"What?" Zeth asked, breaking the silence in the white room. "How did he even co up with those words?"
Haruki, too, stared at June with wide eyes, wondering how he guessed the statent without a tangible clue in the room.
The staff mbers were also surprised with June's quick wit. They were actually expecting that neither of the two would guess the statent.
The clues were too vague for them to co up with a definitive answer.
They were planning to squeeze the two until there wasn't any space between them. Then, they wanted to give them a fun punishnt of performing a dley of girl group dances instead.
However, with June's utterance, their plans all went down the drain.
Even the creepy voice was a bit flustered.
"We have no choice," the producer said, the door finally opening.
June smirked as he stood from his seat, still looking at Haruki with a victorious gaze.
Then, he held out his hand for Haruki, offering to help him stand.
However, the more experienced idol stood on his own before leaving the room without even looking back.
June retreated his hand, still with a smirk, before shaking his head and leaving the room.
It turns out that they were right next to the white room, so he was greeted by his mbers as soon as he erged from the chamber.
"That was so cool!" Jisung exclaid, bouncing on his feet.
"You still amaze every ti," Akira said, slowly clapping in his seat. He didn't bother getting up since he was too comfortable on the couch.
Even the mbers of CHAOS nodded in agreent. If this was the type of person they were competing with on 'King of Kings,' then there was no question that EVE was able to capture the first place despite being a rookie group.
"How were you able to guess the statent?" Haruki suddenly asked, surprising everyone, including June, because he sounded genuinely curious.
June recalled the mont he realized they weren't in a simple role-playing ga.
"Everything you see is there for a reason," June started off, repeating the voice's advice before the start of the ga.
"At first, I thought the room was bare. However, when I looked closer, I saw writings on the wall--propositions such as 'If,' 'In,' and 'The.' I knew that they were there for a reason, so I concluded that they must be part of the statent."
"However, the problem was to figure out the words that these prepositions connected," he continued.
The others listened attentively, feeling like they were in a cri show.
"Everything happens for a reason," June said, saying the other advice that the voice had provided.
"Again, when the wall first moved, I tried to think of the reason why. When Haruki broke character in the middle of the conversation, the wall continuously moved. So, I thought that was it."
"However, it seed to be a fluke," June smiled. "The wall still moved even when we were in character. The production team must have set that up as a distraction. The real trigger wasn't the breaking of character--it was the words in the statent themselves."
A look of realization passed through their eyes. Haruki, too, straightened his posture, realizing that the walls, indeed, moved when he said a particular word.
"Sweet."
"Betrayal."
"Wake."
June said the words that triggered the walls to move.
"I combined all of these words with the prepositions into a coherent sentence. Then, I just blurted it out," June nonchalantly said.
The others continued to look at him in amazent. However, Haruki's statent snapped them out of their reverie.
"Of course, you would have guessed the statent."
"Betrayal is your expertise."
Fortunately, the staff mbers entered before June could pry further.
"Gosh, Haruki's still in character," Jisung whispered. "What a dedicated man."
June shook his head.
He was definitely not in character anymore. Haruki just couldn't stop himself from saying those words.
They set up the cara once more and announced June's victory.
"Congratulations to June and EVE for winning the short and fun gas we have prepared!"
"Short and fun? You an—murderous," Akira whispered, causing the staff mbers to laugh.
"It must have been tough," the producer said. "However, we devised these gas to bring you closer to each other. I hope it broke the ice."
"It broke more than just the ice," Ren said.
The others chuckled, and although they were a bit upset that the production crew had subjected them to such cruel gas, they also couldn't deny that it did bring the two groups closer to one another.
Again, except for two people.
The mbers of CHAOS knew that their leader was acting strange. He was usually serious and only sotis playful; however, his seriousness was taken up a notch whenever June was involved.
The other four mbers weren't around when June still trained in Phoenix, so they don't really know if the two had a past together. However, judging from their interactions, that must be the case.
"As a reward, the team will be granted a coffee truck for your fans during your promotion period," the producer said.
The mbers of EVE turned to each other with wide smiles, elated with the fact that their fans would be the recipients of June's hard work.
With that, the filming for the episode finally ended.
"See you after two weeks, guys," the producer said. "We'll be filming the second episode by then."
They all nodded in agreent before going their separate ways. Jisung and Gideon, who had beco closer after talking about dancing, exchanged numbers before they parted ways.
As they went to their waiting room, where Jay was currently waiting, June couldn't shake off the strange feeling in his chest.
For so reason, he felt like there was still a lot to talk about with Haruki—one that shouldn't happen on cara.
So, before he could even enter the waiting room, he tapped Jisung's shoulder.
"I'll be going to the restroom," he said.
Jisung nodded. "Sure. We'll wait for you."
June walked away from their room. However, he didn't go to the restroom like he had told Jisung.
Instead, he went straight to CHAOS' waiting room. However, as he stood in front of their door, he started hesitating whether or not this was the right ti or not.
Before he could think further, he heard Haruki's voice next to the stairs.
"The stairs again," June sighed, feeling like he had been unusually attached to the stairs since the beginning of his career.
"I know, mom. I'll be going ho soon. Our coback is in the fall, so I have so ti," Haruki said.
June walked closer to him, compelled to listen to his conversation.
"Yeah. I know. I miss him too," Haruki sighed, suddenly sounding lancholic.
"I know he wouldn't be able to hear it, but I miss him every day."
"If only that didn't happen. If only he didn't have to give up on his dreams, then maybe he'd still be here...," he said, his voice getting weaker.
At that point, June's frown deepened, and he felt his palms sweating.
His head was aching, and his vision started getting blurry, too, as a person who appeared like Haruki invaded his senses.
"If only because of him...," Haruki said with contempt.
"Then, you would still be here..."
....Haruto."
And with that, the world turned black.
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