Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 6

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Episode 6
“How’s your stamina?”
“Huh?”
“Stamina. Your condition.”
That evening, as I was preparing for bed back at the Dormitory, Go Hyun-seo suddenly spoke to me.
“Why do you ask?”
“You barely rested this entire week, and last week you squeezed practice into every break you had. Now you’re even helping the younger kids with their Vocal. Aren’t you exhausted?”
Not stamina—what does this girl think I am?
Go Hyun-seo, who looked at me the way you’d regard a smartphone that hadn’t been charged in a week, continued speaking with genuine concern etched across her face.
“Usually, just two days of practicing Dance for nearly twelve hours straight without rest leaves you wanting to die.”
“But you haven’t died.”
“No, that’s just a figure of speech… Though I guess you do seem fine when you talk.”
“So what, you’re dropping the formal speech now? Not calling me ‘sister’ anymore?”
“Why does everything I say come out that way…?!”
“Just kidding, just kidding. I’m not that much of a curmudgeon.”
How strange—I’ve apparently developed a taste for teasing Go Hyun-seo. So who’s being childish now?
After laughing for a while, I continued in a lighter tone.
“It’s fine. The reason I’m rushing to keep up with Dance is because if the Level doesn’t match, it gets in the way of practice. As for the Vocal coaching—it’s not even difficult.”
“…I’m glad it’s okay, but I’ve seen people collapse from pushing too hard like this. Please don’t overdo it.”
“I know, and thanks for worrying. But honestly, my stamina is better than you think.”
“It really doesn’t look that way… but okay, I get it.”
Go Hyun-seo stared at me with suspicious eyes before nodding in acceptance and disappearing to wash up.
I feel a bit wronged. Do I really look that weak…?
At twenty-five, maybe. But at twenty, my stamina is genuinely fine. Just last year I was managing regular studies on top of preparing for entrance exams in practical music—I had more than enough energy back then, so stamina shouldn’t be worse now.
One thing I’m genuinely grateful for about returning to this time: the good stamina.
Twenty years old, before facing the accumulated karma of stress, fatigue, all-nighters, energy drink abuse, irregular sleep and eating habits…
…Since I’ve been given a second chance, I should try to live a bit more healthily.
As an entertainer, a “regular lifestyle” will probably be a mirage, but still.
After spending two entire weeks, even surrendering rest time, filling in actual practice hours, my current stats have finally taken on a semblance of humanity.
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PROFILE
Name: Seo Ji-on
Age: 20
Affiliation: Music Prove
HP ♥♥♥♡♡
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VOCAL Lv.42
DANCE Lv.23
SPECIAL – Composition/Producing Lv.53
Instrument: Guitar Lv.81
Instrument: Piano Lv.79
Instrument: Bass Lv.55
Trait – Tuning (A): Dissonance becomes harmony. A keen sense that catches irregularities faster than anyone and corrects them unnoticed, with swift execution.
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This is the result of dumping all my Quest Points into Dance.
Turns out that every 10 Levels, the required Points double. Starting from Level 11, the system demands 10 Points, but from Level 21 onwards it wants 20, and I did the math—it checks out exactly.
Because the practice volume itself was high, my movements naturally internalized and my Level rose on its own, and the system actually turned out to be quite lenient with what counts as real practice time.
Based on how it’s been, I thought it would cut to 0.01-second precision, but it was unexpected.
Oh, my Vocal stat went up too. Not from deliberate practice or investment, but it rose three whole Levels.
How did the Level rise without any separate practice?
How do I describe this…—it feels like my skill grew along with teaching others?
***
To explain this, I need to rewind roughly a week and go back to the second Monday after I joined.
I was too busy raising my Dance stat during that first week to spare attention for anything else.
Still, I’d been keeping an eye on the Vocal Practice Room the whole time—the younger ones were practically locked in there and refusing to come out.
I was genuinely worried about them.
So even as that first week flew by chaotically, I’d occasionally slip in some casual comments about their Vocal as I passed by…
“I’m really sorry for taking up your practice time, but… could you teach us a bit more? I feel like I’m starting to understand…”
“Oh, me too! Hey, Lee Han-byeol, let me join. Sister, me too!”
By Monday of the next week, middle schoolers with the look of determination to never miss a learning opportunity had dropped right in front of me.
As I mentioned before, Music Prove currently has no real Vocal coach.
So Vocal practice had no real system beyond the occasional feedback Lee Su-bin gave as the team leader.
It was essentially neglect, but what can you do when our stubborn CEO insists that if you’re going to be any good, you need to practice on your own and enlighten yourselves?
I think Lee Su-bin finds it quite frustrating too…
Kang Su-a, with her specialty, was naturally fine, and Go Hyun-seo and Hyun Jae-i, who’d trained in Vocal before, shouldn’t have major issues either.
They can practice as they’ve been taught and get feedback from the leader.
The problem was Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byeol, who’d never received proper Vocal training.
They’re getting help from those around them, but Vocal is still a specialist field—it uses the “Vocal Cords,” which are muscles.
Use them the wrong way for long, and naturally problems arise. The same goes for the Vocal Cords.
In my previous life, EverGrit was trapped in the “can’t perform Live” fourth-generation idol bracket when they debuted. More precisely, they got hit with the “main vocal solo carrying the group—extreme occupational hazard” label.
Being honest as a composer, I’d say some members did have underdeveloped Vocal when we debuted, but not to that degree.
Hyun Jae-i has fairly stable Vocal, and Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byeol, whose Live performances were a bit shaky, were still young and hadn’t received proper training anyway.
Honestly, just bad luck?
You could call it getting caught in a witch hunt, or grabbed by the hair.
When a major agency’s rookie group’s encore Live performance completely flopped, it ignited the broader idol Live controversy, and several groups got dragged in with the narrative “modern idols are all equally bad.” EverGrit unluckily got swept up in that, just because our debut timing was similar.
Actually, years later when the group had a brief resurgence, YouTube Shorts comments were mostly stuff like “they were good at debut too, so why did they get flamed for that Live back then?”
Victims of a manufactured narrative? That’s about right.
But the real problem came after.
With absurdly little promotional support compared to other groups, the group started in a reasonably strong position, but that “non-controversy” slapped a “talentless modern idol” frame onto us.
Music Prove didn’t even try to respond to the internet’s overheated mockery, and because of that ridiculous Live controversy, the CEO and other higher-ups apparently fell out of favor.
How dare idols tarnish the reputation of an artist label? That sort of thing…
They’re very good at doing that. All while never assigning a proper trainer to seventeen-year-old kids.
After that incident, the younger ones apparently practiced Vocal to an excessive degree.
They sought advice from all over, but those brief tips couldn’t solve a problem like that—it really bothered me.
In popular music Vocal, there’s no absolute right or wrong, but there are singing methods not recommended from a throat-care perspective.
What sounds good and what strains your Vocal Cords are separate issues, and without professional help, their throats couldn’t help but suffer.
The leader at the time, Kang Su-a, unfortunately… couldn’t help much.
“Ji-on, how exactly do you teach Vocal…?”
“…You’re asking me? You’re the Vocal specialist and I do composition—logically you should know better, right?”
“No, wait, listen. I get it, but I can’t explain it in words!”
“Well, well. Our genius vocalist finally showing her true colors. No wonder she can’t coach anyone. Vocal technique is something you learn in much greater detail, isn’t it?”
“Ugh, I’m serious…!”
She was the quintessential genius type—unaware of how or why she sang the way she did, just singing on instinct.
There was a time she’d complain to me about “what even is teaching?” and now I realize—she was probably struggling to teach the members Vocal back then…
Even though they didn’t have the environment for proper Vocal training, their practice volume was high, and by the time I took over producing years later, both Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byeol had damaged Vocal Cords. They were only twenty.
Throughout my producing work, I felt it: these kids were sponges.
From the first recording day, I’d explain the method, suggest trying it this way or that, and they’d immediately pick up the feeling.
After that first recording, I almost went to fight the CEO over how we could possibly waste kids like this.
The biggest regret in my producing work for EverGrit was the lost time with Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byeol.
The narrowed vocal range from damaged Vocal Cords, the scratched-up tone—that was really unfortunate and heartbreaking.
If we’d fixed their Phonation properly when they were still young, wouldn’t we have at least stopped them from overstraining with incorrect methods?
…Music Prove deserves to go under.
More precisely, the thoughtless higher-ups.
Even more precisely: the CEO, that bastard.
***
Starting the next day, Tuesday, I decided to help the two of them with Vocal a few times a week.
It was something I’d deemed essential to improve anyway, and I’m not cold enough at twenty-five to flatly reject the earnest request of middle schoolers, no matter how busy I am…
“You’ve done scales, right? Both of you? Why do you do Phonation scales with a-e-i-o-u?”
“…Um, I’m not sure?”
“Well, that’s okay, you wouldn’t know…”
“Um… because the sound comes out best that way? The sound from the scale and the sound when we sing are different.”
“Not quite an answer, but close. Han-byeol, you’re smart? To be precise, it’s because of tongue position and Resonance Point, but… wait. How do I explain this?”
Needless to say, it wasn’t easy. Explaining Phonation basics that I’d studied over four years ago from scratch was new to me, so I had to pause and buffer throughout the lesson.
Directing, where you throw abstract feelings, is completely different from teaching basic breathing and Phonation.
And I’d only done directing until now—this is my first time really teaching someone…
By Friday’s next session, I’d borrowed a Mini Whiteboard from the Conference Room and was drawing diagrams, going on about the diaphragm and Diaphragmatic Breathing, explaining everything from the very beginning to make them understand.
I hadn’t planned to be this detailed at first, but these kids turned out to have much stronger academic drive than I expected…
“Breath Pressure, Vocal Fold Closure, Resonance Point, Articulation, mouth space… there are so many variables to change sound quality. In other words, if you mess up even one thing, you won’t get the desired quality. Understand?”
“Yes, somewhat.”
“…I still don’t quite get it yet…!”
“That’s okay. Hye-rin, you can just keep it in mind and develop the feel through practice. Vocal, like sports, is about learning the sensation and remembering it. Your Vocal Cords are muscles too.”
Ju Hye-rin eagerly nodded at this. As a former athlete, this kid is probably much more used to building sensation.
“So, starting today, I’ll be giving you each homework.”
“Yikes.”
“No complaints from students, right?”
Not because they disliked it—just that they instinctively recoiled at the word “homework.”
I deliberately raised the corners of my mouth and fixed my gaze on the two middle schoolers before continuing.
“From here on, all homework will be pop songs. Here’s why—remember when we talked about scales? Vocal is surprisingly affected by language characteristics, so sounds change a lot. What you especially need to focus on is vowel Articulation centered on a, e, i, o, u, plus sound quality and Vocal Fold Closure. No air leakage.”
These days, in K-pop, ballad or rock-style Vocal sometimes gets called old-fashioned, and honestly, it doesn’t match the current trend very well.
Given K-pop’s competitive nature of chasing trends by the second, it’s easier to learn the Phonation and Articulation closest to the latest trend as a foundation. That way, it’s easier to apply variations later.
“I’ll send each of you a song via KakaoTalk today. By next Wednesday, nail the first verse perfectly, and if possible, Copying the whole thing. Homework briefing over!”
“What’s Copying…?”
“Oh, I didn’t explain that… Um, literally just reproducing it—you listen to the source and sing it identically in every detail: expression style, sound quality, Articulation. That’s called Copying. It’s a standard practice method when learning Vocal, and it’s tough, but you’ll improve a lot with practice.”
“I see.”
“If you can’t grasp the feel, grab Kang Su-a and ask her how to Copy. She probably did it obsessively for her entrance exam, so she’d be able to explain… or would she? If she can’t, that’s actually a bigger problem.”
“…Can’t we just ask you?”
“Um… that might actually be better.”
Whether Kang Su-a hasn’t built enough trust, or whether it’s my own trust-issue nature that’s the problem…
I ended up spending thirty minutes demonstrating the entire concept of “Copying” by singing examples directly to the kids, and only left the Vocal Practice Room after giving Ju Hye-rin and Lee Han-byeol each a different song as homework.
Of course, my day didn’t end there either; I spent a good while in the Dance Practice Room before finally heading back to the Dormitory…
Ah, so that’s why my Vocal Level went up.
While I was explaining theory and demonstrating Phonation and Articulation… it apparently happened that way.
More precisely, I’m twenty now, so the Vocal skill I knew at twenty-five hasn’t fully settled into my body yet.
In other words, I got nerfed on Vocal when I returned to age twenty. Pretty hard too…
The song I sang at the audition was one I performed so often at this age that there was no awkwardness, but teaching Vocal to others made my immaturity at this stage obvious—honestly, my breathing, Phonation, Resonance, everything’s a mess.
My memory and experience didn’t reset to age twenty, so I quickly recovered the sensation I’d trained before. That’s probably why my Vocal Level rose.
Simply put: “I knew it in my head but couldn’t execute it with my body”—that happened with Vocal too.
Because it was unfamiliar, my twenty-year-old self didn’t know how to do the things I “knew”!
And I haven’t fully recovered yet. The feel should come back with practice, but…
Ugh, performing arts are such a headache. Knowing and doing are two different things.
Understanding a sensation and actually being comfortable with it are separate matters entirely…
“Oh, the Dance teacher’s coming tomorrow—I’m curious how they’ll react. Honestly, you and Su-a seem pretty similar now?”
“Still better than Kang Su-a though, right?”
“Wow, I bet Su-a would give exactly the same answer. But she’d probably be more annoying about it—like, ‘You pick one, me or Ji-on!’ something like that.”
Hyun Jae-i, lounging against the bed and lost in thought, even does a voice impression, sending laughter my way. When I laugh without holding back, Hyun Jae-i also giggles with a satisfied look.
This kid’s 170 centimeters tall but does such cute things… like some golden retriever.
Though honestly, I’m a bit curious about their reaction too.
The Dance teacher seemed amazed at how much I’d improved even last week when I was still struggling.
I wonder how they’ll react when they see a student who’s broken past Level 20 and started caring about details.
My Hand Rewrites the Top Girl Group Scenario
Author
: Nam Seo-rang
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: January 5, 2026
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