Chapter 593 (1/2)

-One, two, three - Hello, everyone! We are Redday. I’m Hana, the leader, and this is Jiyoung, the main vocalist. Then this...

“Hey! Move your head out of the way. I can’t see my Hana!”

“Hey, honestly speaking, Jiyoung is much better than Hana.”

“Shut up. Seul-i is the best. Man just look at her volume.”

“Quit yapping and just watch.”

It was lunch time. The boys gathered in front of the TV in the classroom and sang along to the idol music. They shouted the names of some members when there was a break with a perfect sense of rhythm.

“This place is chaotic too, huh.”

Maru closed the book he was reading and turned around. Daemyung was standing there with some drinks in his hand.

“Are you guys watching that as well?”

“Yeah. Apparently, they’re quite popular these days.”

Maru had a glance at the screen. Unlike the girl idols he had seen until now, the girls on the screen had very powerful moves. Breakdancing, back tumbling - they were better than most boy bands out there.

“They do look different from the rest.”

The boys in front of the screen suddenly crouched down. The girls’ skirts were waving around on top of their thighs. Their inner trousers could be glimpsed at.

“Just a little more!”

“Camera, go down a little more!”

Perhaps this was proof that people gained not collective intelligence but collective stupidity. Maru shouted at the boys that wouldn’t be able to see what they wanted before turning back around to Daemyung.

“Man, they’re devoted.”

“That’s just how they are. I guess they must have startled you from time to time, huh?”

Maru could not understand what Daemyung was saying. At that moment, the others shouted the names of the idols in unison. Maru smiled faintly when he heard the names hitting his ears.

“So that was what was bothering me this whole time while I was reading.”

“Oh, take this. I met Aram on the first floor and she bought it for me.”

“What’s gotten into her?”

“Apparently, it’s natural for the club president to look after the aged members.”

“I guess aging has its merits then?”

“Thanks to her, it has gotten a lot easier for me. The others follow Aram well too. In fact, I think we’re doing even better than when I was the president.”

“Aram is the type to gain full control after all. Even the ones that were secretly defiant should have changed their attitudes now.”

“True.”

After taking a sip, Maru spoke,

“I met writer Lee Hanmi yesterday.”

“Really?”

He briefly explained what happened yesterday. Daemyung trembled when he heard that Hanmi asked him all sorts of questions while drunk.

“Once she starts, there’s just no end. Teacher Ahn Pilhyun also bombards me with questions when he drinks strong alcohol, but he doesn’t really expect an answer from me, right? But Miss Lee Hanmi wants an answer from me until the very end. If I give her a vague answer, she will nag at me for that too. If I think of a decent one, she will say it’s boring. I mean, I’m sure she’s a good person, but I get stomach pains whenever she asks me something.”

“So that’s why you didn’t go yesterday.”

“I-it’s not like I didn’t go. I had no choice because of practice.”

“Same thing. She was looking for you yesterday too. She said something about how she was disappointed since she has fun teasing you.”

“You didn’t tell her anything, right?”

“Who do you think I am? I told her that you like her very much. She’ll give you a call soon enough, so try your best to look good in front of her.”

“Looks like I might have to turn my phone off for a while….”

“It’s a good opportunity, isn’t it? Have her teach you.”

“The mental damage is too much. I want to train my mind for it before I go to her.”

Daemyung sighed. It seemed that he had a hard time handling Hanmi.

Maru also talked about how she might join an agency.

“That’s good. She’s coming today for the film shoot, right?”

“No, not today.”

“There’s no shoot?”

“There is, but she won’t be coming. She’s meeting the president of the agency today. Writer Lee Hanmi is incredibly quick when she sets her mind on it.”

“Reckless, you mean. But an agency huh. I hope it goes well.”

“Yeah. When I heard about it, it sounded like a really solid place. Since it’s her first workplace, I hope they can lead a new actress like her well.”

Maru turned around to look at the TV again. The new idol group was introducing themselves. Their stiff smiles and shaky voices were followed by their performance.

“I wonder how many idols can make a living off their work.”

“I heard that it’s only a handful of groups out of hundreds of thousands. I saw it on TV before.”

“We aren’t that different either. Joining an agency is merely the first step, and I guess only a handful will become able to start running by themselves, just like idols.”