Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 237
“Okay, I’ll take the picture when I count to three.”
Kyunghwa spent a long time finding the perfect angle and finally gave the signal.
“One, two, three!”
The screen of the phone went black for a moment and then brightened again as Kyunghwa changed the angle and posed again.
“Come on, we need to fill up four pictures, so please make a different pose from before.”
They stuck together and took pictures as if they were at someone’s wedding.
‘Let’s finish this quickly...!’
They all seemed to have the same thought.
Soon after, they barely escaped from the photo shoot and sighed in relief, when they heard some good news.
“Wow, it’s not even midnight yet and we’re already in the top ten!”
Seon-woo exclaimed in admiration, as if it was nothing that there was another group next to them that had the same achievement.
They looked around at the other indicators besides the ranking and saw that the likes were also at the level of the top 1-2 groups.
[- ‘This is how you do a reverse run and skyrocket.’]
[- It’s so good? I want to keep listening, but I’m worried that I’ll get tired of it if I listen too much. I’m streaming on mute on purpose.]
[- Three... two... one... click, clack... click, clack... click, clack... click, clack... click, clack... click, clack...]
[- Why didn’t you just debut together from the start?]
[ᄂ Two left and three joined, so it’s +1 in the end.]
[- The members who left Climax must be regretting it so muchᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ]
[ᄂ Wasn’t Climax five people?]
[ᄂ They were originally a seven-member group, but two left. They’re both inactive.]
[- Ha... They were a group that only I knew, but they suddenly became superstars... I’m so glad they didn’t disband...]
[ᄂ They were a group that only I knew, but they grew so much in a year22222]
[- The comments are so funny, they only mention Climax with clenched teeth. Do you think they would have gotten this ranking if it was only Climaxᄏᄏ? They rode on Floss’s coin and pretended to rise on their own. How ridiculous.]
[ᄂ -Black Gold- I’m an old Tempo, and I know that Climax did a lot of work for this single.]
[- At first, I thought they were doomed when Floss’s corruption scandal broke out, but when I saw the press conference, I couldn’t help but think that they all suffered so much... The song is so good, I hope they can be happy from now on.]
[- The strongest synergy between a five-year rookie and a two-year rookie...]
[- Dad, I’m so happy that you brought out such a masterpiece...]
[ᄂ Thank you, I love you222]
[ᄂ Severe suddenly became a son from a rich family to a daughter from a rich family.]
[- They did so well that I’m angry for the first time. What did Wiffle Planet do with these members until now?]
[ᄂ When I think about how Climax was shelved until now, it’s reallyᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ sigh...]
[- Cheon, you have a good sense, so you know what to do now, right? Please prepare an album soon, please.]
[- They tore it up... How can self-producing and self-planning be so well done?]
There were some complaints from the fans of the other members of Floss or the participants who didn’t debut in My Idol Stage, but they weren’t very bothersome.
Rather...
‘It’s much better than I expected?’
At this rate, they might aim for the first place in 24Hits before midnight.
No, the first place was already confirmed from the start. It was so unrealistic that I couldn’t believe it, but this was reality. I unconsciously reached for my cheek.
“Do you want me to hit you?”
As soon as he came to my side, Yi-jun smiled playfully and clenched his fist. Would I? I frowned and answered.
“No?”
He laughed out loud when I glared at him. I wanted to shut him up, so I asked him.
“So, how does it feel to be a chart-topping producer?”
Yi-jun had expected it a little, but... He didn’t act shy or tell me not to jinx it, but shrugged and answered.
“I’m still lacking. I think I need to make at least ten hit songs to get a pension-like income.”
“It’s scary. To think that so many people watch us...”
“What are you scared of? The showcase broadcast had several times more than that.”
With Seon-woo’s whining and Naru’s remark, today’s schedule was completely over. We split into vans and headed to our dorms and homes, and the surroundings became quiet again.
‘The cars are better as they are now... but considering the overlapping activities in the future, maybe we should share the dorm with Swift too.’
It would be quite uncomfortable to live together with a dozen members, and finding a house that big would be a hassle.
But eight people... that was manageable.
I thought so and looked out the window, and Kyunghwa screamed.
“What?”
Right before we got off at the dorm parking lot, Kyunghwa clutched his phone and sobbed.
“We’re number one on 24Hits!”
I looked at the screen he showed me, and sure enough, <Between Us> was proudly at the top.
“You worked hard.”
I gave him the standard answer. Of course, working hard didn’t guarantee success.
But the members were talented and did their best to prepare, so it wasn’t impossible to succeed like this.
‘Actually... it was also thanks to the solo artist who made a comeback and scared everyone away, leaving us an empty house.’
But the person who made everyone avoid the timing tried something weird and couldn’t perform as well as before on the charts, so we got to gobble up the empty house.
I happily opened the mission tab and saw the rewards I could claim piled up.
[- Achieve number one on 24Hits on the release day]
I thought they should admit that we succeeded as idols by now.
But the system was silent.
‘Hey, I know you’re pretending not to hear when you’re listening.’
I expected Pposili to at least bark or answer me, but there was no reaction at all.
‘What’s wrong?’
I felt a strange sense of unease for a moment. As I followed the members of Wooreureu back to the dorm, the tension I had felt until then was relieved.
“Woof!”
Pposili greeted me with a body slam as soon as I opened the door, and I didn’t think much of it as I started to prepare for tomorrow’s schedule.
“Whine, groan, whimper...!”
But soon after, just before falling asleep, Pposili started to make anxious noises and whine again.
“Pposili, what’s wrong? Are you hurt somewhere?”
Seon-woo, who shared the room with me, seemed worried and stroked Pposili’s head, but Pposili whined and came back to me.
“Hyung, don’t you have any pain that you’re not aware of?”
Seon-woo read some foreign topic online and showed me an article about a dog that detected its owner’s cancer by smell.
“That’s not it.”
Something was wrong with the system. It had been silent since earlier, even though the window was on.
‘Hey, system.’
I called it with a rather rude nickname, but the system remained silent.
‘Sigh...’
Why is this happening? If it was a machine, I could physically repair it aka hit it hard. But that didn’t work either, and it was frustrating as hell.
‘Let’s just sleep.’
I had to check if it was still unresponsive after I woke up. I had a schedule to leave the dorm at 5 a.m. tomorrow.
I had no time to waste with my eyes open.
I closed my eyes and hugged Pposili, who kept whimpering.
And just before I lost consciousness completely.
[@^*Welcome, sir&@#.]
[&&(The system has successfully connected to @#$your device#%&.)]
[To prevent system^% crash, the access of the thousand^%(year-old@#dragon) will be terminated.]
I heard a bad announcement.