Chapter 75:
Chapter 75
Are the fans satisfied with this time?
Awi started his schedule from the day after he arrived in Japan.
The accommodation was two people per room, and one of them was decided to share with Park Dong-soo.
“I don’t want to share with Ju-hyuk hyung.”
“Ju-young, hyung is sad.”
Lee Ju-hyuk drooped his shoulders and made a sad face.
“Ah, hyung, your sleep talking was so scary. I couldn’t sleep well since then.”
“Was it that scary?”
“Didn’t everyone say they had to check it out on the broadcast?”
“Good, one less competitor.”
The other members except Lee Ju-hyuk and Kim Ju-young chuckled.
Kim Ju-young was the first choice for roommates because he was the cleanest.
He was so neat that he even tidied up other people’s stuff, which was a very desirable habit.
“Who should I choose…”
Kim Ju-young crossed his arms and scanned the members.
The other members except Lee Ju-hyuk swallowed their saliva.
“Then I’ll go with Jin-hyuk hyung. He’s the fastest at showering, so I like him.”
“Yes!”
Park Jin-hyuk jumped with joy.
“Then I’ll share with Dong-soo hyung.”
Lee Ju-hyuk was already opening the door of the accommodation with Park Dong-soo.
The remaining four divided the rooms by playing rock-paper-scissors.
Jo Tae-woong shared a room with Park Seo-dam and Ian shared a room with Kim Hyun.
“Dong-soo hyung asked how we’re going to eat?”
“I want to go out and eat, but… aren’t you really tired today, hyung? Let’s order room service.”
“Okay.”
Kim Hyun lay down on the bed after sending a reply.
Kim Hyun still felt like he could see something from his right side. It was because a sasaeng fan had sat right next to him on the plane.
Even though there was a partition in the business class, it was inevitable to feel uncomfortable.
“When we do our world tour, it’ll be worse than this, right?”
“They’re following us well even in this situation. It’s 100 percent.”
Kim Hyun groaned.
After finishing their meal with room service, Ian and Kim Hyun lay on the bed and stared at their phones.
“Do you want to do a Y app broadcast?”
“Should we? We haven’t done it lately.”
Some of the fans counted how often the members came to the official cafe and left posts and comments, or how often they did personal broadcasts.
Some malicious people subtly cursed the members who had fewer counts.
Ian got a phone for broadcasting from Park Dong-soo and fixed it on a selfie stick.
“Is it done?”
-Wow
-They’re here
The chat window quickly went up.
“Hello. It’s been a while, right?”
While Kim Hyun was leading the broadcast, Ian turned on his tablet pad.
He wrote something on it and placed it so that it could be seen well on the Y app screen.
“Is it done? Can you see it?”
(Ju-hyuk, Jin-hyuk working on songs. Tae-woong, Ju-young went out. Seo-dam is sleeping.
This is not our dorm, but Japan. Good luck on your exams. Congratulations on your birthday, job, marriage, childbirth, first birthday party, release from prison, etc. I can’t call your names one by one. There’s something behind me that’s our aura.)
-Why release from prison?????
-Rainbow reflection is awesome?????????
-Refreshing?????
The chat window quickly went up. Fortunately, the reaction was good.
“I prepared this because I didn’t want to be disturbed by anything during our precious time with you. Actually, I tried to write it in English too, but I thought you wouldn’t be able to see the letters…”
“Please explain it in English once.”
Ian said the words on the pad in English. Kim Hyun admired his low voice and native pronunciation.
“I’m surprised every time he speaks English because he sometimes seems more Korean than Koreans when we live together.”
Some of the villains ignored Ian’s pad message and tried to elicit their reaction by saying things like there’s a bug behind you, the curtain is moving behind you, etc.
“We don’t fall for things like that, like there’s something behind me or I can see a shadow.”
“That’s right. We’ve experienced worse things, right?”
“Ian, that was close. Your spoiler sense is sharp.”
“If you’re curious, please watch our reality show on JBCT2.”
Kim Hyun and Ian giggled. While they were doing the Y app broadcast, someone was calling Ian’s phone from an unknown number.
It was someone who got Ian’s number from somewhere and was trying to check his reaction on the Y app by calling him.
Kim Hyun’s phone was the same.
They covered their phone screens with the floor.
If they answered the phone, it would be the same as confirming that this number was mine and killing it.
“Why are we so roomy? We both didn’t get picked by Ju-young. Ju-young is the cleanest, you know. He’s good at organizing too.”
“I envy Jin-hyuk.”
When Park Jin-hyuk’s name came up, the chat window was full of Jujak talk.
Jujak was Awi’s biggest hit song that also ranked in the annual ranking.
“How did you feel when you first heard Jujak? I thought, can we do this kind of song? How about you, hyung?”
“I thought this kid Park Jin-hyuk finally went crazy.”
Kim Hyun and Ian laughed and teased each other while someone knocked on the hotel room door loudly. Ian shouted.
“Who is it! Password!”
“Choi Ian is handsome!”
Jo Tae-woong shouted from behind the door.
“Weak, weak. Don’t you have anything else to say?”
“We bought snacks!”
“Pass.”
Ian opened the door. Kim Ju-young and Jo Tae-woong, who had been to the convenience store, put down their bags on the bed.
They bought a lot of things, so the bags were bulging.
“We came up quickly because we heard you were doing Y app.”
“Did you buy anything delicious?”
“We swept everything.”
“Ohh.”
Kim Hyun and Ian rummaged through the bags they brought while Kim Ju-young and Jo Tae-woong greeted the screen.
The number of viewers exploded when they heard that other members had joined.
The number of hearts also increased.
“Oh, 100 million hearts! It’s our first time.”
“So this is what happens when we reach 100 million hearts.”
At that moment, a congratulatory fireworks animation appeared on the broadcast screen with a message saying that they had achieved 100 million hearts.
The number of hearts could be duplicated, so some fans would hit the hearts repeatedly to increase them quickly while watching the broadcast.
This was called ‘heart labor’.
“Let’s show something to Awi fans in celebration of 100 million hearts.”
“What should we do? Rap while rolling forward in the hallway?”
“Sing a whole song while doing a headstand.”
“Isn’t that a punishment? Huh? Wait a minute. Someone’s here.”
Someone was knocking on the door softly. Ian felt a chill.
“Who is it!”
[There’s a sasaeng outside.]
“Hey, wait a minute, this is suspicious.”
Ian grabbed Jo Tae-woong’s arm as he was about to run to the front door.
‘Where did the bodyguard go?’
[He must have come while we were away.]
‘How did he know we were here? This is stressful.’
Ian called Park Dong-soo. He gestured to the other members to continue the live broadcast.
(What’s up, Ian?)
“Hyung, can you check outside our room? Someone is knocking on the door and it’s fishy.”
(Okay. I’ll go and see. Don’t open the door no matter what.)
“Yes, hyung.”
Park Dong-soo’s door opened, and Ian heard him shout, “What are you doing here!”
‘I have to be careful from now on.’
Ian sighed deeply.
***
After the stormy Y-app broadcast, they welcomed the next day.
Today, Awi had a high-touch event in the morning, and a handshake event and a mini live concert in the afternoon.
“Ugh, he didn’t show up again.”
Ian’s home master ‘Ironheart’ was having a hard time since morning.
The high-touch event was a lottery system where you had to buy an album online in advance and apply for it.
Fortunately, she was lucky enough to win the high-touch event, but the handshake event was a problem.
The handshake event was where you buy a Japanese event album on site, and inside the album there is a ticket for which member and which round of the handshake event.
Both the round and the member were random, so if your favorite didn’t show up, you had to go around exchanging tickets or pay extra money to buy tickets if they were popular members.
“Ah, the Japanese album quality is so bad…”
Ironheart wondered if it would be better to pay extra money and buy tickets instead of buying an album that would only become a burden.
She had no guarantee that her favorite Ian would show up if she bought an album.
“Please… please!”
She finally decided to buy two albums. She opened them with trembling hands and screamed inwardly.
“Ah… damn it…”
If Jo Tae-woong had shown up, she could have exchanged his ticket for Ian’s, but in her hand were Lee Ju-hyuk and Park Seo-dam’s handshake tickets.
They were not very popular in Korea, so she was more disappointed.
She had no choice but to look for Ian’s ticket on SNS. She scrolled through her feed.
Her eyes sparkled at some point.
‘Maybe I can get Ian’s ticket…?’
There were more Japanese fans looking for Lee Ju-hyuk and Park Seo-dam’s tickets than she expected.
***
As Awi entered the event venue, the fans who were already in line screamed.
“Wow, did you see Ju-hyuk hyung’s fans? The line is so long.”
“Isn’t there still a lot of time left until the start? Are they already waiting?”
“Seo-dam’s line is also long.”
“Yeah.”
Lee Ju-hyuk and Park Seo-dam looked nervous. The other members made a sound of admiration and patted their shoulders.
[Japanese fans tend to like talented members more. Lee Ju-hyuk is a producing member. Park Seo-dam is well… he has a face that would appeal more in Japan than in Korea.]
Jin said casually.
Surprised by the unexpected attention from the fans, Park Seo-dam looked around with wide eyes.
He saw fans with homemade fans of Park Seo-dam and people who clumsily called his name. He smiled brightly and waved his hand at them.
Awi finished their preparations and as it was time for the high-touch event, the fans lined up in front of Awi according to the staff’s guidance.
The first fan came in and Ian smiled widely.
“Hello! Oh, should I have greeted you in Japanese?”
Ian greeted her again in Japanese, and the Japanese fan greeted him back in awkward Korean.
She carefully touched Ian’s hand for a high-touch. She blushed and shouted that she really liked him.
“*Thank you!”
As Ian was about to respond with a smile, the staff pushed her out.
Ian looked confused and glanced back and forth between the bodyguard and Jin.
‘I heard about it before, but this is too fast…?’
[That’s how it is.]
‘Is… is that so?’
The next fan came in. Ian greeted her with a smile. She was Ironheart.
“Oh? Noona!”
“Hi Ian. I came to see you.”
Ironheart lightly touched Ian’s hand for a high-touch and spoke hastily.
“Wink! Just wink once!”
She shouted so desperately that Ian winked at her two or three times. She was so happy that she stomped her feet.
“Thank you for coming here.”
“See you later!”
The staff gently pushed Ironheart away, saying that the time was up.
She had to turn around reluctantly.
Ian chuckled at the sight of moving on to the next fan without even a minute passing.
They paid 2,500 yen for this short time?
Really? Without even getting a signature or a photo?
He wasn’t the only one who thought that. Awi, who finished the morning high-touch event, went back to the waiting room for a while to have lunch.
“It was really just a high-five and a few words and that’s it.”
“Are we too comfortable…? Are the fans satisfied with this time?”
Lee Ju-hyuk and Park Jin-hyuk spoke seriously.
“They must be satisfied if they do this event.”
“Maybe it’s an advantage that they can see us up close?”
“That’s the same for fan signing events.”
“Isn’t it better than fan signing events? Our album cut rate is pretty high. Here, you buy an album and it’s a lottery…”
Awi continued their serious discussion.
“I felt so good when they said they were my fans and cheered me on in that short time. And they were foreigners.”
Kim Ju-young’s words made the members think for a while. They soon got up from their seats. The conclusion was ‘let’s be nice to the fans’.
“…Anyone has perfume?”
“You all brought your toothbrushes, right?”
“I brought a super effective mouthwash!”
“Where was the Japanese book?”
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