The Trashy PD Has To Survive as an Idol - Chapter 100

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100

“Come on! Stop messing around! Don’t fall asleep!”

[Oh Jung Da-jun
Oh K-high schooler
Oh]
[College entrance exam obsession incarnate lololololololol]

Noeul found it endearing how Jung Da-jun, playing the role of an online lecture instructor, obsessively repeated “Well—” and “In other words—” like a madman. Meanwhile, the older members, hands stuffed in their pockets and fidgeting, muttered in exasperated tones.

“Why the online lecture instructor concept?”
“Leave him be. There’s no way Jung Da-jun knows anything about 1980s America—he’s probably only seen it in movies. Plus, he’s been preparing for the college entrance exam lately.”
“Isn’t he just obsessed with mimicking online lecture instructors?”

Despite everyone’s grumbling, the youngest member Jung Da-jun steadfastly pushed his glasses up with his finger and circled the characters written on the blackboard like a man possessed. He’d seen this somewhere before.

“So today, we’ll be organizing the plot threads of our The Dun members!”
“….”
“There must be people who want this!! …Probably? …I’m choosing to believe there’s someone out there?”
“Who exactly is this for….”

Seo Ho-yoon, exhausted from dealing with Min Ji-heon, looked even more half-detached than usual from fatigue, but Kang Yi-chae was so captivated by Jung Da-jun’s concept that he buried his head in his notebook, pretending to take notes.

“First, what kind of people are The Dun members?”

Jung Da-jun, suddenly excited, scribbled the members’ information onto the blackboard in a rush.

[Kim Sung-hyun (23) Leader/Main Dancer: Black hair, refreshingly handsome, sharp inner eyelids, prominent nose bridge, thick eyebrows, has dimples
Seo Ho-yoon (23) Sub-vocalist: Black hair, pure cold-beauty type, seems sensitive, looks quite gentle when smiling (intimidating)
Sung Ji-won (23) Main Vocalist: Brown hair, pure warm-beauty type, soft and composed impression, has a mole on the bridge of his nose
Kang Yi-chae (21) Rapper: Faded red hair (grapefruit color lately), sharp eyes, thin lips, when serious looks like he’s avoiding eye contact and wants to pass by as quickly as possible
Jung Da-jun (19) Sub-dancer: No words needed, dazzlingly handsome]

“…What is this?”

Hahahahahahaha no Dajun, why did you write this down
└You can just tell by looking at it anyway]
[I’m closing my eyes to my own cringey limbs and joints]
[But this guy just copied notes from the wiki
(except his own stuff)
└I’ll just write it myself
Bleached blonde hair like a puppy, lips too thick, eyes droopy!!!]

Everyone stared blankly at the words written on the Classroom/Blackboard, their mouths falling open. Kang Yi-chae and Jung Da-jun exchanged a comedic back-and-forth of “Look down” and “Yes sir!” while giggling, while Seo Ho-yoon folded his arms and leaned so far back in his chair that it creaked loudly.

“Your Chinese characters are quite neat?”
“Of course they are!”
“Wow… you’ve been studying hard lately.”

Despite the older guys’ interference, Jung Da-jun remained remarkably steadfast. Kim Sung-hyun shook his head in disbelief and challenged him.

“What’s this about a ‘dazzlingly handsome man’?”
“I’m confident about it, sir?”

Jung Da-jun was about to organize the birthday information next, but Seo Ho-yoon was sick of wasting time on things you could find on the Internet.

[You guys, just check the wiki
└Leave him alone, Da-jun’s excited]

“Hmph.”

Jung Da-jun snorted and pouted his lips, but seeming satisfied nonetheless, he quickly pulled out a sheet of paper from the Lecture Desk/Table.

“I’ll have you read through the survey responses you each filled out beforehand. Let’s start with Seo Ho-yoon.”
“…Yes.”
“For ‘Do you think you’re a good person?’ you brazenly chose ‘YES’… Where did you leave your conscience?”
“Why? It’s the truth?”

Everyone erupted in jeers. Even the kind-hearted Sung Ji-won gazed at Seo Ho-yoon with a subtle smile. Yet despite it all, Seo Ho-yoon shamelessly refused to correct his answer. Jung Da-jun continued reading the rest of the responses.

“For the person you think is the most handsome in The Dun, you chose Sung Ji-won.”
“Huh? Really?”

Sung Ji-won laughed bashfully.

[Seriously?]
[Yeah, but
I agree
Seo Ho-yoon’s taste is pretty decent]

“What?! Why didn’t you pick the cute main rapper?”
“Huh?”

Kang Yi-chae stood up with an incredulous expression, but Seo Ho-yoon merely raised an eyebrow dismissively and pointed toward the back.

“Go look in the mirror with Sung Ji-won.”

[Skull CG explodes next to Kang Yi-chae lol]
“Ugh, I thought that bastard was finally showing some restraint lately, but nope, he’s still completely shameless hahahahaha”

“Wow, this guy’s really something.”
“Please be quiet. Kang Yi-chae chose himself anyway.”

Kang Yi-chae thrashed about indignantly, but Jung Da-jun, who genuinely believed he was the most handsome, brazenly muttered something like “Maybe I just picked the nicest person” before reciting the rest of the survey results. Noeul eagerly snatched up that bait and ran with it.

[Kim Sung-hyun’s most confident body part
His legs apparently
Damn it, that’s annoying, but it makes sense, argh!!!]

[Ji-won hesitated…hesitated…then confessed he hates soju
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
└Next to Seo Ho-yoon, awkwardly saying “Uh… I don’t really drink it much anymore either”]

[Kang Yi-chae exposes that Jung Da-jun fell asleep listening to lectures at 3x speed under his blanket]

It was a complete mess. With any semblance of high school—let alone K-pop idol professionalism—gone, the members were bickering away at each other, and watching Kim Sung-hyun grow exhausted from trying to mediate, Lee Ji-hyun sighed and issued a command.
Upon seeing that, Jung Da-jun quickly tidied his disheveled bleached hair, then spoke again with composure.

“Ahem… Now we all understand each other better, right?”
“I just want to fight.”

Jung Da-jun ignored him.

“To deepen our mutual understanding… we’re going to swap roles with each other!!”

And then he dropped the bomb.

[????]

While Noeul members were left confused with question marks, a small information screen appeared on the video.

[Role Swap♡
Seo Ho-yoon → Sung Ji-won
Sung Ji-won → Kang Yi-chae
Kang Yi-chae → Seo Ho-yoon
Jung Da-jun → Kim Sung-hyun
Kim Sung-hyun → Jung Da-jun

You must act according to each character’s traits!
!Warning! Must do the laugh-holding challenge
Noeul members, try the challenge too♡]

[???????]
[What what is this
Is this real?]
[So they’re each acting as one another??
└Seems like it??]

After a brief pause, the video darkened before cutting to a low-quality footage of an American Campus, stubbornly clinging to the 1980s concept despite having long since abandoned it.
The BGM played “Will you go to Prom with me?”… and the screen transitioned in exactly the same way as the fan song music video.

-Sputter sputter sputter…

A motorcycle engine cutting off appeared on screen. I assumed it was Kang Yi-chae as usual, but the camera slowly panned upward along long legs.

[Wait, what? Is that Kang Yi-chae?]
[Huh? The development is exactly like the fan song]

Then the man in the rider’s jacket removed his helmet.

“Sigh….”

It was Sung Ji-won.
No matter how delinquent-like his behavior, Sung Ji-won’s appearance remained impeccably refined. He brushed his hair back, then spoke in a crystalline voice.

“The cute main rapper has arrived.”

[Will you go to Prom with me! (Say Yes!)]

[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh my god hahahahahaha]
[I’m giving up on the laughter challenge right now]
[Oh, so that’s what it was? I’m losing it—don’t put the “Will You Prom” BGM as the highlight right now]
[Looking from the outside, Jiwon is biting his teeth hard hahahaha]

Whether Noeul was falling apart or not, Sung Ji-won walked forward steadily, helmet tucked under his arm. In the hallway, Seo Ho-yoon stood neatly dressed in his school uniform, pulling a book from his locker.
Sung Ji-won approached awkwardly with a creaking sound, then slammed the locker with one hand—bang!

“Hey, Hyung. What’s up?”
“Oh, Yi-chae. Hey there.”

Despite Sung Ji-won’s awkward acting, Seo Ho-yoon matched him perfectly—true to form for an actor who’d been sweetly ad-libbed into submission by Min Ji-heon.
Watching Seo Ho-yoon brush his hair back with a gentle smile, Sung Ji-won’s pupils trembled slightly.

“Yi-chae, have you practiced your rap much?”
“Want me to show you?”
“No, that’s fine. I don’t really want to see it.”
“Yeah. In front of you. I want. To do. Indecent. Things.”

While Sung Ji-won steadily rapped out Kang Yi-chae’s part from beside him, Seo Ho-yoon simply gazed at him with a subtle smile.

[How is Seo Ho-yoon supposed to hold the laughter challenge with this in front of him?]
[Totally shameless
Sung Ji-won’s gestures are perfect
He follows that shy smile so well]
Sung Ji-won’s gesture is perfect.

“Hey, this guy’s acting is good. I’m so hyped for Cabu episode 1.”

“I want to hold onto you desperately and pour out all those words.”
Seo Ho-yoon, still maintaining his poker face, was meaninglessly putting back the book he had taken out earlier when Kang Yi-chae appeared.

Still maintaining his poker face, Seo Ho-yoon meaninglessly put back the book he had taken out earlier when Kang Yi-chae appeared.

“….”
Kang Yi-chae raised the corners of his mouth and leaned against the cabinet with his arms crossed, wearing Seo Ho-yoon’s signature menacing smile.
Seo Ho-yoon’s expression nearly crumbled for a moment.

But Seo Ho-yoon wasn’t the type to take this lying down.
“No. Seong Ji-won… I have a problem.”
“Ho-yoon, hey. Want to go practice with Yi-chae? He got demoted in his game tier recently.”

“…What is it?”

Receiving Seo Ho-yoon’s slightly anxious gaze, Kang Yi-chae lowered his long eyelashes.

“I was born too pretty, and it’s serious…”
[Lee Chae, are you only alive today?]
[Oh]

Hahahahahaha Seo Ho-yoon is so pissed off.
“……Hoyoon.”

“…Ho-yoon.”

Seo Ho-yoon was indeed absolutely furious, just as Noeul said, but he gritted his teeth and responded. However, Kang Yi-chae, just like Seo Ho-yoon, merely twitched his eyebrows and showed no signs of stopping.
“…Hoyun doesn’t say that.”
“Why. What. Why. Are you jealous I was born pretty?”
“…Ho-yoon doesn’t talk like that.”

“Hey, stop it, just. Kang Yi-chae, your character act failed. I don’t treat Sung Ji-won like this, you know?”
But the problem is…

The only problem was…

“What are you gonna do about it?”
A subtitle appeared next to it.

A subtitle appeared beside him.

[Seo Ho-yoon Laugh-Holding Challenge Failed✗ Anger-Holding Challenge (Controlling Anger Challenge) Failed✓]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Jeong Da-jun was cleaning the classroom next to him and nagging incessantly.

Jung Da-jun was cleaning the classroom while delivering an endless stream of nagging.

“….”
It was because I couldn’t act.

It was because he couldn’t act.

“Please stop bouncing around, Da-jun.”

Kang Yi-chae entered the classroom and watched them without much hope (still acting like Seo Ho-yoon), when Kim Sung-hyun opened his mouth.

“…Bounce.”
[Jung Da-jun, is it Bangbang because he runs around Bangbang?? Hey, are you following this??]

[Is he really bouncing because Da-jun bounces?? Wait, is this supposed to be an imitation??]

“Pfft….”

Watching this, even Kang Yi-chae—who had been imitating perfectly—nearly broke, gritting his teeth and splashing water on his face to barely hold it together. Seeing this, Jung Da-jun squinted his eyes and then straddled a chair like Kim Sung-hyun.

“Da-jun, come on… let’s do this properly, yeah?”
“….”
“Where’d your response go?”

“Pfft-hehehehe….”
[Hey, just adding Lee-eung at the end doesn’t make you Jeong Da-jun hahahaha]
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Brother Brother?? Hahahahahaha

[Kang Yi-chae, you failed, just give up]

“I’m gonna quit… hehehehe….”

[Kang Yi-chae’s laugh-holding challenge FAILED!!]
To this, Kim Seong-hyun just kept responding disgruntled, saying ‘Neng-neng’ and ‘I don’t know.’
Kang Yi-chae, who seemed like he’d make it to the very end, unexpectedly crumbled quickly. Even as he gave up and collapsed onto a classroom desk, half-sobbing with laughter, Jung Da-jun stubbornly continued nagging at Kim Sung-hyun.

In the end, all The Dun members who had gathered—.
“Kang Yi-chae, run away right away.”
“I… I want to look good to you.”
“Kang Yi-chae, get out of here right now.”

“Room room….”

—It was absolute chaos.
└It has no choice but to be like that.
[Kim Sung-hyun held it together watching Jung Da-jun’s impression, but broke when Sung Ji-won came in rapping at the end
└It was inevitable

Seo Ho-yoon is truly remarkable]
└Kang Yi-chae Among them, I understand, don’t be angry, I’ll give you a carrot lol.
[Seo Ho-yoon finally grabbed Kang Yi-chae by the collar

└Honestly if I were Seo Ho-yoon I’d hit him too lolololololololololol]

And so the winner of the self-con laugh-holding challenge went to Kim Sung-hyun, who had simply grown tired and muttered “room room” the entire time.

“…Yes, thank you.”

Kim Sung-hyun, who had received a necklace with cheap gold plating and felt no joy whatsoever, muttered forlornly.

“…So who was this supposed to be for again?”
On this day, for the first time, Seo Ho-yoon thought about leaving everything, including the members, and quickly returning to the drama filming set.

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