In This Life, The Greatest Star In The Universe

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: Rxel

Chapter 75

The situation was going weird.

Maybe it was because of the rain.

Woojoo’s head was fuzzy, and he felt like his brain couldn’t keep up with the many things happening in front of his eyes.

You know what he meant.

Like when you were watching a movie in a drowsy state, but the plot slipped through your fingers like sand.

The scenes kept flowing, but you were just blinking in front of the TV.

He was blinking, but his hands were moving.

“What’s your child’s name?”

“Doyeon, Lee Doyeon.”

“Your daughter has a very pretty name.”

“He’s a boy.”

“…”

He coughed awkwardly, and the man with the impressive arms signed the paper he handed Woojoo.

His hands are trembling from the cold.

Thank you, he said as he left, and then a woman came and asked if she could take a picture with him.

“Yes, of course.”

Woojoo pushed back the hair that stuck to his forehead and took a selfie with her.

She thanked him for the song and left, and he took a deep breath.

He looked around and saw that his brothers were also surrounded by people.

He was out of it.

It was thirty minutes ago.

They changed their clothes and had a short interview with Gyeonggi TV after the pump was fixed and they returned to the car.

They were about to leave when they were stopped by some other people.

One was a city hall employee who said the mayor wanted to meet them and thank them personally and asked if they could wait a moment.

The other one was.

“Shit, we’re so late!”

…That was the line that came with the handsome boys.

When they flinched, the member with the blond hair came over and asked if New Black had time for them to apologize.

They said yes.

It wasn’t a bad thing.

Meanwhile, the Teen Spirit members ran out of breath to the event hall, spitting out curses one, two… maybe thirty.

So they decided to wait for about thirty minutes until the event was over.

The problem was that they didn’t know they would run into the audience coming down after the festival while they were waiting for the people they promised.

Someone started with a ‘Huh?’ and it quickly turned into a ‘Wow!’ of admiration, and then people poured in in no time.

It was awkward.

They didn’t have much experience with ordinary people coming up and talking to them.

They all looked amazed, and they came up and greeted New Black with a smile.

They asked them how old they were, what their names were, and how they liked the song…

Woojoo was out of it.

He nodded to the people who complimented them on their looks or singing, smiled with the people who laughed, signed if they wanted a signature, and took a picture if they wanted a picture.

They were very tired, but it was a chance to make a good impression, so they acted as sincerely as possible.

Woojoo felt like he was reaching his limit…

His eyes were losing strength, and he kept dropping the market in his hand, so Seokhwan Hyung stepped in to control the traffic.

“I’m sorry. Our kids have a schedule soon. We’ll only give signatures or pictures to the people here.”

Minki Hyung also joined in and started to disperse the people around them.

Leaving only about a dozen people nearby.

They secretly gave signed CDs to the people who left complaining.

But the people kept coming, so they finally moved to a less crowded place.

Woojoo was out of it.

They were able to breathe when they arrived at a quiet place.

They got out of the car that was a mess with wet clothes and sweat smell and collapsed on the ground, and the brothers gathered around.

His butt was almost wet, but Rihyuk spread a big portable mat.

Woojoo asked him why he carried such a thing, but he didn’t answer.

They sat on the mat and caught their breath.

“Wow.”

Jiho, who was sitting behind Woojoo and had his arm around his shoulder, pointed to the sky.

“Hyungs, look at the sky. It’s crazy. It’s the prettiest thing I’ve seen recently.”

He said he would show it to his sisters and took a lot of pictures with his phone.

They laughed at him and turned their heads to the sky.

Some possible ways to continue the conversation were:

It was really splendid, just like Jiho said.

The stars that were sprinkled on the dark blue night sky.

Maybe it was because the rain had stopped.

The weather that had been hot all day was cool.

The night breeze that came from somewhere shook the grass and trees, and the cool touch of the wind tickled their skin along with the sound of insects.

It was a night that made Woojoo feel sentimental for no reason.

“…”

Woojoo felt strange.

Should he say that what happened today already felt faint?

Teen Spirit was late because of the rain, and the fact that they barely managed to continue the stage with a patchwork was still shocking and unbelievable.

While Woojoo was lost in that thought.

His eyes went to the member who decorated the beginning and the end of the whole incident.

Junghyun was staring at the sky.

He was handsome, too, when Woojoo looked at him.

He always did funny things or said absurd things, but he looked handsome when he closed his mouth like this.

Should Woojoo say he looked like a handsome athlete?

The way he looked at the sky now also felt like something he would see in an outdoor advertisement.

“Hyung.”

“Yeah?”

“I don’t know if it’s just me, but…” Junghyun asked with a serious face, “Aren’t you hungry?”

“…”

“I’m so hungry that I can’t see the sky.”

Woojoo felt like it was broken again.

He resented himself for admiring him just a moment ago.

On the other hand, Woojoo laughed at the thought that he was like himself.

“Hungry? Wait a minute, I’ll see what I have.”

“I have snacks.”

When Bijoo reached for the bag in the car, Jiho rummaged through his pocket and pulled out a bunch of snacks.

How did he hide them?

Seokhwan Hyung, who would have scolded him for not controlling his diet if it was normal, just laughed in disbelief.

The managers were also hungry, and seven pairs of hands reached for the snacks.

“Wow, Wang Jiho has grown a lot. He even treats his Hyungs to snacks.”

“That’s right. You should be grateful, Hyungs. I’m giving you the treasure that I hid from the boss’s eyes and ears.”

“Where did you hide it?”

“That’s a secret.”

“Why do you have so many secrets?”

“You have to have some secrets and show some unfamiliar sides to be attractive. Look, Junghyun Hyung was cool today because he did that.”

They laughed at someone’s proud expression.

“Anyway, you worked hard. Junghyun too.”

Woojoo put a caramel in his mouth and looked around his brothers.

“You all worked hard. I couldn’t say anything before we went up, but thank you for following my words to do trot all of a sudden.”

“Oh, it’s started. The cheesy words.”

“…”

“Stop whining and talk after you eat.”

“…”

Woojoo melted the caramel quickly and spoke again.

“Anyway, thank you for following me even when I suddenly went down the stage. You also lifted the stage atmosphere well, and you must have been tired from getting wet in the rain.”

“It was really hard. I don’t think I can do it again.”

“I liked it.” Bijoo said with a smile, “It feels like it will be a memory when it passes.”

“Me too.”

“What am I supposed to be if you guys say that…”

“I like it now, too.”

After that, a pleasant silence flowed.

It wasn’t just Woojoo, but it seemed that the kids also felt the things that happened today were amazing and unusual.

There were times like that.

When you were so tired that your eyes closed, but you had a feeling that it would feel like a good memory when you looked back.

They shared that feeling without words, but Jiho changed the topic.

“By the way, speaking of memories, I remembered something.”

The youngest member took out his phone carefully.

“How about we take a selfie? The sky is so beautiful right now, and I found the perfect angle earlier. Let’s leave some proof that we were here.”

“A selfie?”

“Maybe the fans heard about this event too. We should let our Soufflés know that we’re doing well and make some memories.”

“Oh, that sounds good.”

They nodded at each other and gathered in one spot.

Soon, the youngest member connected his selfie stick and opened the camera app.

“…”

He closed it again.

“Guys, this is a bit difficult.”

“I know, right?”

“We look so haggard. And someone is making us look even worse by comparison.”

“Should we fix ourselves up and try again?”

The five idols who had been battered by the wind quickly regained their confidence with the help of a wireless curling iron, BB cream, and tint.

Oh, and a beauty filter too.

“Okay, then let’s take it. One, two, three…!”

And the result was quite satisfactory.

With Junghyun in the center.

They five were smiling brightly together.

***

One hour after the Moonlight Festival in 2014.

Posts appeared on the official SNS accounts of each group.

@The_New_Black_Official

A photo with the Hyungs after the Icheon Moonlight Festival event!! ㅎㅎ It was such a fun time today!!

#happy #love_you_souffle #selfie_is_best_with_maknae #managers_are_awesome_too #why_does_Rihyuk_Hyung_keep_saying_he_is_the_best

@TSprit_Love

Together with The New Black. Thank you so much for today.

There were photos of the New Black members with excited faces, and photos of Teen Spirit and New Black smiling together.

As the fans who attended the event uploaded their fancams one by one.

“…?”

Just as she finished her overnight work and stretched, a fan with the nickname ‘Woojoo, your face is welfare’ logged into the fan cafe and tilted her head.

‘What’s going on?’

She had just come in to see the boys’ faces and heal herself.

But there were a lot of posts.

At first, she thought it was because of the sales pitch she had posted in the green room yesterday about ‘Soufflé’.

But she soon realized that it wasn’t.

-Fancam of the event by a Teen Spirit fan 1080p

-More selfies are up

-[[Capture]] Jiho’s expression at today’s event.gif

-The New Black just appeared on GBS Gyeonggi Morning Newsㅋㅋㅋ

She narrowed her eyes and scrolled down.

‘What’s going on.’

It seemed like a lot had happened in just one night.

***

The finale of the festival was warm.

Teen Spirit, who had finished their performance, brought their manager and came to them to apologize.

With a sincere expression of ‘thank you so much’.

The direct words of gratitude from the 10-year-old boys who had been through a storm made the road manager behind them thoughtful, while they were busy holding back their laughter.

After that, the mayor came with his staff and had the same purpose.

He thanked them for finishing the event well.

He said he would repay them with something good, so they thanked him, but seeing Seokhwan Hyung’s face brighten up as he talked with the city hall staff, it seemed like there was something.

Anyway, after finishing the event that day.

They returned to their normal lives and enjoyed their small happiness.

“Wow…”

The waiting room of the music show ‘Popular Singer’.

They were crowded on a narrow chair, and Lemon Entertainment’s YouTube account popped up in front of them.

“Look at the views. They went up a lot.”

“Check the number again. You might have seen it wrong.”

“One, ten, hundred, thousand… It seems right?”

The views of the Fireworks music video had gone up quite a bit.

After hitting a million, the graph that had been flat started to rise sharply.

Rihyuk stuck out his tongue.

“I’ve only heard of fancams, but I never expected them to be this amazing.”

“They say that these kinds of events produce legendary fancams.”

Junghyun, who had been browsing a music site, handed Woojoo his phone as if to show him something.

“Hyung, have you seen this?”

“What is it?”

“The real-time chart rankings have skyrocketed.”

This time, they all gathered around Junghyun’s phone and gasped.

Fireworks and Night Sea had climbed up the real-time chart rankings.

“What’s going on?”

“13th and 105th? Is this for real?”

“Well, it’s better than Something, right?”

True, it was less shocking than when they were number one on the real-time chart, but it was still unbelievable.

Woojoo’s heart was pounding.

What was happening, really?

The reason why they were experiencing this happy event was nothing else but…

[Fancam] 140718 New Black – Night Sea/Something/Please Stay With Me @Icheon_Moonlight_Festival_Special_Stage

…A video with that title.

Fancam.

A term commonly used to refer to videos of various performances recorded with high-quality cameras at broadcasts or events.

Usually, there were two types of fancamers.

Those who professionally recorded and uploaded videos of various singers, or those who were fans of a certain group and recorded and uploaded videos of that group mainly.

The person who uploaded their video was the latter.

80% of the videos on the list were of Teen Spirit, and 20% were of other groups that they occasionally recorded at events.

Woojoo didn’t know the exact explanation, but maybe they had some spare time while waiting for Teen Spirit that day and decided to record them.

But it was incredibly high-quality.

The quality was so good that you could see their smiling faces clearly in the rain.

The video had a lot of views and comments, since it was uploaded by a fancamer with many subscribers.

The most talked-about part was the trot song they sang at the end.

To be precise, it was more about their attitude than the song.

-They’re all smiling even though it’s raining;;

[email protected]:38 ㅋㅋ they’re so cute

-They’re not like rookies, they’re good at performing. I was just watching Night Sea and Something, but I was impressed by the trot part.

-They have professionalism, but also sense. Turning off the lights and passing it on was cool

Jiho drawing a heart was also well-received, but the stage direction where they passed it on to Song Bohyung was especially impressive.

-Do you know? That was an improvised stage.

-??

-Explanation) That day, Teen Spirit had a car accident, so they filled in for them.

-That was improvised??

After that, the comments changed, and there were a lot of surprised reactions about the fact that the stage was improvised.

Well.

Woojoo didn’t know how this fancam led to the music video of Fireworks.

There were countless possibilities.

Maybe Teen Spirit fans came to watch the fancam and saw them, or maybe someone who saw it posted a link on another site, or maybe someone who was at the event that day spread the word.

But what was certain was that the makeshift stage they stood on Friday turned out to be a good thing.

“Just a sec, I’ll call the PR team and come back.”

Yoon Seokhwan left the waiting room with a pleased expression.

He was very happy that good news came to end their activities.

Of course, they felt the same.

“Wow, look at this, Hyung. Our Soufflés are going crazy.”

“Hyung, there are a lot of compliments on the stage direction. They say you have sense. That’s why I just commented that it was your idea, Hyung.”

“Wow, he’s good at rapping. I have to like this.”

“What? Why is it only about Wang Jiho? I sang the song.”

The faces that had been groaning with cold medicine yesterday were gone, and everyone was smiling and shining their eyes.

Looking at the fan cafe posts, their Soufflés were also happy.

Everyone was happy, and so was Woojoo.

The only reason why Woojoo couldn’t fully feel that feeling was because he was too nervous and tired that day, and because he took a nasal spray this morning and his head was fuzzy.

Anyway, Woojoo was glad that they could finish our activities in a splendid way.

When he was thinking that, Jiho said something as if he remembered something, “Oh, we have to do that soon.”

“What?”

“You know. What was it that we said we would do? Oh! ‘We Go to the Scene’.”

They all gasped.

They had forgotten about it because they were distracted by the fancam.

They had filmed them that day at GyeonggiTV.

They said the footage was transferred to a lifestyle information program from the same station.

Woojoo wondered how it would turn out… Ah, ah.

“Achoo!”

Woojoo sneezed and shivered with a cold.

Rihyuk moved away from him with a disgusted look.

Junghyun handed him a whole box of tissues, and Bijoo poured him some warm barley tea while he looked at the smartphone that the youngest had set up on the table.

The DMB screen showed ads for housing subscriptions and insurance.

Woojoo wondered how they would look.

As they all waited with anticipation.

The broadcast began as the logo of ‘Going to the Scene’ disappeared.