?

Seol Ha-woon and Lee Jun-ho face each other and talk.

─Seol Ha-woon : We’ll use the excuse of bringing food supplies. Leave one person as bait. Then they’ll reveal their true nature on their own.

─Lee Jun-ho : Using Ji-woo as bait… I don’t like it, but.

The two went inside the dwelling, coordinating their story about bringing food supplies, and time passed.

The sun had already set. Darkness had fallen.

─Seo Ji-woo : When are they coming? Did something happen?

Inside the dwelling, the behavior of Jin Ho-seung and his party members was strange. They kept spinning around in the same spot, repeating the same actions.

“That’s right. Right. Labyrinth People!”

Lee Si-ah clenched her sweaty hands. Seo Ji-woo also seemed to sense something was wrong and tried to go outside.

─Seo Ji-woo : Jin Ho-seung. I’ll step outside for a moment.

Suddenly they all rushed at Seo Ji-woo. They had all lost the light in their pupils, and their skin had become ghostly pale.

─Seo Ji-woo : What the!

Craaack.

The Labyrinth Person that had been Jin Ho-seung opened its maw.

─Seo Ji-woo : This is crazy!

A life-or-death situation where Seo Ji-woo was about to be devoured by the Labyrinth People.

Lee Si-ah couldn’t even breathe properly as she watched, when suddenly.

─Bang!

An impact came rushing from somewhere. It was Seol Ha-woon’s Mana Bullet. It slowed down the Labyrinth Person’s movement.

Slash!

Then Lee Jun-ho entered. Having split the door, he swung his long sword at the Labyrinth Person, but it just wobbled like cutting water with a blade.

─Lee Jun-ho : These things won’t get cut?

─Seo Ji-woo : Hey, hey! What the hell is going on?!

─Lee Jun-ho : Can’t you see?! These bastards are all Labyrinth People! Get out first!

Lee Jun-ho came outside with Seo Ji-woo. Combat began from outside.

The Labyrinth People rushed forward first, and the three party members raised their magic power to respond. A tangled dogfight. The raging blizzard helped create dramatic effects.

Suddenly the screen changed.

─Im Hae-jun : Cough… Cough…

Sleeping Im Hae-jun appeared for about 5 seconds, then back to the combat situation.

Among the three, Seol Ha-woon was particularly struggling. With his leg disability, close combat was difficult for him.

“…Ah, no way.”

Lee Si-ah’s heart raced. After doing so well, he’s going to be eliminated? After doing all the deduction himself?

Seol Ha-woon tried to shake off the Labyrinth Person, but the Labyrinth Person stuck to him like slime and swallowed half his body.

“Ah, no! Fuck!”

Just when over-immersed Lee Si-ah’s face turned bright red.

─Seol Ha-woon: Get beaten to death.

Paaaaang!!

An incredibly loud sound echoed from the speakers. Shotgun. The scattering mana bullets completely incinerated the Labyrinth Person.

─Lee Jun-ho: Hey! I killed one!

─Seo Ji-woo: I tied up one too!

Lee Jun-ho had also killed one Labyrinth Person, and Seo Ji-woo had bound the fake Jin Ho-seung.

─Seol Ha-woon: …Hold it there.

Seol Ha-woon approaches limping. Stopping right in front of the Labyrinth Person, he brings together his index finger, middle finger, and thumb… Bang!

He executed them one by one with his shotgun personally.

─Seo Ji-woo: Wow! That’s good? New technique… Huh?!

Then, as if his strength was exhausted, he collapses toward Seo Ji-woo. Their bodies overlap slightly.

-Fuck, just how far has he grown?

-The shotgun is insane lololol

-Seol Ha-woon totally fell like that on purpose lol

Anyway, Seol Ha-woon fainted, and Seo Ji-woo and Lee Jun-ho together carried him to the cabin.

A moment to catch their breath.

─Im Hae-jun: Snore… Snore…

Im Hae-jun’s sleeping figure appeared for about 5 seconds again.

-Im Hae-jun fuck lolololol what is he even lololol

-Ah Im Hae-jun is so fucking funny

-But what would Seol Ha-woon have done without Seo Ji-woo..

-If Seo Ji-woo wasn’t there in the first place, wouldn’t they not have met those Labyrinth People?

-Lee Jun-ho really fights well

-Jun-ho just handles 3 people alone and does everything yeah

-What are you saying;; Seol Ha-woon killed 4 people.

-The shotgun is so cool lol does he just shoot gun-like things with magic power??

Seol Ha-woon’s cabin.

Lee Jun-ho and Seo Ji-woo together nursed Seol Ha-woon. The cause of his collapse was magic power overuse. They gave Seol Ha-woon first aid on his chest, and Seol Ha-woon gradually regained stability.

─Lee Jun-ho: I’m really leaving.

─Seo Ji-woo: Ah that bastard is really being incredibly stubborn.

Lee Jun-ho insisted on leaving the cabin despite Seo Ji-woo’s attempts to stop him. Seo Ji-woo offered him a large chunk of deer meat as a gift.

─Seo Ji-woo: I didn’t catch it myself, but he probably would have given it to you too.

─Lee Jun-ho: …Yeah. Thanks.

Whoooo. With Lee Jun-ho disappearing as if buried in the blizzard, the screen fades to black.

[ 100 hours ]

Subtitles fill the screen. 100 hours remaining.

The survival of various explorers continues in the much colder snowy wasteland.

However, Lee Si-ah’s focus was concentrated only on Seol Ha-woon’s party.

─Seo Ji-woo: It’s incredibly cold outside. This is crazy? It seems much colder than yesterday.

─Seol Ha-woon: It’ll probably keep getting colder.

─Seo Ji-woo: Then what do we do now?

─Seol Ha-woon: …There’s nothing we can do from now on. You attach this to the wall.

Recognizing the ominous cold energy, Seol Ha-woon begins complete fortification by attaching beast hides to the cabin walls.

─Im Hae-jun: Snore… Snore…

Im Hae-jun still sleeps underground. A hibernating squirrel, SilTalk’s comedy relief. Whenever Im Hae-jun appears, only lololol comes up.

─Kang Hyeon: We need to preserve body heat.

Kang Hyeon also gathers beast hides to make a tent inside the cave.

[ 80 hours ]

From the point where almost three days remain, the blizzard doesn’t stop like a disaster movie. The temperature drops endlessly.

─Im Hae-jun: Snore… Snore…

Im Hae-jun sleeps underground, Ryu Yeon-hwa endures at the volcanic hot springs, and Kang Hyeon burns animal fat in the cave.

Tick, tick. Various scenes flow by with the sound effect of a second hand moving.

[ 20 hours. ]

Finally, less than a day remaining.

─Lee Jun-ho: …I’m going to freeze to death at this rate.

Lee Jun-ho sits crouched in empty ruins with nothing. He tries to create sparks by striking his sword, but even that doesn’t work well.

He had already consumed all his food supplies and firewood, and even his padding jacket was frozen with ice crystals formed on it.

-lol that idiot should have just stayed instead of leaving for no reason lol

-He didn’t stay, he left reading the atmosphere

-The idiot above is so fucking annoying

-Ah Jun-ho is so heartbreaking..

-If Lee Jun-ho gets eliminated it’ll be so disappointing;; He’s a championship candidate

-lol congratulations Kill Jun-ho eliminated lololol

-Soon he’ll be caught up by Kang Hyeon hehehe

-You idiotic Kang Hyeon fanboys are really creepy;; You said let’s be friendly and take 1st and 2nd place, then immediately show your true colors

SilTalk is chaotic. By the way, Kang-tong is a derogatory nickname for Kang Hyeon. It was given because he sometimes shows stupid behavior, and sister products include Meo-kang-tong, Byeong-gal-tong, Kang-tong-i, etc. Kill-Jun-ho is conversely a derogatory nickname for Lee Jun-ho. He has a record of killing a burglar who broke into his house when he was 13 years old.

1st and 2nd place fans have these kinds of troubles. For Lee Si-ah, it’s fortunate that Seol Ha-woon is her main bias.

─Lee Jun-ho: Hah…

Lee Jun-ho seemed to be pondering as he ruffled his hair, then finally got up from his seat. He left his desolate dwelling, cutting through the snowstorm to reach somewhere.

It was that cabin.

The only sanctuary Lee Jun-ho knew.

Knock knock.

He tried knocking, but the door wouldn’t open. Lee Jun-ho hesitated as he was about to knock once more, then quietly gritted his teeth.

Perhaps his pride wouldn’t allow it. He tried to return to the cold snowstorm again, but…

Warm light, warmth illuminated his back.

The cabin door had opened.

Lee Jun-ho turned to look that way.

─Seol Ha-woon: Come in.

Seol Ha-woon. He gestured toward the inside of the cabin. Lee Jun-ho’s eyes wavered.

─Lee Jun-ho: …

Lee Jun-ho let out a faint sigh and eventually went inside.

Most of SilTalk shows positive reactions, but there are quite a few who curse asking why he’s helping. They’re probably fans of other top-ranked contestants.

Seol Ha-woon served food to Lee Jun-ho, and Lee Jun-ho warmed his nearly frozen body in front of the fireplace.

─Lee Jun-ho: Thank you.

Seol Ha-woon just shrugged his shoulders without answering.

Time passed.

[ 12 hours ]

─Im Hae-jun: Snore… snore…

It was Im Hae-jun.

This guy really sleeps all the time.

[ 6 hours ]

Whooooosh────

Subtitles appeared along with fierce wind sounds. Really not much time left.

But the snowstorm was raging tremendously. The camera showed nearly a third of the surviving explorers failing regrettably.

─Seo Ji-woo: What should we do? We’re out of firewood now

─Seol Ha-woon: Everyone, dismantle all the furniture we have.

Seol Ha-woon’s party was also in crisis. They completely broke down all the cabin’s furniture and fixtures and threw them into the campfire. It was to maintain the fireplace until the snowstorm stopped.

Craaaash────!

Like a scene from a disaster movie, a blizzard that seemed to tear apart the entire space. At the insane sound filling the room, Lee Si-ah unconsciously put on her outer clothes.

─Seol Ha-woon: Move closer together. You can’t lose body heat.

─Kang Hyeon: …Haa.

─Im Hae-jun: Snore… snore… uuugh… snore…

─Yoon Hwa-rim: I’m really going crazy, I want to cry…

Desperate efforts to protect the body temperature of all remaining explorers. At the end of that fierce struggle.

[ 15 minutes ]

Time remaining, 15 minutes.

The snowstorm gradually subsided. The roaring sound that seemed to devour their ears completely disappeared.

─Seo Ji-woo: …Is it over? Did we make it?

─Lee Jun-ho: Don’t say things like that.

Along with Seo Ji-woo’s flag-like dialogue, the cabin team opened the door first.

Sunlight descended first. The warm wind was cozy like someone’s touch, and the scenery sparkled pure white.

“Wow…”

Lee Si-ah was also amazed.

─Seo Ji-woo: The sun’s up~ It’s up~

Seo Ji-woo bounced around as she went out into the warm snowy wasteland. Then Seol Ha-woon was briefly shown. He was looking at Seo Ji-woo with somewhat wistful eyes.

[ 0 minutes ]

─Seo Ji-woo: It’s over!

The Survival Labyrinth timer had finished, and Seo Ji-woo approached Seol Ha-woon with her palm extended.

Seol Ha-woon’s expression was shown in close-up. Like a character in a movie, his face filled the entire screen.

Strangely, there wasn’t a single blemish or wrinkle. Pure white and clear skin that made one wonder what cosmetics he used or if he received dermatological care. With a faint smile-like, mysterious expression, he extended something to Seo Ji-woo.

It was scissors.

Scissors from rock-paper-scissors.

─Seo Ji-woo: What, don’t you know what a high-five is?

With the scene of Seo Ji-woo letting out a hollow laugh as the last shot, Seol Ha-woon’s party’s segment ended. After that, scenes of survivors like Kang Hyeon, Im Hae-jun, Ryu Yeon-hwa, etc., looking up at the clear sky and smiling appeared.

“…Good ending.”

This is Mitamnan. This is what Mitamnan is.

Just as Lee Si-ah was about to quietly immerse herself in the afterglow.

Seol Ha-woon appeared again. This time it was in the interview room.

“Wow. There’s more.”

The Writer asked him.

─You found contestant Seo Ji-woo who was on the verge of elimination. Is there a particular reason you went out of your way to save contestant Seo Ji-woo?

Seol Ha-woon answered.

─The reason… you saved her?

─Yes. It’s still a competition, after all. Having a strong competitor drop out would be more beneficial for you. You even formed a team together, didn’t you?

─…I’m not really sure.

The reason being “I’m not really sure.” Seol Ha-woon’s expression and voice as he says this are strangely shy.

The Writer changed the question.

─After the blizzard stopped, you were teasing Ms. Seo Ji-woo. Was that because you felt you’d become close?

─…Yes. A little.

At that moment, Seol Ha-woon smiles brightly. It’s the first scene where he shows a gentle smile. The magic of his usual haggard and sharp appearance completely disappearing, transforming him into just a boy.

“…Whoa.”

Lee Si-ah quickly checked KakaoTalk. As expected, it was in chaos.

The interview itself quickly moved on to Kang Hyeon, but every single message pouring down like a waterfall was all about Seol Ha-woon…

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