Chapter 49
-Open it when all members gather in one place!
"So this is why everyone was waiting."
The members nodded at my words.
Seeing that, I looked at the filming crew huddled in one corner of the living room and spoke.
"Then since we're all gathered now, can we open the box?"
"Hyung, who are you talking to right now?"
"Right, why are you talking to the empty air?"
As soon as I spoke looking at the filming crew, Sim Seong-ha and Woo Jeong-woo said to me.
"No, the filming crew over there..."
"Hey. It's just us in the house right now?"
I looked at the writers and the filming director clearly visible in front of me, pondered for a moment, then sighed and nodded.
'So this is the concept of a reality show...'
"Ah... right... hahaha, then shall we open the box now...?"
"Then PD-nim. Can we open the box now?"
"Yes, please open it."
'...?'
While I was drawing question marks in my head looking at this person called the PD talking naturally with Yoo Jin-kim.
"Pfft... I knew you'd fall for it."
"No, I thought Rin-hyung wouldn't fall for this kind of thing. Hyung, you're unexpectedly innocent, you know?"
"Rin has an innocent side when you get to know him."
Seeing my blank face, Sim Seong-ha and Woo Jeong-woo were chatting excitedly, and I could see Park Han-hwi nodding with satisfaction beside them.
"Is, is it okay to talk towards the camera?"
"Of course. The filming crew is right over there."
'It's going to be like this from the start, isn't it?'
Seeing Yoo Jin-kim speaking with a peaceful face as if nothing happened, and having paid the price for arriving at the dorm last, I took my seat and the full-fledged filming began.
As Kang A-jin, who was sitting right in the middle, opened the gift box.
"Hmm... there's a card inside?"
Inside the large box sat a single card.
Kang A-jin took the card out of the box and looked at the other members as he spoke.
"Shall we open it first?"
"Hurry, hurry!"
"Please read it quickly...!"
Urged by the members, Kang A-jin unfolded the card and began to read the contents inside.
"After the breathless auditions. Finally, all seven members of WeUs have entered the dorm!"
"Waaaaaaah!"
"Great work everyone!"
"Today is free time for WeUs who have worked hard! Please rest comfortably in the dorm."
"Oh, rest!"
"Can we really rest?"
At the word 'rest', Sim Seong-ha immediately cheered. Seeing even Baek Si-hyeon and Yoo Jin-kim, who usually had no change in expression, secretly smiling, it felt anew that we hadn't rested properly in a while.
"However, there is something you must do before you rest."
"Uh... huh?"
"What? You said we could rest as much as we want!"
When the members sent resentful looks toward the production team, the PD, with a flustered face, signaled Kang A-jin to read on quickly.
"Ah... yes! Before you rest, we need to assign rooms first, right? Room assignment will be left to your freedom. Please discuss together and decide your roommates. Lastly, congratulations again on WeUs's debut!"
Kang A-jin quickly finished reading.
"Ah, we have to assign rooms."
"Hmm, how should we divide the rooms? Drawing lots? Or a game?"
While the members were pondering at the mention of room assignments.
"Before deciding on roommates, can't we look around the house first? We haven't properly looked around yet."
When Baek Si-hyeon broke his long silence and offered his opinion, the other members all nodded and said.
"Right, before deciding on rooms, let's all look around the dorm first."
"I'm good with that too!"
"Let's go see the master bedroom first!"
Sim Seong-ha ran toward the master bedroom first, and as the other members moved to look around the house, Yoo Jin-kim and I also got up from our seats.
"It's noisy but nice."
"That... you're sincere?"
"Of course."
'Could it be... is he a bit excited?'
His face was expressionless as usual, but there seemed to be a slight hint of enjoyment...
Yoo Jin-kim was hard to figure out.
Like that, Yoo Jin-kim moved toward the kitchen first, and I, left alone in the living room, also moved to look around the house.
The structure of the house was like this.
One large master bedroom, two medium-sized rooms. One walk-in closet. Living room and kitchen. There was one bathroom in the master bedroom and one in the living room.
All the necessary furniture was already equipped, and the number of beds in the rooms was three in the master bedroom and two in each of the medium rooms.
'Anyway, I'll have to share with someone.'
The master bedroom was the biggest, but the thought of three people staying in one room bothered me a bit.
I was thinking it would be best to share a room with a quietly uneventful member. Then, suddenly, a noisy sound came from the kitchen.
"Wow! What is all this?"
"There's nothing missing. At this level, we could throw a party today, right?"
"Look here! There's meat too!"
Heading to the kitchen, I saw the members gathered in front of the large refrigerator.
The inside of the refrigerator was filled with various ingredients.
"Can we use all the ingredients here as much as we want?"
When Sim Seong-ha asked the PD, the PD nodded.
"Seong-ha, do you know how to cook?"
"Hyung... including me, there were 13 people in my house. When I came back from school, I had to put on an apron first..."
"I... I see...!"
Perhaps a painful past came to mind, moisture began to well up in Sim Seong-ha's voice.
"Alright, if everyone's done looking around the house, let's gather now!"
When I spoke to clear up the chaotic atmosphere, everyone started gathering back in the living room.
"Then we need to assign rooms now... does anyone have an opinion?"
If it weren't for the cameras, we would have just settled it with words or drawing lots. But with roughly 10 cameras right in front of us, I couldn't help but be conscious of them.
Everyone seemed to have similar thoughts to mine, pondering how to produce entertaining footage.
While we were agonizing over it like that.
"Me! Me! I have an opinion!"
Sim Seong-ha raised his hand first and spoke.
"Yes, please present. Student Seong-ha."
As Park Han-hwi said playfully, Sim Seong-ha pretended to adjust non-existent glasses and spoke seriously.
"Does everyone perhaps know about personality type tests?"
"Personality type test?"
"Why that all of a sudden?"
"To decide roommates, don't we need to properly grasp each other's personalities? How about taking a personality type test and then having some time to figure out everyone's types?"
As Sim Seong-ha spoke seriously as if making a logical argument, the other members began to nod as if bewitched.
"Then how do we end up deciding the roommates?"
"First, we take the test, and then we quiz each other on our personality types. The person who gets the most right decides everything."
"What...?"
"No, I don't know much about that sort of thing?"
"You're ultimately just saying what's advantageous for you, aren't you?"
Protests poured in from the members at Sim Seong-ha's words, but.
"Why do you think you won't be able to guess them? Perhaps you lack confidence?"
At Sim Seong-ha's subsequent wide-area provocation, the members started getting infuriated as a group.
"No? No way? Fine, let's do it."
"Let's see how well you can guess."
"I'm also pretty good at guessing psychological stuff...!"
I didn't want to fall for Sim Seong-ha's obvious provocation, but.
'The opinion itself isn't bad, for now.'
Naturally revealing the members' personality types that fans would be curious about, up to deciding roommates in a game format. It seemed like it would make for a pretty good picture.
"Alright, then let's start with the personality type test as Seong-ha said."
Like that, with Sim Seong-ha's help, we started a simple personality type test that could be easily done with just a smartphone.
"Umm, it's divided into extroversion and introversion, sensing and intuition..."
"Jeong-woo hyung, are you actually taking the test?"
"Uh... yeah! I'm doing it!"
Instead of taking the test he was told to do, Woo Jeong-woo was seen speed-studying about personality type tests.
"I'm done!"
"I'm done too."
Since it was a simplified test, members who finished quickly started coming out one by one.
As a little more time passed, all members except Woo Jeong-woo finished the test.
"Only Jeong-woo hyung is left? Why is it taking so long?"
"Right, aren't you somehow twisting the answers weirdly?"
"No, the questions are a bit weird? Can you really know someone's personality from this?"
"Just do it for fun."
"Umm... okay...!"
Casting a skeptical eye at the test itself, Woo Jeong-woo ended up proceeding with the test most carefully.
"I'm done too!"
"Jeong-woo hyung, your phone screen is fully visible, you know?"
"What? What did you say?"
Woo Jeong-woo hastily hid his phone screen, but it had already been caught in Sim Seong-ha's radar.
"Jeong-woo hyung was ENTP! Alright, next person?"
"That's completely unfair!!"
"Then you just have to guess it right, hyung. Next, please guess my personality type."
Starting with Woo Jeong-woo's dumbfounding mistake, the game of guessing the other members' personality types proceeded.
"Seong-ha is ENFP. The vivacious activist."
"That... is correct...!"
In the game where Sim Seong-ha's solo run was expected, an unexpected competitor appeared.
"Yoo Jin hyung, how did you get it right in one go?"
"It just seemed obvious at a glance?"
When Yoo Jin-kim answered as if it was nothing to Baek Si-hyeon's question, a hint of tension began to appear in Sim Seong-ha's eyes.
"Then in seating order, next is..."
The next turn was exactly my turn.
"Rin hyung is definitely ENTJ! The bold commander!"
"Cor... correct."
Sim Seong-ha took the lead by guessing my personality type at once, but Yoo Jin-kim immediately caught up, tying their scores.
Currently, with Sim Seong-ha and Yoo Jin-kim tying at 3 to 3 in guessing the six members' personality types.
The last remaining member was none other than.
"What is Si-hyeon's personality type?"
"Hmm... Si-hyeon is... not easy."
"I'm not sure..."
While Sim Seong-ha and Yoo Jin-kim were agonizing deeply while looking at Baek Si-hyeon.
"Perhaps... INFP?"
"That's right..."
"Yes!!!!"
In the end, Sim Seong-ha guessed 4 types correctly and became the winner.
"Alright, now that we've had fun playing, shall we decide the rooms by drawing lots?"
"What are you talking about! From now on, I will decide each of your roommates! Hahahaha."
I tried to subtly gloss over it, but it didn't work at all.
Fully triumphant, Sim Seong-ha pondered for a moment, then smiled brightly and said.
"The concept for this roommate assignment is... Hoping to Get Closer!"
"Umm..."
"Hey, that's..."
The other members tried to stop Sim Seong-ha with worried expressions, but no one could stop the runaway Sim Seong-ha.
"As the master of personality type analysis, I will thoroughly analyze your tendencies and match you with customized roommates. First, the 2-person room goes to... Jeong-woo hyung and Si-hyeon!"
"Hey, Seong-ha?"
"Yes, Jeong-woo hyung."
"Personality types... I looked it up and Si-hyeon and I are, the worst compatibility, destruction of the earth... mmm...!"
Park Han-hwi and I hastily covered Woo Jeong-woo's mouth.
"Hahaha... actually a test is just a test, and everyone's actual personality is different, right? You two are both satisfied, right?"
"Yees...!"
"Mmm!!! Pwah... I'm fine with it too...!"
"Alright, it seems resolved, so let's move on. Next, the largest master bedroom goes to me! Seong-ha. And Yoo Jin hyung and A-jin. The three of us."
"Then I'm in the same room as Rin."
Automatically, I ended up in the same room as Park Han-hwi.
To summarize.
Room 1 - Woo Jeong-woo, Baek Si-hyeon
Room 2 - Seonwoo Rin, Park Han-hwi
Master Bedroom - Yoo Jin-kim, Kang A-jin, Sim Seong-ha
Like this, everyone's rooms were decided.
'Room 1 seems a bit unsettling though...'
Anyway, since they were roommates decided in front of the camera, it seemed we would have to keep living like this for a while.
Once the rooms were decided, we took some time to organize the luggage we had left in the hallway.
"Um, what should we do for dinner?"
"Let's make something with the ingredients in the fridge!"
"Anyone who can cook?"
"Me!"
Under Sim Seong-ha's leadership, a dinner prep time where everyone joined in... no, where only a few people joined in began.
"Is there nothing to help with?"
"Yoo Jin hyung... just put the plates on the dining table over there."
Yoo Jin-kim, who had boldly joined in preparing the ingredients at first, was quickly excluded from the cooking group due to his unsafe knife skills.
Seeing Kang A-jin, Baek Si-hyeon, and Woo Jeong-woo just standing blankly in the kitchen with expressions like 'What are we supposed to do now?' from the start, I sent them all back to the living room.
Like that, the people left in the kitchen were me, Sim Seong-ha, and Park Han-hwi. Three of us.
"Rin hyung, you're good at cutting! Ah! Put that over there, please."
Sim Seong-ha's appearance, quickly making two or three dishes at once while even paying attention to the other people, was astonishing.
'He's not the eldest of 11 siblings for nothing.'
Like that, a dining table made by one person's incredible skill.
"Wow! Thanks for the food!"
"Seong-ha, you're really good at cooking..."
"Everyone, enjoy your meal!"
It felt a bit awkward knowing that even the sight of us eating was being filmed one by one by the cameras, but.
'I'll have to get used to it from now on.'
Anyway, the dorm entry accompanied by the reality program ended successfully.
As soon as we finished eating, a final mission? was given to us.
"Please post the first post to be uploaded on WeUs's newly established official SNS."
At the PD's request, we all sat on the living room sofa and took our first group photo.
(Photo)
-Hello fans. WeUs has finally entered the dorm! We will reach out to you through this account from now on! Please give us lots of love!
ps. News that a reality show covering WeUs's debut process will be airing...?!
As soon as the first post went up, the live broadcast ended, and an enormous reaction from fans who had been desperately waiting only for new news about WeUs began to pour in.