"We especially present to you, the final performance! Audience, get ready to vote for your most beloved participants!"
As the spotlight shining down on the two emcees flickered off, the whole stage was enveloped with darkness, leaving only the dim lights of the circles below the participants' feet glowing.
Finally, the soft sound of the piano reverberated in the entire studio. The show's theme song began playing.
This song lasted for four minutes.
It might also be the last four minutes of their lives together.
"Stuck in the flow of the crowd,
Even when I don't know where it's headed.
Still, I hope it's a good place."
Since no one among the participants placed on the rank S, the first part of the song was sung by everyone. The lyrics of the song also appeared on the screen.
With the audience singing along the familiar song that accompanied them for four months in the show, the entire studio seemed to vibrate.
"Yet, why?
I don't feel the badump badump