[Is this VYNNIA content, or Lee Sion taking a lap around the neighborhood?]
"Fuck, I thought I clicked into the wrong YouTube channel.
Why is Lee Sion invading other people’s YouTube channels too?!"
⤷But honestly, it was fun, right?
⤷For real lol. Our girls’ content used to be sweetly boring, and just sprinkling in Lee Sion changes it this much?
⤷This is what MSG is! Super stimulating.
⤷But since when were Kaella and Lee Sion this close?
⤷They say they got close during Three Kingdoms, but I had no idea they were close enough to hang out in private too.
⤷If you watch the broadcast behind-the-scenes, Lee Sion just chatters away with everybody, whether they’re VYNNIA or LYNX.
This latest self-made VYNNIA content was setting ablaze a community famous for having a huge number of idol fans.
Unlike usual, when only fans talked about VYNNIA’s content, this one was drawing an unusually heated response.
"The Sion effect really is obvious. The views are especially high only on the episode Sion appeared in. It hasn’t even been a few days since it went up."
"Lee Sion is going to kill ···."
And as Raon read posts reacting that way, the back of the neck wasn’t just tightening anymore—now there was barely any strength left even in the fists.
A few days earlier, Lee Sion had gone out to casually film a YouTube content piece together with Kaella, the leader of VYNNIA, SY’s girl group.
-They said it’s just kind of a vlog feel.
-If it’s only that much, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything there that could make Miss Sion cause trouble. SY also gave us a lot of consideration during Three Kingdoms, so let’s cooperate with this one.
At first, Raon and Sanghyeok had been bothered by the fact that Iam’s secret weapon, Lee Sion, was appearing in a rival group’s content.
But once they heard about it, it was just ordinary content with the normal feel of spending a day off with a friend, and on top of that, there was the matter of Sion having caused chaos while dragging Kaella around on SY’s side too, so in the end they had no choice but to give permission willingly.
At the ti, even though Lee Sion had caused what could definitely be called a major incident, they had let it slide without making a real issue of it out of consideration for their connection with Raon, because nothing good would co of KJ Entertainnt acting petty.
However, as always, after seeing the exploits of Lee Sion, the hired thug of the variety world, who had gone off and wrecked sobody else’s content, the two of them regretted it desperately.
[Breaking! Iam mber makes disparaging remarks about LYNX]
"(A screencap of Lee Sion pointing at a LYNX album in the album section and provoking them)
"LOL is it for real that she’s making fun of LYNX because their albums had the most copies left?"
⤷Lee Sion is insane lol. Aren’t LYNX fans saying anything?
⤷I think they let it slide because everybody knows Lee Sion and LYNX are close.
⤷Fans really have gotten a lot gentler lately. Back in the old days, LYNX fans would’ve already sward KJ Entertainnt by now.
⤷They liked it, actually. After that scene aired, LYNX’s album sales went up even though promotions were over.
⤷Yeah, LYNX fans apparently sward Yeongdong Bookstore and cleaned out the LYNX albums. There were a ton of proof pics on Twitter.
⤷This too must be the grace of Great Sion.
They had told Lee Sion to just go film so content, and instead Sion ca back after suddenly firing off a provocation at rival group LYNX, so KJ Entertainnt had been in chaos for quite a while because of it.
-···I’m sorry, Taesu oppa.
-Raon, you’re not doing this on purpose, are you?
-I’m really not! This is so unfair!
-We’re the ones this is unfair to! We re-signed Ayeon for you and this is how you repay us, with a provocation?
From Park Taesu’s point of view, it must have felt like a bolt from the blue.
He had pushed through re-signing Ryu Ayeon at the company while overriding the objections of other executives, respecting Ayeon’s wishes and future, and then KJ Entertainnt repaid that with a sudden provocation.
Of course, it hadn’t been KJ Entertainnt but Lee Sion acting on a whim, yet if luck hadn’t turned that provocation into the miracle of the LYNX fandom rallying together and increasing album sales, it could easily have turned into sothing serious.
And was that all?
[Do not insult my alma mater...]
"You think you would’ve beaten Lee Sion?
There’s a reason we called Sion the blue-eyed devil back then.
There was nowhere to eat near Sion’s school, so Sion climbed over the wall and ca to our high school store asking us to buy food."
⤷So you lost a staring contest and got shaken down too?
⤷It wasn’t shaking us down. An elentary school kid looked up at us with sparkling eyes and asked for a piece of bread. How are you supposed to ignore that...?
⤷Jinseong High, you people really are the disgrace of high schoolers.
⤷That place is just a nerd school full of kids who only study, so it couldn’t be helped.
⤷From what I’m hearing from Lee Sion’s classmates, didn’t Sion already conquer Haan-dong back in middle school?
⤷That part is true.
After the things Lee Sion had said while walking around Haan-dong as if they were sothing to be proud of were broadcast, cross-checking online was steadily proving every last one of them to be true.
Which ant Jinseong High School, currently suffering the dishonorable humiliation of being known as the high schoolers who lost to an elentary school kid, was only the beginning.
-In Haan-dong, if you don’t know Lee Sion, you’re basically a spy.
-Kids from Cheolsan Elentary and Cheolsan Middle used to avoid any girl with long hair on sight.
-There were a ton of high school boys who tried hitting on Lee Sion and got thrown with a shoulder toss.
Testimony from Haan-dong residents kept pouring in about what on earth Lee Sion had been doing during school days.
Of course, if there was a problem, it was that most of those testimonies sounded, no matter how kindly you looked at them, less like stories about a girl idol and more like anecdotes you’d expect to see in one of those school-violence webtoons that had been popular lately.
It was definitely supposed to be VYNNIA’s self-made content showing the ordinary day-off vlog of a hot girl group idol, yet sowhere along the way it had turned into an expedition through the legends of Lee Sion.
-This is unfair, unfair!!! If everybody else keeps taking her away and using her, what are we supposed to live on!
Thanks to Lee Sion’s performance, VYNNIA’s content had not even been public for three full days before surpassing one million views and heading for two million.
And because of that, KJ Entertainnt’s office building currently echoed with the howls of content team lead Hakyun.
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the broadcasting bastards blinded by ratings had been plundering Lee Sion and her content, now even a rival group’s content team was stealing views too, and Hakyun was begging them to please stop the outflow of national wealth.
Raon was already having a hard enough ti because of the trouble Sion had caused, and now had no ntal bandwidth left because Hakyun had gone insane over view counts and had to be soothed down.
"But seriously, what are we supposed to do about this image?"
"By image··· do you perhaps an the final scene?"
"Yes! I almost stord SY for real! How could they broadcast that without editing it at all!"
What was drawing particularly intense attention in this content, moreover, was the scene at the very end.
[Lee Sion really is a legend]
Out of all the posts uploaded to the community, one in particular was exploding in views, comnts, and upvotes.
This was the true culprit making Raon grab the back of the neck.
"If you think of it positively, doesn’t it actually fit really well with the feel of our next album?"
"···How in the world do you have to think positively to co up with that?"
"I think it’ll be fine. It’s Miss Sion, after all."
Still, Raon couldn’t quite bring herself to argue against Sanghyeok, who said in an absurdly calm tone that it would be fine because it was Lee Sion.
And that was
***
"Boss, did you really get into group fights in high school too?"
"What a disrespectful thing to say, Im Wiyeon?"
"No! There are a ton of posts online by people saying they got hit by you, Boss!"
"I saw them too."
"Boss, you saw them too?"
"There was so nonsense rumor saying Yunkyung’s family was rich, so I corrected it in the comnts and said not rich—filthy rich."
"Boss!"
During a short break in practice, Yunkyung ca trotting over to my side and started chattering away.
And the topic of that chatter was none other than the VYNNIA self-made content that had gone up this ti.
"What kind of neighborhood is Haan-dong that it got conquered by this scrub?"
"Lee Sion is good with fists, so I assu it was resolved by force."
"That’s right! Even a crocodile was no match for Sion unni, so there’s no way a human being could win!"
Before I knew it, the other mbers had gathered around too and started throwing in their own comnts one after another, but most of them were lies so close to malicious slander that I had no choice but to administer punishnt.
"Ow! Use words! Lee Sion is hitting people!"
"It’s fine, Gahyeon unni. Anyone who insults Haan-dong isn’t a person."
"You insult all the ti for living in Seoul!"
"Yah!"
"Ow!"
Since Lee Gahyeon kept resisting to the bitter end, I jabbed the side again, and Gahyeon flailed arms and legs like a frog.
It was only after I used Gahyeon as a sacrificial offering like that that the mbers finally started looking away and pretending not to know anything, as though they had never said a word.
'Maybe I should’ve asked them to cut the last part a little.'
Still perched on top of Gahyeon’s back and poking the side, I fell for a mont into contemplation about the content I had fild with Kaella the other day.
I hadn’t thought much of it while shooting, but seeing how PD Raon looked ready to kill after the video went up, it seed it must have contained sothing that really shouldn’t have aired.
I briefly thought back to what had happened then.
After leaving Yeongdong Bookstore and heading for Starbucks to grab so coffee, Kaella and I found a group of vicious-looking high school boys appearing in front of us.
Arrogantly, they were smoking in the alley and spitting all over the place.
-Sion, let’s just go···.
-If this were Seoul, maybe I could pretend I didn’t see it and walk past. But in Haan-dong, I can’t do that.
Kaella and the filming crew, after seeing them, suggested we just avoid them and go around, but there was no way I could accept that.
My hotown.
The last remaining utopia on earth. Haan-dong, a neighborhood on the level of a UNESCO natural and cultural heritage site—and in a place like that, minors were smoking and hocking spit everywhere.
If Master Ori Yi Wonik, the pride of Gwangmyeong City, fad in Joseon tis as a righteous and incorrupt official, had seen this from the afterlife, tears would have fallen from the eyes.
-Isn’t that Lee Sion?
-I think Kaella’s with Sion too.
-Holy shit, aweso. This is my first ti seeing a celebrity in real life.
Sure enough, maybe because they were so far gone in common sense that they dared smoke in my territory, Haan-dong, they didn’t cower even after seeing adults. Instead, they started snickering among themselves and threatening us.
-Are you filming us right now without even getting our permission?
-Isn’t that illegal? I should upload it to Insta.
-Take a picture with . I want to brag to the guys that I’ve got connections to idols.
One of them swaggered toward .
'I’ve grown too.'
Back in the old days, a kick would already have been flying, but Lee Sion, newly reborn as an idol, was different.
-Sion. Don’t people call entertainers public figures? Strictly speaking, that’s not the correct dictionary aning, but it tells you how much influence entertainers actually have on society.
I rembered sothing CEO Kim Sanghyeok had once said to , and because of that I had promised myself I would restrain violence unless the situation made it unavoidable.
Certainly, every ti I saw little-kid fans saying they liked Iam after our debut, I had thought I needed to be a good example for them.
Unless the mbers were in danger the way they had been back in Shinyu days, using force rashly against so neighborhood punks would have been like slaughtering a chicken with an ox-cleaver.
I quickly scanned their school uniforms.
Anyang Technical High.
I’d crossed paths with those bastards a few tis back in high school, but after the top dog at that school got broken by , they had beco hard to spot in Gwangmyeong for quite a while.
After that, I pulled out my phone.
-Yunseop, where are you?
-Noona! What’s going on? Why are you calling?
-I’m at the Starbucks by Haan Intersection. Where are you?
-We’re actually nearby already.
-Co over.
I called in my juniors.
What happened after that was very simple.
No sooner had my call ended than juniors ca roaring in on motorcycles.
-Anyang Tech? Aren’t those Yeongho’s juniors?
-These little shits are crazy. Yeongho, you’re not letting them run around doing this in sobody else’s neighborhood too, are you?
-Noona, we’ll take care of this from here.
The mont they arrived, they instantly surrounded those punks and naturally started creating the sort of atmosphere you’d only expect at a school recycling dump, so I had a hard ti making them restrain themselves.
After that, once I had a pleasant little consultation session with the now-polite delinquents—
-Starting now, each of you is collecting a hundred cigarette butts.
-How are we supposed to collect a hundred···.
-If you can’t collect them, then after I finish filming later, co see separately. Together with Yeongho from your school.
-···.
The content for that day ended with all of us going around Haan Intersection with them, picking up cigarette butts and carrying out an environntal campaign to make Haan-dong clean.
[Iam and VYNNIA, idols with sense! Service content with teenagers]
"Iam mber Lee Sion and VYNNIA mber Kaella uploaded a YouTube content video on the 3rd in which they guided smoking teenagers and did volunteer work together, drawing attention.
Considering the influence of idols, netizens say the good deed···."
⤷Did that reporter actually watch the sa thing I did?
⤷What I saw was the Haan-dong boss making people clean up Sion’s territory.
⤷KJ Entertainnt is really trying to block out the sky with the palm of a hand!
⤷How much money did they get paid to fabricate a heartwarming story out of Haan-dong gangster Lee Sion’s episode?
⤷LOL the difference in those kids’ faces between the beginning, when they were smoking, and the end, after cleaning up, is so fucking funny.
⤷Lee Sion really is a legend.
"Kaella unni, what kind of bolt from the blue did you get hit with when you went to Haan-dong?"
"Jisoo liked it. Jisoo even said later Jisoo would introduce Sion to Jisoo’s own neighborhood too."
"The fact that Jisoo also beca close with Lee Sion as soon as they t ans Jisoo isn’t normal either."
No, Kaella—real na Lee Jisoo—had been grinning when we parted, apparently very satisfied with my Haan-dong tour.
The mood had turned a little ominous at the end, but Haan-dong was the kind of place you couldn’t help falling for once you visited it.
"That’s just how school days go. Once you fight once, everybody ends up becoming friends."
"No they do not!"
"Even Gahyeon unni sprawled out here right now—do you know how viciously Gahyeon fought with Kim Nayeon back in Class F when we first t? But now they get along just fine."
"You! I fought with you! You keep rewriting history! You staged a coup against !"
Tsk.
I was starting to think Lee Gahyeon’s mory was slipping because Gahyeon was the oldest among us.
The Class F coup had plainly been led by Kim Nayeon, yet here Gahyeon was still trying to pin it on .
Clack.
Just as I was about to jab Gahyeon in the side again to hear the proper truth, the practice room door opened and a familiar silhouette ca into view.
"Lee Sion, were you bullying Gahyeon again?"
"PD, save ! Lee Sion was causing trouble again!"
"Tch."
Because of the things I’d pulled lately, PD Raon’s combat power had risen, so I had no choice but to let Gahyeon go.
Raon listened while patting Gahyeon on the back and soothing away the sense of injustice from being briefly released out of my grasp.
"Now it’s ti to go into recording. Everybody, let’s move to the recording studio together."
Once Gahyeon seed to have cald down at least a little, Raon finally brought up the real point.
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