Chapter 54
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Chapter 54
The members and I went straight to the dorm after our last cheer in the practice room. After taking a quick shower at the new dorm we were now getting a bit used to, we went down to the underground parking lot. As expected, Ms. Seung-Young and Ms. Hyuna were waiting for us. It was their first time coming to our new dorm today, and they were looking around the parking lot with a dazed expression.
Then one of them said, “The cars parked here right now are more expensive than our house...”
“If we scratch the car next to us by mistake, I don’t think we can pay for the repair even if we sell this car.”
They said this was quite a terrifying neighborhood.
“Hahaha.”
“We weren’t used to it at first either.”
“Even now, in fact...”
We sympathized with Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna’s words and got into the car. They seemed like they had a lot of questions for Dong-Jun, such as how on earth he had a house like that and why a person like that was trying so hard to become an idol.
Although they looked at Dong-Jun with curiosity, he pretended ignorance till the very end. “Let’s go~” It seemed like he didn’t want to tell anyone besides us about his family.
Ms. Hyuna and Ms. Seung-Yeon also didn't question Dong-Jun further, and like that, the car moved smoothly toward the salon in Gangbuk.
* * *
Even after arriving at the shop, the same scenery continued as usual.
“Long time no see, everyone~” The warm-hearted boss welcomed us.
“Boss!!” Yeon-Hoon approached the boss and acted cute.
“Hahaha! It’s so great to always see you, Mr. Yeon-Hoon!”
“Ma’am, I also feel the same way!”
“Oh my! You talk as pretty as your face~”
Yeon-Hoon and the boss’ conversation fluidly continued as their energy was equally matched. They both loved chattering away. While Yeon-Hoon and the boss caught up on how they were doing, we both sat in our respective seats. The stylist in charge came and styled our hair and makeup.
“What did you say today’s concept was?”
“It’s space opera~”
“Space opera? What’s that?”
“You just have to think of it as something like Star Wars or Dune.”
Dong-Jun and the stylist exchanged small talk about the stage.
“Oh my. But why are you doing your hair and makeup the same as usual?”
“What?”
“It would be nice to add something more eye-catching.”
At Dong-Jun’s stylist’s words, we turned our heads in unison.
“Ah.”
“Um, if you turn your head so suddenly—”
“Ack!”
As a result, each stylist was flustered.
“Ah, I’m sorry.”
“Hahaa.”
“Sorry about that.”
We turned our heads back to our normal conversation and then began conversing on the subject earlier.
“Would it perhaps be possible to do our makeup differently than usual?”
“Is your outfit a bit strong?”
‘It’s a miracle that the quality of the outfits hasn’t been bad so far.’ We were a group that had to set up a stage with a very tight budget, and our budget was much smaller than other companies. We were able to endure so far by self-producing our own lyrics, songs, and even choreography. We also practiced by ourselves and saved on lessons. Moreover, thanks to Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna’s hard work, we were able to garner a little extra budget.
Thanks to all these efforts, we could procure a sufficient budget to obtain a decent outfit if we used up all the money we saved. However, for this stage, we couldn’t allocate all our money to purchasing outfits.
Since the stage was so large and complex, we had to hire dancers, and the sets to be put on the stage had to be outsourced separately. As a result, even though we had more than our usual budget, we could only use the lowest possible amount for our outfits. Among the ones with the lowest prices, we chose a company with the most passable quality and ordered our outfits.
‘But their pictures were a scam.’ I didn’t know if the outfit company photoshopped their products or used good fabric only for promotional pictures. An outfit that looked completely different from the picture arrived. Although it was partly our fault that we expected good quality for the price we offered, it didn’t change that the company tricked us.
‘They lied to us, so it’s a sticky situation.’ This wasn’t something that we could easily overlook, as for people like us, a single stage could make or break our team, especially at a critical time like this. However, it already happened, and we couldn’t order new outfits anymore. In other words, we had to go up on stage with this terrible outfit. Perhaps Ms. Seung-Yeon also knew this as she soon ended the call and sighed deeply.
“I’m very, very sorry everyone. I should have known this would happen.” Ms. Seung-Yeon apologized to us.
“No, how would you have known? It’s the company that scammed us...” Yeon-Hoon talked to Ms. Seung-Yeon to console her. However, the atmosphere didn’t improve, and everyone sighed.
When we arrived at the studio, the camera directors were waiting for us.
“Let’s raise our energy and go in!” Yeon-Hoon forcibly raised our low mood and opened the car door.
“Hello~!”
“Hello, sir.”
“How are you doing, sir~”
We did as Yeon-Hoon said and opened the door while energetically greeting the directors and production crew. We headed towards the waiting room, and while we were walking down the hallway of the studio, we met Bleshu.
“Uh! Hello, Sir...en?”
We couldn’t help but freeze at their transparent response; even Bleshu members flinched and were surprised by the quality of our outfits. It must be very obvious that our outfit quality was very poor, even to outsiders.
The members clenched their teeth and greeted the Bleshu members.
“Hello~”
“It’s been a while~”
Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun stepped forward first and eased the uncomfortable atmosphere. However, as we got closer to Bleshu, Do-Seung and Woon’s expressions worsen.
‘Bleshu’s outfits are really good.’ Their team seemed to have put their lives at stake for this stage as their outfit quality looked great even from a glance. It was an all-white uniform with silver decorations, which gave off a luxurious impression. It felt like I was getting physically smaller the closer I got to them.
“Well, we’ll see you on stage later!”
Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun pretended not to be, but they also seemed quite upset. Normally, they would have chatted for a long time but quickly ended the conversation and moved to the waiting room. We all quickly walked and as soon as we got to the waiting room and opened the door—
Sighhh.
“Pweh..”
Sighs burst out everywhere.
“Our outfits...what shall we do?” Yeon-Hoon said as if he was genuinely worried. Team morale was falling to the basement floor all because of our outfits. We had worked so hard, practicing non-stop for two weeks with barely any sleep, so we were angry and felt like it was unfair that a mere factor like outfit was holding us back.
Pop, pop.
As if we were going to see the pinnacle of bad luck today, an ominous sound came from my outfit. All I had done was slam the door a bit in a hurry earlier, but the back of the outfit top had snapped.
“Tae-Yoon...your outfit ripped...”
I wondered how cheap the fabric had to be for this to happen.
Sigh.
“Wait a minute.” I stood in the front of the mirror, repressing my irritation. I tried to cover it roughly with a cape, but this mess had already exceeded that level of recovery. I carefully took off my costume and put it on the table so that my makeup and hair wouldn’t get ruined.
“That’s serious.”
“What should we do now?”
Sighhh.
“I feel so upset.”
The members all sighed in unison. I looked at my ripped outfit and thought, ‘ It might be better to just take it off and go up.’
“Ah.” As soon as I thought of this, an idea quickly formed in my mind.
‘Insight.’ I looked at the outfits in front of me and activated Insight.
Numerous measures to take advantage of this messy costume began to form in my mind.
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Chapter 54
The members and I went straight to the dorm after our last cheer in the practice room. After taking a quick shower at the new dorm we were now getting a bit used to, we went down to the underground parking lot. As expected, Ms. Seung-Young and Ms. Hyuna were waiting for us. It was their first time coming to our new dorm today, and they were looking around the parking lot with a dazed expression.
Then one of them said, “The cars parked here right now are more expensive than our house...”
“If we scratch the car next to us by mistake, I don’t think we can pay for the repair even if we sell this car.”
They said this was quite a terrifying neighborhood.
“Hahaha.”
“We weren’t used to it at first either.”
“Even now, in fact...”
We sympathized with Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna’s words and got into the car. They seemed like they had a lot of questions for Dong-Jun, such as how on earth he had a house like that and why a person like that was trying so hard to become an idol.
Although they looked at Dong-Jun with curiosity, he pretended ignorance till the very end. “Let’s go~” It seemed like he didn’t want to tell anyone besides us about his family.
Ms. Hyuna and Ms. Seung-Yeon also didn't question Dong-Jun further, and like that, the car moved smoothly toward the salon in Gangbuk.
* * *
Even after arriving at the shop, the same scenery continued as usual.
“Long time no see, everyone~” The warm-hearted boss welcomed us.
“Boss!!” Yeon-Hoon approached the boss and acted cute.
“Hahaha! It’s so great to always see you, Mr. Yeon-Hoon!”
“Ma’am, I also feel the same way!”
“Oh my! You talk as pretty as your face~”
Yeon-Hoon and the boss’ conversation fluidly continued as their energy was equally matched. They both loved chattering away. While Yeon-Hoon and the boss caught up on how they were doing, we both sat in our respective seats. The stylist in charge came and styled our hair and makeup.
“What did you say today’s concept was?”
“It’s space opera~”
“Space opera? What’s that?”
“You just have to think of it as something like Star Wars or Dune.”
Dong-Jun and the stylist exchanged small talk about the stage.
“Oh my. But why are you doing your hair and makeup the same as usual?”
“What?”
“It would be nice to add something more eye-catching.”
At Dong-Jun’s stylist’s words, we turned our heads in unison.
“Ah.”
“Um, if you turn your head so suddenly—”
“Ack!”
As a result, each stylist was flustered.
“Ah, I’m sorry.”
“Hahaa.”
“Sorry about that.”
We turned our heads back to our normal conversation and then began conversing on the subject earlier.
“Would it perhaps be possible to do our makeup differently than usual?”
“Is your outfit a bit strong?”
‘It’s a miracle that the quality of the outfits hasn’t been bad so far.’ We were a group that had to set up a stage with a very tight budget, and our budget was much smaller than other companies. We were able to endure so far by self-producing our own lyrics, songs, and even choreography. We also practiced by ourselves and saved on lessons. Moreover, thanks to Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna’s hard work, we were able to garner a little extra budget.
Thanks to all these efforts, we could procure a sufficient budget to obtain a decent outfit if we used up all the money we saved. However, for this stage, we couldn’t allocate all our money to purchasing outfits.
Since the stage was so large and complex, we had to hire dancers, and the sets to be put on the stage had to be outsourced separately. As a result, even though we had more than our usual budget, we could only use the lowest possible amount for our outfits. Among the ones with the lowest prices, we chose a company with the most passable quality and ordered our outfits.
‘But their pictures were a scam.’ I didn’t know if the outfit company photoshopped their products or used good fabric only for promotional pictures. An outfit that looked completely different from the picture arrived. Although it was partly our fault that we expected good quality for the price we offered, it didn’t change that the company tricked us.
‘They lied to us, so it’s a sticky situation.’ This wasn’t something that we could easily overlook, as for people like us, a single stage could make or break our team, especially at a critical time like this. However, it already happened, and we couldn’t order new outfits anymore. In other words, we had to go up on stage with this terrible outfit. Perhaps Ms. Seung-Yeon also knew this as she soon ended the call and sighed deeply.
“I’m very, very sorry everyone. I should have known this would happen.” Ms. Seung-Yeon apologized to us.
“No, how would you have known? It’s the company that scammed us...” Yeon-Hoon talked to Ms. Seung-Yeon to console her. However, the atmosphere didn’t improve, and everyone sighed.
When we arrived at the studio, the camera directors were waiting for us.
“Let’s raise our energy and go in!” Yeon-Hoon forcibly raised our low mood and opened the car door.
“Hello~!”
“Hello, sir.”
“How are you doing, sir~”
We did as Yeon-Hoon said and opened the door while energetically greeting the directors and production crew. We headed towards the waiting room, and while we were walking down the hallway of the studio, we met Bleshu.
“Uh! Hello, Sir...en?”
We couldn’t help but freeze at their transparent response; even Bleshu members flinched and were surprised by the quality of our outfits. It must be very obvious that our outfit quality was very poor, even to outsiders.
The members clenched their teeth and greeted the Bleshu members.
“Hello~”
“It’s been a while~”
Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun stepped forward first and eased the uncomfortable atmosphere. However, as we got closer to Bleshu, Do-Seung and Woon’s expressions worsen.
‘Bleshu’s outfits are really good.’ Their team seemed to have put their lives at stake for this stage as their outfit quality looked great even from a glance. It was an all-white uniform with silver decorations, which gave off a luxurious impression. It felt like I was getting physically smaller the closer I got to them.
“Well, we’ll see you on stage later!”
Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun pretended not to be, but they also seemed quite upset. Normally, they would have chatted for a long time but quickly ended the conversation and moved to the waiting room. We all quickly walked and as soon as we got to the waiting room and opened the door—
Sighhh.
“Pweh..”
Sighs burst out everywhere.
“Our outfits...what shall we do?” Yeon-Hoon said as if he was genuinely worried. Team morale was falling to the basement floor all because of our outfits. We had worked so hard, practicing non-stop for two weeks with barely any sleep, so we were angry and felt like it was unfair that a mere factor like outfit was holding us back.
Pop, pop.
As if we were going to see the pinnacle of bad luck today, an ominous sound came from my outfit. All I had done was slam the door a bit in a hurry earlier, but the back of the outfit top had snapped.
“Tae-Yoon...your outfit ripped...”
I wondered how cheap the fabric had to be for this to happen.
Sigh.
“Wait a minute.” I stood in the front of the mirror, repressing my irritation. I tried to cover it roughly with a cape, but this mess had already exceeded that level of recovery. I carefully took off my costume and put it on the table so that my makeup and hair wouldn’t get ruined.
“That’s serious.”
“What should we do now?”
Sighhh.
“I feel so upset.”
The members all sighed in unison. I looked at my ripped outfit and thought, ‘ It might be better to just take it off and go up.’
“Ah.” As soon as I thought of this, an idea quickly formed in my mind.
‘Insight.’ I looked at the outfits in front of me and activated Insight.
Numerous measures to take advantage of this messy costume began to form in my mind.
Chapter 54 The members and I went straight to the dorm after our last cheer in the practice room. After taking a quick shower at the new dorm we were now getting a bit used to, we went down to the underground parking lot. As expected, Ms. Seung-Young and Ms. Hyuna were waiting for us. It was their first time coming to our new dorm today, and they were looking around the parking lot with a dazed expression. Then one of them said, The cars parked here right now are more expensive than our house... If we scratch the car next to us by mistake, I don't think we can pay for the repair even if we sell this car. They said this was quite a terrifying neighborhood. Hahaha. We weren't used to it at first either. Even now, in fact... We sympathized with Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna's words and got into the car. They seemed like they had a lot of questions for Dong-Jun, such as how on earth he had a house like that and why a person like that was trying so hard to become an idol. Although they looked at Dong-Jun with curiosity, he pretended ignorance till the very end. Let's go~ It seemed like he didn't want to tell anyone besides us about his family. Ms. Hyuna and Ms. Seung-Yeon also didn't question Dong-Jun further, and like that, the car moved smoothly toward the salon in Gangbuk. * * * Even after arriving at the shop, the same scenery continued as usual. Long time no see, everyone~ The warm-hearted boss welcomed us. Boss!! Yeon-Hoon approached the boss and acted cute. Hahaha! It's so great to always see you, Mr. Yeon-Hoon! Ma'am, I also feel the same way! Oh my! You talk as pretty as your face~ Yeon-Hoon and the boss' conversation fluidly continued as their energy was equally matched. They both loved chattering away. While Yeon-Hoon and the boss caught up on how they were doing, we both sat in our respective seats. The stylist in charge came and styled our hair and makeup. What did you say today's concept was? It's space opera~ Space opera? What's that? You just have to think of it as something like Star Wars or Dune. Dong-Jun and the stylist exchanged small talk about the stage. Oh my. But why are you doing your hair and makeup the same as usual? What? It would be nice to add something more eye-catching. At Dong-Jun's stylist's words, we turned our heads in unison. Ah. Um, if you turn your head so suddenly Ack! As a result, each stylist was flustered. Ah, I'm sorry. Hahaa. Sorry about that. We turned our heads back to our normal conversation and then began conversing on the subject earlier. Would it perhaps be possible to do our makeup differently than usual? Is your outfit a bit strong? It's a miracle that the quality of the outfits hasn't been bad so far.' We were a group that had to set up a stage with a very tight budget, and our budget was much smaller than other companies. We were able to endure so far by self-producing our own lyrics, songs, and even choreography. We also practiced by ourselves and saved on lessons. Moreover, thanks to Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna's hard work, we were able to garner a little extra budget. Thanks to all these efforts, we could procure a sufficient budget to obtain a decent outfit if we used up all the money we saved. However, for this stage, we couldn't allocate all our money to purchasing outfits. Since the stage was so large and complex, we had to hire dancers, and the sets to be put on the stage had to be outsourced separately. As a result, even though we had more than our usual budget, we could only use the lowest possible amount for our outfits. Among the ones with the lowest prices, we chose a company with the most passable quality and ordered our outfits. But their pictures were a scam.' I didn't know if the outfit company photoshopped their products or used good fabric only for promotional pictures. An outfit that looked completely different from the picture arrived. Although it was partly our fault that we expected good quality for the price we offered, it didn't change that the company tricked us. They lied to us, so it's a sticky situation.' This wasn't something that we could easily overlook, as for people like us, a single stage could make or break our team, especially at a critical time like this. However, it already happened, and we couldn't order new outfits anymore. In other words, we had to go up on stage with this terrible outfit. Perhaps Ms. Seung-Yeon also knew this as she soon ended the call and sighed deeply. I'm very, very sorry everyone. I should have known this would happen. Ms. Seung-Yeon apologized to us. No, how would you have known? It's the company that scammed us... Yeon-Hoon talked to Ms. Seung-Yeon to console her. However, the atmosphere didn't improve, and everyone sighed. When we arrived at the studio, the camera directors were waiting for us. Let's raise our energy and go in! Yeon-Hoon forcibly raised our low mood and opened the car door. Hello~! Hello, sir. How are you doing, sir~ We did as Yeon-Hoon said and opened the door while energetically greeting the directors and production crew. We headed towards the waiting room, and while we were walking down the hallway of the studio, we met Bleshu. Uh! Hello, Sir...en? We couldn't help but freeze at their transparent response; even Bleshu members flinched and were surprised by the quality of our outfits. It must be very obvious that our outfit quality was very poor, even to outsiders. The members clenched their teeth and greeted the Bleshu members. Hello~ It's been a while~ Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun stepped forward first and eased the uncomfortable atmosphere. However, as we got closer to Bleshu, Do-Seung and Woon's expressions worsen. Bleshu's outfits are really good.' Their team seemed to have put their lives at stake for this stage as their outfit quality looked great even from a glance. It was an all-white uniform with silver decorations, which gave off a luxurious impression. It felt like I was getting physically smaller the closer I got to them. Well, we'll see you on stage later! Yeon-Hoon and Dong-Jun pretended not to be, but they also seemed quite upset. Normally, they would have chatted for a long time but quickly ended the conversation and moved to the waiting room. We all quickly walked and as soon as we got to the waiting room and opened the door Sighhh. Pweh.. Sighs burst out everywhere. Our outfits...what shall we do? Yeon-Hoon said as if he was genuinely worried. Team morale was falling to the basement floor all because of our outfits. We had worked so hard, practicing non-stop for two weeks with barely any sleep, so we were angry and felt like it was unfair that a mere factor like outfit was holding us back. Pop, pop. As if we were going to see the pinnacle of bad luck today, an ominous sound came from my outfit. All I had done was slam the door a bit in a hurry earlier, but the back of the outfit top had snapped. Tae-Yoon...your outfit ripped... I wondered how cheap the fabric had to be for this to happen. Sigh. Wait a minute. I stood in the front of the mirror, repressing my irritation. I tried to cover it roughly with a cape, but this mess had already exceeded that level of recovery. I carefully took off my costume and put it on the table so that my makeup and hair wouldn't get ruined. That's serious. What should we do now? Sighhh. I feel so upset. The members all sighed in unison. I looked at my ripped outfit and thought, It might be better to just take it off and go up.' Ah. As soon as I thought of this, an idea quickly formed in my mind. Insight.' I looked at the outfits in front of me and activated Insight. Numerous measures to take advantage of this messy costume began to form in my mind.
