Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 214 A New Beginning (1)
“It is an honor to et you on such a good opportunity.”
Manager Woo, who had a gentle impression, started to lighten up the mood by placing the drinks he ordered from a nearby franchise cafe on the table.
The exclusive contracts of the Floss trio were signed one by one, starting from Naru, who called with the number on the business card he gave before the press conference.
And Hwijin, who joined late after finishing the press conference. As soon as the three of them signed to entrust the managent of their future entertainnt activities, we decided to hold a brief orientation.
“Since only Director Cheon and Kyunghwa attended the last eting, I will first explain the future activity structure briefly.”
At the place where all the forr Floss mbers gathered, they called Director instead of Ise. It was awkward to be called Director after a long ti, but it was not uncomfortable.
“First of all, let inform you in advance of the part that you might be most curious about. Climax will go without any personnel changes from the existing five mbers.”
Yi-jun widened his eyes as if he was surprised by the direction that was different from what he thought.
“Oh.”
“Of course, if there is a contract termination reason and a withdrawal occurs in the middle, that would be an exception. But I believe that won’t happen.”
The Floss-born trio were not shaken much because they had already heard the story about the possibility of a three-mber group activity.
“Then, will the Floss mbers be active as a separate three-mber group in the future?”
Yi-jun asked with curiosity in his eyes. I could guess why Yi-jun was interested.
They were all so busy that they couldn’t say anything properly, but the schedule planned for Climax was clear.
The preparation for the second full album.
Since it was an album that was vaguely postponed during the Wiplanet era, it was natural that the interest was more focused on that side now that the label was separated. They must have been looking forward to the schedule after Bobbyam.
‘I wasn’t bad at working on the single song before, and this ti I want to participate from the beginning.’
It would be a different change when it beca an eight-mber group, and it seed to interest him.
“Basically, yes.”
“Hmm…?”
Manager Woo’s vague answer tilted Seong-won’s head. I naturally raised my hand to catch his attention and continued with a detailed explanation.
“The group under the Composition label will be a total of two, combining the existing Climax and the Floss-born three-mber group, and in addition to the group activities, we will regularly promote unit activities.”
“Unit?”
Seon-woo looked at with wide eyes.
“Yeah. Unit is not a big deal. Since the number of artists under the label is still small, I want to try more things. To explain it easily with the company departnt, Climax is the HR team, Floss is the finance team. And the two groups are combined to work as the managent support team, sothing like that…”
I tried to explain it as easy as possible, but it seed to fail as the contrast between the expressions of those who understood and those who didn’t was noticeable.
First of all, the ones who understood were Kyunghwa, Seong-won, Hwijin, etc., and the ones who didn’t understand were Yu-geon, Yi-jun, Seon-woo, Naru.
“So… Anyway, I’m not going into Climax, but I’m going to work in an eight-mber group that is not Climax, right?”
Yu-geon raised his hand halfway and asked, and Yi-jun nodded his head as if he understood.
“Ah, I see. I understood too.”
“Oh.”
As the two fist-bumped each other, Seon-woo and Naru were confused.
“What do you an by an eight-mber group that is not Climax?”
“So, you an Climax will continue to work as a five-mber group, and also form an eight-mber unit regularly, right?”
“Oh, so it’s like Heaven Family?”
Heaven Family was the na used by the artists of K.O.Heaven, a hip-hop label created by famous producers from a hip-hop competition program, to emphasize their friendship.
They would perform together and run a YouTube channel under the na of Heaven Family, so they were famous for their group activities even though they were all individual artists.
“It’s similar to that, but… a bit different? Heaven Family is a term that covers all the staff mbers, and we might have artists who won’t join the unit in the future.”
Naru narrowed his eyes and asked to confirm if he understood correctly.
“Anyway, I’m not going to be a part of Climax, right?”
“Yes.”
“Yep.”
Woo and I answered almost at the sa ti.
‘It would take hours to explain everything.’
I felt a bit of frustration and sighed inwardly.
It was only after two hours of painful explanation that everyone understood the future plans.
The Floss trio went back to their temporary places, and I returned to the dorm with the mbers.
It was ti to sort out the internal affairs of Climax.
Everyone seed quite surprised by the fact that they had to work with the Floss trio as an eight-mber group, except for Kyunghwa.
“Well, it’s a unit, so… if you don’t feel like doing the eight-mber activities, you can opt out…”
As I glanced at Seong-won, his eyes narrowed sharply.
“Why are you looking at ?”
Isn’t it obvious? You seem like the most likely to quit. Kyunghwa would choose the group’s interest over his own feelings, but not Seong-won.
He even tried to quit once because of his mood.
“Because you seem the most dissatisfied?”
I said cautiously, and Seong-won looked annoyed as if I was talking nonsense.
“?”
“Yeah. You can’t stand doing things you don’t like.”
Seong-won frowned as if he didn’t know what I was talking about. Then he blushed a little as he rembered what happened when we were preparing for the coback single, and started to make excuses.
“Well, that was a special situation. Anyway, I don’t care, so don’t worry. I’ll do whatever they tell to do, and I’ll quit if they tell to quit.”
As Seong-won coughed and avoided eye contact, Yi-jun threw a sarcastic remark from the side.
“Oh~. You’ve grown up.”
Oh, just leave alone. Why are you adding fuel to the fire? I pinched Yi-jun’s thigh.
“Stop talking nonsense. Seon-woo, how about you? Are you okay with working as an eight-mber group, even though it’s a unit?”
I quickly shifted the focus of the conversation to Seon-woo, who answered with a bewildered expression.
“Uh…? Uh, yeah, I’m fine!”
He seed a bit flustered, but his face wasn’t too bad.
Yi-jun was obviously okay with it.
Then it was ti to talk about the regular album.
“First, we’re going to release a digital single as a unit in the first quarter of next year, and then a regular album in the second quarter. Any objections?”
Kyunghwa and I had already discussed this once, but it was the first ti for the other mbers to hear it. Yi-jun, who was confident that he would be the main producer without a doubt, widened his eyes.”
“Wait a minute~. Are you telling to work on an eight-mber single and a five-mber full album at the sa ti? Not a mini album, but a full one?”
He sounded weak, as if he thought this was too much even for a genius like him. It was quite unexpected.
“Um… but you already have three songs to fill the digital single. If you make nine songs, you don’t have to work on all the tracks yourself, so it’s not that unreasonable…”
As I was surprised by his reaction, my tongue slipped out. At that mont, Yi-jun raised both hands and shouted.
“I totally want to try it!”
“…”
Kyunghwa, who was sitting next to him, covered his ears as if they were about to fall off. Seong-won also blocked his ears and made a face.
‘So he didn’t hate it, he liked it.’
He was unpredictable. Anyway, he seed to have succeeded in igniting his challenge spirit, as he looked very enthusiastic.
“Can I remake so of our old songs and put them in the album? Honestly, there were so many things I regretted about our previous songs.”
Yi-jun, who was already talkative, fired away more excitedly.
“Oh, I’ve been making a list of songs that I think would suit us well since before. Do you guys want to listen to them?”
His eyes sparkled like a child who received a Christmas present. It made wonder if it was a good thing.
“Okay. For now, let’s share our schedules first, so just hold on for a bit.”
“Okay!”
Yi-jun blinked his eyes and opened his phone mo app. He nodded his head as he scribbled sothing diligently.
The only thing left was… how to fix the shattered image of the three forr Floss mbers… and the Floss trio, who would be working together not only in the unit but also in the show. Especially the story about Yu-geon’s personal life.
‘I guess it’s okay, since Yu-geon said he would tell the mbers in advance.’
“Ah, and there’s sothing I have to say about Kang Yu-geon… Since it’s going to be officially announced soon, don’t worry and listen.”
I felt like I was committing a sin by telling soone else’s family story, but it was the area that Yu-geon allowed.
Why Yu-geon was so sensitive about overwork. Why he had to choose to run away after the friction with Bobbyam. When I told them, they couldn’t open their mouths easily.
“Kang Yu-geon… must have suffered a lot.”
After hearing about the blackmail from his father and the disadvantage he received during the My Idol shooting, Kyunghwa’s hostility towards Yu-geon seed to soften.
Thanks to that, no one seed to have any objections to the news that they would be appearing together not only in the unit but also in the show.
The situation was settled for now.
‘How the fans will react from now on… I guess it’s sothing I have to keep working on.’
They accepted it internally. They seed to have built so friendship with the mbers they had interacted with during the friendship operation.
‘Thanks to that, they can’t say anything an like don’t bother us!’
I suddenly rembered how Kang Yu-geon had coldly cut off, saying, ‘Do it yourself,’ when the song-stealing incident happened.
‘What a rude guy.’
Just then, as the heat surged, a system window popped up in front of my eyes.
[Congratulations on completing the first main quest!]
[Completion]
[- Resolve the conflict between Climax and Floss]
[Reward]
[- Ergency escape service coupon]
[- Title system open]
That’s right. Since Floss had exploded and so of them had joined Climax, they had naturally achieved their goal.
[Before starting the second main quest, would you like to explain the title system?]
[Yes/No]
This was obviously a ‘yes’.
I pressed the yes button without hesitation.
[>Title System]
[From now on, you can use so fate skills in a constant state. You can convert fate skills into titles by using ten tis the fate skill usage points. So fate skills may not maintain the sa performance as when you bought them as skills when converted to titles.]
[Available Titles (16)]
Cheon Young-tae
Ahn Jung-hee
Cheon Ji-su
Cheon O-su
…
Lee Hwijin
Shim Naru (Deactivated)
There were a total of 17 fate skills, but Naru’s skill was deactivated and couldn’t be used.
‘I don’t think I need to use it right away.’
The second quest that followed was, as expected, the release of a regular album.
[Performance Goal]
[- Sell 300,000 copies of Climax’s regular album in the first week]
‘…’
As soon as I saw it, my eyes went blank.
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