Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 198 Copycat (1)
I returned to the dorm after finishing the day’s schedule and found Yu-geon already in the room.
“Did you shower already?”
He had a towel around his neck and droplets of water on his hair tips, indicating he had just co out of the bathroom.
“Yeah, today’s practice ended a bit early.”
Even if it ended early, he couldn’t have co back that soon since the schedule was fixed.
I asked him out of concern.
“Did you… have a fight or sothing during practice?”
He burst into laughter without hesitation when I asked him worriedly.
“What are you talking about? Why are you so concerned?”
Then he reached out his hand to pat my head, but no way. I was nineteen, but I wasn’t going to let a twenty-sothing guy treat like a kid.
“Wow, look at your reaction speed. Am I dirty? I’m hurt.”
He exclaid in surprise as I quickly grabbed his hand and pushed it away from my head.
“I’m sorry. Soone doesn’t like having their head touched.”
If he was actually older than , I might have accepted it with a K-confucian mindset since I was young.
But I hated it. I backed away with a disgusted look and he laughed even more as if he found it amusing.
“Fine, I won’t touch you. Thanks for worrying about , but I can handle it myself, so don’t stress too much.”
That ‘handle it myself’ was what worried . In reality, Yu-geon had achieved his debut by choosing a self-aggrandizing strategy without any of my conditions.
But even if this wasn’t reality, I couldn’t help but care since he was always in front of .
‘I shouldn’t be worrying about soone else right now.’
I had a mountain of worries on my own. He said he would handle it himself. I stretched and put the tir and tools I used for practice on the bed and headed to the communal shower.
‘If I can finish the rehearsal tomorrow well… I’m almost done.’
It felt strange to realize that this bizarre dorm life was almost over.
No matter how adaptable humans are. It was weird to suddenly beco a 24-year-old person and then a 19-year-old who was neither myself nor soone else.
And then I adapted and did what I could, which seed to prove what was really .
‘My biggest strength is probably perseverance.’
I try my best until I can coldly judge that it won’t work. If it doesn’t work, I change the route and find what I can do and do it.
No matter where I was thrown, the secret to doing better than average was there.
‘Let’s work hard until the end.’
With that thought, I finished a light shower and ran into a familiar face in the hallway.
“Hey! Long ti no see!”
It was Park Junki, a B-grade trainee who I hadn’t had a chance to talk to properly since I t him at the audition.
“Uh. Long ti no see.”
He smirked as I greeted him with a lukewarm tone.
“How’s your practice going? I heard the number of people there dropped a lot.”
I wasn’t sure if he was trying to pry or just asking out of curiosity. I looked him in the eye and answered with a faint smile.
“Well… so-so?”
I didn’t need to give him any information. I brushed him off and he widened his eyes as if he was surprised.
“Really? Well, that’s a relief… Anyway, hang in there!”
He then disappeared with a group of B~C rank trainees who seed to share the sa room with him.
What a bland guy. I looked at his back and his colleagues’ backs and suddenly felt a bad premonition. I summoned the status window.
‘Status window.’
As soon as the translucent window popped up, I called up the inner thoughts card confirmation window.
[Please select the target to check the inner thoughts card.]
[Remaining tis 1]
I used two cards to check the attitudes of the B rank guys in the afternoon, and another two cards to update the A rank guys in the morning when I had breakfast, so I only had one left for today.
[>Park Junki]
[>Lee Cheon-hwan]
[>Yu Jae-sik]
[>Oh Du-yeon]
[>Jo In-hyuk]
Most of the trainees had inner thoughts cards floating above them, but fortunately there weren’t many people in the hallway, so his na was right at the top.
I opened Park Junki’s card without hesitation.
[>Park Junki]
[- Should I tell him this? But if I say sothing and it goes wrong, I’ll be the one to suffer… Actually, we’re not that close, so let’s just pretend I don’t know.]
‘What… What was he going to say but didn’t?’
I was left with a nagging feeling as if I had opened a Pandora’s box. It was too late to go and ask him what was going on.
In the end, I had to find out for myself.
‘There was nothing special in the other inner thoughts cards I checked today…’
When I ca back from washing up, Hwijin was already there.
“You guys finished early?”
Hwijin’s expression wasn’t bad, which was surprising since I thought he would be struggling the most.
“Yes, how about you, hyung? We still have so things to improve, but it seems like we have a rough idea.”
I added so information that I didn’t even ask for, hoping that it wouldn’t look like I was bragging, and Yu-geon seed to catch on to my intention and spat out the water he was drinking.
“Ah, gross.”
I teased him a bit on purpose and Yu-geon kept shaking his shoulders and coughing until he made an excuse.
“No, I just heard a funny sound.”
“You should clean that up, hyung.”
I shrugged and pointed at a tissue once, then looked back at Hwijin.
“Uh… well, I think it’ll be okay.”
He looked pretty calm, and it didn’t seem like he was lying to reassure .
“They’re all young and uncomfortable with … But I guess they’re grateful that I have so experience and they listen to my opinions well.”
It sounded like being assigned to a group of lower ranks without any high ranks was actually a blessing in disguise.
‘Well, he did have so good planning skills when we did the Bobbyam mission last ti.’
He was a jack of all trades, but how did he remain a pearl in the mud until he was twenty-seven? It was a mystery…
But then again, there was a climax at the beginning.
People would wonder why he couldn’t make it when he had the money and the skills of each mber to back him up.
But the truth is, many things are more influenced by luck than we think.
“It’s the sa with business.”
As the saying goes, a pearl is made by piercing a hole in it. No matter how talented a singer or how great a song, you can’t survive if you don’t stand out.
In the red ocean where people who can sing well, dance well, and look good are saturated, it’s impossible to catch the eye unless you have luck on your side.
You either have to fit into the icon that the era wants, or ride the trend.
If you miss the 1% timing, even if you’re 99% perfect, you’ll sink.
“eting the mbers who can highlight you the most and completing the mission smoothly is also luck.”
It was also my luck that I t the runaway mbers and got quite annoyed.
I started to worry about Park Junki’s innermost card that ca to my mind.
“What did he worry about? He didn’t even tell properly.”
While I was thinking for a mont, I noticed Yu-geon who had cleaned up the floor and asked him casually.
“Is there anything… that’s bothering you these days?”
He pointed to the turned-off cara equipnt with his chin and asked, and Yu-geon smiled mischievously.
“Nobody talks to anymore.”
“…”
That made sense. I shook my head as if I couldn’t help it and climbed up to my bed quietly.
“Tomorrow will be busier because of the rehearsal, so go to sleep quickly.”
I turned off the light after wrapping up the conversation, but I couldn’t sleep because it was earlier than usual.
Or when did I ever fall asleep right away? I tossed and turned quietly for a while and opened my eyes, and it was already morning.
‘I can finally see how good the other teams are.’
Of course, I had seen the final stage roughly, but the mbers had changed a bit since then, so I couldn’t rely on my vague mory.
‘I have to try anyway.’
I have to do well. I stepped on the iron ladder with a firm determination.
The rehearsal order of the DIY B team I belonged to was 12th. Considering that there were 14 teams in total, it was a pretty late rank.
‘Will it be the sa order for the recording tomorrow?’
I asked the production staff nearby, but they said they couldn’t confirm the recording order for tomorrow because it would be decided on the day.
In the end, all we could do was sit quietly and watch the rehearsals of the other teams in the small waiting room.
‘The teams that finished early went straight to the practice room.’
It seed that the teams that included Shim Naru and other trainees who were likely to debut were mostly assigned to the front ranks.
‘I was also… favored by the choreographer… didn’t I get a lot of talk?’
They couldn’t cover the order for .
‘It’s a sha, but there’s nothing I can do.’
As soon as I sat down with the other three mbers in the seats that were arranged like an auditorium, the rehearsal began.
‘Hmm…’
Overall, they were stages that matched the level of the trainees.
To put it coldly, I could see why they didn’t debut, or to put it warmly, they had a lot of room for improvent.
As I looked up at the stage without much expectation, there were also so trainees who had outstanding skills among the many poor ones.
‘If I had to pick soone who has the skills to debut here, there’s only one person on the far left.’
The ones who were chosen by the national managers were separate.
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