Chapter 127:

Chapter 127:

“Who can explain to me what’s going on here?”

As I entered the room with a light heart, a suspicious smell that shouldn’t come out of the dormitory stimulated my nose.

It was the smell of cheese sauce and all kinds of meat toppings that were bad for the body, heated up in the oven.

On top of that, the spicy aroma of fried chicken coated with seasoning spread out.

“Oops, we’re busted.”

“Quick, hide it!”

Hodak, Yi-jun jumped out in front of me as if he was willing to sacrifice himself as a shield.

“We’ve succeeded in blocking him! All agents retreat without letting him take the goods!”

“What are you talking about?”

While Yi-jun was holding me back, Seon-woo quickly stuffed the toppings and cheese that fell on the plate into his mouth.

“I’ll remember Yi-jun hyung’s sacrifice! I’ll remember!”

“What are you talking about, really!”

I swiftly hit Yi-jun’s temple and escaped from his captivity, heading to the dining table.

“Ouch.”

As I stepped into the middle of the kitchen, Kyunghwa was tearing a chicken leg with a humble expression, as if he had given up everything.

“Are you here?”

This kid was only strong-hearted at times like this. I frowned as if I couldn’t believe it.

“You should stop them when they’re going crazy, why are you calmly tearing a chicken leg?”

As if he didn’t expect me to do this, Kyunghwa couldn’t help but be shocked, then he hiccuped, as if to show off.

“I sometimes... want to get drunk too.”

“What nonsense.”

Did this guy drink? I couldn’t believe it, so I looked at the glass next to him, and it was filled with cola instead of beer.

“You get drunk on cola?”

Kyunghwa slowly nodded his head, then dropped the chicken leg he was holding and slammed his head on the table.

I had seen two people who got drunk on cola in my life. But this was the first time I saw someone who lost his taste as if he had a hangover.

“What’s this? Why are you like this?”

When I shook Kyunghwa’s shoulder to wake him up, his body shook like a drunk person.

“What the hell happened?”

I stupidly stood there and kicked Yi-jun’s leg, who was being Seon-woo’s shield, then headed to Seong-won’s room.

“You’re fine.”

After knocking lightly, I opened the door roughly, and Seong-won frowned as if he was annoyed by my sudden entrance.

“Of course.”

“What’s going on with them?”

When I asked as if I was dumbfounded, Seong-won sighed briefly and put down Aeongi, who he was holding in his arms.

Soon, Pposili, who followed me into Seong-won’s room, went to Aeongi’s side and sat down, wagging his tail.

“It’s because of the filming yesterday. Kyunghwa hyung tries not to show it, but he’s mentally weak. And so is Seon-woo.”

Oh Yi-jun didn’t even say anything, as if he didn’t care.

“Kyunghwa hyung said he wanted to eat something to relieve his stress, and Seon-woo was so happy when he ordered it, he didn’t know what to do. He was worried about what would happen if you found out. But he ate well when he ordered it?”

[※‘Son Seong-won’ is telling the truth.]

This is not a lie detector. I sighed as I received the absurd help from Pposili’s added feature.

“You’re just going to watch that?”

He answered shamelessly when I asked him incredulously.

“Do you think he’ll stop if I try to stop him?”

I don’t know about that. Kyunghwa might not know, but Seon-woo was the only member who had a strange wall with Seong-won and found him very difficult.

‘If I had my way, I’d cut off the IP fees and everything.’

As long as I wasn’t going to disappear after a day or two of activity, it was better to proceed slowly and steadily. I would cut them off someday.

As I was lost in thought, someone suddenly came up behind me.

“Ise... ”

Wow, that startled me. I turned around at the eerie voice from behind and saw Hwijin, who was hiding behind makeup but noticeably pale.

“Hwijin? No, hyung.”

I corrected my address, conscious of the busy staff around me.

“Ah. How have you been?”

He looked like he hadn’t been doing well. I could see why. When I was planning the show, I saw some clips of Floss’s show as a reference and they all looked like they had pride.

It must have been rigged, but the program side had executed Floss so blatantly that they all must have been furious.

I didn’t know why Floss was here, but they were making a fuss like ‘Why do we have to do this?’ ‘Can’t we quit now?’ I could vividly imagine the chaos.

As the leader, he had to persuade them to participate in the planning and practice, so he must have been stressed out.

“I’ve been doing well.”

I couldn’t say bluntly that you don’t look like it, so I trailed off.

“I... had a really hard time...”

He didn’t say much, but his fatigue seemed to affect me as well.

“But there was no problem with the planning or the stage, right?”

I asked him a crucial point, just in case, and he answered with a soulless eye.

“Yeah... somehow...”

He said that, but with nine proud people together, they would pull off the stage perfectly.

I gave him a faint consolation for his disguise and glanced at him.

“Don’t worry too much, you’ll do well.”

I patted Hwijin’s shoulder and he nodded slowly without energy.

“Yeah... you too, fighting.”

I glanced at the Floss members who were waiting. The stage order was decided by a lottery in advance: Floss – P2CK – Climax – Vesper – AtoX – Playground.

It didn’t seem like there was any advantage to the order.

It was enough to make me wonder if this was also rigged somehow, starting with Floss and ending with Playground.

As soon as Hwijin returned to his group, trembling, Yi-jun and Kyunghwa rushed towards me.

“What did the Floss leader say?”

“Did you talk about any strategy or something?”

Our delinquents, who had recovered their mental state somewhat after the last incident, asked me with sparkling eyes.

They seemed to have high expectations, but there was nothing substantial to say.

“He didn’t say much. They just looked like they had a hard time too.”

Then Seong-won snorted as if it was obvious.

“Of course they did. There were quite a few members who made a fuss because they didn’t like the treatment they got over there.”

Everyone nodded in agreement, as if it was clear without seeing.

“But don’t look down on them. They may have had a tough process, but they’re not an easy opponent.”

Wheejin, who came to me to suck up, said he had a hard time, but he didn’t say he was not confident.

“We’ll see in 15 minutes when the Floss rehearsal starts.”

Kyunghwa answered, looking up at the staff who were adjusting the stage equipment for Floss.

What kind of stage would the Floss in crisis show us? I was half excited and half worried, when the sign that everything was ready came.

The lights on the stage went out all at once, and the Floss members went up one by one.

It was time to see with my own eyes if their high pride had any basis or not.