Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 11

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Episode 11
The Monthly Assessment I’d taken on the last day of July had gone remarkably well.
Not just for me, but for everyone.
[▷ EVENT : The Director’s Surprise Visit]
[The director, who doesn’t care for idols, visits as a surprise judge for the Monthly Assessment. Be careful not to fall out of favor with inadequate skills!]
[Event complete! Calculating rank……]
[▷ EVENT : The Director’s Surprise Visit CLEAR!]
[▷ Clear Rank : A]
[No event penalty occurs with an A-rank clear.]
[▷ Check Event Rewards]
Honestly, I thought they’d give us an S-rank for this.
Does this system not have customer service? I’d like to ask about their ranking criteria.
The Dance live we performed as a group got almost entirely positive feedback from the team leader, and even that curmudgeon of a director admitted the Vocals were pretty solid—everyone did well, really.
Go Hyun-seo prepared properly and did her part well, and Kang Su-ah was absolutely flying with such a solid stage to work with. Honestly, the most fun was watching the director’s expression shift moment by moment.
I checked the clear rank and then got caught up in various things for a while, so I’d put off checking the rewards. It seemed about time to take a look.
I pulled up the system window after ages and clicked to confirm the event rewards.
[Event Clear A-rank Rewards: 50 Quest Points, 1 Achievement Point, 1 Advanced Item Roulette, 3 Common Item Roulettes.]
[The Achievement System is now unlocked.]
[Event Achievement: Monthly Assessment Excellence Award]
[You receive 1 Achievement Point.]
[Each time you achieve an achievement, you receive 1 Achievement Point.]
[Achievement Points can be used in the shop, and the unlock conditions for achievements are confidential.]
[Achieve many accomplishments and collect honor and points!]
[Item Roulettes can be obtained through system rewards or by using Points.]
[When using an Item Roulette, please press the Item Roulette button added to the shop!]
……This is genuinely unnecessary cheerfulness.
As I go, my life’s turning into a game more and more. Is this really okay?
The Item Roulettes, I’ll hold onto for now.
I haven’t had a need to use items yet, so I’ll take my time learning about them.
And the Quest Points are pretty much a forced hold.
I’ve been grinding hard since joining—just this past month—and my stats have grown a lot because of it.
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PROFILE
Name : Seo Ji-on
Age : 20
Affiliation : Music Prove
HP ♥♥♥♡♡
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VOCAL Lv.55
DANCE Lv.41
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.53
Instrument: Guitar Lv.81
Instrument: Piano Lv.79
Instrument: Bass Lv.55
Trait – Tuning (A) : Discord becomes harmony. Keener instincts than anyone to catch irregularities in a flash, and swift problem-solving ability that corrects without anyone knowing.
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Vocals had gone up 13 levels, and Dance had gone up 19 levels.
Even accounting for another two weeks after the Monthly Assessment, I’d raised my levels quite a bit in four weeks total.
From Level 40 onwards it takes 80 points to level up once, and once Dance crossed 40, there wasn’t anything I could raise with just 50 points.
Looking at it this way, the rewards feel pretty stingy……. Right, a petty system if there ever was one.
So far there’s no function to actually use the Quest Points for anyway, so they’re just sitting idle.
Click.
Suddenly the door to the Vocal Room where I was opened, and Go Hyun-seo poked her head in.
“What are you doing that you couldn’t hear me knocking?”
“Oh, sorry. Um……, is it important? I’m just about done anyway.”
“What were you—”
“Course registration.”
“Ah…….”
Right, you dummy. I’m a university student.
A university student who has to go to school when September rolls around and classes start…….
“Why’d you come by?”
“Did you forget? We said we’d go to the gym during lunch today.”
“Oh.”
That thing I’d glossed over yesterday evening suddenly came back to me.
Have I been haunted by the spirit of someone who died from not exercising……? I looked at Go Hyun-seo with a tired expression, and she shrugged in a ‘what-can-you-do’ sort of way.
“You were the one who said you wanted to work out first. I never forced you.”
“……. Fine, it’s all my fault. Let’s go, come on…….”
They were my own words, so what could I do about it? Ha.
With half-surrendered expression, I trudged out of the Vocal Room following Go Hyun-seo.
Listen here, past me.
Exercising……, just tell them you’ll go alone…….
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“Ugh, so you’re going to the gym with Hyun-seo?!”
“Yeah…… Really, I have no energy, so just go back to practicing.”
“No way~? T’s problem-solving method is so funny. If there’s a worry, eliminate the source of the worry……, that’s totally the kind of thing Ji-on would think up.”
“It’s my thought, so of course it is…….”
“Ha ha!”
She laughed with genuine delight.
After finishing my workout before lunch, I grabbed a light meal of chicken breast, salad, and tomato.
Rather than saying I’m on a diet, it’s more that doing intense exercise makes me not want to eat a lot…….
It’s 2020-something and we still don’t have technology to get a full meal out of a single pill? That’s seriously ridiculous. Those 1990s sci-fi movies said we’d have it by now…….
Kang Su-ah came running up all excited to see me halfheartedly nibbling away at my salad like a zombie, pestering me to tell her the whole story.
She made a fuss about how it was shocking that Ji-on, who really hates exercise, was voluntarily working out, so I just explained the cause and effect briefly—and this is the reaction I got.
“But you did do your course registration, right?”
“……Don’t tell me today is the day?”
“Don’t tell me you haven’t done it?”
“……. I’m screwed.”
“Aren’t you trying to use polite and proper language?”
“How are those words supposed to come out in a situation like this?!”
I’d asked half-expecting it, and it turned out Kang Su-ah had forgotten her course registration. I couldn’t help a smirk at the sudden schadenfreude.
In a complete reversal from a minute ago, Kang Su-ah was frantically tapping away at her laptop while I laughed with delight.
“Oh, stop laughing!”
“I don’t want to either?”
“You look so petty right now…….”
“I’ve always been a bit petty. My grudges last like a hundred years.”
“You’re a bad person…….”
“Hey, using polite and proper language, remember?”
“I…… am disappointed in you…….”
“That’s the spirit.”
In the end, despite thinking hard about it, Kang Su-ah’s schedule became an all-day first period with no free periods.
I clapped and laughed—”Pfhaha!”—and she turned her head away indignantly. What, jealous that I have a free period?
When I ignored her and just kept eating, Kang Su-ah’s anger faded quickly and she flopped down on the table, whining.
“Should I just take a leave of absence? I need to prepare for my debut in the second half anyway…….”
“Won’t it be harder to go to school after you debut? If you’re planning to graduate, you should go this semester.”
“Wow……, that’s a fair point. Completely fair, actually…….”
“But?”
“……. Ji-on, you’re a hopeless T.”
“What does MBTI have to do with anything?”
“This kind of thing…….”
While Kang Su-ah suddenly lost her will and lay sprawled across the table, I tidied up my lunch spot and left.
I needed to figure out what to do with the newly appeared quest.
[Updating objective progress…]
[Update complete]
[Setting mission theme…]
[Reflecting the project subject’s “previous life”…]
[Mission theme has been set.]
[▷ Theme : Singer-Songwriter Idol Debut]
[A groundbreaking new-concept idol who handles composition, lyrics, and concept all on her own! An artist with both the pride and musicality of an indie music veteran and the sparkle of an idol, making her debut!]
[Quests matching the set theme will be assigned.]
[▷ Quest : Write a song for the group and members (D-30)]
[Your first step toward becoming the group’s producer! Write a song that will be recognized by the company as composed by someone with genuine ability.]
A new quest appeared this morning.
Along with the grandiose theme of Singer-Songwriter Idol.
They give just 30 days and tell me to write a song.
Do these people think composers are vending machines that spit out songs when you press a button?
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In media portrayals, composers are typically depicted as writing songs when struck by genius inspiration, hit by lightning-bolt inspiration……—people receiving divine inspiration and churning out works on the spot.
But in reality……, a composer’s work involves scrapping pieces, scrapping them again, and scrapping them once more, repeating endless revisions until something decent emerges.
There’s the ridiculous situation where you genuinely think something isn’t worth it and dump it in the trash, only to fish it back out from the garbage just minutes later…….
That’s because inspiration, musical ideas, and materials……—these things generally come to mind in vague and fuzzy forms, and they need a lot of polishing and refining before they become music worth releasing.
So inspiration is necessary, yeah, but…….
Ten days since the new quest appeared.
Classes start before I know it, and the Monthly Assessment is right around the corner too (fortunately I’m preparing much more comfortably than last month), and the new project in my MacBook’s DAW program sits completely empty…….
What people commonly call a DAW program (I’ll call it DAW from now on too, since the distinction doesn’t matter much anymore) is a general term for composition software.
The reason I’m using the inconvenient MacBook despite its drawbacks is simply that the Mac-exclusive DAW is easy to use.
“Wow, really……. I can’t get a feel for this at all.”
After staring at the monitor for a long stretch, I finally shoved the MacBook to the corner of my bed and flopped out on the mattress.
Honestly, I have no clue whatsoever.
I can’t even grasp where or how to start!
Since the quest is about being recognized as a composer with ability, I even considered pulling songs from Evergreat that I’d written in my past life.
No matter how much I thought about it, they didn’t seem like they’d fit this team, so I dropped the idea. The phrase “a song for the group and members” bothered me.
The title songs I’d written back then, well into Evergreat’s career, wouldn’t suit these people now. The member count has changed, and the circumstances are different.
To achieve the mission of a “successful debut,” we’d need something more powerful than back then, more dynamic choreography.
If we want to push the image of the “self-made, hardworking underdog with real talent” that the general public expects from rookies from mid-size companies, if we want to hear people say “those kids really worked hard,” mediocrity is absolutely off the table. We have to show the absolute maximum of what we can do.
And looking at this “theme” that dropped today, I don’t think writing the song is going to be all there is to it.
The probability of getting a hardcore-difficulty quest asking me to handle composition, lyrics, and concept directly is incredibly high.
If that’s the case, shouldn’t I sketch out the whole thing from the beginning with the debut album concept in mind?
What would suit our team……, these members as we are now? I’ve spent ten days pondering it, but I still haven’t found the answer.
I did open the program and try to write something reckless, but it’s all completely wrong.
The working environment isn’t even proper, and songwriting needs time and breathing room.
My head……, isn’t turning over right.
Maybe I don’t want to do it because they’re forcing me, or maybe I genuinely have nothing coming to mind…….
When I was about to lose my mind from all this thinking, a knock sounded and the door opened.
“Ji-on……eek?! What’s wrong? Why are you like that?”
“Hey, Hye-rin. Well, life just isn’t going the way I want it to…….”
“Why? …Could it be because of exercising with Hyun-seo?”
“…That’s part of it. Apparently her endurance is infinite?”
“Hyun-seo’s not really the type who works out intensely, though. Isn’t it more that you’re just weak?”
“……. Right, I forgot for a moment. You’re from an athletics background…….”
“Ha ha, I had the best stamina even in my athlete class. People are always saying I’m fine with free run-throughs.”
“Go away, I don’t need a younger sister who can’t sympathize with the pain of exercise…….”
At my words, Ju Hye-rin laughed for ages like she’d heard something amusing, then handed me her mobile phone and left.
When I wondered where I’d left my phone, it turned out Ju Hye-rin had found it at the Gym—left there the last time I’d gone, and she’d picked it up during her own visit…….
The is progressing smoothly even now, well into mid-August.
I figured I’d get used to it as I went…….
But as you can see, adaptation is nowhere in sight—to the point of leaving my phone behind. Apparently my mind got left at the gym too.
By this point, I have to admit it.
I thought my stamina had gradually turned to garbage by the time I was twenty-five, but in reality it had fallen from baseline garbage to irredeemable-wreck territory…….
Still, thanks to keeping up with exercise since my return, my stamina seems to be improving bit by bit. Muscle is starting to attach itself to my stick-thin body that was painful to look at, and now I can finally put real power into my dance movements!
I lay in bed and quickly checked my phone.
There don’t seem to be any important messages, just the semester opening assembly notice……, I won’t be able to make that.
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : You coming to the assembly?
Huh, what’s gotten into her? The master of read-receipts ignoring suddenly reaching out first…….
My attention fixed on a single notification I found while checking the alerts.
Shim Yu-jeong is a senior at university who I’d gotten quite close to while preparing for my entrance exam, and the first person to teach me how to use DAW. She’s a few years older than me, if I recall? She’s been incredibly helpful in many ways.
The MacBook I’m using now was something I bought cheap, secondhand from this senior at the start of the semester, so without Shim Yu-jeong, there’s no way I’d be able to use DAW right now…….
ㄴㄴ Can’t make it to the assembly –
Been pretty busy lately –
What’s up?? Why you texting out of the blue? –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : ㅋㅋ You
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Can’t tell if you’re my student, my junior, my rival, or what
So what’s going on? –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Your mom contacted me
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : I don’t know anything so I said I didn’t know
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : But I was curious if you were even alive
Oh crap –
Did I go crazy ㅋㅋ –
Sorry I just ignored all texts over break –
Let’s just block her ㄱ sorry… –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : What happened this time
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : That you ghosted everyone
Oh right, unnie—I’m thinking of becoming a singer? –
She freaked about it so I just –
Ghosted everyone I guess… –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : ???????????
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : You serious?
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Am I really texting Seo Ji-on right now?
……Is it that shocking that I’m becoming a singer?
I felt briefly hurt.
But, well, this senior would react that way…….
During entrance exam prep, she always pushed the idea that I should major in Singer-Songwriter instead of just Composition, and yet I went ahead and applied for Composition anyway—that whole incident happened.
Really hurt –
People can change a bit –
Now that I think about it, didn’t Shim Yu-jeong have a studio somewhere around here?
The system didn’t say I couldn’t get help from others, and while it hasn’t happened yet, I’d done collaborative work with this senior several times before…….
I typed out a new message to the messenger where her reply still hadn’t come.
Unnie, you interested in idol album work? –
Probably would be –
Just wondering –
Asking out of courtesy –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : I probably would be
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Why?
Concept and theme require brainstorming.
You need a process of throwing out ideas and filtering them, and having two people generating ideas is better than having just one.
kk –
I’m coming straight to your studio after classes start –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : What is it;
I’ll explain when I get there –
See you after classes start ㅎ –
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : ;;;
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : At least explain properly
I locked my phone with a satisfied expression.
Contemporary popular music is mostly collaborative work anyway. There’s nothing weird about the company seeing school connections, and the system should be human enough to overlook this much.
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : You’re not saying
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : That becoming a singer
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Means becoming an idol?
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Considering your personality
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : I really don’t think it’s likely
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : But I’m wondering just in case;
……Wow, good instincts. Nailed it right away.
I flinched slightly at the popup notification appearing above my lock screen.
My workload will definitely increase once September comes…….
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Hey
– Shim Yu-jeong Composition 2nd Yr : Is it actually real?
The start of classes was beginning to feel like something to look forward to.
Rewriting the top girl group scenario with my own hands
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
Date of Creation
: January 05, 2026
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