Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 83

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Episode 83
[on air]
– This is NewWorld Live, right?
– Man, it’s been so long since I felt that freshness from an Idol with an actual main vocalist
– Seo Ji-on is crazy pretty and sings so well, and her stage presence is insane too, what is she
└ She seemed awkward with it when she debuted, but can stage presence actually improve like that?
– ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Wait, if P.E.N. Beauty Syndrome is going to lip-sync, shouldn’t they all do it together ㅠ
└ The difference is way too stark
– Why didn’t the Ashcode members do Live… the comparison is too much
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Their song can’t go live either, so NewWorld definitely can’t
– I hate comparisons and double standards, but honestly this cover gets compared no matter what
– Did Hyun Jae-yi always sing this well? She’s just singing with custom-fit parts like it’s nothing
– Ugh, just thinking about what the haters are gonna do again exhausts me
└ YouTube hate comments have been insane lately
– Evergreat hasn’t done their main stage yet, right???
└ Right after this one ㅇㅇ
– Why is Go Hyun-seo so good ㄹㅈㄷ hexagon
– Honestly I’m curious why P.E.N. approved such obvious lip-syncing…ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ They should’ve just trained them for Live
└ Is NewWorld too hard? The members’ vocals lacking fundamentals?
– Still, both teams do great on dance and visuals ㄹㅈㄷ Ashcode’s members are pretty
– But both teams have insane visuals
– The visuals are seriously crazy(p)
– How did they gather such faces in the first place, that itself
– Ashcode members really showed they worked hard, so why didn’t they do Live…ㅠㅠ
└ ㄹㅇ……. Even if they were a bit off, if they’d just done Live it wouldn’t have been compared like this…
– These days YouTube’s hate comments are crazy, wondering how much they’ll go off this time
└ But if you didn’t like that, you should’ve just done Live…ㅋㅋㅋ
– You troublemakers stop causing trouble and let’s watch the Legendary stage
– Huh, both teams are doing Live here??? What was up with the female idol collab
└ Ah stop comparing and just watch
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Come to think of it, even after repeating this life three times, I’d never gone on a trip with all the members together.
Partly because we were busy, partly because there was no room for trips, and partly because we didn’t have the kind of closeness that would make taking a trip together feel natural…….
Well, anyway. What I’m saying is…….
“…What are we supposedly doing the day after tomorrow?”
“Evergreat is taking our first official vacation!”
“I know that already…….”
“Out of the ten-day vacation, can’t we invest about three days in the members? We’re going on a group trip as a production expense.”
I never imagined we’d suddenly be going on a trip like that.
Why is the PD telling us about going on a group trip the evening before the day before……?
“You’ll need to plan where to go, what to do, and how to do it together as members starting right now.”
“Wow! A free-form trip?!”
“Exactly!”
Shin Ji-yoon speaks with a bright smile, saying something completely unreasonable.
Hyun Jae-yi and Ju Hye-rin are excited, so I let it slide…….
Wait, is he always like this without a backup plan……? We’re supposed to plan a trip and leave starting right now with no preparation?
The most ridiculous part is that all of this happened the moment we returned to the waiting room after finishing our main stage performance at the broadcast.
Apparently during that brief interval, the Self-Camera team had set up their camera and were waiting for us. Is this for real?
“If it’s a trip on the production budget, can we just go to Jeju Island or something?”
“How would that work……? It’s peak vacation season and we haven’t booked lodging. Wait a minute, I’m completely losing my mind right now.”
She’s talking nonsense about Jeju Island.
My wavering mind finds its footing again at Kang Su-ah’s ridiculous suggestion.
Right, this is ultimately content, so Shin PD must have some kind of framework in mind.
So it’s called a free-form trip, but there’s probably a structure to it, presumably.
“Then should we head to the headquarters first?”
Shin PD said with a smile.
It’s a relief that there’s no finale stage at the broadcast…….
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“…So we’re really supposed to plan this completely free-form trip from scratch right now? What about lodging?”
“You’ll have to choose where you’re going and book it starting now!”
“Wow, this is…….”
I completely underestimated Shin Ji-yoon.
This man really is someone crazy enough about content to throw us into a completely unstructured trip during peak vacation season (without even minimum lodging booked!). I never would’ve guessed…….
“Doesn’t this sound fun? I think it’ll be completely fun!”
“Jae-yi. You’ve never planned a trip before, have you.”
“I haven’t really been able to travel…….”
Ah……, that’s right. Hyun Jae-yi spent a long time as a trainee.
“We’re going on a trip, how could you not be excited! I haven’t gone traveling in forever either.”
“I haven’t traveled in a long time either. It feels a bit daunting, but it sounds fun.”
With Kang Su-ah and Go Hyun-seo backing her up, even the younger members nod along.
I’ve lost to you all…….
The culprit, Shin Ji-yoon, is grinning from behind the camera like she engineered the whole situation from the start.
She did say I could drag them through all sorts of things, but what I had in mind was part-time work or physically demanding variety shows like that…….
“Fine. Then let’s first decide where we want to go and quickly book lodging. How much of a travel budget can we use?”
“There’s no set limit. Since it’s a vacation on the production budget, you can spend however much you want!”
“Wow! Can we really go to Jeju Island?”
“Even if we have the plane, we won’t have lodging…….”
The words rose to the tip of my throat: ‘Why are you telling us this now?’ Shouldn’t lodging be booked at least a week in advance……!
This is content. Everything is content……. If it falls apart, it’ll just be funny. I found my composure by repeating the word ‘content’ to myself over and over.
“Really, let’s decide on the destination quickly. Does anyone have somewhere they want to go?”
“I want to go see a baseball game!”
“Noted Jae-yi’s opinion. Next?”
“Can’t we go see the ocean…?”
“Noted Hye-rin’s opinion. Next?”
“Oh, I want to do that. Pajama party!”
“That’ll just happen naturally wherever we go…?”
“Then barbecue party.”
“Noted. Next?”
Various other opinions came up after that, and combining them all, the conclusion we reached was.
“Let’s go to Busan. We should be able to find lodging with two nights, three days on Monday through Wednesday.”
“Yes!”
Busan.
Unsurprisingly, Hyun Jae-yi, who’s from a nearby region, is the most excited.
“Jae-yi, you’re from Ulsan but you don’t go to Busan often…?”
“I went a lot in elementary school. But since middle school I’ve been living in Seoul.”
“That makes sense.”
“And I haven’t been to the stadium in years!”
“So that’s your real goal…….”
“Of course! Busan’s signature is the Lotte Giants!”
So this girl’s purpose for the Busan trip is going to the stadium together.
She’s loved baseball since childhood, I hear…….
“We can sing the chants and eat chicken and have fun. None of you have been to a stadium, right?! It’ll be so much fun. Lotte’s been playing really well lately, so it’s even more fun.”
“Besides you, nobody here knows anything about baseball, you sure that’s okay?”
“I guarantee it. It’ll be so much fun. The stadium is — even if you don’t know anything, you just go to sing the chants and eat good food!”
With Hyun Jae-yi’s persuasive pitch, Sajik Stadium was added to Tuesday’s schedule.
“It’s lucky there’s a Home Game that day……. Since it’s a weekday, there are quite a lot of seats available!”
Hyun Jae-yi even took care of the ticket booking herself. Though the content team picked up the bill, of course…….
With something they want this badly, there’s no reason not to do it.
“How many seats did you book?”
“Ten? Our staff need to come too. They’re not together in one block, but five seats in a row twice.”
“Didn’t you say baseball’s been really popular? There are seats left despite that…?”
“Heh. But summer weekday games are way more bearable because it’s so hot. But they’re not great seats.”
Ah, the miracle of weekdays. It’s not completely unreasonable.
As late July approaches, the sun beats down harshly, the air grows thick and humid, and the worst kind of summer weather is coming together…….
“…We’re going to need to apply Sunscreen well the whole trip.”
“Right, the weather…….”
“Especially if we’re going to see the ocean.”
“I’ll jot down Sunscreen in the notes.”
Once we accounted for the hot weather, all that remained was booking lodging and transportation.
But surprisingly, that was resolved quickly too…….
“The weekday KTX is unexpectedly spacious…?”
“We’re leaving Monday morning, so it’s not peak travel time!”
That’s the observation of Hyun Jae-yi, who takes the KTX most frequently as someone from Ulsan.
By this point, I’m starting to get a sense of what Shin PD was banking on…….
“I think I see what the PD trusted. If it’s a weekday, the choices for booking a trip on the fly expand…….”
While searching hastily for beach pension reservations, I saw openings that were more spacious than expected, and I was completely convinced.
Of course it is. He couldn’t just throw us out without some basis.
The feeling of watching Shin PD behind the camera, grinning with an expression like ‘That’s the right answer~’.
No matter how I think about it, Shin PD really does excel at structuring content with solid reasoning…….
And so the trip schedule was confirmed.
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☆ Evergreat’s First Group Trip ☆
– Transportation: KTX Monday Seoul→Busan
Departure 11:12 AM
– Lodging: OOO Pension Gwangalli
– Itinerary (rough outline)
*2 nights, 3 days
*Monday: Gwangalli Beach tour
*Tuesday: 6:30 PM Sajik Stadium
*Barbecue party! ← Kang Su-ah’s sole suggestion
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It’s a rough, ramshackle plan held together by nothing but framework, but the framework exists. It does.
Saturday night, after we finished the rushed bookings necessary for our haphazard trip, we stumbled back to the dorm completely exhausted.
In my current state of mind, I’d gladly ditch the trip and everything and just sleep in the dorm for all three days!
***
The next day, having pushed hard the previous night, we let the morning pass with all members knocked out, and greeted the afternoon.
“Hi, Everies. We’re about to start packing for our trip.”
“Wow! Everyone clap!”
To commemorate our historic first trip, we picked up the Self-Camera and began packing.
The suggestion to briefly introduce the dorm was a bonus.
“Our room’s roommate setup hasn’t changed since we were trainees. It’s me, Hyun-seo, and Jae-yi. Jae-yi keeps stealing my bed lately, so if you were going to do that, I don’t understand why you agreed to give it up gracefully…….”
“Pfft.”
“I haven’t been doing that lately…?!”
“Haven’t been, my foot. Hyun-seo tells me about it almost every time. Want to take the lower bunk?”
“…I’ll just make sure to climb up to the second floor and sleep properly from now on!”
“That’s better.”
“I’ll have to be a dutiful maknae from here on out.”
Judging by the conversation, this will probably end up being roommate banter rather than a proper dorm introduction…….
Hearing the commotion from another room beyond the door, I get the sense that this will just become a short, chaotic roommate segment.
“…But here’s a confession. I’m going on a trip for the first time in forever and I don’t know how to pack.”
“Confession time for me too. When I go on a trip, I have no idea what to pack either.”
“Huh, how could Seo Ji-on not even know how to pack for a trip.”
“What do you mean, ‘how’? I was busy with entrance exams in high school, how was I supposed to go on trips.”
“Ah…….”
……No matter how I think about it, this content is a disaster.
Well, not a disaster exactly……. The main focus probably won’t be packing, but rather roommate banter…….
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario By My Own Hand
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: Nam Seo-rang
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