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The next day, very early in the morning.
Dokja wakes up startled!
999, who was being the little spoon, turns around to look at Dokja. “What’s the matter?”
“Baat?” Biyoo asks half asleep on a pillow, next to where Dokja was resting his head.
They are all wearing Sun Wukong pajamas. Although Biyoo’s pajamas looks like she’s inside a cap for big heads.
“It’s nothing, baby! Go back to sleep.” Dokja says to Biyoo, who closes her eyes.
At the same time a message shows up for 999 on midday tryst.
KDJ – Another avatar died!!! This one got stabbed by the shantanks : (
999 – Oh. Who would have thought.
KDJ – I know, right???
[Outer God Transformation: 5%]
Dokja closes the pop up. “Hey, do you want to go to the Stadium today?” He whispers completely ignoring the outer god transformation and making himself comfortable close to 999.
999 thinks that if they walk around the place, it’s possible that Biyoo will EVENTUALLY get bored of them and rejoin Kim Dokja‘s Company or her grandparents. Which would possibly halt the Outer God Transformation.
But there’s also the risk of Dokja interacting with his companions and the transformation accelerating.
Dokja has already said he wants to join the Story Chamber he THINKS Sooyoung will make, and that will accelerate his transformation as well.
999 is in a pinch. He wonders if they can clear Journey to the West before Dokja turns into an Outer God and loses his memories.
He finally hugs Dokja. “What games do they play at the Stadium?”
Meanwhile, in another room.
Sooyoung wakes up startled.
She had that weird dream again, so she even muttered to herself, “It's that stupid dream again,” while dreaming it.
And it was about a man wearing a white coat dying at the hands of another man wearing a black coat.
“I thought we were past this already…?”
Meanwhile, in another room.
Mia yawns and rubs her eyes. “Brother… did you stay the whole night looking at that phone?”
Joonghyuk coughs.
“Is it a new game?” Mia asks.
“I am merely doing research on how those Constellation’s phones connected to the Star Stream work.” Joonghyuk says from his bed.
He sees a notification of a new message and opens the messaging app.
416 unread messages from Demon-like Judge of Fire.
30 unread messages from Lily Blooming in Aquarius.
69 files pending download.
He locks the screen and puts the phone on the bedside table.
“Mia I’m going to the Stadium today.” Joonghyuk says. “For research.” He adds.
“Other you said you should take me to the fun rides.” Mia says with a deadpan expression.
Joonghyuk uses all of his willpower not to scowl in front of his little sister. He counts to three before talking again. “Do you want to go to the Stadium with me or do you want to go to the fun rides with the others?”
Mia squints. “I want the fun rides today.”
“Right. Promise you’ll stay close to Jihye at all times?”
“Promise.”
“And promise you won’t talk to weirdos pretending to be me?”
Mia tilts her head. “The five other yous? But they aren’t pretending?”
Joonghyuk widens his eyes. “FIVE?!”
Later, at the Stadium.
“There are several Constellations from Emperor overseeing the Story Chambers. You can watch those stories from any TV or phone, but THIS!!” Dokja motions at the spectacle in front of them. “This is on a whole other level!!”
Dokja and 999 watch the scene in front of them from their seats while eating popcorn (made by 999 and smuggled inside the stadium).
Biyoo decided to poof off before they entered the stadium. 999 was secretly a bit relieved that Dokja’s outer god transformation was halted, but now he’s also worried about the baby.
When 999 offers to look for her, Dokja assures 999 that Biyoo is fine and “she does whatever she wants! She takes that after me, of course!”
On the field, there’s a hologram of what is going on in one of the best voted chambers while two great dokkaebis narrate the events.
“Fascinating! So, they just change the show back and forth between the most voted stories and narrate the events so we know what is going on?” 999 says impressed.
“Yes!” Dokja nods. “It’s good if you just want t see where the action and the fun is happening without going manually through all the story chambers!”
“I see… imagine if all the scenarios on the Star Stream were like this…” 999 says absentmindedly.
“You mean with people in safe environments, having lots of fun, entertaining a lot more people while getting huge prizes?” Dokja asks.
999 nods.
“Yeah… did you hear that, baby? When you become the dokkaebi king, you better change how the scenarios are done! If we don’t completely destroy the Star Stream beforehand, that is.” Dokja says out loud. He looks at 999 and smiles.
999 shoots a confused look at Dokja.
“BAAAT!!” Biyoo appears out of thin air. Eats a mouthful of popcorn and poof! Disappears again.
[Outer God Transformation: 6.2%]
Meanwhile, at the other side of the Stadium.
“Is this where we will watch you?” Breaking the Sky Saint asks.
“If we get popular enough.” Joonghyuk replies.
Kyrgios shows up with a bucket of popcorn bigger than himself and sits next to Breaking the Sky Saint.
He eats half of a popcorn before speaking. “Will my disciple also take part in this show?”
“That fool said he’d be here.” Joonghyuk says at the same time his phone starts to vibrate. He takes the phone from his pocket.
Meanwhile,
“What a great solution this Sun Wukong from the 2nd Story Chamber found! Don’t you think so, Heoche?” One great dokkaebi says.
“I think so too, Heoju!!!” The other great dokkaebi replies. “Now let’s take a moment to hear from our sponsors!”
The holograms stop showing the story chambers to show various products and restaurants from Emperor. There’s some generic narration about how they are all the best quality and such.
“And now for a bit of fun before we go back to the MAIN FUN! Let us take a look aaaaaat-” Heoche starts to say.
“THE KISS CAM!!!” Heoju says enthusiastically.
The camera scans the constellations and incarnations on the stadium before focusing on a couple.
Dokja and 999, still wearing their fugitives’ masks widen their eyes.
Biyoo poofs next to Dokja, grabs his fugitive mask and poofs out.
999 quickly grabs Dokja’s face so he’s out of view and uses his skill to change other people’s appearance while they share a big kiss in front of everyone.
When they part the kiss, Dokja’s face already resembles the fugitive mask face again.
The camera pans back to the dokkaebis.
“How funny! I’ve never seen a someone wear a fugitive mask to make his face look like his own face!” Heoche says.
“Hey Heoche! I think that’s the couple Emperor was complaining about!” Heoju says.
“OH!!! From the car video! You’re right!!!” Heoche says.
“I don’t understand those nebulae! I mean, just use those events as PR Stunt, right???” Heoju says.
“That’s what I ALWAYS say!” Heoche says. “Did you see the baby stealing his mask? Hahaha!”
“Must be a friend of the dokkaebi at the VIP entrance! Anyway, let us take a peek at the most voted chamber!”
Meanwhile,
Joonghyuk answers Uriel’s messages. She’s asking for the thousandth time if Joonghyuk already tried the power of love to find Dokja.
Biyoo poofs on Joonghyuk’s lap. “Baat!!!” She yoinks the fugitive mask on his face.
“Ouch. What?” Joonghyuk says looking from his phone to Biyoo.
Breaking the Sky Saint and Kyrgios look from the holograms that just showed on the kiss cam to Joonghyuk in disbelief. It happened for less than a second, but for a powerful transcendent such as themselves, it was enough time to see the guy’s uncensored face.
Too bad Joonghyuk was looking at his phone.
“Baat!! Baat!!!” Biyoo sounds so disappointed.