THE LIGHTS FLICKER ON!

[ ☾ JOON ] : Hey, if you had lights then why didn't you turn them on earlier? Do you know how hard it was to see?

[ ☼ YEWON ] : It's not our fault your eyesight's bad, you hag.

[ ☾ JOON ] : Show some respect to your elders, will you?

A few members of the production crew entered the room, and the PD handed a cue card to JOON.

[ ☾ JOON-HYUNG ] : Good evening viewers, welcome to the first episode of True Mafia! I'm your host, Joon-hyung.

[ ☼ BIBI ] : He's seriously the host of the show? Goodbye, viewer ratings.

[ ☾ JOON ] : Hey, just shut up and listen. Anyways, we've been split into two teams, as you can see. Amongst the ten of us right now, one is a mafia, and we have no clue as to who this person is. However, we'll be playing some games, and the team that wins will receive a hint as to who the mafia is!

Everyone nods their head, listening to what their 45-year-old host was saying.

[ ☾ JOON ] : The winning team will win not just one, but two hints! However, there's a catch. The mafia has a hidden mission! If the mafia succeeds in his/her mission, one of the hints that is given to the winning team will be fake. However, the winning team will not know!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Oh, that's going to be tough! I'm excited.

[ ☾ JOON ] : I'm sure we all can't wait to move right into the games, so I'll be briefing you guys on the first game now!

BASICALLY, THE CAST MEMBERS
WILL BE PRESENTED WITH
A SERIES OF EMOJIS!

FROM THERE, THEY WILL HAVE
TO RAISE THEIR HANDS AND
GUESS A SONG TITLE.

THERE WILL BE 15
QUESTIONS IN TOTAL!

EACH QUESTION HAS A
DIFFERENT LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY,
RANGING FROM 1-3 POINTS.

IF A CAST MEMBER MANAGES
TO GUESS THE ARTIST AS WELL,
THAT MEMBER RECEIVES 1 POINT.

IF THE SAME PERSON GUESSES
BOTH THE TITLE AND THE ARTIST,
THAT PERSON GETS A BONUS 1
POINT! SIMPLE, RIGHT?

[ ☾ JOON ] : The mafia's mission for this, is that they have to make 5 attempts at answering the question using song titles that start with the same letter. However, we will not know what letter has been assigned to the mafia.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Wait, how do you know the mafia's mission? Are you the mafia?

[ ☾ JOON ] : Shut up dumbass, it's written here on the cue sheet. You wanna see?

[ ☾ YEJIN ] : Don't just show it to us, give it to one of us.

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : He isn't doing that bad of a job being the host, let's just leave him alone [ laughs ]

THE MEMBERS SIT DOWN AND
ARRANGE THEMSELVES IN FRONT
OF THE LED SCREEN!

GAME 001 - START !

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION 01 - 1 POINT!

🤷❤️❔

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : What is Love! Twice!

TEAM DAY : 3 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT : 0 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION 02 - 1 POINT!

🗡️❤️

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Love Hurts!

[ ☼ MINKYU ] : Love Potion?

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Kill This Love!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : I have no idea what it is [ laughs ]

[ ☼ YEWON ] : It's by Blackpink!

TEAM DAY ; 6 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 0 POINTS!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : The mafia's so obvious right now. Mafia, you can stop acting now!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION THREE - 2 POINTS!

[ the question was a little vague, so I gave 1 point for other alternative answers ]

✨✨

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Pentagon's Shine?

ONE POINT WAS AWARDED TO
YOUNGSOO!

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Starry Night?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Dazzle Dazzle by Weki Meki!

3 POINTS WERE AWARDED TO SKYE!

TEAM DAY ; 11 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 0 POINTS!

SUNGHYUN - 3
YEWON - 3
YOUNGSOO - 1
SKYE - 4

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION FOUR - 3 POINTS!

❤️🌬️

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Love whisper!

[ ☾ JOON ] : YEOJACHINGU! You better give me the point-

TEAM DAY ; 14 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 1 POINT!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION FIVE - 1 POINT!

ℹ️👀❄️

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Icy!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : By Itzy!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION SIX - 3 POINTS!

WE APOLOGISE FOR THE
QUESTION IN ADVANCE.

❌📏📐⛔

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : What on earth is that?

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Heartbreaker?

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Okay, I don't know what that is.

[ ☾ JOON ] : Love measurement?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Love at an angle?

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : H-heart ruler stop???

[ ☾ JOON ] : Heartbreaker ruler stop???

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Hey, is there even a song with that title?

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : I was thinking about Break All The Rules [ laughs ]

[ PD ] : That's actually correct! Now guess the artist!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Cravity!

[ ☾ JOON ] : What kind of group name is that? It sounds like cavities.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Oh my god, even your jokes make you sound so old.

TEAM DAY ; 19 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 2 POINTS!

[

☾ YEJIN ] : Okay but how are those emojis..?

[ ☾ JOON ] : Bye, I'm packing my bags.

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : I'm just going to leave-

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Let's go, I'm willing to leave this show already.

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : Okay but, our team is so dead.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : I know right...

[ ☾ JOON ] : It's okay, the mafia's in their team anyway.

[ PD ] : Team night, the production crew would sincerely like you to step up your game. It's getting boring.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : It's not our fault we have an old man and a dumb idol...

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION SEVEN - 2 POINTS!

🤪🥵😎

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : What's that..?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Go Crazy by 2pm-sunbaenim?

[ ☾ JOON ] : I'm So Hot by Wonder Girls!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : What?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Crazy Sexy Cool by Astro!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Ugh! I was going to say that.

TEAM DAY ; 23 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 2 POINTS!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : How is that I'm So Hot?

[ ☾ JOON ] : Why not?

JOON starts dancing to I'm So Hot, and everyone turns away...

MID-GAME SCORES

☼ SKYE - 10
☼ SUNGHYUN - 6
☼ YOUNGSOO - 4
☼ YEWON - 3
☾ JOON - 1
☾ NAMJOO - 1

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Indeed, our team is doing great!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : We're obviously gonna win.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Ugh, I hate you.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : All these flavours and you choose to be salty.

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Why are we this good? This is suspicious...

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Why am I in team night, can i just leave?

[ ☾ YEWON ] : That team just has an old hag, lmao.

[ ☾ JOON ] : Excuse me?

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Please respect the elder, everyone.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Respect him by letting his team win at least once!

Suddenly, YOUNGSOO gets an idea...

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Guys, let's try charming the cameraman!

YOUNGSOO shoots cute hearts at the cameraman, as SKYE watches in embarrassment of her teammate.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Cameraman, you're hot.

[ ☼ BIBI ] : [ pouts ] You're sexy, you know that?

[ ☾ YEJIN ] : BIBI no, you're a child!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : We don't need a cameraman, because I can already picture our future together [ winks ]

[ ☾ JOON ] : Cameraman! Are you the dark?

Everyone went silent, staring at JOON...

[ ☾ JOON ] : Because when I saw you, I couldn't see anyone else.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Oh god, the old man is flirting.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : You know, you're really cringey for a hag.

[ ☾ JOON ] : But everyone else is doing it!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : that doesn't mean you should too, you have a wife!

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : This is a mess...

SKYE, YEJIN, and MINKYU shake their heads at the chaos that was ongoing.

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : But dude, everytime in front of the camera, i look really... handsome.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Of course you do!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : That's just you being narcissistic.

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Why don't we just... concentrate on the game? Maybe?

[ ☾ KIM ] : When do we ever concentrate?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : True, you got me there.

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : What game? Game of being the most good-looking? I'm in then.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : I win, I mean I'm pretty hot.

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Agreed, you're very hot.

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : NAMJOO, not you too...

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Please, if you look handsome, what do I look like? A god? Just look at this face of mine.

[ ☾ JOON ] : [ sighs ] Kang Hodong! Pick me up...

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] ; I mean, if you're pretty and I'm hot, god, we'll be pretty hot together [ winks at camera ]

[ ☾ JOON ] : Why are children like this these days?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : I'm either an enourmous killjoy or you guys are just... flirty dumbos.

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : Can I just go home?

[ ☼ YEJIN ] : Nope, we're stuck here.

━━━━━━━━━

MOVING ON WITH THE GAME!

QUESTION EIGHT - 2 POINTS!

🍃☀️🍂❄️🖐️

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : The fifth season by Oh My Girl!

TEAM DAY ; 23 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 6 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION NINE - 1 POINT!

❤️💣

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Love Bomb!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Fromis 9! I swear, if I don't get the point for this-

TEAM DAY ; 24 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 7 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION TEN - 2 POINTS!

👋☝️

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Hi high by LOONA!

TEAM DAY ; 24 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 11 POINTS!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : See, it's never over till it's over! We might turn the tables, for all you know.

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION ELEVEN - 1 POINT!

👍🌃

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Good Night!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : By Dreamcatcher!

TEAM DAY ; 25 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 12 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION TWELVE - 2 POINTS!

🤠🆙

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Horse?

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Giddy Up by The Boyz!

TEAM DAY ; 25 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 16 POINTS!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Ah, thank god I got that one right, it's my own group! Otherwise that would've been terrible...

[ PD ] : There's a gap of 10 points now... should we raise the number of points for the next question?

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : Yes! Wait... but if the other team gets it right, that would be bad. Just leave it as it is!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION THIRTEEN - 1 POINT!

👶❌🛑

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Baby don't stop!

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Exo?

[ ☼ BIBI ] : Nct!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : But u! NCT U!

[ ☼ BIBI ] : Oh right!

TEAM DAY ; 28 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 16 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

QUESTION FOURTEEN - 1 POINT!

🎬⭐

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Movie Star!

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : By CIX!

TEAM DAY ; 29 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 17 POINTS!

━━━━━━━━━

LAST QUESTION - 2 POINTS!

❤️🔋

VIEWERS, GUESS HERE!

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Love Battery! By Hong Jiyoung?

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : Love drugs?

[ ☾ NAMJOO ] : I don't know who the artist is! Yongja or something?

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Hong Jinyoung?

TEAM DAY ; 32 POINTS!
TEAM NIGHT ; 17 POINTS!

[ PD ] : JOON, shouldn't you know this song well?

[ ☾ JOON ] : YEWON keeps stopping me from answering! Ugh, it's so annoying.

THE GAME ENDS
TEAM DAY - WIN!

☼ SKYE - 16
☾ NAMJOO - 16
☼ SUNGHYUN - 6
☼ YOUNGSOO - 4
☼ YEWON - 5
☾ JOON - 1

The members gather in their teams to discuss who they think the mafia is...

[ ☼ YEWON ] : I'd think the production crew chose the one number right in the middle.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : But I realised that MINKYU's anwers had a lot of similar letters.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Wait, really?

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : The letters N, I, and O repeaed a lot.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Yeah, I do think the mafia is on the other team though.

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : But we'll also never know if it's someone on our team...

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Should we let the other team win the next time?

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Huh? And give up a possible hint?

[ ☼ YEWON ] : We already won this time. And the mafia could be here, for all we know.

[ ☼ SKYE ] : Yeah, but... I really think the mafia's on the other team. Many of them didn't try guessing, I think that's a little suspicious?

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : I'm still suspecting MINKYU. A lot of her guesses started with L. But once she got one wrong, she kind of gave up answering... We'll get a clue too, right? That might help.

[ PD ] : Can one representative come forward to collect the hints?

[ ☼ BIBI ] : SUNGHYUN, you can go! You were the one who helped us investigate most.

SUNGHYUN walks forward, and is told to pick two envelopes out of eight. Team DAY reads their hints, and discuss once again, this time with confused looks on their faces.

What hint did they receive?

Both teams gather together and sit in one circle, to decide who to kill.

[ ☾ YEWON ] : Let's kill MINKYU.

[ ☾ JOON ] : Oh damn-

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : What-

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Amongst the responses that MINKYU gave, were things like "love potion" and "love drugs", which start with L. In addition, the hints we received pointed to him. MINKYU, anything to say in your defense?

[ ☾ JOON ] : Oh my god, you sound like a dementor.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Strangely, this isn't as impactful as I imagined it would be, haha.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : I'm nervous, okay? Anyways, we all kill MINKYU-

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : I'm really not the mafia. I literally said any words that came up to my mind, call me dumb but it's true...

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Yeah, but how do you even think of "love potion" with "kill this love"? That makes it more suspicious.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : I'll feel bad if we're wrong...

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : I think I couldn't see the emojis for that one... What were the emojis for that again?

[ ☼ YEWON ] : It was the sword and the heart, sweetie.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : MINKYU's playing psychological tricks on us so we don't vote for him!

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : I'm not trying to!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : It's still suspicious though, how you managed to think of many songs that start with "L".

[ ☾ JOON ] : Well, I trust Yewon's instincts...

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : Wait, I was the first one to bring it up. Give me some credit!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : [ laughs ] Yeah, Sunghyun-hyung did.

[ ☾ SUNGHYUN ] : I'm just so gorgeous, you have to believe me.

Everyone sighed and some rolled their eyes at SUNGHYUN's comment.

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : Well, it's okay then, go ahead and vote for me.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Let's vote for MINKYU! I'm not falling for that trick again. We've already established who to kill! If it isn't MINKYU, we have a back-up plan.

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : But we won't mention who it is!

[ ☼ YOUNGSOO ] : Well, I'm glad that my team has brains, so I'll just sit here and watch [ laughs ]

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : Okay, I'll just watch you guys kill the wrong person.

[ ☼ YEWON ] : If you're not the mafia, then why are you being so defensive?

[ ☾ MINKYU ] : When was I? I just let you all vote for me...

[ ☼ SUNGHYUN ] : We have two suspects so we kill one, then the other. No big deal.

THE CAST MEMBERS ARE TOLD TO POINT TO WHO THEY WANT TO KILL!

[ ☾ JOON ] : Okay. 1,2,3!

MOST POINT TO MINKYU!

[ ☼ YEWON ] : Hey, why did you point to me?

[ ☾ JOON ] : I don't know, you're just suspicious! And you kept stopping me from answering.

AND SO, MINKYU WAS KILLED!

VIEWERS, WOULD YOU ALSO HAVE VOTED HIM OFF?

OR DO YOU THINK THEY MADE THE WRONG CHOICE?

HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS...

STAY TUNED TO TRUE MAFIA TO FIND OUT!
WE'LL SEE YOU IN THE NEXT EPISODE!

[ a minute of min ]

this is like 2.4k words omg, that's way longer than i expected.

i'm sorry if this was a little boring,
especially for cast members since
i mostly repeated your convos!

and i don't even know if i have
readers who aren't cast members?
if any of you readers are seeing this,
thank you so much and do continue
to be active, because i'm considering
adding new people for the next ep!

i might also have to remove
inactive people but idk <\3

also i'm sorry for the lack of gifs
in this chapter, i'll try to put
more in future! i also wanted to
include edits but i got lazy lmao.

++ !!!

i've given it some thought and i've
come up with new ways to answer
questions during the games,
so that it's neater and hopefully
more fun/interesting!
do look forward ><

cast members, i'll text you MINKYU's
real identity tomorrow (tuesday)
around 10pm KST :D

NEXT CHAPTER
ONGOING... 33% DONE!

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