ALL NOVEL Chapter 85
Chapter 85. MIRO MAZE (3)
Regardless of the growing concerns of Kang Hajin’s fans, the broadcast continued.
-…What is this?
– Gasp, they have to escape the maze!
– But is escaping really the right thing to do? If they escape… (they’ll be quitting.)
– Quitting joke lololololololololol
– Qui lololitting lolololololololol
– Ah, why is Joo Eunchan’s speech so funny? He doesn’t look like someone who would be funny.
└ Should have known from when he tried to tear down the wall with Dan Haru earlier…
– Seo-cheol has probably been through all sorts of hardships while being a So-cheon, but the fact that the debut survival is in hard mode is hilarious lolololololol
The trainees’ reactions to the gigantic maze set were priceless.
The trainees wandered through the winding maze, occasionally having to complete missions or solve problems.
However, since this wasn’t a mystery show, the broadcast focused more on how the trainees solved the problems rather than the problems themselves.
[Current Situation in MIRO MAZE]
(Jung Siwoo calculating a complex formula mentally and unlocking a lock)
(Park Jaeyoung and Gong Seok acting out a famous line from a romance drama as a mission)
It’s an idol survival show, but it’s been over 20 minutes since the broadcast started, and the stage hasn’t appeared yet. The trainees are still trying to escape the maze (Not from their agency, Yes Maze) lolololololololol
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– Really?
– What is this lolololololololol
– The only thing Jaiden did for his mission was sing a line from a pop song, and it feels off.
└ And Jaiden is a rapper… We haven’t heard the rapper rap at all.
rizzn__gun @2uuu_gunn2
Hey guys, please watch MIRO MAZE on Ntv
A 183cm tall handsome guy is trapped in a giant maze
and can’t escape unless he completes a girl group relay dance.
And our Yugeon did it.
(Lee Yugeon successfully completing the girl group relay dance for 10 songs)
tae_day @tae_day
What I expected
What the maze gave me
Of course, I prefer → this side
(After Boy’s World’s stage, ending shot of Seo Taehyun)
(Seo Taehyun clinging to the maze wall, looking despondent)
[[Marple] Guys, I have a question about MLRMZ]
Just in case
(picture of Han Sungwoo taken in a corner)
I’m watching MLRMZ now, why doesn’t this guy get any screen time?ㅠ
He gets caught on camera, but there are no interviews and barely any lines…
If this is a problem, I’ll delete the postㅜㅜㅠ
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– (Anonymous 1) He quit
– (Anonymous 2) Quit
– (Anonymous 3) He quit recently, so that’s why.
└ (OP) Ah, thanksㅠㅜ I liked his face, but he wasn’t showing up… Will there be no more stages for him then?ㅠㅠ?
– (Anonymous 3) He already quit after a few contests, so maybe up to the stages he did, but don’t expect much screen time. There are still 17 others without him.
“Really, the ones who stir up trouble without even watching are the biggest problem.”
An older sister (a.k.a. Assistant Manager Yoon, a member of Renes’ rookie development team, and Kang Hajin’s number one fan) was watching MIRO MAZE with her younger brother while eating spicy chicken feet in their apartment.
She closed her phone, feeling a mix of urgency and satisfaction at the rather decent response.
“Why?”
“Some people were saying that Hajin is getting all the screen time because he’s the production team’s pick.”
“Oh, but he was on earlier, and now he’s not appearing much?”
“That’s what I’m saying. Earlier, Hajin got a good scene, so he was shown, and now that others are doing well, they’re being shown.”
“But I didn’t feel like Hajin had a lot of screen time earlier. It was just impactful.”
The younger brother, whose pick was Lee Doha, was more favorable towards Hajin since he showed an interesting character alongside Doha.
Isn’t it natural to show the talented ones? It’s a variety show!
“But now if Hajin shows up too much, it’ll be too obvious, so they’re showing others.”
“Those people always say the same thing. I wish they’d unify their opinions.”
“They just decided that Hajin is the PD’s pick and are fitting everything into that narrative. It’s a mental illness, seriously.”
The sister scoffed at the absurd trolls while dipping a bite-sized rice ball into the red soup.
Since the trainees entered the maze, Hajin had barely any screen time.
They briefly showed him entering the maze with Doha and joining Wonho, who was lost, but nothing more since.
“But now he really isn’t being shown much.”
“Seeing how they’re dead last in escape speed, either they didn’t do the mission well or they were boring.”
The broadcast occasionally displayed mini-maps of the maze to show the trainees’ current progress.
The top ranks were currently held by the Seo-Joo-Dan (Taehyun-Eunchan-Haru) alliance in first, solo Jung Siwoo in second, and a large alliance including Park Jaeyoung and Gong Seok in third.
The sisters’ favorites, dubbed as Gyangikimz (Hajin-Doha-Wonho), were still near the entrance, recording dead last for several minutes without any progress.
“Even if they’re boring, they should still show them… The kids’ faces are the most entertaining part.”
“Ah, but I thought the teaser ending might be Hajin. Isn’t it? Judging by the clothes, it’s definitely Hajin.”
“They probably filmed it separately. Ah, will they release it as unaired footage? He’s not appearing at all.”
On screen, the Seo-Joo-Dan alliance found the EXIT and recorded first place, finally escaping the maze.
-1st!!!!!!!!! (Elementary school sports day atmosphere CG)
-……! (A face of confusion after escaping, wondering if this is really right)
-……. (CG of a soul leaving the body from exhaustion)
“They’re cute, though.”
“It’s weird that Seo Taehyun is called ‘hyung’. To me, Seo Taehyun was like a single cherry blossom among rugged brothers.”
“What do you mean by a single cherry blossom? You could at least say a single rose.”
“Unnie, it’s ‘T’. Read the context.”
“How can I read the context when it’s not writing? It’s the context.”
“Ha, I’ll shut up since you bought chicken feet.”
Better not talk.
The younger sibling, shaking his head while picking up chicken feet with chopsticks, dropped it at the next scene.
– Ah, second place. So close.
– Doha hyung, are you a monster? How did you get over that in one go?
– I used to do a lot of high jump training.
-…Why would you do that?
The next escapee, who hadn’t appeared for a while after the first-place team, was Gyangikimz!
“What? The kids are in second place?”
“No, they were last, right?”
“Was it a fake edit?”
“How are we supposed to know?”
“Ah, they probably finished early but the edit pushed it back. Ugh.”
Now, the screen rewound quickly.
It showed the three struggling with a difficult problem.
Here, the production team took a definite step to avoid any suspicion of manipulation or editing.
“No, it seems they really were last.”
“Yeah, Jung Siwoo solved that early on.”
They showed an aerial view from a ceiling-mounted camera in fast-forward!
Indeed, for quite a long time, the three were seen stuck in the same place. It was clear since the movements of other trainees around them were also visible.
And finally, ‘that’ scene aired.
– Wow, hyung!
Kang Hajin, after warming up lightly, leapt over a wall in one go!
The angle from the teaser was shown in slow motion with a cool effect, emphasizing the scene two more times from different angles.
– Our goal is to break through the maze within 5 minutes. How? By jumping the wall.
– Sometimes that hyung scares me. (The amazed expression of Wonho)
– Sometimes? (CG overlapping Doha’s face with Hajin’s rapid-fire speech from earlier)
Their unstoppable progress continued.
Not only did they jump the walls, but they used the high vantage point to grasp the escape route and avoid other trainees meticulously!
– Senior, we’re at A2 spot. That… the trainee is jumping the wallㅠㅠ (CG of sweating profusely)
The production team even included the audio of a panicked assistant director radioing the main PD. The panicked camera director’s voice and the shaky angle made the situation more realistic.
<1000000% real situation>
– But can we allow this? Isn’t this disqualification for cheating?
– But we didn’t tell them how to escape, did we? We just told them to escape.
-!!!!!
– Wait, writer. What exactly were our instructions?
– Choose your options and escape the maze within the time limit, that’s it.
– Then, since there were instructions, shouldn’t this be disqualification…?
A fairly deep discussion among the production team
ensued. It seemed they were considering the potential controversy over fairness.
But the conclusion that seemed to be heading towards disqualification was overturned in the next scene.
– ……? Siwoo, why are you coming out from there…?
Another rule-breaker appeared!
– Ah, when I reread it, there was no mention that we had to escape only through the missions.
– The instructions were to choose an option and escape…
– Yes. So I chose the option of finding a shortcut.
Jung Siwoo, who was leading, found a staff-only secret passage and escaped, placing third!
– How did you even find this…
– I saw the director going back and forth to change the batteries.
– Ah….
In the end, the production team’s defeat was neatly settled as the final rankings for the maze escape were displayed.
The two sisters put down their chopsticks simultaneously and grabbed their phones.
– Wow, trainees these days are scary.
– I’m laughing so hard I’m cryingㅜㅠㅜ lololololololol
– Watching the production team struggle is always the best part of these shows.
– Where did all the trolls insisting it was all staged go?
└ They were so embarrassed they went to bedㅜ
JeongSCREAM @ice_ciu
With the model student, school president look,
he doesn’t even know the word cheating
And can use cheat codes that even the production team surrenders to?
Jung Siwoo too???
(Video clip of Jung Siwoo escaping the maze)
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[Am I being overly sensitive?ㅜㅠ]
Topic: MIRO MAZE
It feels like only the kids who honestly did the missions lost out…ㅜㅠ
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– No, I think you’re being overly sensitive.
– Carefully, I agree22…Shouldn’t the production team have disqualified them? What about the kids who did the missions properly…
[Whoa, Gyangikimz’s GIFs are already outㄷㄷ]
over the river @ov__rv
(Gyangikimz’s three-way split GIF in black and white)
(Gyangikimz jumping the wall in slow motion)
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– Crazy, just followed immediately.
– Whose GIF account is this?
└ Kim Wonho & Kang Hajin’s twin account, it seems.
Some voices criticized the ‘unfairness and impropriety of winning through cheating’, but those were soon silenced.
– But didn’t all the other kids exchange answers and cheat?
It turned out that other trainees also attempted to help each other with missions and cheat answers without the production team’s knowledge.
The production team thoroughly edited every scene to fit the narrative of ‘broadcast station guys defeated by smart trainees.’
– Please, let’s just enjoy variety shows as they are, guys…
– MIRO MAZE is hilarious? lololololol The production team handled it well lolol
– So, except for the first place team, everyone else used cheats and shortcuts, how fitting for maze successors. Fairly unfair.
└ What nonsense, but somehow it makes sense.
The list of posts was updated in real-time. The buzz around MIRO MAZE was becoming evident.
Sure, a deeper search might reveal some negative reactions, but the two sisters chose not to spoil their fun by delving into them.
Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
Bzzz—,
A KakaoTalk message popped up on the older sister’s phone screen while she was enthusiastically searching. Her cheeks rose higher and higher as she read the message.
He was a senior colleague at work who occasionally teased her, asking, ‘Are you still hung up on the 71st?’ Jaehee barely controlled her urge to gush and replied as calmly as possible.
Jaehee felt a thrill as her long-held admiration for monolids was finally being recognized. At the same time, she remembered the kids of New Renes, who were preparing for their debut.
‘Ah. So they’ll debut around the same time….’
She saw a future where her heart and her actual job, raising the Renes kids, would clash. Yoon Jaehee thought.
‘…Should I quit?’
It seemed quitting was the only answer.