Chapter 48
- Finally debuted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starting with a single post, an enormous amount of text began pouring out, enough to make the community explode.
- Congratulations! WeUs debut!!!!!
- People of the world!! Our kids debuted!!! Please congratulate them!!!!!!
- I love you guys!@#$%^&*())@$#%$^%&
- Waaaaaaah! Debuuuuuuuttttt!!!
- Everyone has lost their minds lolololololol
On the live broadcast screen, all the trainees who participated in 'National Idol Season 2' were coming out on stage to congratulate the debuted trainees.
- Oh no, the kids are all crying ㅠㅠㅠ
- Ajin's nose turning red is so so cute...!
- Sihyun, Yujin = Calm lololol Look at their unwavering relaxed expressions lol
- The eliminated kids also worked so hard ㅠㅠ I hope they all debut somewhere!
- Wow, it really feels like it's over... WeUs, let's only walk on a flower path from now on...!
[The final round of 'National Idol Season 2' which was broadcast live! Thank you so much to the fans on site who stayed with us until the end of this long live broadcast, and to the viewers who watched the broadcast! Please look forward to their future activities! With this, we will end the live broadcast! Thank you!]
With Lia's final ment, the trainees who were exchanging farewells all looked at the camera and bowed their heads.
And so, the live broadcast came to an end.
[National Idol Season 2 comes to a spectacular close. The finally decided center is Seonwoo Rin!]
[The name of the first national boy group introduced by National Idol is WeUs!]
[7 debut members confirmed. An already proven rookie group! What are their future activity plans?]
[The final message of National Idol Season 2 is harmony? WeUs. The combination of us and us.]
Simultaneously with the end of the live broadcast, numerous articles decorated the main pages of portal sites.
'National Idol Season 2' finished with immense buzz. Although the program had ended, that popularity was now shifting towards WeUs, who had just taken their first steps into debuting.
In order of final ranking
1. Seonwoo Rin (22)
2. Yujin Kim (21)
3. Kang Ajin (20)
4. Park Hanhwi (23)
5. Woo Jungwoo (21)
6. Baek Sihyun (19)
7. Shim Sungha (20)
Debut team name is WeUs.
Activity plans are still undecided.
- What? Yujin Kim became 2nd? Wasn't he overwhelmingly 1st from the beginning?
└No, from the middle he was quite caught up to by Seonwoo Rin.
└Wow... I only watched the beginning and didn't watch, Seonwoo Rin was to that extent? Amazing... daebak
- They all became kids who can make it! Now that the audition is over, please don't fight and let's all cherish them...!
└When Seonwoo Rin became 1st, Yujin Kim's expression was a bit harsh? lololol
└Did you watch the same broadcast? As soon as 1st place was announced, Yujin ran over first and hugged him. What expression are you talking about, that's absurd...
└That's not even a Yujin fan, just a troll. Real fans all know the two are on good terms!
└For real, Yujin saying to that extent that he's the most reliable person after his parents, isn't that the highest praise? I was moved seeing Yujin follow Rin like a real older brother.
In a generally not bad atmosphere, fans' impressions continued.
Trolls who occasionally appeared trying to pit fans against each other were hit with concentrated fire as soon as they appeared and quickly disappeared.
A big reason for this peaceful atmosphere was that this season was a huge hit from the beginning.
Originally, for a program expected to be a hit, there was no reason for the broadcaster to forcibly gather buzz with evil editing.
Rather, with incidents happening every day, the buzz endlessly inflated even if they stayed still. The screen time that would have been consumed by evil editing was instead poured into highlighting the trainees' growth narratives and their relationships with each other.
As a result. It was evaluated as the cleanest audition internally among MusicNet's audition broadcasts so far, and it was able to minimize the fandom wars between each trainee after the audition, which was the biggest problem after Season 1 ended.
- Ah... it's so good to fangirl without stress. The kids are all gentle too. It's still the beginning, but it already smells like a historic level.
└Getting ahead of oneself is bound to fail... but this time I'll get ahead of myself with you. I love you WeUs...!!!!
- Everyone thinks the same as me lol I cheered for Rin from the beginning but I also like Yujin. It's so good that the two debuted together!
- It's a shame for the dropped kids, but the members were picked at a historic level, acknowledged. There's no one likely to cause trouble, I want to see them active as a team quickly ㅠㅠ
Reactions of fans dreaming of a happy future and waiting for WeUs's activities continued.
On the other hand, Yujin Kim and Seonwoo Rin's remarks were becoming a hot topic.
- The Billboard number 1 remark was real lolol It was something only Yujin Kim could say. If someone else said it, they would have been cursed out a hundred times.
└Right lololol Seonwoo Rin next to him getting splashed and failing to manage his expression was also so funny lolol
└But seriously, when Yujin says it, it feels like it might actually happen.
└Billboard number 1... It's nonsense for a rookie group that just debuted to say, but everyone seems to think 'If it's Yujin Kim...!' lol
- More than that, I found what Seonwoo Rin said to be funnier lolololol
└Rin... you being there itself is already the strongest... you shouldn't overwork the kids... lol
└Acknowledged, acknowledged. There's an idol from UDT with 500 in the Big 3, who would dare to go against him lol
- The world's first idol group specialized in counter-terrorism suppression... named WeUs...!
In particular, the interest in Seonwoo Rin, who reclaimed the 1st place that Yujin Kim had firmly defended after fierce competition at the very end, combined with Seonwoo Rin's unusual history, was spreading widely across all community sites and SNS, beyond just the fan community.
- Who is Seonwoo Rin that there's such a fuss?
└National Idol Season 2 winner. Debuted today.
└Ah. My sibling watches that, was the Rin-i Rin-i they always talked about Seonwoo Rin? lololol I thought they were doing some Rini-X.
- Does anyone know about Seonwoo Rin's family circumstances? There were only his grandmother and younger sibling in the family video?
└If you go into the fan community, there's a post written by an acquaintance. His parents passed away when he was young, and he was raised by his grandmother.
└Ah... he grew up having a hard time...
- I thought he'd look pretty since he's an idol audition winner. Why is Seonwoo Rin tearing his clothes off when he hits? His body is insane...
└Seonwoo Rin's trait) UDT veteran, Big 3 500.
└No lololol Why are the military and the Big 3 in an idol's specs lololol
- The first idol in Korea that doesn't need a bodyguard... an idol that can win even in a 6-to-1 fight against the members...
└lololol These kids won't have any reason to fight each other. One person can immediately suppress them.
While Seonwoo Rin's name was spreading widely across South Korea like that, the 7 members of WeUs, including Seonwoo Rin, were spending a hectic time without even a moment to check their popularity.
***
'Status Window'
[Name: Seonwoo Rin]
Title: Audition Winner
Level: 9
Stamina: S-
Vocal: C+
Dance: B
Appearance: A-
Charm: B
Remaining Points: 1
Characteristics
- Perfect Match, God-given Physique, Novice Choreographer
The level that hadn't risen for a while finally increased after the audition ended.
As the level went up, unlike the beginning, leveling up seemed to gradually slow down.
In the early days of the audition, the level rose quickly with every stage, but now only one level had increased after the entire final round ended.
'It seems like raising stats through leveling up will be even harder in the future.'
If the level had risen like the beginning, I could have made all my stats S quickly.
Anyway, such a fraudulent thing probably won't happen.
I carefully examined the status window again, which I hadn't properly looked at since the audition.
The first thing that caught my eye was.
The title, Audition Winner.
It looked grand, but looking closely, it had no special ability.
Title
- Audition Winner
May luck be with your future idol life.
It's not simply saying luck will come, but "be with"? What an absurd comment.
I don't know why they gave a title if it's going to be like this, but anyway, having it is better than not having it.
And a change came to the characteristics window too. As soon as the audition ended, the Fledgling and Rival characteristics disappeared.
However, the charm stat that increased with the Rival characteristic did not disappear. Probably because of winning 1st place, the stat increased permanently.
'And the remaining 1 point...'
If the level had risen during the live broadcast, I would have quickly raised a helpful stat, but now the audition was over. Since it seemed like there wouldn't be any special events for a while, I decided to save it for now.
'Then what's left now is...'
The 'Characteristic Shop' obtained as a debut reward.
It was the moment I checked the characteristic shop for the first time, which I hadn't properly confirmed yet.
'What kind of characteristics could there possibly be...?'
Considering it has the name shop, if I could freely purchase the characteristics I need...
'Isn't this too broken?'
No, the system wouldn't give me something that easily.
I lowered my expectations a little... just a little, and finally checked the 'Characteristic Shop' for the first time.
'Characteristic Shop Open'
[Characteristic Shop]
Novice Vocalization - 1P
Flexible Body - 1P
Everyone Look at Me - 1P
Overflowing Confidence - 1P
Tender Gaze - 1P
Sharp Intuition - 1P
A Singer's Foundation is Stamina Management! - 2P
Elixir of Charm Increase - 2P
Ah! My Voice, Sweeter Than Honey! - 2P
That Man Writes Lyrics, That Woman Composes - 3P
Am I Perhaps a Dance Genius...? - 3P
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Remaining Points: 1P
The first thought that came to mind after seeing the characteristic shop for the first time was...
'Why does this feel like selling medicine?'
-Beep. These characteristics started from England...
It was a system I couldn't trust anyway.
***
"First of all, from today we'll all be staying together in the dorm. There will be cameras everywhere in the dorm. It's for filming the reality program, but you've experienced it during the audition training camp anyway..."
I was currently on my way to the dorm riding a celebrity car... that is, something called a van, for the first time in my life.
"And from next week, your full-fledged schedule will begin. First, profile shoots, and then there will be a meeting at the company regarding the debut album. Seonwoo Rin... ah, should I just speak comfortably? Rin and Yujin currently have a few commercial shoots under contract too..."
"Ah... I see."
The man driving and chattering non-stop was Kim Hyunsoo, who introduced himself as the one who would be WeUs's manager in the future.
"So to summarize, you're saying we'll be very busy."
"Tha... that's right?"
"I'm confident in my stamina so that's okay, but... first... reality filming? What is that?"
"It's nothing special, just filming your preparation scenes? Until the debut album comes out."
'Reality, huh...'
Is it like the first mission given right after the audition ended.
I had studied quite a bit about auditions, but my ignorance about idols seemed to show at times like this.
"So you mean I just need to act like usual?"
"Yeah, think of it comfortably. Just think of it as living in a dorm with cameras attached."
'How can I live comfortably with cameras in the house?'
After barely holding back the words that rose to my throat at the manager's remark, I looked out the window.
"Where are we approximately now?"
"We're almost there. Can you see that apartment over there?"
"It's... really nice...?"
An apartment that looked quite nice on the outside. I could immediately feel that MusicNet had spent some money.
Arriving at the front door of the dorm like that, following the manager's signal to go in alone now, I carried my luggage and opened the dorm's door.
"Wow! It's Rin-hyung!"
"Hyung! Come in quickly!"
As soon as I opened the door, I heard Shim Sungha and Kang Ajin's voices from inside the dorm.
"It's... huge...?"
The length of the hallway was incredible.
I left my luggage by the door for now and slowly walked into the house.
"Welcome, Rin. Everyone is finally gathered."
Heading toward the living room, the six members except for me were already gathered together on the large sofa.
'Why are there so many cameras?'
I could see cameras installed here and there in the house.
"I'm the last one. But why is everyone gathered here?"
"We were only waiting for you, hyung!"
Shim Sungha answered my question and pointed to the table in front of the sofa.
"What... is this?"
On top of the table was a small gift box. And on top of the box, a memo was written.
-Please open when all members are gathered in one place!