Chapter 157
Originally, Karis von Walden's plan was this:
After asking the fan what his name was, she tried to say who she was and who the fan was, just like the video Kang Si-yoon showed him.
Unfortunately, the carefully planned operation did not go as planned.
"Who am I?"
"... ?"
Seleve was even more nervous because it was the first turn.
There, sitting in front of her was Karis, who had always been her favorite. Beyond the feeling of ecstasy, she felt her heart beat twice, no, three times faster.
In such a chaotic situation, she couldn't react properly when Karis suddenly asked her a question.
She was even more flustered because the questions were out of context and not part of the general flow.
"Uh...?"
As the woman stared blankly for a moment, Karis quickly realized the situation and asked the question again.
But the thought of somehow having to elicit the conversation I saw in the video made me even more embarrassed.
"Whose do I belong to?"
"Yes?"
It was a very burdensome question for the woman whose mind was still blank.
His ridiculously handsome crush, who looks like he was created using CG, suddenly asks him questions about who he is and who he belongs to.
As the strange silence returned, Karis cleared his throat again and quickly opened the album.
"Your name is Eun-ah. It's a very pleasant name."
"Tha, thank you?"
"Do you like mint chocolate? Hmm, there was a time when Yubin forced me to eat his mint chocolate frappe. Based on that time, I guess it wasn't so bad."
"Min, Minchofa [Mint chocolate fanatic]."
Just after I had barely finished answering the post-it question, the staff member's "Please move on~" interrupted their conversation.
The woman who had just finished meeting her favorite moved towards Yoo Min-ha, still in a dazed state.
'I wonder if the question didn't come out as expected.'
Karis, left alone for a moment, scratched his head and recalled the conversation just now.
I was left with a deep sense of regret.
I'm sure I said exactly what I saw in the video.
When fans do it, the words that come out naturally don't come out when I do it the other way around.
'Let's try this again later. This time, I'll move on to the next plan.'
Still, there were scenarios that had been prepared.
Karis thought to himself that it was fortunate that he had run numerous simulations with Kang Si-yoon.
Of course, not knowing that the conversation that had failed spectacularly earlier was captured on camera by some homemaker sitting in the second row.
For a moment, the front seat of Karis was empty, and several experienced hommas took advantage of the moment to call him.
"Karis!"
When Karis heard their voices, he instinctively recognized them.
The cries of those who have seized the golden opportunity to take the perfect photo without any obstacles.
With his excellent hearing, he was able to pinpoint the exact location where his name was heard and created the ball heart to fill the niche market.
The homma girls who were looking at Karis through the viewfinder groaned at the unexpected cuteness.
Soon a second Seleve sat down in front of Karis.
The first time she saw his face, she took a deep breath, but unlike the first fan, she spoke smoothly, giving off the air of a seasoned, experienced person.
"I heard that face chains are trendy these days, so I bought one. I've seen a lot of idols wearing them, but I don't think anyone looks better on them than Karis!"
"Did you really think so?"
"Of course! There can't be anyone more handsome than you."
"Haha, I think that's too much praise."
Karis opened the envelope the fan had handed him and took out a black face chain.
The shiny metal material felt quite cold.
"I want to use the chain right now, but I feel like it will take some time, so I don't think I can do it now."
"It's okay! Just do it later. I'm sitting right here in front of you."
"I promise I will definitely look that way."
As the conversation progressed with much more ease than before, Karis felt some of the mental burden lifted.
So, he put the next operation into action without delay.
"I prepared a two-line poem on a note, so could you please send me a rhyme―"
"I'll do it!"
The female fan nodded vigorously, her eyes showing great anticipation.
She was wondering if the 'something he had prepared' mentioned in Karis' private message yesterday was finally coming.
"Jjok!" [The sound of kissing]
"Did you just kiss me?"
Karis's stern and dignified voice echoed throughout the room.
Kang Si-yoon, who was signing autographs right next to him, barely managed to hold back his laughter.
Yoo Min-ha, who was communicating while looking at the fans' cameras, turned his head towards Karis to check if he heard correctly.
And Seleve, who confirmed the reaction from the VIP seats, made a face like the person before for a moment, wondering what was going on.
Silence flowed in that atmosphere.
Finally, she realized what Karis had said and burst into laughter.
"Fuhahaha...!"
It was something she shouldn't laugh out loud in front of Karis, so she covered her mouth like Kang Si-yoon and barely managed to stop herself from laughing.
At that very moment, the oblivious staff gave the order to move on to the next turn.
"I, I'm going, Karis! See you later! "
"Then, then let's do that."
Karis pursed his lips as he saw seleve off.
This time too, things didn't turn out as he had pictured.
'This isn't it.'
* * *
Of course, I thought it might not work out as expected.
But I didn't know it would fail like this one after another.
'I did it exactly as shown in the video.'
I thought that if I said back what fans said to their idols, I would definitely get a positive response.
Did I get tangled up somewhere without me knowing?
Or is it because of this tone that the atmosphere became strange?
Still, I consoled myself as positively as possible.
'... Since she laughed, that's it.'
I decided that I would prepare better for the next fan signing event than I did today.
If I send the fans away like this, what I said to Ji Yoon-chul will be in vain.
Oh. Now that I think about it, I told Ji Yoon-chul a few similar scenarios before I went to bed last night.
The moment I turned my eyes to the end of the table,.
"... Would you like me to write a two-line poem?"
"uh?"
Ji Yoon-chul was about to reveal the secret of the two-line poem I had told him with a very solemn expression on his face.
I was anxious because it was the same Seleve who had already ruined the two-line poem during my turn.
"I'll do it!"
"Let's try it with [U.YU.LO] milk."
"One, two, three! U!"
"...Unique and most beautiful person in our country?"
"...Yu!"
"Yu."
"Hahahaha!"
When Ji Yoon-chul finished his two-line poem without any change in expression, Seleve even applauded and burst into laughter.
I'm sure he wasn't expecting that kind of reaction.
But Ji Yoon-chul smiled faintly, showing his satisfaction.
As if he was glad that the gag he had prepared hit the mark.
'...But this isn't a gag.'
Still, everyone seems to be enjoying it.
When time was running out during Song Hyung-bin's turn, Kang Si-yoon took advantage of the gap to whisper to me.
"Hey, you don't have to be so serious! If you make it serious, it won't be sweet; it'll just be a joke."
"My tone makes everything sound so serious."
"Then there's nothing we can do about it.... Let's just have fun and enjoy it even if we fail."
"Hmm."
Maybe because he heard my ruined 2 line poem right next to me, Kang Si-yoon says it's okay.
I took a moment to appreciate it, eavesdropping on his conversation.
As expected, Kang Si-yoon, who has a gift for eloquence, had a really smooth conversation with his fans.
In the middle of an interesting conversation, the staff member behind Kang Si-yoon noticed that the seat in front of me was empty.
As he slowly raised his hand to indicate the next turn, the fan lifted her butt slightly and gave an urgent closing comment.
"Siyoon, I'm actually interested in a guy these days. He's really handsome and cute!"
"Oh, I think I know who that is!"
After studying the fans' comments continuously yesterday, I was able to roughly predict how the story would flow.
It would be natural to call Kang Si-yoon's name there.
However, Kang Si-yoon, who was a corpse except for his senses, fought back as if he had expected that the staff would soon give him the order to move.
"A person who is both extremely handsome and cute is~! Yes, it must be Karis!"
"Eeeeek?"
"Hahahaha! See you next time! I love you!"
Seleve seemed slightly confused by Kang Si-yoon's modified answer to the previous question, but after hearing that it was me, she quickly smiled brightly and sat down in front of me.
It is impossible to just leave the sensible play that Kang Si-yoon has shown.
"Am I really cute?"
"Huh?"
"I haven't heard anyone call me cute in my life. But I just heard that they said I'm handsome and cute."
"Ahhhh!"
Seleve noticed that he had continued the conversation with Kang Si-yoon and laughed while covering her mouth.
"Of course Karis is cute! Don't you know that Karis was compared to a Maltese during the IPS era?"
"Me? With a Maltese?"
"Yeah, yeah! When you were tearing off the name tags, everyone just ran away, leaving you behind. At that time, your expression was so hazy that everyone said you looked like a Maltese!"
"This is the first time in my life that I've been compared to a Maltese...."
"Make that expression again!"
What is a hazy expression.
I'm not sure what expression I had on my face when I ripped off the name tag, but I did my best to look at Seleve with a hazy look in my eyes.
Then Seleve laughed out loud with a satisfied expression.
"Ahaha! That's not what it looks like!"
"I don't know what to do."
"No, no! You're cute enough! Oh, that's right! There's something I really wanted to do when I met Karis~."
"What was it?"
Seleve looked at me with sparkling eyes.
"Can I just pat your head once?"
"Gladly."
If it's a request like this, I could handle it all day long.
Because I came out today determined to make my fans happy no matter what happens.
The fan who stroked my head was so satisfied with the sound of the kettle boiling.
"Love you!"
"I love you more."
Finally, Seleve, who had even confessed her love to me, moved towards Yoo Min-ha while smiling in a dazed state.
I waved at her and said bye all the way.
'Seeing you happy makes me feel better.'
Meanwhile, there were many fans who prepared various gifts, such as face chains.
Chae Eun-gyu, who was first in line, had already received a large number of gifts.
Smaller gifts could be placed directly on the table, but larger gifts were stored in individual member boxes behind us.
No great gift has come to me yet.
But didn't the tiger come if I called it?
A Seleve with an air of sophistication sat in front of me, carrying a large suitcase.
"Hello Karis! "
"Nice to meet you. Is my gift in that bag?"
"How did you know!"
Seleve, who smiled at me, took out a huge panel of unknown identity.
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