Chapter 77:
Chapter 77
Sometimes I think he came from the future.
Lee Juhyuk was moving his mouse with half-open eyes, tired from his work. In the dim dawn, Park Jinhyuk, who shared the room with him, was already sleeping soundly on the bed.
“…Good.”
He chuckled as he finished his work satisfactorily. He looked like he had lost half of his mind. He closed his laptop after checking the file’s save two or three times.
“That’s it for now.”
He stretched out contentedly and put down the headset he had received as a gift from the members. He flopped down on his bed.
“I hope it goes well.”
***
His phone vibrated continuously even though there was no call. He checked the message and said.
“MyKit guys are still in Osaka.”
“Really? Maybe we can meet them?”
Park Jinhyuk turned on his phone. Park Seodam, who was learning vocalization techniques in his spare time, took a sip of water and said.
“They’ve been here for a while, haven’t they?”
“I know… Dongsoo hyung! Can we meet them if we have time?”
Ian also checked the group chat and saw that the MyKit members were lonely and wanted to meet them.
“It’s okay if you tell me when you’re going in advance.”
“Yes.”
Park Dongsoo had been trying to relax the Awi members after the study group.
Awi was finishing their activities in Japan with Osaka and finally returning to Korea.
“It’s almost over in Japan. Well, we’ll be back again this year anyway.”
“It feels like we came here yesterday… I guess time flies when you’re busy.”
They had a busy schedule of doing events all day in one city and then going to another city to do events and perform.
If they had an early day off, they would study together or show their faces frequently on Y app broadcasts so that the domestic fans wouldn’t feel left out.
“Let’s order Korean food when we go back to Korea.”
“Good idea, I thought my mouth would dry up here. The ramen I had earlier was full of salt.”
“My mouth is already pickled cabbage.”
“Speaking of cabbage, I want kimchi.”
At that moment, all the members said “me too!” and lost their appetite.
“We’ll start working on the next album when we go back, right?”
“Juhyuk hyung! How is it?”
“Well…”
Lee Juhyuk scratched his head. His dark circles hadn’t disappeared.
He had been working on songs whenever he had time, even in the midst of his busy schedule.
Park Dongsoo tried to stop him from overdoing it, but he didn’t stop.
“Are you pushing yourself too hard?”
Ian looked at Lee Juhyuk’s complexion and asked.
“No, I’m fine.”
The Korean music chart was in controversy over manipulating the chart rankings and idol songs lining up the chart with fandom streaming.
As a result, there was talk of reforming the chart, but Lee Juhyuk had a desire to reach number one with his own song before that.
“I want to try to get number one before it’s too late. With a song I made.”
He had been able to come up with a good melody while studying with the members.
He looked confident even though he looked tired, and Kim Hyun patted Lee Juhyuk’s shoulder.
“You can do it!”
“Didn’t your song rock last time? We can get number one, right?”
“We’re awesome in everything.”
The members cheered Lee Juhyuk on as they entered the event hall.
The fans who spotted Awi screamed.
The members waved their hands at the fans and headed to the dressing room.
***
(Can you all find your way here?)
“Are we stupid? We can read maps too. Send your location on chat.”
Cho Taewoong said confidently. Kim Cheolmin sent their location to Awi with doubt.
Awi finished all their schedules in Japan and returned to Korea tomorrow.
“Where is this?”
“Just send our location first.”
Cho Taewoong turned his phone around to find directions.
There were noticeably fewer Korean tourists because of ‘the situation’.
“Oh, takoyaki.”
“Should we buy that later and go to the hotel?”
Ian shook his head.
“No, we came here to earn yen. Let’s save money… Don’t forget about ‘the situation’.”
“That’s true.”
Cho Taewoong quickly agreed.
They attracted people’s attention wherever they went in Korea because of their camera massage, but it was no different here.
They were tall and slender men walking around the streets, and people passing by would look back at them once or twice.
“This must be it.”
“Is this place really that good?”
Awi opened the sliding door and entered the restaurant.
Someone waved at them from a corner seat.
It was Jung Jisoo, the leader of MyKit.
“Here!”
“Long time no see.”
They greeted each other warmly without any hesitation. Jung Jisoo asked Lee Juhyuk.
“Have you been well?”
“Yeah, you too?”
“Same as always. Let’s order something first.”
They sat down.
They had made a reservation in advance, so they could sit together by putting 13 tables together.
Jung Jisoo looked at the menu.
There was a Korean menu as well, since tourists often came here.
“Are you all okay with skewers? Anything you can’t eat?”
“Skewers are good. Except for Taewoong’s shellfish allergy, nothing really?”
“Then I’ll order whatever I want?”
The Awi members admired the MyKit members who ordered in fluent Japanese.
“Wow, are you Japanese?”
“You’re so good.”
Park Jinhyuk and Cho Taewoong teased them and Jung Jisoo shrugged his shoulders.
“We’ve been in Japan ever since we called you guys.”
“We can even speak in dialect.”
Kim Cheolmin laughed. His face was dark, and it wasn’t because he was happy. Ian looked at them sharply.
“There’s something going on, isn’t there?”
“Wow, that’s creepy… You really are a shaman.”
When did the word ‘shaman’ spread to MyKit? Ian crossed his arms and looked at the MyKit members.
“Let’s eat first and talk.”
Kim Cheolmin sighed.
He saw Jung Jisoo drinking beer after ordering it and Lee Juhyuk said with a serious face.
“What’s going on?”
Lee Ichun and Park Jaehyung, the MyKit members who were the same age as Park Seodam, bowed their heads.
“Our stay got extended.”
“Your activities in Japan? Didn’t you say you were coming to Korea, Jisoo hyung?”
Park Seodam asked back and Jung Jisoo nodded.
“We were planning to go back to Korea and do activities around the same time as you guys. But I guess we’re making some money here. They said let’s just do two more months and go.”
“Oh…”
They had heard that they did all kinds of weird events.
The Awi members sighed.
Feeling the mood getting heavy, Jung Jisoo said.
“We didn’t call you to talk about this.”
“It’s all because our kid has such a good sense of things that it’s a problem.”
Ian scratched his cheek. Park Seon, who was sitting across from Ian, laughed.
“But they don’t make you do anything weird, right?”
“That’s right.”
“That’s good.”
Park Seon looked like he had lost more weight than when he was on ‘Idol Rapper’.
They must have suffered a lot. Ian took a sip of water.
“Ah, I want to go back to Korea.”
“But you made good money, didn’t you?”
“Money? Oh… are we buying this?”
“For real?”
Jung Jisoo pulled out a card from his wallet with exaggerated gestures.
Cho Taewoong leaned his upper body on the table and stared at the MyKit members.
Jung Jisoo said proudly.
“I got a little settlement.”
“Wow, I’m so jealous. When are we getting ours?”
“You didn’t get it? You did a lot of events.”
Kim Cheolmin looked at Ian.
“We should get ours soon too, right?”
He remembered that Park Dongsoo had hinted that there would be good news when they went back to Korea.
Park Seon grumbled.
“But you guys don’t have to do anything weird. Our problem is that our company seems to have gotten a taste for money. I’m afraid it might be longer than two months.”
MyKit seemed to want to vent their frustrations, as they nodded slightly at Park Seon’s words.
“But you have to come back to Korea at least once in ‘the situation’, right?”
“Is that so?”
Park Seon laughed self-deprecatingly.
He was anxious that the Korean fans might leave him if he only did activities in Japan.
“Let’s endure it even if we’re spinning around. We’ll have to come back to Korea by the end of this year anyway. At the latest, early next year?”
Ian smiled meaningfully.
Leaving aside the Korea-Japan relations, there would be an outbreak of an epidemic in China by the end of this year.
This was something Ian couldn’t do anything about even though he knew the future.
[Come to think of it, your company timed your world tour well.]
‘Should I buy some masks in advance?’
Awi would probably finish their world tour and be working on their next album in Korea when the coronavirus spread.
His smile looked mysterious, and the MyKit and Awi members murmured.
“Doesn’t he sound trustworthy even though he has no basis for his words?”
“I agree.”
“But his words are 100% accurate. Scissors scissors.”
“Really? Then what can we expect from him?”
Lee Juhyuk, who was sitting next to Ian, tapped Ian’s back lightly.
“Sometimes I think he came from the future.”
[Caught.]
Ian tried hard to keep his expression.
***
“Oh right, there was someone like that! He gave me a note with his phone number and said contact me~ But he came all the way to Japan and asked me why I didn’t contact him.”
“Wow.”
Awi responded appropriately to MyKit’s complaints.
MyKit mostly talked about their crazy fans, but Awi felt uncomfortable because it felt like they were joining in on the gossip behind their fans’ backs.
“But there was someone who came to our hotel and opened the door with a master key and came in.”
“Is that possible?”
“We don’t have bodyguards.”
“Oh, but we had something similar happen to us too.”
Of course, Awi also enjoyed chatting about their stalkers.
They had been talking for over two hours since they met.
“Do you know that person who’s coming to our table?”
Ian asked as he saw a big man walking towards them. Kim Cheolmin turned around and looked visibly flustered.
“Huh, it’s our manager hyung.”
MyKit bowed their heads as a group.
It didn’t matter how much they bowed, Kim Cheolmin’s bleached hair wasn’t going anywhere.
MyKit’s manager stood in front of them with an angry face.
“Are you still here? We have to go back to our place now. Do you know how many schedules we have tomorrow?”
“Hello.”
Ian got up and smiled and greeted him. He even shook hands with MyKit’s manager.
“…Oh, are these your friends Awi?”
He noticed Awi and his eyes widened.
“If you were meeting them, you should have told me earlier.”
MyKit was embarrassed by his attitude change from being tough to groveling. Jung Jisoo blushed as he saw that. Lee Juhyuk got up and said.
“Don’t be too hard on them. Jisoo wanted to go, but we wanted to play more so we held him back.”
“Oh, well, friends need to relieve their stress sometimes.”
“Right? We were about to get up anyway.”
“Then how about taking a picture with our kids since we met? Can I post it on SNS?”
He was blatantly trying to use Awi’s popularity, and MyKit was ashamed and bowed their heads.
Lee Juhyuk got up and smiled.
“Sure, why don’t we take a group photo outside? We don’t have many photos with you guys.”
“Yeah, I wanted to take a group photo. We couldn’t take one at the Arimpic.”
“Right! Can you take it with our phones too?”
Awi tried hard to lighten the heavy mood.
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