Challenge! After the announcement that participants for the Golden Bell were being accepted spread throughout the school.
As soon as I heard the news, I thought it had nothing to do with me.
“What’s with this sudden Golden Bell nonsense?”
It seemed like a good plan for middle school prodigies to gather and film a special Golden Bell, but applying for it was a completely different story.
But if you ask why I ended up participating…
“D-Dong-ho! Have you heard about the Red Mask?”
“What?”
“They say when the Red Mask appears, people die… like their mouths are split open!”
“…”
The reason behind my participation all started from Kang Sik’s fear—something really petty.
“No, but the Red Mask trend ended a while ago…”
“They say it came back! I heard there’s a prison under the Great Wall of China, and it broke out from there!”
Even with Min-hyuk’s skepticism, Kang Sik stubbornly kept going on with his ramblings.
“I heard someone even lost their arm trying to reach in there. Anyway, it’s super scary!”
As Min-hyuk pointed out, the urban legend of the Red Mask was supposed to be a thing of the past. Just when I was about to be perplexed, Kang Sik looked straight at me.
“B-But! They say the Red Mask is really afraid of the Golden Bell… It’s golden, right? Holding a golden bell…! That’s its weakness!”
What kind of school urban legend sealing method is that? No one dared to voice it.
Even Ye-rim, who looked utterly fed up, stayed quiet.
Because…
“I-It’s true…!”
Kang Sik’s expression was way too serious.
“So you’re saying the Red Mask broke out of the prison under the Great Wall and is coming to kill people, and the only way to seal it is the Golden Bell?”
“Yeah, that’s right! You got it, Min-hyuk!”
“…”
Min-hyuk stared at me without saying a word.
Those eyes seemed to be asking for a solution.
I shook my head at the unspoken signal to calm down Kang Sik.
‘Surely, smart kids have a screw loose somewhere.’
Is Kang Sik one of those kids?
As I thought that and glanced around, I realized—
“Hah.”
Not just Min-hyuk and Ye-rim, but my classmates were looking at me strangely.
“So they’re doing all this just to make me participate in the Golden Bell?”
Of course, that might not be the case, but the expectations in their eyes were crystal clear.
‘How cute, really.’
Even Min-hyuk and Ye-rim just sat there quietly as Kang Sik fervently talked about the Red Mask.
In a way, this situation could have been a well-scripted play.
“So, you have to go for sure! Because of the Red Mask!”
“Is that right?”
Anyway.
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