80 – Treat gems like steel (3)
1.
Um… Is this correct?
It was the first time I saw idol trainees practicing, so there was a clear difficulty in judging whether this was a normal situation or not.
But there is one thing I can know for sure even if I am ignorant, and that is.
“So you can become an idol?! The entertainment industry, especially the idol version, is not so easy!”
Ji-yeon’s treatment of children doesn’t seem like he’s treating idols. Yeah, I’m treating it like I’m training thugs.
I don’t know how it is these days, but I can tell because I saw a lot of thugs training 7 years ago, when I was active.
When we gather together for training, it’s perfect for one hit, so we often attack during training.
Anyway, no matter what organization you went to for training, the little things might be different, but the one thing they valued the most was the same.
“Calm down! When the mental collapses, the physical becomes trash! Hold on tight! Don’t lie down!”
Now, from Ji-yeon’s mouth, ‘mental strength’.
The thugs liked to refer to mental power as evil or bully rather than mental power, but in the end it meant the same thing.
Of course, I really didn’t like it when I bullied ordinary people, created a bad atmosphere on the street, and committed crimes while having a fight, so I beat them all up.
Anyway, apart from the fact that gangsters trained with such an emphasis on mental strength, mental strength was one of the most important factors in any field.
No matter how strong the body is, it will be useless if the mind that controls it collapses.
So, it was absolutely not wrong for Jiyeon to talk about her mental strength and push her members to the limit.
“·······Huu. Whoa.”
“Ugh, kill me…”
“Haaa…”
“Move! Who wants to rest! Even if you want to die, you can’t die!”
However, that intensity is stronger than training thugs. It’s just a little hard to see.
I thought that the national team players wouldn’t roll like this, but I was the one who bowed my head and asked for it to roll in the first place.
That’s my first training… No, it’s been a few hours since I started practicing, and I said, ‘The kids seem to be having a hard time. Can’t you make it a little weaker?’
It was a great disrespect to Ji-yeon, and it was also a bad thing for the kids who somehow managed to keep from falling through evil and bullying.
So what I can do here is not to miss a second watching the kids getting their whole bodies f*cked in a really colorful way.
“Uh, uhhhhh”
“Ji, Ji-woo!”
Tup.
And it was to the point of accepting the member who collapsed because his body couldn’t keep up with his mental strength so that he wouldn’t get hurt like this.
I looked at Ji-yeon, who had passed out as if she had passed out······ No, Ji-woo, who had really fainted, caught Ji-woo before he fell to the floor.
“I’m sorry…”
Even though he never reprimanded and looked at Ji-woo with understanding eyes, Ji-yeon’s eyes were filled with worry and regret.
But if you reveal those feelings now, the meaning of this mental training… No, the lesson will fade.
I said I was sorry for Ji-yeon and opened my mouth before revealing my concerns about Ji-woo.
“Jiyeon-ah, that. It looks like Ji-woo won’t be able to do any better today, so I’ll take him to the infirmary.”
“Huh? Uh, uh okay. Please.”
As I deliberately spoke calmly, Jiyeon erased the weak emotion from her eyes and nodded as if she knew my intentions as well.
Since we have prevented any unforeseen factors in advance, all that remains is to cheer for the remaining members.
I took a deep breath and conveyed my sincere heart to my children who were barely standing.
“And you guys, you know that to become the best idol, you have to be able to overcome this level of hardship lightly, right? I’m sure it’ll be difficult… But persevere. Believe me?”
Jiwoo couldn’t stand it, but if it’s the other members, if it’s my hardest gemstones in the world, I’ve lived a rough life, I’m sure I’ll be able to hold on until the end.
As proof of that, none of the three pairs of eyes looking at me showed any weak will.
So I could and had no choice but to believe that our members would persevere well.
All I can do is believe, but sometimes faith is the strongest support than anything else.
Of course, that also depends on who believes in me, but at least to my members, I’m a manager they can trust and rely on, so if I trust them, they’ll trust me too.
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After such an optimistic judgment, I left the practice room to take Ji-woo to the infirmary.
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Clap.
“······Now then, since Jinhyeok is also out, let’s finish training. Shall we start practicing? You guys are real beginners who haven’t learned anything about dance, so I’ll start with the most important basics. You can see that you will continue to do what you have done so far. Let’s start over. Preparation!”
When Kang Jin-hyeok left the practice room, Yu Ji-yeon, who had her heart set on her, turned her head to look at her members.
Hey, look at them?
In the eyes of the members looking at Yoo Ji-yeon, there was a ferocious spirit that hadn’t been seen before, and a will that seemed hostile at first glance.
Are you mad because I didn’t worry about a member like you when they collapsed? Well, such a cute member collapsed due to intense training, so of course you can’t help but be angry.
Yu Ji-yeon is now the enemy of all her members no matter who sees it.
Yoo Ji-yeon herself knew that very well, and she didn’t know where she came from, but she didn’t think she was an ordinary trainee. Her fierce and sharp gaze made her body tremble.
But that’s all she was. Since she promised Kang Jin-hyeok that she would die, she could never show a weak side, so Yoo Ji-yeon took control of her heart again.
She decided to become a villain, so let’s not tremble at those eyes. Later, she said, “Let’s get an expensive meal from Jinhyeok.”
When she was about to say something to the members who didn’t clear their ferocious eyes with those thoughts, she opened her mouth, which had been firmly closed at the bottom.
“Sir, there is something I want to ask you.”
When she first introduced herself, a voice I hadn’t heard anywhere else, still dry and cold.
Pushed to the limit of her stamina, Yoo Ji-yeon felt threatened at the moment by her calm voice, which did not seem to indicate that she was breathing heavily.
What, what? As her eldest sister, are you trying to protest on behalf of her members? I was scared when I first met Ha-an, but I think I’m even more scared now that I’m with her members. I, in case I touched someone by mistake…
“What is your relationship with the manager, are you calling each other by your first name?”
“······· Huh?”
She thought Yoo Ji-yeon would be angry at the fallen Yoo Ji-woo, but the words that came out of Choi Ha-an’s mouth were of a completely different kind from what she expected.
Rather than anger as her eldest sister, it was jealousy that tickled her heart out of anxiety that she might lose her unrequited love.
At the time when they were taken aback by that unexpected emotion, the other members who had been keeping their mouths shut began to open their mouths one by one, as if Ha-an Choi’s words had opened their mouths.
“Right! Why do you call me by my first name? It is also very friendly!”
“From what I hear, you must have a business relationship with your brother, but if you call me by name like that, you might get involved in a bad scandal?”
What the hell is this???
No one was worried about Yoo Ji-woo, who had fallen, and she was getting angry in an unexpected part, so Yoo Ji-yeon couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
Of course, since Kang Jin-hyeok took the members and not other members, it’s just that she doesn’t feel the need to worry, but there’s no way Yoo Ji-yeon could know that.
I can see why Jinhyeok asked her to roll her children so they wouldn’t fight each other. These guys… They lack the camaraderie that an idol group should have!
Yoo Ji-yeon stood up against her members, pledging that she had to do something about this nonsense.
“You guys don’t have time to worry about that. But if you still have to ask, stick with my training today… No, the lesson to the end.”
At those words, the three members had an unbreakable resolve in their eyes.
2.
“Huhhhhh… Mae, manager oppa, my body won’t move. I have no strength at all.”
Waking up from the bed in the company’s infirmary, Ji-woo struggled to look at me, and tears welled up in his eyes as if he was sad.
Today is my first training, no lesson, and I thought it was unfair that I had been rolled like that from the first lesson.
“Ha-an is the older sister, Haru, and the younger sister Lee have endured well. I just couldn’t stand it. I passed out unsightly… Manager oppa, do I have the right to be an idol? I am pathetic.”
There was no resentment in Jiwoo’s voice as he blamed himself with a voice full of water.
He only blames himself for his shortcomings.
I almost said I’m sorry for the moment because Ji-woo blamed herself to the point of being so sad because I asked Ji-yeon to push the kids hard, but now there was no use in saying sorry.
That’s why I put my hand on Jiwoo’s fluffy hair, hiding his sorry feelings and smiling instead.
“Qualification is overflowing. Who is the chosen idol? But if you don’t trust Ji-woo and you’re so worried, should we do a special training session with the kids behind me?”
“Is this a special training…?”
“Yes, there is a special training I did when I was young. If you do this, you will be able to last longer than anyone else. How about it, would you like to raise an underdog rebellion?”
At my words, Ji-ji wiped away the tears of sadness and self-reproach that had been in his eyes until just now, and then answered as vigorously as always.
“······Yes! I’ll do it! Let’s do it right now!”
“No, not right now. You are exhausted today You can’t exercise.”
“Ex. So when do you do it?”
“When the time comes and you feel better? Anyway, I can’t do it today, but since I can’t practice anyway, let’s go somewhere with me.”
“Where are you going?”
I cutely tilted my head and answered with a grin when Jiwoo asked.
“To meet the fifth member.”