chapter 3
3 – Warehouse Release Group (3)
Unlucky.
These were the words spoken by Eva Kang’s college classmates.
She shows no reaction even when she hears insults.
I was isolated before I knew it.
He’s a kid who lives alone with pride, leave him alone.
She couldn’t answer anything.
All she had to do was say, ‘No,’ but she realized it later and regretted it.
Doing everything with ease means,
I often made it a secret by saying that I didn’t need others.
Studying wasn’t particularly difficult, so I got perfect scores in all 12 years of elementary, middle, and high school.
Since she was envied for her studies, she thought the problem would be solved if she went to Seoul National University, where only good students gathered.
But that wasn’t the problem, she realized during freshman OT when she was sipping alcohol alone.
She went to lectures alone, ate alone, did homework alone, and prepared for tests alone, and before she knew it, she was even more isolated than when she was in middle or high school.
Then she happened to see an idol entertainment show.
Her members chatting happily and making a fuss among themselves.
Of course, I knew that it was mostly script and directing,
Eva Kang, who wanted to imitate herself, simply auditioned to become a trainee.
She practiced singing or dancing a few times.
‘…… I thought she would make her debut when she graduated.’
Lucky Seven Enter has high hopes for Eva Kang, who absorbs everything she quickly teaches.
She recruited various instructors, whether active comedians or MCs, to practice speaking.
She did her best to learn at least how to react to funny stories told by others.
Both singing and dancing were of a high standard and appearance was also in the top tier.
Significantly poor communication skills act as a fatal weakness,
She became a modern idol whose communication with her fans was important, but she was held back and was not able to work on producers’ projects.
Last year, a producer boasted that he would let her debut as a mystical solo idol, but
She ultimately failed in her final debut.
And above all, Eva Kang herself,
She supported her idol in the first place to promote her group, but when she debuts as a solo artist, she cannot escape from isolation.
‘…… ‘It’s going to be hard to live a social life like this.’
To enter her workplace, you must be able to communicate with her colleagues or superiors,
If she wants to become a freelancer, she must present herself well to get work.
With her own mouth.
So when she first heard that the producer had made an offer,
I was purely happy.
When she found out that it was her group activity and not solo, she was so happy that she kept holding on to her smartphone and her hands were shaking.
But if the producer had to
No. 302—Producer Lim Boo-gil.
No matter how much you don’t communicate with others, I overheard the conversation between her
Trainees.
And during the four years she was her trainee,
Her favorable reviews were not at all frowned upon.
‘No. 302 Failed again.’
‘Again? I won’t be called that person either, right? ‘It’s ominous.’
Still, she is now 24 years old, which is too early to debut as an idol. She
After she graduated from college, she couldn’t just sit around and play. She
Even if she failed, she had to do something.
After she entered Room 302, she came face to face with the fiery producer.
Coincidentally, I am a university alumnus.
Her face was even-toned, so she seemed to have made quite a few women cry.
… Including the female trainees who were selected for the project he promoted.
“Would you like a Mocha Gold?”
“… ….”
She tried to ask for an Americano that won’t make you fat,
She couldn’t speak again.
But Eva Kang knew very well that it was not polite to refuse the coffee that was given to her,
I took a sip.
… Not only are you incompetent at projects, but you are also incompetent at making coffee.
What would you do if you were handsome?
A man must be competent.
No, not necessarily a man.
“That….”
“… ….”
“I understand your anxiety… ….”
Does he know that he has a bad reputation?
If you listen to the opinions of people around you, they say that they don’t know anything about Eva Kang’s feelings.
I don’t think Producer Lim Boo-gil said that when he saw her face.
“Friend… “You want to date, right?”
“… ….”
In the words of Producer Lim Boo-gil,
Kang Eva’s hair turned completely white.
How does this person know that?
She never told anyone during this time?
“If you want to make friends, nod your head. Or you can just leave the office.”
“… ….”
Childish choice.
Producer Lim Boo-gil has now penetrated Kang Eva’s heart, but
She was hoping for her own answer.
At age 24, I was embarrassed to honestly say that I wanted to make friends.
I thought Producer Lim Boo-gil was making fun of Eva Kang, but
His eyes were infinitely serious.
Should I trust this person or not?
Come to think of it, before she entered office 302,
She passed by Choi Joo-yoon, a trainee, in the hallway.
Probably Choi Joo-yoon also joined producer Lim Boo-gil’s project.
She is now in an ambiguous position because her project collapsed last year.
Perhaps, as is commonly circulated as a rumor,
Isn’t this a warehouse release group?
The company prepared to kick out producer Lim Boo-gil….
When I thought about it that way, for some reason, I felt a slight connection to the same disease.
In the end, Eva Kang herself was incapable of speaking, so she was close to being kicked out of the company.
The final struggle between incompetent people, She thought
She wouldn’t be bad.
First of all, I am an alumni.
Kang Eva nodded her head slightly.
Even this,
… The muscles in her neck seemed to cramp.
***
To the point where others would think she was possessed by a ghost, Eva Kang.
She nodded, her neck trembling.
She really barely managed to open her heart a little.
[Current Thoughts: Let’s say this person is producing, what concept is he going for? Also, like last year’s producer, mysticism? Then it will be ruined again….]
This is a person who speaks little, is pretty, and can dance and sing at a high level.
There will be many producers who say that we should go with a mystical concept.
But Eva Kang may not be good at speaking, but she has a lot of thoughts.
If she was really mute to begin with, how could she sing as a profession?
She just can’t speak.
In other words, she only needs to paint.
I communicate well with manager Jeong Song-i via text message.
I showed my smartphone screen to Eva Kang.
“You know this song, right?”
“… ….”
“You know the choreography, right?”
“… ….”
[Current thought: There’s no way you wouldn’t know about it because it’s so famous.]
This inconvenience of having to view the answer in the status window….
“Call me. “Dancing.”
“… ….”
I handed Eva Kang a toy-like microphone that connects wirelessly to a smartphone, which I also used for Jooyoon Choi.
[Current Thoughts: Here? Here?? Suddenly?? Such a cheap micro??]
No, I’ll call it cheap or not….
And since I bought it with money, it is a proper product.
Let alone what happened.
Eva Kang quietly held her microphone.
And then I got up from the chair and went to an open space.
When I played accompaniment with my smartphone, sound came out of the square speaker part of the microphone.
“Why did you meet me~♪”
I listened to a comparison between Jooyoon Choi’s [Vocal: 87] And Eva Kang’s [Vocal: 71].
Ah, it was definitely different.
Choi Joo-yoon performed her song with her own style and singing method,
It felt as if Eva Kang was imitating the vocals of the singer of her original song.
It wasn’t that I didn’t sing well.
Compared to me, his skills were on a completely different level.
However, in the entertainment industry where there are many talented people,
She had no personality.
Although he had an outstanding appearance,
She was the idol Miss A who poured out every time she heard the song.
“It just messes with my heart~♪”
Tang, tatak, tang, tatak.
I could hear Eva Kang’s dance steps echoing on the office floor.
She danced well too.
… Just as much as idol A.
It may not be so bad that she couldn’t debut, but she felt a little disappointed somehow.
Moreover, there was a fatal weakness in dance.
Of course, since it is a dance, the priority is to dance with your body in good rhythm,
… Her face was so stiff that it looked like a robot was dancing.
It’s a breakup song with a lot of emotion, but it was really dry.
“I enjoyed it. “You can stop.”
“… ….”
Kang Eva’s movements suddenly stopped, as if her stop button had been pressed.
And then she sat down on the chair across from me again.
[Current thought: Is there something I didn’t like about this person…? ? I heard she can do it to some extent though…. I’m sure she’s not trying to ignore this incident… ?]
Inside the expressionless face,
… It was chaos.
Kangeva’s [Current thoughts] Passed by like a teleprompter.
In fact, she had already thought about what role she would give to Eva Kang.
No, that’s not what I thought, she will just assume her role in the game.
Basically, within the [Idol Producing] Game, groups are divided.
Choi Joo-yoon and Kang Eva were both in the same group.
Not even one of the others who hasn’t arrived yet.
Although it was a bit of a waste of time, it was worth doing because it was a combination that was still in the original game.
Because I’m not planning everything from scratch with my head.
… All I had to do was repeat the thoughts of the game production team.
“Huh….”
I took a deep breath and cleared my throat.
I was just trying to relax my neck,
[Current thought: What should I do, what should I do!! It’s ruined!! Are you going to scream at me to get out!! Ah, hello my youth!! I wanted to eat popcorn with my friends, watch a movie, go to karaoke, and drink alcohol!!]
… Eva Kang’s heart was in turmoil.
“Can you give me the microphone again?”
“… ….”
Still in the hands of Kangeva,
… She said she got her cheap microphone back.
After opening YouTube on your smartphone,
I played a rap beat.
“Hey yo D~J, drop the beat!” Shouting
.
Manager Jeong Song-i once again made an expression as if he was wondering what this idiot was.
To be honest, I was really embarrassed while doing this,
This is in the [Idol Producing] Game,
This was the early story with Eva Kang.
-Thump~ Clap clap~♬ Thump~ Clap clap~♬
[Current thought: What the hell?! What started?! Hip hop?! Are you going with a hip-hop concept?! But why is the producer holding the microphone?!]
This time, Kangeva was confused in a different way.
“You you, friend, I want it, but I can’t let go of my pride, I can’t move my tongue and mouth♪”
Cast a clumsy diss rap.
And while maintaining the beat, she extended her wrist forward,
I pointed the microphone at Eva Kang.
At this point, you probably know what we are going to do.
Kang Eva grabbed her microphone. She
She then brought it close to her mouth and started rapping.
“Pride pride Funny bullsh*t, the sound of a passing cow♪ It’s just that you have a lot of filters in your head, you just got a bullet stuck in your head♪ I am the beggar’s crazy language function, I am my ambassador♪”
Regardless of whether these rap lyrics are good or not,
Anyway, Eva Kang pours out what she wants to say.
[Fatigue: 43] Went down a lot to [Fatigue: 29].
In fact, even if you are not Kang Eva, any human being can relieve stress just by shouting out words that they normally keep in their mouths.
For Eva Kang, that form is just rap.
Eva Kang handed me the microphone again.
… Should I do it one more time?
[Current thought: Interesting, rap]
I could see that she was thinking about this and I couldn’t refuse.
It’s polite to give at least a lame rap.
“The thickness of the filter in my head is the same as the price of land in Gangnam, it’s endless♪ Even though I’m struggling in the water of the Han River, I can’t help, so I’m gurgling♪”
It’s so hard….
I felt like I was going to lose my head trying to make it on the spot.
She couldn’t hit a single beat at best.
Well, I’m not really trying to win her rap battle with Eva Kang in the first place.
“f*ck the f*cking bullsh*t who pretends to care, burn it, destroy it♪ Mysticism, secrecy, and complacency are all what and who are they♪”
I spent a whopping 30 minutes in a rap battle with Eva Kang.
I didn’t want to do it again, but
[Current thoughts: I want to do it again….]
He looked at me with slightly bright eyes.
It’s more likely that I’m mistaken, but….
When I gulped because my throat was sore, manager Jeong Song-i personally poured water and put it on the table.
And with a smiling face,
“I guess you don’t like hearing my nagging so much?”
… She seemed angry.
In the middle, your complex thoughts seemed like nagging to our manager, and it seemed like the problem was just a thoughtless diss phrase….
I drank water sip by sip, trying my best to maintain a neutral expression like Eva Kang.
[Current thought: There’s something interesting about this producer.]
The corners of Eva Kang’s mouth seem to have gone up slightly….
…… It seemed like she didn’t go up.
In the game CG, it really is the same face throughout,
There were even jokes about people saying that all they had to do was stamp Gangeva’s face in advance and take a picture.
“Eva will rap like this. “Please practice rapping in the training room for two days.”
“… ….”
Kang Eva immediately nodded her head.
Even though there were no words,
I guess she gave a prompt answer in her own way.
“I want to answer with a rap, one time.”
“I got it, I got it, you idiot, the producer who ruined the project five times♪”
No, the answer is a diss rap….
I suddenly got scolded out of nowhere.
Still, I got scolded by this pretty girl,
… It’s kind of creepy and good, right?
“Producer… ….”
I wonder if manager Jeong Songi knew my inner thoughts,
He glared at me.
***
Berrys members—Joo Do-yeon, Go Na-kyung, Yang Hae-jin, and Jin Hae-sol—appealed to Manager Go Kang-tae several times,
The producer was changed more than four times.
Any producer,
It is Producer Lim Boo-gil’s talent to get these untalented kids to debut.
I cursed and cursed.
“Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to practice every day!”
In the end, Manager Go Kang-tae threatened that this would be the last time.
The last producer was a new employee who had joined the company less than two months ago.
The passion was overflowing.
“Producer, do you practice every day? Of course, it’s right to practice, but when you think about our broadcasting schedule and such, time is….”
Joo Do-yeon objected to the new producer’s remarks.
However, the new producer smiled brightly and said.
“If you don’t have enough time, just sleep less!”
“To what extent?”
“It is said that even Napoleon slept for only four hours! The average person sleeps eight hours, but that’s one-half of that! So you too should cut half your sleep time now!”
“Um, half?”
The four Berries looked at each other at the words of the new producer.
No matter how much I thought about it, it was crazy.
I still sleep for about 4 to 5 hours, but cutting that by half means…
It was said that it only grows for about 2 hours a day.
“Oh, and let’s restrict our eating even more!”
“Yes? Anything more than this?”
“The most important thing is the spirit of hunger! “There’s nothing wrong with an idol losing weight anyway, so I’ll cut my calorie intake by half!”
I’m losing sleep but I can’t even eat,
It wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed at any time.
Yang Hae-in thought there was no way a human could do something like that.
“Producer! And then we die!”
“If you die now, the only people who will be sad are your family, right? There is no damage to the company. Basically, idols do this by cutting their own lifespan. “If you don’t like it, you can quit being an idol.”
“Ugh… !!”
The situation is such that the producer cannot be changed again.
If you don’t follow what this new producer says,
This time, I really had no choice but to give up my idol life.
“Haein, let’s follow him quietly…” , Huh? Since we are still rookies, we have no choice but to overwork our bodies….”
“…… Okay, Na-kyung.”
Producer Lim Boo-gil was wrong from the start.
The four of them were just swearing at Producer Lim Boo-gil in their minds.
There was nothing that could be done.
***
“I won’t accept it, producer.”
Now I just have to talk to the last person.
… He didn’t come to office room 302.
So, I asked Manager Jeong Song-i to call again, but it was no use.
Escape?
Traditional idol drama?
No, I haven’t even started being an idol in the first place, but already?
“Shall we call the guardian as well?”
“Are you there? “Then please give it a try.”
“Yes.”
I overheard Manager Jeong Song-i’s phone call from next to me.
It seemed like someone like my mother answered the phone.
… It turned out that she had forgotten her promise to me and went home.
The sound of her mother berating her was clearly conveyed over the wire.
Because his house is two hours away from Lucky Seven Entertainment’s headquarters,
I waited for two hours without any regrets.
Boom!
I heard the sound of the door opening very loudly,
“Sorry!! “Is this the office where Producer Bulbul is?”
… I said a nickname containing my bad reputation.
“Ah! “This person is fire—no, Producer Lim Boo-gil!”
“…… Hello.”
I’m correcting you after already saying everything.
[Name: Gong Si-on]
[Age: 21]
[Fatigue: 67]
[Vocal: 30 / Dance: 82 / Talking: 74 / Visual: 71]
[Current Thoughts: Oh handsome! For some reason, he seems like he would date an idol he produced?]
What kind of face would you give to date an idol you produced?
… Still, they say he’s handsome enough to date a female idol.
For some reason, I felt good.
“…… Producer.”
Thanks to Manager Jeong Song-i, I managed to keep my almost dull expression.
I looked at Gong Si-ion.
Hmm.
It’s pretty.
The blue dyed hair suits you well.
“…… Producer.”
“Would you like a Mocha Gold?”
Jung Song came to his senses again at the second call from his manager.