I’m Debuting With The Bias I Killed - Chapter 50
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Episode 50
“Um…?”
“Wow.”
Kang I-yul couldn’t bring himself to leave his seat.
“Trainee Kang I-yul! Please move to your spot right away!”
Only after hearing the production staff’s urging did he finally stir.
“…My apologies.”
And slowly, he walked toward me.
I never did see his face.
I was afraid even to imagine what expression he was wearing.
I simply turned my gaze away into empty space.
“……”
This wasn’t part of my plan.
No—it was a result I’d never even imagined before.
‘This can’t be real.’
Only then did I understand. I’d been laboring under the greatest delusion.
Kang I-yul had always been the greatest idol to me.
The person who shone brighter than anyone on stage. So of course I’d believed he would debut.
It was so obvious that I’d never once imagined a future where he didn’t debut.
And even less had I imagined surpassing him.
“Trainee Kang I-yul.”
That blind faith had ended up blinding my eyes.
“You’ve unfortunately fallen out of the Debut Group, and we’d like to hear a word about your resolve going forward.”
The camera drew closer to Kang I-yul.
It was cruel.
Kang I-yul’s lips moved briefly.
“I’ll show you…an even more developed stage.”
A brief word. His voice sounded unusually small.
“Yes. We look forward to your next performance.”
The ranking announcements continued.
“Now, let me announce the new Debut Group.”
Choi Un-jo, called fifth and first into the Debut Group, lightened the mood with confident remarks, but I sat alone in a funeral house.
It should have been a moment to celebrate, but it wasn’t easy.
“Code 4 is Trainee Han Sang-yun.”
Han Sang-yun bowed deeply, his hands clasped together.
“Thank you so much. I won’t lose this position again. I’ll do my absolute best on stage from now on!”
The trainees answered his passionate remarks with applause.
And then.
“Code 3.”
My heart pounded fiercely.
‘I’d rather be dead last, just please….’
“Congratulations. Trainee Yu Seong-u.”
“…!”
The world stopped.
I felt a gaze from beside me.
I knew it had to be Kang I-yul, but I still couldn’t turn to look.
“Trainee Yu Seong-u, you’ve finally reclaimed your spot in the Debut Group. How are you feeling right now?”
My hand gripping the microphone trembled violently.
“It’s……”
Like someone who’d forgotten how to make a sound, only a hoarse noise escaped.
“It seems like you’re quite overwhelmed, having reclaimed the Debut Group for the first time since Signal Song.”
Kang Se-jun smoothly took over the thread.
“Please join us in congratulatory applause for him.”
Clap, clap, clap—
This should have been a moment of joy, but the applause pressed down on my shoulders.
‘It’s because of you that Kang I-yul isn’t debuting.’
‘You’ve forgotten your original goal, haven’t you?’
My mind became a mess.
Why did everything keep going wrong?
The harder I worked to debut together with Kang I-yul, the more cruelly the situation unfolded.
The camera drew closer. I needed to change the Name Badge.
But my trembling hands wouldn’t obey, frozen in place.
“Yu Seong-u, Trainee?”
Kang Se-jun prompted gently.
“Here.”
Kang I-yul spoke first.
“Take it quickly.”
Kang I-yul’s voice was steady, measured. Only then did my hands move.
That’s right. The longer this dragged on, the more humiliated I’d become—not him.
With shaking hands, I reached for the Name Badge. But it slipped through my fingers again and again.
Finally, Kang I-yul wrapped his hand lightly around mine.
Click.
With a soft friction, the Name Badge came free.
In that moment of lost awareness, Kang I-yul held my badge and turned quietly back to his position.
Watching his retreating figure, the ground beneath my feet felt hollow.
How I’d climbed back onto the stage, what I’d said—none of it stayed with me.
Back at the Debut Group’s place on the podium.
Only one thought filled my mind.
‘This can’t go on.’
I couldn’t keep playing this game where Kang I-yul rises and I fall, then I rise and he gets pushed down.
‘I’m checking the Status Window the moment this ends.’
There’s definitely something I’m missing.
* * *
“Ju Han, Trainee and Go Jae-sung, Trainee—please come to the stage.”
“Yes!”
Now only one thing remained: Code 1.
Either Ju Han would hold it, or Go Jae-sung would finally reach the summit.
Conflicting emotions washed over me.
The hope that he wouldn’t rise any further, the desire to watch him plummet from the greatest height.
A second stretched like an hour. The scoreboard shifted.
[Code 2 ▶ Code 1]
“Congratulations, Go Jae-sung, Trainee. You have been selected as the new Code 1!”
“Wow……!”
Cheers shook the Studio.
‘……So this is how it ends up.’
Go Jae-sung buried his face in his hands, his shoulders trembling.
“This automatically makes Ju Han, Trainee, Code 2.”
Ju Han smiled and patted Go Jae-sung’s shoulder.
“Congratulations, hyung.”
“Thanks.”
Go Jae-sung, Trainee earned first place in team rankings, first place individually, and third place in public voting—making him the new master of Code 1.”
Go Jae-sung wiped his face repeatedly, and tears glistened at the corners of his eyes.
Nearly every camera in the venue captured Go Jae-sung’s face. Even the PD wore an unbroken smile.
Of course he did.
The strongest contestant, always at the top, dethroned—now a new power rising in his place.
This was the story every Survival Show yearned to tell.
“Ju Han, Trainee—this is your first time stepping down from Code 1—”
Ju Han’s laugh came easily, unburdened.
“You can’t always be number one, right?”
Then he pointed his finger playfully at Go Jae-sung.
“So stay sharp now, hyung—”
The two exchanged Name Badges, and Go Jae-sung began his remarks.
“I’ll never lose this seat again. Thank you so much to our team for working so hard with me.”
Go Jae-sung steadied his breath.
“Especially you, Seong-u.”
Suddenly his gaze found me.
“I really want to debut with you.”
In that instant, the other Trainees, the judges, the cameras—
all of them turned toward me.
“……?”
They say when you’re too flustered, you laugh without meaning to. I couldn’t close my mouth.
The PD gestured excitedly.
A signal to keep going, to do more.
“This is the first time two Trainees have been on the same team, isn’t it? You two had such great chemistry-”
Go Jae-sung laughed shyly.
“Yes, I’m so happy we became a Debut Group together. He feels like exactly the kind of friend the team needs.”
‘Damn it.’
The curse rose unbidden.
“How about you, Trainee Yu Seong-u?”
‘How about what—my mood’s ruined, that’s how.’
“It was all so sudden……”
I barely managed to lift the corners of my mouth.
“Still, thank you, Jae-sung.”
It was like slapping foreign subtitles on words that meant something completely different.
“I hope the friendship between you two Trainees lasts a long time.”
‘Not a chance.’
The day that bastard and the word “friendship” got tangled together would never come, not even if I died and came back to life.
“This concludes the Code announcement.”
After announcing the final positions down to sixteenth, the last goodbyes with the eliminated Trainees followed. This time, there were unusually many tears.
The weight of the months they’d endured together was heavier than anyone expected.
Especially since both of them had been on Han Sang-yun’s team—he patted the eliminated ones on the back without a word.
After the eliminated Trainees left, against that heavy backdrop, Kang Se-jun announced the new Debut Group.
“All right, then. Let me introduce the newly formed Debut Group!”
The light shining at my feet.
Light I’d finally regained after three Code announcements.
Applause poured down. Eyes filled with envy turned toward me.
I’d reached the place I’d always looked up to, but this wasn’t the scene I’d dreamed of.
“Okay—that wraps filming!”
“Thank you for your hard work!!”
The moment filming ended, I left the Debut Group spot. Standing in the place that had been Kang I-yul’s was ordeal enough.
“Come on, let’s start breaking down the set-”
The Trainees filed out one by one, but Kang I-yul still remained in the Code 6 position. He seemed unable to drag his feet away.
“Why are you still here……”
I hesitated—unsure whether to comfort him or speak to him naturally.
“Microphone over here-”
“Everyone else, head back to the bus!”
Only after hearing the staff call out a few more times did Kang I-yul rise from his spot.
“Be careful when you take down the set!”
“Got it-”
Kang I-yul walked toward me through the bustling staff.
Slower steps than usual. Shoulders sagging. Eyes that fell without force.
Suddenly one side of my chest felt tight.
Should I tell him to come with me, ask if he’s okay—
I slowed my pace.
I’d planned to leave naturally together.
That’s when it happened.
Creak-
A small sound.
Yet somehow it cut through everything, sharp and clear.
‘What’s that?’
My head turned of its own accord.
The set under demolition.
That massive structure was tilting forward.
“Wait!”
“……?”
One of the staff shouted.
“Grab it!”
But it was already too late.
Screeeech-
The sound of metal shrieked long and terrible.
And below that.
Kang I-yul was standing.
“Watch out, watch out!”
It happened in an instant.
His body moved first.
“I-yul!”
He ran with all his strength.
He shoved Kang I-yul aside.
Whoooosh!
At the same moment, the massive set collapsed entirely.
Crash!
A deafening roar accompanied the impact, shaking his entire body.
“What is it? What’s happening?”
“He just came running suddenly…”
“Call 119!”
“Hurry!”
Screams erupted from all directions. Panicked voices buzzed in his ears like tinnitus.
A searing pain throbbed through him, but he forced his eyes open.
“Are you all right?”
“Oh no, blood… there’s blood!”
“Who is it? Who’s hurt?”
The danger still wasn’t over. So he fought to keep his eyes open.
And when he managed to look up, what he saw was…
“…Hyung, hyung? Seong-u, are you okay?”
Kang I-yul was there.
Kang I-yul, alive and unharmed.
In that instant, all the tension drained away. A laugh escaped his lips.
“It’s… all right.”
With those words, his vision went black.
I Debut With My Favorite Idol (Serialized)
Author: Yu Sue
Publisher: Kim Ju-hyung
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© Yu Sue 2026
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It’s so freaking annoying that I-yul’s life is in danger whenever things slightly don’t work on their favor. It’s soooo freaking annoying! MC can’t catch a break. I-yul keeps having accidents. Why does it have to be one of the rules??? While that Go Jae-sung didn’t even have some kind of restriction (maybe there is).
Could it be because the wish is supposed to be for an individual and not for two people, this kind of clause was made? Possible, right?
BUT IT’S STILL ANNOOOYING!