Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 257 The Best of Them
I covered my mouth with both hands and looked around. Fortunately, I muttered very quietly, almost to myself.
I felt embarrassed, but that didn’t change my impression.
How could he lie there so helplessly, doing nothing, after lecturing with such righteous words?
He wasn’t even really sick. Even if he had caught a terrible flu or sothing, it was his own fault for not taking care of himself.
‘I went on stage even when I had a fever of 38 degrees!’
Of course, I collapsed as soon as the stage was over and didn’t move until the manager woke up at the next scheduled location.
But I never missed a schedule because of health problems. I did all the stages I had to do.
But look at Cheon Ise now. He had been whining for almost a week, throwing away all the projects he had to lead and carry out.
He seed to have started working again at ho, but looking at him now, he didn’t seem to be doing it very diligently.
‘I didn’t say anything wrong.’
Did he try so hard because he heard say sothing that hurt his pride? I suddenly felt a surge of anger.
Don’t lie down and sleep like this. Naru gritted her teeth and looked down at Ise.
“…?”
Ise barely sensed her presence and lifted his eyelids faintly. His cheeks were swollen and sullen, as if they were about to burst.
“What are you doing, this.”
Naru blurted out in a casual tone, but Ise didn’t answer and blinked his eyelids with difficulty.
“It’s so annoying. If you’re going to act like you know everything, you should set an example yourself.”
It was human to feel bad when you felt bad. Until now, the staff, the company executives, and everyone else had nothing to do with him, as long as they paid him properly.
But this ti, for the first ti. Maybe he was a little different from the other people he had dealt with before, since he interfered with him so much. He had thought that for a mont.
Was that all my delusion? It was extrely disappointing. He wanted to scream at him to apologize for the insults and humiliations he had received before.
“Why don’t you say anything?”
She snapped at him with a frustrated attitude, but Ise only twitched his eyelids and didn’t react.
“Did you bring here by lying to my mom just to show this?”
She pushed him harder, as if to provoke him, but Ise was still motionless.
“Are you going to disappoint like this? And all the other mbers?”
Ise looked up at Naru with a frown.
“I…”
As his lips moved slightly, Naru’s round eyes narrowed sharply.
“I, what. Try to make an excuse.”
She didn’t give him a chance to hesitate and scolded him, while the adults behind the closed door were restless.
“…I also wanted to do well…”
What nonsense are you talking about? Naru didn’t want to hear such a weak word.
He should have said he was sorry for betraying his trust, that he would get up soon. That he was ashad of his pathetic appearance.
He should have promised to make up for his disappointnt, as if he had a way to do everything as usual.
“What?”
Naru frowned in disbelief, and Ise closed his eyes again and fell asleep.
“You’re sleeping again? What, wake up!”
Naru was left alone in dismay and shook Ise’s shoulder. He didn’t have a high fever or anything, but he wouldn’t open his eyes no matter how hard she tried.
‘Did he really catch so deadly disease?’
She was scared for a mont. She thought it was pointless to complain to a sleeping person.
Was Cheon Ise such a worthless person? Pathetic. She ca to a conclusion and opened the door, and the polite lady greeted her with a dark expression.
“I’m sorry he hasn’t recovered yet. But he had a thorough check-up and there’s nothing wrong with him, so he’ll be up soon.”
Do you expect to believe that when he’s like this? Naru sighed inwardly, but didn’t show it.
He said he was working, so I thought he was feeling better and ca to see him. It’s a sha.
“I’ll co again next ti.”
She uttered a polite remark and put her feet in the shoes at the entrance, and Mrs. Ahn, the vice chairman, asked in a doubtful tone.
“Is Ise working?”
She sounded confident that it was impossible. Naru wondered what she ant and asked back.
“Yes. He said he connected to the company’s web server VPN and handled everything from ho…”
But Mrs. Ahn imdiately denied it.
“There’s no computer in Ise’s room. He didn’t bring a laptop either, so he doesn’t have anything to use. And we all use personal laptops, so there’s no public desktop either.”
“What?”
“I’ve never seen him work at ho… Are you mistaken?”
What? Naru couldn’t help but doubt her ears.
“No, that can’t be…”
“But lying in bed all day long…”
There was no benefit to biting my lips here. I was sick of being seen as a kid who whined to the adults.
But my mom, who heard that her son was getting better, was so negative about everything.
Suddenly, I saw the face of the lady who looked exhausted.
‘…She must be tired.’
I nodded briefly and told the vice president what he wanted to hear.
“Yes, I guess I was wrong. I’ll go now. Thank you.”
I shouldn’t have co. I left the entrance with a nagging feeling.
“But there’s no way I was mistaken, right?”
What was that? I went back ho with a lot of questions, but luckily my mother was out. As I was about to take a breather, I got a call from Yu-geon.
‘This kid is annoying again. Hmph.’
I snorted inwardly and answered the phone. As expected, he called to ask about Ise.
“Did you visit him well today?”
Who do you think I am, a five-year-old? I pursed my lips and replied.
“Yeah. I didn’t make any weird mistakes, and I bought the right gift.”
He was soone I didn’t like from head to toe since I first t him on the Mydol stage.
He was only four years older than , but he acted like an elder and a know-it-all. His arrogant and condescending gaze annoyed .
Even his height was more than 15cm taller than , so he looked down on from afar.
But the fans liked the combination of Naru and Yu-geon, the shortest and the tallest in the team. And I thought it wasn’t bad either, how I looked cute and lovable next to the muscular Yu-geon.
I got used to it after being stuck with him for two years, but it was still uncomfortable.
“How is he doing?”
I didn’t need to ask who he was talking about. Of course, everyone was only interested in Ise.
“He’s still lying down. He’s pathetic. He told him to co to his agency and take responsibility for everything, but what is he doing?”
I complained irritably, and Yu-geon was silent for a mont.
I didn’t miss the chance to add.
“Oh. And he’s not doing any work either.”
Yu-geon raised his voice at my casual remark.
“What?”
“He doesn’t have a computer he can use right now, so who’s doing the work? Is the company lying to us so we don’t worry?”
I shrugged as the taxi I called arrived. I should get a license secretly soon. I muttered to myself and got in the back seat.
“Ah… I don’t know. I got it.”
“I don’t know what you an by that. Anyway, I’m annoyed.”
Yu-geon hung up the phone as if he didn’t care about my annoyance.
“Hey? What? Did you just hang up?”
Naru grumbled alone, but it didn’t reach Yu-geon at all.
While Hyun-seong was preparing to finish everything in one shot at the shelter, there was a small commotion at the Climax dorm.
“I’m done!”
Everyone was startled by Yi-jun, who suddenly shouted and jumped up from his chair. They looked at the room where Yi-jun and Kyunghwa were working.
“What, what is it? What’s going on?”
Seon-woo, who ca out of the room in a hurry, looked at Yi-jun with a bewildered expression. Yi-jun smiled brightly and lifted his laptop.
He brought it to the living room and called the mbers.
“Co on, look. The final version is out. Now we just need to confirm the parts and add the lyrics.”
It didn’t seem like the next step was sothing that could be done with ~just~, though. Yu-geon, who was resting quietly in his room, also got up and ca out when he heard the loud noise from the living room.
“What’s going on?”
Yu-geon asked with a puzzled look, and Yi-jun answered with a wide smile.
“Huh? Oh, I wanted to finish the work on the Climax regular title first, so I could relax. I was stuck for a while, but I finally did it. Do you want to listen?”
Oh, right. They said they would release an album in the second quarter. Yu-geon recalled the schedule of Climax’s follow-up activities that he had heard over his shoulder while working as Offbeat. He nodded.
“Yeah, I want to listen.”
He gladly took a seat on the sofa, and Seon-woo looked at him with a strange discomfort and apologized.
“I’m sorry!”
What for? Yu-geon blinked his eyes, not understanding.
“What for?”
Yu-geon asked, and Seon-woo stuttered as if he was confessing a serious cri.
“That… there, it’s usually where Ise hyung sat…”
“Oh~.”
It felt unnatural to see soone else sitting in the place where the person who should have been there was supposed to be. Yu-geon felt more pity than annoyance for him.
He was whining like a puppy who had lost his guardian, but his guardian had disappeared and there was nothing he could do about it, saying the sa thing over and over…
‘He doesn’t even know that he’ll be gone soon.’
But this was not a situation where he could hint at anything. If he did, he would be mistaken for a lunatic, not Ise.
He was bothered by what Naru had said during the day, but since Naru hadn’t directly told the Climax mbers yet, he kept his mouth shut for now.
“It’s okay. I don’t care much.”
He ant it. What could he do? Their leader didn’t seem to have any intention of coming back to this place, even if he had to struggle so hard.
He didn’t want to take Ise’s place, nor did he want to.
He just stayed in his seat to kill so ti before he left the house for the late-night radio schedule.
“Shall we play it right away if there’s nothing else?”
Yi-jun pressed the play button on the laptop, surrounded by the mbers, as if to change the gloomy atmosphere.
‘Is this the second ti I composed the title song?’
He only participated in the arrangent, not the full composition, of ‘Drink ’.
Including the song for the competition, it was the third ti. He asked them to listen to it. As Yu-geon listened, the beat filled the living room.
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