Chapter 334
Tredito, a long-standing festival that Yeonje University is proud of.
This festival, famous for always inviting the nation's top artists, always receives attention from both students and outsiders.
The interest in the festival was even hotter than last year due to the recent series of issues related to the student council.
People were in an uproar when they saw Seleste's name and photo prominently displayed on the third-day lineup that announced the splendid end of Tredito.
-(Photo) wow ㅅㅂ Seleste Yeonje University
└ Wow I'm so jealous Seriously, this is why bag straps have to be long [to be successful]
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Yeonje University's recruiting power is crazy They didn't go anywhere last year or this spring
└ Ahhh my friend is in Yeonje Universityㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Why doesn't our school invite Seleste?
└ must be really expensive?
└ No, just put all the festival budget into Seleste. Of course, not the other students part-timers
-(Photo) Is there anyone around you who knows someone from Yeonje University?... Please, I'm really in a hurry. I'm really in a hurry.
└I contacted a friend who goes to Yeonje University right away when I saw the lineup. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└I really twisted my body to get a ticket.
└No, do you think you can live in a regional stronghold national university because it's sad? This is regional hatred crazyㅜㅜㅜ
Seleves were swept up in a frenzy when they heard the news that Seleste would be visiting a university festival for the first time since debut.
Yeonje University has a system where they only give out Tredito tickets to current students, so they desperately needed the help of current students to see Seleste's stage as closely as possible.
Outsiders are allowed to enter, but if there are too many people, they have to watch the stage from outside the open-air theater where the festival is held.
It's really great news that their favorite idol is coming to the festival, but Seleves were starting to get anxious at the thought of getting tickets.
Meanwhile, apart from the excited Seleves, posts expressing interest in transferring, selling, and purchasing tickets were already flooding in on various idol communities and SNS.
The ticket price that can be purchased through the Yeonje University application authentication is 35,000 won, but after Seleste's name was revealed, the price skyrocketed through the roof.
400,000 won, 500,000 won, 600,000 won.
There were people who wanted to buy it even though it was set at a price that was dozens of times more expensive than the original ticket price.
It was a way to see the popularity of Seleste.
However, this explosive popularity was naturally a bit worrisome for the students of the school.
Of course, there were quite a few Seleves among the students of Yeonje University, so there were many posts on the school community crying and expressing joy, but it was a great bait for those who had been causing trouble even before the lineup was revealed.
-I wanted to go to Seleste's fancon but I couldn't ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ But I can't believe they're coming to our school festival.... I'm so happy
└Ah me too ㅋㅋㅋㅋ큐ㅠㅠㅠㅠ Concert ticketing was really hard...
-I just got in Eta but is it true that Seleste is coming??ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Crazy
[Eta means "every time". It is said to be one of the essential apps for college students these days.]
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I had this reaction exactly 2 hours ago, really really good!!ㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ
- When should I start lining up to see Seleste in front? The show starts at 4, so I should go at least by 3, right?
└In my opinion, 3 is nowhere near that.... I think a lot of Seleste fans will come? If you want to see it in front like suni wants, you should start lining up 2-3 hours early
['Sseuni' refers to the person who posted the post.]
└Crazy. Do I have to go that early?... I never thought it would be that long
└People who are crazy about male idols are more diligent than you can imagine..ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ My lecture ended at 2:45, so I was just going to give up on watching it in front ㅎ
-(Photo) I can't believe I'll be seeing this face with my own two eyes
└Wow, who is this?? It's my first time seeing this, but he's really handsome
└Karis Selesteć Center, who's coming to the festival this time!!
└He's not Korean, he's a foreigner? He kind of looks like he's mixed
└No, he's not mixed, he's 100% foreignerㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He's Estonian, that's amazing
└Even a man would say he's really handsome dammit ㅋㅋ
└gay gay.....
-They really called a male idol as main? Seleste? This is the first time I've heard of it in my life.
└I really don't understand why they called someone I've never heard of as the main in a festival.
└But do guys really not know Seleste at all?? It's on TikTok, Stargram, and Bluebird, so if you don't know Seleste, aren't you a sta[rgram] fan?
└I don't know the male idol I've never heard of, so you treat us like hikkimori and pasoon [old-fashioned] That's typical of a pervert. ㅋㅋ
└My younger brother, who's also in college, knows Seleste. Ik2 and Ik4 are really weird.
└Think of it as the same as women not knowing the names of soccer players. ㅋㅋ You don't know Jonathan Gonzalez
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ highly recommended
-The thing that's really funny about these kids is that they liked Finesse so much last year, but they're badmouthing Seleste, who's much more popular than Finesse.
└So where on earth is their popularity?
└They ranked first on the Grapefruit music charts and sold over 2 million albums. If that's not popularity, then what is?
└Of course albums can be bought and these days, music charts can also be manipulated. ㅋㅋ You can't even bring proper evidence, but you're just talking nonsense~
└If you're not going to look at albums and music charts, where on earth are you going to find popularity? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is seriously ridiculous
└I understand why you're mad, but even so, I think it's a bit much to bring up other groups....
└ㅋㅋㅋ Is it normal to not get mad when you see the reaction?? Then why do you make people write articles like this
└ Right now, more than 80% of the articles being posted are aggro and swearing, so ignoring them is the answer
-I'm a guy, but seriously, I don't think it's right for Seleste to be treated like a nobody
If you just watch a little bit of YouTube shorts, you can see that they're all in first place
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It seems like Seleste is being criticized, so why are you saying 'I'm a guy'? Are you crying? Anyway, the fans are covering it up
└No, really, I'm a guy; why don't you know Seleste? Don't you have any female friends or female acquaintances around you?
└ㅅㅂ deal meter has gone off
[It is called a 'deal meter' or 'damage meter' and provides a function to compare and analyze how much damage each player has done in games such as MMORPGs .]
└yaya.... It's at an immeasurable level
└The Karis I know is a pro-gamer
-Honestly, I don't really care who comes to the festival, but there are some bad things about male idols
People who aren't from our school buy really expensive tickets to come in, hide cannon cameras, and push people from behind, it's a chaos.
└I agree with this
└Ha, that's whyㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I also hate those kind of thoughtless people
└Guys please don't sell tickets please
└No wayㅋㅋ they give money
└ㅋㅋㅋ Yeah I won't go to the festival anyways I'm a loner and don't care about popular culture ㅅㅂ ㅠㅠ
└If you really don't want to see the school ruined then don't sell them....
└The market price is crazy? When I briefly checked earlier, someone wrote a post saying they were selling tickets for 60
It was a total mess.
The free bulletin board, which usually had one post per minute, was suddenly filled with new posts as soon as the page was refreshed.
At first, only people who were happy to see Seleste were posted, but gradually, the number of people who were aggro increased, and even posts referring to gender and idol fandom culture as a whole were created.
For college students who were accessing the application to check school news, it was like a war that broke out in half a day.
But all of this was just a happening.
Fans who noticed that these kinds of posts were being posted on SNS platforms thought this way.
If they show a stage where these words won't come out at the festival site, it'll be over.
And let's cheer until our voices burst so that the members can cheer up.
This determination wasn't just felt by Seleves.
The first university festival had a special meaning to the members as well.
In order to show an even more perfect stage, the members didn't even think about leaving the practice room today.
***
"Hello, Seleves! Today is our first ever! On our way to the university festival!"
"Applause, applause, applause!"
"Wow!"
A day with a cool autumn breeze blowing.
Maybe because of that refreshing air, the tension of the members in the van was very high.
I looked at the camera that Kang Si-yoon was holding and thought again.
No. Looking at it again, it seems that everyone changes like this just because of the camera.
Kang Si-yoon, who brought the camera for the behind-the-scenes video of the university festival, suddenly pushed the lens to Yoo Min-ha, who was sitting next to him.
"Min-ha, please give me a very cool and neat resolution today."
"A resolution! Hmm, hmm!"
I thought Yoo Min-ha would say another animation line here, given his personality.
Surprisingly, he gave a normal answer.
"I really don't get nervous easily.... Today, my heart is pounding and I'm nervous. I just hope it doesn't come out as a small squeak."
"Ey, that won't come out. Don't worry."
As we got closer to Yeonje University, Chae Eun-gyu didn't look away from the window.
After a while, when he saw the magnificent main gate of Yeonje University, he muttered softly.
"I came here a few times with my brother in the past, but nothing has changed since then."
This performance had a special meaning to Chae Eun-gyu as well.
From the moment he received the Yeonje University uniform he would wear today at the dormitory, Chae Eun-gyu had a strangely sentimental look in his eyes.
'My parents have been very opposed to me going to the arts and physical education department.......... It must be new to wear the same school jacket as my brother who studied hard.'
I thought I could understand Chae Eun-gyu's true feelings to some extent.
When I was living as Han Ji-hyeok, I also had to listen to my parents' constant opposition and contempt.
Moreover, Chae Eun-gyu couldn't help but be compared to his smart brother..........
The burden he felt must have been several times greater.
But didn't he succeed so spectacularly now?
"Wow, there are so many booths over there."
"I can really feel the festival atmosphere!"
While heading to the back of the open-air theater, we felt the real atmosphere of the college festival as we looked at the booths and food trucks set up all over the school.
And as we entered the waiting tent prepared for us, I was enveloped in a strange excitement and tension that even I couldn't explain.
"...I think I know what that tension that Min-ha was talking about earlier feels like."
"That's right! This is really something different."
Yoo Min-ha tapped my arm while stomping his feet.
"We filmed the live broadcast in such a wide space during the final of
"Really? Are you that nervous?"
"Are you okay, hyung?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
Yoo Min-ha opened his mouth slightly as he looked at Song Hyung-bin, who nodded with an indifferent expression.
Our leader continued to speak calmly while leisurely adjusting his earbuds.
"Of course I'm not nervous."
"Even Karis said he's a little nervous?"
"We've been practicing hard all this time. We just have to do what we practiced. And even if someone makes a mistake."
"Even if someone makes a mistake.........?"
Song Hyung-bin's lips naturally rose.
"With such reliable members, someone will immediately back us up. I believe that."
"What's going on with this hyung?"
Kang Si-yoon zoomed in on Song Hyung-bin's face, who was still holding the behind-the-scenes camera.
"Since coming back from the unity meeting, you've been saying strangely cringey things a lot."
"Aside from that, what you just said is true."
"Oh, as expected, a great word from the leader!"
Song Hyung-bin smiled brightly while looking straight at Kang Si-yoon's camera.
"I'll really work hard on stage and come back!"
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