Chapter 86

===================

Translated by Sylph

Read it only at Novelbyu.com & Utoon.net

===================

[Tada!]

What was hidden under the cloth was… a heavy nameplate.

– ???
– ? What the ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The luxurious and huge mother-of-pearl nameplate, which would only be on the desk of a corporate chairman, had words written in Gungseo font.

[Loviewer]
[Loviewer]

Ryu Chungwoo smiled and opened his mouth.

[We decided on it while thinking of the fans who watch over us with love.]
[It’s LOVE plus Reviewer!]

Cha Yujin added an additional explanation. And he looked at the giant nameplate with a proud gaze.

[That! It was custom-made!]
[With the meaning that our fans, who have invested in us until now, are the best to us… Ah, and after the W-Live ends, we plan to send it to a fan through a lottery!]

It was a given, but the nameplate that suddenly popped up was just funny because it was so out of context.

For reference, Park Moondae opposed it until the end, but he was pushed by the majority vote and just gave up.

Anyway, because TeSTAR seemed so proud, the fans just pushed the comments with laughing emoticons and hearts. Because it was cute.

Of course, on SNS, fierce real-time relaying of the situation took place.

– You want to tell them to take the nameplate away from the W-App because it’s old-fashioned, right? But it’s the first W-App, let’s let it slide ㅠㅠ Let’s let it slide just once!
– Ah, just type ㄹㅇㅋㅋ~
– Unless something extremely crappy comes out, read the room~
– For now, the name is fine, so the nameplate can be accepted as an unexpected cuteness, okay?

Thanks to that, the members, who approached the smartphone screen because they were curious about the reaction to the fandom name, were able to judge the situation mainly through words like ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’, ‘ㅠㅠㅠ’, and ‘I love you.’

[Look! The reaction seems fine!]
[T-That’s a relief…]
[Alright!]

TeSTAR continued the next announcement with excited faces.

[Then, we will continue to announce the official colors!]

* * *

TeSTAR’s first W-Live continued for quite a long time.

Originally, it was scheduled for 2 hours, but the members felt it was a shame to end the first W-Live by only proceeding according to the script.

So, in the latter half, quite a lot of TMI was released.

========================
[TeSTAR’s MBTI summary they released themselves on W-App today ㅋㅋㅋ]
: Ryu Chungwoo ESFJ / Lee Sejin A ISFP / Seon Ahyun ISFJ / Big Sejin ENTJ / Park Moondae INTJ / Kim Raebin INFP / Cha Yujin ENTP

It was really a treat to see kids who hadn’t done this before getting excited while doing it on live… TeSTAR is a restaurant even for W-Live…
※ It wasn’t an official test, so watch for fun!
========================

– Wow, there are no overlapping kids ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– ㅠㅠㅠㅠ The kids were so cute today, I wish they would turn on W-App often.
– Extrovert and Introvert came out really accurately, especially Big Sejin, who is a definite E ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– Whenever the explanation for Chungwoo’s ESFJ comes out, the kids admire it saying it’s the same, and they look exactly like kindergarten babies who like their teacher ㅠㅠ Aigoo, the cute things.
– The kids who seem to have low empathy are T. It fits.
└ ?? There’s an idiot who does character judgment with MBTI?
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Bundling half of humanity and bashing them was amazing~

Of course, the atmosphere celebrating the finally decided fandom name was the strongest.

– Honestly, I felt uneasy because TeSTAR reminded me of ‘tester,’ but thanks to my singer who set up the concept of a reviewer filled with love for fans, I forgot everything.
└ This is right, TeSTAR-Loviewer is a pair of destiny, I don’t accept any counterarguments?
– As soon as the court opens tomorrow, I plan to change my name to Kim Loview. ㅇㅇ It sounds lovely and like a closet fan.
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Are you crazy ㅋㅋㅋ
If two people apply on the same day it’ll be weird, so only I’ll do it.
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– It was also good to use sky blue tones according to the time of day to make a three-tone fandom color. A feeling that it’s related to the world-view of this album?
└ Right, anyway, colors these days feel like they exist only in name ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– Actually, because our lightstick seems like it will come out very conspicuously… the color might not matter anyway…
└ ㅋㅋㅋ Right ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ I’m already looking forward to the public broadcast, really ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

TeSTAR’s fans spent their Sunday enjoying the various baits that burst in the first W-Live.

Furthermore, the last fan signing event of this activity was then in progress.

– I wonder if a fan signing right after W-Live will be okay ㅠㅠ
– They really can’t schedule;

While worrying about TeSTAR and cursing the agency, it was human nature to have no choice but to wait for the reviews at the talk that they would try to ask questions about the W-Live.

Fortunately, the atmosphere delivered in real-time was very good.

– Someone gave Raebin maracas in the shape of a baseball bat ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Raebin looks like he’s going to die of embarrassment ㅋㅋㅋ (Photo)
– I asked Moondae to draw a dog. Um… anyway, Moondae-dindin says this is a dog, so from now on, this is a dog. (Photo of a drawing that looks like a burst hotteok)
– Today Ahyun prepared a gift ㅠㅠ It’s a deer character pen ㅠㅠ I got an autograph with this! (Photo)

And TeSTAR was also conducting the fan signing event even more energetically thanks to the feeling that things were ending successfully.

* * *

“Moondae-ya, could you draw the lightstick here for me?”
“…Of course. Here?”
“Yes!”

I thought I had received similar requests about ten times that day alone. I hid my lukewarm feeling and drew the final version of the lightstick next to my signature.

…I had drawn it myself, but I couldn’t recognize what it was at all.

“Oh my god! I love it so much…”

Did she feel fond of it because the clumsy appearance looked human?

‘Or is it because it’s rare since I draw it so badly.’

Either way, it didn’t matter as long as the recipient liked it, but I couldn’t avoid the feeling of being like Kim Seondal who sold the water of the Daedong River.

‘It feels like I’ve just been killing time.’

I finished the drawing as quickly as possible and asked again.

“Is there anything else you’d like to see?”
“Gasp, then write some fluttering words for me!”
“Hmm, fluttering words…”

Such unspecific requests seemed the most difficult in an environment where I couldn’t spend time pondering.

However, because that was also something I heard more than twice in one fan signing session, I was slowly gaining speed.

I immediately wrote down words under the lightstick.

[Park Moondae’s dinner schedule today: Thinking of the Loviewer I met at the fan signing]

“Heueueung…”
“See you again.”

The fan was moved to the next seat by the staff while flailing. Because I had already held out once, the staff was firm this time, so there was no helping it.

‘As expected, mentioning a specific situation related to the other person is the most effective.’

It would be better to put in a bit of a personal feeling, but I couldn’t help it because I didn’t think I could think of it within 20 seconds.

‘I think it’ll really come to mind in the evening.’

I stroked the back of my neck and waited for the next person, but there was no sign of them coming yet.

“Sejin-ya, is there a secret to being good on stage?”
“Hmm~ If noona tells me the good points, I can make that the secret!”
“Waaaaah!”

It was because Big Sejin was continuing the conversation almost like some kind of stunt. It was amazing that the staff couldn’t even lift a hand.

‘Time has opened up…’

While I was giving my gaze to the camera calling my name, I heard the sound of the fan who just passed by talking to Seon Ahyun.

“Ah, hello.”
“Ah, yes. Hello.”

Whether she was someone not particularly interested in Seon Ahyun, there was not much emotion in her voice.

“W-What is your n-name…?”
“Pardon?”

I heard the fan ask back with a slightly flustered voice.

“T-The n-name…!”

Seon Ahyun asked once more, but the slightly smaller voice was instead a bit muffled. Irritation began to seep into the other person’s tone.

“I can’t hear you well…”
“S-S-Sorry.”
“No.”
“…”

The feeling wasn’t good.

After that, Seon Ahyun’s words disappeared. Glancing at him, I saw he was still signing.

“Hello!”
“Hello.”

Finally, Big Sejin’s words ended, and another fan came in front of me. I was waiting for the fan, who was still waving to Big Sejin, to hand over the album, and I heard a voice from the side again.

“T-This, t-this…”
“Ah.”

It seemed Seon Ahyun held out the gift he had prepared.

And, a voice that sounded slightly offended refused.

“Ah, that’s okay. It’s fine.”
“…!”

The fan sitting in front of Seon Ahyun left just like that.

In fact, such a thing could happen.

There was no job where you always met only kind people. That much wasn’t like hearing insults to your face, so perhaps he could have just felt a bit bad and gotten over it.

The problem was that my intuition was damn ominous.

‘Stuttering, unfamiliar peer, rejection.’

The keywords were a complete triple crown.

It was at the level of someone tap-dancing on Seon Ahyun’s trauma switch.

“…”

Looking to the side, Seon Ahyun was stiffly frozen and breaking into a cold sweat.

‘Son of a…’

That would be caught if delayed even a little.

I first snatched the pen held in Seon Ahyun’s hand. And I immediately tore open the packaging.

“…!”
“This is a gift Ahyun prepared, can I sign with this too?”
“Wow! I’d love that!”

I immediately began to sign, pulling Seon Ahyun into the conversation.

“And Ahyun says he’ll give you the one I’m using now and one more packaged one.”
“Heh…?! Really?”
“Of course. Right?”
“…Y-Yes!”

Whether Seon Ahyun regained his senses, he began to answer.

‘At least the freezing is loosened.’

“Oh oh oh, I’m so happy, why do I get two?”
“It’s a reward given out of gratitude for listening to Big Sejin’s words for a long time. Our member talks quite a bit, right?”
“Hey, that’s too much!”
“Uhahaha!”

Big Sejin managed to hear it, added a comment, and disappeared.

Whether the fan thought everything was a joke by now, she walked away with the pen while laughing excitedly.

“Thank you so much~ But how did you know I was a noona?”
“I heard Big Sejin say it about ten times from the side.”
“Hahahat…!”

That fan, who laughed as if embarrassed, fortunately talked to Seon Ahyun, the next in order, with all her heart and exchanged conversation.

And Seon Ahyun regained stability before the next person came.

‘At least I passed it.’

Fortunately, there were no other anomalies until the fan signing event ended that day.

* * *

“Are you okay?”
“…I-I’m okay.”

In the car returning to the dorm, Seon Ahyun’s condition was definitely better than before.

However, his complexion was still pale. And he muttered words of apology repeatedly.

“S-Sorry… I, I a-almost caused a b-big trouble…”
“It’s not like that.”

It could become a bit of a troublesome scandal, but it wasn’t something that would be a blow to the group.

The problem was that at this rate, this guy’s mental state seemed like it would be crushed first.

‘He’ll keep worrying that a situation like earlier will come again if a fan signing is scheduled.’

Then on the day the ‘Grit’ trait became deactivated… it could really have been a blow to the group.

Because a hole would appear in the dance line.

“By any chance, do you have no intention of getting counseling?”
“…… N-N-No time…”
“If you tell the agency, I think they’ll let you out for a bit. These days, there are many people who take a break from activities altogether due to these problems.”

Since they had filled 4 weeks after starting activities, it meant the agency would provide some convenience if Seon Ahyun said he couldn’t take it anymore.

But Seon Ahyun shook his head hurriedly.

“T-They said they’ll give us a vacation soon, so at t-that time… I’ll do it.”
“…”

I thought that was for media play and they would give us about three days and act like they were doing us a favor.

I was about to say wouldn’t it be better to receive it now, but Seon Ahyun opened his mouth first.

“N-Now… I don’t want to. I-I’m still active, and I d-don’t want to m-miss s-schedules.”

He was firm.

Since he said so, I decided to let it go for now. Because it was also something that happened for the first time.

“Hmm… okay. I understand.”
“Yeah…”

‘If I think the atmosphere is strange, I can just contact Seon Ahyun’s parents.’

Because we talked quietly in the car with music playing, the conversation did not leak out. I decided to escape from Cha Yujin’s voice singing along to a pop song by using earplugs.

“…”

And when we arrived at the dorm.

The living room was filled with some kind of balloons.

“…?!”