When Chae Seodam brought up the story of a 'recording', the atmosphere suddenly changed to typical.
I mean, it was funny.
'What is this bastard saying?'
No matter what he recorded, if he wanted to use it, wasn't it standard to keep your mouth shut and then set the timing?
Why was he giving us time to deal with it with his own mouth?
'Well, he meant to take the initiative by intimidation.'
No way, he was trying to make me flustered by yelling that he would release the recording.
Well, I wondered what he would do if I said that the recording would put me into trouble, and what he would do if I said it wouldn't
I immediately opened my mouth.
"You know that third-party recording is illegal, Chae Seodam-ssi."
"Yes? Ah… I was trying to record my daily life, and I asked because I didn't want to include stories that would cause trouble for the sunbaenims in the background."
Chae Seodam bowed his head.
"I am so sorry if this was a sensitive conversation!"
Oh.
If we said that it was sensitive, there were weak points, and if we said that it was not sensitive, would he say that he would make the grounds for prosecution disappear?
I crossed my arms and laughed.
I was right. He was trying to make me angry.
"Hmm… I think there are a lot of things like this. It's an illegal invasion of privacy."
Forget it. Illegal?
However, this bastard's subsequent behavior was different.
"Yes! I am also careful not to do that. For now, I'll delete anything that I recorded of sunbaenim."
Chae Seodam took out a button-shaped tape recorder from his back pocket.
'Is it a Bluetooth type?'
Then, he took out his smartphone and played the recorded file in front of my eyes.
- Well, I don't know where this place is.
-My leg hurts…
Behind Chae Seodam's voice, who seemed to be sitting in front of the door, speaking out loud on purpose, I could hear a faint sound…
I wasn't sure, but it seemed that the sound in the waiting room was heard because the tape recorder was attached to the crack in the door.
-Aiming for the grand prize…
Oh, did he come in from there?
It was a viral marketing story.
I confirmed the faint voice of Cheongryeo.
And Chae Seodam immediately pressed the recording file to completely delete it.
"It's deleted."
"Ah, yes."
Should I clap? I nodded and looked at him.
"… …"
He looked bewildered.
Was I calmer than he thought I'd be?
Did he think that if he played the recording myself, I would be nervous while reliving our past conversations? It was good to dream.
"Anything else to say?"
"No. Then, I'll be going now. I'm sorry for bothering you, sunbaenims."
The guy bowed his head and turned around.
I checked the rest of the 'Sunbaenims' mentioned by Chae Seodam.
Cheongryeo.
"… …"
The guy was staring at the bastard that turned around.
'That… .'
At that time, Chae Seodam suddenly looked back and spoke.
"However… Sunbaenim, do you trust me?"
"… !"
What kind of bullshit was this?
"I'm really sorry, but I don't know much about machines. I wonder if there will be any problem in case of being hacked somewhere…"
"It's a recording."
He did a performance to delete it, but he actually has it. What kind of anxiety was he trying to create?
'I can see the outline of how he lives.'
He kept trying to check the opponent's reaction. He seemed to have a talent for catching pods and making leaps.
But there was such a difference in weight class, so it was such a stupid thing… Oh, was it a calculation he made because it seems like I had more to lose?
"Hmm. Then I think Seodam-ssi will be in trouble."
"… Me?"
"Yes. Idols who secretly record other people's conversations… That is."
I leaned against the door.
"I would be careful."
It meant that the moment the recording exploded, I would drag him in.
Chae Seodam raised his head defiantly at the moment, but soon bowed again.
"… Thanks for the advice."
Then he walked quickly and disappeared across the hallway.
'Funny bastard.'
I didn't know why he was trying to end everything on his own after barely making his debut… He wanted to be ruined, so what could I do?
I shrugged and lifted my head.
It depended on how well that bastard's recording went… Should I add up the disadvantages there would be if I let it go?
'Is it informal and viral marketing?'
Both were negative factors. If I had to argue, I could organize the keywords into 'attitude controversy' and 'public deception'.
- No matter how friendly he is, why is he like this? Is it true that he's walking away?
- You said he was a puppy, and he was really a dog at the level of a bitch ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Everything was planned, pretending it was a coincidence, from the VTIC dance, to the heavy rain performance.
Was this the expected answer?
However, if I was asked if it would be fatal, it was still questionable.
'It's not good to get cursed at a lot.'
However, if both had enough reserve time, defense was possible. After all, it was a frame problem.
In particular, if I matched the words with the person I was talking to, it could end in a typhoon in a teacup…
"It's fun."
… Even if this bastard released the recording, maybe it was because he'd be the only one who would lose a lot, so I wasn't too nervous.
No, from that other bastard's point of view, wasn't it actually a benefit if it exploded?
In this confrontational situation, the greater the minus of TeStar, the more VTIC was bound to benefit.
'Somehow he didn't open his mouth.'
I kneaded the back of my neck and went back into the waiting room. I was thinking of doing something to deal with it until the others came.
However, a question arose behind the scenes.
"I wonder what to do."
"Why are you curious about that, sunbaenim?"
"Since I was the one who told you to speak informally, I think I should cooperate. Um, what kind of grudge relationship do you have with him?"
"Resentment?"
Was there even such a thing?
I honestly didn't understand. In the first place, we only had one point of contact, so would that be enough for the aggro that would come with the recording?
'It's just that I'm X, so everyone should be X.'
Don't ask me about the psychology of a terrorist.
However, the part that Cheongryeo pointed out again was clear.
"It doesn't look like there's a direction course of action… This is also a unique case."
"… … "
Hmm.
Yep, that was exactly what I imagined…
"Then I would like you to tell me what you are going to do."
"Well… report it."
I finished the text I wrote and sent it. Since Chae Seodam started threatening right away, he must have thought that I would be prepared if he exploded the recording, unless he was hard-headed.
If so, he would definitely do extra work instead of popping it right away.
'Pull out all the risks.'
It was true that if gossip broke out somehow, it'd be a loss, so first of all, I had to observe.
Until the purpose of the careless guy was revealed and his weakness came out.
• * *
A few days later, I got off work early for the first time in a while and was lying on the sofa in the living room.
"Moondaemoondae, what is this?"
"What."
Keun Sejin put his smartphone above my head.
It was an interview transcript.
The question was 'close acquaintances in the entertainment industry'.
The interviewees… It was
Chae Seodam: Recently, I received advice from TeStar's Park Moondae sunbaenim. He guided me very kindly, so I thought a lot that I should work hard.
… …
This was an interview of a common rookie who drew aggro by talking about friendship with a popular senior.
But the problem was that the senior and the newcomer were me and Chae Seodam.
"I asked Heeseung right away, and he says he continues to answer like this even now."
"… …"
"Look."
Keun Sejin changed the screen.
[Heeseung: Is he really close to Moondae? An unimaginable development]
… Gold 2. This guy appeared on a survival program twice and seemed to be completely soaked in Internet buzzwords.
In any case, the situation was understood.
'Is he trying to use my name value?'
Chae Seodam seemed to be spinning his head like this.
He was using this as a plus factor as much as possible in his own situation where public opinion was bad. Right now, his fans were accepting it as a good story even though they were embarrassed.
'It's just provoking to the limit.'
It seemed that he intended to take advantage of it until the limit where I thought of the risk and stood still.
In addition, if I contacted him personally here, got angry or showed a negative reaction, that would be recorded as well. It was intertwined.
'A clever bastard.'
I had been doing something similar for a long time.
… Of course, no matter what analysis I did, the immediate situation was different than this.
Keun Sejin put down his smartphone and asked me a question.
"So, Moondae-ssi. Why did this bastard suddenly think of spelling out the name Park Moondae?"
"… …"
"Has something happened?"
This question.
And this was something that no matter how well-prepared and deterred I was, it could pose a risk to the team.
I decided to make it all clear.
"Wait, I want everyone to gather in the living room."
It was time for the sacrament of confession.
And after a while…
"Therefore… Are you saying you talked informally to Cheongryeo sunbaenim?"
"…Yes."
"… …"
I thought they would curse at each other with their eyes, but surprisingly, in the eyes of the two with the same name, a sign of understanding passed. What?
"Okay… The order was like that, so the two of us were together."
"Good job!"
Oh, these two guys knew the cause of my holiday dog fight. They seemed to think I said it because I didn't feel the need to be respectful to him.
But the other guys seem curious. Ryu Chungwoo murmured.
"Good job… ?"
"Ah, that, ahem, that guy once harassed Park Moondae!"
"… !!"
"… What? When?"
Now was not the time to talk about that.
I cut off the conversation between Ryu Chungwoo and Bae Sejin. Kim Raebin's eyes were about to pop out.
"It was a while ago, but I had to be careful at the broadcasting station anyway, so I'm sorry. And he asked me if I planned everything out with our song, and I didn't deny it."
"I'm sorry about this too."
"No!! The person who recorded it is bad! There is nothing wrong with Moondae hyung!"
"That's right. How could someone do such a rude and malicious thing…"
They looked like they were being cursed at, but they were good at speed. I held back a bitter laugh.
"Thanks, but a mistake is a mistake anyway. It's my fault. I must have been careless."
"… Moondaemoondae, how can a person live with tension all the time?"
Keun Sejin wrapped his arm around my shoulders and muttered quickly.
"It's okay! Being recorded by a guy who hasn't even debuted yet? You should tell everyone right away…"
"Th-then! I… Let me tell them!"
What?
Suddenly, Seon Ahyeon, who had been listening quietly, clenched his fists.
"That guy… If I tell people that he has been mean to me, and that he's been bullying too…"
"Ahyeon-ah??"
"Ahyeon-ah, that's not it!"
Suddenly, the living room became noisy. And I agreed with this response.
'If he brings up a sensitive issue like school violence when there is no evidence…'
Wouldn't it just be a muddy fight without any benefits for Seon Ahyeon?
"Seon Ahyeon, it's better to let go of the informal language and just shoot Seodam as the recorder."
Bae Sejin chipped in.
"Yeah! It's better to speak informally like Park Moondae!"
Hey.
"You can just ask that madman to make excuses! Otherwise sure…"
"Suddenly?"
"… … … Well, anyway, you just have to make it clear that it was okay to speak like that."
Bae Sejin shrank at Ryu Chungwoo's question, who did not know the details. Did he think that he shouldn't say more than that because he was not the person involved?
'Well, threatening to release evidence… It must have been a story to just report it.'
Well, that was one of the ways.
And Ryu Chungwoo began to organize the atmosphere.
"Okay. Anyway, don't worry too much if it's something you haven't been able to say since you've been struggling until now…"
"Ah, I've done the work."
"Work?"
"I also recorded it."
"… … ??"
I picked up my smartphone and showed it. It was a recording file.
"I've been doing it since he made me speak informally."
If there was nothing wrong with it, there'd be no problem if I deleted it right away. No matter what he did, there was nothing to lose by saving it.
And the reaction was 'I knew it' from the people around me… No, how did they know that?
"As expected of Moondaemoondae."
"Wow…"
Yes, well, that was good.
"I have already talked to the company about it."
The moment I was about to say that there was nothing to worry about…
Seon Ahyeon raised his hand again.
"Me too… I have something."
"… !!"
"A recording?"
"Oh, no."
Seon Ahyeon lifted his head and spoke firmly with a trembling voice.
"There is a record of counseling at that time, Moondae… !"
"… !"
"Of course, I stopped quickly, but… If I find it, the data would surely remain."
Seon Ahyeon finished his speech clearly.
"To you, I'd like you to use it if it would help…"
… With that said, there were two directions to deal with this.
How to make Chae Seodam quietly disappear from the industry.
And the other… It was a way to make him suffer.
"Let's do the latter."
Okay.
That was how the balance calculation was right.
That day, I called the last worker at dawn after the meeting.
-Have you made up your mind?
"Yes."
He picked up right away because he was overseas.
"Please cooperate."