The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 258

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An escape room game where you avoid the ‘Stranger’ who has infiltrated this building and find hints hidden throughout to escape.

As the well-organized explanation page that was easy for viewers to follow disappeared, the screen immediately switched to show the members against a dim background.

-Can’t I just say I got caught right now and be eliminated? Please let me be eliminated. Come on, Min Ha-young last place!

-It’s scary, really… This horror came when I was totally unprepared mentally.

The production staff lightly brushed off the members’ complaints with laughter and immediately started the game.

“Wow, all of that got edited out. The Gardens probably don’t know. We were genuinely terrified. That didn’t get captured. It’s kind of unfair.”

Min Ha-young said with irritation.

Right. This was the ‘toned down’ version.

Ha-young and Seo Ra-eun, the two timid members, seemed to have been so genuinely scared at the time that their souls were practically beaten out of them.

But they condensed all that into such small, cute protests.

Ra-eun patted Ha-young’s shoulder while murmuring in a small, gentle voice.

“Still, I think it’s fortunate it wasn’t shown. The fans would have worried. The production staff shouldn’t be put in an awkward position either…”

True, if they had shown all of that as it really was, fans might have been too worried to enjoy watching.

Ha-young seemed flustered by Ra-eun’s incredibly thoughtful and kind words, then quietly nodded her head.

Meanwhile, in the video, we had split into teams and started looking for hints.

Han Da-min and Seo Ra-eun on one team, Song-i and Min Ha-young on another team, and due to rock-paper-scissors, I ended up going around alone.

Looking at it now, from the production staff’s perspective, the teams were formed quite conveniently for them to manage.

Since I, who was supposed to become the hunter, coincidentally ended up alone, it was easy to give me instructions, and the other members were paired so that fearless members were with fearful ones.

‘The production staff got lucky.’

It was decided by rock-paper-scissors though.

But the members seemed to think differently, as hands from here and there kept poking at me.

“The production staff had it planned with you from this point!”

“I thought so, Song-i said she’d go alone but they insisted on rock-paper-scissors!”

“What are you talking about? I really didn’t know back then either. I found out later.”

I raised both hands and gave a sincere explanation, then gestured for them to just watch the video.

The screen continued showing the members searching for hints.

Around this time, I was hearing from the production staff that I was the Stranger, so I didn’t know the members’ situation, but the hint-finding difficulty seemed quite high.

For a long while, it just showed the members wandering around looking for hints, getting scared by sounds from somewhere and hiding.

It was truly a game without a single hidden horror device, yet the horror atmosphere was surprisingly well-created.

The members would startle and hide at the slightest footsteps heard from somewhere (probably from other team members) in the dark and eerie atmosphere, and the production staff made full use of this to edit it into an immersive horror special.

The members, who had been giving commentary until just now, were at some point completely absorbed as if watching a suspenseful horror or thriller movie.

Honestly, it was more fun than expected.

Especially…

“What’s with Min Ha-young’s screen time.”

Han Da-min, who had been watching quietly for a while, chuckled at the screaming sounds coming from the screen.

As Da-min said, this episode was so funny that Ha-young seemed like the main character.

Being both timid and having her originally dramatic personality on top of that, every time she screamed, her expressions and gestures were masterful…

So much so that whenever she appeared, the well-established horror atmosphere would instantly break and be neutralized.

And while not as much as Ha-young, the other members each showed good performances too.

Da-min, as an experienced situational drama variety show performer who had appeared with me, showed tremendous immersion and got completely absorbed while attempting to escape.

Song-i didn’t say much but showed unexpected ace qualities by finding every single hint herself.

Ra-eun, like someone whose soul had left long ago, showed the quiet coward who had given up on everything with wooden bell sound effects, drawing small laughs.

However, the disappointing part was…

‘What about me?’

My screen time was so lacking it was almost too much.

Of course, I also searched for hints in the beginning and wandered around here and there looking for members afterward, so I wasn’t completely absent.

But just appearing a few times for courtesy’s sake?

Probably my screen time will be concentrated in the next episode where I’ll be active in earnest, but looking at the screen time so far, hmm, maybe I appeared for 30 seconds?

Will this episode continue like this?

Just when my feelings were getting strange with disappointment, separate from the entertainment value.

The screen switched.

Unlike Song-i and Ha-young’s team who were quickly finding hints, it switched to Da-min and Ra-eun’s team who were making slow progress.

-Unnie… I don’t think it’s here. Really…

-There’s no way it’s not here either. If it’s not here, then there’s nowhere on this floor.

-I really don’t think it’s here, can’t we just leave?

Ra-eun said this while resignedly following Da-min.

Da-min’s expression became a bit more anxious at this.

Looking at her expression, it seemed like rather than thinking they had to win the game, she was thinking she needed to get Ra-eun outside quickly.

Da-min coaxed and soothed the frightened Ra-eun as she moved forward, toward where the next room was.

Then she pointed somewhere.

-We haven’t gone into the bathroom. Right?

The excessively shadowy, dim bathroom.

Ra-eun’s expression looking at that place was…

Eventually, Da-min left Ra-eun, who absolutely refused to enter, and went into the bathroom alone.

‘Wow, even I find that place creepy…’

She actually went in there. Only Da-min could have done it, absolutely no one else could have.

At that moment, thud-.

The BGM that had been flowing continuously, whether eerie or cute, whatever it was, suddenly cut off.

And the screen switched to show Ra-eun standing alone in the corridor, frightened.

‘Oh, that scene.’

A strangely familiar background and situation.

Could this be that moment.

Ra-eun, who had been looking around in the silence, took a deep breath and spoke.

-Why isn’t unnie coming out. I should go check on her.

Then.

Jingle-

At the bell sound from somewhere, Ra-eun hesitated and turned her head.

Jingle-

“Wow, look at them adding echo to the bell sound. So scary.”

Ha-young started making a fuss again.

The camera on screen followed Ra-eun’s gaze and turned its view.

And there in the moonlight was a human silhouette.

It was me.

-Un…

Just as Ra-eun reflexively stepped back and tried to call for Da-min.

-Unnie.

I smiled brightly and called to her, then started approaching her.

Just smiling, but the atmosphere seemed somehow different.

-Unnie, why are you alone? Where’s Da-min unnie?

The cut-off BGM and the bell sounds coming from me. Anyone could see there was clearly something being hidden.

And once again the screen switched.

-Ryu Ji-ye, we were looking for you.

The situation was when I was wandering around alone looking for hints.

At the PD’s sudden approach, the me on screen frowned with a face mixing bewilderment and surprise.

-…PD?

-Ryu Ji-ye, you no longer need to hide. Because you are the Stranger.

[That’s right. The identity of the Stranger is…]

Along with subtitles, the PD says.

-From now on, Ji-ye’s identity is the Stranger.

And hands me a pink string with a bell attached.

At that moment, my expression changed.

Taking the bell string, I was smiling creepily as if I found it amusing.

I clearly remembered having many conversations with the PD before receiving the bell string, and even after receiving it.

I had mostly asked various questions in confusion, worry, and bewilderment.

But they edited all of that out and only showed me after I realized I was a stranger…

I had a terrifying expression that looked exactly like a villain from a crime movie.

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