Chapter 7: On Stage Once Again

Proofreader: Gandy

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‘What did he mean by, how much can I take off?’

What does it mean?

Rembrary looked at Jongwoo in a fright.

However, Jongwoo, who should be giving advice, was on the phone with someone again.

“Woo Yeonwoo, didn’t you hear my question?”

Song Daebaek once again asked bluntly.

Rembrary’s mind is rolling quickly.

The picture is similar to a drawing. Then a photographer would be similar to a painter. In the same sense, being a model for a photographer would be similar to being a model for a painting.

So, this guy is…

“Are you asking me to be a nude model?!”

As soon as Rembrary asked that, Jongwoo dropped his cell phone, and the woman carrying the box got caught in the wire and staggered.

Song Daebaek took his eyes off the strange machine and looked at Rembrary with a blank expression. Then, for the first time, he laughed.

“What did you even think of?”

As Rembary was confused, Song Daebaek lowered his machine down completely and scratched his eyebrows.

“Exposure of your top, swimsuit, underwear, semi-nude. Something like this. How far is possible? You have to draw a line so that I can try this and that.”

Jongwoo, who belatedly noticed the situation, shouted “Swimsuit, swimsuit!”, on behalf of Rembrary.

Song Daebaek looked back at Jongwoo and asked Rembrary again.

“Is that right?”

Rembrary couldn’t respond to the shivering feeling.

“I’ll take it as a swimsuit.”

Song Daebaek said after understanding it properly, he then put his eyes on the machine again and pressed the button.

Then there was a continuous popping sound and the lights flickering.

When he was blinding and frowning, Song Daebaek shouted sharply unlike before.

“Do not close your eyes. Open it!”

“It is blinding me. I cannot see.”

Song Daebaek sighed and took his eyes off the machine again.

“I’ll count from one to three, so close your eyes on one, two, and open your eyes on three. Do you think that’ll work?”

As Rembrary nodded, Song Daebaek brought his eyes back to the machine and shouted again.

“One, two, three!”

“…”

How many times did I do that?

Song Daebaek took his eyes off the machine, glanced at something like a small TV standing next to him, and clicked his tongue.

“Why? Is it weird?”

Jongwoo approached Song Daebaek and asked.

Rembrary listened to the conversation, rubbing his eyes with still flashing afterimage.

“I keep frowning, my posture is awkward, and I don’t think it’s good-“

“Dae…”

“It’s okay for a weird photoshoot.”

“Is, is that so? Haha, Our Yeonwoo looks good in pictures, right?”

“What should I say about the atmosphere. The atmosphere is unique. Like a priest.”

Rembrary lowered his hand and admired Song Daebaek.

‘I’ve never seen the picture, so I don’t know if he’s talented in photography. However, his ability to capture the essence seemed certain.’

Jongwoo was excited and complemented Yeonwoo to the extent that it was burdensome, and Song Daebaek poured out the words on one ear and instructed

“Now I’m going to take the main picture. Hyewon, leave that. Come here and help Woo Yeonwoo!”

“Yes!”

“With heavy eye makeup. Dress him up in a suit, without a necktie, and make sure that it’s buttoned up until the end.”

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After changing clothes and putting on makeup, Rembrary looked in the mirror and screamed.

“What do you think? Isn’t it cool?”

The woman who put on his makeup asked because she was proud, but it wasn’t cool to Rembrary’s eyes, and his eyes looked like a black beasts.

“I look like a tiger.”

“So you like it!”

“No- does it not look a little scary?”

“The makeup is strong enough to look good in the picture.”

“What, strong?”

The woman’s words were hard to understand, but there was no time to ask. This is because Song Daebaek shouted to come out quickly.

The woman made a ‘eek’ sound and pushed Rembrary, then Rembrary had to go back to the white wall and stand.

What’s surprising is that there was something like a coffin in front of the white wall, which seemed to have been brought in when he was changing clothes and putting on makeup.

Song Daebaek instructed Rembrary, who was wondering why a coffin was put there.

“Do you want to lie down in the coffin?”

The shooting was over like this.

Rembrary is completely mentally exhausted.

It’s not hard, but Song Daebaek’s demands were all bizarre. I’m lying in a coffin, it’s a setting, but why am I posing inside the coffin?

Either way, Jongwoo was grinning and nodding at what he seems to like. Song Daebaek also felt the same way.

Rembrary, who changed his clothes again, could see the two smiling and watching a small TV together. And as Rembrary got closer, Song Daebaek praised him like this.

“You had a hard time with the lighting, but with the camera itself, you don’t seem to have any fear. This is really important, and that’s good. There are many people who suffer from camera phobia even in perfect conditions.”

“What is a camera”

“Haha, you even joke.”

“?”

“Oh, and if you want to commercialize the divine image, it’s better to build some muscle.”

“What?”

“Woo Yeonwoo has a divine atmosphere. So make his body sexy as a twist.”

“…Do you understand well…?”

Song Daebaek said calmly while tapping on his lips.

“If you’re a pretty talker, it doesn’t matter if you just go with a divine image like you are now, but after the interview, it made you a bit arrogant.”

Jongwoo nodded his head.

“I mean, if you’ve had an interview like that and you’re still pretending to be nice now, you’re just being manipulative and funny, aren’t you? So, let’s go with the devil with a face of an angel. Well, that kind of feeling.”

“…”

As Rembrary is about to blankly open his mouth, Song Daebaek frowned.

“Is what I said hard to understand? You know that, an unexpected charm. He’s an ascetic face, but his body is decadent. What was it, like a depraved priest.”

“What do you mean depraved… I am on active service”

“It’s because you’re on active service that you have to do it.”

Rembrary, the current High Priest, who is asked to become a deprived priest, scratched his cheek awkwardly.

Strangely, there were people in the original world who had such fantasies as well. There were a lot of believers of good-looking priests, so I roughly understand what he means but… No one asks for it from a High Priest. Therefore, I was embarrassed to be advised in front of my eyes to make an image like a ‘depraved priest’.

“I’m going to work all night because I need the pictures quickly, too. The picture will come out in two or three days, so check it out.”

They didn’t even have to wait until Friday as the pictures came out two days later. But Rembrary didn’t have time to sit still and wait for the picture. As soon as he returned from filming, he practiced dancing and singing again.

On Thursday, the dance teacher gave up on making Rembrary dance smoothly and practiced around movements and group dance.

“With that, I’m glad. Since they’re all dancing together, it feels less like he can’t dance because it will all be covered in it.”

The dance teacher was thrilled to see Rembrary running around among the members and praised it. Rembrary’s dance skill could not be said to be good, so it was a generous praise in its own way.

Anyway, thanks to his tearful efforts, Rembrary’s skills have improved to the point where he is buried well among the members.

On the other hand, the vocal trainer sniffs whenever he listens to Rembrary singing.

“I remember my childhood.”

“You must have gotten close quickly through drinking.”

“What?”

“The song. Isn’t it about a man in an unrequited love complaining while drunk?”

“No, it’s not because of the lyrics – it’s just that is how his voice makes me feel.”

“Is that so?”

“Jongwoo-ssi, why don’t you give Yeonwoo a more lyrical song later?”

Vocal trainers were more likely to appreciate Rembrary’s singing rather than to train him.

And finally, the day we go on the Sing Sing Sing Sing stage.

Jongwoo, who came to their dorm early in the morning, woke the members up, ordered them to wash their face quickly, and took them to the shop, preventing them from eating breakfast.

It was a different building from the shop where Rembrary first went last week.

As expected, all the people inside were new to me, and when the members came, they came up with tired faces and were taken to different places. After being taken care there, we got into the car again and went to a different building from the previous week.

The leader, Jungseo, walked next to Rembrary and explained why the building was different.

“Last Friday’s music program and today’s music program are different broadcasting companies.”

“Is that so.”

“There are many stations. Do you know what the station is?”

“I have looked it up.”

“Oh, but today’s music program and the last one are the same music program and the time of broadcast overlapped. They don’t get along very well.”

The broadcasting station was different, but the work was similar.

They went into the waiting room again, and when they were there, the stylist came in and helped them change.

“Wow, Yeonwoo, a brushed-up hair looks really good on you!”

“It looks so much better now that we brushed up your bangs!”

The only difference was that the stylists became more gentle than the last time.

I did it for some reason, but sometimes he looked pitifully at me, when he heard that my memory had disappeared.

“Don’t be too nervous.”

After getting dressed, I went to a rehearsal, and after the rehearsal was over, I was nagged by Jongwoo. After waiting a few more hours, I went on stage one more time.

On the stage, Rembrary felt really strange.

He remembered that he was pulled up on stage last week without knowing the situation, and now the situation is exactly the same. It was only a week ago, but it seemed as if a year had already passed.

‘Is there any way to go back?’

While I was thinking gloomy thoughts,a music that had become familiar enough that I even dreamed about it, started to play.

Unlike previously when he was just standing still, Rembrary did a good job this time.

And he began to dance like a wooden doll just like what he has practiced all the time.

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-I don’t know how to dance Woo Yeonwoo ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– I guess it wasn’t that he didn’t dance, it’s that he don’t know how to dance ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– I’m not a fan (authentication is possible) I went to the broadcasting station to see my idol on their way to work, you know? I saw Woo Yeonwoo then.

ㄴ How is it?

ㄴ The real person is dope

ㄴ Yes, their agency part-timer

ㄴ Our Yeonwoo’s agency don’t have enough money to spend on a part-timer!

ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– I thought his face was handsome from the time of the interview.

ㄴ What do you do then? I can smell rotten personality up to here.

– It would have been fun if he didn’t dance today as well.

–  I’ve seen them since their group debuted, but Woo Yeonwoo wasn’t that bad at dancing.

ㄴ You didn’t see it right.

ㄴㄴㄴI saw it because I thought they would show up.  I turned my attention off later because the song was good.

ㄴHow was it before?

ㄴHe danced as well as the other members. Like last week, and I’m worried that something’s going on.

The members didn’t open their mouths all the way back to the agency after finishing the stage.

The first stage after an accident.

Everyone was nervous because they had no idea what the reaction would be.

Jongwoo was busy checking the reaction while holding the phone and tablet at the same time, but the members couldn’t even pick up the phone and just dropped their hands.

When they arrived in front of the agency, CEO Im and several employees stood there, adding to their anxiety. But the moment they open the door, they get out of the car, it was CEO Im’s cheers and the applause of the staff that greeted them.

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