78 – Treat gems like steel (1)
1.
Idol means an idol.
In that respect, our members were fully qualified to use the word idol.
They were shining more brilliantly than anyone else, even though they were still unworked gemstones.
However, if you ask me if I am suitable for the word idol as a job rather than an idol as a meaning, I could answer ‘no’ at once.
No matter how shiny and how beautiful they are, they are still unworked gemstones.
Because it was just the most shiny and prettiest stone in the world.
That’s why they are called trainees, not idols, and they had to go through the elaborate process of training.
“Oh… That’s right! Because we are trainees, yes!”
“Are you finally trying something like a trainee? Are you looking forward to it?”
“I don’t have much confidence in training… But I’m always excited about new challenges.”
Among our members, Ha An is the only one who has experienced the trainer’s lessons.
So, except for Ha Ahn, the other members expressed their excitement at the fact that they can finally start working as trainees.
“·······.”
However, Ha An, who had experienced the lesson, did not say anything.
I just closed my mouth and stared at the empty space.
She can’t say it’s different from usual … But everyone is excited, but she’s just closing her mouth and having no inspiration. Did it
“Ha-an is your sister? Doesn’t she like to practice? With such a despondent face, she is staring blankly at nothing but empty space! My heart is pounding because I can do something like a true trainee starting tomorrow! Unnie, let’s be excited together with me!”
I don’t know exactly what it means to be thrilled, but it seemed to mean to have fun together.
“······Thrilling? I’m not good.”
However, as if it were a lie that Ha-an had been with Ji-woo so closely until just now, she rejected Ji-woo’s offer with a dry, if not cold, voice.
At that dry answer, I was worried for a moment, thinking, ‘Is Ha-an in a bad mood?’, But soon I remembered that Ha-an was weird from just before, and now that appearance is the original Ha-an.
Yes, that’s Haan. Charm like the prettiest dried flower in the world.
I felt a comfortable sense of security at Ha An-yi’s usual appearance and started explaining what kind of practice she will be doing tomorrow.
“From tomorrow, what…”
“Oh right! Honey, come to think of it, I was the only one among us who took lessons! She forgot, but now she remembered! So how was it? What exercises did you do?”
“·······.”
My grand and magnificent explanation of trainee life from tomorrow was cut short in response to Lira’s question, which recalled Ha An’s memory of taking lessons once.
I became sullen because I couldn’t see Jiwoo and Lira, who would react with a wow after hearing my explanation, but whether or not I became sullen, everyone’s eyes were focused on Lira.
“I only signed a contract, but in reality, the only thing I did here was to meet gangsters and have a good fight, so I don’t know. My older sister only took lessons once. Tell me, sister, how did you feel?”
“No, Lira, did you have a fight with your thugs?!”
“Lira-chan…? Did you have a fight? Are there any injuries?”
But for some reason, Jiwoo and Haru’s attention was focused on Lira’s fight with the thugs, not Haan, who was the only one who had experienced lessons.
Lyra shyly replied, touching the back of her hair as if she was embarrassed by the two pairs of eyes gathered at her.
“Yes? Ah, well… It’s nothing special, it’s just that. I guess it’s like cutting off bad ties from the past. There are no injuries anywhere. Even if they bring ten trucks, they won’t touch me.”
But for some reason, Lyra’s tone became arrogant in the middle of her words, and when she finished speaking, she was pointing at herself with her thumb raised in her hard-boiled manner with unreasonable bravado.
······Well, even when I think about it, Lira at that time was cool. She must feel more and more and more and more cool to Lira herself.
I looked at the reactions of Jiwoo and Haru with a hearty smile at the youngest child’s pride.
“Oh wow… Lira is cool! Reliable!”
“Lira-chan, I heard she practiced taekwondo. To think that she had enough skills to fight against an incumbent thug without getting hurt. She has a younger sister like her, Lira-chan, so I am proud of her older sister!”
······But why are they excited?
Coming to think of it, Lira is the youngest, but Jiwoo and Haru were just kids, only a year older than Lira.
By the way, Haru seems to pretend to be the most grown-up in the world, but he’s getting excited in a place like this. After all, age can’t lie?
It’s best for children to play like children, and the eldest sister, Ha An-yi, is holding the center heavily, so it didn’t seem like it would be a big problem for them to be excited like children.
But that’s not to say that idols who show off their fighting skills and respond to them as great are likely to have some problems, so I naturally switched the subject.
“By the way, Ha-an, how was the lesson? When Ha An was giving lessons, I was too busy recruiting Lira, so I didn’t see him, so let’s listen to it.”
“A lesson?”
When I asked, Ha An finally regained her focus on her blurry eyes and looked at me and asked again.
Even though she regained her focus, the tiredness in her eyes didn’t go away, and just by looking at Ha An’s eyes, I could infer that something unusual had happened the day she had the lesson.
“Ho, did something happen while you were taking lessons?”
I couldn’t even see the trainer’s face, and there was a lot of things I didn’t know about this industry anyway, so I trusted everything to the boss, but was there a problem? Should I have paid attention to at least the face?
In case something happened, and even though Ha-an suffered a wound in her heart as a result, if she couldn’t reveal it because she didn’t want to harm me, and if it was rotting inside her, it might be a trainer and a nabal, and I might break it all up. .
With that thought in mind, I set her will on fire and looked at Ha-an. Ha-an answered calmly, looking at me with her tired eyes.
“No, nothing special. I must have done only the things I could do on the first day. Sing once and dance once. That much.”
“But why do you look so bad?”
“Yes? That’s of course…”
Ha An stopped talking there for a while, then moved his lips a few times, then spoke again in a nonchalant tone.
“When you start practicing, you can’t be with the manager.”
Wow.
I almost sat down on the floor with the feeling of my heart pounding, but somehow I managed to endure it.
Because a manager is the last bulwark that idols can trust and rely on, never to collapse in front of the idol in charge.
That’s why she didn’t hesitate and held on. It seemed like she was talking casually, but in fact, her ears turned red and she opened her mouth to apologize to the cute Ha An.
“Ha, ha-an, that’s me…”
“Brother, aren’t you coming? It’s our first practice… Aren’t you coming?”
“Manager oppa, after becoming my trainee, I want to sing my first song to my manager oppa, but I can’t come…?”
“Older brother. I would like to ask you not to forget that you came all this way after only seeing one brother.”
“·······.”
However, at the sincere voices and sorrowful eyes of the three people who rush in wildly, I can’t help but say, ‘I’m sorry. But I have one last thing to do, so I don’t think I can make it to this lesson.’
There is only one thing I can say in this situation.
“・・・・・・Ah, no. Gotta go I’m still the manager, and the lessons start in earnest from tomorrow. Yes, at least you should watch the first lesson.”
Above all, it was not disappointing the expectations of my precious members.
What I was originally going to do… I came out in the middle and did it. Because our kids will understand that much.
2.
“Hello. I am Kang Jin-hyeok, the manager.”
“Ah, Kang Jin-hyuk! I heard the story from the boss. I’m Yoo Ji-yeon.”
Before starting the practice, I had a meeting with the trainer first because I had something to say.
Because I thought it would be nice to definitely see her face with the trainer teacher while I was putting off what I had to do anyway.
I am Trainer Yu Ji-yeon······Something is too long.
“Th-maybe I can call you teacher from now on?”
“Yes? Oh, are you a teacher? Ahahahaha, if you want to call me teacher, feel free to call me teacher Jiyeon. I am used to it and I am comfortable with it.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Yes, I shook hands with Jiyeon and exchanged greetings.
“······It feels strange to be called Teacher Jiyeon by someone who is not an idol or a trainee.”
“I also feel strange calling teacher Ji-yeon as teacher Ji-yeon.”
“Ahahahahaha! We are a completely strange duo, right? No, the strange duo doesn’t sound like anything else. Weird Duo? Oh, weird duo. I like it. We are a strange duo from now on. Okay Jinhyeok?”
“Yes.”
I formed a strange duo called Strange Duo with teacher Ji-yeon, whom I met for the first time today, and only then was I able to get to the main point with teacher Ji-yeon.
“Well, I wanted to ask you a favor, so I visited you first. Would it be okay?”
“Anything you ask for is possible. It’s up to me whether or not to listen.”
“Then I will ask you a favor without shame.”
I suppressed the affection for our members that was creeping up in my heart with a will of steel, and with a feeling of vomiting blood, I asked teacher Jiyeon.
“My children. Really die, please roll.”
Don’t even think about fighting.