Chapter 73
The national managers were desperately wanting to see spoilers for the third round.
It will be a stage that will have a huge impact on the 3rd ranking announcement ceremony, where tickets to the final round are given.
"Oh, preview about Yoon-chul?"
"Karis for me."
The two sisters were also eagerly waiting for new news.
Pyo Joo-hyun swiped down the screen of her phone while resting her chin on her hand.
"Is it normal for it to come out this late?"
"I keep refreshing, but the tweets from my friends in the audience haven't appeared yet. Is there a delay?"
"I wish they could write something right away on their way out."
Perhaps even Pyo Joo-hyun herself didn't know.
She never thought she would become attracted to Karis von Walden so quickly.
She looked at all the tweets that were posted recently.
She also checked out the videos people proudly took.
She also voted consistently every day.
And when Karis's rank rose, she felt an overwhelming sense of happiness that her efforts had paid off.
That's why she was even more curious about what kind of performance Karis would show in this competition.
Pyo Ji-hyun, who was diligently monitoring the timeline with Pyo Joo-hyun, suddenly let out an exclamation.
"Crazy, Ji Yoon-chul preview is out."
"Where, where? Show me too."
Although this isn't a preview of Karis von Walden, she can get an idea of what the other trainees' concepts would look like.
Sometimes, her favorite appears behind someone else's preview.
But unfortunately, the news related to Ji Yoon-chul did not mention Karis' face or name.
"Wow, unni. Yoon-chul and Hyung-bin are on the same team."
"Did people just post Karis's posts without tags? Why isn't anything showing up?"
"That's not important right now. This time, his face is at the level where the dice roll is 7?"
Pyo Ji-hyun laughed heartily as she held out her cell phone.
Ji Yoon-chul in the preview is.... Well, he is definitely handsome, but he still looks too young.
Pyo Joo-hyun nodded lukewarmly and expressed his feelings as they were.
"It's just your style. It looks too young for me."
"Yeah~ I told you from the beginning. You'll like it when you see Karis."
"Ah, so, did all the fans go to Estonia? Why is everything coming up except for Karis?"
Before they knew it, it was already well past 1 AM.
Pyo Joo-hyun was so hungry that she cooked some ramen and went back to her room, where a surprise gift had arrived for her.
It was a notification from a fan account of Karis that she was following.
As she entered the Blue Bird with an excited heart, a truly unexpected photo greeted her.
[2X0406 Karis #Karis #Karisvonwalden #Karis]
"... Hey, look, look."
"Karis is finally here?"
Pyo Ji-hyun opened her eyes wide when she saw the preview of Karis, which was full of refreshing energy.
"Crazy, it was refreshing? Is it real?"
Karis went with a charismatic concept for both the first and second stages.
He left a mature yet strong impression by putting on heavy eye makeup and wearing dark clothes.
The preview that came out this time showed off completely opposite coordination.
White jacket and light blue jeans.
Light makeup that makes his white skin tone stand out even more.
With that refreshing smile on his face while dressed like this, it really was like a scene from a boys' manga.
"Wow, but his face is a big deal. He's not awkward at all. I honestly thought it would be very awkward if Karis did a refreshing concept. His face is definitely a possibility."
"It would look good if you put a hairband or something on it."
"Just look at Karis' face. He would look good in any clothes."
Pyo Joo-hyun was speechless at the weighty fact that her younger sister had given.
Other people were also just exclaiming in quotations.
—Suja plus refreshing concept?
―God of the face, authority of the face, ruler of the face, master of the face, oh, it's annoying to write, f*ck, anyway, it is about the face
―This guy is easy to take pictures of, even if you don't focus on him. When it was the other group's turn before, Karis was always hanging next to them in the pictures, but they all turned out well.
└Can you please give me a Karis one shot? Please.
└Ah.... Sorry, I don't have time, so I'll stop here.
—Karis ya is cute
It seemed like people who had been watching the concert were starting to have time to look at their phones.
Starting with this preview, various spoilers and simple stories started to appear here and there.
―2X0406 3rd competition thread... I'll write it down as I remember♥
└As expected by everyone, it was a concept battle!! There were 5 teams in total, and each song had two intense ones, a dreamy, refreshing, and sexy feel to it...?? Deep house, synth-pop, funk-pop.... I'm not good at distinguishing between genres, so just use this as a reference
└The ones that got the most reactions were Bet On You (hardcore) and Starburst (refreshing), but the top members that I remember are
BetOnYou: Song Hyung-bin, Ji Yoon-chul
Starburst: Chae Eun-gyu, Karis, Yoo Min-ha, Baek Si-hwa
I think it went in like this. There might be more!! I might have been ignorant....
└Bet on You was a deep house genre and the choreography was really intenseㅠ It's not an easy listening song that you can sing along to, but it was of a quality that I could put on my playlist and listen to over and over again. As for the song alone, I like Bet on You more!! The center is Ji Yoon-chul
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└Starburst is synth-pop and I think this is the most popular pick out of the five songs! It had an easy-to-sing-along chorus, but I forgot it all when I got home and started writing hehe
The center here is a bit confusingㅠ Everyone comes out to the center quite often... But I think how Min-ha is always the center in the chorus, it seems like the center is Yoo Min-ha!
└And then Karis completely tore up the killing part in the middle of this song and the audience flipped over.... You have to check it out on the live broadcast....
"Hey, I heard Ji Yoon-chul and Song Hyung-bin are on the same team?"
"I was watching that too. Ha, no, I wish Yoon-chul had thought about it before choosing his team. He did well being the center, but if he faces Song Hyung-bin, he'll just lose all his screen time. Why on earth would the guy with the least screen time out of the top three be on the same team as Song Hyung-bin? Ah, it's frustrating."
"But if he continues to stick with Song Hyung-bin, he might be able to get caught on camera more often. Maybe it will happen that way?"
"But somehow, aren't Karis group members so great? "
That's true.
Honestly, if 1st and 3rd place were tied, they would be called the dream team.
The group that Karis belongs to ended up coexisting in 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th places.
First, let's take a closer look at the immediate reactions.
―I just looked around and saw that it was different from the original.
Dance: Bet On You Song: Starburst This seems right yeah everyone said it was good
└Were the other songs not that great? You don't say anything about them.
└I don't know because I didn't go to the competitionㅋㅋㅋ But judging from the atmosphere, it wasn't bad, but I think it was relatively overshadowed because Bet On U and Starburst were so good
└Hey, comment above, I went to the competition. Do you have a question??
└How was the team with Eukk nen [Heo Yu-bin]? Please, I'm really really curious. Eukk nen is my favorite, but everyone only talks about Starburst ㅠ
└The title of the song by Eukk nen's team is Deeper&Deeper and Eukk nen sings the whole song by himselfㅋㅋㅋ He sings all the high, low, and mid-range notes, he carries them allㅠ
└Please save 19-year-old Eukk nen, who became the head of a boy group.
―Hyung nen and Yoon Fe's visuals really look great together
└But really, the center was Yoon Fe? Not Hyung Kong?
└It feels like Hyung Kong has given in....
└Last time, he gave the center to Suma, but this time he gave it to Yoon Fe ㅠ
└No, it's not that he gave in, it's that they decided that because Suma and Yoon Fe were better suited for the center. Stop raising Hyung nen. F**k.
└Who are those fans who always get all worked up whenever Hyung Kong is mentioned? It's so frustrating.
―The Starburst Center Eukk ha [Yoo Minha] was so cute ㅠㅠㅠ
Let's just go ahead and shoot a pocari commercial with that outfit and that look (•ᴗ•)
└I thought the Center would be Geung Gyu or Suma, and they were just using Eukk ha to draw aggro, but it was real
└Really?? Not Geung Gyu or Suma?
└Yeah the power of Eukk ha was also activated on stage, but in a good way
└Ah, f*ck ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
"It's a bit disappointing that he was not the center."
"Karis might have given in on purpose. If he's the center this time, isn't he the center for the third time in a row? Even Song Hyung-bin, who is in first place, couldn't be the center except for the first round, so if he keeps monopolizing the center, he'll definitely get criticized. Also, since it was his first time doing a refreshing song, he might have felt burdened."
As expected, her younger sister is a survival addict.
Pyo Joo-hyun thought for a moment about a logical answer.
'It's better to take a break from the center than to have weird evil dogs come rushing in like last time.'
Even according to the spoiler, it looks like there was a solo part for Karis, so she can keep her anticipation high.
"But how crazy must it have been for them to say it flipped over?"
"I looked at the account of the person who wrote the spoiler post, and she's a fan of Karis. Isn't she just overreacting because she's in heaven every time he gets a solo shot?"
"Probably not her favorite very much, maybe...."
While she was chatting with her younger sister like that,.
—Starburst Karis Bridge Part crazy
A 6-second long video was uploaded to the timeline.
"Wow, this person took a video?"
"Crazy... But why is the image quality like this?"
As Pyo Ji-hyun said, the video boasted extremely low picture quality.
The focus shakes rapidly even with small movements, so it probably feels like the zoom was pulled all the way in from a distance.
—What is the name of this feeling now?
Love
Karis' voice came through the speakers.
Pyo Joo-hyun opened her eyes wide with all her might and looked at her favorite in the low-quality image.
Karis paused just before the last verse, making something with his hands.
A very unique heart is made with only the index and middle fingers.
Soon he was blowing lightly, his fingers flowing from side to side.
"...."
"...."
For a moment, the two sisters were silent.
Even without saying a word, they could tell what each other was thinking through the look in each other's eyes.
This was it.
The moment that those who attended the show chose as the best scene.
Even in the miserable picture quality that almost seemed to have deteriorated, Karis' beautiful appearance did its job fervently.
Slightly downward-looking eyes and a high nose bridge.
The low voice and unique choreography combined to create a truly memorable scene that will never fade from your mind.
When Pyo Joo-hyun reflexively pressed the retweet button, she saw the number jump into the hundreds in real time.
Looking at the vertically rising units that felt truly unrealistic, Pyo Joo-hyun spoke quietly to her younger sister.
"... 3rd vote, do you think we'll get Fever Time much faster?"
"If we keep this pace? First, the competition stage has to come up properly."
Karis, who rose to 4th place and reached the concrete floor of the building.
She is more excited than ever to see what kind of drama the results of this third round of voting will bring.
* * *
"Next in line!"
The third round, which will be episodes 9 and 10, has been completely recorded.
The trainees will have a few days to rest as the third global vote will be held over a period of two weeks.
Before leaving for home, there will be an interview time to share your thoughts on finishing the third round.
So currently, the youngest writer is busy taking notes and talking with the trainees.
"Hello."
"Ah, trainee Karis! You can sit over here."
"Okay."
Next up is trainee Karis von Walden.
The youngest writer looked at his extraordinary appearance and inwardly admired him.
'I'm surprised every time I see him up close.'
Perfect facial features, as if created by God himself.
Not only is he visually outstanding, but they also said he had practiced like crazy every day to improve his skills.
It makes her think that it is a perfect whole with no gaps.
"Hmm, hmm. Then, can we begin the interview?"
"Yes, please take care of me."
The writer asked prepared questions and took careful notes on Karis' answers.
'... Are you really from overseas?'
His Korean skills are so perfect that you'd believe he was born in Korea.
'Come to think of it, he always spoke in Korean during the ranking announcement ceremonies.'
Overseas trainees try to make the most of this by speaking in foreign languages at events like ranking announcements to capture the hearts of overseas fans.
She always found it surprising that Karis von Walden didn't do that.
The youngest writer immediately asked a question as soon as the thought occurred to her.
"And there's one thing I'm curious about."
"Yes."
"Trainee Karis is from Estonia, right? So I thought it would be special if you could send a message in Estonian or English to your parents and friends in your home country or to your overseas fans who are watching the broadcast. I wonder if you are willing to try it at the third ranking announcement."
"Ah."
The moment the word Estonian came up, Karis von Walden's calm expression wavered slightly.
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