The Trashy PD Has To Survive as an Idol - Chapter 109

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109

[…?
What the hell did I just watch?]
[This is official
Yes, understood]
[Dae Pa-sung: Shove the apocalypse in your mouth
Noel: Yeah yeah, I’m shoving it in right now]

The music video teaser that dropped was an entirely different genre from Ocean Train yet bore similarities to Second Chance—a narrative that seemed to progress further—and the reaction was explosive.
Everyone was throwing around comments like “Yo, isn’t this teaser a scam?” without needing to read the room. From the start, through the connected series that flowed from Second Chance into Ocean Train, fans had already developed a certain level of trust in Dae Pa-sung Planning’s music video concepts.

[Dae Pa-sung you damn perverts
└You really seem to love it
└└I love it so much…]
[Hey guys, is Ji-won really holding a gun on his thigh? Oh my god oh my god oh my god, it’s so hot here, it’s snowing outside but this place is like a sauna
└The fact that they gave a rebel position to someone who looks so innocent… it’s just… too much… I’m clenching my teeth]
[Yi-chae doesn’t seem to fit somehow]
[They’re just handing flags and revolution to an otaku?
I’m already crying before anything else]

While Noel’s fans were shedding tears, Lee Ji-hyun was pounding the keyboard while chugging energy drinks in succession. Of course, muttering curses like a mantra was a basic given. It was identical to how some PD somewhere would edit it.

[But why is Ho-yoon…?
Why is he tied to a chair? Why is he hurt?
Not that I’m telling you to stop
I’m smiling because I love it]
[It’s very stimulating]
[And why Kim Sung-hyun/Sung Ji-won…? If this is a connected series, wouldn’t they have been caught by Seo Ho-yoon during Second Chance? Why Jung Da-jun…? Why is he destroying buildings everywhere?
└Da-jun destroying everything is kind of historically accurate
Oh my god, this is crazy lolololololololololololololololololololololololol

While everyone was fawning over it, someone posted a theory along with a screenshot.

[If you look carefully at Seo Ho-yoon’s teaser documents,
they’re all stamped with government seals and stuff..
It says “Capital Punishment”
└What’s that?
└└It’s execution.
└└Huh???????]

[…Seo Ho-yoon
Did he get caught staging a rebellion within the Government Army?
└??????????]

While Noel’s members demonstrated intense focus, devouring the teaser in a single second, the highlight medley was released. It was an addictive yet powerful vocal performance.

[I can’t lose this game
Let’s burn all the way to the end
The moment light seeps through, it begins

You can’t leave this scheme
Burrowing in at the break of dawn
Walking relentlessly toward the end]

It was only natural that Kang Yi-chae’s name appeared first in the composition and lyrics credits, but it was still shocking to the fans.

[Wait, seriously, they picked it so well]
[Is the beat insane?????????? Did they throw money at it?????]
[Kang Yi-chae, come here
I’m gonna kiss you so hard]

Though it was pop-rock, the sound was so rich and dramatic that it evoked the kind of soundtrack you’d hear at the climax of a blockbuster film.

[Okay, let’s not get our hopes up this time
Don’t get your hopes up
Whatever comes out, I’ll be happy
Ugh, I’m so hyped
└Just one, please]
[You guys… Thank you for not forgetting Apocalypse… Thank you so much for wearing the military uniform techware again… This delicate otaku is crying right now…]

Beneath all that anticipation,
Kill the Lights’ music video was released.

From a blindingly white screen, a chorus of voices rang out.

[Kill The Lights
Kill The Lights
Kill The Lights….]

Laughter mixed in between the voices—it sounded like mockery. Simultaneously, another layer of vital sign beeping stacked on top.

[Hoo- Ha- Hoo- Ha-]

Then a chorus oddly resembling breathing crept through the gaps.

[….]

In the private hospital room bathed in winter sunlight, Seo Ho-yoon stood in military fatigues, his hair neatly swept back.
He leaned crookedly against the windowsill, his back to the light, and gazed quietly down at the patient lying beneath him.
A wrinkled, aged hand was brought into focus. Moving slowly, Seo Ho-yoon trudged toward the bed, then reached out and brushed the back of the patient’s hand before grasping it and yanking the tangled medical device cables roughly.

-Beep———

The vital sign beeping that had come at regular intervals gradually slowed, then stopped with a prolonged whine—Beeeeeep——

Tap, tap, tap!

Heavy military boots thundered urgently from far away. Yet Seo Ho-yoon turned toward the window with unhurried composure, sat on the edge of the bed, and raised his hand to shield his eyes from the brilliant winter sunlight.

In that instant, he was yanked sideways, subdued, and fell beside the bed as the song began.

[Okay, Here we go.]

Kang Yi-chae, seated in a train cabin far more ornate than the Ocean Train, tapped the window before sighing deeply and stepping out.

[I see the timing,
We caught our breath once
Now we have to go again]

The song, rarely beginning with rap, came with a grand and intense beat. As Kang Yi-chae walked through the train’s hallway, everyone around him stepped back in unison, clearing the path and saluting.

[The dawn is coming, understood?]

The authoritative, commanding lyrics suited Kang Yi-chae’s sharp, distinctive features in an oddly perfect way, as if addressing a subordinate.
The screen shifted, and Sung Ji-won appeared in a distant shot, catching his breath with visible strain between his eyes as he walked forward.
He moved desperately, parting the surroundings as though searching for something.

[I still recall,
You in that dim light]

Sung Ji-won, his complexion pallid, forced his increasingly blurred eyes open and kept patting at his thigh, checking that the gun hadn’t slipped free.

[When everyone aimed at you
You just laughed, remember?]

When Sung Ji-won’s clear, crystalline high notes rose cleanly,

Whoooosh!

The soaring note plummeted downward in an instant.

[Kill the Lights]

Armed in techware and adorned with body chains, Kim Sung-hyun’s dance section began.

[Ooh Yes
We can definitely kill this light
Turn everything upside down and change the game]

Kim Sung-hyun held a walkie-talkie, his lips moving in a whisper as he strode between abandoned buildings. Then, platinum-haired Jung Da-jun lay sprawled on a snowy mountain blanketed in white snow. Against the blindingly white backdrop, his face smudged with black ash, he stirred and struggled to his feet.

[I can’t lose this game
Let’s burn all the way to the end
The moment light seeps through]

And finally, Seo Ho-yoon appeared—the one from the teaser, trapped in a secret room filled with documents—his lips curling into a bitter smile.

[You can’t leave this scheme
Burrow in at the break of dawn
Walk unflinchingly toward the end]

As Seo Ho-yoon was suddenly dragged away by several figures and boarded the transport vehicle, an instrumental interlude flowed through the scene.
At the climactic section, Kim Sung-hyun sat trembling in the abandoned building, his hands shaking as he frantically connected the bomb’s wires.

[Your trembling fingertips turn blue
Calculate how much you truly understand]

Sung Ji-won stood in the middle of the snowy mountain, repeatedly brushing away the bangs that kept slipping down his forehead. His warm breath met the cold air, creating wisps of white vapor.

[I know this game is rigged against me
But I have to see it through to the end]

Meanwhile, Seo Ho-yoon rested his head against the window of the transport vehicle as it rattled roughly down the road, bathed in the pale moonlight filtering through the dusk.

[Just as it once was for you
I only get this one chance]

As Seo Ho-yoon closed his eyes, exhausted, a pure white space appeared. Standing in the center of it was Jung Da-jun.

[Take my hand, you know now
The dawn is approaching…]

And in that moment, the beat dropped hard.

[And now, it turns to….
The Dawn!]

The transport vehicle shook violently, and an explosion echoed out.

—Boom!

From the sports car that had rammed into the side of the transport vehicle, Kang Yi-chae with his red hair stepped out leisurely on long legs. He then opened the transport vehicle’s door. When Seo Ho-yoon’s face inside twisted in annoyance, Kang Yi-chae offered an awkward smile.
The chorus section returned, and rich harmonies began.

[I can’t lose this game
Let’s burn it all the way to the end
The moment light breaks through is where it begins]

Sung Ji-won trembled—whether from the cold or from fear itself, he couldn’t tell—as he continued forward, his eyes glistening.
In another scene, Kim Sung-hyun, positioned against the outer wall of a building and peering through the broken window glass, received a radio transmission and hesitated for a moment before finally pressing the remote control. At the same time—

Crash!

[You can’t leave this scheme
Piercing through the dawn as light breaks
Walking forward without hesitation toward the end]

The ornate curtain trembled with the explosion, shimmering brilliantly.
Seo Ho-yoon and Kang Yi-chae stride across the blood-red carpet, their footsteps echoing through the long hallway lined with black mannequins in military uniforms sprawled on the ground. Framed paintings hung in neat rows along the walls.

[And I say it again…
Kill the Lights!]

The Spade King, the Heart King—massive playing cards arranged like masterpieces hung torn and defaced, with crude red paint scrawled across them in angry strokes.

【BETRAYER – INSTANT KILL NEEDED!】
【INHERITOR – CAUTION NEEDED!】

[We can’t lose this game
I’ve already wagered everything]

Seo Ho-yoon removed one glove and walked slowly, dragging his fingers across the framed paintings as he passed.
Kang Yi-chae, who had moved ahead, reached the throne at the end of the hallway first. Upon seeing the mannequin draped pathetically across the chair, he let out a soft laugh.

[Overturn everything and change the game
Kill this Light]

Kim Sung-hyun’s face appeared, washing his hands mechanically, then Sung Ji-won’s, resolute determination etched into his features as he moved forward. And finally, as if he’d found someone, Sung Ji-won clenched his teeth.
Soon after, he drew the gun holstered at his thigh and aimed it directly at his target.

[We can’t leave this Scheme]

Kang Yi-chae kicked the mannequin aside, and it tumbled pathetically to the ground below. Seo Ho-yoon walked forward as if it were the most natural thing in the world and sat upon the throne.
Behind Seo Ho-yoon and Kang Yi-chae, the final masterpiece is illuminated. The most tragic and grotesque of them all.

[Ah, you’re at that end]

Kim Sung-hyun rises and retrieves the fallen flag from the rooftop. The moment he raises his arm high, hoisting the flag, the fluttering banner and that final painting overlap in perfect alignment.

The joker of a trump card.
A card pointing to Jung Da-jun.
Across that masterpiece lay a massive, ominous crimson message scrawled in bold strokes.

【RAVAGER】

A word meaning destroyer.
In the place where white snow fell, Sung Ji-won’s gun trembled at his lips, aimed at Jung Da-jun’s forehead—standing on the snowy mountain, gazing blankly at the horizon, his face smeared with dark grime in patches. The moment Jung Da-jun’s lips moved—

[Let’s take this all the way to the end—]

—Bang!

The gunshot rang out, the music video screen faded to black, and a song echoed with someone’s laughter woven through it.

[Kill the Lights.]

And so the 5 minute 21 second video—slightly long for a music video—came to an end.

[Insane…ly]

Simultaneously, The Dun’s online buzz exploded.

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