Chapter 45
They said Colors was strict about character education, but it seems that’s not the case.
Jo Hee-on and Kim Ryeo-yu… I’m not sure if they’re really good at character education, haha.
Why did Yoon Cheong do a background check?; I was surprised when she mentioned her previous agency.
Does a person always have to be overflowing with confidence?
There can be times when self-esteem drops;
Can’t she understand that even though she’s a fellow trainee?
Yoon Cheong really seemed to have been hurt a lot… It was pitiful.
What’s the difference between that and school violence?
She’s pretending to be innocent and acting so high and mighty.
Really, haha, I wonder if character education is just about saying ‘Let’s live fiercely’ and that’s it?
└I was also shocked when I saw that scene, haha. What’s with her character?
Yoon Cheong is popular, so it seems like they wanted to hit her, but their own character got hit.
└I wanted to hit Jo Hee-on in the back of the head while watching.
Hee-on, what are you really?
Instead of spreading rumors about Yoon Cheong, please just practice, haha.
I was so frustrated watching the mid-assessment, haha.
Why did Colors bring such a kid to debut? Is there no talent?
If the skills are bad, at least the character should be good…
Cheong achieved the legend again today.
It doesn’t matter if she was confident or not in the past because she’s good.
The trainers were really refreshing, haha. If Kang Sunhwa hadn’t said that, the community would have been in chaos.
There’s a lot to expect from a debutant.
Kyunga really seemed like a Bodhisattva..
Ah, I got severe PTSD, haha. Everyone has experienced having a kid who pretends to be innocent and acts like a jerk in school, right?^^
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When they squeezed out Jo Hee-on’s juice, the expressions of the Menucool kids were hilarious, haha. They all laughed so hard.
Ah, damn, I wish they would all stop crying, haha. They’re just ruining the atmosphere and making it tiring.
The kids are young, so they’re not mentally mature.. Even Ryu Bo-ra was wandering around during recording… Wasn’t she an actress, haha.
Phew, please do well, Hee-on, haha… Because of you, Ryeo-yu is getting cursed too, haha. It’s so annoying, haha. Yoon Cheong is also annoying, but still, haha.
└Don’t mix up the character jerk and our Ryeo-yu, haha.
└└No, Kim Ryeo-yu is the real character disaster, haha. Ah, Kim Ryeo-yu’s fans are really cutting down others to protect their kid, damn. Your kid is pretty, right?
└└└Really, haha. If that’s the case, why not go solo? If you’re wronged, either leave Colors or you leave, haha.
But honestly, Yoon Cheong’s song selection was also bad.
Who makes that kind of song for a vocal position?
Jo Hee-on is certainly immature, but if Yoon Cheong had selected the song well, wouldn’t it have been okay?
Oh, Little Jo Hee-on is here; or not? Since you’re old, are you Big Jo Hee-on? The world can’t always be the way you want it to be.
└Big Jo Hee-on, haha.
└└What’s wrong with the fingertips; didn’t you see the Burn Ash Interview? The vocal team wanted to do it.
But Kim Ryeo-yu’s controversy doesn’t stop.
This time, when I saw Seo Baek-young, I felt like it was not a big deal, haha. Kim Ryeo-yu couldn’t digest it, so she adjusted it all… What’s that, really, haha. It was no joke.
No, honestly, the other kids must have pressured Ryeo-yu that if it’s not MOM Ryeo-yu, it won’t work, so that’s why Ryeo-yu is like that;
└Ah, you’re really guessing, haha. Are Juhong or Baek-young those kinds of kids?
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Ah, Ryu Bo-ra… Today, too, everyone in the world should see her king-like face. #RyuBo-ra #Menucool #RyuBo-ra
No… Princess Bo-ra… No, wait, please, Princess Bo-ra, please reduce your beauty a little, save me.
Yeah, yeah. The controversies are all over, choose between Cheong X Bo-ra or Bo-ra X Cheong. Yeah, yeah.
└Why do I have to choose…? They’re both good.
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After the mid-assessment, Jo Hee-on was quiet for a long time.
Even during practice, she just focused on practice and didn’t chat at all.
The three of us also had our feelings hurt by what Jo Hee-on said during the mid-assessment, so we didn’t ask any more.
Especially, Kyunga seemed to be the most upset.
Even though she tried to comfort her younger siblings and said she would do well, it seemed to be a big wound that Jo Hee-on said that to the trainers.
She didn’t say anything special to Jo Hee-on or us.
But it was clear that she was avoiding Jo Hee-on more than before.
Ryu Bo-ra didn’t care about others from the beginning, so there was no difference.
But there’s also that.
That’s more hurtful.
In such a thin ice atmosphere, we practiced diligently.
The mid-assessment was over, and if it was broadcast, we knew it would be quite controversial.
Knowing that there are too many people who would be happy if we messed up the stage in this situation.
“No, Hee-on. You’re off pitch again. Please pay attention.”
Kyunga’s sharp voice hit the practice room.
Jo Hee-on couldn’t refute and just nodded her head.
This is not right.
“Shall we take a break for a while?”
I called for a timeout.
It wasn’t because I particularly pitied Jo Hee-on.
<Fingertips> is a stage where the emotional line between members is important.
But if they’re blushing at each other, can the emotions come alive on stage?
“Hee-on.”
“…Why. Do you have more nagging left?”
She seems to have lost her mind too.
“No. Let’s go buy ice cream.”
“…What?”
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Pushing away Ryu Bo-ra who said she would follow, I took Jo Hee-on out.
Why is Ryu Bo-ra suddenly interfering?
I was worried about Ryu Bo-ra, who even had her eyes wide open, but that wasn’t important right now.
“It’s hot, so let’s buy a lot.”
“…Why all of a sudden ice cream?”
“Just. I want to eat it.”
I picked several ice creams.
As expected, ice cream is Jjoojjooba.
I picked peach flavor and cola flavor ice cream and held them in my arms.
“Aren’t you picking?”
“…I’ll pick.”
Jo Hee-on picked a couple of cone ice creams.
I also picked ice cream for Ryu Bo-ra and Kyunga.
…But what kind of ice cream does Ryu Bo-ra like?
No, does she even like sweet things?
In the dorm, she only occasionally cuts a little carrot or cucumber and eats it, that’s all.
Not a rabbit, but a circle.
I casually picked out various types of ice cream.
There must be something you like among these.
As I was picking out about six, an important fact came to mind.
“Hey, Hee-on.”
“Why are you calling me?”
“But you… have a lot of money?”
“…?”
I made Hee-on pay for everything.
I didn’t know she had a lot of money.
After all, everything she wore was expensive.
“Let’s just eat one and go in.”
“Do you pity me?”
“Huh?”
Oh, these kids are so impulsive.
“I don’t have money and you have a lot. If someone is to pity, shouldn’t you pity me?”
At my serious answer, Hee-on seemed to have lost her words.
So why say such strange things?
“Why don’t you have money?”
“…Does there need to be a reason for not having money? I just don’t have it.”
“Well, you said you don’t have parents.”
When the topic of parents came up, I thought of my mother.
I endured because I had a mother.
But Yoon Cheong had to endure without anything.
“…Are you angry?”
“Huh?”
Ah.
I must have been silent for too long.
“No, it’s true. But if you say that when the camera is on, everyone will find out you have a bad character. Be careful what you say. Don’t casually say things that could hurt someone.”
“What, like an old man.”
…I’m sorry for being an old man.
What can I do if I’m really an old man?
“But how did you know?”
“What, that you don’t have parents?”
“Yeah. I don’t remember telling you.”
Neither I nor the real Yoon Cheong ever told her.
Why would that timid girl tell her such a thing?
When I thought of Yoon Cheong, who had to hear such harsh words all her life, I didn’t feel very good.
Hee-on seemed to notice that my mood was down, and she had an awkward expression.
“No, what. The sister I mentioned last time told me.”
“Former agency trainee?”
“Yeah.”
“You’re going to get in trouble if you keep gossiping. Don’t live like that.”
“Why have you been like that since earlier? Are you really an old man?”
“If being an old man means saying the right thing… I’ll be an old man.”
I sat on a plastic chair in front of the convenience store.
And I gestured to Hee-on.
To sit across from me.
Hee-on looked dumbfounded, but she obediently sat down.
“Did you call me to talk about this? Do you want to pick a fight?”
“Overconsciousness….”
“What?”
“No, I called you to make you pay for the ice cream.”
“Huh!”
I opened the cap of the Jjoojjooba and handed it to Hee-on.
“Do you want to eat?”
“Why do I have to eat someone else’s stuff in such a disgusting way? And what’s with the cap?”
She used to pretend to speak prettily in front of the camera.
Now it seems she’s decided to reveal her true nature completely.
“…You’ve never earned money with your own hands, have you?”
“I’m only 20 years old, you know? Of course not! It’s hard enough just to practice!”
“…I’ve been working part-time since middle school.”
Of course, this applied to both Yoon Cheong and Baek Nokha.
Hee-on, full of irritation, took the cap of the Jjoojjooba from my hand.
But she didn’t eat it.
Because she was full.
“What else did you gossip about?”
“Why do I have to tell you that?”
“If you’re not going to tell me, why did you gossip in the first place?”
“What?”
“Just spill it. You gossiped to make me feel bad, didn’t you?”
“You’re really crazy, aren’t you? I knew you were weird when Ryeo-yu said you were.”
“I didn’t seem to know.”
Anyway, she gossiped again.
Why did she gossip so much instead of doing the practice she was supposed to do?
“Menucool is already halfway through. Is it that hard to hold on for a few months?”
“….”
“Are you scared because you might debut with me?”
“Yeah. I don’t want to debut with something like you. So can’t you just drop out on your own?”
So that was her true feelings.
I enjoyed the peach-flavored ice cream spreading in my mouth.
It’s delicious.
This will be discontinued in 10 years.
“But looking at the rankings, it doesn’t seem like we’ll debut together. Even if we debut… If I do it, you won’t have to, right?”
“Hey!”
“So.”
I took the cap in Hee-on’s hand and shoved it into Hee-on’s mouth.
“Think about the rankings first.”
“…!”
“Whether you like or hate debuting with me… You have to debut first, don’t you?”
“This crazy….”
“But if it goes on like this… I’ll just become a debutant. And you, even though you have a bad character, you won’t be able to debut.”
Haha, I laughed.
It felt good to speak my mind after a long time.
“So, Hee-on.”
Ah, really, the ice cream was cool, and
“Whether you like gossiping or not…. Let’s do well on stage first.”
Her eyes, which hated me, were also very cool.