Chapter 125

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Translated by Sylph

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‘That guy pulled such a trick?’

It was a bit strange.

I know Big Sejin is quick at judging situations and a guy who drives public opinion to his advantage.

But was he a guy who would go as far as pulling a trick on cards to pick a unit?

Rather than taking the risk of possibly being caught, I thought he would have pushed the given situation to his advantage as much as possible.

‘I don’t think he would do that just because he wanted to avoid Bae Sejin.’

Hmm, it’s not refreshing at all.

However, the situation was not good to interrogate this.

There was no evidence, and bringing up such a story with cameras in the dorm was an act of cutting one’s own flesh.

And actually, isn’t it hard to say anything even if it’s true? It’s not like a big problem occurred because he sneakily did a one-time concert unit as he wanted.

The probability of only ruining the atmosphere was high.

‘…Shall I move past for now.’

I went to the bed in Room 1, which has now become my former room. Big Sejin followed in slowly as if looking at the place that would now become his room.

“Oh, I should use Moondae’s bed. Moondae-ya, I shall hand over my bed to you.”

“…Where is it.”

“What, did you forget? It’s the one on the far left~”

“Right. I should avoid that place.”

“Gasp, are you so overwhelmed with gratitude that you can’t use it? It’s okay, Moondae-ya. Don’t be formal and use it comfortably~”

“……”

Just as usual.

I shook my head and packed my luggage and left Room 1.

‘If another problem arises, I can bring it up then.’

And that timing came sooner than expected.

It was the awards ceremony just a few days later.

* * *

Except for the Korean Music Awards, it was practically the last large awards ceremony.

But several big-name singers did not attend. It seems because it overlapped with their tour schedule.

In other words, VTIC didn’t come either.

‘…I don’t have to worry about the sledgehammer.’

As soon as I thought that, a text message came.

[VTIC Cheongryeo Sunbae-nim: It seems this is almost the last one. Congratulations on the Rookie of the Year award ^^]

“……”

I felt like I was being hit by a mental sledgehammer.

I replied with a short message and turned off the smartphone. Then Big Sejin pretended to know.

“Do you keep in touch with Cheongryeo sunbae-nim?”

“……Yeah.”

“Hmm~ Right, right.”

Big Sejin seemed to want to add more words, but before that, we arrived at the awards ceremony waiting room.

A paper was attached in front of the waiting room door.

[Gyrop / Teastar]

This time it wasn’t an exclusive waiting room.

‘Actually, because of the results until now, we’ve been receiving waiting rooms too well for rookies.’

I heard that in environments where waiting rooms were lacking even if they’ve risen somewhat, they often just wait with partitions.

‘One for two groups was also actually in a good situation.’

Hmm, so the one waiting together this time is… a male idol from a famous agency.

‘Is it about three or four years senior.’

It was a predictable lineup.

Ryu Chungwoo lightly asked the members.

“Hmm, let’s greet well while going in.”

“Yep!”

But unlike the normal reactions of the other members, Big Sejin right next to me was agitated.

“…! …Hmm.”

“……Wait a minute.”

‘Come to think of it, if I calculate the debut date with these guys’ agency……’

But before I could think further, the door was opened by the manager.

“안녕하십니까, sunbae-nims!”

“Ah~ Hello~”

Thinking a greeting without much character was being exchanged, soon the Gyrop guys approached while laughing exaggeratedly.

“Ah~ Sejin-ah!”

“Have you been well?”

As expected.

Anyway, it seems right that this is ‘that’ group that was the cause of Big Sejin’s short deviation before .

The first debut group of his first agency, from which Big Sejin was said to have been filtered out right before debut.

“Wow~ Hello. Sunbae-nims~ It’s really good to see you!”

“Hey, what sunbae-nim! Just call me hyung~”

“Ayy, how can I do that~”

Big Sejin smiled and shook hands with a few guys and bumped fists. It was an appearance that looked quite close.

The other members… had faces thinking ‘Big Sejin is acting like Big Sejin’. Because he’s a guy with good sociability.

However, from then on, the atmosphere changed slightly.

“Sejin-ah uh, you don’t even look at texts well. Hyung is disappointed.”

“아이, you know~ I’m so busy because I debuted!”

“Right. Sejin-ah, it’s good that you’ve become busy even now~ It was much later than expected! You were lucky.”

‘Look at this?’

These guys are sneakily sarcastically saying that Big Sejin failed to debut all this time.

Big Sejin replied with a broad smile.

“It’s good~ Sunbae-nims give me texts often but I’m sorry for the late reply! My work is busy so it doesn’t match well.”

It means are you guys damn free because you don’t have a schedule.

“…No, well, it wasn’t frequent, right? I just did it because I was curious about how you were doing.”

“Uh? These days I come out here and there a lot so isn’t it easy to know my current situation? Please tell me sunbae-nims’ current situation too sometime~ I’m curious about everything.”

“……”

Wow, he can return the blow for the fact that they have no news related to results because their recent activity was sluggish.

It was Big Sejin’s win by decision no matter how you look at it.

And by this point, most of the members except Kim Raebin had grasped the situation and were rolling their eyes.

The members of Gyrop had faces that were just about to rot.

“…Right. This year you’ll get to know our news well even if you don’t want to~”

“Is that so? Oh, I’m looking forward to it! Please look forward to our Teastar a lot too.”

“……”

This was purely crushed by the difference in weight class.

Eventually, the Gyrop members finished their greetings while forcing a smile.

“Right. Let’s both work hard.”

“Yep!”

It seemed the conversation was ending like that.

But whether they absolutely couldn’t bear it, a Gyrop member who was standing blankly in the back stepped in.

“But I’ve only heard Teastar’s news? I don’t know your news well though?”

“…! ”

The unexpected point was that Big Sejin seemed to have been hit by these words that were not much.

Big Sejin still had a smiling face, but instead of putting out any special rebuttal, he was shutting his mouth.

‘Uh?’

And here Kim Raebin couldn’t bear it and raised his hand to speak.

For reference, the thing he couldn’t bear was not getting angry but a pure logical error.

He couldn’t even get angry because he didn’t know the situation.

“…? Since Sejin-hyung is Teastar, isn’t Teastar’s news hyung’s news?”

“That’s right!”

Cha Yujin agreed promptly.

But Gyrop did not give up.

“No, only stories about the group are heard and stories about Lee Sejin are not heard well~”

“…? Ah, we have never done individual activities besides group activities. I think you can think of Teastar’s news as Sejin-hyung’s news.”

“……”

It wouldn’t have been Kim Raebin’s intention, but thanks to that, Gyrop’s words became nonsensical.

It’s over.

‘Shall I organize?’

I stepped in with a smile.

“Yes. In the future, whenever you hear Teastar’s news, you can just think of Lee Sejin. Right?”

“You are correct!”

Contrary to Kim Raebin’s proud face, Gyrop’s faces completely rotted.

“……Ah, right.”

No matter how much they are sunbae, whether these b*stards also don’t have the guts to do sh*t to a group with a big weight class after coming to the awards ceremony, the conversation ended just like that.

But Big Sejin’s state did not return at all.

‘This guy is really a bit strange.’

Big Sejin, who had been staring only at his smartphone without a word for an hour, was creating a damn sense of incongruity.

…And connecting the current situation with the unit card incident a few days ago, a point of suspicion arose.

‘……It’s ambiguous to leave it like this.’

Big Sejin had many times where he held the microphone.

If he continued like this, a problem might arise even at the timing when he has to give an acceptance speech, so it was better to clear it up now.

“…I’ll go to the car for a bit.”

“Uh?”

“Because I left something behind.”

I stood up from my seat and received the key from the manager.

“Shall I find it for you?”

“It’s okay. I’ll be back soon.”

And I tapped Big Sejin who was sitting near the door.

“Hey, let’s go.”

“……Hmm? What?”

“I think I’ll need one more person because there’s something to move. I also have to take a photo.”

“……”

Big Sejin scanned me up and down without a word, then stood up with only his mouth smiling.

“…Sure~”

It seemed clear that he was piqued somewhere, but first let’s move.

And I arrived at the car after walking through the hallway with this guy without a word.

“……”

After confirming that there was no one around, I opened my mouth after getting in the car.

“Do you have any problem recently?”

“……Whew.”

Big Sejin looked up at the car ceiling once and let out a sigh. He seemed to think that he recognized the purpose of me calling him out.

“No.”

“……Is that so? Then cool your head a bit and go up. You seemed uncomfortable in the waiting room.”

“…! ”

I shrugged and searched the car to find a neck pillow.

I can just say I came to find this roughly.

“I’ll make an excuse roughly, so return only before time. Then.”

“……”

I grabbed the car door. Then from behind, Big Sejin let out a long sigh.

“…Sorry. This is a bit, hard.”

“It sounds like there’s a problem.”

“Problem…… should I call it that.”

Whether it was hard for Big Sejin to say anything, silence continued.

‘Is it better to just say it.’

I contemplated for a moment then opened my mouth.

“Actually, I saw you picking the unit card. …You knew the number 3 card and avoided it, didn’t you.”

“…! ”

“…Was it because the screen time decreases more if 3 people do it than if 2 people do it?”

Seeing him being hit by words like ‘not you but the group is doing well~’ earlier, I wondered if he reacted sensitively to the part where his part to show himself decreases.

But Big Sejin shook his head.

“……No.”

And after fiddling with his smartphone, he slowly continued his next words.

“It’s because it’s you and Bae Sejin hyung. Because it would be difficult to show dancing with those members.”

“…! ”

“It’s obvious. You would have organized a vocal-centered performance song with you as the center… and I would probably receive about the dance break center and that’s it. Since even that has to be matched to that hyung, the difficulty would have been ordinary.”

“……We could have challenged dancing with you as the center.”

“Haha. 아이고 Moondae-ya. As if you would have done such an adventure while leaving the concert where fans spend money.”

“……”

“And even if I organized it centered on dancing matched to me, the fans probably wouldn’t like it much.”

“Why do you think so.”

“……I’m going crazy.”

Big Sejin let out a few sighs, then hesitating several times, he held out his smartphone.

It was an SNS result… searched with his name for search-prevention.

-To be honest, it’s even embarrassing to call him the dance line, right? Ahyun-ie is the one top, and Yujin is the center role anyway hahahaha Seeing Big Bird’s fans desperately pushing the dance line is disgusting

-Once Ahyun-ie fixes all his stuttering, we finally don’t have to see Big Bird-ssi’s speech, right? Whew thank goodness

-Honestly Moondae also dances well, the dance line is meaningless, right Big Bird if you have a conscience, get out, how dare you compare yourself to Ahyun-ie haha

-Big Bird… what on earth is his position..? Is his position pretending to be an insider? hehe

“……”

“Let’s not say that only insults come out if you search like this. Because if it comes out uniformly like this, it means it’s the fan public opinion to some extent.”

Big Sejin was calm.

I scrolled down the SNS more and rechecked the overall flow.

‘…Seon Ahyun was too impressive.’

Because of the impressive appearance of cleaning up the accident with a backflip and even overcoming stuttering, the status of Seon Ahyun’s ability soared significantly.

And among the same dance line, Cha Yujin was so popular and his talent was so great that his center position was certain.

Because of that, only Big Sejin was left hanging.

It seemed the fans who originally looked at Big Sejin half-heartedly felt that point very largely.

“Of course it’s probably the thoughts centered on people who dislike me…… anyway it’s true I’m being pushed back in position impression.”

“……”

“Ahyun doing well? Good. It’s a good thing for the group too. But I can’t bear being in this state.”

I slowly opened my mouth.

“…So Cha Yujin?”

“Yeah.”

Big Sejin received the smartphone back.

“이번에 유닛 무대에서 차유진보다 잘해야겠어.”

“……”

“Because one-on-one comparison will be possible. …I don’t see any other exit but that, don’t you think so?”
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