Save a Failed Idol’s Life - Chapter 84
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Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: NicoleTempest
Chapter 84 The Idol Who Brings the Storm
Who could have such an incredible energy? I was startled and looked at the door that opened.
“Wow! You guys from Climax are here too? I’m so late, aren’t I? I’m really, really sorry. On my way here, I found a super delicious donut shop, and I was a bit late picking up the ones I ordered! But I hurried as much as I could, and none of them were sold out. I bought all kinds of them, so eat them whenever you feel low on sugar!”
This person… She didn’t even breathe once while talking. The owner of this amazing energy was none other than Seon-woo’s sister, Seon-young.
I didn’t know about Cheon Ise, but she was a stranger to me, yet I recognized her right away.
‘Thanks to her promoting my salad, I got a lot of help.’
I tried to smile brightly and think of what to say to thank her.
“Hello, I’m sorry for the late thanks…”
“OMG! You’re Cheon Ise, right? I really enjoyed your lunch box! Did you bring snacks or lunch boxes today too? I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know about that and I bought several boxes of donuts!”
She didn’t breathe this time either. Was this the charisma of an eight-year veteran girl group? Her lung capacity was definitely different. Of course, I didn’t expect her to chatter nonstop with that lung capacity, so I was quite flustered.
“Well, Ise hyung did bring some lunch boxes and snacks today, but…! We can take them to our dorm, so don’t worry too much!”
Seon-woo, who seemed used to having a sister like this, answered with a much faster voice than usual.
“Really? Well. Boys do eat a lot, right? I saw Yi-jun on Crisis Boys last time and he ate so well, didn’t he? Oh my, look at me. Yi-jun! I’m really enjoying Crisis Boys! I watch it every time my brother’s cut comes up, you know? I even subscribed, liked, and turned on notifications! I did everything, okay? Did you used to go camping or something? Your skill at putting up tents was really good!”
Yi-jun was helpless in front of this tremendous energy. He looked really flustered for the first time in a long time.
“Uh, no. I didn’t do anything special.”
“Really? Wow, you’re talented. It didn’t look like you were putting up a tent for the first time. Teach Seon-woo some too! I want to see some benefits when I go on a family trip with my brother! Seon-woo is really slow with his hands, so I can’t trust him to do anything, you know? But he’s pretty because he looks like me, so he won’t have any trouble making a living, but sigh… I was really worried when he suddenly showed up with three digits last time!”
This too much talker… What should I do?
I wasn’t easily surprised either, but I was overwhelmed by the huge amount of speech and stuttered. Luckily, the staff stopped Seon-young.
“Seon-young, thank you for the snacks. We’ll enjoy them. We don’t have much time today, so let’s do the choreography quickly and practice and wrap up!”
“Wow, sounds good! Did I come too late? I was supposed to…”
He cut off Seon-young’s words naturally, as if he was used to handling her.
“No, you’re not late! We’re supposed to practice from 1 o’clock, right? It’s a bit early, but we’re all here, so let’s start right away!”
“Yes!!!”
The way to handle Seon-young was to match her energy.
She seemed satisfied with the matching energy and took off her coat and hung it on a chair casually. Then she stood in front of the mirror.
“Seon-woo, stand next to me too!”
“Uh, yeah!”
Seon-woo, who was a bit out of it because of his sister’s tremendous momentum, finally came to his senses and ran over.
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The Music Safe MC special stage was usually done by the main MCs together.
‘I saw the previous stages in advance and they were all three mixed.’
This time, it was a Na siblings special, so the other MCs didn’t participate.
If it was a different situation, there would have been complaints about having to do the stage with only some of the MCs…
‘But it’s a sibling special, so what… They want to tie us up with a blood bond.’
They deliberately chose a cover song that was a catchy song by a singer-songwriter who was famous for being a sibling duo.
I was worried if Seon-woo could handle that fast singing rap. But then…
‘So this is all lip-syncing.’
My worry was needless. It was all lip-syncing. The stage was also designed with easy movements and choreography that could be done with three rehearsals.
“Okay, then, watch us do the choreography first and follow along.”
The storm of words from Seon-young, who had been talking like a machine gun, also subsided. While everyone focused on the choreography, Yi-jun and I sat in a corner.
We had already experienced how to learn and practice the choreography when we practiced our new song, but…
This was the first time I saw it from the spectator’s point of view. I could clearly see the difference between the two people who were standing side by side and learning the same choreography.
‘Sure enough… Polaris didn’t get the first-class reputation for nothing.’
Seon-woo was only three years younger than her, but the speed of learning was different.
‘Maybe it’s because he has a lot of stage experience… and other experiences. That’s where his skill comes from.’
Seon-woo was practically a rookie after his debut. He wasn’t very good at dancing or learning fast, so the gap between him and Sunyoung was more noticeable.
Seon-young also seemed to be aware of that, and she opened her mouth to say something.
“Baby~. Stretch your arm a little more over there?”
Yi-jun and I both widened our eyes for a moment.
“Did you just call him baby?”
“Yeah. I’m sure she called him baby.”
Wow. Yi-jun and I both exclaimed and calmed down the goosebumps on our arms.
“Don’t you get called baby by your grandma?”
I asked Yi-jun as if he was being teased, and he shook his head sideways.
“No, I have a grandma. Grandmas always see their grandchildren as babies even if they grow bigger than calves. But isn’t it rare for a sister to call her grown-up brother a baby?”
“That’s true… I thought sisters and brothers usually hated each other and wanted to kill each other.”
Looking at Seon-woo and Seon-young, it seemed that Seon-woo was a bit naive and gentle, and that was part of it.
The sister’s energy was so intense that it was a combination of a brother who was swaying and a sister who swung him around.
If you ask me if I’m jealous… no, I’m not. I did show some obsession with a happy family when I was in the program last time, but…
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That doesn’t mean I want to be that close to my siblings.
I wish I had a family that I could talk to with my heart open. But that’s not an easy thing for people who belong to what they call an ideal family.
It was always an area that I gave up on, thinking that it was inevitable and had nothing to do with me.
“Are you an only child?”
I asked Yi-jun, who had been silent for a while, and he nodded slowly.
“Yeah. They passed away before I had a sibling.”
His parents must have passed away much earlier than I thought. I reached out and stroked Yi-jun’s head.
“What are you doing? You don’t need to pity me. Thanks to my grandma, I grew up very well.”
It showed. It was the basic foundation of people who didn’t fear failure or challenge. A rich environment that supported him without hesitation.
He was a professional athlete until middle school, and then an idol.
It wasn’t just a matter of cheering him on, but of setting up a studio for him, so he could definitely say he grew up well.
“Don’t you have a sister to comfort you?”
I do. But I haven’t seen her since I became Cheon Ise. Even in the memories of watching the replay service, I don’t think I ever saw her face.
She didn’t seem to have much influence on Cheon Ise’s life either.
“I’m not that close with my sister.”
I don’t even know who she is exactly. I just vaguely guessed that my mother was involved in some group faction fight somewhere else and that my brother and I weren’t on good terms either.
“Well, I guess it’s a bit hard when there’s such a big age difference.”
The short conversation ended and silence returned. After repeating the same movements and sections several times, the choreographer announced a break time when we had learned the choreography up to the chorus.
“Let’s fill our stomachs and rest for a while!”
Following the main choreographer’s break declaration, a manager from Polaris who seemed to be accompanying Seonyoung came with a huge number of donut boxes.
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Wow.
They take care of the staff so well, as if they’re not a top girl group. I awkwardly offered the pocket lunch I had packed.
“I also brought some…”
I filled a low-height coffee cup with low-calorie pasta and topped it with low-fat cheese, basil pesto, sprouts, and other vegetables. It was a cold pasta with bite-sized grilled chicken b****t sausages.
Of course, I had prepared a salad separately for Seon-woo and Seon-young.
“I made a similar recipe to the one you said you liked last time.”
The staff’s eyes sparkled at the sight of the lunch I had awkwardly handed out. They had planned to fill their stomachs with greasy donuts.
“Wow, is this the one that went viral last time?”
“I really wanted to try it!”
“Today’s snack is a bumper crop. Isn’t this a happy dilemma?”
But someone joked.
“Why worry, just eat both!”
Everyone laughed and took their share and sat on the floor.
“Don’t spill the cream, it’s a hassle to clean up~.”
It felt like we were on a picnic, with all the grown-ups sitting on the floor and munching on snacks.
Of course, the only thing visible next to us was a space with nothing but mirrors.
As I sat in one corner of the practice room and ate my snack, Seon-young came over to us like a storm.
“Why are you eating in the corner, YI-jun and Ise? Come over here and talk and eat with us!”
Everyone seemed to know Seon-young well, as only one manager and Seon-woo were around her.
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“Everyone is so scared of me. I really don’t do anything weird or bossy, I just like meeting people and talking and hanging out with them! If I don’t grab one or two people and eat with them, there’s no one to eat with me except our members. Oh, you know who our members are, right?”
Maybe it was because of her actions right now.
I knew she was very pretty and had a good personality, not to mention Seon-woo’s sister.
But for an introverted person, her presence was painful enough to exist in the same space.
I felt a vague sense of familiarity as I watched Seon-young.
‘She’s like a retriever that’s less than six months old.’
She was very kind and had no intention of hurting anyone, but… in the end, it was similar to tormenting them.
‘If Kyunghwa and Seong-won were here, they would have fainted.’
Seong-won was just an introvert, and Kyunghwa was a survival-type introvert.
He was also an introvert, but he had a strong sense of responsibility and showed superhuman extroversion, saying, ‘I have to step up here.’
“Ise, are you listening to me?”
A beautiful woman who looked a little older than Seon-woo waved her hand in front of my face and drew my attention.
“Ah, yes…”
“Then you agree, right? Wow, I’m so excited, I can’t wait!”
What are you talking about? What did I miss while I was zoning out?
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