Staring at Rio mockingly waving the hammer around, she puffed her cheeks and looked away.

Fine. She would just let him have it.

He should just wait until she won before she bashed him in.

As Valentina began pouting, Rio laughed openly before trying to coax her, “Okay, okay. Even though you tried to hit me first, I’ll literally be the bigger person and forgive you. Come on. Let’s play. If you win, you can hit me five times.”

“Okay. But if I lose, you can only hit me once.”

“I thought you said you wouldn’t lose.”

“I won’t, but just in case.”

“Fine, fine. I’ll allow you just this once. Here, I’ll even let you get one hit in.” Rio handed her the toy hammer and lowered his head accordingly, allowing her to smack it repeatedly.

The audience: “……”

Jimmy: “……”

Vanessa: “……”

Shawn: “Yawn.”

Yuri: “……”

You mean to tell me that there was nothing going on between these two people???

Even if they both swore in a court of law, nobody would believe them.

This was next-level flirting!

This was a pouting girlfriend with her caring boyfriend trying to coax her!

A golden retriever boyfriend who is softly giving in to his black cat girlfriend.

The audience members, specifically the members of the demonic pillars, felt highly conflicted. They felt bad that their male idol was having this kind of interaction with a woman but then they had also never seen him this open and happy on a show before. Getting to see this childish side of him was a treat, but unfortunately, it wasn’t directed at them.

Everybody watched their interaction with mixed feelings.

Just as Vanessa and Jimmy were about to get them on track, they stopped their bickering and reached an agreement.

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“Okay, Val, let’s start. I’ll go first since you tried to hit me.”

“You hit me more, though,” Valentina grumbled.

As Rio glanced threateningly at te hammer, she gave him a placating smile.

“Since you’re my senior, naturally, I’ll let you go first. You know, I always say, age before beauty.”

Rio: “……” Why did he feel like that was a sneaky insult to him? Was she saying he was old, or was she secretly calling him ugly? This face that was consistently ranked amoung the 10 most handsome celebrities in the country?

Originally, he was going to take it easy on her, but clearly, she needed to be taught a lesson.

Rubbing his hands together, he smirked before quickly pointing.

“Left!”

As Valentina immediately turned in the direction he pointed, her eyes widened in shock, he couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

As she gave him puppy dog eyes and a pleading smile, he felt his heart soften just a bit.

“Yes? I’m listening.” Unconsciously, his tone softened.

“…this round doesn’t count.” She immediately said while protecting her head.

“Did you learn your lesson?”

“There was a lesson? You hit my head like five times!” At the immediate rebuttal combined with a rebellious glare came out, Rio had no sympathy. After all, she had been cocky all day. “Oh yes, it does. Brace yourself.” With no hesitation, he bopped her lightly on the forehead again.

“In a shocking turn of events, Valentina lost immediately. Since we feel bad. Let’s have her go again and use this as her practice round. Valentina, turn your head in the opposite direction of what is pointed and called out, okay?” Jimmy quickly commented as he saw Valentina squat on the ground in a depressive state, her fingers tracing sad circles on the ground. Seeing her immediately perk up, he couldn’t help but laugh indulgently.

“I’ll go first this time. Right!” Valentina quickly pointed right, but unfortunately, Rio looked up.

Smirking at her, he swirled his fingers around before holding them before her face.

“Down.”

Rio’s lean fingers pointed downward.

As she prepared to oppose his actions, her ears heard down, and her head dropped down immediately.

Rio burst out laughing, and Shawn could feel his eyebrows twitching. Did he end up with a pig teammate?

“I’ll give you a free pass. Again?” Rio asked cockily.

“Again!”

“Up!”

“Left!”

“Down!”

No matter what she did, as soon as her brain heard the direction Rio called out, she immediately faced it.

“Right!”

Valentina: “……”

As Rio pointed in the direction he called, without even saying a word, she just covered her head and braced for the hammer impact. It was her total, complete loss.

Without hesitating, rio calmly smacked her on the forehead with the hammer, making sure to hit her for every round she lost.

As her forehead began turning red, he began hesitating, but seeing her mouthing that she would get him back, he continued smacking her head.

“In a surprising turn of events, Valentina has lost a grand total of 15 times in one minute. While we do feel sorry for her, rules are rules so here is a 30-second montage of each time she fell during filming of the music video. Oh, and a few of Shawn sprinkled in there as well since we feel bad for Valentina. Teammates should suffer together, you know.” Vanessa laughed while pointing the the projector screen.

As the audience laughed, the lights dimmed, and a video projected against the wall.

As the video began playing, Valentina got to watch along with a live audience as she fell repeatedly on the set to a laugh track, from tripping in her regular clothes, her feet catching on door jambs and her pants catching on door handles, to tumbling down in heels when standing, walking, trying to get up, trying to sit down. In fact, it looked like she was always falling down. In the beginning, there were a few clips of Shawn tripping, especially during battle scenes, but as the song Clumsy began playing in the background, the falling clips all of a sudden began, including Rio.

‘You got me slipping, tumbling, sinking, fumbling…’ As the ambiguous word sounded out, Valentina wanted to curse the editing team. Why would they choose these scenes along with this particular song?

From when she almost fell after a scene, and Rio untied the ribbons on her shoes, to when he carried her when she twisted her leg, to when she fell in the final battle scene.

As the lights turned on, she wanted to squat and hide her face. She felt as if her dignity was gone. Looking at the footage, she truly understood why Yuri had been mad at her. From angles, it truly looked as if she were throwing herself at Rio each time she fell.

Each angle looked carefully calculated and she always looked graceful while doing it.

But she really wasn’t! it was a complete accident!!

It was the systems fault for not giving her the high heel skill early. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have fallen so much.

She decided to conveniently forget the number of times that she had tripped in regular shoes.

The system that caught a stray bullet: “……”

What did the host’s clumsiness have to do with it?