I’m Debuting With The Bias I Killed - Chapter 63

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Episode 63
‘I think someone like that should be an idol.’
That comment wouldn’t leave my head.
Of course, the remark about the debut group that came after had upended the venue even more.
‘This is exactly the image I’d hoped to see from Kang I-yul.’
But rankings no longer mattered to me now.
I could tell just from his profile.
I-yul’s face was happier than anyone’s in that moment.
“You received quite the praise.”
Kang Se-jun handed the microphone back to me.
“Yu Seong-woo, the leader—is there anything you’d like to say in closing?”
I didn’t hesitate long. I’d already decided what I wanted to convey.
“We prepared this stage with all our effort. That’s why I don’t think there’s a first place or last place among us.”
I paused, looking out toward the audience seating.
“I hope this feeling reaches everyone watching us.”
As I finished, I took in each of the four members’ faces in turn.
“Wooooow!!”
“Now, we’ll begin voting for the top and bottom trainees within each team!”
Even after we came down from the stage, the team members’ faces still looked unreal.
“The cheers were really loud…….”
“It seems like more people are calling my name. Did I hear that right?”
That’s when someone tapped my shoulder.
I turned to find Kang I-yul.
“Sorry for suddenly talking to you like that back there…….”
“It’s fine! I was barely holding back from jumping around myself.”
Truth is, I was pretty startled.
He’d strode over and shaken my shoulder—I thought he’d done something reckless.
But what actually came out was.
[I believed in you, one hundred percent!]
It was so earnest that I couldn’t help but laugh.
I’m not sure if it was caught on camera. We were in the middle of filming the ending shot.
A guy who knew better than anyone how precious a single frame was in a survival show had abandoned that final moment to run over to me.
‘I can’t keep my mouth from grinning.’
After the final voting ended, all the trainees gathered back at the venue.
“It was truly a close vote.”
Kang Se-jun looked down at his cue cards.
“Especially the voting for the bottom trainee—the rankings shifted several times.”
Nervous breaths escaped from here and there. I-yul, too, was pressing his fingernails into his fingertips, swallowing hard to suppress his anxiety.
“First, I’ll announce the top trainee for each position.”
[Rap Position]
Thump-thump—
“It’s Choi Un-jo, obviously.”
The dramatic background music seemed pointless.
[Rap Position: Choi Un-jo]
It was far too predictable.
“Choi Un-jo, with a total score of 3,500 points, takes first place.”
“Wow…….”
“That’s basically a unanimous vote, right?”
Choi Un-jo accepted the trainees’ congratulations with ease.
“Next is the top trainee for the dance position.”
Everyone thought it would be either Ju Han or Go Jae-sung. The size of their fandoms at the venue was strikingly similar.
“The dance position vote was particularly fierce, we’re told.”
All eyes fixed on Kang Se-jun’s hands as he flipped the cue card.
“Oh.”
At that brief exclamation, the trainees began to stir as well.
“What?”
“Unexpected, huh?”
“Could it be Jae-sung?”
The screen showed the faces of the five dancers in succession.
Before regression, it had been Ju Han’s overwhelming victory.
Much had changed by now. Once again, I found myself watching their results through a viewer’s eyes.
“Congratulations.”
At that moment, the screen that had been split in two merged into one.
“Huh??”
“What??”
And on that screen was Han Sang-yun, his expression utterly blank.
‘Wow, those block votes are insane.’
“Trainee Han Sang-yun has claimed first place with a total score of 2,700 points.”
“Unbelievable……!”
“Congratulations, Sang-yun!”
Han Sang-yun himself looked as though he couldn’t believe it.
He glanced around uncertainly, then pointed at himself with his finger.
“……Me?”
“You weren’t expecting this?”
“Ah…… No. No, I really…… didn’t expect this.”
He’d always been composed even after debuting. The fact that his words were stammering now meant he was genuinely shaken.
I quickly mapped out what would unfold from here.
Once this result aired, Go Jae-sung’s fanbase would grow even more unified. But Ju Han’s fanbase would gnash their teeth as well. It was clear that Go Jae-sung’s fanbase had used their block votes to cost Ju Han the team’s top spot.
In the end, while the two fanbases checked each other, Han Sang-yun reaped the greatest benefit.
Go Jae-sung’s shoulders looked unusually small.
Well, after all that grinding work, he’d still lost the team’s top spot.
But that guy might actually welcome this result instead.
‘He was a master at feeding his fanbase resentment.’
Nothing was more terrifying than a fanbase driven by grievance.
Whatever came of it didn’t matter.
This morning, I’d noticed a comment on Yu Seong-ah’s SNS.
-@Seoleee
There was only a tag, no words, but I recognized it instantly.
‘It’s Seo-ri.’
After posting our stage video to her story, Yu Seong-ah had also uploaded the same footage to her feed. She’d even added a note saying she was sharing it because it wouldn’t embarrass them this way.
Right about now, Seo-ri was probably wrestling with the question.
How to reveal to the world that her choreography had been plagiarized.
You could tell from the pre-regression interviews alone.
Seo-ri was someone with fiercer pride in her work than anyone.
If someone like that discovered their choreography had been stolen?
She would move. Definitely.
Just very carefully.
‘The question is how long it’ll take.’
It might take a week, or even longer.
But it didn’t matter. If it exploded right before Round 6, the impact would be all the greater.
I found myself looking forward to this week’s broadcast.
“Finally, the top trainee in the Vocal position.”
The screen displayed my face alongside Kang I-yul’s and Song Woo-ju’s.
My heartbeat thundered so loudly I could hear it in my ears.
“Congratulations. Trainee Kang I-yul.”
“……!”
My legs went weak for a moment.
But I stood up quickly and congratulated Kang I-yul. I didn’t want to give anyone reason for misunderstanding.
“Congratulations, I-yul!”
“Thank you, senior.”
“Trainee Kang I-yul, you claimed first place in the Vocal position, which isn’t your main position. You must have fresh feelings about this.”
Kang I-yul took a few deep breaths before speaking.
“On stage…… I experienced for the first time what it feels like to give 100%.”
And then he looked at me.
“It was all thanks to you, Yu Seong-woo.”
How could there be another eighteen-year-old as touching as this?
“Trainee Yu Seong-woo, while you narrowly missed first place, your teammate saying such things must make you feel differently about it?”
“We’ve all learned so much from each other. I was also able to find my own 100% thanks to Kang I-yul.”
The heartwarming moment didn’t end there.
“There was one unusual detail in the Puberty team’s voting results.”
“Anything unusual?”
Among the curious questions filling the air, Kang Se-jun smiled faintly.
“The participation rate in the lowest-ranked trainee vote was remarkably low.”
“Ah……!”
“The fact that the venue evaluation panel didn’t voluntarily select the lowest-ranked trainee — it genuinely surprised us Boys Code producers as well.”
I’d timed that final remark perfectly.
A vote cast to eliminate someone.
Once, I’d thought even that unpredictability was part of the survival show’s appeal.
But now, I knew better.
Because now I understood that everyone had poured a hundred percent of themselves into that stage.
I gestured silently to my teammates.
“Kang I-yul.”
Unlike the other three, he hesitated before meeting my gaze.
“Why aren’t you coming?”
The others chimed in from either side.
“Come on!”
“Shouldn’t the first-place person stand in the middle?”
I pulled his wavering wrist toward me.
All five of us naturally draped our arms across each other’s shoulders.
“Now, let me announce the first-place position team.”
We were the only ones.
The only team standing arm-in-arm even as the results were about to be revealed.
Honestly, that mattered more than individual first place.
‘I swore I’d make sure we took first place. If we lose here, I’ll never live it down.’
“The winning team is…….”
Kang Se-jun paused for effect, then smiled.
“Congratulations, team Puberty!”
“Huh??”
“Really?”
“Wow, seriously?”
We screamed so loudly our ears rang.
“Ahhhhhhh!!”
“We did it!! We’re first!!”
Kang I-yul gripped my shoulders with both hands and shook me.
Kwon Ki-hyun and Song Woo-ju bounced in place.
Once Kang I-yul caught his breath, he spoke between gasps.
“I’m so relieved, hyung. I was afraid I’d be the only one to…….”
“What did I tell you?”
He wore a dazed expression for a moment, then his eyes widened.
“……Oh!”
I raised my thumb.
“Let’s hear from each member. First, Yu Seong-woo.”
“I’m so grateful to be a leader my teammates trusted and believed in, and I won’t let them down!”
The moment I said that, the other three playfully waved their hands beside my face.
As if adding some kind of sparkling effect.
Even as Kang I-yul quietly joined in, I couldn’t help but laugh.
“With this, all trainees in the Vocal position receive an additional 1,000 points in benefits. Kang I-yul, as the top-ranked member of your team, receives a total of 1,500 points in benefits.”
“Wow…….”
“1,500 points…….”
Through this round, the one-pick vote system remains in effect. A single score like that could flip the entire ranking.
‘Wait.’
This time, I’m definitely going to push Kang I-yul to the very top of the debut group.
* * *
Go Jae-sung was in a foul mood.
Unable to hide it, he kept his eyes closed on the drive back to the dormitory, pretending to sleep.
There were two reasons.
First.
He’d pushed himself so hard he’d bled from the nose, even taking on Hwang Geon-hui’s part, and yet the top spot within the team went to Han Sang-yun instead.
‘Han Sang-yun, of all people? Not even Ju Han?’
His brow furrowed for a moment.
But even as doubt crept in, he talked himself down from it.
‘No. It just means I was being targeted that much.’
It was both his greatest strength and his fatal weakness.
When results didn’t sit right with him, he simply decided the interpretation most favorable to himself was the truth.
Once this broadcast aired, the fans would understand.
Who had struggled the most to fill Hwang Geon-hui’s absence. And the fact that despite it all, he’d lost first place.
‘If anything, the fandom will only grow more fierce.’
The corners of his mouth lifted, just barely.
Second.
Kang I-yul had taken both team first and individual first.
In that moment, the voice that had been scratching at his ear came back to him.
[This lyric feels a bit… off, don’t you think?]
[Is this what you think hip-hop is?]
[If you had thoughts, you shouldn’t have put out work like that.]
Go Jae-sung’s jaw clenched without his noticing.
Kang I-yul. Always picking fights with him over every little thing. That bastard.
‘If it weren’t for that asshole.’
Impactor would already be the team he’d always dreamed of. He still believed that.
‘At this rate, I’m climbing back up to the debut group anyway.’
At first, he’d thought about staffing it entirely with trainees who matched his taste, but he knew that would doom the team for certain.
So Choi Un-jo, Ju Han, Han Sang-yun—
these three were absolutely essential.
Their skills, their character—neither could be replaced.
Kang I-yul was different.
He was furthest from the hip-hop color Go Jae-sung wanted, never moved in the direction he needed, and despite being mediocre, kept playing the good guy. He was the exact type of person Go Jae-sung hated most.
So he’d made the swap.
Just one person: Kang I-yul.
That was the most perfect picture.
And yet, that asshole kept crawling his way back into Go Jae-sung’s perfect debut group.
Go Jae-sung’s face hardened slowly.
‘Pushing in again.’
Like some kind of foreign object.
I Killed My Favorite (Serialized)
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