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"Hanyu-kun, if your mission completion is low, you'll be punished!" Yu Nagasawa said from the side. This kind of conversation could be recorded; it was harmless. This wasn't a serious show; it just had to be fun.
"Punishment? Is it that dark drink thing? I heard about that punishment from other variety shows a long time ago. Many shows have that dark drink punishment, and I've always wanted to try what it tastes like."
"This time, my wish has come true," Taro Hanyu said unhurriedly. "Can I say I came specifically for this dark
drink?"
"But I don't want to drink it," Hiyori Hanyu poked Taro Hanyu's back from the side.
"Then! Hanyu-kun, you can drink this dark beverage for your wife. In principle, we consider each guest couple as one entity," Yu Nagasawa's smile remained.
"However, there are rules for taking punishment for someone else. Originally, each person drinks one cup, but if one person drinks it, they have to drink three cups."
Taro Hanyu said with great resolve, "Just three cups, I'll take them all myself."
Humans are always full of vigor until they truly face their fears. Renz felt calmer after hearing this. This way, if he messed up, he could also drink Erina's share of the dark drink. An extra cup, what's the big deal?
Even if it tasted awful, Renz didn't believe it could be so bad that he couldn't swallow it or that it would make him vomit immediately. As long as it wasn't that bad, Renz could hold his breath, chug it in one go, and swallow it without tasting it. Many "dark drinks" in variety shows are deliberately tasted by celebrities for the camera, so of course, they show those despairing expressions.
However, Taro Hanyu here also conceded readily. After listening to Renz's analysis, he knew it would be difficult to swap task cards. He couldn't win when it came to logic and strategy. Renz's advantage was that he could play Go, while others couldn't cook. So, if Renz made people who couldn't cook do cooking tasks and played Go himself, he would immediately cut off two guests' scores. Because Taro Hanyu could only play Go, and if he wasn't playing Go, he couldn't do the other tasks. As for the other two guest groups, their situation was unknown.
If Taro Hanyu had any chance to persuade Renz to swap task cards, he wouldn't have surrendered so readily. But Renz wouldn't swap, so Taro Hanyu couldn't think of a way to break the stalemate. It wasn't that Taro Hanyu wasn't trying; his opponent just wasn't giving him a chance. So, he could only settle for the last place.
Renz hesitated.
He chose to play a game of Go with the old president of the Togaku Go Club. This task card had a scoring system, and winning or losing was definitely one of the mechanisms for scoring. However, based on the information Yu Nagasawa subtly gave, the task card had side missions and hidden missions.
The main mission was directly provided, and there were also rewards for completing additional tasks. This led Renz to many judgments and ideas, such as the quality of the opponent he defeated, which might affect the task card's score. The score for beating a child and beating the president of a Go club would certainly be different.
It's impossible to get a high score for beating a child and a low score for beating the president of a Go club. That was Renz's understanding. And the Togaku Go Club was an amateur club for ordinary people to play Go.
Although the president of the Go club was an old player who had been consistently playing Go for years, he was still an amateur, not a professional. Playing Go was just a hobby for him, not a profession. Renz was confident he could defeat this old president.
Because Senzaemon Nakiri, after playing Go for so long, had actually taken the professional certification exam for Go players. He just hadn't played in official matches, but his rank was high enough. Renz had also been tempered through continuous practice.
In a hard-fought battle.
Although Renz encountered occasional challenges, it wasn't a big problem. He was only resisted by the old president in a few small skirmishes, but Renz controlled the overall situation. He slowly and steadily sealed off the old president's moves, then captured his pieces. With this game of Go, time passed quickly. Each guest group was doing their tasks, and the tasks weren't easy. They also had to interact with task NPCs set up by the production team.
As evening fell.
The production team gathered all four guests together.
The individually recorded segments for each guest group were already enough to fill the content of the first episode. Now, it was time for the judgment. Whoever had the highest score would rest in the most comfortable master bedroom tonight, and whoever had the lowest score would rest in the living room.
There were four couples in total. Renz and Erina were the gourmet group, Taro Hanyu and Hiyori Hanyu were the Go players' group, and the other two groups were the music group and the artist group. The male member of the music group was the pianist Kakeru Saito, and the female member was the violinist Tamaki Tomatsu. The male member of the artist group was the former idol king Akira Kitahara, who had retired from the entertainment industry for a long time, and the voice actress Maaya Amamiya.
This show invited officially married couples as well as couples who were merely dating. Marriage is quite troublesome in Japan, and most people choose not to get married. It's especially difficult for idol artists to marry.
If many female fans are "girlfriend fans," then becoming the girlfriend of a famous male idol artist would make her a target of public criticism. Forget marriage, just publicly acknowledging a girlfriend would lead to an attack from a group of fans. More extreme cases would involve sending things like razor blades or dead mice. Everyone has their own difficulties, after all. Some professions require preparing for such things, but Renz didn't have this problem. He didn't have a huge number of fanatical female fans, and besides, who could possibly
stand up to Erina?
If anyone could stand up to her, Renz would admit defeat.
At this point, all the guests participating in the show had gathered in the villa prepared by the production team.
On the living room table of the villa.
Several dark, bubbly, steaming drinks were displayed. At first glance, they looked like cola, but the viscous liquid emitted hot, steaming bubbles and a cool, pungent odor that assaulted the nostrils. Renz knew immediately that this stuff was undrinkable. First, it was steaming and bubbly, and second, this cool, pungent smell suggested the possibility of a traditional Chinese medicine concoction, and its color didn't look like a drink that a normal person would concoct. Even if a normal person tried to concoct it carefully, it wouldn't turn out like this. This stuff looked like it was intentionally made this way to deter people.
Well, sorry.
You succeeded.
Taro Hanyu even leaned in to sniff it.
Even from a distance, he could smell that cool, heady scent. At such close proximity, Taro Hanyu felt his nose was forcefully cleared.
"How much mint did they put in this?" Taro Hanyu thought about it and felt that only mint could produce
such an effect.
He had a tiny bit of regret.
So, was there still a chance to make up for his score now? He really didn't want to drink this strange stuff. If he drank this, wouldn't he immediately become a candidate for projectile vomiting?
Everyone present didn't really want to drink this.
Erina casually leaned in and sniffed the drink. Her sense of smell was good, and she felt no obvious aversion.
"This drink was probably synthesized using molecular gastronomy equipment," Erina whispered in Renz's ear.
"Ordinary people can drink it, but I observed it and smelled it, and the ingredients used are definitely the most stimulating to the tongue. Be careful if you drink it. It shouldn't affect your health, but the taste will definitely be very stimulating to the tongue. I don't think I can drink it at all."
"The God's Tongue can infinitely magnify changes in taste."
"The thought of this drink's taste being magnified by the God's Tongue... I don't dare to delve deeper into that
image."
You're really daring to think that! Renz didn't even dare to have that thought.
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