Chapter 293
"Oh my, my throat."
"Yeah, who told you to scream like that? I told you your throat would 100% hurt later."
"Oh, what should I do when I'm so excited?"
We returned to the hotel at almost 10 p.m.
We finished the route that Yoo Min-ha had planned in advance, watching the late-night light parade and fireworks at the amusement park.
Everyone was so enthusiastic about playing that they were all hungry and thirsty, so they gathered in Chae Eun-gyu's room, where there were snacks they had bought from the second convenience store raid the day before yesterday.
Chae Eun-gyu, who had gotten used to his room being the meeting place, laughed in disbelief at Kang Si-yoon, who was gulping down water.
"You were upset because Karis took your position earlier, but you really had fun."
"Hey, that was just a joke. Would I really be petty and complain about something like that?"
"Yeah, yeah, you were totally serious."
"Hey, that's a slander, a slander."
Towards Kang Si-yoon, who was waving his hand playfully, I spoke in an arrogant tone.
"Don't lie, Si-yoon. I can still clearly see how flustered you were earlier."
"Hahaha! Bro, when did I get flustered? I didn't at all."
"It didn't look like that to me."
I smiled and showed him a picture saved in my phone album.
A picture of Kang Si-yoon with his eyes tightly shut while talking to Chae Eun-gyu.
Even a child passing by would think he was quite upset.
Yoo Min-ha and Heo Yu-bin, who had gathered next to me and looked at the picture, gave Kang Si-yoon a look full of laughter.
"Hyung, why are you closing your eyes so cutely?"
"Doesn't it seem a bit like that? A baby who's throwing a tantrum to his daddy to buy him a toy-."
"Hey, hey hey hey! It's really not that bad!"
"Oh, so you admit you're mad right now? Right?"
Even Kang Si-yoon was helpless against the attacks coming from both sides.
That's it. Kang Si-yoon shook his fist as if he was being wronged.
"You really should wait and see later."
"Oh, hyung! Let's settle the photos!"
"Let's do that since we're all here together."
I opened the gallery and flipped through the photos one by one.
The members looked at the photos next to me, and when they saw a photo they liked, they immediately favorited it and asked me to send it to them later.
'It definitely paid off to study in advance.'
My shoulders shook slightly whenever I kept getting compliments like, "It came out well!", "Karis's photography skills have really improved compared to before."
It always feels good to be recognized by the members.
In particular, I'm most proud of the fact that I overcame my weaknesses that everyone knew about.
Among the good photos, there were also some weird photos where the members were joking around.
"What's this? What kind of strange object is in the photo?"
Song Hyung-bin brought up the photo I had just handed over.
I was trying to take a picture of the light parade, but someone's eyebrows and eyes were in the lower left corner of the photo like a psychic.
"Oh, this is Min-ha. He kept jumping around in front of me while I was taking the photo, so this is what I ended up with."
"Hehehe! You managed to capture that moment!"
"You must have had a hard time too. Bringing the precious babies around."
Song Hyung-bin patted me on the shoulder, telling me to cheer up, and the lively scenes of the youngest line were just beginning.
"Look at Heo Yu-bin's lips. What kind of pufferfish do you think you are?"
"I did imitate the character behind me."
"He has a slightly charming 'woo~' feeling, but you just look like a pufferfish trying to eat its food."
"But you still came out cute!"
A picture of Heo Yu-bin with his lips sticking out and his eyes widened passed by.
Next, Ji Yoon-chul appeared with a strange expression on his face and a hat with an animated character drawn on it covering his eyes.
"Yoon-chul, what on earth were you trying to express with this?"
"...Sora-geo."
"Where on earth did the Sora-geo cosplay come from?"
"Oh, did you see that character drawn on the hat?"
When Chae Eun-gyu pointed to the animation character drawn on the hat Ji Yoon-chul was wearing, Ji Yoon-chul nodded his head slightly as if embarrassed.
"...Karis hyung told me to pose, so I thought about it and couldn't think of anything, so I just did it like that."
"It was pufferfish Yubin earlier, and now it's sea urchin Yoon-chul? It's like today's seafood special."
Kang Siyoon's words soon gained more support.
"Oh, this is a picture taken in front of the fountain!"
"Karis took some pretty good landscape pictures, didn't he?"
"I studied hard to improve."
The beautiful view of the fountain with the sky slightly setting.
I was satisfied with the results I took myself and flipped through the gallery.
"Kuhahaha!"
"Hey, this is really amazing in another sense."
"Minha, did you just put down your image?"
"Ah, when you come to a place like this, you have to have fun and leave!"
The next photo that appeared was Yoo Min-ha's solo photo.
Water was flowing out of the lion statue at the end of the fountain in a curved line..
Yoo Min-ha stood in an exquisite position, covering the lion statue, and made it look like the water stream was coming out of his mouth.
The expression was so ridiculous that it looked like a character in a game shooting a water cannon.
Song Hyung-bin counted on his fingers and made a final calculation.
"There was a pufferfish earlier, and a hermit crab, and what should I call it this time? A water gun?"
"No, the expression is too angry to call it a water gun. It's not cute."
"Um........ Let's just call it a turtle?"
"Where in the world is there a turtle that makes that kind of expression and spits out water?"
"Let's just say that."
Kang Si-yoon laughed coquettishly.
"If I put those photos together on SNS today, it'll get a huge response, right?"
Surely, fans like these sides that they don't usually see.
Especially if these cute photos of the younger line are released, there will be a huge response, just like Kang Si-yoon said.
"But shouldn't we also upload some good photos? Karis worked hard to take them."
"That's true."
"I was thinking the same thing."
Song Hyung-bin pointed out exactly the part that I had in mind that was a little regretful.
"Then, since three of them did funny photos, the remaining four should go with good photos, so it'll be a perfect balance."
"As expected, Eun-gyu hyung, that's a clear conclusion!"
"Hey, Kang Si-yoon, you should do this. Where are you trying to get away?"
Song Hyung-bin smiled and flipped my photo album forward, showing a photo of Kang Si-yoon's really pissed off face.
"Oh, why do I have to do this again! I want to do the good ones too!"
"It doesn't matter whether it's 3 vs 4 or 4 vs 3 because the balance is the same."
"That's right, hyung. To be honest, hyung suits the funny pic side better, so come here quickly."
"Hey, Heo Yu-bin, why are you making the decisions on your own!"
"Then should we do a majority vote?"
The majority vote that unfolded right away naturally decided to send Kang Si-yoon to the funny pic team by an overwhelming margin.
Kang Si-yoon sniffed and drank water while exaggerating his acting.
"Everyone, just wait and see."
I, Song Hyung-bin, and Chae Eun-gyu, who were lucky enough to upload good photos, looked through the gallery to find their own favorite photos.
Then, a photo of mine that was taken at the souvenir shop in HoXwat Castle came up.
"Hey, this feels so different from the seafood special photos I saw earlier?"
"We want to see it too!"
"How good did it come out........'
As soon as they saw my picture with the gold glasses and red scarf, the members collectively lost their words.
"T-this is cheating."
Heo Yu-bin broke the silence and said in a dejected voice.
"What if a picture of Karis Hyung-nim comes out right after our funny pic? It's too much of a comparison!"
"Um, that's true."
Yoo Min-ha looked at my picture for a while and then smiled brightly.
"I think Hyung's picture came out well to begin with, so even if another picture came out, it would have been compared!"
"That's right, why does he look good with glasses?"
"This is why he looks like the main character in a movie. Karis, you can't use magic, right?"
"Haha....."
I tried to laugh off Chae Eun-gyu's question.
To be honest, my major was swordsmanship, but I should say that I could use simple magic using mana. Of course, the magicians of the magic tower helped me with the high-level magic.
After choosing the photos to post on SNS, we left Chae Eun-gyu's room and dispersed to our own rooms.
Heo Yu-bin and Yoo Min-ha went to ask permission from manager hyung to do a Star Us live at dawn at 12 o'clock, as if they weren't physically exhausted.
"You really have incredible stamina."
"Haha, I was thinking about doing a live too. But since I got beat by my younger brothers, I'll have to do a pre-dawn Pm and then go to bed."
Song Hyung-bin, who shared a room with me in Osaka, laughed while changing his clothes.
Then, as if something suddenly occurred to him, he snapped his fingers and asked me a question.
"Karis, are you going to wash up and go to bed right away?"
"Hmm? I'm not that tired yet."
"Then, do you want to go for a swim or something? I heard that the hotel pool is open until night, so I thought I'd go. It's our last day of work, so I don't think we'll have time, but how about going today?"
A swimming pool.
Come to think of it, I've only been to the ocean a few times in the 10 years I've lived in
The empire was mostly mountains to begin with, and it got much colder the further north you went.
I had to go on a long journey to get to a place with an ocean.
Even if I went on that journey, I didn't have enough time to swim.
The last time I remember was when I went to a pension with a pool with the members to play in the water for a while when we were filming our own content last year.
I was a little excited about going into the water after a long time.
"Good. It'll be a good mood changer."
"I should ask the other kids if they want to go too."
Song Hyung-bin kept calling, and it seems like the rest of the members were also thinking about going to the pool.
Ji Yoon-chul even left a message saying that he brought a tube to use at the pool when he packed his bags in Korea.
All five members, except for Heo Yu-bin and Yoo Min-ha, who were doing Star Us Live in their room, came down to the pool.
"Yoon-chul, what on earth is that?"
"...a tube."
The person who caught my eye the most was Ji Yoon-chul.
Ji Yoon-chul was standing quietly with a large tube with a white rabbit drawn on it around his waist.
He had a perfect water play outfit with goggles on his forehead and flippers on his feet.
Chae Eun-gyu, who came down wearing only swimsuit pants, laughed out loud at the youngest.
"Hahaha! No, Yoon-chul. How much preparation did you come up with?"
"...I'm not good at swimming."
"Oh, okay."
"I'm not good at swimming, but I like going to the pool, so I brought a bunch of things."
Surprisingly, Ji Yoon-chul is not good at swimming.
He's such a good dancer, he seems like he'd be good at anything that uses his body.
Thinking back, Ji Yoon-chul wasn't even good at chopping firewood.
I watched Ji Yoon-chul carefully enter the pool while holding onto the tube.
Ji Yoon-chul, who slowly went down the stairs, soon began to comfortably float on the water with his arms perfectly attached to the tube.
"Yoon-chul! Is the water temperature okay? Isn't it cold?"
"...Very good."
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
Kang Si-yoon, who had been pouring water on his chest, immediately jumped into the water with a shout.
A huge splash of water came up, and Song Hyung-bin and I, who were standing nearby, got soaked.
"Hey, Kang Si-yoon! You got water in my eyes!"
"Hahaha! Hyung, come and spray water on me too, then!"
"Oh, I was planning on doing that anyway."
Song Hyung-bin wiped the water off his face and smiled as if he was glad he said that.
Then he took something out of the bag he brought down with him.
"It's the brand new water gun I bought at the souvenir shop today. It's right at Kang Si-yoon!"
"Ah, that item, it is cheating!"
"Come on!"
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