The Gates Opened on the First Day of Debut - Chapter 100

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The Gate Burst Open on My Debut Day (100)
After reviewing the entire variety show list, I headed back to my room.
“Everyone, go inside and get some sleep.”
“Oh, just… just five more minutes….”
“Lee Jae, Yoo Yeol, wake up. And Okada, Hae-soo—don’t sit uncomfortably. Sleep on the beds.”
“Ugh….”
I helped the disoriented members to their feet and ushered them into the remaining room.
It was five in the morning.
Yoo Sung and I decided to catch up on the sleep we’d missed.
“Sleep well.”
“You too.”
I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes.
But it wasn’t long before sunlight pierced through the gaps between my eyelids.
I sat up and checked the time.
“It’s already nine in the morning…?”
Wondering if I’d misread it, I blinked repeatedly and checked again. But the time remained unchanged.
It felt like barely ten minutes had passed.
When I stepped into the living room, the members were huddled together around a low table.
“Did you sleep well?”
“How’s your body? Any pain anywhere?”
“Hey, want some water?”
Once Yoo Sung, sitting on the sofa, acknowledged me first, the other members greeted me one by one.
“He’s completely fine, I’m telling you? Look at how smooth his face is after sleeping well.”
“I’m sorry for worrying everyone. Hiro and Hae-soo were really concerned too, weren’t they?”
I sat on the sofa, leaving Yoo Sung’s grumbling behind.
“What were you all talking about?”
“Oh, right. The manager told us to decide which rooms to use and pick which variety shows we want to appear on.”
“Ah, the variety show list. I checked it early this morning too. Choosing shows will take a bit of time, so… should we decide on the rooms first?”
“Sounds good.”
“But… there are cameras here?”
I belatedly noticed cameras installed throughout the living room. They definitely weren’t there when I toured the dormitory earlier this morning.
“The manager and staff came this morning and set them up.”
“Cameras?”
“Once the Official YouTube Channel launches, they’re going to release behind-the-scenes footage.”
Behind-the-scenes? What behind-the-scenes footage?
I wanted to ask immediately, but unfortunately the manager and staff who could answer weren’t here.
‘Something feels off.’
The cameras were one thing, but asking for our opinions on the live broadcast and giving us choices about variety shows too.
An uneasy feeling settled over me.
“Should we decide on the rooms by age order?”
Seo Ijae cautiously made a suggestion.
“That’s not a bad idea. So would it be Lee Jae and Yoo Yeol, Hiro and Hae-soo, and the three of us remaining?”
“What about drawing lots?”
Jung Yoo-yeol interjected into the conversation.
“Drawing lots?”
“Yeah. I think it’d be more fun that way.”
Jung Yoo-yeol shrugged as he spoke.
Well, that’s not a bad idea.
Usually, drawing lots is the standard way to decide rooms. It’s fair too.
Seo Ijae seemed to think similarly and nodded.
“That would be fair. I’ll make the lots right now.”
Seo Ijae retrieved leftover paper from the room and quickly prepared the lots.
“Each of you draw one.”
Seo Ijae clenched his fist to cover the bottom of the lots, then extended his hand.
We immediately drew our lots.
The results of the drawing were as follows:
[Large Room — Jung Yoo-yeol, Han Theo, Kim Chowol
Small Room (Entrance Side) — Yoo Sung, Kang Hae-soo
Small Room (Inner Side) — Seo Ijae, Okada]
The rooms were decided in just about five minutes.
‘Jung Yoo-yeol and Han Theo….’
Han Theo was fine, but Jung Yoo-yeol still felt a bit awkward to me.
“Oh, we’re roommates. Thanks for having me, Chowol.”
Jung Yoo-yeol draped his arm over my shoulder and grinned widely. Anyone watching would think we’d been friends for a decade.
“Now that the rooms are settled… should we move on to variety shows? Does anyone have a show they’d like to appear on?”
“Hmm….”
The members fell silent.
I understood.
We hadn’t even debuted yet, and now we were being asked to choose which variety shows to appear on. It was naturally daunting.
“Chowol, do you have a variety show you’d like to appear on?”
As I stared blankly at the list of variety shows, Seo Ijae carefully asked for my opinion.
“Me?”
“Yeah. I’d like to hear your thoughts.”
Seo Ijae’s eyes sparkled with trust and faith. And it wasn’t just Seo Ijae.
Han Theo, Yoo Sung, Okada, Kang Hae-soo, Jung Yoo-yeol… every single one of them was looking at me with eyes full of expectation.
“Let me think about it for a moment.”
Only then did the members avert their gazes. Finally able to breathe, I fell into thought.
‘The members trust me.’
They had no choice but to trust me.
After all, these were people who had received help from me at least once.
‘But… I’m no longer a regressor.’
Unlike when I was filming the EX-Grade K-POP Idol content, I have no idea what the future holds.
I can’t reveal all of this either.
In the first place, it was questionable whether anyone would believe me even if I did. I’d be lucky if I didn’t end up in a psychiatric hospital.
‘What do I do…?’
As I was pondering how to navigate this situation wisely.
A Quest I had completely forgotten about flashed through my mind.
[Hidden Quest Cleared.]
[Hidden Quest: Recruit all allies.
Reward: ???]
Right, the Hidden Quest clear reward!
They definitely said that Sub Quest and Hidden Quest clear rewards would be given together with the Main Quest clear reward.
‘Check reward.’
As I muttered inwardly, a status window appeared before my eyes.
[Hidden Quest: Recruit all allies.
Reward: Trait Draw Ticket (S) x1]
Huh…?
After confirming the reward, I blinked repeatedly. I wondered if I had misread it.
But no matter how many times I closed and opened my eyes, the status window before me didn’t change.
‘…It’s really S-Grade?’
My heart began racing rapidly.
‘Use Trait Draw Ticket.’
I immediately used the draw ticket. A familiar spinning wheel appeared before my eyes.
Unlike the A-Grade draw ticket, the S-Grade draw ticket had no silver or lower—every slot was either rainbow or gold.
‘Even if it fails, I get S-Grade; if it goes well, I get EX-Grade.’
Under normal circumstances, I would have been thrilled with just an S-Grade trait.
But I, who possessed the EX-Grade trait of an ordinary person who could never become a genius, knew.
Just how broken EX-Grade traits were.
―Whirrrr.
The wheel began spinning.
‘Rainbow, please be rainbow…!’
The wheel that had been spinning frantically slowed down gradually, then stopped between a rainbow slot and a gold slot.
In an instant, the wheel vanished and the drawn trait appeared before my eyes.
“This is….”
I closed my eyes, then slowly opened them.
[You and I Are Bound by Fate
Grade: EX
Description: You can borrow one trait from ◼◼◼
*Borrowed traits are limited to Grade A or higher
*When ◼◼◼ uses a trait, its usage may be restricted]
I managed to draw an EX-Grade trait, but….
‘What is ◼◼◼?’
From the context, it looks like a person’s name. Is there really someone in this world besides me who can use a status window?
No, setting aside the identity of ◼◼◼, I couldn’t even understand the trait itself.
So does that mean I’m borrowing someone else’s trait?
But how?
I muttered to myself with a skeptical heart.
‘Hmm… borrowing a trait?’
A new status window appeared before my eyes.
[◼ ◼◼(EX)
◼◼(EX)
◼◼’s ◼◼(A+)]
I closed my eyes again and opened them slowly.
‘What is this…?’
It seems to be a list of ◼◼◼’s traits that I can borrow.
Everything is pixelated, so I have no idea what any of these traits are!
I began to ponder with a serious expression.
‘An EX-Grade trait would be better than an A-Grade one, right?’
Excluding the A+ grade ‘◼◼’s ◼◼’.
There were two EX-Grade traits.
‘◼ ◼◼’ and ‘◼◼’.
Since I could only read one character, I had to choose based on intuition.
‘This is my one shot in life.’
My deliberation was brief.
I selected the trait at the very top.
[You have selected the trait ‘◼ ◼◼’]
[From now on, you can use the trait ‘◼ ◼◼’.]
I stared intently at the status window.
That’s… it?
I need to know what the trait does before I can even use it!
But no matter how much I complained, the status window refused to tell me what ‘◼ ◼◼’ was.
Eventually, I gave up on discovering the trait’s identity and turned my attention to the entertainment program list.
Let’s Eat Well and Live Well, a YouTube variety show with excellent buzz, immediately caught my eye.
It was such a great opportunity that I had to appear on it.
“So about Let’s Eat Well and Live Well….”
The moment I opened my mouth, the world flipped upside down.
My vision suddenly blurred, and noise began to spread across my field of view like footage shot on an old camera.
‘You’re just closing the channel?’
An unfamiliar man with furrowed brows and members with stiff expressions.
And standing across from the man was a woman I’d never seen before, her face troubled.
‘I’m sorry. But we really… had no choice.’
The female fan exhaled heavily and continued speaking.
‘We considered just leaving the channel up, but we couldn’t exactly ignore a video featuring a drug offender….’
Wait, what?
A drug offender? Who’s a drug offender?
“Hyung?”
At that moment, the noise that had been clouding my vision disappeared.
When I turned my head, I saw Okada looking at me with a worried expression.
“Are you hurt somewhere?”
“Oh, no… I was just thinking about something for a moment.”
After brushing it off vaguely, I sank back into thought.
Let me piece this together slowly.
The strange phenomenon I just experienced was likely the effect of the EX-grade trait I’d just selected.
‘Closing the channel, had no choice, a video featuring a drug offender….’
I carefully retraced the key phrases from the brief conversation between the unfamiliar man and the woman I’d never seen before.
Then I checked the entertainment list again.
‘Let’s Eat Well and Live Well….’
Could it be that the host and YouTube channel owner was arrested as a drug offender?
Thinking about it this way, everything clicked into place perfectly.
‘If that’s the case, then the identity of the EX-grade trait I selected is….’
I stared blankly at the censored trait name.
◼rae ◼◼.
A word ending in ‘rae’… dore, dore-mi, mi? Future?
I placed the word that came to mind before the censored portion.
Future ◼◼.
Then I matched the strange phenomenon I’d just experienced with ‘Future ◼◼’.
Future, future, future… could it be future foresight?
‘Insane.’
The trait I’d picked on a whim was actually a crazy EX-grade ability.

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