As Dohee's Inspiration Camp grew ripe.
With excitement reaching its peak.
[Dohee: Now, now, everyone please calm down. Night has fallen.]
The fact that this was a mafia game without any mafia was revealed to the viewers at the first night.
[Dohee: Mafia, please raise your heads.]
─What, did they not hear?
─Do the kids not know how to play mafia?
─If you ask me, Naeun is the mafia but she doesn't know how to play the gameㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Until this point, no one had expected.
─Who's the mafia~
─Guess they'll show us later
The fact that there was no mafia.
The viewers had simply assumed it was edited this way to invite them to deduce the mafia together.
[Dohee: Yes, now Doctor, please raise your head.]
But at the moment when the doctor had to designate someone to save.
The editing cut in here, rewinding the footage to a previous moment.
And there.
[Dohee: I'll choose the mafia first.]
There was Dohee, her footsteps thudding heavily.
─???
─What
[Dohee: I've chosen. (Didn't choose)]
─It's Dorahee for realㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─No, I never imagined thisㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─You again, Dorahee?
─As I always say, Dohee acts all dignified and stuff these days, pretending to be calm. She's not the leader of La Heez for nothing...
The editors were kind.
A slander show of the members, replayed from Dohee's perspective.
[Naeun: (Frustrated) I said it's not me! If you guys were the host, would you have given it to me? Huh? There's only one person?]
[Wooa: If there's only one, I wouldn't give it.]
─Wooa immediately going 'I wouldn't give it'ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─The leader's authority hitting rock bottom...
It was nothing short of a laugh riot.
[Chiyo: No, but really, honestly, it's Naeun unnie!!]
[Wooa: Exactly, that's why Dohee gave it to Naeun unnie for the unexpected factor!]
Everyone slandering and tearing each other down.
[Naeun: Fine, let's say that's true. But if I were Dohee, I would've given the mafia to Seoyun instead of me. Seoyun is good at these kinds of games. Instigating and cornering people...]
[Seoyun: Huh?]
Even Naeun was getting in on it.
─But they're all citizensㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ For some reason they all look wronged
The truth was, everyone was innocent.
[Seoyun: Wow, but really, you're saying one of these three is acting? I admit it, Lee Dohee, you picked a great mafia.]
[Dohee: Thank you. As someone who closely examines each member's talents one by one, wasn't this glory only natural?]
[Seoyun: Ah, looking at her expression, something's weird.]
─Do-shamelessㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─The staff subtitlesㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─But Dohee would actually be good at acting
─And in the midst of it all, Seoyun's ghost-like intuition when it comes to Lee Dohee is insane
[Wooa: But Seoyun unnie really is good at it, subtly pretending it's not her.]
[Naeun: Exactly, it's her! Her!]
The members' slander knew no end, and the entire process brought laughter to the viewers.
─Naeun finally lost her patience after holding backㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─Ugh look at Dorahee giggling by herselfㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But as is the case with ordinary mafia games, the highlight begins after the first night, when bits of information start coming to light.
[Chiyo: Hmm... I didn't want to say anything, but this is so frustrating that I can't stay silent any longer.]
Chiyo stood up from her seat confidently.
[Chiyo: That's right, I'm the doctor.]
─Who are you nowㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─You're a citizen
─The lying fest has finally begun
Naturally, in this atmosphere saturated with mutual distrust, rebuttals erupted reflexively.
[Seoyun: Why would Dohee give you the doctor role? Unless you're the mafia.]
[Naeun: Right, if anything she'd have given me the mafia.]
[Wooa: Is Naeun unnie pretending not to be the mafia again?]
[Naeun: I said it's not me!!]
─Naeun's getting madㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But once Chiyo had started her instigation, there was no stopping her.
[Chiyo: Seoyun unnie.]
[Seoyun: What.]
[Chiyo: I saved you.]
[Seoyun: Uh...?]
At those simple words, their alliance was sealed in an instant.
[Seoyun: I-I am human, though.]
[Chiyo: That's right, unnie is human!]
─Mafia are human too, Seoyun
─Did she panic and suddenly change species? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Chiyo: Then the mafia! It's either Wooa or Naeun unnie!!]
[Wooa: No, there's no guarantee that you're the doctor—]
[Naeun: You're right, then it's not me, it's Wooa, Wooa!]
[Wooa: Ah, no. I'm a citizen, then it's unnie!]
At Naeun's quick defection to her side.
[Dohee: Yes, please give your final statement.]
Wooa was chosen as the condemned.
Wooa stepped up onto the temporary podium.
The surrounding lights went out, and a faint beam of light illuminated her.
─Final statementㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─Such unnecessarily high quality for real
And Wooa lowered her head calmly and spoke.
[Wooa: Everyone, I've been reading a book lately.]
[Dohee: What book is it?]
[Wooa: A history book called The History of the Peloponnesian War. The host here, Dohee, lent it to me.]
[Dohee: Ah, that's a very good book. It must have left a deep impression.]
─Dohee reads so many books that the members seem to follow along
└The group seems to have high academic passion overall thanks to Doheeㅋㅋㅋㅋ Yeeun and Sera also started reading books because of her
[Seoyun: The unnecessary digression is too long. Please finish your defense quickly.]
[Wooa: One passage from it remained very impressively in my memory. Greece was divided into two ideologically opposed factions, and it was fashionable to distrust one another.]
[Dohee: Ah, I think I know. It was a passage with this feeling, right? People focused solely on entertaining those within their own faction and were prepared to deliver guilty verdicts through illegal ballots to satisfy their greed. In other words, you're referring to this 'illegal voting,' correct?]
─No way, how does she recall it immediately after hearing just one passageㄷㄷ
─She caused all this and is being unnecessarily intellectualㅋㅋㅋ
Wooa squeezed her eyes shut, signaling her agreement.
[Wooa: Yes, and the key was the next sentence.]
[Dohee: Ah, don't tell me...]
[Wooa: That's right. Generally, the lower a person's intellectual level, the higher their probability of survival...]
[Seoyun: Are you saying we have low intellectual levels right now?!]
[Chiyo: Death penalty, death penalty! Death!!]
[Naeun: P-put her to death!]
─Ah this is so damn funny for realㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─Was mafia game always this fun?
And so the execution was carried out.
[Dohee: Last words?]
[Wooa: Generally, the lower a person's intellectual level, the higher their probability of survival...]
And then the second night came again.
[Dohee: Surprisingly, tonight as well, there were no victims.]
─What's so surprisingㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─La Heez power is really boiling over todayㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─Ah why is Lee Dohee so funny
Meanwhile, unlike the members consumed by madness, Naeun—who had maintained at least some semblance of reason—realized something.
[Naeun: Wait, if Wooa isn't the mafia, then Chiyo being the doctor is a lie too...? I'm a citizen.]
[Chiyo (Liar): S-see!? I saved her again, didn't I!?]
─There's no mafia, what is she even savingㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└She wasn't even the doctor to begin withㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The solid alliance between Seoyun and Chiyo was broken too.
[Seoyun: Did you save me this time too?]
[Chiyo: Eh? That's not it.]
At Chiyo's one-sided dismissal.
[Chiyo: Is Seoyun unnie a fool? The mafia would kill the doctor first, so why would they kill unnie? Of course I saved myself.]
[Seoyun: What, fool? Hey, you're the fool. Hey, think about it, let's say it's confirmed that Naeun unnie is the mafia.]
[Naeun: I said I'm not the mafia.]
[Seoyun: If Naeun unnie is the mafia, she only needs to kill one of us to end the game. Why would she bother killing the doctor? She could kill me and it'd be over.]
[Chiyo: I took that and twisted it around to choose myself~ Okay?!]
[Naeun: No, I said I'm not the mafia. She's not the doctor either!]
And because this whole sequence of events was far more interesting than expected.
[Dohee: (Whispering) Air, our unnies are really something else, aren't they?]
─You're the craziest one, you bratㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
─Don't act like this is someone else's doing after you led them into itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
That was why Dohee couldn't stop smirking until everything was revealed and she faced a group lynching.
* * *
On the way home after the concept photo shoot, with Wooa unnie.
─Now then, unnies? Having learned the lesson never to doubt the members again... Wait! Stop! Let's be gentlemen and use our words, like gentlemen.
As I closed my eyes in the car to organize my thoughts alone.
─Yes, I should offer my humble apologies to the unnies first. Even though it was an unfortunate incident caused by my not knowing the rules well... Aack!
A scream from beside interrupted me.
"Dohee, the response here is really good?"
Wooa unnie, who had left a perfect handprint on my back, was comfortably monitoring our self-cam beside me.
"I took that position on purpose because I was trying to be funny."
"Of course, of course~ No one knows Dohee's variety sense better than unnie~"
"If you know, why do you hit me every time."
"Because it's funny."
"......"
"Wasn't it funny?"
"...You did well."
"Thank you!"
You could have just pretended to hit me...
But I didn't plan on whining and complaining like a killjoy.
Because I am magnanimous as well.
Nor am I the type to nitpick.
Just from the production staff's reactions on set, this self-cam was a victory for me, Lee Dohee.
'Hehe.'
"Right, Manager, what was our predicted Billboard rank for next week?"
"Hm? Ah~ Dohee wants to hear it again? Predicted rank for next week, 103rd! And if all goes well, we'll enter the Hot 100 the week after that! To think a Billboard artist is being born at our company!"
Yes, yes.
If our members are having fun...
Honestly, it was kind of fun being the star of the variety show after so long.
Ha, I knew it. This kind of thing suits my temperament.