Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 4

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Episode 4
“I’ll send you the entrance code through messenger as well. I do come and go, but there’s no resident adult, so just try to avoid going out too late.”
“Yes, thank you.”
A few days later on Friday, I signed a trainee contract with Music Prove.
Because I’d given them a heads-up beforehand, I was able to move into the trainee dormitory right away—it turned out to be a villa about ten minutes’ walk from the company building.
I followed Team Lead Lee Su-bin into the dormitory. Since all the trainees would be there at this hour, she said she’d show me around and introduce me to the other kids.
“Your parents aren’t saying anything? If they’re worried, I can give them my contact info right away.”
“…I think it’ll be fine. I did tell them beforehand.”
That was a complete lie.
I had told them, yes—but only half-heartedly.
Anyway, let’s move on. It’s not like the company would get any calls from them anyway.
I’m somewhat familiar with this place too. The old EVERGREET dormitory where I used to visit was always here. I had no idea it was also the trainee dormitory back then, but I found that out today.
Kang Su-a had laughed it off, saying she managed her own meals and cleaning well, but even then there was something a bit gloomy about the place, and that couldn’t be helped.
Compared to back then… it’s definitely a bit less worn and cleaner. They said a cleaning service comes once a week now.
Team Lead Lee Su-bin mentioned she’s been taking extra care because everyone here is still a minor, and it really does seem like I absolutely have to prevent her from resigning. Absolutely!
“Oh, Ji-on?”
“Hey, Hyun-seo.”
Go Hyun-seo was the first one out. She’d heard Team Lead Lee Su-bin’s voice from her room and came out, looking startled by the sudden appearance of a third person.
I waved toward Go Hyun-seo with the most harmless expression I could muster.
“So you came last time to sign a contract? …Su-a didn’t tell me that, so I didn’t know.”
“No, that time I went because of auditions, and… the contract was today.”
“I see.”
Even though I’d abbreviated so much, Go Hyun-seo nodded as if she roughly understood.
It seemed Kang Su-a hadn’t mentioned to her that I’d come for an audition, even later. Well, since nothing was finalized yet anyway, it made sense not to say anything.
While I was briefly chatting with Go Hyun-seo, Team Lead Lee Su-bin soon brought the kids from the other rooms and had them sit in the living room, then lightly introduced me to the other trainees.
“This is Seo Ji-on, who will be training with us from today. She’s twenty, so she’s your senior.”
At those words, I bowed lightly to the young people sitting on the couch.
“I’m a bit short on time and need to go now, but you can exchange names and figure out rooms yourselves, right?”
“Yes, that’s fine.”
“Then I’m counting on you all. Let’s see each other on Monday.”
I’d heard that idol-related work is all handled by the Rookie Development Team, and Team Lead Lee Su-bin really is a busy person.
After that, I and the four minors in the dormitory went through what was perhaps the most awkward forced self-introduction time in the world.
“Well, I did see you once before… I’m Go Hyun-seo, I’m nineteen, my main position is dance, and… if you have questions or are curious about anything, it’d probably be better to ask me rather than the other kids.”
Starting with Go Hyun-seo, who spoke slowly, seeming a bit embarrassed to introduce herself after already having seen each other once.
“Hello, noona! I’m Hyun Jae-yi. I’m a high school sophomore! My main position is dance too, and… if I had to say one more thing, my visuals? Ahaha, that’s just a joke.”
Hyun Jae-yi, who says “visuals” out of her own mouth in a way that makes perfect sense—a naturally born idol with that kind of face. As I’d thought before, Hyun Jae-yi is the kind of beauty that makes you think, “It’d be a national loss if she didn’t become an idol.”
“I’m Ju Hye-rin, sixteen years old. I’m still lacking in a lot and learning from my seniors. Please take good care of me.”
“Why didn’t you mention that? Hye-rin is a former national figure skater!”
“Oh, Jae-yi… That’s just a fancy-sounding title. It’s really not that big a deal. I only did one season because I got lucky…”
The moment Hyun Jae-yi brought up her competitive career, Ju Hye-rin’s face flushed bright red. She says it’s nothing special, but thinking back to the video I’d looked up before, she really is something special.
I hadn’t heard properly why she’d quit figure skating back then, but maybe I’d get to hear it this time.
“Um, I’m Lee Han-byul. I’m the same age as Hye-rin, and I like singing, but I’m not sure yet if I’m good at it. Please take good care of me, Ji-on.”
Lee Han-byul, with a soft, round expression—utterly adorable. With her distinctive, pretty vocal tone and a face like a baby bird, a sparrow, she was a member I’d found particularly cute before.
I was a bit surprised when I first saw her, what with that face and being about 165 centimeters tall, roughly the same as me. Is it because she’s still in middle school? Her eye level is still a bit low.
“…Am I the last one?”
And finally, my turn.
Self-introductions are really hard. More precisely, that awkward air of having to get close to kids I’m meeting for the first time…
“I’m Seo Ji-on, twenty years old. I go to Seojeong Arts University with Su-a—she’s in vocals, I’m in composition. I came in through Team Lead’s casting, so I don’t have trainee experience. I’m good at singing and composing, and I can handle piano and guitar as instruments, but I’m not sure about dancing. Still, I’ll do my best.”
Even though only I remember for now, having met these kids before made my self-introduction come out more naturally than expected.
“Please work with me. I’ll put in a lot of effort and do whatever I can.”
Regardless of systems or anything else, these words are sincere. Now that I’ve come back to the past, I won’t just stand by and watch these kids fail. I need to set up preventive measures beforehand.
Of course, I should first prevent myself from becoming a stumbling block because I’m terrible at dancing.
If I could’ve worked as a producer instead of as an idol—something that was never meant for me—that would’ve been even better.
Anyway, this blasted system is the source of all the problems.
Damn it, one day I’m going to find whoever operates or invented this system and beat them.
***
“Are you really okay using the top bunk? It’ll probably be inconvenient.”
“It’s fine, I like the top bunk better!”
At Hyun Jae-yi’s words, I didn’t protest further and unpacked my things on the lower bunk.
The dormitory has two rooms, and so far each room had two people. Now that I’m moving in, Kang Su-a said she’d be coming soon too and didn’t want to feel left out, and when she does, both rooms will become 3-person rooms.
My roommates are Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-yi. Hyun Jae-yi said she preferred the top bunk and gladly gave me the lower one. Even though she’s older now, I can see how lively she was as a kid.
[CLEAR! ☆ ▷ Tutorial Quest: Join the agency ‘Music Prove’. ☆]
[As a reward for clearing the Tutorial Quest, 1 quest point will be awarded.]
[The Shop function is now open. You can use the Shop. (▷ Shop Guide)]
The quest clear message appeared right after I signed the contract. When I lightly tapped the flashily blinking panel, I got the quest reward and a new function opened, but I haven’t had a chance to check it yet. Since I’m spending the whole weekend with the kids anyway, I’ll probably get a chance to look at it.
I slightly opened the door to Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byul’s room and quietly closed it again. There’s no need to wake them when they’re sleeping soundly.
Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byul are still in their third year of middle school—the youngest—and there are a lot of things I need to talk about and a lot I need to do for these kids. When I was handling the producing for EVERGREET before, the thing I regretted most was their condition.
This time, I need to make sure they never reach that state. Both of them.
I heard about the training system on the day I came for the audition, and I didn’t have great expectations. Team Lead Lee Su-bin seems to be doing the work of a hundred people, but even so, there’s a budget problem that can’t be overcome.
The representative of Music Prove… how should I put it? In a word, he’s an old-fashioned, obstinate relic.
Is it because the representative himself was a successful singer-songwriter back in the 1990s? From what I heard, he once expressed dissatisfaction with hiring trainers, saying that all singers need to grow on their own without anyone’s help rather than learn anything.
Since the representative acts that way, how could anyone ask for a bigger budget? Full-time trainers are just a dream, and apparently now they only get a dance trainer for a two-hour lesson once a week.
Team Lead mentioned during the audition that she’s looking for members with good vocals, probably because it’s hard to hire professional trainers in this environment.
So why on earth did such a company decide to develop idols?
Other executives pushed ahead headlong, saying things like “Idols are trending these days,” “We can’t fall behind the times,” “The idol industry makes money,” and “Idols are singers anyway, so what’s the difference?”
Then when they actually debuted their idol, the response was weaker than expected, and instead of investing and promoting to grow it further, they just left it alone—isn’t that the most legendary ending possible?
Where are there any idols without their own content in this day and age? But Music Prove managed that. The members had to film and edit it themselves before they’d even upload it—truly irresponsible team management that shows how reluctant they are to spend money.
This is all stuff I heard from Kang Su-a before. Honestly, this place is the kind of shady agency that should be on an investigative news program.
I heard that after a team lead who was handling almost all the idol team work alone quit, there was no one left “on their side” at the company, and it seems that team lead was Lee Su-bin.
Combining what I’d heard with my brief experience, I naturally formed one goal: As long as I’m at Music Prove, I absolutely will not let Team Lead Lee Su-bin resign.
Actually, if I had my way, I’d like to prevent the kids from getting entangled in these tiresome company issues from the start.
[▷ Objective: The success of the idol ‘EVERGREET’]
The system that constantly threatens me with my own life wants me to make EVERGREET successful.
Let me see myself clearly. I’m not some genius who can single-handedly start an agency at twenty and make an idol successful with no foundation.
Which means I have no choice but to be stuck at this pathetic company along with everyone else.
“Jae-yi, can you wake the kids up? Let’s eat.”
“Huh, what?”
“Kimchi stew? I saw kimchi in the fridge, so I went out with Hyun-seo earlier and got the ingredients.”
“Wow, you’re seriously the best, noona. I’ll go wake Hye-rin and Han-byul up!”
Hyun Jae-yi dashed into the room where her younger roommates were with a noticeably excited expression.
I… chose the next best thing—just being good to the kids.
It’s like a token of sorry for knowing the pathetic future of this company and not being able to tell them to run away.
Around four or five years later, these kids start trying to cook something themselves, but before then they apparently couldn’t cook at all. When I asked what they ate, they said they either ate instant food, ordered delivery, or just ate diet chicken breast and stuff like that.
If middle and high school kids in their growing years only eat like that, what’s the point? When life’s already hard, at least they should eat well.
Sunday evening, after sleeping quite a bit but still looking tired, I made kimchi stew for two middle school kids and two high school kids who’d said it’d been a while since they’d had home-cooked meals.
…For the record, I’m not particularly good at cooking either. As I’ve lived on my own, my self-catering skills just improved naturally, but I was grateful they all said it was delicious and ate well.
Well, it’s not like I wasn’t aiming for the impression that someone who cares for you with meals is a good person—that would be a lie.
But good is good, I suppose.
***
That night, finally having time to look at the system, I lay in bed and opened it.
The now-familiar translucent panel filled my vision. I didn’t know before, but apparently you can manipulate it just by thinking.
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PROFILE
Name: Seo Ji-on
Age: 20
Agency: Music Prove
HP ♥♥♥♡♡
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VOCAL Lv.39
DANCE Lv.8
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.53
Instrument: Guitar Lv.81
Instrument: Piano Lv.79
Instrument: Bass Lv.55
Trait – Tuning (A): Discord becomes harmony. That sharp sense of quickly catching faults in others and the swift ability to recalibrate without anyone noticing.
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Achievement Points ※This function is not yet open
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Shop (▷ View Guide)
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IF:NOW …
▷ Objective: The success of the idol ‘EVERGREET’
▷ Current Mission: Lead EVERGREET members to a successful debut as a member of the idol group! (Countdown: D-358)
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What stood out was mainly the change in agency and the opening of the shop function. Otherwise, there wasn’t much different from before.
I pressed the Shop Guide option for the newly opened function.
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Shop
* In the Shop, you can purchase desired items and functions using specific currency.
* Available currencies in the Shop are categorized as quest points and achievement points, and in special circumstances, HP can also be used as currency.
Available Purchases
– Stat Up: Available for purchase with quest points
– HP Up: Available for purchase with achievement points
– Coming soon …
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After checking the explanation, I was momentarily at a loss for words.
What do I even say first?
That at least HP can be purchased as a safety measure? Or should I curse at this insane system that uses HP as currency too?
Sigh… I let out a long breath and held my forehead.
It wasn’t so much a headache as it was an overload from having too much to think about.
“Are you hurt somewhere, noona?”
“Oh, you startled me…!”
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.”
Hyun Jae-yi, who’d come in after washing up, must’ve seen my state. When someone talks to you so suddenly while you’re not even aware of their existence, it really does feel like your heart might drop…
“Not badly, just a little. Probably just tired?”
“Mm… I understand. If you can’t sleep, we have first aid medicine somewhere… where was it again…?”
“Good grief.”
What am I going to do with this careless high schooler? Hyun Jae-yi’s expression when she realized mid-conversation that she’d forgotten where the first aid medicine was, was quite a sight.
“Hyun-seo! Where did we put the medicine?”
“What, are you hurt?”
“Not exactly, but Ji-on said her head hurts.”
“…Do you need medicine?”
Eventually, even Go Hyun-seo, who’d been enjoying her quiet time with earbuds in, got pulled into this conversation. I tried to salvage the situation as best I could with an expression that said I was perfectly fine.
“Not really… I think it’s just from being tired. Since Jae-yi might not be able to sleep, she was trying to tell me where the first aid medicine is, but I think she just forgot where it was.”
“Oh, that’s in the kitchen, in the cabinet above the dining table. There’s first aid medicine and a first aid kit there.”
“Right, the kitchen.”
“I’ll check it if I need it later.”
“If it hurts a lot, tell me. I’ll tell Team Lead, and we’ll go to the hospital in the morning.”
“I said it’s not that bad…? And you guys have school tomorrow.”
I finally managed to escape the worries of the two high schoolers only after explaining once more, in detail, that “it’s not hurting that badly and it’s just simple fatigue.”
Headaches and fatigue are like old friends to modern adults, but these kids? …Maybe being too concerned about health is better than not being concerned at all.
After enough time had passed and my roommates seemed to have fallen asleep, I examined the system once more in the dimly lit room.
First, the stat up function. There’s nothing I can do about HP right now anyway.
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Stat Up
VOCAL Lv.39 – 40pt
DANCE Lv.8 – 5pt
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.53 – 160pt
Instrument: Guitar Lv.81 – 1280pt
Instrument: Piano Lv.79 – 640pt
Instrument: Bass Lv.55 – 160pt
Quest Points Held – 1pt
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The system definitely sold its conscience somewhere. Aren’t these numbers excessive?
I only got 1 point as a reward for the tutorial quest. I understand that the amount of investment needs to increase as the level gets higher, but aren’t the units too extreme? I got the feeling that improving my skills through direct practice would be much faster.
At that moment, the system made a bright alarm sound and opened a new window.
[▷ Limited-Time Daily Quest: Points Up, Level Up!]
What’s this now? I scrolled down to read the information the system displayed.
[Complete daily quests over 14 days and earn points!]
[▷ Quest: Train hard and level up.]
[During the quest period, you will receive 1 quest point per 1 hour of actual practice time.]
[Duration: Day 1/14]
Oh?
It’s a pretty useful quest. The notation “actual practice time” suggests the system will count it internally, so it probably won’t let me cheat, but for catching up with dancing right now, there doesn’t seem to be a better quest available.
The fact that they didn’t divide it by category also seemed quite promising—it looked like I could invest points earned from vocal practice into dancing as well.
The point units are definitely harsh, but… I’m not that worried about it.
In Korea, people known for being good at studying fall into three categories.
First, those with naturally exceptional talent.
Second, those with good talent who also work hard.
Third, those whose only tool is effort, but who are damn good at enduring it.
I’m probably the third case. Being able to endure mindless repetitive learning? I already wore it in during my school years, cutting sleep to do so. What’s so different about dancing?
And as for composition and songwriting, do you know how much of a grind that is? On an average work day, I’d throw away my lyrics four times, discard my virtual instruments eight times, and revise my top lines six times.
Grind, endurance, suffer through it, infinite repetition… they’re all my specialty.
I’ll make sure this system regrets ever offering me this quest.
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario by My Hand
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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