Chapter 333
There are many events in the fall.
The most noticeable of them is the Autumn Festival held at many universities.
I heard that many universities usually start their festival period in September, but this year, I heard that the overall festival period was slightly delayed due to an incident at several universities in Seoul.
The student council embezzled the festival operating expenses, so the entire school was turned upside down.
That's why most of the major university festivals had to adjust their schedules and move their festival period to October.
'It feels like it unexpectedly fit in with our schedule.'
I carefully read the message and briefing that my manager had sent.
If the festival had been held in mid-September as originally planned, there's a very high chance that we wouldn't have been able to participate.
It was also the time when we were making the final preparations for our
I think we were lucky in many ways.
And Manager Hyung conveyed that Sigma Entertainment's thoughts had also changed slightly.
In fact, they say that they had been receiving love calls to invite us to the festival since last year.
However, they said that they stubbornly refused because we were rookies who had only recently debuted at the time.
And because the higher-ups wanted to avoid external events as much as possible.
Now that Seleste is no longer a rookie, they accepted the invitation to the university festival because they thought it would be more beneficial to be exposed to more places to promote our regular album.
I don't understand why those higher-ups were reluctant to expose us externally in the first place.
But it's fortunate that they've changed their minds even now.
Judging by the members' personalities and tendencies, they must really like places like university festivals.
"Hey, did you see the message? I really wanted to go to the university festival!"
As expected, Kang Si-yoon, who was lying on the bed next to me, got up, fluttering his body like a fresh fish.
I pushed Kang Si-yoon away, who was excitedly leaning his face toward me, and answered calmly.
"I checked the message. It's a college festival, so it looks like it's going to be a really exciting show."
"Aren't you excited? Why is it so dull?"
"I'm excited, but I'm deliberately trying to moderate it so that I don't add fuel to your excitement."
"Suppressing your emotions is bad for your health?"
"It's worse for my health to keep listening to your nonsense. Si-yoon."
Whether it was because of what I said or for another reason, Kang Si-yoon slightly lowered his tension and returned to his seat.
He sat down on the bed and laughed softly.
"Where are you going to college?"
"Why are you suddenly speaking in a hazy tone?"
"No, it's just that I'm thinking of my friends."
"Ah..."
I trailed off.
Except for Chae Eun-gyu, all the members are in their late teens to early twenties.
That means that the friends of the members, except for Ji Yoon-chul, are likely to be attending college now.
- I want to go out and play like a normal student.
A story Ji Yoon-chul told us while writing about his school trip in
As you spent a long time as idol trainees, you naturally couldn't have a normal school life.
Like normal students, we rarely went out with friends or participated in school events.
And now that we're adults, we're taking completely different paths than our friends of the same age.
'There are the members, and acquaintances in the entertainment industry, but you can't help but think of the friends you spent your childhood with.'
Kang Si-yoon smiled awkwardly.
"Talking about college reminds me of the past. There are a few friends I went to elementary and middle school with, but I haven't seen them in person since I became a trainee. We only exchange updates through messages. If I go to the university where my friends are for this festival, it'll feel different."
"...you'll definitely miss them."
"Yeah. It's been so long since I've seen them. Hahaha, but if my hyungs, Yubin, and Min-ha friends come to the festival, it'll feel really weird."
The probability that we'll go to the school where the members' acquaintances go is secretly high, just like Kang Si-yoon said.
Excluding me, Chae Eun-gyu, and Ji Yoon-chul, there are four friends of the same age who go to college.
I completely understand why Kang Si-yoon must have different feelings.
"By the way, do you know that there is a rivalry between universities?"
"...I didn't know that."
"Right? I didn't think you'd know this."
Kang Si-yoon finished reminiscing, and his cheeky expression returned.
"You, if you mix up Gohan University and Yeonje University, you'll be in big trouble. You really have to be careful because we might start a fight."
"Wow, it seems like they're rivals, like competing to see which is better, Tallinn University or Tartu University."
"Fighting with Ta-Tali? What are you talking about?"
"It's nothing."
Of course, I'm a foreigner on the outside but a Korean on the inside, so I know the rivalry between Gohan University and Yeonje University very well.
However, it would be too suspicious to know this, so I pretended not to know and defeated him once.
Kang Si-yoon continued talking without understanding the names of the two famous universities in Estonia that I mentioned.
"Anyway, those two university festivals are the biggest in Korea and they have the most foreign women when idols sing."
"Hmm. What if both places want us?"
"I didn't think about that, but hey, we wouldn't come at the same time, would we?"
However, in the meeting that followed the next day, it was proved again that it was true that the word "no way" would catch people.
"Both Gohan University and Yeonje University called us.........."
"Of course, we can't go to both and have to choose only one."
"Even the conditions are the same?"
"Isn't this deliberate?"
We looked at Manager Hyung in disbelief after hearing his words.
Manager Hyung scratched his head and asked for our opinions.
"Anyway, now that it's like this. I wanted to ask what you guys want to do."
Song Hyung Bin touched his forehead and fell into deep agony.
"How come the conditions are the same.........."
"The justification for capitalist thinking has disappeared!"
"You shouldn't say that so blatantly, Min Ha."
Yoo Min Ha ignored Song Hyung Bin's words and stated their own opinion.
"I personally want to go to Yeonje University!"
"Oh. Why?"
"Yeonje milk tastes good!"
There really is no other simple reason.
But someone agreed with that statement.
"I like Yeonje milk too!"
"We're in sync, after all."
"Yeonje strawberry milk and chocolate milk are both delicious."
Heo Yu-bin, who likes milk and pudding, voted for Yoo Min-ha.
"I personally like Gohan."
"Why, hyung?"
Song Hyung-bin voted against the opinions of his two younger brothers.
I thought he had a special reason, but it was an impossible guess.
"It's the people of Gohan. Even the English name is 'Korea', how cool."
"......... A nation that forgets its history has no future."
"T-It's not that deep of a meaning, but anyway, yeah, that's right."
Song Hyung-bin was slightly taken aback by Ji Yoon-chul's serious words.
However, it was difficult for the leader's opinion to be agreed upon by the rest of the members.
There was always one procedure that was carried out whenever this kind of situation occurred.
It was that the younger members' gazes turned to me.
"Hyung, what would you like to do?"
"That's right! Since you always give the right answer, I think you should do what you say!"
"I'm not Solomon, so why does everything always depend on my opinion?"
Even though I said that, I tried to think of the best reason I could.
Then, a memory suddenly flashed through my mind.
'The younger sister I met at Heo Yu-bin's house before...'
I don't know why I thought of Heo Yu-bin's younger sibling right now, but it's a good idea.
"It doesn't seem like a bad idea to go to the school where your family members graduated. It gives us a reason, and it also gives us something to talk about when we talk to the students."
"Family members who graduated from the same school.........."
"Isn't that okay? Is it really okay?"
"I have it."
Both Gohan University and Yonsei University are top-tier universities in Korea.
Unless you studied hard during your school days, it's hard to even try to apply.
We focused our eyes on Chae Eun-gyu, who raised his hand with a faint smile.
"Eun-gyu hyung's hyung...?"
"That's right. My brother graduated from Yonsei University's College of Engineering."
"Wow, even in the engineering field?"
"Wow.........."
The manager also looked very surprised.
Yonsei University, and it's a science and engineering field that only those with outstanding mathematical and scientific skills can enter.
Just how smart is Chae Eun-gyu's brother?
"My older brother was really good at studying, so my mom used to tell me to study like my older brother."
"Hyung, it must have been really hard...."
"Hahaha, when I first told them I was going to join the agency to become a trainee, they really scolded me, because my parents really hated the arts and physical education department. At first, they were really against me becoming an idol.........."
"But they came to see hyung during the finals, right?"
Yoo Min-ha, who noticed the slightly heavy atmosphere, said something positive in a bright tone.
Even so, when Chae Eun-gyu just smiled faintly, Yoo Min-ha deliberately threw in a mischievous joke.
"I understand now. The studying brain is all on hyung's side, so Eun-gyu hyung got the quiz questions wrong during the team meeting-."
"Hey, hey!"
"Eueueueueueub!"
When Chae Eun-gyu forcefully covered Yoo Min-ha's mouth, we all burst out laughing.
As expected, there's no character like Yoo Min-ha who can lighten the mood like this.
"Then should we do as Karis says? Is it okay if we all decide according to it?"
"Yes!"
"Okay, check!"
There were a lot of stories about the festival in the community used by college students.
Because of the embezzlement scandals of several university student councils, universities all over the country were in an uproar.
Now that the festival period is almost over, articles guessing the lineup and articles wanting to leak it were all mixed together.
-When will the festival lineup be released??
└Pingpeu, If you go to Instagram, you'll see it just like that;
[핑프 is abbreviation of 핑거프린세스(finger princess). who is very lazy person that even not any fingers moving.]
└No, you could just tell it, but why are you reacting so sensitively?
└Yeah, ping peu is disgusting~
-Didn't we have a leak around this time last year? They always take turns spoiling things when the student council turns around ㅋㅋㅋ
└But might this year be a little different?? The embezzlement issue is so big that I think everyone might be worried ㅠㅠㅠ
└No no no There are definitely a lot of people in the student council who will spoil things for sure
└If they were to finally get embezzlement as the last hit, it would be super fun ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Then there would be a real mess??
-This year, let's not have male idols sing whose names we've never heard before, but female idols from the first tier
└Seriously, last year's festival was so boring
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Are you the only one who doesn't know? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
└Connex is so famous that their music plays on the street, but if you don't know them, then you're just a hikikomori
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Look at all the male idol fans running towards, scratching
└I'm not a woman or a fan, but I don't know Connex either ㅋㅋ You're the one who's weird
└But last year's fans were too much. Someone kept tapping my back, so I was wondering what was going on, and when I turned around, they came in hiding a cannon, f*ck
-I don't care about male and female idols, I just hope the lineup is as good as the tuition I paid....
└I admit itㅠㅠ There are a lot of kids fighting over male and female idols on the Jage [free board] these days, so I don't go in often
└There must be a lot of kids from other schools who bought our school's Theta account and came in? Those kids are just picking fights in every post like that, it's pathetic....
└I really wish it would just come out soon.... I'd see who comes and decide whether to go to the festival or not, but phewㅠㅠ
Who comes to the festival, which is like the pride of Yeonje University, was really important.
But because of last year's influence, the free bulletin board was overly heated,
The Yeonje University Student Council finally revealed the lineup for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd days sequentially from the next day.
The students' reaction to seeing Seleste's name proudly appearing on the last 3rd day was....
If you were to say it positively, it was an unprecedented reaction, and if you were to say it negatively, it became easy prey for all sorts of grotesque people and swindlers.
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