Survive! Foolish Bottom!

Chapter 11

Park Haeun’s phone wasn’t locked with the common password or pattern. Was it his personality? Or was it a consideration done early for the person that would inhabit this body? As he thought uselessly, he searched the phone and found the SNS app installed on the homescreen.

He must’ve not had a personal account because, in the list of logged-in accounts, there was only the official Stone Cherry account. When he entered, the replies had increased from when he’d checked next to Ilhyun. Most of them were still in English, so he couldn’t read the contents. However, they seemed positive, seeing the attached hearts and crying emoticons.

He strangely felt slightly proud and touched. On cloud nine, Haeun messed around with the search bar on SNS. Around how many followers meant they’d succeeded? If this was reality, he would’ve checked the follower count of any famous group he knew the name of…

‘Wait, I know one!’

In the game, he didn’t only know Stone Cherry. Apart from the members, there was one capturable character who was a member of a top idol group. Haeun searched the name of the group, ‘BlackBers,’ the capturable character Yejun was in.

<Following 2 Followers 9.7M>

9.7M? The number is smaller than 58.3k.

Of course, there was no way BlackBer’s follower count would be less than Stone Cherry’s, even if pigs flew. The units must change when it’s increased like centimeters become kilometers. He felt like he’d realized he was immensely far away from becoming a top star. He should just not look anymore.

As he was thinking, a notification in Korean appeared for the first time.

< Lololololol1 has quoted your post>

Joyful to see a Korean nickname, Haeun clicked on the notification without thinking to check the preview.

Lololololol @FLsdkwSossELK

Haeun-ah, aren’t you embarrassed?lololololol Were you sleepy after causing trouble? If you have any shame, wake up and beg the members working hard for forgiveness… Lololol

Haeun blinked his eyes. He knew there’d be people hating, but he hadn’t known they’d send a message directly. Flustered, he refreshed the page, and the post was already deleted. He didn’t know why they’d sent it if they were going to immediately delete it.

Haeun busily looked at his screen for a while.

He thought he was fine after Ilhyun left the room, but his head hurt and his body felt exhausted again after looking at his phone. He decided to sleep since he couldn’t find ‘Lololololol,’ who’d commented and ran away, even if he looked at his phone screen.

He fell asleep like that, and when he woke up, it was in the middle of the night. The unique uncomfortableness of taking a long nap and waking up at dawn bothered Park Haeun. On the other side, the system notified the start of a new day with a bright voice as if the uncomfortableness was a lie.

『It’s your second day of playing! (*・ω・)つθ』

『Today’s attendance reward is the ‘Eu-idol’ application! Σd(ゝ∀･)♪』

Haeun looked at the notification window that popped up in the air with a voice amazedly and unconsciously reached out to touch it. It was a habit of using a smartphone. Of course, he couldn’t touch it, and Haeun’s hand only split the air.

Embarrassed, Haeun moved the hand that split the air to brush his hair back. Just then, the door slightly rattled.

“Ack!”

A short scream automatically came out at the thought of someone seeing him moving his hand back and forth in an empty space. Fortunately, the door didn’t open; it only made a rattling sound from the wind. Haeun sighed in relief and quickly placed his interest somewhere else.

An ‘Eu-idol’ application?

He was immediately interested in those words. Uncertain, Haeun opened his phone. In his applications, an app that wasn’t there yesterday, called ‘Eu-idol’ was installed. He’d poked around the phone one by one for anything fun, so there was no way he’d missed something yesterday. Was it installed with that notification?

As he pressed the app, a design as cute as <Euratsha Idol> caught his eye. He would’ve believed it if it was an app made for children. It was an interface that Park Haeun, who cared about minor designs like this, wouldn’t want to be caught with by other people.

On the main screen were a quest button, schedule button, status and interest level button, etc. From those, there was a large exclamation mark on the quest icon, so he decided to check it first to see if there were any notices.

When he pressed the button, a cute notice appeared and greeted Haeun.

『You can earn points through Quests! ｖ(・ε・ｖ)』

Quests? Haeun frowned and exited the pop-up window. The quests below it were piled to the point it was hard to see in one look.

[Daily Quest]

Practice once (0/1)

Raise interest level by 10 (0/20)

[Normal Quest]

Communicate with fans (0/3)

Reach 300k SNS followers (99/300)

In the version of ‘Euratsha Idol’ Haeun played, there was also a quest and game money function. If he completed a quest, he could earn game money, and with that game money, Park Haeun could change clothes or prepare small gifts for the capturable characters. If he saved a lot, he could purchase an item to see hints for choices, but it was quicker to just pay cash than wait. So instead of saving points, he passed the time with his wallet.

However, the current ‘Park Haeun’ didn’t have a wallet. Seeing that there was no place to buy game money, it seemed that he could only see hints through the points earned through the quests.

He wasn’t going to capture a character, but he needed to save just in case. Haeun looked at the contents of the quest one by one and left the quest screen.

The next thing he checked was the schedule. Being able to check the schedule he’d been curious about since yesterday without asking anyone was a huge catch.

[Music Bbongkeu Pre-Recording]

5:00 AM

(Music Bbongkeu Broadcast 5:00 PM)

Why was the pre-recording at 5 AM in the morning? Are all idols like this? Haeun frowned as he thought.

Starting at 5:00 meant that they had to arrive at the set before that. Haeun was unable to speak and looked at the clock. It was 12:14 AM. There was still some time left until he had to go to the pre-recording. He wasn’t sleepy, so he should go to the practice room for a bit. He could complete the daily quest of practicing once.

He thought he wouldn’t bump into the other members at this time. He quickly changed into training clothes and left for the practice room.

However, unlike Haeun’s thoughts, there was already someone inside the practice room. Right before Haeun was about to open the door, he discovered a shadow singing and dancing, and he stopped his hand. He almost turned the doorknob and entered without knocking. Park Haeun urgently lowered his posture and stealthily hid his body to the side.

Truthfully, there was no reason for Haeun to hide. Coming here wasn’t bad, and he hadn’t done anything to be worried about. However, Haeun was hiding to be considerate of the other person. If it was Haeun, he would’ve been very embarrassed if someone came in while he was dancing passionately.

‘Someone needs to know that my consideration is as deep as the Pacific Ocean.’

As he bragged about himself, Haeun looked at the inside of the practice room with only his eyes again. He saw red hair that stood out immensely. It just happened to be Sungjae, the roughest member who provoked openly. What was he doing here at this dawn? Haeun knew Sungjae was set up to be a genius who worked hard but seeing him with his own eyes, he felt admiration.

Did he trade the equivalent amount of rudeness and passion?

“If you’re here, don’t hide and come in.”

As he was distracted, he heard a pointy voice from the inside. Haeun flinched and stuck his head out. Since when did he know he was here? It must be a situation where he’d been considerate for nothing.

Sungjae paused the music and was staring straight toward the door. At the feeling that he’d been caught hiding, Haeun hesitated. It might’ve been better to bump into Sungjae head-on and make him embarrassed instead.

As he hesitatingly opened the door and entered, Sungjae, who was crossing his arms, raised an eyebrow and greeted him. “Oh. It was you?”

…Although it was iffy to call that a greeting. Haeun thought he’d told him to come in knowing who he was, but it seemed that he’d just felt him out.

Sungjae soon added more to his question. “What brings you here at this time?”

That was what Haeun wanted to say. He felt like what he’d wanted to say had been completely intercepted. Haeun lightly shrugged his shoulders and replied, “What about you?”