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Chapter 148: Vlog
Translator: Enuma ID
"Hello, I'm Kurosawa Yuri, in charge of cuteness at Iam!"
Kurosawa Yuri was strolling around the dorm with an action cam in her hand.
–Yuri, this round's self-produced content is a vlog video, and I think it'd be a good idea for you to take a shot at the filming yourself. Want to try it?
–Yuri filming prep, kanryou!
E.n_ů m̀ å
Having been handed the special mission of shooting Iam's latest self-produced vlog content, Yuri had gotten up alone at an early hour, before any of the other members were awake, and finished getting ready for the shoot.
If it had been any of the other members, they might have felt awkward and embarrassed talking to an empty camera all by themselves, but.
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'This is fun!'
Yuri loved this kind of thing.
"Now then, first I'll launch a surprise attack on the members' rooms!"
2nd-Si-on.
W̆е̇ b́n оv е l Е̄ ṅ ū m̊а̌
One of Yuri's nicknames, earned during Idol Ground 100 because she had so enjoyed catching the other contestants off guard.
The truth was, hidden behind the enormous wall that was Lee Si-on, Yuri's own mischievous streak tended to get overlooked, but when it came to pranks among the Iam members, Yuri was second to none.
Right now too, Yuri was making her way toward her members' rooms, thrilled at the thought of ambushing them while they were still asleep.
First up: the maknaes' room.
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Creeeak.
Creeping along like a thief so as not to make a sound, she reached for the handle and carefully pushed the maknaes' door open.
Ẅ e b̀ n̂о̂.v̄ е̇l̂ Ē ǹ ū m̈ а̌
Yun-kyung was still fast asleep, and...
"Oh? Yuri unnie, you're here?"
"Huh? Shin-yu the best, you're already up?"
"Yes, I am! By the way, unnie, what's that in your hand?"
"This is an akushon-cam! Yuri's in charge of filming Iam's vlog today."
"Wow, that's amazing!"
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"Right?"
Yuri gave a proud little shrug at Shin-yu's praise, then made her way toward the computer desk where Shin-yu was sitting.
"So what were you doing?"
"You mean this? I was working on a song for our upcoming follow-up album."
"Ohoo!"
Iam's follow-up album, currently in the middle of production.
Е n ú mа
Yuri and the rest of the Iam members knew how things were progressing, but since the company had drilled it into them that it was top secret until release day, Yuri hesitated for a moment over whether she should even be filming this, but...
"Editing is the filming team's job!"
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"Huh?"
"Can I come in for a close-up?"
"Of course."
Her assigned role was to film, after all, so if there was a problem the Content Team would take care of it in editing. With that thought, Yuri marched straight up to the computer Shin-yu was working on.
Е n u̇m̀а.
"The program looks so complicated...."
"Once you actually start using it, the functions you need are pretty limited, so it's not that hard."
"When did Shin-yu start composing?"
"Hmm... I think it's been about four years this year."
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"Hieeek! Is Shin-yu a composition master?"
"Absolutely not at that level!"
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"Can I hear some of it?"
"Yes, first please put these on."
Perhaps out of consideration for Yun-kyung, who was still asleep, Shin-yu placed a pair of headphones over Yuri's ears.
Then, with a click of the mouse...
♬
The melody of the song Shin-yu had composed herself came flowing through the headphones into Yuri's ears.
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"This is...."
"Is it no good...?"
"No! It's totally amazing! Shin-yu the best, are you a genius?"
"Thank you!"
It wasn't just bias because it was a fellow member's song. Objectively speaking, Shin-yu's song was a really good song, Yuri thought.
Unlike the flashy idol songs coming out lately, this melody was simple and somehow warm and cozy.
Еńům а̊_.і d
Even the number of instruments making up the melody had been kept to a minimum, leaving it easy on the ears.
And the longer she listened, the more strangely comforting it felt, so Yuri closed her eyes for a moment and just let the song wash over her.
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"The lyrics?"
After listening for a while, Yuri realized the song didn't have any lyrics yet, and turned to Shin-yu to ask.
Then,
"It's not even confirmed whether it'll go on the album, so... I haven't prepared any lyrics separately."
W е̌ ḃ.ň о̇vѐ l̂ Ёṅ u m̃а
"It's definitely going on it! Yuri will cling to PD Raon's pant leg and refuse to let go!"
"You can't do that, Yuri unnie!"
"Daijoubu! Si-on the best told me that if PD-nim bullies Yuri, that's abuse of a foreign worker!"
"That's something you definitely shouldn't be learning!"
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Shin-yu tried to dissuade her, but Yuri was already hooked on this song.
Without so much as a line of lyrics yet, this song that had crept straight into Yuri's heart somehow felt like a spitting image of its owner, Shin-yu.
Е̊ n ū m̀ а̇
Among the Iam members, who each tended strongly toward doing their own thing, Yuri thought that if anyone played the role of mediator, it had to be Ga-hyun and Shin-yu.
Of the two, Shin-yu seemed timid at first glance, but the more one got to know her, the more one realized she had a firm core inside.
Even though she was younger than Yuri, Shin-yu stayed steadily centered, working toward her goals without wavering, and watching that always filled Yuri with a weird sort of pride.
That was why Yuri really hoped this song, so much like Shin-yu herself, would make it onto the follow-up album.
***
"The culprit is among us!"
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"We've only got company practice this afternoon, so let's just take it easy, you little menace."
Bang!
"This is too serious a matter to let slide!"
Lee Si-on shook her head, slamming her palm down on the kitchen table at Ryu-jin's words.
Since morning, Yuri had been bustling around declaring she was filming the vlog, capturing every single thing on her action cam without missing a beat.
On top of that,
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"What should we order for lunch today?"
"We'll have to start prepping for the comeback soon, so how about something light? Our meals have gone off the rails lately."
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"Should we order salads, then?"
"Let's go with tender salads. If there's no meat, Lee Si-on might go on a rampage again."
The rest of the members, so used to Lee Si-on's antics by now, didn't bat an eye as they mulled over the lunch menu.
'Humans really are creatures of adaptation, huh?'
Е n u m̊а
It suddenly came back to Ryu-jin: how strange it had felt on her last vacation to go back to her family home, the house too peaceful, too unfamiliar.
The peace had been so complete it had actually made her anxious, and when her vacation ended and she came back to the dorm, she'd felt oddly relieved.
"Who secretly ate my pudding?!"
"Let it go, it's just pudding."
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"It's not 'just pudding'! This was a famous Japanese convenience store pudding that just got brought into domestic convenience stores in small quantities, and I went in disguise to personally track one down!"
At this point, things would've felt off to Ryu-jin if Si-on's voice weren't raging about someone secretly eating her pudding.
Ě n ùm̀ a
"If it was that big a deal, why didn't you just hurry up and eat it? Why'd you leave it in the fridge?"
"I wasn't in the mood for pudding yesterday. I had it all perfectly set up to eat today."
Exactly what kind of deep-seated grudge she had against pudding, Si-on began explaining in detail, how she'd planned to wake up, laze around, and then eat that pudding, and just how furious she was right now. The members watched this avant-garde performance piece like they were taking in a stage play, and...
'Hmm... about Danger Level 3, I'd say?'
Ryu-jin watched Si-on and gauged the Danger Level.
Lee Si-on's 7-tier Danger Level.
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A classification system the company staff and Iam members had put together over time from observing Lee Si-on.
Normally, Si-on triggered an incident about once a day as though rebelling against the world, and dealing with that required a chart.
Level 1 was her baseline. Level 2 covered the little sulks that happened multiple times a day.
But from Level 3 on, her temper was beginning to climb. Starting at Danger Level 3, physical subjugation was occasionally required, which was why Ryu-jin was keeping a close eye on Si-on's behavior.
"Seo Ryu-jin, Ryu A-yeon... it wasn't you two, was it."
"I don't even like sweets."
W.e̊b n̈о̂.vе_l̀ Е̃n̂ ŭ m̂а
"Same, the only sweet stuff I eat is chocolate. Pudding's too soft, I don't like it."
Si-on scratched two names off the suspect list.
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Ryu A-yeon, who hated sweets, and Ryu-jin, who preferred sweets with something to chew on like chocolate, weren't the types to steal pudding.
"So it must be Ga-hyun unnie?"
"Why me?!"
"Unnie, you've got the blood of a bandit running through you."
Ŵ еḃn о̀ v̂ě l̀ Ĕn u m̊a
"You little brat!"
"No?"
Si-on's suspicion immediately shifted to Lee Ga-hyun, but seeing how Ga-hyun flared up, Si-on just as quickly crossed her off the list.
'Ga-hyun unnie can't lie.'
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Of all the members, Lee Ga-hyun was the one whose lies showed most obviously, so even a little poke was enough to confirm she wasn't the culprit.
If Lee Ga-hyun had eaten Si-on's pudding,
Е̃n̆ū mă . i d̂
–Me? Me... it wasn't me, right? I didn't eat it...?
She'd have started rambling like that and given herself away in no time.
"Hmm... so that leaves two, huh?"
"Why are you looking at me, Commander?! And there are three of us, why are you narrowing the suspect list to two?"
"Our Shin-yu, if she'd eaten it and realized it was mine, she'd have already confessed."
"That's right! Si-on unnie, it wasn't me."
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"That's so mean, this is member discrimination!"
"Yeah, Si-on the best, this is racial discrimination! Yuri didn't eat the Jaji Pudding!"
"What?"
"Huh?"
As Si-on's detective work pressed on and she narrowed the suspect list down to two, Yun-kyung cried out in protest.
And the word "Jaji Pudding" that came tumbling from Yuri's mouth as she piled on in agreement made Si-on's ears prick up.
É n ùm a
"I never said what brand the pudding was, though?"
"Ah... yabai."
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"You thieving little rat!!!"
"Kyaaaaah!"
The moment the culprit was finally revealed, Si-on pounced on Yuri like a wild animal, and...
Click.
Ĕn u m̊а̀. і́d̂
Ryu-jin snatched the action cam from the ambushed Yuri and captured the scene herself.
Since the vlog shoot was, strictly speaking, part of their content, she felt a leader's responsibility not to let this moment slip away.
"Si-on the best, gomen nasai! Owww!! I was homesick for the taste of my hometown!"
"You literally just came back from Japan!"
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"I woke up early and there was pudding in the fridge!"
"Why does that mean you get to eat it?!"
Е̂ ńuṁ ӓ
A scream rang out as Si-on's furious finger jab landed in Yuri's side.
'At this level, I don't think full restraint is needed.'
Ryu-jin simply filmed every bit of it, watching Si-on's Danger Level 3 run its course and end.
***
Thud.
"Good work."
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"Thank you!"
With the trainer's words signaling the end of practice, the Iam members collapsed onto the practice room floor like they'd been toppled.
"Yuri cannot rest."
"Haven't you filmed enough?"
"A director shoots a single scene a hundred times."
"You're not a director, Yuri."
En̂ u ḿá. іď
"The moment the camera entered Yuri's hand, Yuri became a director."
Just because idols were in an off-activity period didn't mean training stopped.
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Before promotions, they rehearsed the choreography and songs for a new release; during off-periods, they went back through foundational and advanced training to sharpen their skills. That was the basic setup.
Our Iam was no exception, getting three sessions a week with famous dance and vocal trainers, and the intensity was surprisingly brutal, one session was enough to drain every last drop of strength from your body.
Because of that, after training, all the members sprawled out on the practice room floor drenched in sweat. That was business as usual.
Only Yuri, who felt a sense of mission about the oddest things, refused to let the action cam leave her hand even as she wilted from the vocal and dance training that had gone on all afternoon.
Е́ n ů m̈ а . ì_d
In fact, as if she couldn't afford to miss a single thing, she was filming the exhausted members and asking for their thoughts.
The other Iam members swatted at Yuri like she was a gnat, but in the end they all ended up giving her their interviews.
"Hmm?"
"What is it this time, Commander?"
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"Ryu A-yeon isn't in my field of vision."
"Ah, A-yeon unnie went out of the practice room with the trainer-saem a while ago."
Е nu̇ m ã
"Is that so?"
Watching Yuri interview the members, I'd noticed Ryu A-yeon wasn't around, and when Yun-kyung said she'd seen her leave, a strange curiosity stirred in me.
'She's been slipping off a lot lately, hasn't she?'
Our schedule had been pretty monotonous recently.
If we had an event, we'd do the event; if not, we'd rest at the dorm or take whatever training the company set up for us.
On top of that, we'd been hitting the gym for the workouts I'd proposed after citing the members' stamina problems. That was basically what our days looked like.
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So outside of events, our schedule was a lot more relaxed than during promotion periods, and maybe because of that, all the members had been using their personal time to pursue their own little hobbies.
Shin-yu worked on music; Yun-kyung went out shopping with Yuri.
Lee Ga-hyun and Seo Ryu-jin did little café tours together, small everyday things.
But Ryu A-yeon was always slipping off on her own somewhere.
–Where've you been off to?
–Nothing much. Just get back to your game.
Е_n uṁ а̃
–Sniff, sniff.
–What's with that shifty look?
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–I smell something suspicious.
–Isn't that just because you haven't washed today and you've been glued to your game?
–How did you know?!
–Because you're still in those same pajama pants!
Е n u m̌ä
No matter how I asked where she'd been, Ryu A-yeon would dodge with vague answers. She was clearly hiding something.
Slide.
"Where are you going, Shi-ko the best!"
"I told you not to call me Shi-ko. It sounds too much like a champion I hate in the Rift."
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"In Japan we add '-ko' to a close tomodachi's name, you know?"
"This is Korea. Call me Si-on."
Е́ ň úmӑ.і̄ d
"Hai!"
Shaking off Yuri, who was sticking the action cam in my face and clinging to my side, I stepped out of the practice room.
And there in the hallway, I spotted Ryu A-yeon deep in what looked like a serious conversation with the dance trainer.
Slip.
With ghostlike footwork, I hid behind a potted plant and eavesdropped.
"The choreography you worked on with us got picked for the final draft."
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"Yes, I heard. Actually, there was something I wanted to talk to you about because of that."
"What is it? A-yeon, you're making teacher nervous acting like that."
"I think we need to refine the draft a little more before deciding on the final choreography. This song is really unique, after all."
"You want to develop it further? We did have that thought, too... A-yeon, are you sure you'll be okay? Lately you've been coming by our studio every chance you get to work on choreography."
"As long as the events aren't scheduled too far away, I think I'll be fine."
"Aigoo... all right, got it. Then I'll let the others know, so tonight we can...."
É nu m а̃
Listening in, I could piece together a rough picture of what Ryu A-yeon had been up to.
'She's been helping make the choreography.'
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Ryu A-yeon, who had always been interested in choreography anyway, had apparently been working with the dance team on the choreography draft for our comeback album's title track.
'She must've gotten really inspired.'
She hadn't said so out loud, but Ryu A-yeon seemed to have taken a lot of inspiration from watching Lynx and VYNNIA's performances.
–....
Е́n̆ ů m̊ а̀. іḋ
Whenever those two groups' performances came on TV, Ryu A-yeon would stare at them, silent, eyes glued to the screen.
Step.
Avoiding Ryu A-yeon and the choreography trainer's line of sight, I quietly made my way back to the practice room.
Running into her now would just make things awkward for both of us, so I slunk back into the practice room as secretively as Yuri had when she stole my pudding.
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"Everyone, attention!"
"What is it this time?"
Ėn_um а̃.i̊ d̂
I rounded up the still-sprawled-out members who were resting, and got them to focus.
"Let's run through our choreography one more time!"
"We literally just finished training, you know?"
"Something I realized while doing all these events: no matter how much we practice, it's never enough."
"Well, that's true, but...."
Unlike broadcast performances, event performances were outdoors by default and full of variables. They'd put us through a lot of trial and error.
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Thanks to that, our skills had actually improved, though.
Above all,
'Whatever choreography Ryu A-yeon brings us, we have to be able to pull it off.'
Shin-yu, fighting tooth and nail to make songs for the follow-up album. Ryu A-yeon, sacrificing her personal free time to focus on making our choreography herself.
There was no way the rest of us, myself included, could be the reason what they'd built didn't land, because our skills weren't up to scratch.
"All right, let's just practice."
W ēbn̄ ӧ v̈e l̄ Ё ṅ u m̄ а̌
"I've rested plenty!"
"We should practice while A-yeon unnie isn't here so we have a chance of keeping up!"
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"Yuri has also filmed plenty of vlog!"
"Lee Si-on is a demon when it comes to making people practice."
And even without me having to explain the whole situation, watching the members get up and ready to practice just based on my suggestion, a smile crept onto my face before I even realized it.
*****
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