Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 33

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Episode 33
I once saw a short clip on YouTube of an idol talking about barely sleeping during their promotion period. And I remember one comment that got a lot of likes among the many responses.
The comment said there was no need to sympathize with idols saying they didn’t sleep, since they make good money and are only busy during promotions, with plenty of free time during hiatuses.
Now I want to say this to that comment writer.
Sympathy might not be necessary, but that part about being “only busy during promotions”…… that’s not something you should say so lightly…….
In the final week of promotion, on top of different music broadcast schedules at each station, there were challenge videos with senior idols and various other commitments including a fan sign event.
Our manager drove us around according to the schedule, and except for occasionally losing track of time and the inability to get quality sleep, it was honestly manageable.
The problem was that after repeating this for about four weeks, cumulative fatigue started piling up.
‘Is this why idols do fewer music broadcasts as their careers progress?’
Even when I’d only been using my head and hands, I was tired enough, but repeating four weeks of dancing and singing without proper rest had my condition screaming for mercy.
If I hadn’t drawn the Freeze Expert skill a few times through the System roulette in between, I probably would’ve collapsed. I’m the type who’d rather not sleep at all than sleep for just a moment, so…… an item that actually delivers real rest effects is genuinely helpful…….
It feels like it’s about time something should appear regarding the mission of a successful debut, but the System still hasn’t determined success or failure. I’m not sure if I haven’t met the conditions yet or if judgment only comes after the promotion ends.
‘This damned system…… I really need to shake it down again someday…….’
Previously I thought there was nothing I could do, but seeing the System, which had been quiet for a while, act up again recently changed my thinking a bit. Whatever it is, I’m annoyed about just being dragged along according to the System’s intentions.
The timing of its intervention is so perfectly calculated—it clearly understands how to read the mood and think things through, and there’s something about it that feels…… human.
So…… it’s less like a “system” and more like a “person.” Should I say it feels like an intelligent entity…….
One that apparently mimics human sensibility quite well and is estimated to think in human-like ways…… some kind of sentient being?
The suspicion gets stronger when I remember how it wouldn’t shut up explaining the IF Project or whatever it was when it suddenly dropped me into the past.
It told me to use the System freely, so doesn’t that mean I can file complaints too? Can’t it at least give me some updates?
Anyway, since I’ve accepted this System as something like a survival application, shouldn’t it listen to user feedback?
So when I get a chance, I’m going to look for a customer service center. Specifically, a complaints department and customer service representative connection.
I’d have to be a real problem customer……, actually that’s not quite right—it’s more like playing detective, asking endless questions. I have a lot of doubts and variables that differ from what I know, so I’ve got quite a few things to ask about.
If I search thoroughly and can’t find anything like that? Then I’ll just have to threaten it, like last time. Last time it was just a simple overload from frustration, but anyway.
Looking at how it reads the mood and throws what I need at me, it seems to be watching everything. I’ll figure out how to handle it when the time comes.
For now, let me just finish what’s in front of me first.
“Done! Ji-on noona~! Did you finish yours?”
“Yeah, done. How about you, Han-byul?”
“I’m almost finished too. Is my handwriting okay…?”
“It’s cute, you pass. Jae-i…… what did you write?”
“I tried to draw a puppy here…….”
“Ahahaha, Jae-i! Ji-on said you can’t draw!!”
“No…… I didn’t say that, though?”
That’s right. We’re currently writing short handwritten letters to include in the thank-you gifts for the final broadcast special.
I finished relatively quickly, and looking at what the other members wrote, there’s Lee Han-byul with her heartfelt sentiments, Ju Hye-rin with her surprisingly thoughtful and polite tone, Hyun Jae-i who doodled a messy dog at the bottom of her letter (saying the fans call her a puppy……), Kang Su-a whose handwriting was neat and mature unlike her usual sloppy scrawl, and Go Hyun-seo whose message was surprisingly full of aegyo—quite a diverse bunch.
During the first pre-recording, there were quite a few people in the audience so we couldn’t write individual letters, but for this last music broadcast, which was live with fewer attendees, we decided to write simple letters of gratitude.
[Thank you always for your love and support. We’ll show you even better from here on. Love, Every ♡]
This is what I wrote.
Anything plainer would seem insincere, but trying to embellish it more left me with nothing…….
“Pretty simple.”
“Yeah. Yours isn’t much different either, is it?”
“Right. If you write it playfully, it doesn’t feel sincere.”
Kang Su-a sat down next to me with a bright smile. She’s the one who earned the nickname “Universe’s Lü Bu” among Every fans just a month after debut, and yet here she is writing something this sincere and pretty.
The rolling paper we’d be uploading after today’s broadcast was the same. The handwriting I know from Su-a looks like it would float away to heaven if you blinked, but she’d written her love confession in neat, model-student handwriting, so I actually suspected for a moment whether the manager had ghost-written it.
When I brought this up earlier, Su-a threw herself on the ground complaining that I didn’t appreciate her sincerity…….
If she’s so aggrieved, maybe she should stop using every emoji and meme under the sun on Universe during her free time! I’d bet five hundred won that when the rolling paper goes up tonight, Every will also suspect whether Su-a actually wrote it herself.
“What did Hyun-seo write? …Wow, the aegyo is insane.”
“No, but we’re writing for the fans……. We’re writing for Every, so hearts are fine.”
“But your rolling paper wasn’t like this earlier! I propose that you become a more affectionate younger sister to us noona too…….”
“No thanks.”
“Whimper……. Look at this, Go Hyun-seo, warm only to Every but cold to her members…….”
“Of course I should be warm to Every. You’re insane, or like, you’re seriously not in your right mind?”
“Wow, did you just clean up your words hoping I’d tell you to speak nicely?!”
Good grief.
Does our Hyun-seo really have no option to ignore Su-a?
It’s not the first or second time Su-a says meaningless nonsense, but somehow she falls for it every time and becomes the cheerful sparring partner in Su-a’s joke duo (though Go Hyun-seo probably doesn’t want to be).
Leaving the two of them to their playful bickering, I gathered the members’ letters and handed them to our manager.
It was time to prepare for the final music broadcast stage of debut promotion.
***
There’s a saying in fandom culture.
That being a senior in high school lasts forever…….
And here, there’s a provincial high school third-year girl who successfully managed to attend three consecutive weekend broadcast tapings and fan sign events, brushing off her parents’ nagging!
She doesn’t even properly remember how she became a fan, but before she knew it, she’d fallen deep and sworn eternal love, this Every girl made a decision.
Just until today—just until today! After today’s broadcast taping at Music City, it’s studying and nothing but studying from tomorrow…….
She absolutely had to go to university in Seoul. Come to Seoul for university and become a cool adult who legally (though she’s not always sure it will be legal) attends broadcast tapings every time Evergrit has a comeback!
When she told Ji-on about this at yesterday’s fan sign event, she was so startled. The girl said she really wanted to get into her dream school and come to Seoul for university, and Ji-on asked if she was in her senior year…….
This was her first fan sign event in her entire idol fan life. She was nervous, stumbled over her words a lot, and honestly got quite flustered!
Yet the fan sign went smoothly because Ji-on guided their awkward conversation well.
– Senior year? That must be hard……. You need to take care of your stamina and mental health, right? Like, I came to see an idol, but I’m not sure if that idol should nag me like this…….
– It’s okay? …Um, so then shall we make a promise? Don’t worry, it’s not heavy. When you come back to another fan sign after finishing the college entrance exam, you can come with a relaxed smile. All the college issues, exam issues, application issues—everything works out perfectly so you can come with an easy smile. Will you promise?
– Okay, sounds good. …College entrance exam tips? ……This is kind of secret, but honestly, I didn’t take it. The day before, I got my final acceptance from Seo Jung University through early admission.
– …Ha ha, funny, right? I even thought about sleeping through the exam, but you know that feeling where you just really don’t want to take it……? It’s lucky I felt that way. So I went to Lotte World with a noona I knew, exam day lunch and all. Funny, right?
The fan sign was really fun. So much so that the high school student left with all the energy and motivation she’d need to study for the rest of the year!
On the returned album was a short P.S.: “Fighting for your college entrance exam. You’ll do great, believe in your luck :)” Just this alone seems enough to carry her through the remaining months until November as a test-taker!
And when she asked if there were any tips for the college entrance exam, Ji-on’s playful laugh and answer were unexpectedly thrilling.
She’d vaguely wondered what her idol’s college entrance exam was like, since there had been rumors about her mysterious moves, but hearing it directly, it seems like something even more incredible! How did the timing work out so perfectly? (The high school student didn’t know that early admission results for Practical Music schools mostly come out before the college entrance exam.)
An idol who got into top Practical Music school through early admission the day before, skipped the college entrance exam despite mock exam scores in the low 10s, and went to Lotte World…….
It’s really impressive, hilarious, and cool……?
Her mock exam scores were actually something Ji-on had mentioned in a vlog before debut since there were so many questions after the team reveal.
She said she’d prepared for both Practical Music early admission and regular admission exams just in case, which is honestly insane. I’m struggling just studying and doing fandom activities…….
She hadn’t posted it on Twitter yet, but when she got home, she’d edit the recordings and videos and definitely post this to the fandom community.
The high school student had made up her mind that she couldn’t be the only one to know such a hilarious, extraordinary, and bold story.
(Actually, she wanted to keep it to herself, but stories like this tend to spread, so she’s planning to share it for promotional purposes.)
And…….
Once this broadcast taping is over, she really needs to study!
Her older sister who lets her stay over whenever she comes to Seoul mocks her saying “What good is running to broadcast tapings and fan signs every weekend?” but the sister herself went to a concert of her favorite male idol during summer break of her senior year.
If my sister did it, why can’t I…… Plus, based on early spring of her third year of high school, her grades are actually better than her sister’s!
Of course, the future Ji-on in December or next year might forget about her, but she wants to keep the promise and come to a fan sign event with news of her university acceptance.
By then, buying just this many albums won’t be nearly enough—no, that’s exactly what should happen! She’ll think about it when the time comes.
The high school student gripped her obviously cheap, hastily-made panel lightstick tight.
From coming to broadcast tapings every weekend, she now remembers the cheering method by heart without even thinking about it. During the previous team’s pre-recorded stage airing, the members came out and took their positions, and soon Evergrit’s “Lucky Days” stage began.
And then, an unexpected shower of heart hand gestures erupted throughout the members’ parts!
‘So cute……!’
The high school student had to cover her mouth with her hand to keep from squealing unnecessarily.
Even Han-byul, who still seemed a bit tense on stage, made a heart with the hand not holding the microphone during her part, so this must be a final broadcast event the members had prepared.
The high school student made another vow.
She absolutely had to get admitted to an In-Seoul university. She had to manage In-Seoul admission without even considering hagwon cram schools…….
She’d definitely succeed in In-Seoul admission on the first try and come to broadcast tapings again next year……!
My Rewritten Top Girl Group Scenario
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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