Chapter 76
The dormitory terror incident caused by Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin's Strawberry Mochi Dan fortunately came to a good conclusion.
No, should this even be considered concluded?
After the W App broadcast ended. Around the time I and the members were busy cleaning up the dormitory.
[Shocking WEIRS Dormitory Terror Incident, Identity of the Terrorists?]
Posts with titles like clickbait articles started spreading widely through the community.
People drawn in by the serious titles clicked on the posts, and while feeling dumbfounded by the unexpectedly absurd content.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-No why does rice cake explode? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Truly the best scene of the year.
-Look at the kids' surprised expressions ㅋㅋㅋ So cute ㅠㅠ
-At this point, we can only say the god of variety shows blessed them... Praying for these two to enter the variety show industry!
-The kids are so cute... Cooking in the dorm is cute. Even causing an accident while cooking is cute ㅠ
Most people burst into laughter at the vivid video containing the faces of Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin making expressions as if the world had collapsed the moment the rice cake bomb exploded.
-What happened after that...?
└The Strawberry Mochi Dan was quickly suppressed by the leader ㄷㄷ(Photo)
-I want to watch the full version, where can I see it??
└You can watch the full version on WEIRS's W App channel!!
-By any chance, when is the next broadcast? I want to watch next time they do a live.
└The kids do broadcast on their own called Home-cooked Meal Teacher Sim, but... it's not regular content so I'm not sure ㅠ
The sight of fans putting even more effort into promoting WEIRS taking advantage of this opportunity could be found everywhere in the community.
Due to the incident spreading like a trend in the community, the W App broadcasts that Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin had conducted also started receiving attention.
The company began planning how to ride on this incident.
Eventually.
'How did I end up getting dragged here...?'
"Now then, let's hear the tasting review from today's special tasting agent Sunwoo Rin."
"It's delicious."
"No, Rin hyung! Are you going to taste it that half-heartedly?"
Sim Seong-ha spoke to me with a look of dissatisfaction.
Toward such Sim Seong-ha, I spoke confidently.
"Because some terrorists wrecked the dormitory kitchen last time, I spent the whole day cleaning it up so my sense of smell got paralyzed and I can't properly taste..."
"Ahah... Yes! Anyway, A-jin? What are we going to try making next? Could you explain it?"
Right now we were conducting a W App live broadcast at the company.
The company decided to take charge of filming the live broadcast directly, using the previous live broadcast as an opportunity.
This live broadcast, eventually named 'Home-cooked Meal Teacher Sim,' had become WEIRS's regular content.
Though it would probably wrap up before activities begin.
Well, it could be done again during the next break like a seasonal format.
Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin participated as fixed members.
The other members would take turns participating as tasting agents one by one.
If there was a small problem, it was that I just found out the first batter of that tasting agent was me.
I looked at Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin excitedly talking, and the company staff filming us from the front, and thought.
'Well, if the fans like it, I should do it.'
I heard that it wouldn't just end with the W App broadcast, but edited videos would also be uploaded to WEIRS's official channel on the video site after the live broadcast ended.
The live broadcast videos that Sim Seong-ha and Kang A-jin had conducted previously were already being edited and uploaded to the video site.
'Especially the overseas fans' reactions were said to be good.'
Ironically, the video of Kang A-jin doing a mukbang had the best views compared to the behind-the-scenes filming videos or choreography practice videos uploaded before...
Jokes mixed with predictions spread within the company that we might succeed in advancing overseas with mukbang first.
I even heard the news that they decided to add English and Japanese subtitles to all videos.
'Is all this thanks to the rice cake bomb...'
I didn't expect the butterfly effect to work like this.
Anyway, Sim Seong-ha conducting the broadcast also seemed satisfied.
"Oh oh! You really like that tteokbokki!"
As for Kang A-jin, it seemed like his happiness index would max out as long as you make him delicious food.
Ultimately, wasn't this a happy ending for everyone?
I nodded like that and looked at the chatroom that was still going up at an incredible speed.
Chat messages praising Kang A-jin's cuteness mostly dominated.
I could also occasionally spot fans desperately calling my name.
When a fan's chat asked me to do a finger heart, and I did a finger heart toward the camera.
I could see my name's share in the chatroom visibly increase in that instant.
'I'm getting a little used to this kind of thing now.'
As I was reading the chat like that, Kang A-jin also started reading the chat together next to me.
"I love you too, Nevi!" (TL note: This appears to be a fan name, keeping original)
Seeing Kang A-jin shooting hearts while smiling brightly, I thought I still had a long way to go.
While I was wondering how much Kang A-jin's charm stat would be if measured in numbers.
"Uh... comeback? Right now Yujin hyung is working hard on the title.... mmph!"
I quickly covered Kang A-jin's mouth as he suddenly brought up the topic of comeback and said.
"A-jin, there's a lot of stuff stuck here haha."
Seeing me like that, Sim Seong-ha next to me quickly looked at the camera and spoke.
"Ah, yes, today we held the first Home-cooked Meal Teacher Sim at the company like this. Thank you so much for watching together..."
I quickly made eye contact with Kang A-jin while taking advantage of Sim Seong-ha's talking and removed my hand from Kang A-jin's mouth.
I could see Kang A-jin blinking those big eyes as he finally realized what he had been about to say.
"Yes, then let's end today's W App live here! See you next week everyone!"
"See you next week!"
I let out a sigh inwardly as I watched Kang A-jin enthusiastically waving his hand along with Sim Seong-ha's quick wrap-up.
'Did it pass over well for now?'
Fortunately, since I blocked it before any important story came out, it didn't seem like there would be a big problem.
Still.
"Kang A-jin?"
"Yees...?"
When I looked at him calling his name, I could see Kang A-jin's eyes looking at me in surprise.
Seeing Kang A-jin's bright, sparkling eyes made my heart soften a little.
"Yees? What were you trying to say earlier? Were you really going to spoil the next album during a live broadcast?"
"No, that's... I'm sorry..."
"For now, I'll assign one hour of mental education time and one hour of special training each as punishment."
"Aah..."
"Ahem. Why no response?"
"Understooood...!"
As I was scolding Kang A-jin like that, I could see Sim Seong-ha next to me trying to hold back his laughter while watching.
"Hey, dormitory terrorist Sim Seong-ha?"
"Ah, hyung...! That's already over..."
Sim Seong-ha said that, then smoothly changed the topic.
"But, since our broadcast is over, shouldn't we hurry and go? Everyone's probably gathered by now."
"That's right, hyung, let's hurry...! They might be waiting just for us!"
I could see Kang A-jin, who had been downcast until just now, quickly perking up and supporting Sim Seong-ha's words.
Seeing the two of them becoming a dream team only at times like this and urging me, I had a premonition that future activities wouldn't be smooth either.
"Yeah, let's go quickly."
"Yees!"
Seeing the two of them excitedly heading toward the studio at my words.
I thought this must be what they mean by a charm you can't hate.
***
After finishing the W App live broadcast like that and moving to Yujin Kim's studio, the four members other than us three were already gathered in the studio.
"We're here!!"
"You were all waiting."
When I spoke looking at the members sitting in their seats, Park Han-hwi said with a smile.
"We also just got together."
Listening to Park Han-hwi's words, I found a seat and sat down, and looking around, I thought it had been a while since all the members gathered like this.
A studio that was a bit cramped for seven men to gather.
Nevertheless, the reason we were gathered here now was.
"Yujin, is the title track work finished then?"
"Yes, I finished the guide recording today."
It was because Yujin Kim, who had been devoted only to the title track, finally delivered the news that he had finished composing.
Originally, a two-week preparation period was mentioned, but it took a bit longer than that, and almost three weeks had passed.
The company, and though they didn't say it, the members must have been a little anxious too.
"First of all, the work took longer than expected, thank you all for waiting."
"No problem. You worked hard, Yujin hyung!"
"There's still a little over a month left until the comeback schedule anyway."
"Yeah, at this rate, we can prepare more comfortably than when we debuted."
The members shook their heads at Yujin Kim's words and said it was okay.
To be honest, it was a close save.
'I almost had both the comeback schedule and the concert schedule pushed back entirely.'
From now on, tight comeback preparations would begin again.
But that was okay. We had already experienced a tougher schedule during our debut.
Simply making a comeback wasn't what was important, but what kind of song we made a comeback with, right?
In that sense, as long as the title track turned out well, a slight delay in the schedule was something I could fully understand.
Of course, if the title track that Yujin Kim composed after preparing like this were to fail, the blow would be truly huge.
But I wasn't too worried about that part.
Because.
'Since I found out what Park Han-hwi's trait ability is.'
The status message I saw when I first heard Yujin Kim's song.
-Due to the trait 'Sharp Intuition,' the energy of Park Han-hwi's trait '???' is felt.
Regarding Park Han-hwi's trait that was marked with question marks at that time.
Over the past few weeks, as I learned composing from Park Han-hwi, I was able to learn the identity of the trait hidden by question marks.
-Due to the trait 'Sharp Intuition,' the energy of Park Han-hwi's trait 'Hit Song Appraiser' is felt.
'Hit Song Appraiser'
The name of the trait Park Han-hwi possessed was Hit Song Appraiser.
After seeing that message, I understood what Park Han-hwi had said before.
'All the songs I thought would do well so far... succeeded without exception.'
The other members listened to it as a joke and passed over it, but thinking about it now, that was undoubtedly the ability of the trait Park Han-hwi possessed.
'Since I learned Park Han-hwi's trait, at least it won't fail in the future.'
The groundbreaking ability to know hit songs in advance.
The 'Hit Song Appraiser' trait that Park Han-hwi possessed was an ability unique to Park Han-hwi that wasn't even in the trait shop.
'Might the other members also each have a trait like this?'
A new task had emerged.
Figuring out what the members' traits were.
For that, I also needed to learn more about the 'Sharp Intuition' trait.
'Anyway, that's not what's important right now.'
The song Yujin Kim composed.
What kind of song would the completed version of the song that Park Han-hwi strongly insisted on as the title track become.
Now was the time to confirm that.
"Then can we listen to the song right away?"
"Yes, just a moment."
Yujin Kim, who sat in front of the monitor again, immediately played the music.
As the song started and Yujin Kim's guide vocal sound was heard after the intro.
It seemed like all the members including me had the same thought.
'I want to... stand on stage quickly.'