Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 233 Seeping In
“The reason why we’re doing this live today is, we wanted to share our stories from our trip as Offbeat! We went on a trip to bond as a group! You all saw the concept poster that was released yesterday, right?”
Hwijin smoothly took over the progress as he had practiced with the script beforehand.
“We’ve known each other for a long ti as seniors and juniors in the sa agency, but we haven’t really worked together much, right?”
“Right, because our schedules were different and we missed each other a bit?”
“Yeah, so this ti we prepared a short trip for a team-building event. We wanted to share our mories with our fans, and luckily we got a chance to do so as a collaboration content with SeeYa.”
Since it was a live broadcast, we could only explain it verbally for now, but when the video was uploaded later, it would have a nice promotional banner at the bottom.
“You can watch our hilarious travelogue at 6 p.m. on SeeYa and Offbeat’s YouTube channel. You can also watch it three weeks early on SeeYa as a preview service! Please show us a lot of interest.”
“Many thanks~”
Pwoo, Yi-jun blew a long pipe that he got from sowhere, and Naru made a disgusted expression.
“That just sounded like an old man who learned a trendy word for the first ti.”
“Is that so? I’m still young, you know? Aren’t I on the younger side if you average out Offbeat?”
As the conversation went off track with nonsense, Hwijin stepped in and brought it back to the center.
“Anyway, we had a lot of fun and ca back safely. We have a simple event for our fans, where we’ll send you prizes by lottery. Can you guess what we prepared?”
Then, various chats started to pour in at the sa ti. There were all kinds of guesses, from postcards to photos, photocards, polaroids, etc., but there was only one correct chat.
[- souvenir!]
That was the answer. Of course, we also picked out so selfies and landscape photos, polaroids, etc. separately.
We didn’t plan to use them as prizes. Maybe we’ll use them later when we make photocards or do so collaboration events.
From my perspective, it was still… hard to understand how they could be so passionate about this tiny picture. But if I didn’t understand, I could morize it. It was a grateful thing that there were many people who wanted to collect things related to with passion.
“Ah, yes. That’s right! Aren’t you curious what each of our eight mbers chose as souvenirs?”
Yu-geon proceeded with the souvenir reveal as he had written the script beforehand, exchanging witty remarks with Yi-jun.
“Actually, we kept it a secret from each other about what we bought.”
“But I think I know what Ise and Seon-woo bought.”
“What?”
I was quietly listening to them exchange their prepared lines in the middle, when Yi-jun suddenly cut in and my ears twitched.
“What do you think I bought?”
“I don’t know, but sothing edible?”
“Ah~.”
Everyone nodded their heads naturally, and the staff who were helping with the filming all burst into laughter.
“Why are you laughing?”
I asked with a fake smile, as if to protest, and the staff asked back.
“So, did you buy food as a souvenir, or not?”
“…”
I didn’t really feel bad. Half of it was food, after all.
“Well, yes…”
“ too…”
Seon-woo nodded his head slightly next to , and the situation beca even more ridiculous. The speed of the chats increased, and I was glad that we made our fans laugh.
“Let’s start with the souvenir reveal from that end.”
Did I look like soone who was so serious about eating? I an, it was true, but I felt embarrassed when I realized it and my face turned hot.
“It’s okay. You’re famous for being a good cook, but no one would think you bought anything other than food.”
“Is that a consolation? It sounds like you’re hitting again?”
With Kyunghwa’s reasonable remark, we started to reveal our souvenirs from Seon-woo’s direction.
“I bought snacks from Okinawa. They’re like donuts… how should I say it, fried doughnuts? They have a crispy texture with sugar on them. They have a long shelf life and they’re really delicious!”
When we stopped by the souvenir shop in Okinawa, he was looking closely at all kinds of snacks. He bought a lot of them, more than enough for himself.
“I thought it would be a waste to just throw them away after eating them…! So I signed the packaging like this! Please don’t save them too much and eat them while they’re delicious.”
He seed to have put so thought into sending food as a souvenir, as he diligently signed the packaging with the marker he borrowed from .
I appreciated his intention, but that ant the fan had to keep the signed packaging even after eating it, right?
I felt like pointing it out, but everyone kept their mouths shut.
They didn’t want to criticize Seon-woo’s sincere effort.
“Okay, then, shall we see what Seong-won has prepared?”
Seong-won carefully took out a small souvenir, which was a candle. It looked like sothing he bought from the street where they sold music boxes and various crafts in Otaru.
“Wow, it’s pretty.”
Inside the transparent candle, a white snowstorm was swirling, and below it, there was a delicate miniature of a canal.
“What is this scent?”
“Orange and lavender.”
We all sniffed the wrapped packages one by one, like so kind of sniffer dogs.
“This must look hilarious. Eight of us taking turns slling the packages without opening them.”
It was the sa thing they pointed out in the chat, but well, the picture itself wasn’t bad.
The gifts we revealed in order showed each of our personalities and made us laugh.
Ye-jun got a key ring. Yu-geon got a music box. How did he beco the type to pick such delicate things? I was surprised, but as soon as he opened the gift box, I nodded in agreent.
It was a music box shaped like a sushi conveyor belt, sothing he had been on several broadcasts before.
‘Soone actually bought that.’
I was amazed, but I didn’t say it out loud. He looked happy anyway. It wasn’t like he lacked money.
I chose sothing relatively practical… a premium salt set. It was a product that contained edible salt and bath salt in cute jars that could be used as seasoning containers after they were emptied.
I briefly considered buying a cookie set, but I thought it would be useless if the recipient didn’t like sweets, and it would be a pity if nothing was left after eating.
So I chose a product that could be recycled even after it was empty.
‘I didn’t know this would look like an old person’s taste.’
They all laughed as soon as they saw it, and I felt my ears burn. After that, it was Hwi-jin’s turn, who got a stuffed mascot from the aquarium, Kyunghwa, who got a disposable film cara that he took pictures of the scenery with, and Naru, who got a ceramic craft.
As we each told the stories and reasons behind our purchases, more than 30 minutes had passed.
“That’s all the ti we have prepared. You can watch our travelogue on ‘See Ya’ from 6 o’clock!”
“We’ll be releasing one episode every week for the next eight weeks, so please stay with us until the last episode!”
We ended the broadcast with a bright smile and a greeting, and we all relaxed as if the power had been cut off.
“Good job, everyone!”
“Thank you~.”
“Can I have so water, please?”
It was only three more people, but why was it so chaotic? It felt more exhausting than the day of the trip.
“Let’s go ho and rest, everyone.”
We had to save up our energy for tomorrow, as we had a music video shoot and a photo shoot scheduled.
“Yes, thank you, everyone.”
We sent off the Swift mbers first and were about to leave when Kyunghwa looked at his phone screen.
“What are you looking at?”
“Oh. Just checking our live reaction.”
I peeked at the screen with Kyunghwa, and the fans’ reactions were all praises. There were already posts with the event participation hashtag, even though the content hadn’t been released yet.
“I’m glad they like it.”
For now… I don’t have to worry too much. I let out a short sigh of relief.
anwhile, Yu-geon’s fans, who received a huge shock and relief at the sa ti from the surprise joint live broadcast of three forr mbers of Climax and Floss, were staring at the screen with a gloomy mood, like unwanted guests at a portrait gallery.
Crazy bastard. How can he have fun after dropping a nuclear bomb on us? Is he happy because he joined Composition?
Yu-geon’s charm was that he debuted with an aggro act of smiling and scratching people’s clothes, but it was painful when the clothes being torn were his own.
‘Well… let’s just watch the first episode.’
If Yu-geon’s part is low, I’ll just quit. I made a firm resolution and waited for 6 o’clock, when the pre-released tag on the preview page changed from to .
‘It’s out!’
Yu-geon looked happy to have switched, but the public account was only saying nice things. They weren’t ready to accept the five mbers of Climax yet.
They had been unhappy with Climax every ti there was a minor friction between them.
‘Don’t you dare discriminate against the new mber.’
I won’t let it go. I was ready to send a long complaint email to Composition’s custor service as I pressed play on the first episode, and a mini-ga start screen-like opening began.
It started with a cute 8-bit ga start screen-like production, and then it switched to a sitcom-like scene where the mbers were running around with their handso faces.
‘The production is good.’
I wondered if they spent a lot of money or if soone worked hard in the planning stage. It looked much more fun than the Floss self-content made by WePlanet that was released before.
I still felt resentful as the screen went black for a mont and then switched to Yu-geon’s self-cam.
[5:30 a.m.]
[Getting up slowly]
[~Let’s enjoy his handso face for a while~]
Yu-geon got out of bed in his pajamas, with a sleepy expression on his face, and washed his face with his upper body exposed. The cara, which seed to be installed by himself, showed a perfect angle, and the viewer chat went crazy.
[- OMG LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL]
[- I was watching it on the TV in the living room, but I quickly switched to mobile mode.]
[- I thought it was a wholeso travelogue, but who knew it would be such a stimulating content?]
[- I thought Mr. Cheon was a nice person, but look at his fierceness;;]
[- The boss clenched his teeth;]
[- For 30 seconds, he kept repeating the word ‘crazy’ in a low voice.]
[- How can I not keep watching when you show sothing like this from the first episode?]
This is crazy. Yu Geon, who agreed to do this. And the planning team, who asked him to do this. They were out of their minds.
Of course, I don’t hate it.
‘I have to keep watching this for real.’
The start was a pass. The first episode began with such a captivating scene.
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