The Daughter of a Conglomerate Family Has Debuted - Chapter 11

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The Chaebol’s Daughter Debuted

Episode 11

It seemed like they intended to assign someone who could provide detailed advice and help in place of an entertainment agency, considering there were individual trainees with no agency.

No matter how skilled they were, when individual trainees put their heads together, there would be many shortcomings in detailed aspects like concept, direction, expressions, and gestures.

‘That’s a relief.’

With a mentor present, at least this newly formed group wouldn’t go completely off track in terms of direction.

Thinking that way, I felt somewhat relieved.

“The mentor for each group is waiting for you at the next location you’ll be moving to. For one week until the competition day, you’ll select songs with your mentor and prepare your stage.”

What, what did they say?

“Oh.”

A sound escaped from me without realizing it.

‘One week?’

Isn’t that too tight? I didn’t know since I’ve never experienced it, but are competitions usually like this – practicing and performing on stage as quickly as roasting beans over lightning?

It’s already quite a tight schedule just to sync up with members I’m meeting for the first time, and on top of that, they want us to prepare a cover?

“…One week is incredibly short.”

The dyed hair trainee sitting next to me muttered quietly. She was also glancing at the other F team trainees with a bewildered expression.

A trainee with a strangely familiar face.

Actually, she had been catching my attention tremendously since earlier.

I definitely saw her somewhere. Where did I see her…

At that moment, with a cheerful ding! sound, a blue window appeared next to the dyed hair trainee.

Just like when I checked another singer’s status window at the hospital before, other people’s status windows were different from mine which only had stats written on it.

It had the subject’s age and brief comments written more specifically, helping me understand this person more directly.

By the way, this person’s average stats are incredibly high.

I thought I’d seen her somewhere, and looking at her age and stats, she seemed like someone with debut experience.

‘I can’t remember the group name though.’

While I was examining Han Da-min’s status window, announcer Choi Gyu-jin calmed down the trainees who had become noisy and continued the proceedings.

“Since this is your first time, you’ll need time to adapt and it might feel rushed, but please prepare well and show off your skills to your heart’s content. Then lastly!”

[Benefit]

The golden letters on the electronic display board sparkled, showing their presence.

“It would be disappointing if there were no rewards for stages you prepared so hard for! We’ll reveal the benefit for the first round competition.”

[Start Plan Theme Song Main Stage]

Following the mentor, another sudden thing appeared, causing the audition participants to panic once again.

But this time, I immediately understood what that was.

‘They’re giving the center position for the opening song to first place.’

Every year, program theme songs that announced the start of competition programs came out and became popular.

It was a format where all trainees were arranged on a large stage according to their rankings and danced.

The other trainees also seemed to have expected this much, listening to announcer Choi Gyu-jin’s words with calm expressions.

“The group that takes first place in this round will stand at the center of the upcoming theme song stage, that is, the main stage, and lead the song.”

An inverted triangle-shaped stage diagram appeared on the electronic display board.

It was a diagram showing the first place team positioned at the main stage in the center, second and third place on both side stages, and the 4th, 5th, and 6th place teams arranged below the stage.

As always, it was an arrangement method with quite blatant differentiation by ranking, and since it was group competition, the impact by ranking would be twice as great.

‘It’s quite an amazing benefit.’

It’s probably the best benefit throughout the entire competition.

“Since there’s such a big difference in stage arrangement by ranking, you’ll have to do your best to achieve a high ranking, right?”

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin said with an annoyingly bright smile.

“Alright! Now we’ve finished explaining all about the competition theme and benefits.”

Announcer Choi Gyu-jin gestured for all the trainees to stand up from their seats.

“From now on, you’ll move to team-specific spaces to freely greet each other and have time to discuss the competition.”

The trainees began standing up one by one.

“All trainees, please follow the production staff’s guidance!”

I was also about to follow them and leave the set studio.

Ding!

The third mission appeared.

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F team’s meeting room prepared inside the broadcasting station.

“…”

“…”

Wow, how can it be this quiet.

Everyone was just staring blankly at different places, and there wasn’t even anyone laughing from awkwardness.

I quietly rolled my eyes to look around at the members. The members were earnestly looking only at their own hands, fidgeting.

‘Oh my, this is…’

The silence has gone on so long that it’s become difficult to even open our mouths now.

Then… there’s no choice.

Right, I’ll go first. I’m an adult after all.

I cleared my throat softly and opened my mouth.

“We’re on the same team now.”

My voice echoed excessively loudly in the quiet meeting room.

The gazes of the members who had only been watching each other’s reactions fixed on me.

“Should we at least introduce ourselves to each other?”

“Should we?”

Han Da-min answered as if she had been waiting and readily raised her hand to shoulder height.

“Then I’ll introduce myself first.”

Oh, seeing how she immediately stepped forward, Han Da-min must have been timing when to speak just like me.

“Ah.”

“Ah!”

As soon as she raised her hand, exclamations burst out from here and there.

As expected, everyone knows this member.

Among the members, no, the most striking red hair among all participants. Sharp features that matched very well with flashy makeup.

Everyone here showed reactions of knowing her, so she should feel proud, but instead Han Da-min only smiled bitterly.

“It seems some of you know me. I’m Han Da-min. I’m twenty-five years old and I previously worked as a member of a group called Rosetta.”

‘Ah, I see.’

Hearing the group name, I immediately remembered.

She was a member of a group that debuted around the same time as me.

We frequently encountered each other on music shows for about 1-2 years, then disappeared from the media around the same time as us.

That’s why I had completely forgotten about her existence until meeting her today.

Even if he had remembered, he probably would have thought that like countless other idol groups including mine, we failed and disappeared.

‘But now she’s challenging again.’

The entertainment industry must have been difficult enough to make her sick of it, yet she didn’t give up.

‘Same goes for me though.’

I felt a sense of kinship with her for no particular reason.

Of course, the Han Da-min standing before me was speaking confidently as if she had never experienced any hardships.

“I’m a bit older and all, but we’re on the same team now and we’ll have to keep working together, so I hope you’ll treat me comfortably like a close older sister. I look forward to working with you all.”

“We look forward to working with you too.”

The members hesitantly gave polite deep bows.

No matter how much she told them to be comfortable, in terms of experience she was a great senior and there was quite an age gap, so it was a natural reaction.

“Then… I’ll go next.”

When Han Da-min finished her introduction, another trainee sitting next to her raised her hand and stood up.

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