“It’s also time to slowly announce the results. It’s of course, but not all of you were able to get good comments. Perhaps, it would be comments that are worse compared to what you have made. However, that’s something you should be able to carry out.”
Joseph closed his mouth and Alan continued speaking.
“Getting good comments in this mission is more difficult than what you think. In the tongue of the customers, expectation, wariness and suspicion coats it. On top of that, that feeling would have been deeper because it wasn’t the chefs of this restaurant cooking, but yourselves. But regardless of that situation, there was a team that became able to get good comments. At the same time, it’s the team that will get exempted from the eliminating mission. The other teams will do the elimination mission, and one person per team will get eliminated.”
Silence flowed for a moment. Ivanna held Chloe’s hands tightly. She couldn’t lose. She didn’t want to. Her eyes, that was reflecting that ardent wish, directed to Alan’s mouth.
“Kaya, Minjoon. Congratulations.”
But there were no miracles.
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“It will hurt.”
“Ugh……..”
The big and long needle got sucked in the arm without mercy. It would be funny for someone that wasn’t even a kid to be afraid of it, but even so, you couldn’t help something that scared you. The nurse smiled and said.
“Ease yourself. If your muscles are this tensed up, it will hurt more.”
“Thank you.”
Jo Minjoon replied while laughing awkwardly. While the other four were doing the eliminating mission, Jo Minjoon had to move around the hospital under the doctor’s judgement. And of course, Kaya had to look at the eliminating mission. Originally, Jo Minjoon should also have……. But there was no one that pointed that out.
Because they didn’t know that he would be taken to a hospital room for only a burn.
‘By now……..’
Jo Minjoon looked at the clock. He didn’t know what the theme of the mission would be, but by now it should already have concluded. He thought about messaging Kaya, but he didn’t. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t feel that comfortable right now. Was it because he would have to part ways with at least one person? Or if even that wasn’t it……
He didn’t tell his parents that he got an injury. Even so, they would get to know of it when they watched the broadcast, but by then in would have healed quite a bit. Then, he would be able to tell them not to worry with more confident words.
His head hurt. Was it because of the medicine? As he slowly closed his eyes at the sleepiness, he opened them again. But it was strange. The lights of the hospital room were turned off.
‘Did I doze off?’
He felt something strange in his right hand. It was at that moment when he turned his head while slowly blinking. He saw hair. A long, curly black hair. It was Kaya’s hair. Under her hair that seemed to have gotten a static, Kaya was sleeping under the bed. Her hand was also holding Jo Minjoon’s.