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Chapter 145: Group Trip
Translator: Enuma ID
"Yun-kyung-sseu." [TL: "-sseu" is a playful, affectionate suffix attached to a name, similar to adding "-ie" or "-y" to a friend's name in English.]
As Lee Si-on, completely at home now, plopped her hand on Yun-kyung's head and called her with that familiar affection, Yun-kyung's mind spun into overdrive.
'Today's a good-mood day for the Commander.'
Yun-kyung-sseu. One of Lee Si-on's pet names for Yun-kyung.
Ѐ nu m̀a . i d̀
Lee Si-on had this particular quirk where the name she used for someone changed depending on her mood.
Yun-kyung-sseu was generally the nickname she used when she was in a good mood, and other good-mood variants included "our Yun-kyung" or similar.
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On the flip side, when she was in a bad mood, she'd roll out Yun the Betrayer, Yun Lü Bu, Yun the Ingrate, and the like, usually deployed when Yun-kyung failed to aid and abet Lee Si-on's rampages and instead stood by or pretended not to see.
There were plenty of other nicknames too, of course, but these were the main ones. Just by listening to whatever came out of Lee Si-on's mouth, the members (and managers too) could gauge her current mood, so everyone paid close attention to the nicknames she used.
"And what did thee do during thy vacation?"
"Nothing much. My dad was back in the country for the first time in a while, so we just had a family meal, and I went shopping with my mom and stuff."
Ẃ еb n_ȯ.vѐl E ň um a
"What the heck is that ordinary daily life?"
"Sorry?"
"You know, like, invisible sibling power struggles or the cold family dinners of the super-rich? Nothing like that?"
Sigh.
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Seeing the disappointed look on Lee Si-on's face, Yun-kyung let out a small sigh and quietly shook her head.
"Commander, you've watched way too many movies and dramas."
W е b̊ñо v̀ёl̂ Е n ũ m̄a
"No, come on, isn't it fair to expect a little something?"
"If there was stuff like that, how would I ever have ended up at an idol agency!"
"Hmm… pity."
As if disappointed that the story she'd been imagining didn't materialize, Lee Si-on wore a bored expression and started scanning for a new target.
Yun-kyung had been watching Lee Si-on up close for nearly half a year now, but she still couldn't figure out what kind of person Lee Si-on actually was.
'She's like a wild animal.'
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Like a person born for the sole purpose of causing mischief, maybe?
Just like a lion prowling for prey, Lee Si-on spent all day scouting for anything that might be fun.
"Yuri, did you have a good trip to Japan?"
"Yuri is in shock right now."
"Why?"
"Yuri's Japanese has gotten worse… Yuri now speaks zero languages."
Wê b̃n̂о vë l̀_ Е̌nǔ ḿ.а
"You're fluent in Korean though."
"Yuri can't speak Korean, is Si-on the best a dummy?"
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"Why you…"
Having just confirmed that Yun-kyung's vacation had been a bust, Lee Si-on was already sinking her teeth into Yuri, who'd been in Japan over the break.
"It felt kind of weird resting at home after so long."
"Same. I don't know why my own house felt so unfamiliar."
Е̇ nu m̊ а́ . і̄d̄
"I enjoyed it! I got to see my grandmother for the first time in a while and went to Jeju Island, so it was great."
"Tangerine chocolates?"
"Those are for Seoul people!"
"We ARE Seoul people."
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"Ah…."
Beyond Lee Si-on's antics, as she faced the members she hadn't seen in nearly two weeks, Yun-kyung finally felt that comfortable, homey familiarity, as if she'd just come back home.
W̆e b̌ nо v е̇ l̀ Е ñ um̆а̂
'It was so uncomfortable at first.'
Back when she'd first joined Idol Ground 100, Yun-kyung had been completely flustered.
─This is a room? And not even for one person, but shared by four?
─It's tight, but it looks cozy and nice.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say the room where four of them lived together was smaller than the bathroom in Yun-kyung's family home, and pretending that wasn't strange would have been a lie.
Of course, not wanting to show it, she'd put on a face like she had no complaints whatsoever and done her best to adapt.
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That was because,
─Yun-kyung, can I ask you for a little favor?
Yun-kyung had attended elite private schools her entire life, from kindergarten to elementary to her current middle school.
Not the kind of place Lee Si-on bragged about like the pride of Gwangmyeong, Saenarae Kindergarten, but institutions where tuition ran close to a thousand a month, literal worlds apart.
Naturally, the friends who gathered around Yun-kyung were always the sort that people call "well-connected".
And even among them, Yun-kyung's family stood out as particularly special.
Eṅ ù mа̇.і̆ d́
Back then, Yun-kyung hadn't gone out of her way to push away the people who flocked to her.
She'd still been a child, and at the time, she'd mistaken all that attention for her own merit, even strutting around when her friends praised her.
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Only,
'It was never something I earned.'
Watching the so-called friends who crowded around her and tried to exploit her goodwill, Yun-kyung eventually came to her senses.
There were friends who arrived bearing requests that were practically commands from their parents and burdened her with uncomfortable favors, and there were friends who seemed to think Yun-kyung was completely clueless and tried to take advantage of her.
Еṅ ú m̊а
No, the people around Yun-kyung were full of those whose behavior couldn't even be called friendship.
Maybe that was why.
Yun-kyung wanted to earn something on her own.
It might have been a childish thought, but she wished someone would care about her as she was, setting her family aside.
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That was why, despite her parents' concerns, Yun-kyung had come to dream of becoming an idol.
"Yun-kyung, do you know what 'geum' is in English?"
W̄ е̇ b̀n о́v еl .Ěń úm ӑ
"Commander, do I look like an idiot? It's gold."
"That's right, gold. People, you see, they treat gold as a special metal."
As Yun-kyung was drifting through old memories, Lee Si-on returned to her side chattering away.
Thanks to that, Yun-kyung was pulled back from her reverie into reality.
"If you consider its historical and traditional significance, you could say it's even more meaningful than diamond."
"Hmm… you think?"
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"Yeah, I think."
Tap.
In response to Yun-kyung's lukewarm reaction, Lee Si-on held up her smartphone's photo gallery and continued.
"Gold. People look down on the tier, but that's actually wrong."
"Eh? People were saying they couldn't even hit gold."
"That's nonsense. Gold puts you in the top 20 percent of Legend of the Valley players. Is 20 percent a joke to you?"
Eǹ ǔ m̄ӑ . id
"That's higher than I thought?"
"Right? So during this vacation, in order to hit this gold tier I…."
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Once Yun-kyung reacted with mild surprise at the "top 20 percent" figure, Lee Si-on launched, delighted, into a full sermon detailing exactly what efforts she'd made during her vacation to achieve gold tier in Legend of the Valley.
"Commander, why do you look more excited about this than when you got first place on Idol Ground 100?"
"Now all that's left is to meet Faker! I can finally get his autograph!"
"Do you have any idea how many people want YOUR autograph right now?"
Е n̊u m̆а̃ .і̊ d
"Faker, no, Faker-nim, is different."
Watching Lee Si-on proudly announce that she'd spent her entire hard-earned vacation playing games, Yun-kyung couldn't help but burst out laughing at the absurdity of it.
That darn Three Kingdoms, that darn Legend of the Valley.
The fact that someone prettier than anyone Yun-kyung had ever seen did things and liked things like a clueless young man was something she still struggled to get used to after half a year.
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'That's why I love it.'
And Yun-kyung loved it.
En̄ um ӑ . іď
When she'd first seen Lee Si-on, Yun-kyung had been so struck by her beauty that she'd approached her before she knew what she was doing.
It was like spotting something she loved while shopping at a department store.
The Lee Si-on she later got to know had a personality and taste utterly different from what Yun-kyung had expected, but one thing was certain.
'When I'm next to the Commander, I don't have a single worry.'
Worries like how others would judge her, or what on earth she should do about this or that problem, every concern that cropped up in daily life, Lee Si-on made weightless.
That feeling that, for some reason, anything would work out as long as she was next to Lee Si-on.
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And it wasn't just that.
─Hey squirt, this is a present.
─Huh? Where'd you get those jellies?
─Just popped over to the convenience store.
─Didn't the staff catch you?
─If blockades actually worked, France wouldn't have fallen in six weeks.
Е̃ ň u m̈ а
─Sorry?
─It's a thing.
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Being around Lee Si-on, who set something off every single day without fail like some kind of time bomb, meant there was never a dull moment.
"But how do I even meet Faker? Should I shoot another CF?"
Above all else.
Yun-kyung loved that Lee Si-on and the members hadn't changed after finding out about her background.
Е́ nü ḿ a. і d̆
The members still treated her like an adorable youngest, and when she occasionally made mistakes, they brushed it off with a joke rather than expecting anything of her or demanding anything from her.
They just treated her as one of the members.
"Everyone, filming's about to start, let's get ready."
"Yes!"
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Yun-kyung loved Iam, and she loved KJ Entertainment, her new agency.
***
W e b ñо̂ v̇ el̀ E n u̇ m̊ ӑ
"Did everyone have a good vacation?"
"Yes!"
The kids I was seeing for the first time in two weeks looked remarkably lively.
'Humans really do need rest, huh.'
I hadn't noticed when we were all together, but seeing them after a while, their expressions were definitely brighter than before.
Running nonstop from debut straight through promotions clearly hadn't been easy.
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If they hadn't gotten a break at the right time, something might have gone wrong.
"Today, we've prepared a short one-night, two-day trip for all of you."
"A trip?"
"Yes, we've rented a pension on the East Sea coast, and you'll all spend time relaxing freely there. It's an Iam Vacation content episode."
"Whoa!!!!"
But that short rest was over too, and we had to get ready for our next activities.
Ėn ú m а̂.i d́
'I smell something fishy.'
With two days left in our vacation, the company's Content Team had gathered us together.
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They were calling it "turning our vacation into content", and with that honeyed whisper about having already booked a pension on the East Sea, the rest of the members were on cloud nine. I wasn't.
[Iam Extreme Part-time Job: Lee Ga-hyun Edition]
(Scene of Lee Ga-hyun snatching a customer's pork cutlet)
↳ㅋㅋㅋ is the film crew an anti or something? making her do that
Е n̂ ú m а̇. i d
↳ga-hyun really didn't know a thing till filming started, she even showed up in a cute outfit
↳ㅋㅋㅋ that's what makes it funnier, why are you so serious about frying cutlets in a pretty outfit
↳fr tho, the more you watch ga-hyun the more surprising she gets, she works so hard
↳no wonder she's popular with fans
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Right at the start of vacation, the production team had lured Lee Ga-hyun into working a part-time job at a pork cutlet restaurant.
Lee Ga-hyun's Extreme Part-time Job was pulling in huge engagement.
E̊n̂ ů m̈ a
From her snatching customers' cutlets to her serving tables while reciting orders straight out of a maid café, people found Lee Ga-hyun's antics wildly refreshing.
─this is why iam's self-produced content hits different, they focus on showing the members' personalities instead of polishing everything pretty
─yeah iam's members are good too but the content team basically has great taste
─I watch other idol self-produced content out of love for them but here I just watch it because it's actually good
─next ep! KJ drop the next ep!!!
I'd heard from the film crew today that, thanks to that, Lee Ga-hyun alone had landed a pork cutlet ad.
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Anyway, our production staff were people who chased fun as much as I did, maybe more.
Scenes that would normally get edited out for the sake of an idol's image,
─This looks like it'll be funny, right?
─If it's our kids, it should be fine, no?
They'd toss stuff like that in without hesitation, reasoning their way to it.
'There's no way a crew like that would come out and shoot plain, standard idol content now.'
Ѐṅu m̌ ȧ
I glanced suspiciously at Lee Hak-yoon, the Content Team leader, but as the veteran he was, he deflected my gaze without batting an eye.
"Alright, let's head out then."
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He was instead hustling the members, urging them into the van like he was pressed for time.
Considering we were off until tomorrow anyway and had no particular schedule, that only made his behavior more suspicious.
However,
"No fair, only Ga-hyun unnie and the Commander got to film the fun stuff."
W е̂b̈ ň о̊ v̈ е̄ l Ě_n_ǔm̊а
"Right. Filming content behind our backs just the two of you? Hurtful."
As soon as we piled into the van, the members' chatter swept in, and I had no more room to dig into my suspicions.
"It was supposed to be my solo shoot and Lee Si-on barged in!"
"Come to think of it, Si-on unnie, how on earth did you know where Ga-hyun unnie was filming and show up there?"
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"That?"
The members seemed curious how I'd tracked down the place Lee Ga-hyun was filming, but honestly, it wasn't that hard.
Еn_ùm̌ а̀ . id
─OMG! Lee Ga-hyun is at the pork cutlet place in my neighborhood!!
On the fan community I hung around on every day, posts about our movements got uploaded all the time, and seeing that, I couldn't help myself.
'How am I supposed to pass up a legal chance to mess with her?'
So I bolted out and stormed the cutlet restaurant where Lee Ga-hyun was filming. The members' faces went slack with horror at my explanation.
"Do you really have to go that far?"
"Obviously. What else am I supposed to do?"
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"But how on earth did you pull off that Karen act?"
"Ah, that?"
That one was a little hard to explain.
─Y'all serve in the 7th Division, don't ya?! Punk! I know a guy who's neighborhood buddies with your division commander, who do you think you're messing with?!
During my military service, I'd encountered every conceivable type of human being.
From people who cut the unit's barbed wire to come in and forage wild greens, to parents who wanted to know if their child could be given a private room because he was a sensitive sleeper.
E n̊ ů ma
After dealing with people who made me wonder whether I was a soldier or a community center clerk, suffering an identity crisis, I'd eventually had to imitate them too.
Didn't Nietzsche say that if one gazes long enough into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back into oneself?
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Eventually, even professional troublemakers would click their tongues and flee when they ran into me.
What I'd shown Lee Ga-hyun had been a minuscule fragment of my Karen repertoire. I hadn't expected her to be this shocked by something so small.
[Is this an idol or a Karen?]
(Clip of Lee Si-on being an entitled jerk at Lee Ga-hyun)
Ӗnum̌а̄
↳giving me PTSD, why is it so realistic?
↳this is the exact vibe of the grandpa who comes into our convenience store
↳ㅋㅋㅋ I'm dying, even her Karen act is cute because of her face
↳she really goes full tilt when she's teasing ga-hyun
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↳I was there as a customer, watched the two of them and laughed so hard I spat out my cutlet mid-bite
↳so jealous, us Yours living in the countryside are suffering
Е n_ü m̈ а .ǐ_ḋ
"Hmm…."
"What is it this time?"
"Ga-hyun unnie got a pork cutlet ad. Why aren't any ads coming in for me?"
"What?"
Come to think of it, I'd also been a key part of that episode and it had caused a stir, so the fact that no ads had come in for me felt unfair.
"You got public service ads, didn't you."
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"Ah."
Of course, it wasn't as if nothing had happened. Surprisingly, I'd been offered two public service ads.
─It's for anti-school-violence and anti-stalking PSAs. There's no ad fee separately, but it's good for your image and it's genuinely for the public good, so unless you hate the idea, I think you should do it.
My subduing of the assailant who'd caused a commotion at the last fan signing event was still a hot topic, which apparently had gotten the attention of the government ministries producing the PSAs as well.
On top of that, the video from the old school violence controversy was being passed around again, to the point it was giving me a headache.
─Whoa!!! It's Lee Si-on!! Punch me once!
Ẽ n̂ ú_m̀ а́
─I want the shoulder throw!
─Then kick me!
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The boys I'd run into at the convenience store near my house had latched onto me, each begging to be hit at least once, and shaking them off hadn't been easy.
"Shin-yu, you're really totally fine now, right?"
"Of course! I'm actually planning to learn boxing so I can be like you, Si-on unnie."
"Splendid. There are times in this world when matters must be settled with fists rather than words."
È n̊ u m а̂ .іd̂
"Exactly!"
Thankfully, Shin-yu, the girl at the center of that whole incident, was not only fine but showing enthusiasm about learning martial arts.
"The ocean!"
After chatting with the members about this and that, and dozing off here and there, the coastline finally came into view.
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The Iam Vacation content was finally about to begin in earnest.
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Е̇n u ḿ а̌ ..ï d
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